Here's your wrestling news for August 25th, 2022.
And we're kicking off today with AEW as last night's
dynamite saw the crowning of an undisputed world champion.
The match had at one point, been scheduled a
headline all out, but instead happened on TV.
And that was hardly the only surprise the match was
unexpectedly short as max practically squashed punk who
was selling his injured foot throughout the short match.
After taking two death rider, DDTs and a pin fall punk was assisted to
the gorilla position by the ringside attendance, going into the match.
Punk was the heavy favor to win.
As fans expected a lengthy reign for the Chicago made
wrestler after he became champion at double or nothing.
It's been reported that punk versus Moxley is still the plan for AEW
all out, despite the title unification match happening last night.
But for the time being John Moxley has proven
himself worthy of being the undisputed.
AEW world champion fans were surprised to see
Moxley defeat punk and so decisively as well.
But this wasn't the only major event involving an AEW world champ.
Going into dynamite.
The plan was for thunder Rosa to defend the AEW
women's world title against Tony storm it all out.
But those plans are not happening in a backstage segment.
A tearful Rosa said that she has been forced to step down as
AEW women's world champion and said something about an injury.
A four way match will take place at all out
to crown a new interim women's world champion.
And it was later revealed that Tony storm Kada, Jamie
hater and Brit baker will fight for the interim title.
Despite the claim that she had to step down as champion the
appointment of an interim champion implies that thunder Rosa is
still the champion and there'll be another title unification match.
When she's healed as to when that'll be, that's impossible
to say right now, but all we know is that a new interim
women's world champion will be crowned at next week's all out.
Dynamite was certainly a monumental show this week,
but a lot happened before the cameras even started.
Rolling.
Prior to the show, it was reported that AEW had
a mandatory talent meeting to discuss some of the
claims that have circulated about the company.
As of late, according to Sean Ross Sapp, the meeting ran from three
to 4:00 PM Eastern and Tony Khanwas said to be fired up throughout
several topics were tackled, including working as a team, the
lines of communication and who the talent can talk to as there's
been rumors that Khan has been impossible to speak with as of.
The young bucks and Kenny omega also spoke saying their door is
always open and are willing to discuss criticism with talent.
Addressing allegations made by AEW about contract tampering with WWE.
It's been reported that the AEW's chief legal officer
reached out to WWE's Nick Khan and Stephanie McMohan.
It's unclear if WWE have responded to these allegations,
but we'll have to see what changes in AEW if anything,
after this important and necessary meeting this week.
It's been one month since triple H was
appointed WWE's head of talent relations.
And the game has made a lot of changes.
Fans have seen stars like Dakota, Kai, Johnny Gargano,
Dexter Loomis, and hit row all returned to the company.
Adding more names to the promotions, huge roster.
It's been reported that triple H's changes aren't
over yet, but not everyone is expected to benefit
from his decisions on his to be the man podcast.
Rick flair spoke about triple H's changes
and speculated that fans won't be seeing.
Part-timers much more saying, I don't think he's crazy
about part-timers, especially in the title picture.
He's going to work towards having people
who are champions working more dates.
In recent years, part-time champions have become a
staple of Vince McMahon's WWE with Brock Lester and
Goldberg flattening full-time talent to win gold.
Despite being part-timers.
Now the era of Vince is over and with his departure, the era
of part-timers than the title picture may be gone as well.
More from dynamite is this week's show was certainly a packed event.
Seeing John Moxley become undisputed AEW world champion
and under Rosa confirmed that she is on the shelf.
The main event saw the United empire face, the death triangle
in a first round match in the AEW trios tag team title
tournament, but there was something extra after the match.
The match saw will Osprey and his partners danced to the next round,
but their victory was shortlived as Kenny omega and the bucks came
on stage and the two teams stared down after the show went off
air omega, took a mic and started taking shots at Osprey pointing
out that nobody remembers matches had by the British wrestler.
So two teams came face to face at the ringside towards the end of
this segment, but they ultimately refrained from fighting each other.
The undisputed empire and the elite will get a chance to
settle this rivalry when they meet in the semifinals of the
ongoing tournament, but only one of these teams can make
it to the finals in their quest for championship glory.
We've got some sad news to report.
Now, as former NWA president Howard Brody has passed away.
P w insider were the first to break the news saying that an infection
following a recent quadruple bypass surgery, ultimately cost Brody.
His life Brody was president of the NWA from 1996 to
2001, an interesting time for the promotion as they had to
navigate through their split with w C w two years earlier.
Fans may recognize Brody for his WWE appearances.
In 1998, when the world wrestling Federation was
briefly invaded by the NWA led by Jim Cornett.
Brody had a big influence in the wrestling world,
even after stepping down as NWA president in 2001.
And we'd like to offer our condolences
to his friends and family at this sad.
This November WWE will have their annual survivor series event
where the superstars of Ron and SmackDown will once again, face
off in the battle for brand supremacy, no matches have been
announced for the show yet as it's still three months away,
but that hasn't stopped the event from being a hit on Twitter.
Dave Meltzer noted that survivor series 2022, which had their
presale launch yesterday is basically sold out with practically
all the tickets available on the presale going immediately.
Beltz are added that whatever tickets were kept
for the public sale are also expected to sell
out incredibly quickly in a huge win for WWE.
This isn't even the first time we've seen this
as when WrestleMania 39 tickets went on sale.
Earlier this month, over 90% of the
available seats went pretty much immediately.
WWE has for years been struggling with low ticket sales,
but that certainly doesn't seem to be the case right now.
And time will tell if WWE can keep this wave of momentum going.
And we're ending today with Lacey Evans who returned to TV
earlier this year with a bizarre comeback following her pregnancy,
returning on SmackDown as a face, Evans was moved to raw as a
heel, but is back on SmackDown as a heel though, fans haven't
seen much of her as of late, it's been nearly two months since
Evans last match on air competing in the women's money in the bank
ladder match on July 2nd and fans shouldn't expect her back soon.
Sean Ross Sappa fight full reports that
Evans has yet to be medically cleared.
And the exact verbiage given to him is that the
sassy Southern bell has been medically sidelined.
It's unclear what is keeping her from wrestling specifically,
but if it's an injury, she'll be the latest on a growing list,
including Cody, Rhode, Randy Horton, biggie, and Rick bogs.
Just to name a few.
Evans was reportedly a favorite of Vince McMahon.
And there had been plans pre-pregnancy for a run is raw
women's champion, but between her lengthy absence and current
medical issues, the future looks bleak for the lady of WWE.