Here's your wrestling news for June 7th 2021
And your headlines for today include
WWE Superstars Are Unhappy With Vince McMahon’s Recent Instructions!
Unexpected Opponent For Roman Reigns At WWE Hell In A Cell 2021!
WWE Booking Shorter SummerSlam For Manny Pacquiao Boxing Match!
WWE Wrestler Receives Major Backlash Over A Tweet!
Miro Is Trying To Get Lana In AEW!
Matt Cardona Draws INSANE HEAT From Fans!
Heavy Criticism By A WWE legend on Andrade's AEW debut!
Mutltiple Time WWE Champion Instructed Two Former WWE Wrestlers To Legitimately Beat Up Road Dogg & Billy Gunn!
Buff Bagwell Says He’s Feeling Great After Arrest And More!
We’re starting today with WWE, who last week ordered Superstars to attend the Performance Center for
extra training, and now we have more on this new company edict. It’s already known that this order is a
direct one from Vince McMahon, and unsurprisingly, it hasn’t gone down well with Superstars.
That’s according to the latest Wrestling Observer Newsletter, that reports that Superstars are unhappy with having to do
extra work on their days off, and it’s an especially difficult rule for those not iving in Orlando.
With McMahon making this new rule, we doubt anyone will refuse to attend these drills, even if they live far from Orlando,
as WWE and its Chairman want everyone to be in peak condition before they go back on tour.
With Hell in a Cell 2021 less than two weeks away, there’s been plenty of speculation on who Universal Champion
Roman Reigns will face, with the popular theory that he’ll face Cesaro, Seth Rollins or both.
That isn’t the case, as WWE started building to the show’s Universal title match on this week’s SmackDown, b
but it was disguised the Tribal Chief breaking up the SmackDown Tag Team Title match.
A new report from Dave Meltzer explains that Reigns will be defending his Universal Championship against Rey Mysterio instead
which explains why Reigns attacked Rey and Dominik last Friday, preventing the Usos from losing a second match to
the father and son team. Meltzer didn’t confirm if this match would take place within the Cell, as it could
happen without the titular match stipulation, and what do you think of Rey challenging Roman Reigns next Sunday?
If WWE goes with Mysterio, don’t expect him to win the title, as with this year’s Summerslam happening on August 21st in
front of a live crowd in Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas, the company needs to book some major matches for the show
There’s been speculation for a while that Summerslam will mark Cena’s in-ring return to WWE, as he’ll challenge Roman Reigns
for the Universal Championship, meaning Rey will lose at Hell in a Cell.
It turns out there’s some truth to the Cena rumors as Dave Meltzer reports:
“The leading rumor is Roman Reigns vs. John Cena for the Universal title. We do know that as of last week they were in
talks with Cena, that were not finalized, to appear on the 7/16 Smackdown show in Houston.”
That show will be WWE’s first TV event in 531 days to take place with a live crowd, and we can think of no better way
to kick off WWE’s 25-city tour than with the return of John Cena, and the challenge being laid out to the Tribal Chief.
More Pay-Per-View news as WWE has confirmed that Summerslam 2021 will take place on Saturday August 21st at Allegiant
Stadium, the same day and location as Manny Pacquiao’s return to boxing.
It’s been previously stated that WWE’s plan is for fans to be able to attend both shows, and it now looks like this means
we’ll see a much shorter Summerslam than usual. According to the latest reports,
this year’s Summerslam will be less than 3 hours long and will begin at 8pm Eastern, with Pacquiao and Errol Spence Jr not
expected to hit the ring until 11:30PM. Starting Summerslam at 8, an hour later than usual, could mean WWE are
planning to host a one-hour kick-off show, but it’s clear that the company doesn’t want competition from the big
fight. For comparison Summerslam 2016 is the Pay-Per-View’s longest event, clocking in
at over 4 hours long, but this year’s show will be much shorter, thanks to factors outside the company’s
control.
Over to NXT, and it’s usually a good thing for a member of the gold brand to receive a lot of attention, but this week,
Jessi Kamea separated herself from other recruits in a very bad way. When Kamea posted a photo, sporting a
t-shirt which said “End Racism Make Mixed Babies,” some fans didn’t like that at all, leading to Kamea quickly deleting
her tweet. Not long after, the NXT Superstar posted an apology, saying:
Hey everyone! I just wanted to apologize about the t-shirt post I recently took down. I didn’t realize it would offend so many
people and affect so many in such a negative way. My intention with the post was to support a friend and also
support the message of Ending Racism. I’m a mixed baby, and I’m very proud of all my heritages so the shirt looked cool
to me. I’m shocked and enlightened by all of your responses, thank you. I hope y’all have a nice day
We’ll have to see if Jessi is a bit more careful next time she tweets, but judging by the positive responses to her
statement, the NXT Superstar handled herself very well with her explanation.
Now, last week, Lana was cut from WWE, and there’s been speculation where she’ll go next.
With mainstream media appeal thanks to her TV and movie appearances prior to WWE, Lana would be a hot commodity in
any promotion, and she may soon be heading to AEW. It’s no secret that her husband is AEW
TNT Champion Miro, who acknowledged how hot his wife is on the latest Dynamite, and this off-the-cuff line could be the start
of something bigger. During Observer Radio, Meltzer noted that Miro is making some strong moves to try
and get AEW to bring her in, which he believes would help his act in the All-Elite promotion.
With a 90-day non-compete clause, Lana won’t be in the Daily’s Place anytime soon, but that hasn’t stopped her husband
from trying to get her a job
GCW news next, as GCW Wrestler Nick Gage and AEW’s Jon Moxley have an ongoing rivalry, which all came to a head
during GCW’s recent Zombie Walk event, or at least that’s what fans thought at first.
During the show, Gage was joined in the r ing by a hooded figure, who looked very much like Moxley, even hitting the Pardigm
shift to the roar of a thrilled crowd. Even the commentators were in shock about Moxley’s attack on Gage, but when
the figure removed his hood, it was revealed to be Matt Cardona, not Jon Moxley.
Drawing incredible heat from the crowd, Cardona got some very un-PG chants of “F**k Zack Ryder,” whilst the former
Broski continued to taunt and goad the audience. One of the loudest reactions of Cardona’s
career, the former WWE U.S. Champion seemingly cut his hand in the glass- covered ring, but it was all worth it to get
some Nuclear Heat from the crowd.
AEW news now, as months after his March release from WWE, Andrade El Idolo debuted last Friday, in a moment
that garnered a massively positive reaction from the crowd. This excitement to see Andrade in AEW
was also shared by the fans at home, but not everyone is pleased to see the former NXT Champion in Tony Khan’s promotion.
In a clip shared to his YouTube channel, Jim Cornette discussed Andrade’s debut, and though he said that Andrade needs a
manager for promos, criticized AEW’s decision to use Vickie Guerrero. Cornette questioned Vickie’s manager
qualifications, pointing out that Guerrero has spent much of her AEW tenure managing Nyla Rose, who often gets
beat, and was unable to sign Jade Cargill as a client.
The controversial wrestling personality said that AEW are only partnering Guerrero and Andrade because they both
speak Spanish, and added: "He's here to be the face of Latinos and the face of AEW. He's got a thick accent
that you can barely understand so he needs a manager. But Vickie Guerrero? What are her manager qualifications
Every three months she comes down to the ring with Nyla Rose, and Nyla Rose gets beat. And she couldn't sign Jade
Cargill and we don't see her for months at a time unless she's on the floor with the paid fans, f**king singing Judas.
But suddenly now, I guess because she speaks Spanish, so somehow they go together like peanut butter & jelly"
Another false start for this guy. We pigeonhole him in one direction and then six months later they try to push him
seriously.” Cornette even went on to question who actually cares that Andrade is in AEW,
but judging by the fans excitement in the Daily’s Place and online, and the dream matches now possible
with the likes of Jon Moxley, Chris Jericho and Kenny Omega, there’s plenty of people who care, despite what Cornette says.
DX news next, as though the group remains of wrestling’s greatest-ever stables, they didn’t always see eye-to-eye.
A long time ago, Triple H had animosity with the Road Dogg and Billy Gunn, when neither man was working for WWE, and that put
Trevor Murdoch in an uncomfortable situation. Speaking to Cultaholic recently, Murdoch said that the Game once gave him and the
late Lance Cade a special job during a WWE live event in a city the New Age Outlaws were doing a signing in:
He [Triple H] goes: ‘Are you two watching my match tonight?’ We’re young guys so we’re telling him of course we’re watching
his match, we watch him every night. And he goes: ‘Yeah quit with this’ and then explains the situation. What he’d heard was
that Billy and Road Dogg were going to jump into the ring and beat him up. He goes: ‘I want you guys at the curtain and I
want you watching my whole match. The minute you see those guys, you hit that f**king ring, and you proceed to start
kicking their f**king ass’ This was very serious.” Realising this order came from the very top,
Cade and Murdoch agreed to the Game’s wishes, but the Outlaws thankfully didn’t show up.
Since then, Triple H, Road Dogg and Billy Gunn have sorted things out, being inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2019
together, but things were much different many years ago.
Nowadays, the Game is much too busy as WWE’s COO to order tag teams to attack his friends, but Triple H’s busy schedule
didn’t keep him from making a special appearance. Yesterday, the Philadelphia 76ers started
off the conference semifinals of the NBA Playoffs against the Atlanta Hawks, and had a big assist before the show by the
former WWE Champion, who rang Philadelphia’s bell, a tradition for when the teams needs that extra boost.
Donning his DX colours alongside 76ers player Joel Embiid who received a one- of-a-kind custom shirt, this was quite a
a sight to see, though wasn’t enough to keep the 76ers from losing to the Atlanta Hawks.
And we’re ending with Buff Bagwell, who was recently arrested on 11 misdemanour counts, adding to the four he already had,
and all of these total 15 counts involve drinking while driving and a variety of other traffic citations.
Now, Bagwell has given his own side of the story, as while speaking to TMZ, he said how a guy drove behind him flashing
his lights, and told Bagwell that he’d hit his car. When Buff asked him where they’d
collided, he didn’t receive a response, and since Bagwell had previous charges from 9 months before, he was
taken to jail when the cops arrived. Buff also explained that he wasn’t driving his own car, but his parents car, which
he said was because he’s in a quote “transitional state of divorce and breaking up with my girlfriend,” and his insurance
was also expired by two days. Bagwell also claims that this wasn’t a hit and run situation, as he pulled the
car over and didn’t run, and despite all this claims to be feeling great after his arrest.
This is an ongoing situation, and we’ll provide updates when they’re available, but Bagwell seems to have a clear mind
right now.