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Today’s short story is called the fall of the house of Black by Edgar Allen Poe-lease
may I be released from my contract.
Yes because after it was reported that Malakai Black would be stepping away from wrestling
for a while and reports that he had asked for his release from AEW wholesale, a new
rumor has rocked the very foundations that the house that Malakai built is built on.
Because with Black out, many people have been asking what would happen to the remaining
members of the faction: Brody King, Buddy Matthews and Julia Hart.
And while the group has been set up to go forward with Brody and Buddy as a tag team
and Julia as the manager according to Fightful Select that may not be happening either.
Fightful reported that Matthews could also be done with the company for a while.
Rampage: Grand Slam Matthews and King faced off against Sting and Darby Allin, in the
closing moments of the match, the Great Muta made a shock appearance and sprayed green
mist in Matthews’ face, before Sting dropped Matthews with a Scorpion Death Drop.
According to Fightful this was intended to write Buddy off of TV for a while.
Then at a Fight Life Pro Wrestling show this weekend Matthews addressed the crowd noting
the House of Black had had ‘issues lately’ and adding:
“Unfortunately, I, like some of the other members, need to go away for a while.
I need to recalibrate.
I need to figure out some things.
As my brother Malakai once said, this isn’t goodbye, this is see you later.”
It kind of echoes what went down with Malakai at a Prestige Wrestling show on September
17th when he addressed the crowd hinting that he would be stepping away from the ring before
confirming that he had requested his AEW release the following day in a statement.
The only difference here though is that seemingly Matthews doesn’t think any of this news
is true at all - he took to Twitter posting a gif seemingly labeling the multiple news
stories and reports as fake.
Whether that pertains to just taking a break or asking for his release remains to be seen
- I would assume that its putting the release rumors to bed and Buddy might be having a
little time off.
I guess the reason these rumors keep doing the rounds is the idea that WWE has made approaches
to certain talent within AEW hoping to lure them back now that Triple H is in charge.
Black was said to be one of the names, however he reportedly also has a lengthy non-compete
clause.
Other names that have reportedly been approached are Dax Harwood, Cash Wheeler and Swerve Strickland,
while Bobby Fish is also said to have let his contract expire and asked Adam Cole and
Kyle O’Reilly to request their releases and head to back to WWE and reform the Undisputed
Era.
Though Fish has since been seen at Impact’s Victory Road ALONE.
Dave Meltzer waded into the debate after being asked if we should expect an exodus of AEW
talent, particularly those from NXT, and said “looks like a few right now.”
He went on to clarify that he doesn’t expect a mass exodus, but that it “looks like a
few want to go.”
Shockingly one of the other sets of names floating around in this mix are the Jackson
brothers, one Matt and one Nick.
The Young Bucks are still serving their suspension following the backstage brawl at AEW All Out,
sources state that no interest was shown by the Bucks of leaving the company prior to
this messy situation arising.
However, now the dust has settled Ryan Frederick on the Wrestling Observer message board says
that the current AEW EVPs did in fact send out feelers to WWE to gauge interest whenever
their contracts are up.
Following up Fightful have now said that this has been an ongoing rumor among their sources
dating back to August.
And is an persistent topic of conversation amongst their WWE sources who reckon the Bucks
asked to speak to someone in management.
Whereas sources close to the Bucks state that they haven't been given any indication whatsoever
that the trios champions have been making such moves, and others have denied the rumor
completely.
Fightful the said that one source in WWE with access to higher ups said that they believe
that the Bucks wouldn’t need to make such moves or gauge interest, one because they
reportedly almost signed with WWE before deciding to form All Elite Wrestling and two they would
be more likely to take the temperature on free agency.
During their time off though The Bucks have been working hard on new business ventures,
like partnering with Diadora Lifestyle to create their own special edition shoes which
are set to launch on September 28th.
While obviously wrestling discourse has been an absolute mess since All Out, with rumor
and speculation flying everywhere all the damn time, nothing has been more shocking
than what happened this weekend when WWE hall of famer Teddy Long went on a rampant blocking
spree.
Long ended up trending on Twitter yesterday after blocking just about everyone in wrestling.
It was a bit of a mystery as to what was going on for a good while there as it came out of
the blue and seemingly landed on people who had a good relationship with Long, or at least
had had no real interaction with him.
Thankfully everything has been cleared up now with Long posting a video explaining the
situation, saying: “Somebody hacked my Twitter account.
I have no idea who it was.
It was somebody that I blocked who was mad that I blocked them and they wanted to hack
my s**t and block everybody else.
Well, I want to thank them because the first thing they did, they got me trending.
This is like the third time I’ve ever been trending so that tells me, ‘Teddy Long,
you still got it.’
In other news Drew McIntyre was pulled from WWE House Shows this weekend, according to
PWInsider the Scottish Warrior was suffering from a bad bout of food poisoning since before
the Smackdown taping.
McIntyre reportedly received IV treatment in order to help him get through his segment.
A segment which was a little cursed, Fightful are reporting that his segment with Karrion
Kross on Smackdown actually went wrong as the flash paper didn’t work as intended
and they were forced to change it on the fly.
It’s said that everything after that point was improvised.
But McIntyre actually had a good reason to double over from
the low blow.
In more WWE news, there has been some talk of shuffling the roster around and moving
a few people from one show to the next.
The Wrestling Observer Newsletter is reporting that WWE have been considering moving Toxic
Attraction’s Gigi Dolina and Jacy Jayne to the main roster for a while now.
They would join Solo Sikoa and Giovanni Vinci as alumni of NXT 2.0 on the main roster.
However, the door swings both ways, and it can be easy come, easy go or even really long
time come and easy go.
Because according to Figure Four wrestling online Veer Mahaan, he of coming to Raw fame,
was featured on an NXT live event alongside his old Indus Sher tag team partner Sanga.
It’s unknown if it is a full-time return to the black and gold brand or just a spot
that needed filled on the live show, but considering Mahaan’s lack of direction on Raw a move
back to NXT doesn’t seem insane.
If it is a full time move back to NXT I can’t believe it’s happened before we’ve even
got Sully to arrive on the news.
That’s that bit absolutely wasted.
There is still also some confusion within WWE about exactly who managed to survive the
dissolution of NXT UK.
Once they resolve the Battleworlds arc in the comics though, we’ll know who the main
characters of the new one NXT universe are.
One name that was up in the air was Jinny who according to Fightful is still under WWE
contract.
Per their report Jinny has been dealing with an apparent injury which delayed her arrival
in the US, which the star recently confirmed.
She also said that she has been waiting on her supporting documents and passpo;rt to
arrive before she’s be allowed into America.
Jinny hasn’t appeared on any WWE programming since NXT UK went defunct earlier this month,
but this report seemingly clears up her status.
Under Vince McMahon WWE had many rules and regulations regarding what could be said,
what could be done and ultimately whether or not pouring dog food on a man called the
Big Dog was funny.
It wasn’t.
Things like the word wrestler were banned because it anyone could be a wrestler, sneezing
was frowned upon because it showed weakness and plenty of moves were no-nos.
Like slapping thighs.
Since Triple H took over some of those regulations have been relaxed, Drew McIntyre was first
to publicly say the W word in a promo, but there are still some sacred cows.
According to Ronda Rousey, the Tombstone Pilderiver has essentially been retired by WWE.
On a YouTube stream when someone suggested she should use the move on Liv Morgan at Extreme
Rules she said: "It's such a dangerous move, nobody else is
allowed to do it, It's basically a retired move."
WWE have had a ban on the piledriver for a number of years, so extending the ban to this
specific variation now that Undertaker has retired makes sense.
It also leaves a bit of mystique around the move and I for one quite like that - watch
someone come out and do one in
the next week, proving this whole thing wrong.