In this WrestleTalk News, Thunder Rosa has heat with multiple wrestlers, Sammy Guevara
speaks on Eddie Kingston’s suspension, tons more details on CM Punk, AEW meetings, and
maybe a bit on WWE too.
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On this past week’s episode of Dynamite, though it was overshadowed by all of the CM
Punk and Jon Moxley stuff, Thunder Rosa announced that she had to take some time away as AEW
Women’s World Champion, and that there would be an interim champion crowned at All Out,
with those competitors in a Fatal 4-Way being Toni Storm, Britt Baker, Jamie Hayter, and
Hikaru Shida.
Rumours then began circulating online that actually, Rosa’s injury was a work, and
the reason they were doing the interim champion was because she has heat with other wrestlers.
And as it turns out, these rumours had a half truth in them.
It was confirmed by Fightful Select that Rosa is legitimately injured, though the actual
injury itself is currently unknown, speculated to be “related to bulging discs”.
PWInsider reported that it was also a “disc issue”, so that seems to be the prevailing
injury, and one that she reportedly had been trying to work through.
So they’re not doing the interim champion because of a kayfabe injury.
But as it turns out, there are people that don’t like her.
Voices of Wrestling originally reported that Thunder Rosa and Britt Baker couldn’t stand
each other, which was corroborated by Fightful Select as well, noting that that had been
the case for over a year.
However, the two had attempted to remain professional and work with each other, and reportedly are
still open to work with each other, “for the sake of simply doing their jobs”.
However, an interesting note about this is that Britt Baker isn’t the only one with
heat on Rosa, and Jamie Hayter also reportedly developed heat with her after her nose was
broken in a match recently.
Reportedly much of the heat surrounding Rosa currently comes from her working stiff in
the ring.
There seems to be two sides to the perception of Rosa backstage, as Fightful Select reports
that talent has contacted them on both sides, with one side noting how she’s worked hard
to get younger talent booked on shows, with others perceiving her as developing an ego
and being difficult to work with.
It’s certainly a chaotic time backstage in AEW, and now the floodgates have opened,
it seems there’s more and more reports of backstage unrest brewing.
Like this whole ordeal between Eddie Kingston and Sammy Guevara.
It was reported earlier this week, that Eddie Kingston had been suspended by AEW, though
that suspension has now been carried out.
This was reportedly due to a confrontation between Kingston and Guevara, which Kingston
confirmed in a statement, noting that he was “wrong”.
There’s now been more details on this confrontation, as reported by Fightful Select.
Kingston was reportedly angry at Guevara for not clearing the contents of a since edited
out promo, in which Guevara called Kingston a “fat piece of s***”.
While Kingston took exception to this, it was Guevara’s followup that reportedly set
him off, as after Kingston yelled at him backstage, he smiled at him which set off Kingston more.
He pie faced Guevara, which upset Guevara massively, and Kingston was suspended for
two weeks.
This doesn’t appear to be the end of this saga though, as there’s even more details
coming out, and a statement from Sammy Guevara too.
In what seems to be a case of miscommunication on all sides, there’s now another layer
to this story as Fightful Select reports that following Sammy Guevara’s feuds with Ethan
Page, Scorpio Sky and working with Sonjay Dutt, he had been perceived as difficult to
work with.
And on top of this, Guevara himself issued a statement to Fightful to give his perspective
on this situation: “As a professional you communicate things
that you don’t want to be said…and I did communicate of what I didn’t want to be
said in this angle and Eddie didn’t…So after Tay’s and my match with Sky Blue and
Dante I cut a promo on Eddie insulting Eddie and the fans as a heel…I see what people
say online about Eddie and his appearance.
(Which anyone who legitimately shames Eddie for how he looks can go to hell)... so Sammy
Guevara the character I could be the physical person playing that person that Eddie can
shut up at All Out…So after the promo I get to the back and Eddie is flipping out
yelling “YOU CANT CALL ME FAT” over and over as I’m trying to walk down the stairs
in gorilla making a big scene.”
But even though new reports are emerging of backstage chaos in AEW pretty consistently,
it can’t all be bad news right?
Because they got good viewership, and that’s all that matters, right?
This week’s Dynamite broke the 1 million viewer mark, netting an average of 1.049 million
viewers according to Showbuzz Daily.
Primarily helped along by the Punk vs Moxley title unification match, I would assume.
And hey what the hell is happening in AEW with all of that stuff?
If you thought that the unification match being moved to Dynamite and Punk being squashed
in 3 minutes while being helped to the back and presumably written off TV was so that
they could lead to…another rematch at All Out, well, good for you I guess because that
is reportedly the plan.
Despite all evidence to the contrary on Dynamite, according to Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer
Radio, the current plan is for the main event of All Out to be Jon Moxley vs CM Punk.
“We’ve only got just over a week [until All Out], but it is Punk and Moxley.
I don’t know if they’re gonna add stips or whatever, but that is the main event…[Punk’s]
gonna be back in 10 days.
Look, he’ll go in there selling the foot...the rematch is in Chicago.
Punk’s gonna be cheered like crazy.
Punk can play the babyface with the bad foot...and they can work a great match with that handicap.”
I’m not exactly sure that’s what people wanted after the outcome of their Dynamite
match…but ok I guess.
I’m sure this won’t sour the people that actually enjoyed the Dynamite angle.
The other big talking point in AEW before Dynamite this week was the big talent meeting
that Tony Khan called for, which was reported to be a big rallying speech about working
together as a team.
There’s been some more details about that meeting to come to light, as according to
Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio, CM Punk’s current backstage drama with Hangman
Page, yet another instance of AEW’s backstage environment being bananas right now, was never
brought up as a topic of discussion in the meeting.
Which I guess is fair and might have been a little awkward if it was.
And per PWInsider, while many of the people who spoke at the meeting, like Tony Schiavone,
The Young Bucks and Chris Jericho all used a positive, encouraging tone, Kenny Omega
also spoke and was much more in the ‘tough love’ category, with a harsher tone.
According to Bryan Alvarez, the “vast majority” of people came out of the meeting feeling
better, but some did not.
I guess I should talk about WWE a little in this video too.
Last month, news broke that WWE would be moving back to a TV-14 rating, beginning with Raw,
and then having SummerSlam be TV-14 too.
However this never came to pass, with the rating for SummerSlam on Peacock even changing
to TV-14 at one point before being reverted back.
Since we’ve heard nothing since, some people may have assumed that the TV-14 plans have
been scrapped altogether, or now with Triple H at the helm, maybe there’s a chance of
them being reignited?
It’s the former, according to PWInsider, as there are “no current plans” to change
the company’s TV rating for any of their shows.
And hey, I don’t even know if WWE going back to a TV-14 rating would even fix WWE.
I made a video on that - you should watch it.
But bear in mind I made that video before Triple H got into power, and before WWE became
cool again.
Anyway, Triple H’s WWE so far has been known for one particular thing: returns of released
WWE wrestlers.
This trend may be set to continue, as there’s rumours a-circling about a couple of other
wrestlers that could be making their way back to the E.
Tenille Dashwood, the former Emma in WWE, or Emmalina if you’re feeling fancy, recently
revealed that she was dating current WWE star Madcap Moss.
And while Dashwood signed with Impact Wrestling in 2019, a post last week indicated that she
was a free agent, with her posting the definition of the term free agent to Twitter.
Might be too subtle for me to pick up on there though.
Madcap Moss responded with some eye emojis to this tweet as well, so maybe Moss would
like her to join him in WWE once again, and maybe Triple H might be more willing to have
her back, and she may be more willing to go back in this new era of WWE programming.
Another WWE return we might see before long is JONAH, the former Bronson Reed.
Reed was well protected in NXT, even defeating Johnny Gargano for the North American Championship
in a Cage Match.
Though after some dark match tryouts for the main roster, he was released from the company,
presumably to the dismay of Triple H. According to Andrew Zarian on the We’re
Live Pal podcast, WWE is interested in bringing Reed back to the company.
So expect him to be on SmackDown tonight probably.
It was recently revealed that NXT UK would be going on hiatus and then rebranded as NXT
Europe, part of Triple H’s global localization I guess, a brand which current AEW star William
Regal helped create.
There are claims, which I would call the truth, that NXT UK completely stifled and nearly
killed the UK independent scene, considering that was its purpose when it was created,
however Regal refuted that on his Gentleman Villain podcast:
“And there’s people that will say ‘Well, you killed British wrestling.’
Mate.
I’m telling you I went over there in 2016 for two weeks to check out the British wrestling
scene.
And I found that it wasn’t what it was supposed to be.
There was ICW running a few shows a month, Progress was running one or two shows a month.
Rev Pro was running one and sometimes two shows a month.”
“There was lots of work on but I ended up going to all star promotion shows just because
I felt bad about not having enough shows to go to.
It was a myth that there was only all this incredible stuff going on, when really there
was companies running a couple of shows a month.”
Now I know what a lot of you have been wondering: what exactly has Vince McMahon been up to
since he’s retired from WWE?
Has he actually let go of the company, is he truly gone?
And the answer to that is: he’s partying with John Cena.
Vince celebrated his 77th birthday a couple of days ago, and was out in New York’s Waverly
Inn restaurant with none other than John Cena.
Interestingly, Vince was flanked by a mystery woman, who was not Linda McMahon.