Here's more wrestling news for October
4th, 2022, and we're starting off with WWE.
And before this week's Raw, the company held their hour long
Main Event tapings, which featured some notable names on the
program On WWE Main event, three NXT Superstars made their
main roster debut with Fallon Henry, Josh Briggs and Brooke
Jensen, all competing en Lee faced off against Dana Brook
while Briggs and Jensen took on the team of our truth in Sheed.
Because of spoilers, we won't name who won the matches,
but this is a big step for all three NXT superstars.
It's even possible the WWE are testing the waters for a
more permanent main roster run for Henley Briggs and Jensen,
the latter two being former NXT UK TAG team champions.
So we'll have to keep our eyes peeled for
more from these three on the main roster.
At Extreme Rules this Saturday, Daniel Cormier will
make his WWE debut as the special guest referee for
the Seth Rows versus Matt Riddle fight pit match.
Cormier isn't the first UFC guy to debut this way as
Ken Shamrock joined WWE as a guest referee in 1997 and
like Ken DC maybe looking at an in ring career himself.
According to sources, one idea being thrown
around backstage is for Cormier to offer an open
challenge with the idea that he wants to face.
The best that WWE has got this challenge would be answered
by none other than Brock Lessner setting up a match between
the two Ex UFC fighters, likely at Crown jewel next month.
It was back in 2018 that Lester and Cormier had an altercation
inside a UFC cage resulting in the two shoving each other.
Something that would no doubt come up in this feu.
It has been reported in the past that US champion, Bobby
Lashley was the planned opponent for bro crown jewel, but that
could have easily changed Now that WWE has carme on board.
In theory, there's nothing to stop a Leer Cormier
lashley triple threat as all three have MMA fighting
experience that WWE could use to tell a story.
Lesser's time in the world.
Title picture is seemingly done for the time being as
WWE promoted Summer slam 2022 is the final collision
between himself and Roman reigns, but a match with
Cormier is certainly a huge match worthy of WWE.
WWE'S Next Saudi event.
Ever since Triple H took over as WWE head of Talent, WWE has
brought back several like superstars, including Carrie and
Cross Dakota, Kai, Johnny Gargano, Candace, LaRay, and others.
Only kin had quite the run in Triple Hs
NXT until he was cut from the company.
But he too, maybe on his way back to the company, according to
Mike Johnson of p w Insider Kin has been at the WWE Performance
Center this week serving as a guest coach for the company.
But how long he'll be there is unclear.
Kin's coaching role also marks the first time he's been
in the ring since July of last year when he took to social
media to confirm that he was taking a break from wrestling.
After WWE confirmed that NXT 2.0 is being changed to nxt, Lukin
tweeted the new gold logo and between this tweet and his recent role,
he may be the latest ex superstar to make a return at WrestleMania 38.
Cody Rhodes returned to WWE and has
enjoyed some impressive booking so far.
Despite his current injury, many assume roads will be a future WWE
world champion with many fans, even suggesting that the American
nightmare will de throne Roman reigns with Cody claiming he returned
to become world champion and fulfill a promise to his father.
A title win looks likely, but that hasn't always been the plan.
Spiteful select reports that when Cody returned, Vince McMohan
had no concrete plans for roads to become either WWE or undisputed
champion, though many of the company assumed it would happen.
In fact, not only did McMahon not have any plans for Cody to de
Throne reigns, but he had no plans for anyone to topple the tribal
chief with the report saying that he was all on board with reigns.
Now, McMahon is retired and Cody is injured, and while
it may just be a matter of time before he is world
champion, WWE'S former ceo, never put those plans in stone.
Speaking of injured talent, Biggie is
continuing to recover from the broken neck.
He suffered in March but is keeping busy outside of the ring.
In fact, Big E is healing so well that he is doing other
work for WWE as he has been serving as a guest scout for wwe.
Next in line program, sitting down with the Cheap Heat Podcast, Big E
shared his experience as a scout, which is a brand new role for him.
I've never been on this side.
I never really had an interest.
I always thought I was the young guy on
the roster shaking my hips, but it's cool.
They put a little respect on my name.
It's really cool to be behind the scenes.
We'll have a break for lunch, and we're having these conversations
about who we liked and what we liked about certain talent, and
it's really interesting, like the talent signed to the NIL program.
Biggie wasn't a wrestler before signing with wwe, but
instead a power lifter and had dreams of being a football.
Biggie is a testament to how a non wrestling athlete can become a huge
star in wwe, and we can only hope it won't be long before we see him.
Gyrating in the ring again.
Over to Ross, as Bobby Lashley defended his US title
last night against Musta Fa Ali, but his next title,
Defense Isn't Far Away After this match, Lashley was
laid out by Seth Rawlins in a curb stomp and backstage.
The Almighty Promise to destroy the visionary next
week saying he'll do it with the title on the line.
It's been seven years since Seth's one and only US Tidal Reign
and three years since he last held any gold, But Rawlins could
finally end that drought in just a few days time in 2000.
The then rookie Kurt Angle was paired with Bob Bland on
screen, but the alliance between the two was very short lived.
Despite both being accomplished amateur wrestlers,
their pairing ended mere weeks after starting.
And on his current angle show, the Olympian
explained how Bob could be difficult to work with.
Bob was supposed to put the Crippler cross face
on Chris Bewa while he was sitting, and Bob didn't
want to do it because he wasn't standing up.
I looked back at the writer like, Holy shit.
Despite the idea of a stood up cross face making no sense,
Bob refused to sit down and do the move, and Kurt added that.
Bland would often forget his lines.
I think that was the deciding factor.
When Bob went and did that, they just went, We've
had enough of Bob Bland, we're gonna move on.
Bland was written off of TV when Kurt attacked him after
learning that Bob had said he should defend both the
Intercontinental and European titles at WrestleMania 2000.
And thankfully, Kurt would go on to have an
incredible career without the bizarre, bland on AEW.
Dynamite.
Bandido impressed people with his match against R World Champion
Chris Jericho, despite coming up short against the wizard.
Bandido was reportedly offered a contract immediately
after the match, which comes as seriously bad news for WWE.
On Wrestling Observer Radio.
Brian Alvarez revealed that WWE had been watching
the match and before Jericho even got the win.
WWE had asked if they could get Bandidos number.
It hasn't been confirmed yet if Bandido has accepted the
offer by Tony Khan, but it certainly looks likely though the
former ROH world champion will have to consider all options.
It's been two years since Miro debuted for AEW following
his WWE release and has had somewhat of a mixed run
in the company despite rain as t and t champion.
Miro hasn't received many notable feuds and has even teased the
prospect of leaving, liking a tweet saying he had it better in wwe.
Miro hasn't left for WWE at this time, but this
week he will appear for a much different show.
In the pilot for new CBS drama, East New York,
Miro will play a character named Nicolai Dukin,
who has appeared in the trailers for the show.
We don't know if this will be a recurring role for the redeemer
of AEW or just a one off, but either way, the former TNT
champion is stretching his acting muscles with his new role.
In 2015, WWE launched their women's revolution, putting
more focus on women's wrestling and ending the divas era.
The Diva era has faced criticism from fans for years as a time when
the focus was on how a wrestler looked, rather than her INR skill.
But that may not be a bad thing.
Speaking to Alex's world, SoCal Val hit out at the
negative stigma that being a diva now has saying
that it is taking away the choice for women today.
I have no idea why anyone thought that Diva was a negative term.
A diva to me, was always a very empowering term.
With all due respect to AJ Lee and the others who
are just casually dressed and are not super sparkly
and glamorous, those aren't my type of girls.
I wanted to be a Tori Wilson or a son.
I wanted to do the modeling shoots.
SoCal Val never worked for WWE and therefore
was never an official diva of the company, but
worked for years as a knockout in impact Wrestl.
Nowadays, it'd be strange for a commentator to
focus on a superstar's looks during a match, which
was almost exclusively the case and the diva's era.
But SoCal Val is nostalgic for this bygone era of
wrestling and we're ending today with raw as the
action didn't stop after the show went off the air.
During the show, Seth Rawlins and Matt Riddle had a face off, but
did not trade blows due to a no contact clause that was in effect.
Grabbing a microphone after the show,
Rolin said that WWE official Jack Tony Jr.
A hilarious nod to the former WWE F onscreen
president, informed him that the clause has expired.
Riddle and Rolins wasted no time brawling with both
men sharing offense both in and out of the ring.
It's believed that this Saturday's fight pit match will
mark the end of their feud and we'll have to see who stands
tall in the cage with Daniel Cormier officiating the bout.