Here's your wrestling news for September 13th, 2022.
And we're kicking off today with Monday night raw, which
saw yet another successful title defense by raw women's
champion, Bianca Belairafter issuing an open challenge.
Last week, Belair's offer was answered by SmackDown, Sonya
Deville with the fight spilling out of the ring during the match.
In the end, it was a K O D by Belair, which turned her the win.
But after the Deville match, EST was confronted by Bailey.
The raw women's champion was attacked by damage
control until Alexa bliss and Asuka made the save.
And it's clear that the issues between these women are
far from over this week's raw was certainly a physical
show with two superstars in particular being left worse
for ware during its segment with Kevin Owens, the prize
fighter spoke about having to work, to earn opportunities.
While theory has been handed them,
which culminated in a brawl between the.
This brawl left theory with a busted nose and some have suggested
that it could have been legitimately broken during the fight.
If theory had it bad edge, had it much worse at the end of
the show, as he headlined the show against Dominic Mysterio,
raw went off the air with the members of the judgment
day, attacking Edge's leg with a steel chair, seemingly
writing the rated R superstar off TV for the time being.
With edge gone and Dominic now with the judgment day,
Ray Mysterio is all alone in his fight against the group.
So we'll have to see who the much bigger judgment day targets next.
Johnny Gargano was also in action last night, and he had
an impressive outing in his first match in nine months.
The last time Gargano wrestled, it was in December, 2021 is part of
NXT and he had an excellent match with Chad Gable on this week's.
Eventually Gargano hit Chad Gable with
his one final beat finishing move to win.
And while the former NXT champion avoided a post match attack by
Otis, he wasn't so lucky when ambushed by Austin theory theory and
Gargano have been feuding ever since Johnny returned to WWE so expect
a match between the two at some point down the line or from raw.
Now as this week's show was another three hour
spectacular featuring the top names from the
red brand, but fans didn't get to see all of it.
Last night's Ross saw several technical difficulties with
the screen going black, multiple times and WWE fans being
asked to stand by while the company fixed the situation.
It's unknown.
What caused TV screens to go black during raw this week.
But it certainly upped fan interest in the product.
Some fans even speculated that perhaps this was
deliberate and part of a storyline for a character,
maybe even a tease for the return of Bray waytt.
That seems unlikely though.
We can't count anything out and hopefully WWE won't have
to deal with any more of these technical issues from now.
On last week, it was reported how the young bucks had sent out feelers
to WWE to gauge just how much interest the promotion has in them.
The bucks reportedly wanted a friend of theirs who is a WWE
superstar to tell higher ups that they are open to offers, but
they're not the only ones who are weighing up their options.
When ringside news asked around, they learned that Kenny omega has
also sent out his own feelers and did so during his lengthy hiatus
due to injury, there's no word on how much interest WWE has in omega
or the bucks, but we just have to imagine that the company wouldn't
pass up an opportunity to take all three of AEW's biggest draws.
Right now the young bucks in Kenny omega are all serving out
suspensions and between what happened at all out and how well
Cody Rhodes is done in WWE the trio may be in store for some
interesting contract negotiations when the time is right.
It's been reported that Omega's involvement
in the fight after all out was minimal.
As after getting cm, punk's dog, Larry
to safety, his attempts to pull punk off.
Matt Jackson earned him a bite by ace steel.
Nevertheless omega is suspended and that could mean quite
the change to his contract going forward in the wrestling
observer newsletter, Dave Melzer reports that Omega's
current deal is set to expire in February, 2023, but between
his lengthy injury and his ongoing suspension, AEW could
add several months to his deal to make up for that time.
As for the young bucks, Meltzer confirmed that their
deals don't end until January 2024, but they too could see
added months depending on how long their suspension lasts.
All we know for now is that the three are suspended and with
reports of all three, sending feelers to WWE things could
get very interesting for the elite and their contracts.
When Vince McMahon retired from WWE in July, it was the
biggest change to the company in decades possibly, ever.
And the company is now being run by Stephanie McMohan
and Nick Khan the two now operate as co CEOs of WWE
and things are looking up without Vince incharge.
According to P w insider, the new management team has energized
the WWE locker room and production team with reports that the
staff at WWE HQ have a better energy and better work life balance.
Under the Vince McMohan regime, there was a sentiment of keep
your head down to avoid his wrath while talent hoping to climb.
The corporate ladder would have to work long
into the night to impress the then chairman.
Under Nick Khan Stephanie McMahon and triple H
employees can do their job without the level of stress.
That was the norm during Vince's tenure, one WWE staffer
even said that approaching Vince to discuss something
was like running into the T-Rex from Jurassic park.
You didn't want to call attention to yourself.
Welcome McMahon's departure.
Mark.
The end of an era, everyone seems happier with him out of the
picture, from those in the offices to the talent in the ring.
We've got some concerning news from Eva.
Marie next as the former superstar was recently
hospitalized after suffering an anaphylactic shock.
Ryan satin of the out of character podcast reported how
Eva was rushed to the emergency room on labor day, after
having a bad allergic reaction to some fire ants, Eva
herself took the story to TikTok where she shared images
of some of the welts and scarring caused by what happened.
Or he never quite won fans over with her In ring ability, but
she's now facing a new battle and we wish the former superstar
and total diva star a very speedy recovery when WWE signed
Gable Stevenson last year, it was a huge score for the company.
As there had been reports of Stevenson going to AEW were even trying
his hand in the UFC so far Stevenson hasn't wrestled for WWE, but
did get physical at WrestleMania 38, hitting a suplex on Chad Gable
well, speaking on the Sunday night's main event, TSN
radio show, Dave meltzer discussed the Olympian and
the big plans the company once had for Stevenson.
It was that he was gonna be the new Brock Lesnar, and they were
going to send coaches to Minnesota and get a place in Minneapolis.
And during the wrestling season, they were gonna
have him also train as a pro wrestler, which probably
wasn't a good idea to do both at the same time.
He hasn't debuted and they wanted to debut
him at WrestleMania and it didn't happen.
He was supposed to be fast, tracked to main events by
now, like come right out of college and win the NCAAs,
which he did, and then go right to WWE top level.
And that didn't happen.
It was recently reported that WWE has cooled off on
Stevenson, who isn't showing the improvement that they
were hoping to see from him now a year after signing.
Given how big his name already is.
It's unlikely.
WWE will be parting ways with Gable Stevenson anytime soon,
but the career of the Olympic gold medalist hasn't gone quite
as WWE had hoped so far on last week's AEW dynamite MJF made
his first appearance on the show in months, teasing that
he'd turned face before revealing that he's the same old.
So, and so fans love to hate.
Like he's done in the past.
MJF discussed, leaving for WWE name, dropping co CEO,
Nick Khan Cody, Rhodes, and other WWE references.
But his most recent comments haven't won some people
over, uh, the keeping it 100 podcast disco Inferno said
that AEW had wasted their opportunity with the promo.
Bro AEW had a chance to try and turn this into something realistic.
And it's just all wrestling, you know, phony.
It's not, it's all an angle.
There's no way you can sell any of this as a shoot anymore.
So all the meat on that bone is gone.
Like it's just a work.
It's just another, AEW angle.
And they let MJF talk about this stuff.
They say, oh, look, it's a shoot, but we know
it's not because it's not going anywhere.
Disco's reasoning is that by MJF, continuing to talk about leaving,
it's clear that this is a work which makes fans less interested
as they know all his threats of joining WWE are entirely hollow.
We do know that MJF's contract with AEW is set to
expire in January 20, 24, but the more he talks about
leaving and the more Tony Khan allows him to talk about
leaving, the more likely he is to stay with the company.
One name who's doing very well under Tony Khan is Claudia
Claudio Castagnoli the reigning ROH world champion, who joined
earlier this year after a mixed run in WWE in 2014, seemingly
on the cusp of a main event, push the, then Cesaro was put with
Paul Hayman, but despite the talent of both men, the pairing
just didn't work appearing on the latest episode of the Kurt
angle podcast, Claudio were called the pairing with Haman.
I'm not exactly sure, but I think Paul said once that they just
needed somebody to go out and talk about Brock Lesnar, breaking
the streak, and they needed a reason for Paul to go out there.
I was there with him, for him to go out there
and talk about me and then talk about Brock.
I think that was that if my memory serves me right there.
Sure enough.
Most of Hayman's promos with Cesaro saw the veteran
manager speak about Brock Lesner with the Swiss
wrestler coming across as a complete afterthought.
For years, Vince McMahon's belief was that
Cesaro's promo skills were holding him back.
But as we saw being partnered with one of the greatest talkers
of all time, didn't work out either new reports regarding the
third party investigation into the backstage fight between cm,
punk and the elite after AEW all out have come to the four.
Dave Meltzer on wrestling observer radio had earlier reported that the
involved stars would remain suspended until the investigation ends.
As part of the investigation, everybody who was present
to the locker room at the time of the altercation
was to be interviewed in an update from PW insider.
The investigation is in progress at the moment, video interviews
with punk, a steel Kenny omega, and the young bucks have also
been scheduled interviews will also reportedly take place with
Michael Nakazawa, Christopher Daniels, Brandon Cutler, and pat.
Apart from the aforementioned names, the independent firm
in charge of this investigation will be talking to a number
of neutral parties who are believed to have seen everything
as it happened, MJF and AEW chief legal officer Megha
Parekh are the only two reported neutral names so far.
What do you think of this whole deal?
Do you think this is still a work or a shoot sound off
in the comments below and we're ending with raw as a
huge title match has been set for next week's show.
During this week's show, Seth Rollins said it had been
too long since he has held gold WWE and during a backstage
segment, challenged Bobby Lashley for the United States title.
This challenge was accepted and the match
has been confirmed for next week's program.
The last time Rollins held gold was in 2019.
And this one and only us title reign came back in
2015, but the visionary is hoping to break this lengthy
drought a next week's episode of Monday night, raw.