Here's your wrestling news for September 14th, 2022.
And we're kicking off today with AEW as the
company is missing some of their biggest names.
Following the events of all out.
Tony Khan took the difficult decision to suspend
Kenny omega, the young bucks and others while cm
punk status with the company remains unconfirmed.
No one involved with the post.
All out fight was on last week's programming.
And that will be the same tonight.
In an update from PW insider it's report
that borrowing some last minute change.
Anyone currently suspended from AEW won't be it tonight's dynamite.
And that the company is waiting until the third
party investigation is complete before bringing
anyone back in addition to omega and the bucks.
That means that punk, ACE steel producer, pat buck, head
of talent relations, Christopher Daniels, Brandon Cutler,
and Michael Nakazawa will also not be making appearances.
This shouldn't be too much of a problem for punk who is out with
another injury and wouldn't be competing for at least another six
to eight months, even if he wasn't in serious hot water at this
time, tonight's show will instead focus on the AEW world title
elimination tournament with John Moxley facing Sammy Guevara.
While Chris Jericho faces Brian Danielson in the semi-finals.
The show will also feature interim AEW women's world
champion, Tony storm team with Hikaru Shida to face Britt
Baker in Serena deeb, but don't expect the elite cm, punk,
or anyone else caught in the all out fight on the show.
There's no word on when the elite or the others who were
suspended will be back, but don't expect them back anytime soon.
AEW's next pay perview will be full gear and take
place in November and on AEW's website, a new updated
version of the poster for the show has been revealed.
The new poster has seen omega the bucks and cm punk, all removed,
implying that none of them will be back before the November 19th show.
In the case of punk, he may not be back at all.
As reports have suggested that he could
be fired for instigating the fight.
If he's not been fired already.
The change in poster also protects AEW
from being accused of false advertising.
As fans know who to expect at full gear, and more
importantly, who not to expect full gear will be the final
pay perview of what has been a strange year for AEW but
don't expect many of the company's top stars to be there.
Last night's episode of NXT, 2.0, mark.
The one year anniversary of the show's relaunch and the
brand celebrated it with a brand new champion being crowned.
This week solo Sikoa made his return to NXT mere days after
his call up to SmackDown and captured the north American title.
Carmelo Hayes was originally set to face Wes
Lee on the show, but Lee was taken out during a
backstage segment after an intensely physical match.
The street champion became the north American champion with a
huge splash from the top rope marking his first title in WWE.
With SKO, having been moved to SmackDown after clash of the castle.
It'll be interesting to see how he fares as NXTs
north American champion, but now the bloodline has
added another championship title to their family.
Earlier this year, Nash Carter was released from WWE after
a series of allegations made by his then wife, Kimberly
while WWE reportedly did not find the claims credible.
The decision was made to ax Carter.
When images of him parodying, Adolph Hitler were shared by Lee.
Fans of Carter and his tag team MSK retored by making the justice
for Nash Carter, hashtag, which was trending during last night's
episode of NXT, 2.0 well, Nash wasn't referenced on the show.
It's likely fans were discussing him because his former
tag partner, Wes Lee, was involved on the show being
attacked back stage by Carmelo Anthony and trick Williams.
After his release, which also saw Carter be pulled from WWE
2K22 nash release to statement expressing regret for his actions
in the photo though, many have accused Kimberly of faking the
claim she made while some fans may want to see Nash Carter
back that ship may have sailed, but that won't stop a lot of
people calling for justice for the former NXT tag team champion.
As we mentioned earlier, NXT 2.0, celebrated their one year
anniversary last night and did so with a unique end to the show.
After an action packed event, NXT 2.0 ended with a voiceover from
Sean Michaels and the colorful NXT 2.0 logo being replaced by a
new design one that is black and yellow, like the original NXT.
It's been reported that triple H was not a fan of the
NXT 2.0 creative direction at first and on Twitter
reacted to the change saying we are NXT the new logo.
In addition to being more like the past design
also ditches the 2.0 part of the brand, as the
show will just be known as NXT moving forward.
The new NXT logo was also featured around the arena.
But interestingly, on the stage, the logo was put over
the paint splattered backdrop of NXT 2.0 rather than an
entirely new design for the entire run of NXT 2.0, there
were fans who had called on the show to go back to how it
was and will have to see what the future holds for NXT.
Now that those fans have gotten their wish.
During this week's raw EO sky and Dakota, Kai captured the
WWE women's tag team titles in a huge moment for both women.
Now, the damage control members hold the championships, but
they may not be holding those specific titles for much longer.
According to belt fan Dan, a reliable source when it
comes to all things championship, the WWE women's tag team
titles will be getting a redesign with a colored strap.
Once again.
It's not clear what color the belts will be.
But Dan also reported that WWE has plans for
new designs for the men's tag team titles.
Those titles were described as being the existing design dual plated
black strap, and having a stacked large WWE logo in the center.
We don't know for sure when WWE will introduce the new title designs,
but they are coming, bringing a new look to the WWE's main roster tag.
According to wrestle votes the situation with undisputed WWE
universal champion, Roman reigns is complex as WWE wants to go into
WrestleMania with two champions, but also doesn't want Roman reigns
to lose at all between now and WrestleMania with, at all being
emphasized, citing a source wrestle votes says that WWE chief content
officer triple H and as team are open to all things creatively.
Rains has been WWE universal champion since August, 2020 and
unprecedented 741 day reign Reigns unified that title with the
WWE championship in April by defeating, then WWE champion Brock
Lester in the main event of the second night of WrestleMania 38.
There has been speculation that rains will be facing
his cousin, Dwayne, the rock Johnson at WrestleMania 39.
The matches even been teased on Johnson's NBC sitcom, young rock,
but Johnson's schedule continues to fill up between his acting
career and being a co-owner of the third iteration of the XFL.
Johnson has been so busy that he even turned down
hosting the Emmy awards, which aired on Monday.
There had been speculation that Cody Rhodes could be
the one to challenge and eventually de throne reigns
roads suffered a torn pectoral muscle in June, but could
be back in time for the 2023 Royal rumble in January.
On the contrary, zero news has now added to this
and reported that one of the ideas floating around
is to have a tournament for a new WWE champion.
By the day one premium live event.
The report further added that the tribal chief
may be forced to vacate the WWE championship.
We've already seen reigns miss premium live events, like
HELL IN A CELL and money in the bank earlier this year.
And is now also set to miss the upcoming WWE Extreme rules, 2022.
Let's see how WWE books Roman reigns, what do you think of this
whole situation sound off in the comments below things aren't
only changing when it comes to Title belts, as one of WWE's
biggest Stars has officially undergone a change of character.
P w insider has learned that internally Kevin Owens is listed
as a baby face at WWE, despite spending the majority of his run
with the company as a heel Owens has always had some cheers.
So fans appreciate his in ring work and ability to adapt to
different situations, including his work in the Ezekiel storyline.
Earlier this year, just a few weeks ago, Owen's returned to
the prize fighter character he had back in NXT and has been
facing off with the likes of theory and Chad Gable since.
The biggest test of Owen's face turn will be whether he can win
over Samio Zane, who has been with the bloodline for months now,
whatever happens Owens is officially a baby face once again.
So we imagine it may be a matter of time before
he steps back in the ring with Roman reigns.
It's hardly a secret that AEW allows their
talent to work with certain other promotions.
And now one of their stars will be making
a big appearance outside the company.
This Friday, AEW's living dead girl Abbadon will compete for
Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling as confirmed by the Japanese promotion.
Abadon's first TJPW appearance will also be the first wrestling match
of her career to take place in Japan or outside of the United States
altogether, and arguably her most high profile match of her career.
With it being in nearly a year, since Avedon's last
televised, AEW match, this is a huge deal for Avadon.
And given that it's part of the T J TJPW Shinjuku Tournament
could be the first of several matches for her overseas.
We've got some concerning news from Marty
Jannetty now who is back in the hospital.
On Facebook, the former WWE Intercontinental champion confirmed
that he will need surgery on his right ankle, but at least saw
the funny side saying that he injured it by putting his foot up.
People's rear ends.
This isn't the first time Jeanette has been in the
hospital as he struggled with his health over the years
and has asked diamond Dallas page for help in the past,
hopefully Jannetty can make a speedy recovery as well.
He may have a history of controversial comments on social media.
We are sending our best to the former superstar.
When cm punk was injured earlier this year, AEW turned to
John Moxley to fill in as interim world champion showing
how much faith they have in the former Dean Ambrose.
On last week's dynamite.
The first show after all out Moxley was again, relied upon
to steer the ship with a passionate promo about the AEW
world championship and his desire to become champion again.
Moxley has certainly proven himself to be reliable.
And when his friend, Robert, Anthony spoke to the
Tyrus and Timpf podcast, he mentioned how AEW's
backstage issues, forced Moxley's plans to change.
So he's doing good, man.
He was supposed to be on vacation six weeks.
We were gonna go fishing.
Now he's back to work.
He's not too happy about it, but seeing him in
his element, working it's a different beast.
The way his mind works.
I enjoyed his batch of the Payperview, but
yeah, he's pissed off and he's back at work.
He cut a hell of a promo on Wednesday and we'll see where it goes.
A lot of negatives into positives over there.
I feel.
In addition to all he is been doing on TV.
Moxley has also become a locker room leader and led a
meeting with talent last week, which helped boost morale.
Moxley is already a two time AEW world champion, and could
soon have a third reign to his name, but if so, we imagine
he won't be going on that fishing trip for a very long time.
And we're ending today with Roman reigns and years before he was the
tribal chief, the big dog gave a tease of what he was going to become.
In 2017 Reigns feuded with John Cena.
And during an episode of raw, had an intense promo in which
Reigns blanked out for a couple of seconds leaping on this, seen
a mocked Reigns for the freeze and during an appearance on the
impulsive podcast, rain said that the experience made him better.
I think just being in that position and
going through that experience made me better.
I don't think it was anything like John specifically.
You know what I mean?
Reigns’ experience with Cena taught him that he can't afford
to have blank moments on WWE TV, and that he always needs to
be working towards something either in the ring or on the mic.
Cena may have found this incident funny, but it was rains.
Who'd have the last laugh beating John at that ears.
No mercy pay per view, making big match.
John, one of several megastars who'd fall to
the man we know today as the head of the table.