Hello and welcome to the WrestleTalk News, I am Luke Owen.
Headline: Drake Maverick Shoot Pisses
It’s not been a good week for Drake Maverick.
He was accosted so much at Survivor Series at the hands of the Big Show that he pissed
his pants, his dominant Raw Tag Team Champions AOP had chants of AOPeePee directed at him,
and then they lost to Chad Gable and Bobby Roode.
Oh, and he was part of an angle that is among the worst things WWE has done in all of 2018,
and that is quite an accolade.
But according to Dave Meltzer in the latest Wrestling Observer Newsletter, it might not
have actually gone to plan.
According to Big Daddy Meltz, there is a story going round that plan was for Drake to use
a gimmick in his trousers which would then look like urine was flowing from his penis
- I can’t believe I’m saying all of these words - but the story goes that gimmick didn’t
really quite work.
“A version of the story, which was not confirmed, is that the gimmick didn’t work and Maverick
actually had to really piss on himself to make the angle work.”
And it seems that Maverick has had nothing but tweets about his dribbling ding dong as
he replied to one fan: “The @WWEUniverse thinks they’re so clever.
You idiots do know that there was a “double moonsault” from on top of a cage on Saturday??
Shouldn’t you be thanking the gods above about this miracle & chanting “THIS IS AWESOME”
instead of directing “pee” jokes at me?”
Still it’s better to be pissed off than pissed on.
Or involved in an angle where you piss yourself on TV.
Headline: Bray Wyatt Returns To WWE!
Maybe someone who wants to reconsider their return to the WWE ring is Bray Wyatt, who
made his first appearance for the company in several months over the weekend.
Wyatt was last seen in September when he was still part of the tag team with Matt Hardy
- which disbanded when Hardy had to take time off to heal his injuries.
During October Wyatt posted several cryptic tweets which hinted about a new change of
gimmick with a character called Dr. Mercy - repeatedly tweeting the number 4.
While this had fans puzzling over what this could all mean, Bray Wyatt randomly returned
to WWE at their special Starrcade show from Cincinnati, Ohio to answer Baron Corbin’s
open challenge in his usual Bray Wyatt gear.
However it’s being reported that this was not an official return and the change of gimmick
could still be on the cards.
In fact Rajah are reporting that Wyatt was a last minute replacement for Braun Strowman,
who is currently sidelined with an injury and could be out until the Royal Rumble next
year.
Wyatt pinned Corbin with a roll-up and when Baron asked for the match to be restarted,
Wyatt pinned him again.
Headline: Starrcade Results
And if you’re wondering to yourself, what the heckins is Starrcade?
Well it was a WWE house show special that they aired some of on the WWE Network over
the weekend.
But not a house show special like Super Show Down or Greatest Royal Rumble - this was like
one of the normal house shows which doesn’t affect storylines.
As far as we can tell anyway.
Also on the show Sasha Banks, Bayley, Dana Brooke and Ember Moon defeated Nia Jax, Tamina,
Alicia Fox and Mickie James - rare wins there for Banks, Bayley, Moon and Brooke - Drew
McIntyre defeated Pinn Balor, The B-Team beat The Revival - goddamit, WWE - The Bar beat
New Day, Rusev and Rey Mysterio defeated Shinsuke Nakamura and The Miz, Charlotte pinned Asuka
- goddamit, WWE - AJ Styles tapped out Samoa Joe in a cage match, and Seth Rollins beat
Dean Ambrose also inside a steel cage.
The WWE and Universal Champions were not on the show at all and neither were women’s
champions Ronda Rousey or Becky Lynch.
Headline: NXT UK TakeOver Announced
But in perhaps more surprising news from the weekend, WWE officially announced the first
TakeOver event for NXT UK - which will take place on January 12th from Blackpool - the
Las Vegas of England.
The announcement was made during the NXT UK tapings in Liverpool, with Triple H appearing
in a pre-taped video.
This is a big step for WWE’s UK expansion, which kicked off earlier this year when they
announced the brand and launched the weekly TV show a several months later.
Now we’re about to dive into the Spoiler Room Brawl so if you want to avoid what’s
going to happen on the next few weeks of NXT UK and some of the matches taking place at
the January TakeOver event.
We’re about to spoil the show in 3….2...1 [Keep as one shot with a side screen saying:
SPOILER ROOM BRAWL]!
Headline: NXT UK Spoilers!
NXT UK TakeOver will see the finals of the NXT UK Tag Team Tournament pitting Moustache
Mountain of Trent Seven and Tyler Bate against the Grizzled Young Veterans of Zack Gibson
and James Drake, while NXT UK Women’s Champion Rhea Ripley will defend her title against
Toni Storm.
And in the main event, Pete Dunne will defends his NXT United Kingdom Championship - a title
he’s held since May 2017 - against Joe Coffey.
Also announced is a No-DQ match against Dave Mastiff and Eddie Dennis and while not officially
confirmed, it’s likely that Travis Banks will take on Jordan Devlin who continued their
storylines at the Liverpool tapings.
Headline: CGW’s Latest Trading Card!
And before we head off we wanted to debut the latest trading cards for Crap Gimmick
Wrestling by our own Art Attack Lewis Tillett - who you can follow on Instagram at LewisTillettArt.
The latest member of the Crap Gimmick Wrestler is El Limon II - a young lemonade stand owner
from Tijuna who was trained in the mystic art of Lucha Libre by the original El Limon,
who now manages him under the name El Limon Classic.
A big thanks as always to Lewis Tillett for this amazing artwork.
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