Here's more wrestling news for July 11th, 2022.
And we're kicking off this afternoon with Brock Lesnar who last month made his most recent return to WWE TV and will
challenge for the undisputed WWE universal title at this year's summer slam in a last man standing match against Roman reigns.
Having not competed in months and having lost terrains in his most recent match, some have questioned how it makes sense that
Brock gets another title opportunity, but that's just one of the perks for the part-time performer before he was back with WWE.
Lester was tearing it up in UFC and one name from his past, has' spoken about the beast incarnet speaking to Chris
Van Vliet two time UFC heavyweight champion, Frank mir discussed Lesnar and didn't have a glowing endorsement.
I don't know much about his pro wrestling.
I don't watch that often, so I don't know how bad he is at it.
From what I understand, listening to other people in the industry, he does the bare minimum of what he has to do to cash the check.
And I don't fault him for that.
We've all got to make money.
I think he's more naturally a fighter than he is a pro wrestler.
So it's not his first love.
It was mir Lesnar first faced in UFC defeating the former WWE champion in the first round.
And will Brock did go on to have great success in both the octagon and the ring, his old rival isn't impressed.
Now WWE has been under several investigations as of late, but not all of them are related to Vince.
McMahon's alleged behavior with female employees.
In January MLW launched an antitrust action against WWE claiming that the McMohan led promotion interfered
with a possible streaming contract with Tobi and vice TV, which would've been a huge deal to the promotion.
Last month, MLW submitted a motion to the United States district court, Northern district of California
asking that the initial case management conference be shortened and moved forward to September 29th.
WWE opposed the movement.
And thanks to court records obtained by P w insider.
We know that ML W's motion was rejected on July 7th by judge Judge Edward J.
Davila in those records, WWE also alleges that MLW have failed to substantiate many of their antitrust claims.
WWE has argued that they do not hold a monopoly on wrestling as M L w has claimed and even touted the success of AEW as proof of this.
And we'll keep following this case for further updates.
It was just over a week ago, that theory won the men's money in the bank ladder match in just the latest big moment for the former
us champion theory has enjoyed a monumental push over the past year or so, but this isn't his first time on the main roster.
In April, 2020 theory debut on raw by aligning himself with Andrade and angel Garza.
And later as one of Seth Rallins disciples, before he was sent back to NXT, sitting down with Sean Ross sap theory said how he
never felt like he was on the main roster, especially as all his shows took place at the performance center without a live crowd.
It would be a year later, that theory re debuted on raw in October, 2021, defeating Jeff Hardy
and has enjoyed a consistent push since then.
Not only is theory a fully fledged member of the roster, but he could be the next undisputed WWE universal champion, not bad for
someone whose first foray on raw was something of a dud for years.
Carmella has been called and called herself the princess of Stanton island playing up her roots in New York city.
Recently though the former SmackDown women's champion has been accused of gimmick infringement, but not by a fellow wrestler.
Instead it is Jersey shore star, Angelina Pivarnick who tweeted that Carmella spoke to her years ago and claimed
that the wrestler's entire gimmick is based off of her.
Pivarnick advised Carmella to get your own shit and cut the crap and the WWE superstar.
Wasn't going to take these comments lying down.
In response, Carmella tagged prominent Jersey shore stars, J-Woww and Snooki advising the duo to come get your girl.
Well, Snooky has competed in WWE once before Pivarnick has yet to step in the ring, but perhaps she and Carmella can settle things once.
And for all at a WWE premium live event in April, during his much deserved hall of fame speech, the undertaker teased that
he may one day wrestle again, telling fans to never say never.
This drew something of a mixed response by fans as well, many would be happy to see him wrestle.
One more time.
Others are happy with how his career ended with the acclaimed boneyard match in an interview with Bleacher report, the phenom
clarified his comments saying that while he said, never say never.
He has no intention of making an in ring return.
Undertaker explained his, never say never line by saying, this is the WWE and he can never ruled out being called upon for something to do.
Even nearly two years after his final farewell, the undertaker still has a lot of support from fans, but
while he may show up for a beat down or a guest appearance in the future, an official match is off the table.
When Roman raigns signed a lucrative new contract with WWE it meant he would be wrestling less and less than the company with
a match from the tribal chief now considered an even bigger deal.
It's rare to see rains wrestle on TV and even rarer to see 'em at live events but the undisputed WWE universal champion
has been wrestling off screen at the WWE live event in Sacramento, California rains, defended against drew McIntyre
and got the win over the two time former WWE champion.
With his win reign extends his series of wins overdrew with their first match being at WrestleMania 35 in 2019.
And the tribal chief is now 20 and oh, with rumors of the two facing off at clash at the castle, perhaps the Cardiff
show will be the time McIntyre breaks the streak and takes the undisputed WWE universal championship in the process.
But that's easier said than done against Roman reigns.
We've got some news from the world of NASCAR now, which hosted their Quaker state 400 event yesterday and had
plenty of personalities from wrestling for the event.
WWE hall of Famers, the Bella twins were in attendance alongside WWE RAW women's champion, Bianca Belair, and her husband, Montez Ford.
It wasn't just WWE, who made their presence felt though as a E w TBS champion, Jade Cargill was also in attendance
and was the guest of honor at the Atlanta motor Speedway.
We can only imagine what was said if Cargill was able to meet up with any of the WWE names, but it seems everyone,
no matter which company they work for was able to have fun.
Since a E w began in 2019, the company has used plenty of stars from Japan, with Riho Hikaru Shida and Konosuke
Takeshita just to name a few, these stars have been impressive, but often face a hostile reaction from fans in the us.
And not just because of their matches.
Speaking on a Twitch live stream with CEO gaming, former a E w world champion, Kenny omega discussed the kind
of responses some fans have given international talent.
A lot of our international talent, they came to this country.
Not really expecting everyone to be as relentless and ruthless and have a shred of humanity.
It's unfortunate that that's not the case.
It's not the world that they came into.
They need to understand that that doesn't represent everyone's feelings, that people literally have nothing else better to do
than to go out of their way and create an account to tell them that this, that, or the other something negative anyway, probably
not about wrestling, probably about the way that they look or the way that they sound or not being able to speak English.
All of that.
It's really sad.
Unfortunately, there will always be some fans who hate wrestlers for reasons entirely unrelated to the wrestling skill or character.
And omega is just one of many who hopes that this trend will one day come to an end.
And we're ending today with Sasha banks and Naomi who walked out of raw nearly two months ago.
And WWE has done all they can to distance themselves from the former women's tag team champions.
Since then.
WWE has suspended the duo without pay, removed them from opening packages, pulled their merchandise.
And in the case of banks edited her out of a compilation video of Paige's best moments.
Now, WWE have taken the next step to scrub banks from the record, which comes from the company's
streaming partner peacock on the platform.
Fans can pick a superstar to be their account's avatar, but banks' image has now been removed from peacock, leaving
fans with their choice of either Roman reigns or Oscar.
Banks was once one of WWE's most prominently featured superstars, even headlining WrestleMania 37 night, one last year.
But now the company wants absolutely nothing to do with her.