Here's more wrestling news for October 14th, 2022, and
we're kicking off this afternoon with WWE day one, which as
the name would suggest, should take place on January 1st.
Next year's show will be the second ever day one event, but
there's still questions regarding when exactly it'll take place.
During the latest episode of Wrestling Observer Radio,
Dave Meltzer was asked why tickets for the show are still
unavailable, despite scheduled to go on sale in September.
Meltzer explained that WWE is still discussing changing
the date, but he doesn't think that it'll move as a change.
Would've been announced last Friday, which didn't happen at this time.
WWE Day 1, 20 23 is set to take place on January 1st, 2023, but
as to when tickets go on, sale is uncertain to say right now.
As we've seen for months, WWE isn't afraid to
resign talent who didn't quite get their fair chance
on the main roster under Vince McMahon's tenure.
Carrying Cross Hit Row and Dakota Kay.
Just some of the names to be brought back
and now Eric Rowan may be next in line.
Rowan was cut from WWE in April, 2020 in the first of what would
be two years of mass releases, but isn't opposed to a return.
Speaking to Steve fall of NBC Sports Boston and SE Scoops.
Rowan was asked about a return and said, There's always
opportunity and my story within wrestling in that character
of Eric Rowan or Eric Br Beard, it has so much left to.
I think when I stepped aside, when Covid happened and people
were let go, I wasn't ready for my story to stop on that note.
With Bra Wyatt's return, it's entirely plausible that
Rowan could be brought back to be part of the rumored
Wyatt's six stable, Though whether Rowan would want to
fill the same role he previously did is another question.
Since joining NXT earlier this year, Ariana Grace has
been a constant presence on the show as well as NXT
level up, but recently announced that she is injur.
A second generation superstar, the daughter of Sano Marella,
has confirmed that she will have to undergo surgery on this
undisclosed injury and has given an update in a series of tweets.
Grace confirmed that she will be undergoing surgery next
week, and while she, again, didn't disclose what she's going
under the knife for, added that she has a tough road ahead.
Grace's most recent match was on the October 7th and
XT level up where she and Keana James lost a Sol Rka.
Ed fell at Henley and it may be a long time before we see
Ariana back in the ring over to Impact Wrestling as the
company recently lost several names with four members of honor.
No more wrapping up their time with the promotion.
Mia YM has also left Impact as her contract expired last weekend,
but one veteran is sticking with Impact for the time being.
Fight for select reports that when Eric Young returned
to Impact at Slam anniversary in July, 2020, he signed a
two year deal, which would in theory have expired by now.
However, their report notes that Young has signed an extension, which
will at the very least keep 'em with impact until the end of 2022.
The report adds that crazy.
Steve has signed a new multi-year deal with Impact around
the same time as young, but his contract isn't up this year.
As for young, we are not sure what will come
next for him after the end of this year.
But with someone as talented as him and triple A tree hiring people,
impact would be wise to try and lock him down to another longer deal.
Now, this week's episode of AEW Dynamite aired from Toronto, Canada,
so it was fitting that the show marked the debut of Renee Paquette.
Paquette's arrival comes over two years after her departure from
wwe, and now the AEW correspondent has explained her decision.
Speaking on the sessions in her first
public outing since signing with AEW.
Paquette said that she had missed being around wrestling,
specifically the ETV production side of things, and decided
that she was ready to get outta my fucking sweatpants.
Addressing her signing.
Paquette said that she didn't play too big a role in the
decision noting as much as I have been around a lot, I
never really talked to Tony Conn about coming into AEW.
A lot of it was, this is probably going to sound bad and
I'm sure people are going to take this out of context,
but honestly a lot of it was talking to John, man, I wanna
get back into, I wanna be back in the wrestling world.
I miss doing stuff as he's thinking about
what the shows look like in his role.
Most of our conversations were internally between John and
I figuring out that I want to do something in come back.
What that conversation is.
How are we going to go about that?
Him and Tony are obviously very close.
They spend tons of time talking about things.
It was more so them talking about it, because I think a lot of
people thought I was sort of done with wrestling to a degree, and
maybe they didn't want to ask me to do something that they thought
I didn't want to do, or they didn't want to step on John's toes.
Those are all very real things.
It was just the timing of everything.
I wanna be there as a broadcaster, as a personality.
I want to be able to help other people if they want or need help.
I want to be an ear for people in any way that I can and use my eight
years of experience having worked in WWE to see how I can help AEW.
It all happened really fast.
All of a sudden, John and I had been talking about it
and it felt like the next day my manager is calling me.
The reaching out, the contract is coming through.
Wow.
That was a quick turn.
It was last week that WWE made major changes
to their commentary in interview teams.
And while a call was made to bring Renee back,
Triple H was just a bit too slow to resign.
The now all elite broadcaster, when you think of wrestlers
who became actors, you think of names like The Rock,
John Cena and Dave Batista, but they aren't the only
superstars to try their hand on the silver screen.
Before his return to the ring in 2020 Edge had
a series of acting roles, and now the rated R
Superstar is working on a new project with Disney.
It's been announced that Edge will be part of the upcoming
Percy Jackson and the Olympian series where he will
play Aries, the Greek God of War in a recurring role.
This could be why Edge has cut his hair as he had
short hair for his time as an actor before his 2020
Royal Rumble return, but that can't be confirmed.
All we know is that this new project, which will stream
on Disney Plus, is a huge deal for Edge, and we'll
have to see if more projects are lined up for him.
One person who has teased a leap into the world of acting
as mjf, who is arguably the best villain in wrestling today.
M jfs refusal to break character and vicious Barbs have earned
him the admiration and respect of many within the industry.
But for all his boasting, MJF isn't a fan of himself.
Speaking to Alex Marz during dynamite.
MJF was very self reflective, saying You don't
have a goddamn clue what it's like to be mjf.
Waking up every morning, splashing water on my face, looking in
the morning and knowing that I had no choice but to be the bad guy.
I've broken my hand many times, punching my reflection.
You don't like me?
Tough shit.
Because guess what?
When I walk through that curtain, I don't like me either.
Ending the promo, MJF vowed to become AEW world
champion and called himself an attraction akin to wwe.
E'S eighth Wonder of the World, Andre The Giant signing with AEW.
During the company's early days, it may finally
be time for MJF to be called AEW World Champion.
Though we imagine John Moxley and the
Blackpool Combat Club won't make that.
When not rehiring talent released by his father-in-law and
making creative decisions praised by fans, Triple H could
be found working as an ambassador for wwe, representing
the promotion in many different entertainment ventures.
This week the game was able to meet up with
Music Star Post Malone, and the two shared a fun
moment that was caught on camera in the video.
Triple H and Malone both fill their mouths with water and do the
signature spit and pose that the King of Kings has done for decades.
Malone is a known wrestling fan, even taking
a choke slam from the Undertaker in 2018.
So maybe a crossover could be in the
works between WWE and the popular artist.
Next week, Black Adam will it.
Long last land in cinemas 15 years after
the project was originally announced.
While the Rock has played the Scorpion King, a tooth fair
and started in several Fast and Furious movies, this will
be his first foray into being part of a superhero movie.
And the Brahma Bull is exposing some tricks of the
trade appearing on Jimmy Fallon to promote the film.
Rock said how a ton of superhero projects rely on padded suits to
fake muscles, saying this happens with both Marvel and DC comics.
Speaking about his own suit, the former WWE champion admitted
that the first black Adam suit he wore did have patting for
muscles, but that didn't work with his already jacked frame,
putting patted muscles on top of his impressive physique,
the rock that he looked ridiculous and like an SNL skit.
So the decision was wisely made to have the
rock on screen with no artificial improvements.
The rock has spent years honing his
body for both wrestling and acting.
So when you sit down to watch Black Adam, you can rest easy.
Knowing that the Proma bull didn't need molded plastic
to improve his physique, but what you get is pure.
Dwayne Johnson in July after four
decades sat a top the wrestling empire.
Vince McMohan retired from all roles within WWE thanks
to the ongoing investigation into his alleged activities.
MCM Man's Retirement has been the biggest story of the year
and likely of the past decade, but there are some who believe
he isn't quite as gone as WWE and McMahon are making out.
Some have suggested that Vince is still with wwe, but working
very much behind the scenes, but Kurt Engel doesn't buy it.
Speaking on the Bubba Army Show, the Olympian
explained that Vince is really gone and even had
to hand over some of his belongings when he left.
You know, I honestly thought Vince
was still working behind the scenes.
He's not.
He's gone.
They actually made him give back his company's cell phone.
I have no way of getting in touch with him.
McMahon's days with WWE are officially over as after conquering
the territories, the federal government, W C W, and plenty others.
The former chairman couldn't defeat the
accusations made against him for years.
Rosa Mendez competed for WWE before parting ways in 2017.
Despite being with WWE for over a decade as she was first
signed in 2006, Rosa never held gold in WWE and her wrestling
wasn't too well regarded Behind the scenes on the September
2nd, 2014, WWE main event, Rosa teamed with Natalia in a
losing effort to Layla in Summer Ray and the matches best
remembered for Layla accidentally pulling down Rosa's trunks.
Speaking with Ring the Bell.
This week Rosa recalled the backstage fallout from the awkward
moment saying that Triple H and then head of talent relations, Mark
Corona were fuming, saying she'd never seen them that angry before.
Rosa said she'd just started crying when she got to the back as WWE's
management believed that this accident was something she had planned.
Rosa added that both she and Layla got yelled at despite
trying to plead their case that this was a complete accident.
It would be less than a year later that Layla announced her retirement
from wwe and Rosa would follow suit a few years later, but left after
being blamed for what was nothing more than an unfortunate accident.
Before his controversial release in July,
2021, Ray Wyatt held the universal title twice.
Once by defeating Seth Rowlands and the
other time dethroning bronze Stroman.
It was Wyatt who had lose the universal title to Roman
Reigns, who has held the championship ever since,
but the fend may be ready to reclaim what is his.
It was years ago that the official Twitter for top rope
belts created a custom universal championship for bra
and shared a photo of the title that never made it to TV.
This week Wyatt liked an image of the title, teasing
that he plans on becoming champion again, or at the
very least, is looking for custom title belt ideas.
As we've previously reported, part of why it's
agreement to return that he fiercely negotiated with
Triple H was that he will have another reign as world
champion, but there's no word on when that will be.
Only a select handful of superstars have been able to have a
custom title, including Stone Cold, Steve Austin, the Rock and
Edge, and Bra Wyatt could be next on that list, and we're ending
with AEW as the company as part of the Warner Brothers Discovery
family and the media giant has been very pleased with Tony Kahn.
Well, AEW may still trail in the ratings compared to wwe.
Dynamite and Rampage are often the most watched shows on their
respective channels, and we could soon be seeing more AEW programming.
When the Hollywood reporter spoke to Kathleen Finch,
chief Content Officer for W B D, she said how AEW
pulls huge numbers and her team are trying to figure
out new content that's outside of a wrestling ring.
Non wrestling content is hardly a new idea for AEW as before the
All Out Fight, there were weekly episodes of being the elite.
Several a w.
Stars also have their own vlog channels or stream on Twitch.
And before their departure, Cody and Brandy
Rhode had their show Roads to the Top.
Warner Brothers.
Discovery has big plans for a W outside of the ring,
and while no new shows have been confirmed yet,
expect to see more of Tony Cons roster of wrestlers.