Here's more wrestling news for May 11th 2021
And your headlines for afternoon include
Possible Spoiler On Mia Yim’s First WWE SmackDown Feud!
Sin Cara Opens Up About Backstage ‘Scuffle’ With Chris Jericho In WWE!
WWE Pulls Triple H & Booker T Feud From A&E Documentary!
Paige Issued Major Warning!
Randy Orton Once Fined $800 for Breaking Down A Door At A Venue
BOOM! Studios Announces New Day Comic!
CM Punk Recalls A Scary Moment In WWE Match And More!
We’re starting this video with Mia Yim, who’s SmackDown debut was reportedly nixed at the last minute last Friday, but fans won’t have
to wait long to see the former Retribution member. On F4WOnline, Dave Meltzer reported that the plan is for Yim to debut this Friday on the blue
brand, but it’s unknown if it’ll be Mia Yim or Reckoning who shows up. Though her mask is gone, WWE still has a
trademark on the Reckoning name, and Mace and T-Bar have both kept their names despite Retribution splitting up.
What we may know is what WWE has planned for Yim, as Fightful are reporting that before her debut last week was cut, the plan was for
Yim to start a feud with Carmella. We’ll have to see if WWE continues with this plan this week, and whether the HBIC actually
gets to appear in the Thunderdome at all.
In 2019, Sin Cara was released from WWE, and whilst his on-screen career may not have done much, the masked Superstar was known for
being a fighter backstage. Speaking to Fightful recently, Sin Cara discussed a fight backstage with Chris Jericho,
which he downplayed as a scuffle, saying:
“Yeah, we were good. It was just a little misunderstanding here and there, a little scuffle. Whatever. Then we spoke on this day.
Everything was fine. I have no grudge on it. Nothing happened obviously. On social media things always get out of hand and say,
That is not true,’ and things like that. But, like I was saying before, you can get in a fight one day and the next day you’ll be fine. We talked
and everything was okay, everything was cool. Sometimes in the middle of a tour, it’s tough because we’re away from home and a lot
of emotions are going on and things happen.”
Jericho is no stranger to fights backstage himself, as he’s stood up to Goldberg and Brock Lesnar in the past behind the curtain.
As for Sin Cara, WWE sent him to anger management, despite his claims that he doesn’t have any anger issues, saying this
aggression is how you get respect growing up in El Segundo Barrio El Paso. It appears that any beef with Jericho is water
under the bridge at this point in time, as the Million- Viewer Man hasn’t commented publicly on his ‘scuffle’ with the masked Superstar
WWE and A&E’s Biography series is spotlighting some of wrestling’s biggest names, and whilst Booker T recently had a special episode
dedicated to him, one important feud was left out. Fans who tuned in were quick to notice that the Booker T Vs. Triple H feud was nowhere to be
seen, despite this angle being for the World Heavyweight Champion, culminating in a main-event match at WrestleMania 19.
It’s not hard to see why the feud was cut, as it relied heavily on Booker’s criminal past, and had several racially-motivated lines from the Game.
This was made all the worse by the fact that Triple H beat Booker at WrestleMania, which included him hitting a pedigree and waiting
nearly a minute to cover the two-time Hall of Famer. David Dennis Jr, who was in the Booker
T Biography, took to Twitter to discuss how the feud with the Game wasn’t used, saying:
I honestly don’t know why it didn’t make the final cut I just know I didn’t feel good about it having much of a chance lol
In a deleted-tweet, Dennis said that there’s some pretty spicy footage that went unused, as someone in WWE or A&E clearly felt that
this controversial feud is better left on the cutting-room floor.
Now, we recently reported about a con artist pretending to be the Personal Assistant to Women’s Tag Team Champion Shayna Baszler,
and now another WWE personality has been targeted. On Twitter, Paige shared a warning to her
fans about someone called Elizbert Gilbert, who claims to be her PA and made it clear she’s a scammer and that no fans should
send her money, regardless of what Gilbert is promising. Hopefully, Paige’s message gets out to her
fans before anyone falls for this scam, as these con artists can do a lot of damage, especially if they can pry personal information out of their
victims.
As a 14-time World Champion and two-time Royal Rumble winner, Randy Orton has had one epic career, but things don’t always go
the Viper’s way. This week, Kurt Angle discussed one time when things went wrong for both Orton and
himself, as on his podcast, he discussed a time when they were headed for a show in Florida, but Angle’s bad directions accidentally
took them to Georgia. Speaking to Orton on his podcast, Angle explained:
We ended up being an hour and a half late, and when we got to the arena you were so nervous about being late. The door was
locked so you kicked it down and you shattered the window, and you end up having to pay $800 for it
Whilst he may now be a locker-room leader who’s earned the respect of his peers, Orton was once a brash and young up-and-comer,
and this brash attitude ultimately costed him $800.
New Days news next, as the trio of Kofi Kingston, Xavier Woods and Big E have been immortalised in comic book form.
Boom Studios, who’ve produced WWE comics in the past, have announced a New Day origin story comic, which was described
by series co-writer Evan Narcisse as a love- letter to an unseen side of WWE, and fans will be able to pick this comic up in July this year.
AEW news next, and as a wrestler, musician, actor, and writer, Chris Jericho is a talented individual, and he’s not a bad cameraman either.
Recently, a fan tweeted an old photo of The Rock from a WWE house show, where the Brahma Bull isn’t exactly his suave self,
and the fan claimed that it was Jericho who took this photo. When Jericho saw the photo, the former AEW
World Champion borrowed a line from Kurt Angle, saying “It’s true, it’s damn true,” confirming that he was the one who snapped
this incredible pic. This house show wouldn’t be the last time Jericho grabbed the camera, as he took over
a video camera during Wrestle Kingdom, and it turns out this is something he’s been doing for a very long time.
Speaking of AEW, this week saw bad news for Tony Khan, as his soccer team Fulham FC were relegated from the English Premier after
losing to Burnley FC. Though Fulham have three matches left to play, they can’t avoid relegation even if they were
to win all three, and they’ll be starting next season in a lower level of competiton.
And we’re ending today with CM Punk, who in 2009 faced then-World Champion Jeff Hardy in a TLC Match, a match the Straight-Edge
Saviour would go on to win. Speaking this week on the Movie Crypt podcast, Punk discussed the Summerslam
2009 match and admitted that he was more than a bit scared during one particularly dangerous spot. He explained:
"I remember wrestling Jeff Hardy in the Staples Center and he was jumping off a very tall ladder onto me. I just had to lay on the table for an
extended period of time, which really makes you think about it. It's one of those things where, I'm just looking and thinking, 'he's really high up there.'
You just stew in that moment and I was thinking, 'I should just get up and walk away. Why am I laying here? This is stupid.' He finally
jumped on me and I was like, 'Yeah, that hurt.' You want to protect Jeff more than you want to protect yourself because he's the one that's
jumping, but you realize that's a 200-pound man hurdling at you from a great height and it's not going to end well for either of you.”
Though Punk would go on to win the match, he didn’t have long to celebrate, as he would end up taking a post-match Chokeslam by the
returning Undertaker, in what was one of the Chicago-Made star’s most painful nights in WWE.