Here's your wrestling news for August 8th, 2022.
And we're kicking off today with Vince McMahon, who retired
from WWE last month, leaving all roles, including being
head of WWE creative with McMahon gone, we are learning more
about what the creative process was like with him in charge.
And it doesn't sound fun at.
Fightful has heard from many NWS creative that the writer's
assistants needed to filter Vince themselves in ways.
And more specifically, these assistants had to know what to
write and what not to write when taking notes for McMahon.
It's also said that the minutes of meetings were heavily
edited and that filtering things to prevent Vince from
making a bad decision, went on for a very long time.
Some of the stories included McMahon, constantly calling people
the wrong names or using terms that weren't socially acceptable
and that even he himself would've never allowed on television,
a former production employee explained just how difficult it was
to work under McMahon saying if a live feed of Vince McMahon on a
headset, any given night ever made it out, that it would provide
a picture of that production experience, especially for the.
There were plenty of times he was in a good mood, but he
would blow up at the most ridiculous things and act like
they ruined an angle that was far past its expiration date.
Anyway, when asked what they expected to change in the
new Triple H era of creative, one person said that they
expect recall of what we have and haven't done repeatedly.
There were so many things that Vince insisted on doing that.
I'm pretty sure he didn't remember doing over
and over again, even when people would tell him.
There is a newfound sense of optimism in WWE right now, as many
expect big changes in the new era of the company, but for the
creative team, they'll just be happy with someone who can remember
what they've said in an earlier meeting in April 20, 20 Russe was
released from WWE and with debut in AEW as murro that September
in the all elite company, Miro is a former TNT champion, but it
appears that he could be reevaluating his place within the promotion.
On Twitter, a fan suggested that the Bulgarian wrestler had
it better in WWE, which was liked by none other than Miro
himself, Miro hasn't publicly commented on his situation,
or if he plans to leave AEW when his contract is up.
But this like has certainly created a lot of discussion.
Given how Cody Rhode has been treated since returning to WWE.
It's not hard to see why some could be considering
jumping from the AEW ship, especially now that
Vince McMahon has retired from his various roles.
Ultimately Miro will do what he believes is in his best interest.
And that may indeed be a return to WWE as RSEV when the time is.
What do you believe is best for Miro?
Should he take the chance and hope for a Cody Rhodes
return or play it safe and stick with Tony khan?
An AEW either way, the Bulgarian will have some big decisions to make.
The next time his contract is up for renewal.
Miro is seemingly unhappy with his position in AEW right now.
And that's not just coming across in this tweet.
On a recent, AEW rampage, AEW interim world
champion, John Moxley faced off against mans Warner.
Who many fans probably didn't know before
this bout Miros, certainly didn't know Warner.
As in a tweet, he questioned who was stepping
in the ring with the AEW interim world champion.
This wasn't a title match, but it was a championship contender match.
But since Moxley beat Warner, there won't
be a rematch for the title between the two.
Nevertheless Miro.
Doesn't appreciate that Warner got
a shot at the champion ahead of him.
And yet another wrinkle in the story of him not
being thrilled with AEW's treatment at this time.
Now it was just a couple of years ago that retribution
debuted in WWE and despite an imposing build the group
failed to deliver ho looking masks and even worse names
quickly resulted in the group's momentum being killed with
the members of the group, going off to do different things.
Now Mustafah Ali is a baby face on raw and mace
is with the maximum mail models on SmackDown.
And now T bar could be next in line for a major change P
insider reports that T bar may be on the receiving end of
the next repackaging as part of the AAA era of WWE creative.
It said that T bar has been well received by fans
on his matches on WWE main event, including it
last month's tapings from Madison square garden.
Well, TBAR never held any championship
during his NXT days as Dominic de jacobov.
He was involved in some of the bigger feuds and matches
at the time and could soon be on the receiving end
of a new focus and a new character in July, 2021.
WWE released bra Wyatt in a decision that shocked the
wrestling world Wyatt and his fend character had been
immensely popular in WWE, prior to his departure and the former
universal champion hasn't wrestled anywhere since being cut.
Now bra has posted a very interesting message online, where he says
that wrestling isn't a love story, but instead, a fairytale for
masochists w it also noted that while wrestling is a business where
budgets are cut, referencing WWE's reasons for years of mass releases,
it's also an industry where dead man, walk a nod to the undertake.
He also said that wrestling is where rock bottom is
rejoiced a node to the rock, but didn't just stay with
WWE saying that wrestling is where honor makes you
elite referring to Roh and AEW both owned by Tony Khan.
These were just some of the wrestling references bra made
in his creatively crafted post, which goes to show that even
after a year, he's certainly not finished with the industry.
With Vince McMahon gone, some are hopeful that Wyatt will be the
next to be called up to return to WWE but do you think he'd be
better under triple H's creative or trying his luck in AEW let us
know in the comments when Rick flair competed last month, it was
promised that he and Andras win over Jay lethal and Jeff Jarrett
would be the final match for the nature boy in the eight days
since then flare has remained true to his word, not wrestling
officially, but isn't afraid to get physical when needed.
The world wrestling council's anniversary show.
Last Saturday, flair made the trip to prayer,
to Rico to watch his son-in-law on draw day.
Take on Carlito during the match flair tried to
interfere and a poke to the eye of Eddie cologne,
neutralized, the former Premo and the nature.
Boy also got physical with Carlos cologne, Carlos
blocked and attempted punch by flare and leveled into
the 16 time world champion with some shots of his own.
And this distraction gave Carlito the chance
to hit the back stabber and get the win.
Flare may be retired, but that doesn't mean he's not still
the dirtiest player in the game, but on this occasion,
the colognes were just one step ahead of him in Puerto
Rico, back to WWE and in 2000 that summer saw triple H
Stephanie McMahon and Kurt Engle engage in a love triangle.
As the Olympian tried to woo over the game's wife.
In one infamous segment from the August 24th SmackDown,
eel kissed, Stephanie who had been laid out earlier the
night and will MCAH initially tries to fight him off.
She has eventually won over, speaking on his podcast,
Engel recalled, making out with the now co CEO of WWE
and how he didn't appreciate who was there for filming.
It was weird.
It was very uncomfortable.
Vince.
Not only was he directing, he was literally two feet away from us.
The camera was right there.
Stephanie and I are here.
And Vince is right behind the camera looking at us.
I'm not saying he felt like he looked like he was
aroused, but he had this look like I wanna see this.
So I kissed Stephanie and I do it
like this because I'm nervous as hell.
I look like a duck fish lips.
Stephanie afterwards said you kiss like a fish.
I said, what the hell do you want me to, do you want me
to the slip you of the tongue while your dad's watching?
Plus you're married to triple H.
Eventually the love triangle was dropped reportedly because
triple H kicked off backstage arguing that it wasn't believable
that Stephanie would pick someone like Kurt over him.
After the storyline, Kurt would enter the WWF title picture
winning the golden, his rookie year with the company.
But the Olympians certainly had a unique journey
to the top of the world wrestling Federation.
We've got some XFL news as the league is set to
kick off in early 2023 and is now owned by the rock.
And this week signed an interesting name on Twitter.
It was confirmed that Sean Hayes will be working in the XFL.
Going forward.
After years is working as a WWE strength and conditioning
coach Hayes clearly had an impact with the company as
Zion Quinn called him the OG of NXT in a tweet when
wishing him luck on the next chapter of his life.
Prior to working with WWE NXT Hayes was a coach for the
Houston Texans and with him now returning to the world of
football, it'll be interesting to see who fills his role
in NXT since AEW launched in 2019, Tony Khan has run AEW
and has earned a lot of love from wrestling fans for his
alternative to WW E AEW is known for its mostly coherent
storytelling over the years and things being planned in advance.
But the company is an immune from last minute changes.
Speaking with the two man power trip of wrestling
podcast, former AEW star Jack Evans recalled working
with con the king of last minute changes as he calls it.
I really liked it.
It was a great experience.
Tony was a great boss.
The only complaint I could ever make about Tony for
sure is he is like the king of last minute mind changes.
That would be my one complaint about him as a boss.
But other than that, he was always, actually very fair.
Evans didn't go into what kind of last
minute changes unfolded behind the scenes.
But after years of criticizing Vince McMahon for his
last minute changes, it seems con has more in common
with the former WWE C E O than he'd care to admit.
And we're ending today with ring of honor death
before dishonor 2022, where Jonathan Gresham lost
the Roh world title to Claudia casting nilly.
But the bigger story is what happened behind the scenes.
Not happy with the booking.
Gresham tried to contact Tony khan several times before
the show only to be met with silence and only got a
brief window to speak just hours before the match.
We now have an update on the situation as Fightful select has learned
that when Gresham asked for his release, he did so on the Sunday.
And that both parties have said the situation got heated.
The report also states that many within the company
praised Gresham for his professionalism, as he decided to
continue with the match, despite the tensions backstage.
As for the match.
It said that AEW was very much content with the
execution of the match between Gresham and casting Noli.
It's still unclear if Tony Khan has granted Gresham
a release, but we'll keep following this story.
As more details are made available.