Heres your news for May 16 2020 Why Did The Undertaker Sign A New Long Term Contract With WWE? Is WWE Live Crowd Coming Back? NEWS! 2 00:00:16,266 --> 00:00:20,103 We’re starting with news from Becky Lynch today, as details have emerged on
what the former RAW Women’s Champion was planned to do at Money in the Bank.
Of course, Lynch didn’t work the show due to her pregnancy, and now the
Wrestling Observer Newsletter is reporting that Laced a familiar foe at the Pay Per
View. They write:
“The actual original booking plan was for Lynch to wrestle Jax in a singles match at
the MITB PPV, and to retain the title.”
Fans will never know what kind of match the Man and the Irresistable Force would
have had at Money in the Bank, but with Asuka now holding the RAW Women’s
Championship, we expect Jax will still be on the hunt for the red brand title.
We’ve got more news regarding The Man now, as in arguably the least shocking
move of all time, Jim Cornette isn’t happy about something in wrestling.
This time, the controversial wrestling personality isn’t happy about Lynch leaving
the ring to become a mother, as he spoke about the former RAW Women’s
Champion on The Jim Cornette Experience.
“You can’t always be on top of the wrestling business in a $1 million a year spot or
more, but you can [have a baby] — what is she? Can she be 30? [Lynch is 33] Well,
still she’s got many more years before the f*cking Easy Bake Oven gets shut off.
She can have all those problems like a descended stomach and stretch marks and
haemorrhoids and hormones problems and mood swings and all those other joys
of motherhood later on WHEN SHE AIN’T MAKING A MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR!!!”
“She’s got plenty of time left. What would you do if your wife came home and said
instead of making a million dollars next year I’m gonna basically just be a raging
b*** for the next nine months and then give you more sh*t to worry about around the house?!”
Obviously Cornette isn’t pleased about Lynch having a baby with Seth Rollins, but
it’s clear that the Man and the Monday Night Messiah are more than happy to
start this next chapter of their lives.
We have some news on Intercontinental championship now. We all know that
WWE took Sami Zayn’s IC Title off of him. Now they are holding a tournament to
decide a winner. This was an interesting decision that split the WWE Universe.
They apparently didn’t have enough SmackDown Superstars to fill the brackets.
Jeff Hardy, Sheamus, Daniel Bryan, Drew Gulak, Elias, King Corbin, Shinsuke
Nakamura, and AJ Styles are all in the tournament. They set up some great
introductory matches with story behind each one, but AJ Styles is not on the blue brand.
It’s unclear why WWE placed AJ Styles in a SmackDown tournament, but it’s very
interesting. This could be an example of WWE using their new crossover rule. It’s
unclear why they would use the crossover rule in a title tournament situation.
We have some news on the new RAW Women’s Champion now, as Asuka
certainly had a good week, whilst she captured the Money in the Bank briefcase
and the RAW Women’s title, it’s now been claimed that she was not the company’s original plan.
In the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer claims that the original
decision for Money in the Bank would’ve seen Shayna Bazler leave the
Performance Center with the women’s briefcase, which would had led to a
continuation of the Baszler- Lynch feud that started earlier this year.
Meltzer also added that Asuka is expected to feud with both the Queen of Spades
as well as Nia Jax over the title, and there have also been rumours of turning the
new Champion babyface, as the company won’t be able to accommodate three
top heels in the RAW Women’s division.
It’ll be interesting to see what the future holds for Asuka, and whether this
rumoured feud with Baszler takes place, as the company is clearly trying to fill the
whole left by the departure of The Man.
Onto some more news now as Robert Roode & The Singh Brothers haven't been
seen on SmackDown or 205 Live during the current global situation as they have
been unable to get into the country.
Robert Roode was last seen in the Elimination Chamber match where he teamed
up with Dolph Ziggler to take on Champions Miz & Morrison, The New Day, Lucha
House Party, Heavy Machinery, and The Usos for the Smack Down Tag Team Championship.
Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer reports that Roode & The Singhs are
currently in Canada and with travel restrictions in place, they haven't been able to
make it to Orlando, Florida for the WWE tapings at the Performance Center.
Meltzer goes on to report that Lesnar also lives in Canada but WWE was "able to
pull some strings" in order to get him to Florida. Lesnar was present for the pre-
WrestleMania shows to hype his match against Drew McIntyre. He hasn't
appeared on television since losing to McIntyre at WrestleMania 36.
Though The Singhs have not been on television, they were featured in a special
"The Matches That Made Me" 205 Live episode.
At this point, it is difficult to predict when Robert Roode and the Singh Brothers
will return to WWE TV, given the travel restrictions in place.
We have some news on SummerSlam now as WWE booked SummerSlam for
August 23rd, but that date isn’t going to work for Boston now. Their Mayor has
banned large events until early September. Now WWE will need to figure something out.
Previous reports stated that WWE is considering rescheduling Summerslam to the
Fall. The Wrestling Observe Newsletter noted that Vince McMahon is determined
to hold SummerSlam with fans this year, even if he must reschedule the event.
“Vince McMahon is determined to have a live crowd for this year’s SummerSlam.
Right now it is scheduled for August but if waiting until September is the only way
to have the show in front of a live crowd, the thought is he would make that move
but it is not a move decided on and he hasn’t outright committed to it.”
It might be possible that WWE will find a state that is much more willing to allow
live fans in sporting events. Florida, Georgia, Arizona, and Oklahoma seem to all
be inching closer to allowing sporting events with live fans.
In the end, this is 100% a Vince McMahon decision and “he changes his mind constantly.”
We’re looking back at Owen Hart next, and whilst the Rocket hasn’t been erased
from WWE history, there remains a lot of tension between WWE and his widow Martha.
Since Owen’s death at the Over the Edge 1999, Martha has held WWE
responsible, and after suing the company twice, once for his death and again years
later for using his likeness, spoke recently on Chris Jericho’s podcast.
Speaking to the former AEW World Champion, Martha said how she feels bad for
fans who struggle to get any Owen merchandise, but hopes to change that soon. She said:
“That's something that -- working with Dark Side of the Ring, we talked about
doing something to commemorate the episode. We are going to put out some nice
t-shirts of Owen for fans. Owen adored his fans."
Martha didn’t go into detail about when or where these shirts will be available,
but with the Owen Hart edition of Vice’s Dark Side of the Ring airing May 19th,
hopefully we’ll get some answers soon.
One issue several fans have with Martha is her refusal to let Owen be inducted
into the WWE’s Hall of Fame, but she did reveal that she’d be more open to seeing
her late-husband be honoured in Japan as he worked for New Japan in the late 80s
to early 90s. She said:
If I got an invite, I would definitely entertain it, but I haven't. It's not like I've turned
anything down. Nobody has ever approached me about something like that and I
never gave it much thought. But, you never know."
Time will tell whether Martha does get the chance to honour her husband in
Japan, but fans shouldn’t expect to see Owen’s name to be on the Marquee for
any WWE Hall of Fame ceremony.
Back to WWE now, and whilst Renee Young is certainly a busy person, working as
the host of Backstage, an interviewer and part-time commentator, the Canadian
may soon be adding another job to her resume.
While speaking with Clay Travis, Young admitted that she would enjoy becoming a
manager in WWE, and already has a certain Superstar in mind. She said:
One person who I thought for a second, I was like, ‘Oh, should we pitch a thing?’
was Elias. I thought it would be really fun to manage Elias as, like, his band
manager or something.”
So far in his WWE career, Elias hasn’t been given a manager, and its clear that
Young would like for that to change.
We have some NEWS on OTIS now as some of you might know that In Netflix film
'The Main Event,' Otis stars as Stinkface, as wrestler competing in the NXT
tournament. As you may have guessed by his name, Stinkface is a disgusting
wrestler who literally farts his way to victory.
And if Otis had his way, the character would have been even more disgusting.
"[Senior Director of Talent Relations] Mark Carano goes, 'You're going to be in this
movie. Basically, you're going to be more disgusting, more smelly, more nasty than
you already are.' I hear it's Stinkface. WWE Films gave me a call and said, 'grow
your beard, don't trim it.' That was the only thing I had to do," Otis recalled to
Lilian Garcia on Chasing Glory. "I was excited to be in a movie and play a character
with this kind of style. If I was ever a bad man in pro wrestling, this would probably
be my character.
"I am very sad one scene got cut. It's when I go to register my name. Before that
was supposed to happen, I walk up and blow a snot rocket when she says, 'Who
are you?' I was having a runny nose and I went to the director and went, 'You want
something nasty? What if I blow a rocket right on the table?' He goes, 'Can you do
it three times?' 'Let's do it.' Maybe it's in deleted scenes. I went to the girl and said,
'Are you cool with this?' She asked, 'Are you going to get it on me?' 'It might. I'm
sorry, but if it does I'll buy you dinner.'"
In the movie, Otis' farts backfire as he is defeated by Kid Chaos who uses the fart
to torpedo himself into Otis. Yes, this is a real thing that happens
Guys, one thing is for sure, Vince McMahon certainly has weird people around him
One person who certainly knows more about Vince McMahon is The Undertaker,
and whilst 2020 has been the year fans have seen more of the man behind the
trenchcoaht, we’ve also learned some hard truths about him.
This week, the Wrestling Observer Newsletter explained why the Demon of Death
Valley had so many returns throughout his career, as they wrote:
“A key reason for all this not talked about is financial issues, as even though he’s
made more money (due to guys making more money than ever these days) than all
but a few in history, he has had financial issues with divorces and bad investments.”
It was also noted that the Dedman makes well into seven figures each year for just
a handful of matches, so things aren’t too bad for the Man in Black anymore.
And we’re ending today with news from the Deadman, as after so many years in
WWE, fans can’t help but wonder just how much longer The Undertaker will be around.
It wasn’t too long ago that the WWE signed the surefire future Hall of Famer to
what was being described as a lifetime contract, and now more details have come
forth on what this really means.
The Wrestling Observer News letter noted that The Demon of Death Valley signed
a new 15-year deal with WWE, so given that he’s currently 55, this deal will run
until he’s 70.
We very much doubt that the Undertaker will still be competing in the ring when
he hits the big 7-0, but whether it’s inside or outside of the ring, it seems there will
always been a spot for The Undertaker in WWE.