Here's your wrestling news for March 9th 2022
And your headlines for today include
WWE 2K22 Already Giving Gamers Tons Of Glitches!
Steve Austin Accepts Kevin Owens’ Invitation To Appear On KO Show At WrestleMania 38
When Was The Deal Finalized? Vince McMahon Is Working To Get More Out Of Steve Austin For WWE WrestleMania! And More!
Breaking News As Jim Ross Shares Shocking Details Concerning Austin’s Return!
Bray Wyatt To Make First Appearance After WWE Release; Karrion Kross Shares Major Details!
Sid Could Be The Next Announced For WWE Hall of Fame!
WWE Considering Virtual Induction For Some WWE Hall Of Famers Next Month!
AEW Criticized For Already Dropping The Ball With Keith Lee!
NXT UK Star Set To Make NXT 2.0 Debut Next Week!
Seth Rollins Blacks Out All His Social Media Accounts And more!
We’re kicking off today with WWE 2K22, which was finally released, with the Deluxe Edition and NWO 4 Life edition being made available yesterday.
The standard version of the game won’t be available until Friday, but fans haven’t wasted time sharing their first glitches of the latest instalment.
One glitch saw Edge floating above the ring before descending down slowly, while another error saw the game screen completely black out and no
this wasn’t part of the Undertaker’s entrance. Another error saw the ring ropes flailing out of control, and one disastrous TLC match where
several glitches happened would’ve had the live crowd demanding refunds.
Fans have also mocked the odd player models and lack of real updates, as there’s no new matches or new gameplay mechanics to speak of.
With WWE’s relationship with 2K seriously strained, this game has been seen as a “make or break” last chance for the series, but if the developers don’t find
way to fix these glitches soon, 2K22 may be the last game before WWE finds work with another video game developer.
For the past month, Kevin Owens has been insulting the state of Texas, and on this week’s RAW, goaded ‘ Stone Cold’ Steeve Austin to show up for a
WrestleMania edition of the KO show. At long last, fans have their answer, as in a video shared by WWE, Austin confirmed he’ll be coming
to AT&T Stadium, and has one last can of whoop ass left for the Prizefighter. There’s been conflicting reports of whether this
will be a match or just a confrontation, and whatever their interaction is called, the Rattlesnake may not be too thrilled to be part of the show.
That’s at least what AEW’s Commentator and Austin’s friend Jim Ross believes, as on his Grilling JR podcast, he said he spoke to Austin
before, and that he wasn’t too excited about the plan. JR explained that while Austin remains in
great shape, the former WWF Champion is a perfectionist, and that if there was any chance of him wrestling, he’d need to be informed at
least six months notice
least six months notice.
Ross also questioned whether Owens was the right opponent, and said that if Austin is going to wrestle again, he should be allowed to hand-pick
person he’s going to be facing. JR said he’s unsure whether WWE can pull off all that they had planned with just a few weeks to
prepare for it, as we’re now just 24 days away from WrestleMania 38. In an update, Steve Carrier of Ringside News says
that Austin’s Mania plans haven’t been “scaled back,” but that he never agreed to work a match at all. It’s reported that Austin agreed to do the KO show
after fierce negotiations over creative, money, legacy and whether Austin can deliver what the audience would expect of him
Austin Vs. Owens may not be the match fans had first expected, but their confrontation will still be a draw, and should resolve the mostly-one-sided rivalry that
all started with the Prizefighter bashing Texas. But what do you make to this angle? Is Austin coming back but not wrestling still
worth it? Or would you rather have seen a match between the two? Let us know in the comments.
Stone Cold Steve Austin won’t be having a traditional match at WrestleMania, but the fact that WWE got him at all is still a huge achievement.
While its been reported that Austin and WWE have been in talks for some time, nothing was finalised, and an agreement has only come together this week.
On Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer said how a deal was only fully reached within the past couple of days, and that had he not, then the entire s
story of Owens badmouthing Texas would’ve been for nothing. While there’s other Texans who could’ve stepped
up at WrestleMania, fans have been waiting on ‘ Stone Cold’ Steve Austin for the past month, and they’ll certainly get the Texas Rattlesnake in the
lone-star state next month, but Austin left it pretty close before confirming he’ll be there.
WrestleMania 38 will mark one year since Bray Wyatt’s last match in WWE, where he took a surprising loss to Randy Orton thanks to Alexa Bliss.
Released from WWE last July, Wyatt has yet to make an appearance within the wrestling world, but that’ll all change this weekend.
Bodyslam.com reports that the former Universal Champion will appear under his real name Windham Rotunda this Sunday at the Showcase
of Legends 7 event in Albany, New York
The Fiend will be joined alongside a ton of stars, but the plan is for him not to wrestle, but to do meet and greets with fans.
A Big Time Wrestling show is scheduled for later in the day, but at this time, Wyatt isn’t on the card.
This will be Wyatt’s first public appearance at an event since his release, and while he won’t be wrestling, one ex-Superstar has their eyes on
the Fiend
When a fan said how Wyatt and Killer Kross need to face off somewhere, the two-time former NXT Champion replied, simply saying “we will.”
Like Wyatt, Kross was released from WWE last year, and has since confirmed that he’ll work with EC3 and Adam Scherr at Control Your Narrative.
With Wyatt being close to Scherr, formerly Braun Strowman, its not impossible that the former Fiend could soon be controlling his own narrative in the
promotion
But where do you think Wyatt should go next after his controversial release from WWE last July? Sound off in the comments.
Next month, WWE will once again host its annual Hall of Fame, with The Undertaker and Vader being announced so far.
Yesterday, we reported that the Steiner Brothers could be the next to be announced as inductees, but now another name from the past may soon be
donning a Hall of Fame ring.
According to Andrew Zarian, Sid is one of the names plans to be inducted, though WWE have yet to confirm this publicly.
A former WWE Champion and WCW World Heavyweight Champion, Sid worked under several names, including Sid Justice,
Sid Vicious and Sycho Sid throughout his impressive career. We’ll only now for sure if Sid is to be inducted this
year if WWE make an official statement confirming the news, but fans on April 1st can expect the seven-foot former World Champion
to be another huge name inducted into the Hall of Fame.
If he’s inducted, Sid will join one of the most star- studded Hall of Fame classes of all time, but it may have too many big stars for WWE’s liking.
That’s according to Dave Meltzer, who on Wrestling Observer Radio explained how WWE wants to give a lot of the ceremony to The Undertaker, which will
cause other inductees to have much less time, or none at all. One idea being suggested is that some inductees
won’t even have a presence at the ceremony, and that their inductions will be done digitally across social media.
WWE only has 90 minutes for this year’s Hall of Fame, as the event will run from 10:30pm eastern to midnight, and that isn’t a lot of time for an entire
class of inductees, especially when you factor in the three-decade career of the Deadman. While these legends all deserve a spot on the
ceremony, WWE simply won’t have time for everyone in their 90-minute broadcast, and its expected that some soon-to-be Hall of Famers will have to be left out.
Last month, Keith Lee made his debut for AEW, after being released from WWE in November last year.
Lee was one of the most hotly-anticipated free agents prior to inking a deal with Tony Khan, but his run in the company so far hasn’t exactly set the
world on fire. At Revolution, Lee came up short against the Face of the Revolution ladder match, in his only loss in
the company to date, but that’s not the only issue he’s facing. While speaking on Legion of Raw, former WWE
writer Vince Russo argued that AEW has dropped the ball with the Limitless One, as demonstrated in his second match with the company
being not as one-sided as you’d expect: “You and I sat here, and we witnessed WWE creative just failing Keith Lee miserably.
So I see him for the first time on AEW, and from what I understand, the company had him in the ring with a jabroni
called JD Drake. I have never even heard of this guy. Seriously, it took him about 12 minutes to beat this jabroni, and I’m like, ‘What are you doing!
Keith Lee’s second match in AEW, 12 minutes to beat this guy? Did you guys not learn anything from watching WWE?’ I just can’t fathom this.”
Lee has a tremendous amount of talent, but many feel AEW, like WWE’s main roster, isn’t capitalising on it, and here’s hoping things turn around
for the former NXT Champion in Tony Khan’s company.
Over to NXT 2.0, as the show recently saw the long- awaited arrival of Gunther after dominating the NXT UK brand, and now another name from across the
pond is heading to the United States. During NXT Roadblock, promos were aired for the arrival of A-Kid, the Spanish Superstar who
won the first NXT UK Heritage Cup, and he’s set to make his debut for NXT 2.0 next week. The 24-year-old is one of WWE’s best underrated
wrestlers right now, and has proven to be a s tandout star on the NXT UK roster, and he’s now bringing his talents to NXT 2.0.
And we’re ending today with Seth Rollins, who has changed up his social media accounts in a major way.
Online, Rollins has blacked out his Twitter header and profile photo and has changed his name to an ellipsis, without giving any reason why.
The former World Champion also made similar changes to his Instagram account, and like on Twitter, gave no reason for the change.
What we do know is that on RAW, Rollins looked despondent after he and Kevin Owens failed to capture the RAW Tag Team titles, which he said
they had to win to book their place at WrestleMania 38. When Kevin Patrick approached Rollins backstage, the Superstar who’s almost never at a loss for
words walked away without responding to his questions. At this time, there’s no update as to what WWE
has planned for Rollins at WrestleMania, and that’s clearly taking a toll on the Visionary, even on social media.