In this WrestleTalk News, Cain Velasquez arrested, an update for Triple H at WrestleMania, a
review of last night’s Raw and more…
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[SUPPORT WRESTLETALK] Breaking news: Veer is still not here.
WWE played the first Veer Mahaan redebut package back in November.
In a technique I believe is called ‘edging’, he’s been coming ever since.
If you don’t count the seven matches he’s had during that time on Main Event.
But last night’s episode of Raw was an important milestone for his still ongoing journey, as
it meant he will now tie Emmalina for the longest wait in WWE history from their first
video package playing to when they actually debut.
Next week’s Raw would make it 133 days since Veer’s first vignette, the same amount of
days it took Emmalina to appear.
Unfortunately there’s no easy way to segue into our next story, so here goes.
NBC Bay Area is reporting that former UFC and WWE star Cain Velasquez was involved in
a shooting incident near Monterey Highway and Bailey avenue in Morgan Hill - in which
“one man was shot and taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries and another
man was arrested.”
NBC writes that Velasquez was then “booked into the Santa Clara County Jail and is being
held on no bail but it is unclear what charges he faces.”
Velasquez is a former UFC Heavyweight Champion, who left MMA in 2019 to pursue his passion
for professional wrestling.
After a few appearances for AAA, both AEW and WWE tried to sign him, which WWE won,
where he entered a feud with Brock Lesnar for that November’s Crown Jewel show in
Saudi Arabia - where he quickly lost.
He was then released in the first round of pandemic budget cuts in April 2020.
He most recently returned to professional wrestling last October for AAA
With so many big names reportedly being brought back for this year’s WrestleMania 38 - like
Stone Cold Steve Austin’s rumoured match against Kevin Owens, and the insane reports
about Vince McMahon coming back for a match against Pat McAfee - Dave Meltzer has given
an update on WrestleMania regular Triple H. Hunter suffered what was described as a serious
cardiac event back in August, which has limited his work behind-the-scenes, with Shawn Michaels
stepping up to run NXT 2.0 while he recovers.
And, according to Meltzer, the heart condition will prevent him getting back in the ring
next month too - saying him wrestling again “a horrible idea” and “that’s not
gonna happen this year.
There’s no way.”
Thankfully for Triple H, there’s a chance he could eventually be cleared, with Meltzer
saying “I don’t want to say [he’ll never wrestle again] because that’s unfair.”
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Now due to a scheduling mistake, Tempest accidentally made a Raw review before I woke up this morning.
So to get my Raw review thoughts, you’ll have to watch the WrestleTalk Podcast channel
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Because right now, here’s Tempest’s review of Raw… in about 5 minutes.
Show this luchador some love!