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Maybe in a year’s time, we’ll be saying ‘July 6th was the day the SWAFT revolution
began’, just like how yesterday, Matt Hardy tweeted his own special anniversary:
Happy Broken Birthday “A Solar Revolution ago today, I made my
Brother,Nero a better man.
I DELETED his DEMONS.”
July 5th marks one year since Matt and Jeff’s genre-defying Final Deletion match, a mini-movie
of epic proportions that included holographic messages delivered by drone, a ruined lawn
design, and the birth of Jeff Hardy’s Broken Brother Nero character.
This spurred even more chaotic sequels Delete or Decay and Total Nonstop Deletion.
But a year after that first match, the Hardy Boyz are stuck in gimmick limbo in WWE, with
their former employers Impact Wrestling claiming ownership rights over the Broken characters.
Despite tweeting on Sunday that he was “days away from winning” - a seeming reference
to his Intellectual Property Great War - and then adding Finn Balor to his Broken Club
on Instagram, PWInsider are reporting that the word backstage at this week’s GFW Impact
Tapings is that the Hardys and Anthem are still nowhere close to settling their issues,
which likely means the gimmick won’t be debuting in WWE anytime soon.
Brock Lesnar Match Scrapped Speaking of new Broken Club member Finn Balor,
his planned pay-per-view match against Brock Lesnar appears to have been scrapped.
The original plan was to have Lesnar work through Raw’s top male wrestlers, defending
his Universal Title against Braun Strowman, Samoa Joe, Finn Balor and Seth Rollins, eventually
falling to Roman Reigns at Wrestlemania 34.
Strowman was originally slotted in for the Summerslam Lesnar match, but when he got hurt
back in May, WWE had to hastily rewrite Raw’s main event storylines.
The Wrestling Observer Newsletter has recently reported, however, that the planned Summerslam
main event has now been changed , and it’ll likely be against Roman Reigns - bringing
forward that Wrestlemania 34 main event to have a more regular Universal champion on
Raw.
Or they could just have Samoa Joe win this Sund- ...yeah, I don’t think that’s gonna
happen.
Unfortunately, the odd man out in all this is Finn Balor, as according to Wrestling Observer
Radio, the originally planned Balor vs Brock match for the title looks to be scrapped too.
It seems WWE don’t know what to do with Finn at the moment.
Despite being the inaugural Universal Champion and never actually losing the belt, he finds
himself without a proper storyline heading into this Sunday’s pay-per-view, stuck in
mid-card filler with Elias Samson.
Seth Rollins Wants Rock Match PWInsider has speculated that a Lesnar vs
Seth Rollins match is still in the works, though, pointing out a Survivor Series date
would play into the promotion for WWE 2K18, for which Rollins is the cover star.
Crossfit Jesus Rambo Apocalypse, however, is thinking further ahead - when he replied
to a fan asking about a potential match against Rock ‘The Dwayne’ Johnson:
“I mean Mania is only like 8 months away...TWO THINKING FACE EMOJIS!”
A major New Japan star was backstage for both Raw and Smackdown this week!
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