Here's your wrestling news for September 23rd, 2022.
And we're kicking off today with AEW as there's a new world champion.
And his name is John Moxley.
Moxley defeated a very game, Brian Danielson to win the
title this week, but there's no rest for the wicked.
And this is your official spoiler warning for tonight's rampage.
At last night's dynamite, Tony Khan confirmed that
next week's AEW dynamite will be on Tuesday night, not
Wednesday, meaning it'll go head to head with NXT once more.
It was also announced that the dynamite episode will feature John
Moxley defending his world title against the winner of the golden
ticket battle Royal, which will take place on tonight's rampage.
That battle Royal saw hangman Adam Page emerge, victorious,
meaning he'll be Moxley's first opponent on the Tuesday
dynamite in the first ever singles match between the.
The change in schedule has been attributed to TBSS
coverage of the major league baseball playoffs and with
AEW dynamite going up against the go home and NXT before
Halloween havoc, we'll have to see which brand is dominant
during this week's grand slam edition of AEW dynamite.
Saraya made her debut shocking fans at the arena
and at home Saraya’s debut was a huge moment that
came near months after her departure from WWE.
A decision that her former employers seemed to regret.
According to fightfull select WWE was trying to
bring back page after triple H took over and had
tried to speak with her about a possible return.
WWE chose, not to resign Saraya’s in June allowing
her contract to expire in July, but that came
before Vince McMohan's retirement from the company.
It's unclear how far WWE got with their plans to bring her
back, or even if they got the chance to speak with her.
As Fightful also noted that AEW had
been speaking with Saraya all summer.
With triple H taking over many superstars who
worked with him in NXT have returned, including
Dexter Lumis, Karrion Kross and Johnny Gargano.
But that wasn't meant to be for the first ever NXT Women's champion.
Saraya’s debut for AEW came after being cut from WWE
in July, as the company had no plans on her wrestling
again, and couldn't find a reason to keep her around.
We can't say for certain that she'll wrestle in AEW though,
that looks likely, but we know that Saraya’s appearance for
AEW got some mainstream attention in her native England.
Saraya’s debut was picked up by a lot of major news outlets
in the UK, including the BBC who highlighted that fans
were legit shocked by seeing her addition to the roster.
Saraya has only been with AEW for a couple of days.
And she's already been giving the company some major
international media exposure as her debut could not have
gone better either for her or for AEW Saraya’s debut.
This week was a huge moment for her, especially after a mixed time
in WWE while the former page was the first ever NXT women's champion.
And two time diva champion her career began to turn
in 2016 after suffering a series of suspensions.
In August that year, Paige had her first
suspension for violating the wellness policy.
And though she initially denied these accusations, she failed
another drug test a few months later in October, speaking
on an episode of Lilly and Garcias chasing glory podcast.
The now AEW star claimed that she failed the
first test because she was late in submitting the
prescription, but took responsibility for the second.
It's not even good.
I didn't even enjoy it.
I didn't enjoy doing drugs.
It was wild to me.
But you just get caught up in this lifestyle
and it's like, whatever, this is me, you know?
No, it's not me.
No, it's far from me.
You know, I'm not that person.
I'm that person when I was 15 going,
this sucks, but I just wanted to be cool.
You know what I mean?
Paige went on to say in an interview with Fox, that
her situation wasn't helped by the toxic people.
She surrounded herself with at the.
Honestly, you surround yourself with toxic
people, then that doesn't really help either.
So what I did, because I remember walking through
a supermarket and I was, I looked terrible
because, you know, I was, and I unfortunately did.
I'm very open about this and I love to talk about it just because
again, it helps others, but I was, I unfortunately pop the drug
test in WWE because I was just going through a bad stage in my
life and was just so depressed that I turned to something else.
You.
Thankfully Saraya has since been able to turn things
around, but only after undergoing more difficult situations.
And we'll have to see if AEW allows her to wrestle once more.
Uh, the latest RAW QR code was spotted,
which took fans to a creepy video.
Teasing will get answers to the recent
white rabbit teases on tonight's SmackDown.
One popular theory is that the white rabbit is bray Wyatt, and
there's even discussions about what he could do on the show.
According to sources.
WWE has been discussing immediate plans for Wyatt's
return, including what he could do on tonight's SmackDown.
According to one source, there's been talks about Wyatt interrupting,
the undisputed tag title match between the brawling Brawling
Brutes and the USOs with the pitched idea for Wyatt to decimate
everyone involved, this would be followed up on later in the night,
as Wyatt would also confront undisputed WWE universal champion,
Roman reigns after dispatching the USOs earlier in the night.
We know that rains is scheduled to appear on the show.
And while the tribal chief will discuss his upcoming match
with Logan, Paul, a return by Wyatt could also happen with
drew McIntyre engaged in a feude against Karrion Kross.
There is no legit opponent who could terrorize the bloodline
down the blue brand, and that spot could be filled by bray.
There have even been talks that Wyatt could be the
one to Dethrone reigns, which may have been used as
incentive when negotiating his return to the company.
Fans may remember that rain's run as champion began back at payback
2020 when he ended Wyatt's brief one reign as universal champion
and now 754 days later, the feend could be out for revenge.
When the good brothers, Luke Gallos and Carl Anderson
were released from WWE, they made their way to
impact wrestling debuting at that year's slameversy.
Yellows and Anderson have gone on to become three time
impact world tag team champions, but there isn't a
fourth reign in their future fighteful reports that
the team has finished up their tenure with impact.
And while their initial contracts were meant to expire in
July, they decided to stick around for a few more weeks.
Yellows and Anderson are already finding new work as the report
also notes their plans to work with new Japan, especially
in time for next year's wrestle kingdom event in January.
In a video shared by impact.
It was confirmed that they're going away, but Anderson
did tease a return saying that this isn't goodbye, but
that we're leaving for a little while, whether Gallos
and Anderson returned to impact only time will tell.
But for now, the good brother's tenure with the promotion
is over for the time being now AEW has a lot of veterans on
the roster who in addition to wrestling, help out behind the
scenes and the original death dealer, Luther is one of them.
Luther has been missing from AEW programming since may, after
he was sidelined because of an injury, but now has a new role
in the company, Fightful select reports that Luther had his
hand in producing one of the matches in AEW rampage grand slam.
And that he's been doing this for quite some time.
It's also noted that Luther has been cleared to wresling
since September, as he worked the SOS Castaway show,
but is yet to wrestle on TV for AEW since being cleared.
Serpentico Luther's tag team partner is still active on AEW dark
& elevation matches, and is also said to be working as a coach, as the
young talents in AEW have a wealth of knowledge at their disposal,
more from AEW now as one Ex WWE superstar, who is with the company
is set to take some time off at all out 2022, Ruby Soho suffered a
facial injury, which was believed at the time to be a broken nose.
And we now have an update on her condition.
In a video shared by the UK based one P w promotion,
it was confirmed that Soho has suffered a broken nose
and that she will be needing surgery for it to heal.
Not only will this keep her from the one PW event scheduled for
Doncaster England on October 1st, but it also means she'll be
out of action from any AEW matches for the foreseeable future.
The tweet noted that Soho will instead
make her one P w debut in February, 2023.
So she should be healed and back with AEW by then, but the
former superstar is on the shelf for the time being now,
earlier this month, cm punk had some explosive comments during
the AEW all out 2022 media scrum and a backstage fight ensued
hitting punk and his trainer a steel against the young bucks.
A lot has been said about the fight and what
AEW should do with their former world champion.
And now Rhonda Rousey has weighed in
appearing on her latest gaming stream.
The WWE superstar addressed the fight and
questioned just how legitimate it was.
Was there a real fight?
Everything is all hearsay.
I don't know what to say.
I wasn't there when it happened.
I know I didn't see it, but are you sure it's not, you know, a.
Rousey is hardly alone in her assumption
that the fight was at work, though.
All reports have suggested that what
happened after all out was a shoot.
Tony Khan has removed everyone involved in the fight from AEW
programming with speculation that punk and steel could be fired.
But if so, that decision will only come
after the ongoing investigation is concluded.
Back to WWE.
And given that she's not a wrestler, you'd be
excused for thinking Kayla Braxton's time with the
company hasn't been rough, but that isn't the case.
Braxton has been with WWE since 2016, first debuting as a
ring announcer for NXT before moving to the main roster.
And now serving as a SmackDown interviewer on Twitter,
the cohost of WWE, the bump revealed that she suffers
from sleep paralysis and has done so since she was.
Braxton explained a recent battle of sleep paralysis
saying she dreams that a girl and ran in front of her
on the bed and that Braxton couldn't move or speak,
which understandably freaked her out in response.
Fans share their own sleep paralysis stories with
one Twitter user saying how they experience it.
And for them, they can't move as an
old lady, watches them in the room.
According to studies between eight and 50% of people will
experience sleep paralysis at some point in their lives.
And we want to give kudos to Braxton on speaking about her condition.
And we're ending today with AEW who as of late, has held a
series of backstage meetings with talent to discuss some of the
issues that have been happening as of late, the first of these
meetings happened in August and we've previously reported that
Kenny omega had what many called tough love for the roster.
Thanks to reports.
We know that omega said during a meeting that he wouldn't have
hired most of them with Dave Meltzer reporting that he said he
would not have hired eight out of 10 people in the room in an
update it's reported that omega made the comment before turning
to will Osprey saying that the new Japan star doesn't work
for AEW yet could wrestle circles around everyone in the room.
It's also reported that Omega's comment was seen as the AEW EVP
expressing his unhappiness about what the company had turned into and
voicing his opinion about those who don't respect AEW or Tony Khan.
Right now, omega is serving a suspension due
to his role in the AEW all out backstage fight.
But with comments like these, the roster may
not be ready to welcome him back with open arms.