Here's your wrestling news for July 18th, 2022.
And we're kicking off today with WWE and since the raw, after
WrestleMania 38, Kevin Owens has been trying to convince everyone that
a Ezekiel is actually a Elis, but without any success so far, the pair
we're meant to face off in a money in the bank qualifier last month.
But Owens was pulled from the bout over
what's believed to be a minor injury and fans.
Haven't seen him in quite some time.
Fans won't have to wait much longer to see the
former universal champion as Sean Ross sap reports.
That Owens will be back as soon as tonight's raw Kevin Owens.
Hasn't been seen on WWE programming in nearly a month
and was pulled from the June 26th episode of WWE raw.
Spiteful selectors learned that as of Sunday night, a
Ko show segment was planned for WWE raw for July 18th.
Thus far Owens has not been advertised by WWE is appearing on
the event as often happens in wrestling plans can be changed.
One instance occurred last week when a Elias was planned for WWE raw.
Before that element was mixed, as mentioned, Owens was absent from
the June 26th episode of raw, where he was set to take on a Elias,
Ezekiel or Elrod, and any money in the bank qualifying match.
He would appear at the NHL draft a couple of weeks later, when
Owens was spotted at the NHL draft, he promised to be back soon.
And now it looks like fans will finally get to see
him once more on tonight's episode for the past month,
Vince McMohan has been under some severe scrutiny over
allegations of inappropriate behavior with female talent.
It was around this time last month that the wall street journal
reported of an alleged affair and 3 million Dollar hush money payout.
But since then several more allegations
have been leveled against the ex-chairman.
Now PW insider reports that we could soon be
hearing even more allegations about McMahon.
HBO has reportedly been working on a Vince episode of
their real sports with Brian Gumble show as confirmed
by a former wrestler who was interviewed by HBO.
The wall street journal is reported to be
continuing their examination of McMohan.
And in addition to speaking to former superstars, expect to drop
another scoop about McMohan within the coming weeks, McMohan
has vowed to respect the findings of the investigation into him,
no matter what the result may be, but it looks like we haven't
heard the last of allegations against the billionaire promoter.
Now at AEW blood and guts.
Santana suffered a knee injury mere minutes into
the match when he delivered a UGI to Daniel Garcia.
It has been reported that Santana is expected to
miss eight months of action, which was affected far
more than just AEW at a recent AEW wrestling show.
SantanAEWas spotted on crutches and also revealed that he was
forced to relinquish the AEW world championship due to his
injury with reports that Santana could be leaving AEW soon.
It's certainly an interesting time for Santana
and we'll have to see what he does next.
When he is fully healed.
Of course, Santana is just one half
of the proud and powerful tag team.
And with reports of his injury, many have questioned.
What'll happen with Ortiz, Sean Ross, sap
reports, the win sources within AEW reached out.
They made it clear that the company has no plans
to bench Ortiz throughout Santa's recovery process.
Even with his tag team partner on the shelf, Ortiz brings
a lot to the table in AEW and it makes sense that the
company wouldn't want a valuable asset to go unused.
Like we said earlier, Santana has been
teasing his AEW contract expiring this year.
And with this injury, he may have already
had his last match with the company.
It's also been reported that Santana and Ortiz are not on good
terms right now, something that Conan confirmed on his podcast.
So it may be for the best that AEW distances Ortiz
from his tag partner during the latter's injury.
Each week AEW creates engaging content,
which is hooked countless fans.
Many of whom use that content to create content
of their own Twitter users make fair use of
their content, but sometimes it gets taken down.
Even when it's compliant with DMCA fair use
policy, it appears something shady as at work.
And despite a career officiating, the rules, AEW referee
Aubrey Edwards may have something to do about it.
Buck Starski has fired off several tweets, accusing Edwards
of filing a mass DMCA takedown under a fake alias in his
first tweet, Starski revealed that he's gone from being an
in ring star to working in the information security office.
So he knows a thing or two about acting online.
Starski sent an email to Jeff Jones, AEW's digital
director, formally announcing the accusation that Aubrey
Edwards is behind these DMCA takedowns and is doing
so under the fake alias of DM C agent Donald Stevens.
The accusation doesn't end there as Starski revealed in another
tweet that after his email, Donald Stevens was registered
as a DM C agent on copyright.gov, which wasn't the case.
Before after this, Starski received a threatening email, reportedly
from AEW themselves, threatening him with a call from their attorneys.
If he continues to make what they call fake claims.
Claiming that AEW and Edwards are wrongfully issuing.
DMCA notices is a huge accusation, and it's no secret that a lot of
fan created content that seemed to fall under fair use has been taken
down and will have to keep following this story for more updates.
As we mentioned earlier, Vince MCAH is under
investigation and could face some severe consequences
depending on the results of the ongoing investigation.
With allegations that he coerced at least one woman into oral sex
against her will MC man's days on top of the industry may be numbered.
And that could mean big changes from some of WWE's biggest stars.
That's according to Vince Russo, who argued on writing
with Russo that depending on the investigation, a lot of
big names may seek to distance themselves from McMohan.
Russo specifically named Brock Leer and Roman
reigns, two of WWE's biggest stars and two people
who have benefited greatly from the ex-chairman.
The two men will face off later this month at summer slam,
but no matter who wins, neither star may want to be associated
with anything McMohan related for much longer over two
impact wrestling as the promotion taped their next few weeks
of content recently, including their lone star stampede.
That event won't air until August 26th and 27th, but there will
be a major return as part of the show at the taping, Tiffany Neves
and Jada stone had a match with Tasha steels, providing commentary
after the match killer Kelly returned to impact and knocked the
two competitors out this return will come after weeks of teaser
videos, which have shown Kelly engaging in various activities in a
motel room, which include getting ready to face the other knockouts.
Well best known for her stint on the indie scene.
Kelly did have a run with WWE from 2018
to 2020 as part of the NXT UK brand Kelly.
Isn't the only WWE alum as KDA also made his impact debut
at the latest set of tapings following his WWE departure.
This year, as both ex superstars are hoping for
bigger and better things with impact wrestling.
Back to WWE as NXT 2.0 exists to shape
the next generation of superstars.
And two stars from the brand could be
heading to the main roster very soon.
It appears that solo SKO and Von Wagner
could be making their move up soon.
According to a recent segment after the live telecast of Friday
SmackDown at the Amway arena in Orlando, WWE tap to backstage
fight, featuring S and Wagner, which will air on tomorrow's NXT 2.0.
It's interesting that this fight took place after SmackDown and many.
See this as a sign of a call up, given that typically
WWE gives that XT talent, some experience on a
main roster show before making a call up official.
Louis Daner of give me sport has also reported that
Seko will be called up shortly after summer slam on
July 30th, but there's still discussions about whether
he will be with his relatives, the bloodline or not.
Skoah has said that he plans to forge his own path in WWE though.
Of course the decision is not entirely up to him.
And time will tell what WWE themselves have in
store for this pair of second generation wrestlers.
And we're ending today with Foy Godel's soul, who
recently promised on Twitter that a change was coming,
which led many to believe he was finishing with AEW Dell.
So had removed all references to AEW on his page, but it
appears that isn't the change the mass stressor had in mind.
On Twitter, Dell, so shared a new image with a brand new dark mask.
So it seems that this is the change he was alluding to after all.
We still don't know when Dell so's contract with AEW expires, but
for now the usually colorful wrestler is embracing a darker side.