Here's your wrestling news for September 15th, 2022.
And we're kicking off with AEW as after all outs media scrum.
Earlier this week, several names were suspended
due to their participation in the fight.
In addition to cm, punk, the elite and a steel
being involved, several people tried to break
things up and they too were suspended by Tony Khan.
There's now been an update though, as on wrestling,
observer live, Brian Alvarez reported that anyone who
tried to break up the fight are now free to come back.
This includes Brandon Cutler and Michael Nakazawa,
as well as producer pat buck, as well as Christopher
Daniels, who serves as AEW's head of talent relations.
As for cm punk, the young bucks, Kenny omega, and a steel,
they're all still missing from AEWTV with reports that punk and
steel could be fired as it's believed, they instigated the fight.
Ultimately we'll all have to wait until the investigation is concluded
in full before we see who gets to return to AEWTV and who doesn't.
But for now, those who had a small role
in what happened are now unsuspended.
Last night's dynamite saw the continuation
of the AEW world championship tournament.
As John Moxley defeated Sammy Guevara , a decision that has been
praised by fans of all the problems aew is facing right now.
The last thing the company needs is a Sammy Guevara title reign as
the TNT championship is still recovering from his strangle hold.
Many fans made it clear that the concept
of Guevara as world champion was awful.
So it only makes sense that Moxley was there to make the
save and put an end to the Spanish God in graphics, AEW
are treating Moxley is a three time world champion having
won the world title twice and interim world title once.
And he's now on the cusp of a fourth reign, despite
having been scheduled to be on vacation, right.
As for last night's match, the boat saw no blood, a rarity
for Moxley and fans commended the former world champion
for showing his skills without the need for blood.
However, some ed why Moxley had difficulty putting the former
TNT champion away, feeling the match should have been more
one-sided Moxley going over was of course the right decision
has been the promotions rock throughout the worst times.
And it's likely that he will carry the company as champion once more.
If not for cm, punk, his comments and the fight
backstage, the biggest story coming out of all out.
Would've been MJF who returned in the casino ladder match
with an assist from Stokley Hathaway's recruitment talent.
This week, MJF had his usual intense promo against
John Moxley and turned his attention to Brian
Danielson and Chris Jericho with what played out like
a greatest hits compilation from the salt of the earth.
MJF invited those working with Hathaway to join him in the ring.
And it was announced that the group is now the firm.
The segment did well to communicate
the intentions of all parties involved.
And once again, MJF does what he does best, which is tell the story.
It was in the main event of the show, Chris Jericho and
Brian Danielson faced off not only for a shot at the AEW
world title, but in the continuation of the feud between the
Blackpool combat club and the Jericho appreciation society.
Both sides have been trying to win over the allegiance of Daniel
Garcia who watched the match backstage refusing to get involved.
The other aspect of the match was the chase to be AEW world champion
with Jericho looking to become a two time champ and Danielson
seeking his first reign after losing it all out Danielson got his
revenge by beating Jericho advancing to the world title match on
next week's dynamite, where he'll face his BCC alum, John Moxly.
The match received high praise online with some
saying it was better than their Pay per view bout.
While another fan said that Jericho had
been slapped purple by the American dragon.
Not only does this set up a great match, but
it also sets up a possible rubber match between
Danielson and Jericho, possibly for the world title.
Backstage Garcia watched on one week after his Roh pure title win.
And as he smirked at Danielson's win over Jericho, it was the
latest indication that he is bound for the Blackpool combat club.
Now it's safe to say that AEW has had its share
of issues over the past few months from notable
injuries to their top stars being suspended.
Tony Khan has been left having to deal with
a lot of huge problems at the same time.
And there's now another issue for the AEW president.
If you watched last night's dynamite, you may have noticed that
the Albany New York crowd were quiet for large parts of the show.
And that's because the event was severely under attended
photos have been circulating online of just how many seats
in the MVP arena were left, empty, including one from
swerve in our glory's batch with Penta and Ray Phoenix.
The crowd were also quiet during the main event
between Chris Jericho and Brian Danielson though.
AEW like many promotions filmed in a way to make the show look packed.
If you're watching from home, you'll have seen what you
thought was another packed house full of AEW fans, but
the truth is much different to what fans saw at home.
Now in August, 2020, Roman reigns pinned Braun Strowman to capture
the universal championship, kicking off one of the most impressive
title runs of all time at WrestleMania Reigns unified the universal
and WWE titles with his main event, win over Brock Lestner and
ever since then, the red brand has been without a top champion.
When WWE had Reigns unified, the two titles, the plan was
for the tribal chief to appear on raw and SmackDown boosting
the ratings for both shows, but that isn't what happened
with Reigns, signing a new contract for fewer dates.
Earlier this year, fans have seen much less of him on WWE TV and
his appearances on raw specifically have been close to non-existent.
WWE didn't know that Reigns was going
to sign a new contract for fewer dates.
And we imagine that if they'd been aware of the details,
they would've been much more hesitant to unify the titles.
It was covered recently that WWE are wanting to
separate the titles without Reigns taking a loss.
And it's now being reported that triple H
has come up with a plan to unify the titles.
According to sources the games, ideas for Braun Strowman to take
the WWE championship, to raw with the plan being for the monster
among men to be as big of a star as the tribal chief, triple H
made this plan clear to reigns during a private meeting between
them while ensuring reigns that he will remain the top star of
the company, but will just have to share that position with Braun
it's hardly surprising that Braunis being pushed this way.
As the game was the one who signedStrowman to N XT
years ago and it was implemental in bringing him back.
Sources indicate that triple H will appear on raw making it
clear that rains has not been a champion for the red brand for
too long, and that he is not deserving of the WW E championship.
A fictionalized board of directors meeting will
vote to strip Reigns of the WWE title, leaving
the tribal chief solely as the universal champion.
Once again, as for Stroman, a battle Royal on raw will
crown the monster among men, the new WWE champion ending
the moniker of the undisputed WWE universal championship.
This is a huge plan for WWE who have been wanting to correct
the mistake of making Reigns , the sole world champion.
Well, what do you think?
Let us know in the comments below earlier this
month, it was reported that Velveteen dream.
AKA Patrick Clark had used his phone to film people at a house party
hosted by EC3 Clark, allegedly set up his camera phone in a way where
he'd be able to film wrestlers, going to the toilet in EC3's home in
the latest, problematic story by the former north American champion.
Now EC3 has spoken about the alleged incident.
Again, as during an interview with Steve
fall of NBC sports, Boston, and se scoops.
He claimed that not only did this happen, but WWE knew.
It was known talent was involved.
It's a wild tale.
And a lot of people did know even being part of it where I
was kind of at the forefront of it, because it was at my home,
taking it up, the chain, being there, getting there, people
sometimes don't want the boat rocked from an office perspective.
Sometimes talent is doing well and drawing money.
They'll be protected.
WWE hasn't addressed this specific allegation publicly,
but did conduct an investigation when Clark was
accused of sending explicit photos to a minor, an
investigation, which according to WWE came up fruitless.
Nevertheless, WWE decided to release Clark in May, 2021.
And despite his claims of innocence and hope to one day return
to WWE, that seems less and less likely as time goes on.
Filming wrestlers genitals without their consent is just
the latest accusation against the former Velveteen dream.
But now Patrick Clark has made some accusations of his own responding
to EC3 Clark shared a video to Instagram where he accused his fellow
ex superstar of leaving out some important details in the video.
Clark added that he won't be naming who was there as at
least one person who attended is now on raw and suggested
that there was a type of powder on the table at EC3 party.
Clark did admit to leaving his phone
in the bathroom, but denied the idea.
He filmed people instead saying that EC3 came to that conclusion
due to not knowing Clark's sexuality because of the sexually fluid
character he played on TV in case his first suggestion of drugs.
Wasn't clear enough, Clark accused EC3 of using cocaine, Telling
the founder of control your narrative to get your shit together.
On his Instagram story.
Clark made another accusation saying that a lot
of cocaine users are still employed by WWE, but
won't say who due to what he called Vegas rules.
WWE has a strict anti-drug policy, and we imagine anyone using cocaine
will receive a hefty suspension if not a release, but he's keeping
quiet over who these users allegedly are on this week's raw edge
face Dominic Mysterio, and the WWE hall of Famer was written off TV.
The show ended with all four members
of the judgment day beating edge down.
And now there's been an update on his condition
during yesterday's episode of WWE the bump.
It was revealed that edge suffered a grade two
MC sprain, which was determined after an MRI.
There's no word on how long edge will be out of action,
but odds are that this is all just part of the storyline
and that edge merely wants some time off from the ring.
Time will tell Edge is back in time
for October 8th extreme rules event.
But for now the rated R superstar is on the shelf like John Moxley.
Chris Jericho seems to be much happier in AEW and has previously said
that he plans on finishing his career with the company for decades.
Jericho worked with WWE becoming a huge success in the
company, but had to turn down the chance to return.
That's according to Jericho, who said on the latest
episode of his podcast, that Vince McMohan was fine
with him going to AEW uh, until he wasn't fine with it.
I did give WWE a chance though.
I did give them a chance.
And I said, here's the offer that I've gotten from this new company?
And I was told, Vince says to take it.
I think he thought I was bluffing.
I took it.
Then about a week later, Vince was like, you took it.
And I said, He said, can he get out of it?
No.
You told me to take it.
Why would I try and get out of it?
He was asking me like, what kind of a TV deal have they got?
I was like, you can't ask me these questions.
Jericho didn't get out of his contract.
But instead officially joined AEW in January, 2019
becoming their first world champion in August of that year.
Y2J has said, he'll never go back to WWE but we all know to never
say never in wrestling, but for now, Chris Jericho is thrilled
to be working with Tony Khan and we're ending today with AEW
who have welcomed several X WWE superstars in recent years.
Thanks.
In part to the Stanford promotions, lengthy budget cuts.
Now another X WWE star has made his AEW debut.
But if you don't wanna be spoiled on AEW dark elevation, we
recommend skipping the next 30 seconds of the video during
the most recent tapings for the show mascara Dorada formerly
known as grand metal league made his debut for AEW defeating
Serpentico via pinfall after a super kick and a Dorada Driver,
Dorada was released from WWE in November, 2021.
After he and teammate Lince Dorado had made it
clear to the company that they wanted to leave.
Now, mascara Dorada has been given a new chance in AEW and after
his win this week, he may be sticking around in Tony Khan's company.