Here's more wrestling news for July 20th, 2022.
And we're starting off this afternoon with NXT 2.0 as this
week's episode was the first show since Cora Jade's heel turn
last week on that show Jade turned on Roxanne Perez during the
ladders NXT women's championship match, despite the pair not
being just tag team partners, but NXTs women's tag team champions.
During this week's show Jade addressed her betrayal saying that
Perez had robbed her of an opportunity for the NXT women's title
and claimed that the NXT women's tag team titles held no value.
And through her belt in the garbage, this got a ton of responses
online with Bailey tweeting that she has more work to do
teasing a return to NXT and possible confrontation with Jade.
Others pointed out how WWE seems to be getting rid of the women's tag
team divisions throughout the company, as there's still no sign of
anyone winning the WWE women's tag team titles on the main roster with
Jade throwing the title in the trash, a comparison was made to Medusa,
throwing the WWF women's title away during WCW Monday nitro in 1995.
And whatever comes next, don't expect to see
many NXT women's tag team title defenses.
Now Seth Rollins is one of the top heels in WWE
right now and has been for some time, but the man
tries to be a good person outside of the ring.
In addition to being a superstar, Rollins runs the black and
brave wrestling academy, where he recently had an incident.
He deeply regrets on Instagram.
Seth spoke of a couple of fans who came to greet him and Becky Lynch,
but Rollins in the middle of a workout was very harsh to the two.
In his post Rollins apologized for his behavior, realizing he was
in the wrong and invited the fans to come back to the academy so
he can apologize in person Rollins added that this invitation goes
to anyone as he'd love to meet fans at the academy, just as long
as they're aware that he may be a bit busy when they show up Seth
realizes that he wouldn't be where he is without his fan base.
And it's great to see that the former universal
champion is mature enough to realize when he is messed.
Rollins will face riddle next Saturday at summer slam.
But the two came to blows during this week's raw on the show.
Rollins laid out the original bro with a series of curb stomps and
had some interesting words when he took to Twitter afterwards, after
the attack Rollins tweeted that he's hated this guy for a long time,
referencing the real life beef between the two that existed for years.
That real life drama started when
Riddle's wife now ex-wife body shamed.
Rawlins's wife, Becky Lynch in a now deleted Instagram
post unsurprisingly Rollins did not take this well.
And infamously said during the 2020 draft that he
has no interest in working with the king of bros.
Thankfully, the beef between them has now been squashed and the pair
are working well together on screen, but it was certainly interesting
to see Seth bring up a controversial time in both men's careers.
In 2020 Joey Ryan's wrestling career came to a screeching
halt after a series of accusations of misconduct that
would result in no promotions wanting to work with him.
Recently, we learned that Ryan had found new work as a Ride
operator for Disney, but his name is now trending on social media.
Once more at a recent event, Effy displayed some indecent in
ring moves, which left fans disgusted, and his actions had many
fans thinking back to Ryan's own hypersexualized character.
Others defended Effy's in ring work saying that it wasn't Ryan's
character that got him virtually blacklisted from the wrestling
industry, but his sexually aggressive behavior outside the ring.
Joey Ryan's character may have been popular once
before, but there's been a lot of talk about
inappropriate behavior in wrestling since then.
So Effy may be forced to change his
character despite not doing anything wrong.
Over to AEW now as Ray Fenix suffered an injury during
last Friday's rampage, when the Lucha bros were taking
on private party, after a simple atomic drop, Fenix was
seen limping heavily after the match, but things seemed
to be okay during the latest wrestling observer radio.
It was noted that while scary looking Fenix is apparently
doing just fine and is not expected to miss any in ring time.
The match was taped on Wednesday and Fenix competed
live elsewhere while the Friday rampage was aired.
So it's clear that this injury didn't keep him from the ring.
AEW has been plagued with injuries as of late with cm punk,
Brian Danielson, Adam Cole, Penelope Ford and others on the shelf.
But thankfully Ray Fenix , won't be joining them back to WWE as
Jeff Jarrett will be appearing at summer slam next Saturday as a
guest referee, but it'll be a busy weekend for good old double J.
Just one day later, however, Jarrett will team with Jay lethal to face
Andrade El Idolo and Ric Flair in the nature boys last ever match.
And there's been a questions as to how the WWE's head of live
events is being allowed to wrestle on wrestling observer radio.
It was explained that a deal had been
reached between WWE and star cast.
And it's okay for JJ to wrestle as he's
not under a talent contract with WWE.
Jared and flair had their wars in WCW.
So it is fitting that Jeff will be one of his final opponents
and what'll be a packed 48 hours for the hall of Famer.
Ever since it was announced that Rick would wrestle his first
match in over a decade, there was a lot of concerned people,
and it turns out that the nature boy's current health is
dealing with a setback as confirmed on wrestling, observer
radio flare is dealing with some kind of a foot injury, though.
He is still expected to compete on July 31st.
Blair hasn't exactly done anything to ease concerns about his health.
Going into the match saying during a press conference
that his pacemaker and tablets that thin his blood
could cause serious problems during the match.
Nevertheless, Blair is adamant that he will
wrestle his final ever match later this month.
Despite now dealing with this foot injury at the 2019
Royal rumble Nia, Jax's made history becoming the first
person to compete in two Royal rumbles on the same night.
Entering the women's rumble at number 29, she would later
attack our truth and take the number 30 spot in the men's
rumble facing off against some of WWE's top male superstars in
her recent appearance on the wives of wrestling podcast, Jack
spoke about her experience in the men's match and how she was
shocked to see Randy Orton take a bump for her in the match.
You know, what was even crazier than I did not know was gonna happen.
I almost peed myself was when I gave Randy
a shoulder tackle and he bumped for me.
I was legit shocked.
I looked down, I was like, oh fuck Randy, just bumped for me.
He wasn't gonna bump.
We didn't talk about that.
It was just gonna be a shoulder.
He was gonna go in.
And he bumped for me, Jackson's tenure in the match was short-lived as
she would be thrown out by Ray Mysterio after just over three minutes.
But the match continues to be a huge moment for
the now former superstar all these years later.
Back to the present as Vince McMahon is under investigation right now,
pertaining to allegations raised in two wall street journal articles.
McMahon is alleged to have paid millions to cover up affairs with
employees and reportedly forced, at least one woman into sex.
And a lot has been said about Vince and a lot
has been said about Vince over the past month.
Speaking as the latest guest on wrestle, buddy, former
WWE personality, Ricardo Rodriguez gave his 2 cents on
the matter and believes this won't be the end of VKM.
I know it's a sensitive topic and overall, it's an unfortunate thing.
I'm surprised it took this long and it's not just in wrestling.
It's in so many industries, so many companies where
men of such high power and money, it happens to them.
Not so much the getting caught the act of doing something like that.
And it happens a lot.
We hear about it all the time on TMZ, but to
what Jericho said on that podcast, is it illegal?
No.
Was it fucked up?
Yes.
Morally it's totally screwed up, but it wasn't illegal.
So if you look at it from that sense, I feel
like Vince is going to walk off and be all right.
When asked about Stephanie McMohan, stepping in his interim
CEO and chair, WWE Rodriguez said that he is entirely behind
this idea and hopes that triple H is working alongside her.
Many have said that this scandal won't be the end of McMahon,
but with another wall street journal bombshell expected, we'll
have to wait until the end of the investigation to know for sure.
And we're ending today with NXT 2.0, which saw a huge return
on the show in the 20 woman battle Royal to determine the next
challenger for Mandy rose, Zoe stark made her return to the
brand, getting the win and an NXT women's championship match.
Stark had been out with an injury since October's Halloween
havoc event where she and Io Shirai lost the NXT women's tag
team titles to toxic attractions, Gigi Dolan, and JC Jane.
But now stark could get a ton of payback.
If she dethrows the group's leader, Mandy rose.