Here's more wrestling news for July 22nd, 2022.
And we're kicking off this afternoon with AEW dynamite, which this
week had a stacked card, including a barbed wire everywhere match
between Chris Jericho and Eddie Kingston with a huge match like that.
It's no wonder that the show was entirely sold out
or at least that's what AEW would have fans believe.
Well, the commentary team said that dynamite was sold out.
Pictures have emerged on social media,
showing many empty seats for the show.
This isn't the first time Tony Khan has struggled to sell
out venues with shows in recent weeks, selling poorly,
including ring of honors death before dishonor event.
For years, Khan has never shied away from poking fun at WWE for low
attendances and had a lot to say when money in the bank, 2022 was
moved to a smaller venue, but we doubt the AEW president will be
bringing this week's actual attendance up during his next media call.
When Mauro Ranallo joined, WWE fans were thrilled with
his work as a commentator with his passion, for the show
going unmatched by his fellow commentators at the time.
Ronaldo has since left WWE and is currently calling
the action for Bellator and some boxing events, but
he could, he soon lend his voice to AEW in a tweet.
Dave Meltzer stated that there had been talks between Ronaldo's
management and AEW sometime back, but Meltzer did not provide any more
details about these talks in some replies fans expressed that they'd
love to hear Mauro in AEW but given that these talks were sometime
back, it looks like nothing ever came out of these discussions.
For what it's worth Mauro has called an AEW world title
match already commentating on the rich Swan versus Kenny
omega main event from rebellion 2021, where omega retained
his title and also won the impact world championship.
Having worked with WWE impact wrestling, Bellator and new
Japan in 2015 Ranallo has proven himself, but it remains
to be seen if he ever has a full-time role with AEW.
One name who's in AEW is colt cabana,
but you wouldn't exactly know it.
If you tuned into the show cabana hasn't been seen in quite
some time, despite being a recognizable name in the company, and
we have an update as to where he'll be in a recent media call.
Tony Khan confirmed that colt will be in Lowell,
Massachusetts, this Saturday for ring of honors death before
dishonor event saying he has plans to have him involved.
Khan didn't specify what kind of role cabana will have, but we
know that it'll come after a lengthy absence from AEW programming.
Some have suggested that this is due to cm, punk.
Cabana's former friend who is now also the AEW world champion,
but Khan refused to comment on the relationship between
punk and cabana saying that colt will be good for Roh.
Cabana and punk were Once the best of friends
before legal matters, broke their bond.
And while he may not be appearing in AEW anytime soon, cabana
will have some undisclosed role for death before dishonor on
July 31st, Ric flair will have his final ever match teaming
with Andrade El Idolo to face Jeff Jarrett and Jay lethal.
All four men involved are talented in their own rights, but
according to Jarrett, it's not Andrade's skills that have brought
him to the dance on his, my world podcast, double J said that
Andrade is only getting opportunities on a national stage because
he's the husband of Rick's daughter, Charlotte flair saying
the former NXT champion has latched on to her accomplishments.
While Andrade being his son-in-law
may have influenced Rick's decision.
The father's son-in-law duo will have a tall order on July 31st.
And what will mark the end of one of wrestling's most legendary
careers during the latest AEW dynamite rapper Kevin Gates made
his presence felt, and Tony Neese will certainly remember his
time on the show during the celebration of Keith Lee and swerve,
Strickland niece and mark Sterling interrupted the festivities
resulting in Neece, getting punched by the Kaza rapper.
The segment was picked up by TMZ news and responding to a tweet.
Neese said, this isn't how he pictured
making his TMZ debut to be fair.
There's a lot worse ways to be the focus of TMZ, but we
reckon the former WWE cruiserweight champion will think twice.
The next time he considers confronting Kevin Gates.
Now Brian cage, hasn't wrestled for AEW in a very long time
with his most recent AEW match being back in October, 2021.
Cage did make a brief cameo for ring of honor in April this
year, but there's been a lot of speculation about what's
going on with the former Ft w champion on Twitter cage
commented on his situation saying that he is not injured.
Despite several reports saying that he is cage has been wrestling
outside of AEW recently competing against Nick Wayne for the
"Violence X Suffering" promotion in California on July 16th.
The former FTW champion also appeared for AEW recently, albeit
in a non wrestling role, accompanying ROH world champion,
Jonathan Gresham to the ring on the July 15th rampage.
Only time will tell when cage has another
match in AEW but the powerhouse is not injured.
Despite what many people have claimed.
If we know anything about Vince McMahon, it's that
the Ex WWE CEO has never been afraid to get physical
with several matches and championships to his name.
It turns out that McMahon's fighting spirit.
Isn't just for TV.
As on the latest DDP snake pit, Jake Roberts recalled a hotel room
fight between McMahon and Curt Hennig fighting in Ric flar's room.
Hardly the worst thing to happen in the room of the nature.
Boy, Robert said that the fight was a bloody mess.
And when hennig's Rolex grinded against
McMahon's ear, blood shot across the room.
Roberts added that McMahon’s ear broken half during
the fight and that everyone who'd come to watch
rated flar's mini bar costing the legend $600.
McMohan may be worth an estimated 2.3 billion these days, but he's
never been afraid to get violent, even if it meant nearly losing
an ear in a San Antonio hotel room on this week's NXT 2.0 Cora Jade
explained her heel turn saying that her tag team partner, Roxanne
Perez had robbed her of a shot at the NXT women's championship.
During her segment, Jade through her NXT women's tag team,
title belt in the trash saying the titles mean nothing.
And WWE has responded in an unprecedented
way as confirmed on WWE.Com's roster.
Page Jade's actions have led to her being stripped of
the NXT women's tag team championship, but not Perez.
Now Perez is the soul holder of the NXT women's tag team titles
with the roster page saying that vacant is her fellow champion.
This marks the first time the NXT women's tag team
titles have ever been stripped from a superstar.
And the first time just one tag title has been stripped.
WWE has given no explanation as to how Perez will defend the titles
or how her partner and next tag team champion will be decided.
But it's certainly an interesting time
for the NXT women's tag team titles.
Now angel Garza and Humberto Carillo have been a tag team for
some time now, but are yet to hold championship gold in WWE.
The pair have been portraying Latin lovers with a
kiss cam gimmick that brings some laughs to the show.
And given that they're cousins, it makes
sense that they work well together.
It's no secret that angel and Humberto are related in real life.
But in an interview with Sean Ross, Sapp Garza said that
this is something WWE didn't know when they first tried out.
Garza said how WWE should have known this, especially as they tried
out for the company together and lived very close together in Orlando.
There was a time when WWE reportedly saw Garza as this generation's
Eddie Guerrero, but any plans for a push resembling Latino
heat seem to have been dropped, but at least he can always
rely on his cousin, even if WWE didn't know they were related.
And we're ending today with Kurt angle who has
led an interesting life to say the least one that
wouldn't look out of place on the big screen.
This week, Kurt discussed the possibility of a film about his
life and said that out of all, options he'd want WWE superstar and
fellow Olympian, Chad Gable, to play him in the theoretical project.
WWE recently obtained the rights to a documentary about Kurt
angle, which will cover his early life and journey to the company.
And if they do need someone for dramatized scenes from the
hall of Famer life, Kurt knows exactly who they should call.