Here's more wrestling news for June 7th 2021
And your headlines for afternoon include
Booker T Thinks Braun Strowman Won’t Have Opponents Who Can Match Up In AEW!
Former WWE Wrestler No Shows Multiple Bookings & Keeps Advanced Payment!
Aleister Black Reveals Unreleased WWE Entrance Music!
Seth Rollins Opening Up A New Business!
WWE Tells Performance Center Students That ‘Life Ends’ After They Leave The Company
Former WWE Champion Says She’s Heartbroken About Her Current Wrestling Career!
Backstage News On What WWE Had Planned For Santana Garrett!
Kurt Angle Claims ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin Was Scared To Face Him & Chris Benoit And more!
We’re starting this video with Braun Strowman, who was released from WWE last week, and fans continue to
speculate on where he’ll go next. On his hall of fame podcast, Booker T discussed Strowman’s future, and
despite many fans calling for Braun to join AEW, Booker doesn’t think that’s a good idea. He explained:
“That’s the thing, Braun Strowman runs through that whole roster,. I really rely on the past in certain ways to fuel what we
got going on today. Just imagine, we may not be talking about Kevin Nash the way we talk about him if he wasn’t the bodyguard
for Shawn Michaels in the beginning. The way big Kev was introduced, he wasn’t a guy that was just thrown out there to
be a star. He was a star and the fans knew it and they wanted to get behind them because he was Big Sexy, Big Daddy Cool,
Diesel. He had some charisma and the fans gravitated to that. A guy like Braun Strowman, we just threw him out there
to become a star and sometimes it’s really really difficult when you’re put out there under the bright lights to pull
it off. Not saying that he didn’t do a hell of a job but being introduced the way that he was introduced, as the
Monster Among Men, he had to be bigger than everybody every single night. To rise to that occasion man, that’s a rough
task. “There’s like two matches over there for him. Lance Archer, Brian Cage, Miro.
There’s two or three guys that Braun Strowman [can face]. Mark Henry.”
In a post-release tweet, Strowman has said there’s plenty of places he still wants to see as a wrestler, and whilst
it’s highly likely AEW will make him an offer, Strowman won’t be All-Elite if Booker T gets his way.
Wherever Strowman goes next, we doubt Justin Credible will be there, as the former ECW star has been scamming
promoters of their money. That’s according to Grim of YouTube’s Grim’s Toy Show and GTS Wrestling,
who paid Credible in advance to do an appearance for a show, only for the former ECW star to no show the gig
and keep the hundreds of dollars he was paid upfront. When Grim tried to reach out to Credible,
he was blocked on all platforms, and judging by the replies to Grim’s tweet, this isn’t the first time Credible has
scammed people out of their money. Hopefully, Grim can get his money back soon, and in the meantime, he’s warning
all promoters to keep away from booking Justin Credible for any events.
Back to WWE, and after his release last week, Aleister Black told fans that he had a new theme made for
him prior to him being let go, which fans never got to hear on TV. Fortunately, the former NXT Champion
had a copy laying around, as during a Twitch stream, Black played that unreleased song, a dark and heavy
track that fits his demeanour. Here’s a sample of it now, and let us know what you think of it in the comments.
Black, who is resorting to his pre-WWE name Tommy End, isn’t done in wrestling, and is expected to end up in AEW, and
though we don’t know for sure where the Dutchman will compete next, we know it won’t be in WWE.
Now, outside of WWE, Seth Rollins has a couple of projects on the go, such as his Black and Brave Wrestling Academy,
and now the Visionary has another business to his name. Rollins is now adding a new coffee
shop to his business empire, which will be located on Utica Ridge in Iowa under the name 392 Caffe.
This new store officially opened yesterday, and is expected to be in full operation within a week, and is
Rollins’ second coffee shop he owns. The former Universal Champion partnered with 392 Caffe in 2016 to
open a shop in Davenport, Iowa, and with a second store now open, Rollins is clearly having success in the industry.
Rollins loves Coffee and working out, and the next time you’re in Iowa, you can have a cup of Joe endorsed by the Architect himself
Now, Kurt Angle is undoubtably one of the greatest wrestlers ever, capable of having great matches with any opponent.
On his show this week, Kurt discussed the July 11th 2001 edition of RAW, which featured a steel cage match between
himself and Chris Benoit, which included a German Suplex from off the top rope.
Calling it the most dangerous spot of the night, as there was a high chance the pair would land on their heads, Angle
and Benoit made the top-rope German work, but also scared ‘Stone Cold’ steve Austin, as Kurt explained:
We were upcoming talent. Austin was out there watching the match. We were trying to impress Austin.
I think we went way too far because we actually scared him away. We were trying to show him that we
wanted to work with him, and he’s like, ‘these guys are crazy bastards, I’m not going to work with them.’
Fortunately, Austin would change his mind, as he’d have an incredible feud with Angle that Summer, culminating in
Kurt becoming WWF Champion in his hometown of Pittsburgh at Unforgiven, but that emotional title win may have
never had happened thanks to one German Suplex.
For many aspiring wrestlers, their dream is to one-day make it big in WWE, but just because you’re there, doesn’t mean
you’re safe. As we’ve seen in recent months, WWE is never afraid to release talent, which is
no-doubt bad news for the released Superstar, especially after the warning they’re given when they first step foot
in the company. During Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer said how Vince McMahon calls
the shots with hirings and firings, and discussed WWE’s hiring process with an interesting piece of information
Center trainees are given when they start. He said: They teach you when you’re there,
they teach you that your life ends if you leave. A lot of guys have left, especially the ones in AEW have gone,
My life didn’t end and I left… There’s a fear and that’s why a lot of people don’t go, especially women.”
Meltzer added that it’s ironic WWE says this to trainees, as there’s now more opportunities for women in other
companies and on the indies than ever before. We’ll have to see who WWE cuts next
as they continue to cut their budget, but whoever is released next should know that there is still life in wrestling
after WWE.
One person who knows about life after WWE is Mickie James, but the former Women’s Champion isn’t doing too
well right now. A former Women’s and Divas Champion, as well as a former TNA Knockouts
Champion, James was released this past April, after only being for just 6 matches in WWE in the past two years.
Speaking to Busted Open Radio this week, James was asked about what’s next for her, and responded in an
emotional way, saying: “I’m so nervous because I really — I don’t know what to do… I don’t even know
I feel. I’m so heartbroken in a sense, you know? I’m not gonna cry. But I am, I’m a bit heartbroken in the business.”
Since her release, James has discussed how women are treated much more harshly than men, as WWE didn’t want
to use the 41-year-old Superstar in any capacity, despite pushing older male counterparts like Goldberg, Brock Lesnar
and John Cena. And we’re ending with another recent releasee, as Santana Garett was cut
last week alongside five other Superstars. Garrett wasn’t used much on WWE TV, but according to PW Insider, there were
plans in the works for her. Their report notes that following her performance in this year’s Women’s
Royal Rumble there were plans for her to be called-up soon, and that there were also plans for her to debut
on SmackDown. Garret’s situation is similar to Vanessa Borne, who was reportedly called-up,
but spent her last days with WWE waiting for her arrival to be worked into storylines.
In her first tweet post release, Garrett teased competing for SHINE, and time will tell what happens next after going
unused in WWE, despite these plans for her.