Here's more wrestling news for September 18th, 2022.
And we're starting this afternoon with WWE and at summer slam
2022 Brock Lessner came up short in his efforts to de throw
Roman reigns in the most recent appearance by the beast in
carnet Lester reigns first began their feud back in 2015.
So it's safe to say that the tribal chief knows
all about working with the former world champion.
Speaking on the impulsive podcast, rain spoke about arguably his
greatest rival and how difficult it is to work with the beast.
Fucking Brock Lester man.
He picks you up and throws you on your head.
There's nothing nice about that.
It's very tough to work with a human being like that.
Some call him like the alpha male of our species.
And it's true.
He really is what he is.
I mean, he's a great businessman, but at the same time, he
has a legitimate background of MMA that when you get in the
ring, there has to be some kind of protection of that legit.
We can't just put 'em in there with anybody, but at the same time,
when you get in there with them, you kind of understand it's gonna
be a bit of a ride, but there's gonna be a lot of eyeballs on it.
So that always makes it better.
There's no word yet on when lesser will be back or
if he will continue being the fun loving cowboy fans
have enjoyed seeing from him over the past year.
All we know is that lesser is still on
WWE's roster and will be back eventually.
And whoever works with him next will be
feeling pretty sore after the beasts.
Next match in may Julia Hart turned her back on the
varsity blondes and joined the ranks of the house of black.
Since then the blondes consisting of Brian Piman and Griff Garrison
have had just five matches on a w programming with mixed results.
And now the group could be done for good.
That's if Hillman's comments are to be believed.
As when speaking on the cafe to Renee podcast, the second
generation wrestler spoke about the team in the past tense,
Piman said how the blondes could have gotten over adding that.
I don't think that the varsity blondes was
the fullest creative extension of myself.
Piman added that he will look back
on the group fondly, but added that.
He's not sure what's next for his career.
From the way Hillman is talking, it seems like
his days teaming with gr Garrison are over.
So we'll have to see what everyone involved does next in July, triple
H was appointed WWE's head of creative, which came as a delight
to fans who weren't exactly thrilled with Vince McMahon's ideas.
One of MCM man's more infamous decisions was bringing
diamond do's page into the WWF in 2001 and making
him the stalker of the Undertaker's then wife, Sarah.
DDP had been one of w C W's most popular stars and had been
calling himself the people's champion long before the rock.
So the decision for him to be a pervert, didn't go down well
on his latest episode of DDP, snake, pit Paige discussed WWE
booking and what he expects to see under the triple H era.
I don't think triple a will be booking for the internet.
I can't imagine that even though the internet has a pretty sound
voice right now, I think he's going to book good storylines.
That's what I believe from a wrestler's point of view.
Well, fans can be very vocal on social media.
They represent only a part of the total WWE universe
and triple H will be booking for the masses.
At least as far as diamond Dallas page is concerned.
One name who could benefit from the games.
Regime is his old workout buddy Shamus who made his WWE Debut in 2009.
And by the end of the year was the WWE champion.
Now 13 years later, Shamus is one of WWE's longest tenured
superstars and has earned the respective fans as a veteran of
the locker room with that said, Shamus is now 44, but while
speaking to inside the ropes said he has no plans to ease up soon.
As long as people get excited to see the Celtic warrior go out there.
I'll just keep going as long as possible.
I feel like I've got at least another eight years in me.
Fans are certainly still excited for Shamus as you into
standing ovation for his match against Gunther at WWE clash
of the castle, a five star bout as rated by Dave Meltzer.
The Intercontinental championship is the last title.
Shamus needs to become a grand slam champion in WWE E.
And although the Cardiff show wasn't his night, he'll have another
opportunity eventually, especially as he has no plans on retiring yet.
In 2020 WWE debuted their new concept to Lu viewers
in a bear knuckle shoot fight que segment called
raw underground inspired by the film fight club.
The setting for raw underground included dancing women, which while
common during the attitude era was strange to see on WWE's PG product.
This week, Omar spoke to Sayles with Kaz, lowkey, and Rosie, and when
discussing raw underground revealed how exactly WWE found these women.
I first thought they were just actors, but they
were like, no, these are literally just strippers.
And I'm like, whoa, raw underground was one of em O's first
onscreen rolls for WWE E as he served as the bodyguard for
segment host, Shane McMan before the concept was ultimately next.
During the attitude era, WWE would hire local
strippers to perform on screen as the Godfather's host.
And even all these years later, the promotion
still had a role for these exotic dancers.
After cm, punk's comments and all out.
And the fight that broke out reports came out that
the locker room had turned on the best in the world.
It was even said that many within AEW felt punk should
be fired and that he's too much hassle for his worth, but
not everyone is anti punk sitting down with wrestling,
ink, AEW's Anthony Henry, who has appeared mostly on dark
spoke about the two time former AEW world champion saying.
I've talked to punk a couple of times, he was very nice to me
actually, when I came in, he introduced himself to me, which
very nice, that's a rare thing that usually doesn't happen, but
he just walked up to me like, hi, I'm Phil Henry went on to note
that he hasn't had any real in depth conversations with punk this
far, but notes that he's always seemed like a cool guy to him.
It'll be Tony Conn's decision as to whether cm punk remains
a part of the AEW locker room with the investigation said to
be nowhere near finished, it'll be some time before the AEW
president needs to make what'll no doubt be a tough call.
When this week SmackDown went off the air, Rhonda
Rousey had an in ringing brawl with Natalia and was
able to get the better of the heart dungeon graduate.
Rosy was all business when dealing with Natalia, but the former Ron
SmackDown women's champion showed a softer side after the collision.
Greeting those in the crowd afterward RO gave a
shout out to her mom who sat ringside for the show in
Anaheim, even though she's kind of a heel at the moment.
It's nice to see that rosy had time for her
mother who will no doubt be on her side.
When she challenges smack down women's champion live
Morgan at extreme rules when Mickey James was released from
WWE, her departure became a PR nightmare for the company
with her personal effects being sent in a trash bag.
This ultimately led to WWE parting
ways with company veteran, mark Corona.
But this was far from a one off incident.
Speaking on interview with James though, we should mention not
Mickey James fellow WWE alum, Maria Canella spoke about her
2010 departure from WWE and also receiving a trash bag of items.
I received my first garbage bag underneath John LOI.
This situation has been going on for a bit and they really
should hire outside HR departments to come in and do some
audits on what's going on within the company, hire therapists.
If people need mental help, I just think they need to take a look
within and start dealing with some of these real life adult problems.
Laura.
I is unlikely to be sending anyone in WWE, anything trash bag or
not as he was let go by the company this year for his reported role
in the alleged Vince McMahon's scandal, while Maria would return to
WWE in 2017, her second run with the company didn't go much better.
So it may be a long time before we
see her appearing UN ROS smack down.
During her first run in WWE, Maria often played something of
a ditz who was easily manipulated by heels to their own ends.
The ditzy character probably wouldn't fly these days, but as
Maria explained on the podcast, she had fun with the role.
Not only that, but the character also helped
shield her from some of the not so fun aspect of
being a WWE E diva at the time, as she explain.
I like playing my character pretty much full time.
At that time, there was a lot of sexism.
There were a lot of things that were kind of flying around
and if I was the dumb girl, then people kind of left me alone.
And for me, it was almost like some shield against everyone else.
And they're crazy.
Returning to WWE in 2017, Maria had dropped the
character completely instead returning with her husband,
Mike Canella, Bennett as an impressive power, couple.
Maria's days is a disci diva long behind her, but unlike others,
the former 24 7 champion has no problem with the character.
She played on the post clash of the castle
episode of raw Ron Stroman returned to WWE E.
And what was a huge score for the company
and a huge loss for control your narrative.
Without Stroman, it's been announced that Cyn
won't be going on tour as previously announced.
And the future of the company looks pretty bleak.
Despite this C three C Y N's co-founder is keeping positive
and isn't too mad for Stroman for taking WWE's offer anything.
I would've put paper and signed.
Like we're both smart.
We're both friends and we're both businessmen that
in paper would say, if so, and so calls and is
offering this understand, I would have to take it.
I would have the exact same thing in mind too, because you never know.
I'll take full responsibility.
I allowed outside forces to throw these things
at us that weren't ready because I'm a swinging
Dick bastard and I'm like, I can fucking do this.
And with the tour, I figured it out.
I could do it.
We're going to fucking win.
But you know, I laid it on that.
So that goes away.
But also I knew there was no way this would work
without funding or a sponsor or things like that.
So far Stroman has been feuding with alpha academy and will
have his first singles match next week against Otis and the
monster among men's days of competing in front of 30 people
or so at a bar are now behind him for the past few months.
There's been a lot of talk about bra Wyatt and whether
he could return to WWE in this new post Vince McMan era.
It's been reported that Wyatt has been in
talks with WWE E and something truly bizarre.
During this week, SmackDown has had fans talking
during a commercial break, WWE seemingly teased Wyatt's
return with a bizarre rendition of white rabbit.
Being blared to the fans live in attendance who
held their phone lights up like brace fireflies,
not only that, but the arena then went red.
Another Wyatt trope as arenas around the world will fill
with an eerie reddish glow during his 10 years of zine.
Now, typically WWE does nothing like this during commercial breaks.
And no explanation has been given as to
why this bizarre situation played out.
Ray hasn't competed for any promotion since leaving
WWE E making his WrestleMania 37 loss his most
recent bout, but we'll have to see what's next.
After this bizarre segment in Anaheim.
Back to AEW and cm punk is out with an injury, which is
set to keep him on the shelf for six to eight months.
But the former world champion is also serving a suspension.
Punk may be one of a W's biggest stars, but his actions
after all out have been condemned by almost everyone.
But Tony Conn may have no choice, but to bring him back on
his podcast, Jim Cornett addressed the possibility of con
bringing punk back sooner than expected, especially with AEW
wanting to score the best deal with Warner brothers discovery.
Depending on how their business is doing cm.
Punk might need to be back on TV sooner than later, because they're
gonna do the negotiations, which are going to start any old time.
Now, the initial part with a new TV O deal in the next year, year
and a half, my God, you know, Tony Conn can't be in negotiations
for a new rights deal when he is putting on main events that
lose 350,000 fucking viewers from the start of the program.
That means he needs to rely on people
that can draw ratings on television.
And that one so far has been punk.
Punk does spike the ratings when he is on TV, but
data has shown that he isn't the consistent draw.
Some believe he is Tony Kahn wants what's best for his company.
And what's best in the long term is a lucrative
deal brought on by impressive viewing figures.
And if Sam punk can get him those figures, then the suspended
former world champ may not be suspended for much longer.
When Robert Rud joined WWE in 2016, he received a huge push upon his
arrival becoming the NXC champion and later the us champion after
being called to the main roster, a former Ron SmackDown tag champion
fans have only seen Rudd perform sporadically over the last couple
of years with his last in ringing match being in June this year.
Speaking to sports KES, the wrestling Outlaws C three gave his
views on his fellow former impact world champion, suggesting
that rude could be hurt or out with a prolonged injury.
C three also had praise for rude, calling him handsome as hell.
And that he is a gentleman.
Who's great to talk to WWE.
Haven't confirmed any reports of rude being injured.
So the fans of the glorious one will just have
to keep waiting until he is back in the ring.