Here's your wrestling news for September 22nd, 2022.
And we're kicking off with AEW and going
into last night's dynamite, grand slam.
The biggest question is who would leave the
company as the new AEW world champion and replace
the suspended cm punk as the face of the company.
When punk left ROH in 2005, they called I'm Brian
Danielson to be champion and WWE did the same when punk
walked out in 2014, but that trend was broken last night.
Instead, it was John Moxley who regained the AEW world championship.
And if you include his interim title reign, this makes
Moxley a now four time world champion in the promotion.
Moxley applied the sleeper hold for a
monumental win on AEW dynamite grand slam.
But fans haven't exactly been thrilled on social media.
The boat has received a mixed reaction
as while the match itself was excellent.
The decision to make Moxley champion over
Danielson has received some criticism.
Many feel that this was the right time to pull the
trigger on Danielson and others joke that Moxley will
never get the vacation he was meant to go on before being
called back following punk and the elite suspension.
However you feel about the win.
John Moxley is once again, AEW world champion and fans of the American
dragon will have to keep waiting to see if he ever gets that big win.
Well, what do you think is Moxley the right call or
should it have been Danielson who ended the show on top?
Let us know in the comments.
The decision to make Moxley the world champion again
may not have been loved by all, but the two Blackpool
combat club members were able to keep on the same page.
After the show in a video recorded.
After the show went off the air Danielson, put the strap around
Max's waist, hug him and raised his hand as the crowd applauded.
Now Moxley is expected to defend his title against MJF at full
gear, who is watching all the action from above at dynamite.
And this post show segment between Moxley and Danielson
was an excellent way to cap off a huge night in Arthur Ash
stadium, more from AEW's last night's grand slam dynamite
saw the debut of a former WWE superstar and her name is aria.
During the show, Tony storm retained the interim AEW women's
world championship, but she and Athena were attacked.
Post-match by Brit baker, Jamie hater and Serena de the beat down.
Would've continued.
If not for Siria AKA Paige who made her debut and
came to the aid of her fellow former WWE superstars.
It's unclear what her medical status is and whether she
will be able to wrestle in AEW something that we know she
wanted to do in WWE, but never got the chance after her 2018
retirement Saria had been teasing something big for some time.
And after making her AEWW last night, we'll have
to see what's in store for the British wrestler.
Siah made her AEWW last night.
And though we don't know what the future holds.
We know that this isn't a one off appearance.
Tony Khan took to Twitter after Sri's debut to
confirm that she has signed with the promotion
and officially announced that she is all elite.
It was first reported by us weeks ago
that Soia and AEW had been in talks.
And those talks clearly paid off both for her and for the promotion.
Now, Tony Kahn has another huge name on his roster and after
teasing a six woman tag during this week's grand slam dynamite.
And that seems more likely.
Now we know that the British star is
staying with AEW for the long term.
SSRI's debut was a huge moment during this week's AEW dynamite and
as you'd expect fans on social media exploded over her surprise
appearance fans noted how they hadn't seen this coming, calling
it a great moment while others were just happy to see her in AEW
one user who goes by feed for follows, had some fun sharing, an
image of WWE backstage from Fox sports one as everyone involved
in the photo either works with, or is affiliated with AEW.
There were some fans who question, if Pia has now been
cleared to wrestle with one person calling it, the
biggest women signing in AEW history, it'll certainly
be interesting to see what the future holds for.
Soia both in AEW and possibly in the ring, but if she
still wants to wrestle again, her future certainly
looks bright in all elite wrestling, more change news.
Now as it wasn't just the AEW gold, that changed hands last night,
but the ring of honor, world championship also found a new owner.
In the show's opener, Chris Jericho earned his first RO
world title defeat Claudia casting Noli in the process
and used referee Aubrey Edwards as a distraction.
Hello, blow and Judis effect later.
And Jericho captured his first world title in three years.
A decision that hasn't thrilled fans online audiences questioned
the decision saying that the decision to make the 51 year
old veteran, the new champion doesn't exactly make sense
for ROH, which has always been considered a youth movement.
Others simply said that while they love Jericho, he doesn't
need to be a world champion at this point in his career,
especially as it cuts short Claudia casting, Noe's first ever
world title reign at just 60 days, whatever fans may think.
Chris Jericho is the new ring of honor world champion.
And with the Jericho appreciation society by his side,
it may be a lengthy rain ahead for late champion.
Do you think Jericho is the right person to be champion
or is he too old to be a top name at this point?
Let us know below.
The debut of Soia and the multiple world title changes last night
were huge moments for AEW so it's a shame that it didn't play out
in front of a bigger audience, despite her debut, multiple title
matches and title changes, and a guarantee new AEW world champion.
The show didn't exactly sell out.
According to photos taken inside Arthur Ash stadium,
photos from dynamite showed that there were a ton of
seats that didn't sell for the show and that AE w adjusted
the camera angles to make sure these weren't seen.
This is hardly a new practice in wrestling as
several promotions have done this over the years,
and it looks like AEW will have to do it again.
Soon.
Wrestle tick reports that there are still thousands of
tickets left for tomorrow's AEW rampage grand slam with
12,396 out of the available 15,432 tickets having sold.
From the looks of it, AEW will again, have to adjust their camera
angles to make sure that this week's rampage looks like a packed show.
And while dynamite had a lot happen,
it wasn't enough to sell out the event.
In recent weeks, AEW has been holding mandatory talent, wide
meetings to discuss some of the problems the promotion has faced
as of late, the first meeting took place in August to address
reports of unhappy talent and Tony Kahn being unavailable.
While the second happened earlier this month
in the wake of the all out media scrum scandal.
Now a third meeting has taken place this time
before last night's AEW grand slam dynamite.
According to fight for select, they report that this
meeting was mostly a pep talk ahead of the grand
slam show and that things have been more laid back
compared to the lead up to AEW all out one long time.
AEW talent added that the locker room has
been the best over the last three weeks.
Then it's been in quite a while with another source
using the phrase, addition by subtraction, implying that
things have gotten better with the removal of others.
This is almost certainly a nod to see punk who it's been reported,
that the majority of the locker room is against after all out
and between a happier locker room and an impressive grand slam.
Tony Kahn will have some tough calls to make when deciding whether
to bring punk back in 2017, the WWE had just kicked off their
may young classic, but one match didn't go as initially planned.
That matching question was the first round about between Rachel
Evers, the daughter of Paul eing and Marty bell, a contest.
The second generation wrestler would win this week.
Dave melter revealed that bell was supposed to
win at first until triple H changed things around.
It happened to the injuries a couple of times.
And then I remember once Paul Lavesque triple H,
there was a women's tournament and it was Marty
bell and Rachel eing, Rachel eing was gonna lose.
And in the middle of the match, he switched it.
He didn't like Marty bell and how she was working bell.
Didn't get signed by WWE after the tournament.
And while she'd go on to perform for the NWA where she's a
former women's tag team champion, triple H is no fan of her work.
Now AEW has had its share of problems as of late, but you wouldn't
know it by listening to the company's president, Tony Conn.
Instead Khan has refused to speak about a W's issues, but has never
shied away from taking shots at WWE recently, poking fun at the
ratings of raw, which have dipped due to the return of the NFL.
While speaking on his hall of fame podcast, Booker T
took issue with Khan's comments saying that perhaps he
should spend more time reflecting on his own problems.
Worry about your company.
Worry about the turmoil that's going on inside of AEW right now.
And try to fix that before you start thinking about what WWE is doing.
And instead of running his mouth about
WWE I have a lot of respect for Tony Conn.
Sometimes you earn respect as well.
You don't earn it by going out there talking
you earn it by going out there and doing it.
I think I would have a whole lot more respect
for Tony Conn if he handled his business.
And we all know what that is.
We saw the press conference.
As I said, I don't get it.
There's a lot of upside about AEW just like Chris
Jericho was talking at that press conference.
Some things are better kept to ourselves instead of
blowing up WWEspecially with how WWE is rolling right now.
We'll have to see if K stops taking shots at
WWE as he has his own share of problems to fix.
But given that he lashed out at WWE's deal with Saudi Arabia
just a few days ago, it seems that's unlikely to happen.
And we're ending today with Randy Orton, who is instantly
recognizable to fans with his tattoos, but his ink has
caused some problems for him and WWE in recent years.
For some time, the topic of Orton's tattoos have
been the subject of a lawsuit as a tattoo artist.
Katherine Alexander is arguing that she should
be paid for the use of her in, in WW games.
The case was filed in 2018, but has been delayed several times.
But as P insider now reports the Viper is heading to court.
WW east star, Randy Orton is scheduled as a witness in
the trial for the lawsuit, his tattoo artist, Katherine
Alexander has brought against world wrestling entertainment.
Take two interactive software, two K game, Inc two K sports Inc.
Visual concepts, entertainment Y's coli, and Y's LA Inc.
Before the us district court Southern district of Illinois.
Not only does Alexander argue that her ink is recognizable by
Orton's fans, but she also claims to have submitted applications on
copyrights for the artwork on March 15th, before this case began,
WWE did offer Alexander a $450 fee for the rights, which she feels
isn't what she deserves and will keep following the case, which could
be a landmark case to determine the use of tattoos in video games.