In this WrestleTalk News, Kenny Omega speaks on Brawl Out, a Raw star in line for a big
push, Eddie Kingston upset with AEW and more.
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It’s March 2023, meaning it’s now 7 months since Brawl Out - the infamous post-press
conference bust-up following AEW’s All Out involving new AEW World Champion CM Punk,
his trainer Ace Steel and new AEW World Trios Champions Kenny Omega & The Young Bucks.
Obviously The Elite side of the brawl have returned to work and regained those Trios
Titles, while Ace Steel is gone from AEW and CM Punk hasn’t been seen on our screens
since.
And while some people, Oli Davis, may be looking for clues and hints at CM Punk’s return
to AEW where there aren’t any, we haven’t actually heard that much about the situation
from the people involved.
Up until now that is, as Kenny Omega spoke with Renee Paquette on her The Sessions podcast
about Brawl Out and his thoughts on the whole situation:
“Here’s the way that I look at it.
Like I’m involved in competitive sports, contact sports, at the highest level.
Some people on our roster, have some people on our roster have not, but I feel like if
you have, you’ve probably been in a spat or two with a teammate.
And maybe sometimes a time or two, it might come to blows, you know, it happens.”
“I suppose, there are things especially now when you’re in a multi million billion
dollar industry where there are sponsorships on the line, TV deal is on the line.
It’s not like high school football.”
“It’s a shame that the general public and a lot of people aren’t ever going to
know what went down…I don’t think anyone is happy that it happened, or is proud that
it happened or anything like that.
I think across the board, everyone thinks that was a terrible situation that was unnecessary.”
What do you mean the general public aren’t going to know what happened Kenny?
We already know all the details - you obviously hit the One Winged Angel to CM Punk’s dog,
he fired a Hadouken toward Nick Jackson but his brother Matt managed to get in front and
get his block up before going Super Saiyan and hitting his Mortal Kombat Fatality on
Ace Steel.
Pretty sure I got all those details right.
While there may be no love shared between Omega and Punk - there is someone Omega showed
the love to on the same Sessions podcast episode, and that’s fellow Canadian Sami Zayn.
Omega mentioned that he “loves him like a brother”.
Get in line Kenny, Jey Uso got there first.
He went on to say that “possibly my greatest experiences ever just in wrestling, was being
able to kind of dorm with him in Japan.”
Kenny Omega vs Sami Zayn at WrestleMania?
Yes.
Or maybe this whole Kevin Owens story is a swerve and it’ll actually be Zayn and Omega
teaming together to take down The Usos.
Yes, why not.
While Zayn may be one of the hottest things going in wrestling right now, there was a
time where he was worried his actions may have drawn heat from the WWE locker room,
as Titus O’Neil recently revealed on Busted Open Radio:
“I’m so glad now that this generation of WWE superstars are taking the mantle of
being able to control their own narrative outside of the company…I remember Sami calling
me and going, ‘Hey man, I want to run something by you.’
This is when he wanted to do his project in Syria.
‘Do you think I would get any heat?’...I said, ‘if anybody gives you heat for trying
to do something that makes a significant and positive change for something you believe
in, then you don’t need to be working at this company.”
This is of course in reference to Sami’s charity, Sami For Syria, which was actually
received quite positively by the rest of the WWE roster and has drawn public support from
the likes of Becky Lynch, Bayley, Dakota Kai and IYO Sky.
And while Sami may be on the cusp of greatness, despite his loss to Roman Reigns at Elimination
Chamber, there could be another WWE wrestler lined up for a big push soon…
Now if you’ve been watching any video I’ve been in for a few months, any time there is
mention of, or TV featuring Chad Gable, I constantly implore WWE to push this man because
he is unbelievably great in the ring, and has proven he can do solid enough promos to
back it up.
I even made a whole point of it on yesterday’s Raw review on the WrestleTalk Podcast.
Well it seems we now know that WWE listens to me specifically, because according to WRKD
Wrestling on Twitter: “There have been discussions of pushing
Chad Gable as more of a serious singles star while moving Otis to Maximum Male Models in
a comedy role.”
I have so much power!
Okay…what are some other things I want WWE to do?
Get rid of the third hour of Raw!
Um…ooh, ooh, don’t do Brock Lesnar vs Omos.
Oh and how about can we get to the point of the Bray Wyatt story?
On the assumption that there is a Bray Wyatt story, that is.
However it’s not all sunshine and rainbows with a Chad Gable push, because of course
there’s still Otis.
And while the WRKD Wrestling tweet mentioned moving Otis into the comedy role with Maximum
Male Models, which genuinely I am all in on, I think that sounds wonderful, the tweet goes
on to say: “Gable and Otis are on the fence about splitting
up due to their long time, close friendship.”
Which is incredibly fair, and as much as I personally want the Chad Gable big singles
push, I of course only want that if he does.
I just think it would be amazing to truly see what the limits of Gable’s potential
are, because I think they are like, at least up here.
This news comes off the back of a Chad Gable vs Cody Rhodes match on this week’s Raw,
which was real fun, which WRKD Wrestling also provided some context for prior to the match:
“Cody Rhodes wants Chad Gable to have a “big showing” during their Raw match tonight,
as Rhodes has been a fan of him and was one of the unnamed AEW talents hoping to eventually
bring Gable to the company, as reported by Meltzer in 2021.”
While I don’t think it was quite the star-making performance Cody perhaps wanted it to be,
it was really good, and once again showed why Chad Gable is an incredible wrestler.
Chad Gable, at least mid-card champion, 2023.
Pretty please.
Oh my god Chad Gable vs Gunther.
That sounds amazing.
That would be such an incredible David vs Goliath story and yep I’ve just made up
my mind, that should be it.
That should be the direction.
And while things may be looking up for Gable soon, meanwhile over in AEW, one Eddie Kingston
ain’t too happy.
But then again, when is he ever?
That’s his charm, he’s always grumpy, I love it.
AEW recently announced the Face of the Revolution Ladder Match, which will take place on tonight’s
Dynamite, not on PPV, which features Sammy Guevara, Action Andretti, Powerhouse Hobbs,
AR Fox, Konosuke Takeshita, Ortiz, Komander, and of course, the aforementioned Eddie Kingston.
In an interview with Sactown Sports 1140, Kingston revealed that he wasn’t too happy
with being booked for this match: “I may not be at Sacramento though, it all
depends on how certain things go in the locker room with the office.
Especially with my match that’s coming up on Wednesday, not really happy about it…Yeah,
so we have to have a talk, me and I’m not going to say who’s the office, everybody
knows about Tony [Khan] but there are others.
We all got to get together and talk…I want to go everywhere but I also, yanno, I got
to be a businessman and put my foot down at some point.
In a calm manner, that’s what I’m still trying to learn, a professional manner.”
What specifically he’s upset about, I’m not sure, but he’s grumpy isn’t he.
Love it.
If you’ve been paying attention to NXT lately, or even if you haven’t, you may have seen
that there’s a program being worked between Grayson Waller and HBK Shawn Michaels.
With Michaels running the show, Waller has been running his mouth against HBK and was
suspended and sent home in storyline, but now there’s an interesting development.
Waller called out HBK to appear at NXT’s Roadblock on Waller’s talkshow segment,
The Grayson Waller Effect, which now HBK has accepted.
It’s not often that Michaels is an on-screen character in NXT, and one has to wonder where
this feud is leading, because if it is a Waller vs Michaels match, that would be certainly
something for him to come out of retirement after the incredible end to his career at
WrestleMania 26 against The Undertaker.
No he never wrestled again.
No he didn’t.
He didn’t.
No.
[DX BROTHERS OF DESTRUCTION CROWN JEWEL SCREEN] No don’t put the picture on the screen,
no, he didn’t wrestle again.
But if this feud isn’t leading to a Waller/Michaels match, what is it leading to?
Triple H coming out of retirement even though he can’t for his health?
Road Dogg beating him up?
Michaels choosing a ‘champion’ to represent him in a fight?
I’m curious at the very least.
There’s also been talk recently of current NXT star Zoey Stark potentially being called
up to the main roster before long, with her working a dark match competing for Charlotte
Flair’s SmackDown Women’s Championship, which often is a way to signal that WWE has
plans for you on the main roster.
Stark was asked about a main roster callup on Busted Open Radio, where she said:
“...to be completely honest, every single day I'm thinking about the main roster.
What do I need to do to get on the main roster, 'cause that's where we all want to go…There's
always some fear in my head with a little bit of insecurity where I'm scared of getting
lost in that shuffle, especially now.
Their roster, I feel, is pretty stacked.”
Y’know, WWE’s main roster women’s division probably would be pretty stacked.
If they wanted to book it right.
A lot of talent there, but seemingly a lot of lacking direction right now.
Just my opinion.
Someone who probably wouldn’t be lost in the shuffle if they went back to WWE would
be AEW’s Chris Jericho - though if Triple H is still running the show when he does,
then maybe he would.
There’s been chatter lately about the status of Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks and their
allegiance to AEW, and whether they’d follow in the footsteps of their former AEW exec
buddy Cody Rhodes in joining him in WWE.
Meanwhile, Chris Jericho, another key figure in the early days of AEW, has made his stance
quite clear: he really doesn’t want to go back to WWE.
Jericho recently spoke with The Daily Star, where he was asked if he thinks his career
will end in AEW: “I don’t see why it wouldn’t be.
I don’t hold a torch for WWE.
To me, that’s not ‘the place to be’.
AEW is the place to be.
It really is…I’ve been in WWE.
I know how it works.
They work that way, I don’t care if Vince is there, Hunter is there, or whoever is there…I
like the way we do things at AEW better…
so I don’t know why I wouldn’t want to finish my career in AEW…Business is business
and there’s always ups and downs, but I have zero interest in ever going back to WWE.”
Chris Jericho to reunite with Kevin Owens and assist Sami Zayn in taking down the Bloodline
as a Canadian trio confirmed.
That may be a wild WrestleMania prediction, so maybe I’ll leave the fantasy booking
to Adam Blampied - check out his 11 WrestleMania fantasy booking pitches for this year’s
Mania now - here’s a clip.