Here's more wrestling news for October 11th, 2022, and
we're kicking off this afternoon with WWE and after Daniel
Cormier's appearance at last Weekend's Extreme Rules.
Another UFC veteran may be Next in line on Instagram, MMA
fighter Nate Diaz shared a photo with WWE'S chairwoman and co-CEO
Stephanie McMohan and the head of talent relations Triple H.
In the caption, Diaz said, We'll see what's about to happen next.
Implying that he could be the next star to
jump from the octagon to the squared circle.
It was at UFC 279 last month that Diaz announced that
he will be leaving the UFC following his win over
Tony Ferguson in the fourth round between his UFC
departure and appearing with the game in McMahon.
It certainly looks like Diaz is WWE bound
in what could be a huge signing for h.
Last week, Jimmy Smith's time with WWE came to an end when he
was cut from the raw commentary team as part of changes made
to the teams at all three brands not long after his departure.
Smith has had some rather unsavory words for the
company saying The promotion focuses on who looks
like they can fight rather than who can fight.
Saying WWE is more CM Punk and less.
Brock Lesnar' Smith gave Roman Reigns as an example saying
the tribal chief can't fight and is just a big muscular dude.
During a recent podcast in an update, Smith took
to Twitter to explain his comments, saying that
his initial comments have been misinterpreted.
I got all these angry messages.
I went, What the fuck is going on?
I Googled myself and Roman reigns, and the first
thing that popped off is this Bleacher Report article.
It had a quote of mine from my radio show all chopped
up, and essentially me talking about DC as a fighter in
Roman reigns and Brock, and there's no context at all.
It completely leaves out.
I was asked if DC would take on Brock Lesnar in wwe, and I said
no, because they don't look like they should be in the same ring.
With comments against Roman Reigns, it's unlikely
that we'll see Smith back in WWE anytime soon.
But now the former raw commentator is
already making waves outside of the company.
Last week, AEW confirmed that John Moxley has signed a new deal with
the company, one that will keep him around for a long time to come.
Moxley's new five year deal.
We'll see him work exclusively for AEW and New
Japan, and Moxley wouldn't have it any other way.
Speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio.
Dave Meltzer addressed Moxley's New Deal and reported
that he never considered looking at a return to wwe.
He's not going to wwe.
He doesn't want to go to wwe, doesn't want to put on of
wanting to go to WWE and play both sides to get more money.
He doesn't want people speculating that he's going to wwe.
He wants all the speculation over,
and he's with AEW for five more years.
I know at some point he discussed.
Moxley isn't joining wwe, but Meltzer did add that
the AEW Star did consider not signing with AEW
and instead being a free agent who'd still appear.
Obviously, that didn't happen and Moxley resigned for
five more years in a much needed big win for Tony Khan.
After four decades ruling the wrestling world, Vince McMahon's
Retirement came in July this year due to allegations of
misconduct and millions paid out in non-disclosure agreements.
In addition to Netflix, Vice have been working on a
documentary about the life rise and fall of the former WWE
C O, but fans will have to wait longer to check it out.
The Vice Doc titled The Nine Lives of Vince McMohan was scheduled
to air on October 18th, but has since been moved, and the
spot will be filled with reruns of tales from the territories.
There's no word on when the doc will be aired, but with the WWE
not being involved in the two hour doc, we're curious to see
what will be discussed about McMahon's incredible life last week.
Tough enough.
Season six Winner Sarah Lee died at the age of 30 and is
survived by her husband, Weston Blake and their three children.
Once news of her passing was confirmed by her family.
Former NXT Star Bull Dempsey set up a GoFundMe page, hoping
to raise some money for Sarah's family at this tough time.
This page has smashed its initial
$20,000 goal and is now over $100,000.
And on Facebook Lee's family, were overwhelmed by the support.
On behalf of the WestEd and Lee family, we would like to
express our deepest gratitude for the love that has been shown.
Corey, Sarah, and their beautiful children.
Corey has taken a step back from social media, but is blown away
by the generosity everyone has shown through the darkest times.
You guys have been Ray of light.
Thank you.
Will never be enough.
Notable names from wrestling, including Tony Khan, Kevin Owens,
Chris Jericho, and Elias have donated as the wrestling world
has come together to help out this family in their time of need.
For years, fans have speculated on a match between
the rock and his cousin Roman Reigns, which is
rumored to finally be happening at WrestleMania 39.
Both men have teased a match in the past in what would be a
monumental collision of two of wrestling's biggest ever stars.
Speaking in a new interview with Chris Van Vliet,
the rock was asked about Reigns and the bloodline
and whether he acknowledges the head of the table.
Of course I do.
That's my family.
I think those guys are doing a great job and I think what an
interesting shift that the company has gone through this year.
Unexpected in many ways.
But when un expectations happen in that kind of way, form
and fashion, especially in this business, you've got to
have the ability and the agility to pivot, which they have.
So with Roman, I think he's doing a pretty good job.
And the boys too, the uso's as.
Bringing the rock back would be the arguable highlight
of Triple H's run as head of creative and head of
talent relations and with the Brahma Bull's schedule
suspiciously empty for the first quarter of 2023.
That match looks increasingly more likely over to AEW
now, which is still without four of the promotions.
Biggest names as CM Punk Kenny Omega and the
young bucks continue to be absent from tv.
Tony Khan had hoped that the fight at all out had
been a one off event, but it was just last week that
Andrade picked a fight with Sammy Guevara backstage.
In another incident, the AEW President wishes didn't happen.
On his 83 weeks podcast, Eric Bischoff was asked about whether
there are any comparisons between AEW and W C W, and admitted that
working with wrestling's biggest names can often be difficult.
Bischoff added.
The WWE isn't immune to this either.
As seen with Steve Austin's infamous 2002 walkout, but said
that Khan has dug himself in as the end all be all of AEW.
Khan has a delegated responsibility, well, according to Bischoff
, who believes that a lot of the drama backstage could have
been avoided at the AEW President had more people surrounding.
This is hardly the first time Tony Khan's leadership has come
under question, and though he has always put himself across as
a cool, friendly, one of the boys kind of boss, it certainly
feels like at times the inmates are running the asylum.
When Kevin Owens and Vince McMohan confronted each other during a 2017
edition of SmackDown, fans could not predict what was going to happen.
At this point, a McMohan appearance on TV was very rare, and
as if him on SmackDown wasn't surprising enough, Owens would
attack the then chairman and leave McMahon bleeding while
speaking on the OU Didn't know Podcast Road Dog responded
to speculation that this was some kind of special effect,
saying that Kevin Owens made McMohan bleed the hard way.
For one, I'm 95% sure it was a hard way.
If it wasn't a hard way, nobody knew.
But those two.
That's the truth because we all pooped our pants when that happened.
We knew he was gonna headbutt him and we knew
Vince had probably told him, Don't you hold back.
I'm sure that's his character, his real human character.
It was not planned.
What we did was shoot the blood, knowing we may be on
the masters that went out everywhere else, we could
edit that out, or we could also turn the film into
black and white if we wanted to use it going forward.
It was an on-the-spot decision to shoot that, and again,
that's from my vantage point from where I was sitting.
The only person that usually sat next
to me was Vince and he was in the ring.
So maybe secrets were kept and talked about that I
wasn't aware of, but that's my recollection of the.
McMahon was never shy of taking hits in the name of
entertainment, and that's exactly what happened with
Kevin Owens, who left his then boss a blooded mess.
In 2017.
In 2019, Eric Rowan was seen in wwe carrying a strange cage, covered
in a burlap sack, which had everyone guessing on what it could be.
Some thought that it could be Rowan's old sheep mask, which he had
ditched in the past, but what we got was nowhere near as interesting.
After months, the reveal was that Rowan had been
carrying a very fake looking spider that was
destroyed by Drew McIntyre, but that wasn't the plan.
Sitting down with se scoops correspondent Steve Fall, Rowan said
that the plan was for this to be a pet rat, with the idea being
that it would've been a court appointed therapy pet after he had
previously tried to run over Roman Reigns earlier in the year.
Going from one shield member to another.
The plan was for Seth Rollins, then a face to accidentally kill
the rat, starting a feud that would lean heavily into Rowan's lore.
Ultimately, that didn't happen as Rollins would turn heel in
late 2019 before the idea could begin, and who knows what could
have been, had it been a rat and not a mechanical spider instead?
And we're ending with news from raw as plenty
has been announced for next week's show.
WWE announced during last night's show that Elias will be
back next week in his first appearance on raw in months.
The last we saw Elias, he was at the bedside of his brother Ezekiel,
who had been attacked by Kevin Owens and power bombed on the apron.
Elias was re-added to WWE'S internal roster
around the same time that Ezekiel was removed.
And next week we'll also see Dexter Lumis finally face
the Miz if Miz wins, then Loomis is gone from WWE again,
while a Loomis victory will earn him a contract, and we'll
have to see what this new season of RAW brings next week.