I’m Pete Quinnell, welcome to the WrestleTalk News, and hey, you, what’s your favourite
feud in wrestling right now?
It doesn’t matter, because whatever you said has just been topped at a WWE house show
by a feud between Solo Sikoa and this little girl in the audience.
After repeatedly calling him a chicken throughout his match with Matt Riddle, Solo eventually
had had enough, telling the girl: I’m beating his ass, why are you calling
me a chicken.
Words that will no doubt go down in history.
Anyway, here’s some wrestling news.
CM Punk is on his way back to AEW with the impending debut of Collision, but one question
that we haven’t got an answer to yet is what he’ll actually be doing once he’s
back.
Will he be coming back to cut a promo, have a match, who will he be feuding with and will
it be The Elite?
Well, quite possibly not that last bit, as according to Sean Ross Sapp on Fightful’s
SRS Backstage Report, there have been many “heavy pitches” for various feuds once
Cow Milker Punk comes back to our screens, including the likes of Chris Jericho and current
ROH TV Champion Samoa Joe.
However, the most recent idea is that Coin Market Punk will in fact be teaming up with
FTR to take on…Bullet Club Gold, not the Elite, sorry.
Still though, Bullet Club Gold is pretty neat - a Jay White vs Punk match singles match
spinning out of it sounds pretty tasty.
But then what comes after Bullet Club Gold, how about some old members of Bullet Club?
Like…The Elite.
I’ll keep saying it.
The reason for this feud is reportedly because Punk has “taken a liking” to both Jay
White and Juice Robinson, which makes sense, they’re both very likeable guys.
Who would you want to see Punk feud with once he’s back, let me know in the comments.
But it seems it doesn’t matter who Punk feuds with once he’s back, because there
might not be that many people watching anyway.
Because believe it or not, Collision is more than a one-night show in Chicago, and there
are in fact other dates announced for its first run of shows, and those shows aren’t
doing too well in terms of ticket sales.
Dave Meltzer spoke about this on Wrestling Observer Radio, where he said that:
“I've had people in Calgary tell me that one's a little bit struggling for the Saturday
night, but I think with the Owen Hart tournament, I think they should do okay…But Hamilton
and Regina are going to be very, very tough.
They're like 700 tickets for the 'Collision' in Hamilton…”
He went on to expand on that point, noting that with the Canadian dates pencilled in,
part of the reason the tickets may be struggling up north is because there’s been no announcement
as to whether Canada will actually be able to watch Collision.
In Canada, so I’m told, they only have access to Dynamite on TV, not Rampage, so it’s
still uncertain as to whether Collision is actually viewable there or not, which may
have an impact on those early ticket sales.
I should speak to our resident Canadian to see how he feels about this.
Hey Tempest, what do you think about Canada not being able to get Rampage on TV and not
knowing whether they can get Collision or not?
Great stuff, thanks mate.
Punk has, unsurprisingly, been shifting tickets for the debut show in the United Center in
Chicago, but it seems his influence is a bit more localized now to the Chicago area and
doesn’t extend all the way up to Canadia.
And now we have a special message from the second best Turbo, Turbo Jack.
'Hundred Dollar Man' CD Hauver "Weeeellllllllll!
It's Aidan Rockwell!"
"The Kessel Run" Dxsolo Double L Liam Leonard
Mad Mac The Meatfather Have An Argy-Bargy, Margie-Pargie
The Matt Man, Matthew Allen Ryan "Disco" Stewart
Star Wars Wrestling Thomas " The Prize Hooker" Solorzano
"The Taco Man" Tomas Hernandez "The Redacted One" Jake
Will “The M.S.
Warrior” Stewart Thank you Turbo Jack.
Don’t know why they got him to read those names out and not Turbo
Jake, but y’know, it’s fine, it’s whatever, I don’t mind, it’s fine-
Returning to AEW news, it seems there may be another long-awaited return before long,
but only maybe.
According to the Wrestling Observer, Santana will be ready to return from injury soon.
He’s been out since the Blood & Guts match last year with a torn ACL, so nearly a full
year at this point.
But the interesting bit will be what he does when he comes back.
Santana had some vocal unrest in the company, seemingly counting down the days until his
contract expired on Twitter, and reportedly falling out with his tag partner Ortiz.
Now, presumably his contract has been extended due to his injury, but if he does come back,
will it just be for the remaining time, because that would only be about two months or so
if his previous tweets are to be believed.
And if he does come back, he most likely won’t be tagging with Ortiz if their falling out
hasn’t been resolved…so where does Santana fit on the AEW roster?
I’ll tell you where he fits - Collision!
It’s where everybody else who was at one point disgruntled in the company is going.
What’s the worst that could happen?
Let’s talk about WWE now, and this week’s Raw has been received rather well hasn’t
it?
Good matches, story progression, things mattering, look at them go.
Aside from the Gunther vs KO match, there were a couple of very notable things that
happened on Raw, one being the main roster debut of Kayden Carter and Katana Chance when
they faced Ronda Rousey & Shayna Baszler, and the other being the story of Damian Priest
and The Judgment Day, with some dissension among them and a World Heavyweight Title match
against Seth Rollins to boot.
And it seems those two acts in particular have been getting some praise backstage, with
PWInsider reporting that “WWE was happy with Kayden Carter and Katana Chance's work”
in their debut match, and that there was “Lots of praise internally for Damian Priest's work
against Seth Rollins”.
And deservedly so, I’d say.
If this was step one of WWE addressing their floundering women’s tag division, then that’s
a very solid step one, and this Damian Priest Judgment Day story has some legs, especially
with all the history between Balor and Rollins rolled into the mix as well.
If you didn’t see it online anywhere as well, Damian Priest shook Rollins’ hand
after his title match after Raw went off the air as well, and Balor had the opportunity
to, but didn’t.
Just an extra little notch in the story, and the seeming babyface turn for Priest coming
soon.
Unless SWERVE, Balor is the one who’s kicked out of the group instead.
I’m looking forward to seeing how it plays out.
On to NXT now, and on last week’s episode, we saw the returns of Baron Corbin and Mustafa
Ali to add an extra dynamic to the show.
While this is by no means the first time we’ve seen main roster stars make the trip to Tuesday
nights, as we’ve had people like AJ Styles, Johnny Gargano and New Day in the past, there
were two of the ‘free agents’ that were made in the latest Draft, and as we know,
free agency means so much because the Draft is very important.
So was that coincidence, or was this move actually planned in advance?
According to Fightful Select, the latter.
They report that there were “ tentative plans” in place quite a while ago to have
Corbin and Ali work NXT, which is one of the reasons the free agent tag was given to them
during the Draft.
And y’know, despite all the cynicism about the Draft and the free agency and the Draft
not mattering and them already not abiding by the brand split, maybe we’re being a
little bit too harsh, maybe we should give them some credit for thinking ahead and making
sure the free agents are the ones appearing on NXT.
So why was Dana Brooke on NXT last night?
She’s not a free agent, I checked.
So really, it doesn’t matter does it?
Yes, Dana Brooke returned to NXT on last night’s episode, don’t worry I’ll have my 1 Minute
1 Take of the show here shortly.
She came back to enter herself into the Women’s Championship Number 1 Contender Battle Royal,
which she lost of course.
Because even in NXT, she can’t buy a win.
But good for her I suppose.
I hope she does…something in NXT.
The other notable thing to mention outside of the 1 Minute 1 Take because I want to actually
talk about it is Bron Breakker challenging Seth Rollins to a World Heavyweight Championship
match.
Yep, on NXT he said that.
In the closing moments of the show, Breakker called out Rollins to come to NXT to defend
his belt, and that while Rollins may have been the inaugural NXT Champion, Breakker
was the most dominant.
I’m honestly very into this idea, whether it results in Rollins going to NXT or Breakker
going to the main roster, or both.
Rollins defending his belt wherever and whenever is a surefire way to get over this new belt,
and facing exciting challengers like Priest and Breakker is a great start.
All the thumbs up from me.
And now it’s time I suppose, it’s time for my 1 Minute 1 Take of NXT, where I will
attempt to recap everything that happened on last night’s episode of NXT in one minute,
and in one take.
Start the timer.
Baron Corbin cut a promo about NXT being better back in his day, and is interrupted by Ilja
Dragunov, the two set up a match for later and then Trick Williams attacked Corbin afterwards.
There was some “comedy” with Thea Hail and Duke Hudson.
I do not want to elaborate.
Bron Breakker then attacked Dragunov backstage, which wrote him out of his match with Corbin.
Ava Raine won in her debut match as she pinned Ivy Nile in a six-person tag by using her
mask as a weapon.
Cody Rhodes would like a word.
Stacks asks Tony D’Angelo in jail who ratted him out, and he says it was Gallus.
This will be weird if it turns out to be Stacks himself.
Von Wagner has assaulted two therapists but stayed with the third one because she’s
an attractive woman.
I do not want to elaborate.
Blair Davenport beat Dani Palmer, Dana Brooke is back, and Tiffany Stratton did a promo.
Baron Corbin then beat Trick Williams after Williams’ knee buckled because of targeting
from Corbin during the match, that’s good stuff.
Nathan Frazer hosted Hard Hitting Home Truths, which is a John Oliver parody and we would
never take inspiration like that with having the host on the right side of the screen with
a picture in the corner, Mustafa Ali beat Joe Gacy, and Noam Dar debuted one of the
worst faction names of all time, calling his group the Metafour.
Alright can we stop the timer, can we stop it?
I know I’m breaking the game here but we need to appreciate how awful that is.
There’s four of them, so they’re the Metafour?
What is that a pun off?
Are you a metaphor?
What is metaphorical about your group?
And if it’s just the meta-four, then what is meta about your four?
This sucks.
METAFOUR.
Alright start the timer.
Eddy Thorpe beat Damon Kemp, Scrypts defeated Dabba-Kato, Thea Hail won the number one contender’s
battle royale by selling outside for most of the match
and Bron Breakker challenged Seth.
Now make sure to check out the latest episode of What’s On at Cineworld with Luke and
Dan Layton, here’s a clip.