Here's more wrestling news for September 27th, 2022, and
we're starting off this afternoon with Chris Jericho,
who captured the Ring of Honor World Championship
last week and is now set for his first title defense.
On tomorrow's dynamite, Jericho will defend the ROH World
Championship against a former world champion in Bandido.
Tony Khan has confirmed.
It's also been announced that a championship celebration will
be in store for Jericho, but Bandido is counting on ruining
the fun for Jericho and making his reign as Ro World Champion.
A short one.
Last weekend, Drew McIntyre was meant to compete at WWE live event
before a serious case of food poisoning for him to be pulled.
Instead, Bronze Stroman filled his role in the
Monsters first live event since returning to wwe.
But we have some good news about Drew.
Speaking on wrestling Observer Radio.
Dave Meltzer said that Drew is doing much better and is expected to
do a media run this week to promote the Royal Rumble in San Antonio.
MacIntyre was able to eat for the first
time in days and Meltzer added that.
He will be going to smack down this Friday
to continue his feud with carrying cross.
MacIntyre was said to have been dealing with the food poisoning
during last week's SmackDown, even requiring an IV drip backstage and
fought through it to appear on the show for his segment with Cross.
It's certainly worth giving a round of applause to MacIntyre for
gutting through the segment, despite his condition as the Scottish
warrior is proving why WWE is smart for having put so much faith in.
In April following months of promotional vignettes, Veer Mahan
arrived on raw, but his run didn't exactly set the world on
fire, despite at one point being considered Ross's next top heel.
Veer had no important storylines and last
weekend was spotted at NXT live events.
Seemingly ending his main roster run at the NXT event.
Veer was teaming with his old Indu.
Sure partner Sega, but Han's main
roster run may not be finished just yet.
On Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Mounter reported that
WWE'S new plan is for in sure to be called up as a tag team,
which would mark Vere's return to raw or debut on SmackDown.
Veers run on raw may have been underwhelming, but perhaps
working with Sango will make the difference and we can only
hope that there's not another six months of promo packages.
Now Kevin Owens is very proud to be Canadian and often gets an
incredibly loud response whenever WWE heads north of the border.
This week WWE returned to Canada and the former Universal
champion went the extra mile to represent Vancouver during a
live event, Owens appeared in a Vancouver Connects shirt and
claimed to be the favorite wrestler of Connect's head coach
Bruce Boudreau Owens and Austin Theory have been feuding as of
late with Owens calling the Mr Money in the bank expendable.
And we imagine Canada's favorite son
has the entire country on his side.
Since launching AEW has seen plenty of big debuts, including
Miro, Andra, l elo, Christian Cage, and more signing.
WWE Stars used to be seen as a huge deal, and to an extent still is,
but often the follow up to these debuts doesn't live up to the hype.
We've seen plenty of wrestlers debut for AEW, like
they're going to be the next big star, only to fall
down the card and get nowhere close to the world title.
While speaking on the Jim Cornett experience, Jim Cornett criticized
AEW for their debuts, having a ton of height but not delivering.
Everybody's always going to pop, especially AEW fans
because they want everything about that program to be good.
And it doesn't wear off because you're not
surprised appearing the same person every time.
So it's always a big pop the first time.
But the problem, because when there's a pattern of everybody
getting a huge pop on their first night, and by the
time they've been there a month, nobody gives two shits.
It's not that they're happy the first
night, it's that they will keep coming back.
Sreya made her debut during last week's AEW Dynamite Grand Slam.
But if COR is to be believed, she'll become just the
latest name and face on a roster full of X WWE talent.
One thing AEW does different to WWE is having ATV 14
rating, which it is used for great effect over the years.
Not only does the rating allow AEW to be more
violent than WWE'S PG product, but they also allow
more foul language, though that could soon change.
During a q and a with ad free shows, a W's commentator
Jim Ross addressed a change in language used on tv.
We had a string in AEW where there
was a lot of controversial language.
I think you'll see less of that.
It's unnecessary and shows a lack of creativity.
If you can't come up with an adjective or ad verb that is better
than something a little course, the times are going to dictate.
This is an interesting admission by jr, especially given
that T NT and TBS are said to be fine with AEW's use of
language as their programming is a consistent ratings draw.
We've got news from Young Rock now as Luke Hawks isn't
just a wrestler, but also plays a role on the show.
Not too long ago.
An image of hawks is stone cold.
Steve Austin emerged online as the wrestler mimic to Austin's
iconic three 16 promo following his King of the Ring.
1996 win.
This week Hawks confirmed his casting on the show,
sharing the photo with a comparison to the real Austin
promo and a selfie from outside his private trailer.
Even 26 years later, the Austin three 16 promo remains one
of the most iconic segments in the history of wrestling.
So Lou Haws will have a lot of pressure on him to live up
to the expectations of the upcoming season of Young Rock.
This year hasn't been easy for AEW who've seen multiple
injuries to top talent stars leaving, and a backstage
conflict that has resulted in a legal investigation despite
once being considered the next big thing in wrestling.
The honeymoon period is well and truly over for AEW and for
Tony Khan speaking on an appearance for the harassing show.
Kurt Engel spoke about AEW situation, believing
that there's not enough structure in the company.
It's more like the Wild West, not as organized as it should be.
The wrestlers are making up their own promos, saying
their own thing, doing their own thing, and I think there
needs to be organization putting the wrestlers in charge
of their own promos and pre tapes and even their matches.
I don't know.
Kurt said that by comparison, the organization
and structure in WWE is what makes that company so
good as you can be promised a tight show each time.
As a veteran in pro wrestling angle does have a lot of solid
viewpoints and isn't the only one who believes AEW A structure.
So Tony Khan may want to listen to what the Olympian has to say.
As we mentioned earlier, Drew McIntyre didn't appear at the
Saturday Night's Main Event Show last weekend, but referee
Aja Smith did and one her first taste of championship gold.
On Twitter, Nikki, As h shared, what happened as after
shoving Smith backwards and arguing with referee, Sean
Bennett Smith rolled up the superhero to win the 24 7 title.
Smith's win was Shortlived, as Bennett tried to pin of his own,
but Smith kicked out and would become victim to a roll up by
Nikki who regained the gold before losing it to Dana Brook.
Smith's night wouldn't be over yet though, as she would
also officiate the undisputed WWE Universal Title Main
Event between Roman Reigns and AJ Styles her first
time calling the action for the biggest prize in wwe.
Aja Smith is one of a handful of female referees in WWE and is very
proud of that fact, but now the has a championship reign to her name.
When Keith Lee was called up to WWE'S main roster, his push started
very strong immediately being put into a feud and getting wins over.
Randy Orton, a former NXT and North American champion.
Lee had his first shot at the WWE Championship on the first
draw of 2021, but things quickly went downhill from there.
Lee would get ill not long after and was pulled from
programming and would be released that November.
Speaking on the sessions with Renee Paquette Lee's, Now
tag team partner Swerve Strickland, discussed the limitless
one's, WWE run, saying he is someone who also has just as
big a chip on his shoulder as me because he was promised
the world and unfortunately for him, he got sick too.
He was like facing death.
He was out of commission for a while, you know, So
I feel like he has a chip on his shoulder for his
career and for personal reasons with his life as well.
Now Lee and Strickland are both with AEW, where they
recently lost the world tag team titles to the acclaimed.
Despite no longer being Champion, Lee is doing much
better in AEW than he was on WWE'S main roster.
So the Limitless one may not be without championship gold for long.
Now, TR Stratas is considered one of the all time greatest women
in WWE history and appeared for the company just last month.
On the August 22nd raw from her native Toronto Stratus
teased coming out of retirement before being interrupted
by damage control, but has something in the works.
Taking to Twitter.
Trish shared a selfie and says that she
is working on a secret project with wwe.
Stratus said that this is just day one of her secret project,
so it may be quite some time before fans see it, but something
is in the works involving the seven time women's champion.
We've got some sad news to report now
as Teddy Long's wife has passed away.
Long recently was the source of controversy after
his Twitter account was hacked, but he's now
dealing with this much more serious situation.
Un busted open radio long.
Explained that his wife Tasha recently passed, but he's
keeping on going as there's nothing else he could do right now.
Obviously the former SmackDown General Manager and WWE Hall
of Famer has a lot going on right now, and we'd like to
extend our condolences to him and his family at this sad time.
And we're ending today with Bobby Fish who made his
debut for Impact Wrestling at last week's Victory
Road, mere weeks after parting ways with AEW.
Impact wasn't exactly fish's first choice as he had originally
planned on returning to WWE with Adam Cole and Kyle O'Reilly,
both of whom said no when he asked them to leave AEW with him.
Now, Phish is appearing for impact, but he isn't a
permanent member of the roster according to PW Insider.
Their report.
It's noted that despite appearing Phish isn't under
contract but has been filming stuff backstage, which
will be used in upcoming shows in these segments.
Phish was joined by Joe Henry, who liked the former NXT tag Champion
has been making appearances for impact but isn't under contract.
Phish is scheduled to be at Bound for Glory as well as
the tapings after that, which will be in his hometown, but
his future with the company isn't a done deal just yet.