Here's more wrestling news for September 4th 2021
And your headlines for Afternoon include
CM Punk's Priceless Reaction After Fan Offers Him A Drink At AEW Rampage!
'Are You Just Going To Sit There And Say Nothing?' - Former WWE Star Recalls Vince McMahon Yelling!
What’s In Store For THE MIZ?
Nikki ASH’s WWE Money In The Bank Win Was Last Minute Decision!
WWE Wrestler Made It Clear To WWE He Would Not Give Up His Twitch Account!
Former WWE World Heavyweight Champion’s SON Officially Joins Indie Wrestling Company Roster!
Roman Reigns & Usos Skipping WWE United Kingdom Tour!
"What An Arrogant Mindset" - AEW Star QT Marshall Recalls A Miserable WWE Tryout And more!
We’re kicking off with AEW Rampage, as fans were once again ecstatic to see CM Punk, even if some of the crowd didn’t know too
much about the former WWE Champion. Punk was on commentary during the Darby Allin-Daniel Garcia, but before then, dove into
the crowd as part of his entrance. The fans were pleased to get up close and personal with Punk, though Punk hilariously
rejected one fan’s offer to drink his beer, and was adamant when the fan insisted Punk take a sip.
Perhaps the fan didn’t realise that Punk is infamously Straight-Edge, meaning he doesn’t drink alcohol, and has a big tattoo
over his stomach to make his views clear. Punk didn’t take a drink, but that’s not for lack of trying by the fan, who’ll know next time to
keep his beers to himself. This all made for an hilarious scene before Punk excelled at the commentary box, and
we’ll have to see what goes down when the Best in the World faces Allin this Sunday at All Out.
Punk was on commentary for this week’s Rampage, but fans haven’t forgotten about his time commentating in WWE, and that’s
something Punk hasn’t forgotten about either. Punk’s brief tenure as a commentator in WWE was in 2010 when he was dealing with
an injury, and in an interview with Renee Paquette on Oral Sessions, discussed having to work with Vince McMahon in his ear.
Vince said 'We're going to have you do commentary until your ring ready,' and I was bummed because I didn't want to fly [because
of injury]. And I remember the first night on commentary, Vince started yelling in my headset, and I elbowed Lawler. I wrote a
note to him. I was like, 'which is the volume button?' And he pointed to it, and I turned it all the way down. When we took the headsets
off after the show, I was like, 'Did you not know you could do that?' He's like, 'I mean, I knew I could do that. We're going to get yelled at.'
Vince never said anything to me." With McMahon turned down, Punk delivered some of the best commentary of 2010 during
his brief stint behind the desk, and it was his commentary and his wrestling that he credited as why he’s the Best in the World during the
infamous Pipebomb on the June 27th 2011 RAW
As a former WWE Champion and self- professed A-Lister, The Miz has had plenty of projects both in and out of the ring
and he’s now trading in his wrestling boots for some dancing shoes.
PW Insider reports that The Miz is set for the next season of Dancing with the Stars, which’ll premiere late this month on ABC.
The two-time WWE Grand Slam Champion is no stranger to reality TV, as he made his name on The Real World: Back to New York in
2001, and appeared on several shows before becoming a WWE Superstar. This week also marks Miz’s 15th anniversary
since his first match in WWE, and after not appearing on this week’s RAW despite advertised, fans will soon be seeing the
the A-Lister strut his stuff on the ballroom floor.
At Money in the Bank 2021, Nikki A.S.H shocked fans by winning the Women’s Money-in-the- Bank contract, beating former Champions like
Asuka, Natalya and Alexa Bliss. Given the caliber of her opponents, Nikki’s win took many fans by surprise, and
it apparently wasn’t something that the Scottish Superstar had a lot of time to prepare for.
According to Fightful, who spoke to the former RAW Women’s Champion, she wasn’t informed of her win until the afternoon of the Pay
Pay-Per-View, and cried when she learned that she’d be capturing the briefcase. Similarly, WWE only informed Cross that she’d
be cashing in mere hours before RAW, where she defeated a prone Charlotte Flair to win the title
Nikki has since lost the RAW Women’s Championship back to Flair, and we’ll have to see if she gets a push like this again,
but nobody can take these two victories away from her, despite how short her reign was.
Last week, Adam Cole’s short-term deal with WWE expired, and he’s now one of wrestling’s hottest free agents.
Cole reportedly left without a non-compete clause, meaning he can appear for another company immediately, and we now know
more of what happened backstage between the ex-Superstar and the company. Fightful Select reports that before his original
contract with WWE expired in July, Cole made it clear that he was not willing to give up his Twitch account, as many other wrestlers have
been asked to do by WWE over the past year. Cole’s Twitch account was said to be non- negotiable in any WWE contract talks he had,
this reportedly annoyed WWE higher-ups, who didn’t believe he had much leverage on the situation.
After signing a short-term deal that’d keep him employed until the end of August, Cole told his Twitch fans that there was no chance he’d
be going away, and clearly meant it. Now, Cole is gone from WWE, and one of wrestling’s hottest free agents, and wherever
he goes next, he’s adamant that he’s allowed to continue on Twitch.
In 2007, Chris Benoit’s final actions in life rocked the wrestling community to it’s core, but his remaining son David is now getting in
the ring himself. At a recent show, Real Canadian Wrestling announced that David is now an official
member of their roster, and will wrestle for theme eventually as well. A trainee of the Canadian Strong Style Wrestling
Academy, David has worked hard to get into the same industry as his father, who was regarded as one of the greatest wrestlers on
the planet prior to his death in 2007. Hopefully, David Benoit will be given the chance to show what he can do in the ring, and won’t
have to live in his father’s shadow as his own wrestler.
Over to RAW next, as next week’s show will see new number 1 contenders for the RAW Tag team Championships be crowned.
In a seven-team turmoil match, including names like the New Day, Omos and AJ Styles and the Viking Raiders, the winners will get a guaranteed
title match against RK-Bro. It’s not been specified when this title match will take place, but it’s expected for Extreme
Rules, and we’re sure Riddle and Randy Orton will be watching closely during next week’s RAW.
Later this month, WWE will host their first international tour in a very long time, when a four-stop tour of the UK happens, but the
the shows will be missing some very important names. Alex McCarthy reports that despite being the
top faction in WWE, The Bloodline will not be part of this upcoming UK tour, as Roman Reigns, the Usos and presumably Paul Heyman
are not going to be making the trip. Instead of being on the tour, the Bloodline will be coming to RAW, as McCarthy also reports
that the group has been advertised for the September 20th RAW in North Carolina, meaning they’ll miss the tour that goes from
the 19th to the 22nd. Reigns and the Usos haven’t appeared on RAW in a very long time, and whatever WWE
has planned for the Bloodline on the September 20th show, it’s enough to keep them away from Newcastle, London, Cardiff and Glasgow.
And we’re ending today with QT Marshall, who before making it in AEW, attended several WWE tryouts, hoping to become a Superstar.
Speaking to Sportskeeda this week, Marshall discussed some of his tryouts, calling them “unfortunate,” and said that they were asked
questions such as “how tall are you,” rather than being asked to show what they could do in the ring.
When Marshall questioned this idea at a 2009 tryout one member of WWE told him “we can’t teach anyone how to wrestle,” which the AEW
star branding an “arrogant mindset at the time.” Marshall said that this tryout experience stuck with him, as the company was telling 50 or so
people who wanted to be professional wrestlers, that wrestling powers don’t matter. Now, Marshall works as a coach himself,
and is the head trainer at Cody Rhodes’ ‘Nightmare Factory’ wrestling school, where he’s giving the next generation of wrestlers
an opportunity to learn, something he was never given when he tried to make it in WWE.