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I’m Oli Davis.
Southpaw Regional Wrestling Season 2
By the time you’re watching this, the second season of Southpaw Regional Wrestling is probably
already live - as it’s meant to debut on YouTube today, Friday 18th August.
But at the moment, I’ve only got the trailer to keep watching over and over again.
John Cena’s Lance Catamaran is back, Seth Rollins is now fisting himself - Dean Ambrose
would be jealous, and Jason Jordan has moved on to pretending to be Hulk Hogan’s illegitimate
son.
But WWE’s Southern rasslin’ parody now has competition with the real thing.
Jim Cornette Returns To TNA/GFW
Jim Cornette has returned to TNA, the new name for GFW!
Cornette had previously been with the company between 2006 and 2009, and his return on last
night’s Impact Wrestling saw him fire Bruce Prichard from his position as GFW’s “corporate
consultant”.
Prichard was just about to award the GFW title vacated by Alberto El Patron to previous champion
Bobby Lashley, when Cornette came down to fire Bruce and reveal Patron didn’t voluntarily
relinquish the belt - he was stripped of it.
But rather than give the title back to Lashley, there was going to be a 20-man gauntlet match
to decide a new champion.
The match itself was taped after this week’s episode finished, and has yet to air on TV,
so skip the next bit if you don’t want to know who won.
Next week’s main event spoiler coming in 3… 2… 1…
SPOILER: New GFW Champion
Your new GFW Champion is Eli Drake, who was the second person to enter the gauntlet match.
He lasted right until the end, along with the match’s first entrant Eddie Edwards.
More TNA/GFW Returns
Cornette wasn’t the only TNA/GFW return on the show.
During the X-Division Championship ladder match between Sonjay Dutt and Trevor Lee,
former X-Division Champion Petey Williams made his surprise comeback.
Williams was one of the original X-Division wrestlers during TNA’s rise in 2004 and
was with the company until 2009.
He returned in 2013, but announced his retirement the following year.
Also, in the finish of the Knockouts Championship match between Sienna and Gail Kim, former
champion Taryn Tarrell ran in to cost Kim the win.
Tarrell was last with the company in July 2015 as the leader of The Dollhouse, holding
the Knockouts Championship for over 270 days - and this return picks up her previous rivalry
with Gail Kim.
John Morrison Debuts For GFW
And finally at the end of the show, it was revealed Johnny Mundo - the former Johnny
Nitro and John Morrison in WWE and the current AAA and Lucha Underground Champion - would
have his on-screen in-ring debut on next week’s edition of Impact Wrestling, where he’ll
going by yet another name as Johnny Impact.
But GFW aren’t the only promotion bringing back former stars...
Shelton Benjamin Returning To WWE
PWInsider are reporting that Shelton Benjamin has signed a deal to come back to WWE.
The former Intercontinental Champion was set to return to Smackdown Live last year following
the brand split, and hype videos were even shown on TV.
But his WWE medical uncovered a torn rotator cuff that required surgery, delaying Benjamin’s
Smackdown return.
He was medically cleared back in March, but nothing was heard since.
PWInsider don’t give a timetable of when Benjamin will return to the ring - or which
brand he’ll be a part of - but one WWE insider has told them it will be “soon” [quote].
Don’t pull that Emmalina guff with me again, Vince.
Have the results for this Sunday’s Summerslam been leaked?
And it looks like Daniel Bryan will definitely wrestle again!
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