Here's your wrestling news for August 11th, 2022.
And we're kicking off today with AEW as Chris Jericho took on
interim AEW world champion, John Moxley last night and fans
saw knew, or rather old side of Y2J walking out to his vintage
Lionheart theme music wearing old school Lionheart gear.
This was a great excuse to not play Judas riling up the crowd.
The clean shaven, Jericho looked 10 years younger in
his Lionheart gear and worked in arena, Mexico style.
The same.
He would've worked when starting off as the Lionheart decades
ago, but it was in working this style that his age started to show
at one point Jericho tore off Moxie's ear piercing, which had us
thinking back to triple H and Batista at WrestleMania 35 and earned
the former world champion a you sick fuck chant from the crowd.
In what is becoming a literal streak in AEW world title matches.
Moxley started bleeding as has become the norm for the
interim, AEW world champion, a picture perfect lion salt
was followed up with a peculiar spot where dynamite went
to a picture and picture commercial break during a Climatic
moment when John Moxley was trapped in the Boston crab.
When Sammy Guevara tried to interfere, he threw a baseball
bat too far with Jericho scrambling to get it and threw a
turnbuckle to the floor to distract referee Aubrey Edwards.
It was with the exposed turnbuckle that Jericho hit
the Judis effect on Moxley, but the champ became
the first person to ever kick out of the move.
Just despite Jericho's best efforts.
It was Moxley's night who made Chris
who bled far more than Mox tap out.
With the main event finishing at 9:55 PM Eastern,
it was clear that AEW had some post-match angle.
And that proved to be the return of AEW world
champion cm punk, AEW chose not to strip punk of
his title when he got injured earlier this year.
Instead crowning John Moxley, the interim AEW world champion at
forbidendoor due to his win over new Japan's Hiroshi Tanahashi.
Moxley flipped off punk and blew right by him setting up what
will be a great feud and with so much focus on WWE's new era.
In recent weeks, a high profile feud is something AEW needs a lot.
Right now punk's return was something
fans had wanted to see for some time.
So it's hardly surprising that fans freaked out on social media.
One fan said that AEW had been saved by the return of punk
while another shared their excitement for punk's first
comments back saying his promos will be otherworldly.
Another fan compared punks return to
Dexter Lumis's return to WWE on raw.
Well, several people questioned how they can choose who to support
between punk and Moxley, whatever you think of punk's return.
His comeback has certainly had fans talking and we'll just have
to wait and see how AEW follows up after this monumental return.
Speaking of returns, several superstars have returned to
WWE in recent weeks and bray Wyatt could indeed be next.
Wyatt's released July, 2021 shocked fans given
how popular he and the fend character had been.
But with a change of management, some of us suggested
that triple H will be the one to bring him back.
Sean Ross SAP tweeted this week that WWE's upper management
are more confident than ever that Wyatt will be back.
Do you all want me to run a report tomorrow on why some WWE higher ups
believe they are more likely to regain bray Wyoiot now than before?
Details are still scarce, but we know that for his
final two years in WWE Wyatt was a huge merch seller.
And it's believed that the issues behind his release
were between himself and Vince McMohan with McMohan gone.
It seems more likely than ever that Wyatt will be back
in what will be one of the biggest signings triple
H will make under his new role with the company.
Ever since triple H took charge of WWE's creative
and talent relations, the wrestling world has
been a buzz about what this could possibly mean.
We've already seen some former superstars return to WWE.
Now under the games watch, and some have speculated that
perhaps some of the ex superstars in AEW could be next
to jump back to their former employer, both on Andrade El
Idolo and Miro recently liked tweets saying that they are
underutilized in AEW and would be doing bigger things.
If they left for WWE.
Appearing on busted open radio this week, Tony Khan
discussed the idea that WWE could soon have some, AEW
stars on their show and was quick to dispel the rumors.
I don't know if this was meant to be taken seriously,
but it was by a person who claims they break real
news that I'm in negotiations, allegedly with WWE
about them buying out wrestlers contracts and stuff.
And it's just like completely fake
reports that people put out in the world.
Khan has said, he's pleased that WWE is bigger competition
for him and that it'll ultimately improve the wrestling world.
But if the AEW president has his way, nobody
will be jumping to anywhere anytime soon.
Now, when you say something on Twitter,
you never know how it may be received.
And that's a lesson.
A lot of people have learned over the years.
This week NXT zone Amari Miller learned that lesion the hard way.
As in a tweet about the NXT women's championship
quickly went viral for the wrong reasons.
In a tweet Miller spoke about Ember moon.
Now AEW's Athena praising her as the first and
only African American NXT women's champion.
When fans responded by referencing Sasha banks,
Miller doubled down sharing a screenshot that banks
is half African American on her father's side.
And that her mother is of German descent.
Miller's policing of who counts as
African American did not go down well.
And this resulted in the NXT star, deleting her Twitter
account with reports that banks will be returning to WWE.
The last thing the company needs is a reason for her to leave.
So hopefully Miller will think twice.
The next time she posts online more from AEW which last night saw
coffin match in which Darby Allen finally took down Brody king.
Allen, didn't wait for the bell to start.
As he attacked king mid entrance and the house of black member
would later receive a cut on his forehead after allen took
control of the match during the initial stages, this prompted
house of Black's buddy Murphy, to make his return to attack
Alan, as did Malachi black and Julia Hart with Alan's fate,
apparently sealed Matthews open the coffin only to reveal that
sting were inside and then made quick work of buddy and king.
In the ring, the icon threw his bat
to black, daring him to attack him.
But instead of facing sting who still bore the marks of a black
missed attack, Malachi smirked, and walked away, Darby used the
distraction to his advantage, choking king out with his own chain.
And he collapsed into the coffin giving the former NXT champion.
The win given how the Feud between staying in the house of
black is intensifying and remains to be seen what's next.
But this week's coffin match prove to be the highlight on dynamite.
And we're ending today with Eric Rowan, who many believe
teased a return to WWE this week mere moments after the
return of Dexter Lumis on raw, the former bludgeon brother
tweeted a cryptic message about persistence and walking
through interesting doorways, which had fans speculating.
That he'd be the next to return.
That may not be the case though, as Sean Ross SAPP reports,
that Rowan was backstage at last night's AEW dynamite.
The report said how Rowan was not exactly hiding and that
those backstage were bound to see him since his release from
WWE two years ago, Rowan has appeared for several promotions,
including AEW most recently teaming with the death triangle at
revolution 2022, Rowan, who now works as Eric red beard didn't
appear last night, but it was interesting to see that he was
backstage and we'll just have to see where exactly he ends up.