Here's more wrestling news for May 10th 2022
And your headlines for Afternoon include
WWE Possibly Makes Major Rule Change For Money In The Bank
Impact Wrestling Tried Desperate Tactic To Boost Low Ticket Sales For Tv Taping
Samoa Joe Hints At Revisiting Rivalries With Cm Punk & Bryan Danielson
Samoa Joe Recalls Nearly Missing ROH Supercard Of Honor
WWE Fans Have Fun Comparing Veer Mahaan’s Latest Victim To Wardlow
State Files Paperwork To Revoke Tammy Lynn Sytch’s Bond
Pat Buck Reveals Why He Left WWE For AEW
Former ROH Tv Champ Rhett Titus Involved In Car Wreck
Tony Khan Says AEW Is The #1 Promotion In The U.K.
Nash Carter’s First Post-WWE NXT Booking Announced And more!
We’re kicking off today with Money in the Bank, which is always one of WWE’s most exciting nights of the year.
With the two titular Ladder matches, the Money in the Bank event adds some unpredictability and excitement to WWE, but that doesn’t seem to be the case this year.
In an advertisement for the upcoming Premium Live Event, Cody Rhodes discussed the show, saying that the winners of the Men’s and Women’s ladder matches can earn themselves a main event
match at WrestleMania.
This is certainly a bizarre thing for the American Nightmare to say, as typically, it is the men’s and women’s Royal Rumble matches that guarantee someone a WrestleMania main event.
While fans initially believed the line was a botch, the video was repeated on this week’s Raw, leading to speculation that this is an official rule change.
If so, it will be the first time the rule has changed since the first Money in the Bank ladder match in 2005, and arguably the biggest change to the concept period since the introduction of the Women’s ladder m
match in 2017. In 2007, Mr. Kennedy said that he would be cashing in his contract at WrestleMania 24 in 2008, but
he lost the briefcase before that day came, and it now appears Superstars won’t be given the choice as to when they cash in.
Over to Impact Wrestling next, as last weekend was the promotion’s Under Siege Pay Per View, which saw Josh Alexander defending the Impact World Championship against New Japan’s Tomohiro
Ishii, as well as the Briscoes capture the Impact World Tag Team Titles.
With a lot of cross-promotion, Impact had hoped to ride the momentum from the event into its next set of TV tapings, but that didn’t go as planned.
It’s been reported online that seats have moved incredibly slowly for the Impact tapings in Newport, Kentucky, and the promotion was left making a desparate move to fill seats.
On Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer reported that for the most recent tapings, Impact was giving away free tickets at a nearby independent event, that several Impact Wrestling stars
were already booked to be on.
Meltzer explained that despite a World title match between Josh Alexander and Eric Young, and a women’s King of the Mountain match, that wasn’t enough to sell seats.
Impact has been producing solid content, but the lack of exposure against WWE and AEW has hurt them greatly, forcing the company to make moves like this just to seem more popular.
Last month, at Ring of Honour Supercard of Honour 15, Samoa Joe made his return to the company, mere months after being released from WWE for the second time.
As part of ROH early in his career, Joe had some excellent matches, with two of his biggest opponents being CM Punk and Bryan Danielson.
Speaking this week on the AEW Unrestricted podcast, Joe spoke about the two, and said that he has things to settle with the Chicago Made AEW star.
As for Danielson, Joe said that he’d love to work with him again, saying that “any time I step in the ring with him, we get down.”
It wasn’t too long ago that it appeared that all three men would never wrestle again, as Punk had a seven year retirement, Bryan was retired from 2016-2018 and Joe spent over a year out with a concussion.
Now, all three men are wrestling again, and are all part of AEW, meaning that Tony Khan could easily give his Ring of Honor some added oomph by booking these three against each other.
Joe’s return to ROH at Supercard of Honor hadn’t been advertised for the show, and earned one of the loudest pops of the night from the shocked crowd, but this almost didn't happen.
Speaking on the that same podcast, Joe said how weather issues and travel problems nearly cost him his big moment:
There was bad weather preventing jets to get to Tampa on time And a lot of mechanical issues on flights that went out. So, I had to end up driving to Cross City, Florida, a small little rural town in the
middle of Florida to catch a private jet to get up to the show." Had Joe not appeared at Supercard of Honour 15, then the crowd in attendance would have been
none the wiser, but he thankfully did get there, kicking off the new Tony Khan era of Ring of Honour with an emphatic bang.
Back to WWE, as Veer Mahaan continued his dominant ways during this week’s episode of Raw, squashing Frank Lowman.
The local enhancement talent had a brief interview before the match, where he said he has a family to look after, but fans found Lowman’s look to be very similar to a certain AEW star.
When the WWE Twitter account asked fans for the name of Mahaan’s opponent, insisting that it be wrong answers only, fans replied in their droves comparing Frank Lowman to AEW’s Wardlow.
Fans joked that Lowman was the Wish.com version of Wardlow, referencing the budget site known for selling knock-off products, whilst others said that WWE knew exactly what they were doing
with this tweet. Lowman may have had a similar build and look to Wardlow, but that didn’t save him from Veer
Mahaan, and we’re wondering which familiar face will appear as the next opponent of the Indian colossus.
Last week, Tammy Sytch was arrested and charged with nine felonies related to the three-vehicle car accident in March, including being charged with DUI Manslaughter.
Sytch was arrested on Friday night, but didn’t spend long behind bars, as she was released on a $227,000 bond on Saturday morning, but that could soon change.
Mike Springer has released state paperwork which was filed against Sytch, in which the state of Florida wants her bond to be revoked, obviously not trusting her to be free at this time.
Reasons included in the documents include Sytch’s previous convictions and there’s reason to believe that she might repeat the same dangerous behaviour while she awaits her trial.
Sytch blew three times the legal limit when she took a blood alcohol test after the accident, and this is hardly her first run in with the law.
For now, Sytch is a free woman, though has been ordered not to leave Volusia County, Florida, but how long she remains out of jail remains to be seen.
More from Impact now, as last weekend was the promotions Under Siege event, and marked the return of Mia Yim.
In her first televised appearance since being released from WWE, Yim appeared to confront Deonna Purrazzo, who had come up short against AAA Reina de Reinas Champion Taya Valkyrie.
In an update from Fightful, it's reported that Yim has signed a short-term six-month deal with Impact, which would presumably expire in November this year.
Of course, impact could always make her a new offer during this time, but for now, her contract is only for 6 months
A former Impact Knockouts Champion from her days competing as Jade, Mia Yim has certainly proven herself both in and out the company, but it remains to be seen just how long she'll be with
the company.
Shortly after WrestleMania 38, Pat Buck left WWE, but didn’t spend long in the unemployment line.
Mere days after producing the Brock Lesnar Vs. Roman Reigns match, Buck had joined AEW, and has now opened up about his decisions to jump ship.
At a recent WrestlePro event, Buck returned to the ring to face Joey Janela, and after that, spoke about how he sometimes makes great decisions and bad decisions.
Speaking about WWE, Buck said he was blessed to work for the company for three years, but said that the grueling schedule forced him to miss his two families, his personal family and his wrestling family.
Pat Buck made his decision as AEW will ultimately allow him to give more time to his family. In the end, that is what truly matters to him.
We’ve got some concerning news to report now, as former Ring of Honor World Television Champion Tutus has been involved in a car wreck.
On Twitter, Titus shared images of the accident which took place when he was driving on the Garden State Parkway, and he thankfully confirmed that he was not injured in the crash.
Titus said he is “extremely lucky” to be able to walk away from the crash, and said it has helped put his life into perspective.
Titus was lucky on this occasion, but this could have been a tragedy, and it goes to show that everyone needs to be as careful as possible when on the road.
Over to AEW now, as despite only hosting shows in North America so far, the company has had global success, and is syndicated all around the globe.
One country with a massively passionate wrestling fanbase is the UK, and while Tony Khan’s promotion is yet to cross the pond, the AEW President is pleased of the response they’ve had overseas.
Appearing on the Swerve City podcast, Khan discussed the United Kingdom and made some pretty bold claims about AEW’s presence over there:
There are parts of the world where we are number one which is amazing, like the United Kingdom
Khan didn’t provide any evidence as to why AEW is the number one wrestling promotion in the United Kingdom, which is also home to countless loyal WWE fans.
In the past, Khan has said he hopes to one day tour the UK, but that has been impossible for the past couple of years, but according to Khan, not having shows over there hasn’t stopped AEW from
becoming the number one promotion.
And we’re ending today with Nash Carter, and it was only a few weeks ago that the company released him after accusations of abuse were levelled against the MSK star.
At first, WWE reportedly did not find the claims credible, but after an image was shared of Carter parodying Adolf Hitler, the company decided that it’d be better to cut ties with the controversial star.
Now, Carter has got his first post-WWE match confirmed, as he’ll be competing at the Deliver Us event from Circle 6 and No Peace Underground on May 21st in Orlando, Florida.
Carter, who has remained silent on social media since his release, was cut just days after MSK won the NXT Tag Team Titles, and now going by Zachary Wentz, the former Superstar will have to
start his journey all over again.