Here's more wrestling news for November 9th 2021
And your headlines for Afternoon include
New IWGP U.S. Champion challenges CM Punk to a match
“There’s no truth to that.” Former WWE World Champion rules out rumoured 2022 return
WWE makes major change to RAW’s Men’s Survivor Series team
Where was Finn Balor during last night’s edition of Monday Night RAW And more!
We’re kicking off today with CM Punk, who’s used the GTS for years, but isn’t the first man to use that particular move.
Although Punk may have popularised the move, it was actually stolen from KENTA, and in the years since, the former Hideo Itami has been
clear about not appreciating Punk using the same move. Now, KENTA is ready to face the Best in the
World face to face, as this past Sunday, he challenged Punk in a battle of the GTS.
After defeating Hiroshi Tanahashi to win the IWGP United States Championship at New Japan Power Struggle, KENTA called out the AEW star
saying that he’s ready to put Punk to sleep.
There was a time when the idea of Punk Vs. KENTA seemed impossible, but that was before the former WWE World Champion returned to the ring
and with AEW and New Japan having a working relationship, it may be a matter of time before the new IWGP U.S. Champion puts his title on the line
against the Chicago-Made wrestler
WWE news now, and for a long time, the company has hoped to get one last match from The Rock, who hasn’t competed since his six-second
victory over Erick Rowan at WrestleMania 32. Lately, WWE has been hoping on the Brahma Bull facing Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 38,
which seems increasingly more unlikely given The Rock’s busy schedule in Hollywood. Speaking to Andrew Freund from Dish Nation this
week, The Rock was asked directly bout whether the match will finally happen, and had to come clean about the plans, or lack there of for him in WWE:
“I can tell you, there is no truth to that right now. Possibly down the road, we will see. We stay very close, myself and Roman Reigns, and I’m very
happy and very proud with the work he is doing as well as The Usos, my other family members. Those guys will continue to do
what they’re doing and we’ll see down the road.” Reigns won’t be facing The Rock next year, but it’s already being rumoured that this plan may
happen in 2023, when WrestleMania comes to Los Angeles. It’s too early to tell if that match will happen,
but for now, the rumours of a Reigns-Rock collision next year can be finally put to rest.
Instead of facing the Tribal Chief next year, The Rock will keep focussing on his movie career, with huge changes now being made.
Speaking to Variety at the premiere of his latest film Red Notice, The Rock spoke about the tragic death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins,
who was killed on the set of Alec Baldwin’s film Rust. The Great One explained that in the wake of
the tragic accident, all films from his studio Seven Bucks Productions will use Rubber guns, with the gunfire added in post-production
The death of Hutchins was a truly tragic accident which has rocked the film-making community to its core, and The Rock is sparing no expense
to make his productions as safe as possible.
We’ve got some worrying news now, as Tammy Sytch has been hospitalised for 10 days.
The former Sunny, who has been trying to turn her life around after spending the past year behind bars, took to her OnlyFans account
to inform fans, saying that she’s been in hospital since last Saturday.
In a follow-up, explained that there’s a problem with her Gallbladder, which may need to be removed.
This is the latest bit of bad news for Sunny, who announced last month that her OnlyFans star had been harming her, which is why she hasn’t
created much content as of late. Sytch is now at home recovering, and hopefully won’t have to go back to hospital, and we’re
sending our best wishes to her at this latest difficult chapter of her life.
Back to RAW, as the build to Survivor Series continued last night, but not the way Dominik Mysterio had hoped.
In his first appearance since being attacked by Brock Lesnar, Adam Pearce confronted Dominik, noting that he is the only member of RAW’s
men’s team not to be a former World Champion, and could only keep his spot if he defeated the returning Bobby Lashley.
Not only did Lashley return, but so did MVP, and what followed was a one-sided match which saw the Almighty take Dominik’s spot.
It’s strange that Pearce, who’s meant to be a neutral authority figure, would want RAW to have a stronger team, but given how he’s
been treated on SmackDown as of late, especially by the likes of Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns, we can’t exactly blame him for being biased
in favour of team red. Three returns, Pearce, Lashley and MVP all culminated in Dominik losing his spot at Survivor
Series, and this could make for a very interesting situation for Rey, who’ll now be teaming with the man who took his son out of the team.
Lashley will have to find a way to coexist with Rey, alongside Kevin Owens, Seth Rollins and Finn Balor, the latter of whom didn’t appeal at
all on RAW. Balor’s absence was noticeable, especially so close to Survivor Series, but there’s a special
reason why the inaugurual Universal Champion didn’t show. Mike Johnson of PW Insider explains that Balor
was absent because he stayed behind in the United Kingdtom, to wrap up the latest European tour with the SmackDown roster
There’s some irony that a member of team RAW is helping SmackDown with their tour mere weeks before the two brand do battle, but fans
should expect the Irish Superstar to be back on Monday nights starting next week.