Here's more wrestling news for September 12th, 2022.
And we're kicking off this afternoon with WWE
as a lot has changed over the past few months.
Not only is triple H the head of talent relations
and has brought back several released superstars,
but he's also the head of WWE's creative department.
And that could be good news for one name in particular.
According to sources.
Shinsuke Nakamura is set to get a very decent push
towards the end of this year or early 2023, though.
Details are still sketchy as to what that push will be.
One idea that is being floated around is for the king of
strong style to return to his NXT style over the coming months.
But that wouldn't mean he'd be returning to the brand himself.
The report adds that triple H loves Nakamura’s
work and has since he joined WWE back in 2016.
Well, Nakamura became a two time NXT
champion and won the 2018 men's Royal rumble.
The king of stroke style has yet to hold a world title on the main
roster, but perhaps 2023 will be the year for Shinsuke Nakamura.
Morra.
If Nakamura does plan on becoming a world champion in
WWE, he could have to one day face off with Roman Reigns.
Who's been unstoppable over the past two years.
Fans believed drew McIntyre would be the one
to dethrone Reigns at clash at the castle.
And while WWE had at one point considered it, they went with the
tribal chief on wrestling, observer radio, Dave Meltzer address
Reigns his title run, which won't be ending anytime soon, Meltzer
explained that WWE's plans is for Roman to be a multi multi-year
champion and is being built to be the legend for this generation.
Having McIntyre win it.
Clash at the castle.
Would've been a huge moment and something many fans
think should have happened, but it would've been a major
problem for WWE's long-term goals for the tribal chief
reigns will have to lose the universal titles one day.
And it will be huge when it happenes, but WWE's
long-term plans Are for the tribal chief to
remain his dominant self for a long time to come.
One woman.
Who's no stranger to titles herself is Sasha banks who
has become a big name, both in and out of wrestling.
Well, fans will know banks best for being the boss of WWE.
She has also made a name for herself out of the ring as Koska
Reeves in the Mandalorian and has big plans for the future.
Recently, banks spoke about wanting to branch out into
other forms of entertainment, including more acting roles.
But when speaking to the Ahch-To podcast
she said she wants to own the characters.
She portrays.
You always want to create characters to portray and live by.
For me, it's really just owning my own intellectual property
and owning the character behind the character and really
defining who is the character that is playing the character.
A lot of the IP about banks isn't owned by her, but
by WWE who've made a ton of money from putting the
boss's image on merchandise and selling it to fans.
Banks is expected to return to WWE TV soon, following her in
Naomi's may walk out, but she still has plans away from the ring.
And time will tell what's next in the future of the boss.
Now, for years, Armando Montalvo was a huge problem for WWE,
randomly showing up at the performance center and asking for a
job in one instance, Montalvo wiped his own feces on the wall
of the center and was shot by officers in another tent standoff.
When police suspected he had a weapon on.
Now Montalvo is back in the news, but it's not for any new actions.
It's because he's been featured on A&E Montalvo’s actions
were recently the feature on court cam, which included
footage of the shooting with officers saying that the
Florida wannabe pro wrestler lost his match with police.
Hopefully WWE has seen the last of Armando Montalvo
as his actions are the last thing WWE wants to deal.
Back to the actual trained professional wrestlers as 2022 has
been a big year for madcap Moss who earned a lot of respect
after suffering a stiff shot on his neck at elimination chamber
2022 Moss landed awkwardly on his neck during his match with
drew McIntyre and was said to be apologetic to WWE management.
After the match earning a lot of praise backstage.
Speaking on busted open radio this week, Madcap Moss spoke
about his career so far and that Paul Heyman compared
him to a certain legend who has his own neck issues.
Paul Heyman said that to me when he was running raw, he said,
I've never seen anyone hit the ropes like that since Steve Austin.
And again, yeah, he did hit him with reckless
abandon and that's who I try to emulate doing.
Any comments relating a WWE superstar to stone cold.
Steve Austin is a good thing.
And back when Haman was the executive
director of raw Moss was one of the talents.
He wanted to give a focus after teaming with happy Corbin,
the 2022 Andre, the giant battle Royal winner is going
in alone and we can only wait and see whether madcap Moss
has a career anywhere close to the Texas rattle snake.
When Kenta joined WWE in 2014 as Hideo Itami, he was
part of the NXT five, a group of prized signings,
including Sami Zayn Kevin Owens, Neville and Finn Balor.
Unlike the others though, Kenta never had that big run in WWE
and he's now spoken about his frustrations with the company.
In a tweet Kenta described working in WWE and said that four
years of his time in the company was one of the worst experiences
in wrestling as he wasn't allowed to use his own finisher.
Kenta is of course, referring to the GTS, a move he invented.
And that was for lack of a better word stolen by
cm punk who used it when he joined WWE in 2006.
Well, Kenta would eventually get to use the move that
wouldn't be until years into his run with WWE, which
clearly is still a sore spot for the Japanese star.
WWE tried to make KENTA joining WWE, a big deal,
even having Hulk Hogan endorsed the Japanese star
at a WWE live event, but it wasn't meant to be.
And that's partly thanks to CM punk, according to the man himself.
Speaking of heat between talent.
Our truths on screen character has often joked that he grew up
idolizing John Cena, but that isn't how things were in real life.
In the early two thousands, it was reported that Cena in truth,
who was with WWE at the time, had a run in at an airport.
And that the two wrestlers who were both wrapping
on screen at the same time, got pretty heated.
Years later, truth would return to WWE at a time when Cena had
become the biggest star and in an interview on the nothing beats
experience podcast, recalled his first interaction back with John.
When I got to the locker room, all the boys were
sitting down, just watching Cena was in the bathroom.
So when I came in, I didn't notice
they were all sitting there waiting.
When he came in, he looked, he said,
we're not gonna have any problems.
Are we?
I said, man, hell no, I'm on your ship.
From there.
Everything was settled between the two and truth
would work with Cena on multiple pay per views in
2011, while Cena full time days with WWE are over.
He is expected to make plenty, more appearances and he won't be having
any problems with truth despite the former bad blood between them.
And we're ending today with Jerry Lawler and all time.
Legend of wrestling who suffered an
important anniversary last weekend.
On Twitter, the king spoke about the 10th
anniversary of his infamous cardiac incident.
During an episode of raw in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, saying
he defeated death after previously working a match on the
show that match would see Lawler and Randy Orton team up to
defeat, then WWE champion CM punk and Dolph Ziggler in what
would be the second biggest win for Jerry on that night.
Lawler added in his tweet that his heart had stopped beating
for 22 minutes and thanked WWE's veteran medical official Dr.
Sampson for saving his life.
On a later tweet, the king shared a photo of himself at the
state fair in Nashville and said he decided to celebrate
the 10th anniversary of his heart scare by wrestling.
Competing in a physical match may not be the best
way to celebrate having a cardiac event, following
a physical match, but that's what Lawler wanted.
And we are pleased that the king is still
around and his heart's still ticking.