Here's your wrestling news for September 10th, 2022.
And we're kicking off today with SmackDown as drew
McIntyre was understandably in a fighting mood on the show.
MacIntyre had been on the cusp of dethroning Roman reigns at clash
of the castle only to have his plans on being champion thwarted
by solo Sikoa in an intense match between Sikoa and MacIntyre.
It seemed like the bloodline was set to interfere
until the street profits made sure to keep them at.
Unfortunately for drew it wasn't the
bloodline who made the difference.
But carrying cross, who attacked drew out of nowhere, locking him
in the cross jacket while Scarlet watched on with reports that
Roman reigns has set to miss the next WWE event, extreme rules.
This was a clear way of telling fans that
cross versus MacIntyre is the show's top feud.
At least for the time being fans can expect a
match between the two possibly to headline extreme
rules and expect things to get uglier from here on.
SmackDown also saw an impressive display by Rhonda
Rousey who has earned herself a SmackDown women's
title match against live Morgan in a five way.
Elimination match Rousey may Natalia Lacy, Evan, Xia Li and Sonya
Deville all tap out, earning a shot at the champ at extreme rules.
However, what was more interesting was a backstage
segment between rosy and Shayna Basler in which the
former UFC fighter encouraged Basler to get venge.
Rousey and Basler both come from an MMA background and it appears
that some kind of partnership could be in the works between
the two, whether that partnership ends with Rhonda Rousey,
holding the SmackDown women's title again, that remains to be
seen, but there's certainly strengthened numbers, especially
if you have Basler in your corner for the past two years,
Roman reigns and the bloodline have dominated WWE, leaving
fans with no option, but to acknowledge their tribal chief.
Despite being a heel rain's work is
one over fans who booed him as a face.
And he's even getting attention from
AEW on SmackDown, the USOs and honorary.
Oo.
Samza had a segment, welcoming solo SKO to the bloodline
following his main roster, debut it clashed the castle quickly.
After the segment MJF took to Twitter to share an emoji of an index
finger pointing upwards, a sign of those who support the bloodline.
MJF has never shied away from making it clear that
he enjoys WWE and with the assault of the earth,
he is teasing, leaving AEW for the opposition.
Perhaps he in the bloodline will share the ring.
One day rain's most recent big win came a clash of the castle, where
he retained against a very game, drew McIntyre in Cardiff whale.
Now the undisputed WWE universal champion is without a challenger,
but there's been some interesting updates about who he will face.
Two names have been thrown around as of late as possible.
Opponents are Kevin Owens who called out reins during
episode of raw talk and Seth Rawlins, the only person to
get a premium live event win over the tribal chief, albeit
via DQ while both men would make great opponents for rains.
Dave melter reports that neither Owens
nor raws are scheduled to face him next.
Belzer, didn't say, who is the next person
to challenge the head of the table though?
We know that his next title match will
be in November at the crown jewel event.
Meaning rains will miss next month's extreme rules
with braun Stroman recently returning perhaps he
will be the one to try and stand up to the bloodline.
After AEW all out cm, punk had some explosive words to say during
the post show media scrum burying the elite, his former best
friend, col cabana and hangman Adam Page punks remarks would be a
factor in the fight backstage between himself and a steel against
the elite, but his comments, weren't some spur of the moment.
Thoughts in the wrestling observer newsletter.
Dave Melcher writes that cm punk had his comments planned in advance.
One person noted the punk two weeks ago when he returned said
that the press conference after the pay view would be interesting.
Ryan Alvarez added that many in AEW believe punk's
comments were planned with melts are responding,
that it was so practiced by the former champion.
Punk was certain weeks in advance that the
media scrum was going to be interesting.
And that's certainly been the case, even if
it's overshadowed the entire, all out pay.
Between punk's comments and the proceeding fight, the Chicago
wrestler may soon be fired from AEW if he hasn't been already.
So perhaps his planned comments were a
bit too interesting for AEW or from AEW.
Now, as the company has had plenty of drama as of late.
And we don't mean with what's been happening on
screen between the fight, the stripping of the AEW
world and trio's tag titles and multiple injuries.
There's been a lot of chaos and wrestlers are trying to fix things.
It's been reported that prior to this week's
dynamite, a meeting was held with talent, hosted
by John Moxley, Brian Danielson, and Chris Jericho.
And we now know more about what was said.
One AEW wrestler said the trio of former world champions were the
right people to boost morale and talent were encouraged to address
any issues in house rather than leaking things to the media.
The topic of reports of unhappiness.
Getting out to the public had been an issue discussed in
last month's talent meeting and Moxley, Danielson, and
Jericho were all well received for their handling of things.
One younger, AEW wrestler said, Jericho said the
perfect example of how people should react while
another called Danielson's presence as calming.
And the consensus is Mox.
Lee's promo about AEW on this week's S dynamite resonated with a
lot of people, especially as he was supposed to be on vacation.
See how punk stays an AEW may be numbered or even over, but the
promotion does have their locker room leaders who are working
hard to steer the ship during these difficult times, news of
problems within AEW has been circulating for over a month now.
And those in WWE are well aware of what's going on in the competition.
During this week, SmackDown, a line was used, which
many fans believe was a dig at AEW's ongoing problems.
Alluding to the KFA incident of Rhonda Rousey, assaulting Adam Pierce.
The commentators stated that she had been disciplined internally
after an investigation, and that Pierce had gotten carried away.
Michael Cole said that the WWE official had aired the dirty
laundry publicly, which some have said is a nod to seam
punk in his comments made during the all out media scrum.
AEW can hardly take offense at this comment, if
it is a dig at them as they've spent years making
reference to WWE even doing so on this week's dynamite.
Ultimately AEW has a lot of problems that need to be addressed.
And with WWE, seeing a noticeable increase in quality post
Vince McMan, it'll be interesting to see how Tony con responds
and we're ending today with more from SmackDown as max Dupre
has had an interesting time since joining the blue brand.
Being called up over the summer.
There was a time when it seemed that max was done, which was
reportedly the last act made by Vince McMan before retirement.
And while he is back on SmackDown, he may be set for
another change on this week's show, the maximum mail
models in those Laos lost to hit row and the street profits
and D pre had some interesting comments off the air.
In a digital exclusive Dupree and his sister Maxine
could be seen speaking to Mase and Moua and max said
that they have to go through the day to get to the night.
The way max said this line had many fans speculating that
he could be returning to his previous LA night Gibbick,
which he worked as an NXT before his call up to smack down.
A lot of superstars have had their names changed in
recent weeks as part of this post Vince McMann era.
And perhaps max due pre is next on the list.