Hello and welcome to the WrestleTalk News - I’m Oli Davis, and I’m excited...
Merry Wrestle-Mas ...because tomorrow marks exactly one month
until the greatest day of the year, where we all get to spend time with our families
and watch...the last Monday Night Raw of 2017.
Apart from the people who are actually wrestling on Monday Night Raw.
They’ll have to be working Christmas Day and spending time away from their families.
There’s no punchline to this bit.
It’s just sad.
So to spread some early festive cheer, here’s some excellent punnage from WWE Shop’s Holiday
Season range: Randy Orton’s OUTTA SNOWHERE t-shirt, with The Vaper delivering an RKO
to a snowman.
Not to be outdone, we have the reigning, defending Universal Champion Brock Lesnar, who dropped
the puns in favour of dropping Father Christmas on his head, giving Old St. Nick a German
suplex.
In your fat, stupid face, Santa.
I haven’t forgotten about The Mask Mobile I never got in 1996.
And that’s a shoot.
Vince McMahon Unhappy With Kevin Owens Match What’s also a shoot is the heartbreaking
moment in WWE’s recent 365 documentary on Kevin Owens, following the ups and downs in
a year of his career - spanning Summerslam 2016 to 2017.
In the documentary, Owens speaks about how he wasn’t best pleased with his Summerslam
2016 match, where he and Chris Jericho defeated Big Cass and Enzo Amore, because he wanted
to be higher up the card.
He wanted to be the top guy.
It only took just over a week for that to happen.
Following Finn Balor relinquishing the Universal title due to injury, KO won Raw’s top championship
with the blessing of Triple H. Owens would hold the title for 188 days, and he struck
another form of gold in his odd couple relationship with Chris Jericho.
Their friendship eventually imploded after 7 months, and the two would finally collide
for the United States Championship at WrestleMania 33.
While the match was solid, many felt it didn’t live up to the feud’s emotional build expectations.
And, as the 365 documentary shows, one of the most disappointed was KO’s boss Vince
McMahon.
Shortly after the match, Owens goes to see McMahon backstage - who is still producing
WrestleMania over headset.
The Hardy Boyz have just made their shock return when KO asks Vince: “Are we good?”
To which McMahon replies with just one word: “No.”
Owens then just stands there, presumably heartbroken, as the Hardys celebrate their tag team title
win on the monitors.
“Vince did not like the match.
It wasn’t what he was looking for.
He wasn’t happy about it at all.
It was the first time that I got back from the ring to Vince being so unhappy.
I took that as a failure.”
Which probably explains KO’s Face Of America gimmick in the following months.
When you want to impress Vince McMahon, play a foreign heel!
Hopefully it doesn’t come to that for Sami Zayn.
Backstage Heat On Sami Zayn Zayn and Owens were sent home from WWE’s
European tour for reportedly “going into business for themselves”, where they allegedly
bailed on Smackdown LIVE instead of getting beaten up in the ring by the New Day.
It was reported last week that Owens and Zayn are seen as “the bad guys” by the rest
of the locker room regarding the incident, and now the Wrestling Observer Newsletter
has an update on the backstage heat situation.
Luckily, for KO, Meltzer writes “the controversy regarding Owens from when he and Zayn were
sent home is gone”.
Unfortunately for Sami, though, “the same isn’t the case of Zayn”.
Sami and KO were prominently featured on this week’s Smackdown, with show’s main story
built around them.
WWE has teased, however, that the two could be moved to Raw, with Owens and Zayn talking
with Stephanie McMahon backstage at Survivor Series.
Batista is in talks for a WWE return!
And what major WWE pay-per-view plans have been leaked for 2018!
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