Here's your wrestling news for September 3rd, 2022.
And we're kicking off today with Rhonda rosy,
who had one of her best moments in WWE to date.
And while Adam Pierce was the one who stole the show, it
takes two to tango Pierce cut the best promo of his career.
Passionately telling rosy that if it were up to
him, she wouldn't even have a job with the company.
Pearson, rosy, have a great chemistry intention and
on screen, she allowed him to call her the biggest
bitch and rosy responded by putting him in an arm.
Rather than being defined a heel, rosy seems to
be positioned more as a tweener on SmackDown.
And this has allowed her to create magic with WWE on screen
official fans at SmackDown, got to see great stuff from
Rhonda Rousey, but there was a severe lack of Roman reigns.
The blue brand's final episode before clash at the castle, 2022
was centered around rain's second anniversary as universal champion
with video packages throughout the night, highlighting his.
These videos put Rein's name up there with the likes
of Bob bland, Pedro Morales and Bruno Sam Martino.
But the tribal chief's actual presence on
the show hardly seemed to be a minute long.
It was cool to see drew McIntyre hit the Claymore out
of nowhere, but ahead of one of the biggest matches
of his career, fans needed to see more of rains.
Reins was supposed to headline smack down.
So it was disappointing that he didn't have much of a role on the
show and was a rare mistake in the booking of the head of the table.
Since triple H took over as head of WWE's talent relations.
We've seen several superstars return to the promotion that
all started at summer slam with Dakota Kai's comeback and the
likes of Johnny Gargano carrying cross hit row, and others have
followed fans have been excited to see who will be next to return.
And it's been reported that bronze Stroman will be back next week,
speaking to BT sport, triple H didn't confirm the reports about
Stroman, but when asked, did discuss the former universal champion.
He's a polarizing person sometimes, but he's an amazing athlete.
The game was also asked about Sasha banks who, well,
she hasn't left WWE hasn't been seen since the walkout
in may, this year addressing a possible return to TV.
The game said.
Time will tell there was a communication breakdown.
Communication, breakdowns are terrible, and there is a
communication breakdown there for whatever reason, starting
back up at that communication is not a difficult process,
but it can be a process, but she's an unbelievably talented,
young woman that can do just about anything she wants.
It just comes down to what does she want to do
now with her life, her career, whatever that is.
Like the passion clearly for what we do.
There's a passion for other things as well.
So it comes down to what does she want to do?
Because it's gotta be right for her.
Gotta be right for everybody.
She is.
I think, as you've seen over the course of her career, just an
unbelievable performer that I believe in with everything I have.
She is one of the biggest stars in our business.
Perhaps the biggest name fans want to see back in WWE is bra Wyatt,
who was shockingly released last year, but is teased to return to WWE.
Praising the fend triple H called Wyatt one of the most, I mean, this
in the best way possible, crazy creative people I've ever been around.
Mine just never stops thinking of creative,
but it's like being in a whirlwind of stuff.
So without the harness and without someone to
point the tornado, it's just all over the place.
He's a victim of his own mind and
creative, but I love working with him.
Triple H is still new to the role of head of talent
relations, but his choices so far have gone down well, and
we'll have to see if the game can keep this momentum going.
For over a year, WWE NXT and AEW dynamite went head to head in the
Wednesday night wars with Tony K's promotion emerging the Victor,
the war only ended when NXT moved to Tuesday nights and con and
his roster have never shied away from mentioning their victory.
Inversely, WWE rarely mentions going toe to toe with AEW
but that changed this week with an interview by triple H.
Speaking to sports illustrated.
The king of Kings argued that the war with AEW
has been blown way out of proportion saying,
first of all, they beat our developmental system.
Good for them.
There was never even the pressure of like, you have to beat that.
It was never, that it's put on the best product we could.
It shouldn't come as a surprise that WWE is seeking to
downplay their repeated losses in the ratings to dynamite.
But he does have a point when noting how AEW's a show,
beat their developmental system and sometimes lost to NX.
While dynamite, beat NXT, AEW's premier show still
falls far behind SmackDown or raw in the ratings.
So despite bragging about winning the war, don't expect Tony Kahn
to want to go head to head with WWE's main roster today, WWE will
host their clash of the castle eventing Cardiff whale, and despite
a stacked card, some names won't be there according to the wrestling
observer newsletter, Ronda Rousey, wasn't scheduled to make the trip
to the UK as of midweek, and therefore has been pulled from the event.
This means that rosy won't be interfering and live Morgan's SmackDown.
Women's title match with Shayna Basler as had
been previously reported as a plan for the show.
Roe's focus right now seems to be on Adam Pierce.
So while those two may have a match, one day don't expect
the former SmackDown women's champion later today, if
you've been watching SmackDown, you'll probably have figured
out that Sam Zane won't be in the bloodline for long.
Technically he's never been in the group, but has been an associate.
And last night smacked down, saw things
spoil over for the former NXT champion.
Jay USO was furious at Zane for how things went down
on raw as Zane didn't help him to beat Kevin Owens.
While Jimmy tried to be the mediator between the two
for the past 400 days, Jimmy and Jay have dominated
his tag team champions, but it looks like just a matter
of time before they lose the gold to Owens and Zane.
SmackDown also saw happy.
Corbin's second downward spiral of his career.
Continue last night after successive losses to Rick
ricochet, Corbin vowed, he wouldn't have another downfall.
Like we saw last year and offered an open
challenge, which shink Nakamura answered.
The former king of the ring defeated the man.
He took the crown from continuing Corbin string of losses.
After the match Corbin was seen being approached
by a vehicle that looked exactly like the one that
belongs to none other than John Brad Shaw Layfield.
As a voiceover encouraged Corbin to get in, it appears that JBL will
be managing the happy one going forward in a meeting of two of WWS.
Most detestable heels over to AEW now is last month.
Cm punk went off script during an episode of dynamite to
bury hangman, Adam Page, fully aware that Paige wasn't
booked for the show punk called out the cowboy for a title
match and branded him a coward when he doesn't show up.
Going off script rarely goes well for the talent.
And while speaking to Forbes this week, Tony Kahn warned
against talent going into business for themselves.
I was saying to them, and a number of people who
spoke at the meeting were making a point to all the
wrestlers and TV talent that it does not serve us.
Well.
If anybody goes into business for themselves, con
may not want his roster going into business for
themselves, but he's not punished punk for doing that.
Instead, granting him an undisputed, AEW world
championship match at this weekend's all out paper.
Well, AEW does allow their talent more creative freedom than WWE.
There is a limit to that freedom.
So we'll have to see if anyone after punk
decides to go into business for themselves.
When WWE signed Gable Stevenson last year,
the Olympian had a ton of buzz around him.
Stevenson had teased joining AEW UFC in possibly the NFL
before deciding on WWE, where he has been trading hard
to become a superstar though that work isn't paying off.
The wrestling observer newsletter reports that
WWE has gone cold on Stevenson as the reviews
of his training so far have been extremely poor.
WWE had at one point planned to fast track Stevenson to the
main roster after he finish his last amateur season in March.
But the observer adds that nobody has
talked about a call up to raw in months.
Well, Stevenson has not been showing the improvements.
WWE has been hoping to see.
It's noted that his brother Bobby Stevenson, who has been
working in NXT 2.0 as Damon Kemp has been improving a great
deal and is impressing people behind the scenes, despite
not having a single match Gable Stevenson was selected by
raw during last October's annual draft, but it may be a very
long time before the Olympian has a match on the main roster.
And we're ending today with some unfortunate news regarding
Kyle O'Reilly now who is currently out of action, and isn't
expected to return anytime soon, taking two Instagram this
week, O'Reilly shared an image from a hospital bed and later
posted that he is going to require neck fusion surgery.
It had been earlier this year during an episode of
the, this is van color podcast that O'Reilly said that
he'd been dealing with several lingering injuries.
There's been no time window for when
O'Reilly will be back in the ring.
And we can't count out the fact that careers have been
ended due to issues in the neck, whatever the future holds.
We are sending our best to Kyle and we look
forward to seeing the former NXT tag team champion
turned AEW star back in the ring, down the line.