Welcome to the WrestleTalk News, I’m Pete Quinnell, and we have a huge top story.
Absolutely massive.
Gigantic.
Monstrous.
And very, very British.
In this year’s G1 Climax tournament, Zack Sabre Jr. just debuted a new finishing submission
move, a Cobra Twist.
Except, to go along with his other superbly British move names, this one is called ‘When
Did They Put All Of The Argos Inside Sainsbury’s’.
I have nothing more to add, it’s just a perfect move name.
If you don’t get it, then you’re not British, and that’s fine.
Anywho, on to some other, obviously less important wrestling news, and as has been mentioned
plenty of times at the time and since, Jimmy Uso turned on his brother Jey at SummerSlam
and prevented his uce from winning both the Undisputed Universal Championship and title
of Tribal Chief.
And while not many people really thought Jey was going to win, there was always that little
part of you that thought…but what if?
Turns out that little part of you was completely wrong though, you idiot, as according to Dave
Meltzer on McGuire On Wrestling, Jey Uso was never discussed to beat Roman, like at all,
within WWE.
Granted, this seems like a bit of a given considering we’ve been hearing about potential
plans for Cody vs Roman II at WrestleMania 40, and you’d assume that Roman would maybe
still have the belt for that match, but according to Meltzer here, Jey besting Roman was never
even considered a possibility.
Which makes sense when you have other plans, but to not even entertain the chance of Jey
winning and what could happen from it?
I don’t know, seems slightly close-minded to me, but hey I wasn’t there, I don’t
know what was said, it could have been totally fine.
I just think that Jey winning could have actually been a neat moment if they wanted it, I don’t
think it would have been a bad thing necessarily, so it’s surprising to me at least that they
didn’t even think about it.
Meanwhile, Liv Morgan is currently out recovering from a shoulder injury, but when she comes
back, we may very well be seeing a new Liv Morgan.
Aside from the other new Liv Morgans we see whenever she goes crazy for like a week or
two.
On her Instagram, Morgan posted a photo of just a bunch of hair on the floor, teasing
that her long locks may be no more when she returns to our screens.
That pile of hair is not insignificant to say the least, it’s more hair than I could
ever grow, so it seems it might be quite the drastic shakeup for when she comes back.
Hopefully she comes back soon, and I hope her recovery is going well.
And before we wrap up the news portion of this video today, some massive congratulations
are in order, because they’re both massive you see, to WWE Women’s World Champ Rhea
Ripley and AEW Trios Champ Buddy Matthews, who revealed on Instagram that they are now
engaged.
The pair have been dating for quite a while now, and their announcement was met with an
outpouring of joy from the rest of the wrestling world.
There’s lots of comments about Dominik Mysterio I could make here, but I won’t.
The Instagram comments have already done that.
Sincerely though, huge congratulations to them both, I wish them nothing but happiness.
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Now it’s time for my review of AEW Dynamite… in about 5 minutes.
The show opened on the way all pro wrestling shows should open: faction admin.
All the J.A.S.
were in the ring for a mandatory meeting about whether they’ll continue to follow their
leader Chris Jericho, because it seems he’s going to ditch them for Don.
A sentiment pretty much confirmed when Jericho came out with his new titan tron video exclusively
of clips of him with Don Callis.
Whether it be the crowd, the storyline, or just the structure of this segment, it never
really landed the way it was supposed to.
Daniel Garcia walking out on Jericho first - but not before aggressive sexy dancing - was
a shocking way to start… but then there were six more people to get through.
No matter how well Angelo and Meynard’s promos were delivered, the segment quickly
became repetitive.
Sammy Guevara walked out on him last, but not forever.
If Jericho can sort out what he’s going through, Sammy might be here for him again.
We then saw Don apologise to Jericho for if he played any role in the J.A.S.
crumbling - like he’s not the main cause of it all! - and Jericho said he’ll announce
whether he’ll be joining Don’s Family next week.
I just not into Jericho right now, so the story around him isn’t grabbing me.
If I had to guess, I reckon Jericho swerves Don next week, and ends up teaming with Guvara
against Takeshita and, I don’t know, Will Ospreay.
Not what I want to happen, but what I can see happening because Jericho hasn’t been
a face for a while and everyone’s gotta get on the card!
The Young Bucks then beat the Hardy Boys in the Bucks’ first straight two on two match
since February.
Matt and Nick Jackson haven’t been missing from TV - they’ve had all those trios and
BCC matches - but the focus on what they do best, tag team wrestling, has been.
So it was so good to see them wrestle here, it didn’t entirely erase that clumsy Double
or Nothing Hardys match they had last year, but it did a help a little - putting on the
best 10 minute tag you could at this point in Matt and Jeff’s career.
They had a face to face with FTR afterwards, confirming Bucks/FTR III at All In.
CM Punk vs Kenny Omega confirmed.
AEW then started showing graphics for All In with the tagline ‘The Biggest Event in
Wrestling History’.
Which sounds very WWE.
The Biggest Wrestling Event in the World in Wrestling History…
Wrestling.’
But if ticket sales continue on their current trajectory, it very well might be.
The best part of the show, as it has been for the last month, was the brochacho bromance
of the summer - MJF and Adam Cole.
We got two brilliant segments - firstly, Max and Cole celebrating after their match announcement
last week.
Not by skinny dipping with women like Max wanted, but by going to the trampoline park.
MJF only cheered up when he realised he could play Dodgeball, where he threw balls as hard
as he could at children while saying things like ‘you’re adopted’ or ‘I slept
with your mum’.
Adam eventually realises what’s happening and yells at him to stop, but a little girl
tells them two grown men should’ve be here, gave them the middle finger, so Cole let’s
Max throw the ball at her too.
The continued punchline of Cole actually being bad, possibly more bad than Max, deep down
isn’t getting old.
And might be a sign of things to come…
Getting Bloodline treatment, i.e. loads of segments on the same show - sucks for everyone
else, but really does enhance their story - MJF and Cole came out for another great
odd couple in-ring promo, where Max misunderstood and went way too hard in what he thought was
a jokey, good natured promo battle.
Fun, but a little bit of tension there.
Cole then showed just how incredible his act with MJF is.
They somehow made me excited about the ROH Tag Team Championships.
Cole put over ROH.
That’s the promotion that made him, and the modern style of wrestling we all enjoy
today.
(Not NXT, you latecomer hipsters).
He won every championship there… apart from the tag titles.
And seeing everyone wants him and Max to be a tag team, why don’t they wrestle for those
belts on the All In pre-show!
Which MJF eventually agreed to with the help of cheap pops.
Roderick Strong wasn’t so pleased, though, playing the deranged jealous best friend brilliantly.
But maybe MJF’s promo went too hard on him too, and Cole shoved Max back.
MJF had that flash of anger again, but they hugged it out.
This is so incredibly entertaining not just in enjoying watching it, but also in the countless
directions they can take this.
MJF and Cole as ROH tag team champions, setting up a ROH tag feud down the line with The Kingdom?
Those matches will be awesome, and hopefully elevate Kanellis and Taven.
Some wrestlers in their advanced years hide themselves in multi-man matches, or, in Sting’s
case, jumping off the highest thing he can find.
But RVD, at 52 years young, just went out there and had an RVD match against Jack Perry.
He played all the hits - Rolling Thunder, Chair surfing dropkicks, a Five Star Frog
splash.
But Perry accidentally hit the ref with a chair, which very satisfyingly then got stuck
on the top rope, so RVD’s winning pin was missed, letting Perry hit a low blow and tight
grab to retain the FTW title.
I hope we see more of RVD.
But I don’t want to see too many more tight grabbing finishes-oh ok there’s one in the
next match.
I don’t want to sound too picky, because Moxley and Claudio vs the Lucha Bros was a
lot of fun, but Mox won by grabbing Penta’s tights in a roll up.
Apologies if the BCC have won that way before, but it just sits a bit off with me for the
point of their faction.
Distractions, yes.
Bloody weapons, yes.
Low blows, give me all you got.
But technical pinning is such a big focus of their training, I don’t want Mox winning
like this.
It likely means the three way feud of the Lucha Bros and Best Friends will continue.
And Claudio took credit for PAC’s unfortunate real life injury, which’ll put him out of
the Wembley show.
Kenny Omega said he’ll reveal his Wembley plans next week in a sitdown interview with
JR.
Sting could only be gone for two weeks of TV, and I will still pop for his return.
He took out the Mogul Embassy and challenged them, along with Darby Allin - Allin, All
In.
They’ve been foreshadowing this from the start!
- to a match at Wembley.
I reckon we could get Darby, Sting and Nick Wayne against Fox, Swerve and Cage.
Where Sting will likely hit a crossbody off Big Ben.
No, that’s Big Bill.
But they do have something in common.
They’re both bell ends.
Now I’ll tell you why that’s a good joke.
Common misconception is Big Ben is the name of the whole clock tower.
When in fact it’s just the bell that chimes on the hour.
And a bell end is slang for a penis.
And the main event saw the usual quarter past the second hour women’s segment moved to
the last ten minutes of the show.
Progress!
Kind of.
Shida took on Anna Jay in a ten minute match that was almost half a commercial break.
The didn’t get long enough to make it feel like a Dynamite quality main event.
And it appears they were told to wrap things up early, as Angelo Parker still tried to
do a near fall spot that the referee ignored.
I guess two consecutive weeks of main events for the women’s division is great on paper,
but in reality they still feel like lipstick service, lacking the same focus on character
and storyline given to the male wrestlers.
Shida will advance to the four way at All In to defend her title.
So this was probably the most predictable outcome of the whole show too.
This week’s Dynamite is 74%.
WWE cuts are reportedly coming.
Watch on to find out more…