Here is your news for June 21 2020 New WWE Cinematic Match Booked! WWE New Wyatt Family! Truth Behind WWE Talent Release! Wrestling News 2 00:00:15,081 --> 00:00:17,550 Your headlines for today include:
WWE’s Plan For Unique Braun Strowman vs Bray Wyatt Extreme Rules Match
Bray Wyatt Teases Return Of Wyatt Family – Who Could Be The New Wyatt Family Member?
Roman Reigns Discloses Some Important Facts Concerning WrestleMania 33
Undertaker's Mount Rushmore Of Wrestling !
Who Is Chris Jericho Confronting Next Revealed!
Released WWE Superstar Breaks His Silence!
Interesting News About AEW’s Video Game
A New Owen Hart Documentary and MORE!
We’re kicking off today with news from SmackDown, as Bray Wyatt brought back
his old self on this week’s show, but what does that mean for the Eater of Worlds.
According to a report by Ringside News, fans can expect Wyatt and Universal
Champion Braun Strowman to face off again, in a highly cinematic match that’ll
take place at Extreme Rules.
Their report went on to say that this cinematic match, which’ll follow in the heels
of the Firefly Fun House match from WrestleMania, will have plenty of shocking
movements, though their source added that things will happen, just so things happen.
We’re not quite sure what sort of things will happen in this latest cinematic
venture by WWE, but given how popular Wyatt has been in the year since his re-
debut with The Fiend, it’s likely fans will still be excited to see these two
Superstars collide again.
Although Bray Wyatt’s Eater Of Worlds persona returned during Friday Night
SmackDown this week. What’s to come after that big surprise? He might just get
the band back together.
The Wyatt Family will be very difficult to completely reconstruct right now. Brodie
Lee/Luke Harper is now under contract with AEW now
Erick Rowan isn’t out of the question, but his non-compete clause is reportedly up
on July 15th which is prior to the July 19th Extreme Rules event.
Bray Wyatt tweeted out a photo of himself, Erick Rowan, and Braun Strowman
from their Wyatt Family days. Luke Harper was either out injured during that time,
or he was holding the camera.
“Daddy’s back,” Wyatt tweeted out with the hashtags #LetTheSinBegin. He also
included #DownWithTheMachine.
This is an interesting development. Ringside News exclusively reported that Bray
Wyatt vs Braun Strowman is set to be a cinematic match at Extreme Rules with
lots of surprises. Getting the Wyatt Family back together would certainly be a surprise.
One man who hasn’t been seen lately, albeit for a different reason, is Roman
Reigns, and whilst the Big Dog has had plenty of career highs over the years, he’s
not pleased with all of them.
Whilst speaking to ESPN, the Big Dog explained how pleased he was when he
found out he’d be facing the Undertaker at WrestleMania 33, until he found out
that he’d be beating the Demon of Death Valley. He said:
“I remember the first thing I thought was that I wanted to put him over. I wanted
to lose. Immediately, that was my instinct. Out of respect.”
Speaking about how he knew the Phenom was hurt going into the match, Reigns
said that the story would have been better if the veteran had defeated the
younger Superstar, but Vince McMahon clearly didn’t see things that way.
Despite Roman’s views, and the fans as well, Reigns gave the Phenom only his
second ever loss at Wrestle Mania, though when it comes to records, being 25-2 at
the Grandest Stage of them all isn’t bad at all.
We have some AEW News now as a confrontation between Orange Cassidy and
Chris Jericho has been announced for Wednesday's Dynamite.
The company announced the addition to Wednesday's show today in a tweet. The
two are scheduled to wrestle at Fyter Fest, which will be a two week event
starting on July 1 and continuing on July 8.
The two have been feuding for the last several weeks. Jericho assaulted Orange
Cassidy with a baseball bat two weeks ago, busting him open. Cassidy retaliated by
dressing as a cameraman on last week’s show. After Jericho and tag partner
Sammy Guevara lost to Best Friends, Cassidy came into the ring and attacked
Jericho, sending him out of the ring with a Superman punch.
Already announced for next week is Mr. Brodie Lee & Colt Cabana vs. Sonny Kiss &
Joey Janela, Wardlow vs. Luchasaurus in a lumberjack match, FTR vs. The Natural
Nightmares, and Sammy Guevara vs. Matt Hardy. AEW World champion Jon
Moxley will also be in action.
Wade Barrett isn’t wrestling anymore, but he is still getting into plenty of action.
Now going as his real name Stu Bennett, he has a rather impressive career as an
action movie star going.
Bennett revealed a screenshot from his new film Vengeance. In this photo he is
pulling off a Superman Punch. The former Bad News Barrett posted the
screenshot with a nod to the Big Dog.
We’ll have to see what’s next for Stu Bennett as he turned down WWE’s offer to
take part in a NEXUS reunion and then stated that his in-ring career might not be 100% done.
Former WWE Superstar also shared his opinion about the current WWE
Champion. Wade Barrett jokingly said on Twitter that he was furious about the
fact that Drew McIntyre is the first-ever British WWE Champion as he believes
that it should have been him.
Earlier, the former Nexus leader revealed that he was happy with Drew McIntyre
being the first Brit to hold the premier title of WWE, but later jokingly backtracked
on his claim. Let’s see where this story leads us to
We’re looking at former WWE referee Mike Chioda, who
sat down with Chris Jericho to speak about his career, and departure from the company.
Speaking about his release, Chioda admitted that it took him entirely by surprise,
not just because he’d been with WWE for over 30 years, but also because he’d
been rehabbing from a torn rotator cuff and a torn bicep following surgery in
October. He said:
“I healed up and was ready for WrestleMania. I signed a new contract in the
middle of March. I got a bump in pay. I got a phone call and text on April 15th.
There was no reason.”
April 15th is the date that Chioda, and many, many more WWE personalities were
let go from the company, and he went on to say that when he asked if this was
Vince or Stephanie McMahon’s doing, the company said it wasn’t.
Chioda also spoke about how over the decades, he had a quote “awesome”
relationship with Vince, and he doesn’t even know if it was because he had heat backstage.
Whatever the reason, it looks like Chioda won’t be back with WWE anytime soon,
but after 30 years in the industry, we’re sure there’s plenty of companies who’d
love to work with the veteran official.
Now, we all know that Owen Hart is one of the most beloved wrestling
personalities ever, who was tragically taken far too soon, but now the Rocket is
getting his own documentary next year.
According to Screen Daily, UK-based sales angency ‘Kaleidascope Film Distribution’
will handle sales of the film, which is set to release in the first quarter of 2021.
Jo Lewis will be directing, whilst Owen’s widow Dr. Martha Hart will be serving as
an executive producer, alongside Kaleidoscope CEO Spencer Pollard and Lee Brazier.
Getting footage for the documentary may be tough though, as it’s unknown
whether any footage from Owen’s time in WWE will be used, and Vince McMahon
also owns the footage for Stampede Wrestling as well.
What we do know is that the doc will include archived family footage, and that
Bret Hart will be just one big name to speak in an interview about his brother,
along with other contributors from the world of wrestling, including current WWE
Superstar Natalya.
This isn’t the only Owen documentary around of course, as Dark Side of the Ring
produced an hour-long special for the series finale in May, and since that gave the
show it’s best viewership ever, we’ve got high hopes for this 2021 documentary.
From one legend of the ring to another now, as The Undertaker is regarded by
many as the greatest ever, but who does he consider to be the greatest of all time?
Speaking in an interview with ComicBook.com, the Deadman gave his list as Hulk
Hogan, Ric Flair, ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin and Andre the Giant.
There were plenty of runners up for that fourth coveted spot, as the Phenom
mentioned Harley Race, Dusty Rhodes and Bruno Sammartino before settling on
the eighth wonder of the world.
One name that the Demon of Death Valley didn’t include on his list was Sting, as
fans for years have hoped to see a match between the two icons.
When asked about why the match hasn’t happened, the Deadman said to never
say never regarding the booking, and whilst he admitted it’d be a huge marquee
match, he thinks fans aren’t looking at whether the pair could deliver the match
fans are hoping to see. He said:
That’s a great match, but 10 years ago I think it could still happen and it could still
be a stellar match. I’m just not sure at this point that it could deliver on the hype.
With Sting no longer under contact, it seems the match is getting less likely with
each year, and given that The Undertaker is worried about the two, who have a
combined age of 116, it seems this dream match will remain a dream.
We’re looking at one of Undertaker’s Mount Rushmore next, as ‘Stone Cold’ Steve
Austin will be brining another episode of the Broken Skull Sessions to the WWE Network.
According to a report by WWE Network News, The Texas Rattlesnake will soon be
sitting down with Mark Henry to disucss his lengthy career in the ring.
Joining the wrestling scene with no prior experience, Henry went from a green
behemoth to one of the most impressive big-men WWE has ever seen, and with
prior guests including The Undertaker, Kane, The Big Show, Bret Hart, Goldberg
and Ric Flair, the World’s Strongest Man is in some pretty incredible company.
And speaking of AEW, we’re ending today with news from referee Aubrey
Edwards, who has confirmed that she is working on the company’s very first video game.
Speaking on the Talk Is Jericho podcast, Edwards confirmed that an AEW game is
in the works, and that she’s been appointed the project co-ordinator.
This title isn’t without merit, as before entering the world of wrestling, she worked
for a decade for in the gaming industry for companies like Xbox and Nintendo.
Speaking about working alongside fellow gaming fanatic Kenny Omega, Edwards
spoke about what the two have in mind for the game. She said:
“It really comes down to what people want, like Create-A-Characters are really
important because people like having that creativity aspect or if there’s a
character that’s not in the game, people want to create it.”
There’s currently no release date or any images from the upcoming AEW game,
but the fact that plans are officially in motion is still a big win for the company as
they continue to grow their brand.