in this wrestle talk news sasha banks
and naomi have been officially suspended
by wwe wwe are considering a gimmick
change for one wrestler my review of
smackdown tempest review of rampage and
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that everyone's talking about tyler
breeze is coming back to up up down down
and they're bringing back battle of the
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sasha banks and naomi have been
suspended in the latest development in
the turbulent situation between wwe and
sasha banks and naomi the duo's walkout
from raw this week was actually
addressed live on air on smackdown last
night before the main event michael cole
mentioned the original plan for the main
event of raw was the six-pack challenge
before revealing back to naomi had been
suspended and their titles vacated sasha
and naomi took the tag championships
into the office of our head of talent
relations left them there and then
promptly walked out of the arena their
actions disappointed millions of wwe
fans and their fellow superstars so
because of what sasha and naomi did this
past monday night they have been
suspended indefinitely and we will have
a future tournament to crown the new wwe
women's tag team champions hey a
tournament
adam will be happy
right the statement from smackdown of
course didn't include any of the context
of the walkout what caused it etc but
it's the latest very public installment
of this saga of course stay tuned to
wrestletalk.com for the latest on this
situation elsewhere on smackdown happy
corbin cutter promo
god corbyn attacked madcap moss last
week and an admittedly very good looking
spot and moss was outselling those
injuries this week but his absence from
the screen may not just be to tell the
story as according to dave meltzer in
the wrestling observer newsletter wwe
are considering changing up moss's
gimmick since moss is now a babyface wwe
are reportedly considering changing up
the act while the details are not clear
on what these changes might be or how
drastic they might be moss is in
desperate need of a changeup as he is
desperately uncool as a babyface still
cracking the same jokes but now
expecting cheers instead of booze you're
still wearing suspenders moss chances
are we may see a moss versus corbin
match at helen necell which is where we
could see the new mad cat moss where
hopefully he's not called madcap moss
anymore and he's actually wearing
wrestling gear the most shocking news
from yesterday was that stephanie
mcmahon would be taking a leave of
absence from wwe effective essentially
immediately and while some had
speculated that this was due to triple
h's health condition due to his cardiac
event last year fightball is reporting
that triple h is actually back working
full time in wwe again though his duties
within the company are categorically
different than they were before which is
some good news and should put some
worries people had to rest on top of
that meltzer noted in the observer
newsletter that stephanie's leave of
absence is 100 her choice and she was
not forced or pressured to make that
choice which is also reassuring best
wishes to stephanie and now it's time
for my review of smackdown in about five
minutes
this entire episode of smackdown was
built around the tag team title
unification match between rk bro and the
usos with several segments video
packages and recaps throughout the night
to lead to the main event sure wwe i've
been down this road before you're not
fooling me i know it won't have a
conclusive finish or won't happen the
show started with the bloodline where
paul heyman cut a very long promo to not
really say much in the grand scheme of
things the one interesting line from
this promo was haven saying that the
usos had to win the match tonight or
they couldn't come home to the island of
relevancy this opening segment took a
while and was
fine i suppose shinsuke nakamura then
faced sami zayn and what was a really
really fun opening match this seems to
be the new smackdown formula as of late
the first match gets time is very fun
and has drama and actual psychology
built into it like
an actual match there are a couple of
great spots towards the end of this
match playing off their previous match
together a few weeks ago with sami zayn
catching shinsuke with a michinoku
driver on the outside and i mean
shinsuke to just make it back into the
ring for a nine count and then shinsuke
hit sammy off the ring post and threw
him into the timekeepers area and sammy
only just made it back into the ring for
a nine count himself which i totally
bought as the finish but then sami
immediately ran into a kinshasa for the
shinsuke win this was great i'm not 100
sure what story it furthers but it made
shinsuke look good and was a bunch of
fun so i'm okay with that the uso's got
a hype video package next sure wwe i
know the match won't happen happy corbin
then had a happy talk segment and when i
say happy talk i mean he cut a promo a
very long plodding boring promo with
essentially no substance that went
nowhere and was a complete waste of time
also yes the spot last week with the
andre the giant trophy on the chair of
moss's neck was a good spot but we
didn't need to see it over five times in
this segment not an exaggeration corbin
then destroyed the trophy after a recap
of gulak and walter interacting last
week the two had a match here where
walter won in a quick squash again but
this one was less fun than their last
one walter locked in a boston crab after
the match and ricochet came out for the
save i think walter is intercontinental
champion makes sense to me i'm for it la
knight made his smackdown debut next
backstage except he's now called max
dupree he's got a group called maximum
male models and sonia deville hired him
despite adam pierce having no idea who
he was sure
i have no feelings on this currently rk
bro backstage cut a promo saying that
they're going to win tonight sure thing
guys yeah that match is really happening
chatzi cut a promo to raquel rodriguez
and gorilla which was proper bad not
because of shot to me but because of
what she had to say because humans don't
talk like that you're just an absurd
amazon
don't like that at all raquel then beat
shotzi pretty quick this was fine also
in gorilla shots he didn't have a helmet
but then she entered with a helmet and
then took a helmet off immediately on
her entrance doesn't mean anything i
just thought it was funny
xavier woods then took on butch next and
the group of sheamus ridge holland and
butch have now been given a name the
brawling brutes sure woods was going
solo in this match and so was butch
despite the ring announcer saying he was
accompanied by sheamus and holland but
once again woods won with the backwoods
in true pete dunn style
this is a bad story please let it end
interestingly though woods backstage
said it'll be a six-man tag next week
with a third member of their team being
someone the brawling brutes wouldn't
like hell yeah tyler breeze is returning
here too rk bro got a hype video package
you're really trying wwe but i'm not
being fooled the match ain't happening
michael cole addressed the banks and
naomi situation as mentioned in the news
portion of this video and then we had
the main event of rk brew versus the
usos tag team unification match sure
great joke guys rk bro came out the usos
came out the ring announcer introduced
the teams the bell rang the match
got underway and was really fun
packed with near falls good drama nice
hot tag from autumn guys that are
actually doing it roman reigns came out
interfered of course holding on to jay
protecting him from a top rope move from
riddle allowing jay to splash riddle for
the win the uso is a new unified tag
team champions then they attacked
riddler norton after the match in a
really cool beat down well
they did the match
the more you know why this didn't happen
at wrestlemania backlash i don't know
i'm curious to see where we go from here
as it feels like the natural progression
is riddled versus roman or awesome
versus roman both of which are matches i
want to see it genuinely feels like
orton versus roman is the biggest match
wwe can put on right now if they can
hold that off until a big show like
summerslam in front of a huge stadium of
people i think that would be quite the
spectacle i'd also just like to point
out how much riddle has grown in the
eyes of fans through rk bro instead of
being a decent wrestler but a goofball
somewhere around the us title scene he's
now being positioned as one of the top
wrestlers in the company alongside orton
and wouldn't feel out of place
challenging roman for the uw
championship which is a massive
achievement on a side note though the
end of the show was just frankly an
absurd amount of camera cuts in a short
space of time bloodline autumn riddle
crowd roman usos bloodline hayman riddle
awesome crowd
stop it get some help but aside from
that though this was good i think i'm
just surprised more than anything that
it actually happened this was a fun
match and the start of the show also had
a fun match the promos on this show were
dog ass because all of them were
completely irrelevant and didn't
actually say anything the wrestling was
good though and that's a big plus this
show gets a low four out of five
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review of rampage
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three minutes recorded this already
because my microphone does not work so
let's do this again the show opens up
with the action already in the ring as
the house of black took on the dark
order and fuego del sol i love house of
black matches they're all really dynamic
performers and they all wrestle
different styles that complement each
other very well but at the same time
these matches can be tough just because
the baby faces aren't as popular as the
heels this is a cold feud but they
managed to have a fun opening trio's
match as brody king hit the gonzo bomb
on eveluno for the win after the match
we got the announcement that death
triangle will be facing the house of
black at double or nothing house of
black has really sputtered the last few
months and i have to imagine it's
because of ray phoenix's injury delaying
this trio's match but hopefully now we
can all watch it get it out of the way
and figure out what exactly it is that
the house of black even cares about
still waiting to be filled in on that
actually but this was a fun opening
trio's match i'm going to give it a 3
out of 5. we then had our next match
which was advertised as sean spears
versus a giant and that giant ended up
being the former killian dane big damo
best former board game club and
quizzlemania contestant big damo this is
where a live commentator or something
like that in the arena would have been
really helpful because i don't think a
lot of people in the crowd knew that big
demo was former wwe star killian dane
first sean spears managed to get the
quick win with the c4 and i know that
there are different circumstances
involved i know that sean spiers is the
contracted talent but if i was in charge
of this universe i simply wouldn't have
sean spears beat big demo after the
match sean spears called himself the
giant killer and said he's gonna beat
ward low in the steel cage this was fine
it just wasn't terribly long i'm gonna
give it a two out of five the young
bucks challenged the hardest to a match
at double or nothing and then we got the
next quarter final match in the women's
owen heart cup as chris statlander took
on red velvet this isn't one of the top
tier feuds in the auw women's division
but i'm glad the chris statlander and
red velvet got to tell the next chapter
of their story it seemed for a while
that these two were just gonna drift
apart without much conflict between each
other but that's not the case because of
karoshi's injury red velvet attacked
kristatlander's injured knee and she hit
a really nice dragon screw leg whip for
a nice pop by the end of the show this
crowd was definitely tired but the
houston crowd was one of aew's best
statlander hit a blue thunderbomb and
red velvet hit a rolling face buster
before chris statlander was able to roll
up red velvet for the win after the
match the baddies brawled with chris
statlander ruby soho and anna j which
led to later in the show as jade cargill
challenged anna jay to a match for the
tbs championship at double or nothing
that's three women's matches at double
or nothing that's more like it this was
a good match even if it was definitely
the least promoted quarter-final match
of the women's tournament i'm gonna give
it a three out of five we then had our
obligatory tnt title segment the tnt
championship is in the mud i really
thought aew was gonna turn this whole
thing around when scorpio sky won that
ladder match i thought they had built
him into a perfect mid-card champion
baby face and then nope they turned him
heel again and i really don't know what
we're doing here at this point the tnt
title has taken such a convoluted path
this year and i can't say that i'm a fan
of this style of booking especially
coming right off of the heels of the
excellent title reign of miro can i just
have miro back please that'd be great
thanks at this point there are just so
many more people on the roster i would
rather see highlighted with the tnt
title than the men of the year sami
guevara demands a rematch with scorpio
sky and when he doesn't get it he
smashes the tnt title with a
sledgehammer which is only the second
worst thing he's ever done to that belt
kazarian gets a few swings and
my my notes just say men are mad
i mean yeah why are they not yeah the
men of the year were mad even though
they have a second belt that was on tv
very recently i'm quite ready to move
the tnt title to another section of the
aew universe but until then i'm just
gonna give this segment a two out of
five and then we got our scheduled main
event as john moxley and brian danielson
took on dante martin and matt seidel i
think brian danielson has my favorite
style of violent offense in wrestling
it's not just brawling it's technical
violence it doesn't just hurt you
physically but he beats you mentally too
psychological pain i feel like if you
get beat up being out-wrestled he's just
that much smarter than you more
technically proficient than you he's
more talented than you dante martin also
had a fantastic sell in this match as he
was able to reach the bottom rope to
break a lebel lock it's the little
things like this that take a young baby
face from being just a good baby face to
a great baby face moxley and daniel
since rapid fire elbow spot didn't get
over like it normally does but i think
that is just because the crowd was so
burnt out that being said it led to a
pretty flat finish with dante martin
getting hit with a death rider and this
wasn't my favorite rampage main event by
any means but it was still a good time
and with the four men involved how could
it not be and then as the show was going
off the air brian danielson and john
moxley brawled with jericho and company
with brian danielson getting his leg
caught between the ring and the stage
that was scary thankfully the word is
that brian danielson is okay can you
imagine first show back and brian
danielson gets hurt this was a really
fun main event and i'm going to give it
4 out of 5. but overall this episode of
rampage was really lacking to me and it
felt like it was really populated by a
number of cold matches the matches
weren't bad by any means but they were
definitely not ones that you need to go
out of your way to see i'm gonna give
this show a three out of five which is
below average but that's just because
rampage has had such a high average to
this point and that just about wraps up
for me if you want to hear more of my
thoughts on this show and last night's
smackdown make sure you go over to
wrestle talk podcast later on today
where myself in chopper pete will be
having our first podcast together and i
don't know how long until then stay
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this wrestle talk news stephanie mcmahon
is taking a leave of absence from wwe
and nick khan is taking over could wwe
freeze naomi and sasha banks contracts
and is rock versus roman reigns just
fantasy as one wwe star put