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There are only three things in life that are constant: death, taxes and Nia Jax feuds.
The Irresistible Force has been irrepressible on pandemic era WWE television, whether that’s
putting Lana through tables, having a good old flirt with Reginald or causing an absolute
storm on Twitter with cryptic messages.
Guess which one we’re talking about today.
You don’t need to, I’mma tell you.
Nia did the thing you absolutely do not do on Twitter, post something vague and then
just disappear with this: “thank you all.
Praying hands emoji, heart emoji” At the same time she posted a cryptic message
to her Instagram Stories that said, “Growth is painful.
Change is painful.
But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.”
Considering the last few months this led many to worry that Nia had been released by WWE
or was leaving the company.
HOURS later and therefore a millennia on Twitter she returned to say that all she was putting
out into the world was “pure gratitude to everyone” and that we should “never take
anything for granted in life”.
Like the fact that people will read your message on Twitter in the manner in which you intended
it?
So what do you think is going on with Nia?
Leave a comment and let me know because I’ll be replying.
Now, don’t get angry, because I have some news, but you need to stay calm, are you sitting
down?
Goldberg is coming back.
Billiam Goldberg, WWE’s prodigal, locker butting son is reportedly who the company
are looking to to help give SummerSlam that biggest event of the year feel.
According to Fightful Select The E reportedly have plans to have Bill return on Monday’s
episode of Raw for a confrontation with Bobby Lashley in order to set up a match for SummerSlam.
Well if you can’t get Brock, get the guy that can very easily be confused for Brock.
Fightful’s report states that Goldberg is on a two-match per year contract with WWE
at the moment, his first taking place against Drew McInyre at the Royal Rumble way back
in January and SummerSlam seemingly being his second.
It’s spear vs spear again.
Now for those of you hoping that tantalisingly tba spot in the Women’s Money in the Bank
match this weekend was going to be filled by a returning star and only man welcome in
the Women’s match Becky Lynch, think again.
*cough* Adam *cough* Because WWE quashed those hopes beneath of
Superfly splash as they announced in an official statement on their website that Tamina would
be taking the remaining spot, joining her fellow Tag Champ Natalya in the contest.
And may I just be the first to say “f**kin, yes mate, thank you WWE you beautiful terrible
bastard, one step closer to getting my Jampionship back”.
So that leaves the final card as Nattie, Liv Morgan, Zelina Vega, Alexa Bliss, Nikki A.S.H,
Asuka, Naomi and Tamina.
Now I know they had to change direction with Bayley’s injury and that pulled Carmella
from the match, but leaving that last slot open when the rumours are flying around only
builds the kind of hype you apparently cannot live up to.
Tba more like cba.
And those rumours they still be a flyin’ because it really does seem like Becky is
coming back to kick some lass.
Lynch gave birth to a daughter in December 2020 and has been teasing her WWE return since
then - but a lot of reports are pointing to this week being where she makes her grand
re-emergence.
There have also been reports that she has been training at the Performance Center in
prep for a return to in-ring action.
PWInsider are now reporting that Lynch is set to be at Dickies Arena for Sunday’s
Money in the Bank though it is unknown whether she will appear on the show.
Fingers crossed someone gets a backstage beatdown and Lynch steps into the breach, if she wins
the briefcase there’s a lovely bit of symmetry with her gifting the Raw Women’s title to
Asuka after last year’s pay per view.
Though I could also see her wandering out to confront the winner of Rhea Ripley vs Charlotte
Flair, which is giving me strong vibes that Chaz is going to be picking up the victory.
Oooh Adam, it’s not looking good for you me old china.
‘Twas a big week over the fence at AEW with night one of Fyter Fest taking place this
Wednesday, which saw Jon Moxley defend the IWGP US title, Ricky Starks winning the FTW
Championship and Darby Allin vs Ethan Page, plus a face off between Omega and Page.
Serious cowboy sh*t.
And the kind of cowboy crap that brings the viewers in it would seem as the show garnered
over 1.025 million viewers, the fifth largest audience in the history of the show.
But wait there’s more, because while AEW has typically demolished NXT on Wednesday
nights in the 18-49 demo this week’s show drew a 0.40 rating while ranking first on
cable for the night.
That was better than Raw.
As Sean Ross Sapp so eloquently put it: “AEW beating Raw in the 18-49 is a big deal for
them/ I hope it lights a fire under WWE, because now is the time”.
To be perfectly honest WWE has been smelling smoke for most of the last year and they have
not seemed interested in letting fresh air in at any point.
Fyter Fest also saw Malaki Black in AEW’s smoke room tell Cody Rhodes a story about
a man with a horse, continuing on the story of Black’s debut where he attacked Rhodes
and Arn Andserson.
However, this match that is brewing seems like it might have to happen very soon, not
only because you don’t want to be flogging a dead horse, but because Cody Rhodes may
be taking some time away from AEW.
TBS has announced that a second season of the ‘Go-Big Show’ has been commissioned
which featured Cody as one of the judges.
Production on the 10 episode season is set to begin next month in Georgia.
Last year Cody dropped the TNT Championship to Brodie Lee to buy himself a few weeks off,
so he could be putting Black over strong in the culmination of this short feud in order
to write himself off TV for a while.
One other teeny nugget of AEW news is CageSideSeats confirming that Chris Jericho has reportedly
filed to trademark ‘God of War’.
So it seems like that’s sticking then, makes sense with him aping Hercules’ legendary
journeys sans Kevin Sorbo.
Though I reckon Kratos would have something to say about this.
I’m just hoping he starts referring to MJF as boy.
Released WWE stars have been an absolute font of interesting information about the inner
workings of the often secretive company.
And it’s interesting to hear the opinions of wrestlers on major storylines they were
part of, especially when it was ‘awkward’ to say the least.
Enter Buddy Murphy who as Seth Rollins’ disciple played a key role in the feud against
Rey Mysterio and later the Mysterios.
In a bit of a faceturn, Murphy became romantically involved with Rey’s 19- year old daughter
Aalyah.
Speaking to Chris Van Vliet he said that was as awkward and uncomfortable as it seemed:
“I wasn’t comfortable kissing Aalyah.
I did that because it was my job and it was going to create more drama in the story.”
He also said that the kiss wasn’t originally scripted but a conversation between the producers
and Vince suddenly made it a thing.
Murphy also said that his character couldn’t pursue Aalyah as it would brand him a quote
“creep”.
He also speculated that WWE producers may have sold Aalyah on a “Hollywood kiss”
which I think means using camera angles to cover up that it wasn’t a proper kiss, obviously
you can’t do that in wrestling because of the number of cameras, so lip locking was
the only way to go.
Murphy said: “it looked great, the aftermath wasn’t great for me.
But we are both adults, we are both acting, we gave each other a high 5 after it and that
was it”.
NXT UK was due some serious excitement as a re-run of one of the best matches of last
year was scheduled for next week’s show: WALTER vs Ilja Dragunov.
Unfortunately, WWE have reported that the match won’t go ahead as WALTER has been
declared unable to compete after sustaining an injury.
On Twitter WWE released a statement saying: “WWE medical staff has confirmed NXT UK
Champion WALTER has suffered a severe injury to his left hand and has been deemed unfit
to compete for his scheduled rematch with Ilja Dragunov.”
If it looks like a work and smells like a work, it is actually likely to be shoot because
PWInsider confirmed that WALTER is legitimately injured and this is not part of the storyline.
Here’s to a speedy recovery WALTER, because I can’t wait for that rematch.
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