Here's more wrestling news for August 16th, 2022.
And we're starting off this afternoon with news
from GCW homecoming as night once saw John Moxley
defend the GCW world championship against Effy.
But after retaining the title, the champs night was far from
over immediately after the match Moxley got on the microphone
and demanded real competition, which saw the arrival of Nick
G who claimed he has unfinished business with the GCW world.
Gage laid out the challenge for a GCW world title match in the future.
And while Moxley would agree, he raised the stakes saying
that gage would have to put his career on the line to
get a shot at the gold gage has mentioned that his career
might be coming to an end in his promo interrupting Moxley
and the GCW world champion hopes to be the one to end it.
No date was confirmed for the title versus career match, but the
stakes could not be higher for when these two eventually face off.
When Bobby Lashley returned to WWE in 2018, he did.
So after establishing himself, not just in wrestling, but
in the world of MMA, Lashley boasts an impressive 15 and two
record in MMA where he mostly worked as part of Strikeforce in
Bellator, but has never stepped foot in the octagon for UFC.
While speaking to Sean Ross, SAP, Bobby Lashley revealed that Vince
McMahon recently shut him down when it came to fighting for UFC.
It's still in me.
I saw the last UFC event where Vince
and Stephanie were sitting ringside.
I was in the stands and texting Vince, can I get in there?
And he was like, ah, when lastly returned to WWE Bellator officials
confirmed that he was still under contract, but it's now been nearly
six years since his last fight, perhaps with WWE 's recent change
of management, lastly will finally get the return to the octagon.
He's hoping for something that would never happen if Vince McMahon
were still running WWE . Yesterday, we reported on aria DAV who
assigned a full-time deal with AEW Dari has had some matches with the
company, but his real skills are being utilized behind the scenes.
As he's also working as a producer for the company
prior to AEW Dari had been doing producer work for WWE
and had even been producing WWE main event shows on his
own before his abrupt departure just a few months ago.
Spiteful select reports that DAV had impressed a lot of
the right names behind the scenes in WWE and was even
expected to sign a full-time promotion with WWE, which
would've seen him return after being released in June, 2021.
The report added that WWE has doubled up on producer
assignments as opposed to the model that saw producers
receive one assignment per show and several segments,
which once had two producers are now worked solo.
In addition to producing Dari has been working on screen as the leader
of the trustbusters with slim J fellow WWE alum, Parker, Boudreau,
and most recently sunny kiss, but that never would've happened.
Had he signed to return with WWE arlier this year, when AJ styles
debuted in WWE at the 2016 Royal rumble fans were rightly shocked
as there'd been no hints that he was ever going to join the company.
Throughout his six and a half years with WWE styles has
used the same theme, understandably called phenomenal.
But this wasn't originally planned for the two time former WWE world
champion in an interview with inside the ropes styles explained
that the theme was made for a different former TNA world champion.
The cowboy James storm storm made a handful of appearances
for WWE as part of NXT in 2015, but ultimately opted
not to sign with WWE instead returning to impact wrestl.
Styles explained that when asked about a WWE ntrance
theme, he explained a CFO dollar sign, what he wanted.
And it just so happened that the theme for the cowboy
fit his requests exactly while superstars often
change their themes styles has kept the same song.
So as long as that organ hits fans know
they're in store for a great match.
When Rhonda Rousey returned to WWE this year,
she did so as a baby face, but now the former
SmackDown women's champion is working as a heel.
At a recent WWE live event, rosy showed
that she has fully embraced being a heel.
And it wasn't by her actions in the ring at the
event, a fan tried to get a picture with rosy.
And when the former UFC fighter spotted
this, she quickly grabbed the phone herself.
Roe did use the fan's phone to get a selfie,
but it wasn't with the phone's owner.
As she instead took pictures with other fans before returning
the device, all of this was captured and shared online and
in a tweet, rosy made it clear that she enjoyed being bad.
We'll have to wait and see what's in store for Roe as well.
She's not booked for clash of the castle.
Don't be surprised if the baddest woman
on the planet makes her presence known.
Regardless.
Roe has so far been unable to take the SmackDown women's
championship away from live Morgan who captured the title by
cashing in money in the bank in July as the SmackDown women's
champion, Morgan is regularly featured on WWE programming and
promotional materials, and she may soon be debuting a brand new.
On Sunday night, Morgan shared a photoshopped image of herself,
sporting bang, and dark hair in a much different look for the champ.
When Fiona Nova, the host of G four TV and an
avid WWE fan voice, her approval for the change.
Morgan told them to stay tuned, implying that the change is coming.
If so, it wouldn't be the first time Morgan has changed her.
Look as she debuted is a blonde and NXT in 2015 and
switched to pink hair for most of her run in the riot squad.
Right now though, the only thing about her appearance
Morgan should be focusing on is keeping her SmackDown
women's championship, a reign that Shayna Basler hopes
to end next month in Cardiff, more producer news.
Now, as Jason Jordan has been working backstage for years, ever
since an injury ended his ring career, the former RAW SmackDown
and NXT tag team champion has done a lot of WWE behind the
scenes, but hasn't exactly been appreciated for his efforts.
That's according to a report by spiteful, who said that Jordan was
being rarely credited for producing TV segments earlier this year,
despite putting a ton of work into them, thankfully that has changed.
And Jordan is being credited more and more for his contribution.
In recent months while Jordan had a budding wrestling career and
his work is current angle's son was definitely going somewhere.
His time in the ring was cut short and WWE at the
very least can credit him for the work he still does.
Wrestling fans all over the world are filled with a lot of
excitement ever since Vince McMohan man's retirement and
Stephanie McMahon and Nick Khan taking up the position of co CEOs.
Triple H.
On the other hand is now the new head of creative and
EVP of talent relations in an interview with ESPN, the
undertaker commented on the games' new role in the company.
He had nothing but praise for his former
opponent and shared that Lavesque was brilliant.
I mean, triple H is brilliant.
He really is.
I don't think he gets enough credit for his wrestling acumen.
I think he'll be a huge asset to the development of a lot of guys.
I think it's a step in the right direction.
This year's summer slam marked the first
premium live event under triple H's regime.
And the show has since received heaps of praise from
legends and fans alike, the dead man and the king of Kings
are two of the most well known veterans in the sport.
The two also shared a long history after many matches
together when they were still active competitors.
In the same interview, the WWE hall of Famer talked
more about what kind of person triple H was outside.
The ring taker said that Lavesque would let
someone know if they were right or wrong.
And he's a no bullshit kind of guy too.
He's going to let you know what you're doing.
That's right.
And what you're doing, that's wrong.
I think it's going to be his step in the right direction with
hunter given his past experience with the early days of NXT.
And as time as a wrestler, it's safe to say that triple H
is knowledgeable enough to know what's best for business.
Finn balor, who is a former two time NXT champion and has competed
in high profile matches since his return to NXT back in 2019, before
that balor was working in the main roster for a few years where
he was not utilized well at WWE extreme rules, 2021 Finn balor
faced off against Roman reigns for the WWE universal championship.
Fans in the arena, thought baller would emerge victorious.
However, baller lost the match after the top rope
snapped while he was standing on the turn buckle, which
led to reigns hitting his spear and picking up the win.
The ending really ticked off fans.
While speaking to WWE L brunch balor was asked
about facing reigns again, balor made it clear.
He has unfinished business with rains.
Me and Roman reigns have a lot of unfinished business.
There was a little bit of a questionable finish
to our last match at extreme rules when the top
rope mysteriously broke in our championship match.
So I feel there's a rematch due with myself and Roman.
Hopefully we'll get to that soon after clash of the castle balor
is currently feuding with edge and the misterios, we will have to
wait and see whether he will face Reigns again in the future or not.
What's your take, do you want to see balor versus
Reigns again, sound off in the comments below.
And we're ending today with AAA who has taken over as WWE 's
head of creative, following the retirement of Vince McMohan
between the recent returns and focus on different superstars.
Fans seem to be in agreement that the game is
doing great in the role, but WWE isn't so sure.
And the company's latest SEC filings WWE stated that
McMahon's retirement could have a negative effect on the
company's ability to make characters and new storylines.
It's certainly an interesting thing for WWE to say in their
filing, as it implies that the company does not have faith in
triple H to be head of creative, despite putting him in the role.
It's also worth mentioning that triple H has years in a creative
role as he worked as head of NXT and even before then had
established himself as an important and useful presence backstage.
One thing for sure is that things aren't the same without
Vince McMohan running WWE, but contrary to what the company
seems to think many fans believe that's a good thing.