Here's more wrestling news for September 29th, 2022, and we're
starting off this afternoon with AEW Dynamite where Chris Jericho
had a celebration in honor of his own roh World Championship win.
After capturing the title last week, Jericho was
eager to gloat about his win, but Angelo Parker
had some interesting verbiage for the segment.
Right in the opening moments, Parker told the fans to appreciate
us align many online felt was borrowed by the bloodlines.
Acknowledge us on social media fans ripped on the
Jericho appreciation society for imitating the bloodline,
saying that the line was unoriginal from the group.
Jericho and his group haven't exactly shied away from referencing
WWE with Y2J, calling the fans the AEW Galaxy as opposed
to the WWE universe and calls himself a sports entertainer.
So this line from Parker was on brand for the JAS.
This line from Parker would just be the start of the
segment, which has an exactly thrilled audiences.
During the segment, Jericho gifted a purple bucket hat
to Daniel Garcia who threw it on the floor and disgust.
Brian Danielson then interrupted setting up a tag team match in
a scene that wouldn't have looked out of place in WWE on Twitter.
Fans exploded at the intro with some questioning when
exactly Vince McMahon started booking AEW dynamite from
the goofy props to the long opener just to set up a match.
The segment had McMahon's fingerprints all over it,
and likely would've been decimated by AEW fans had
something like this kicked off a three hour raw.
With McMohan Gone.
WWE has seen a notable improvement with their own shows,
as many old tropes of the company have been phased out.
But fans didn't appreciate seeing a staple from McMohan era.
WWE Open, Last Night's Dynamite at WrestleMania, Roman Reigns Unified.
The WWE and Universal Championships a huge
moment that the company has quickly regretted.
Within weeks of the unification reports came out that
the USA Network has been unhappy as Reigns rarely appears
on raw, leaving the red brand without a top champion.
Yesterday we reported on WWE'S plans to introduce
new championship designs and this will affect
the undisputed WWE Universal Championship Zero.
News reported that both the WWE and Universal
Champions will be part of this redesign, but that the
titles will not be unified into one physical belt.
This implies that WWE does have plans to split the WWE
and Universal titles up as the promotion wants two world
championship matches to take place at WrestleMania 39.
There's still no word on when or how WWE will split the
titles as they do not want reigns to take a loss on the
road to WrestleMania, but expect both of the WWE and
universal belts to be changed in the not too distant future.
If rumors are to be believed, bray Wyatts returned
to WWE could just be a matter of weeks away.
As the former universal champion is believed to be the
White Rabbit, WWE has been teasing something big with
their cryptic videos and incidents at live events and
during commercial breaks, but Bray may not be coming alone.
At least that's what Rhonda Rousey hopes is the case
as during a YouTube video game stream, the Ex UFC
fighter named who should return alongside the feend.
Oh God.
If Bray Wyatt came back, I would die.
You know what?
I would love if Bray Wyatt and Bo Dallas
came back and Bo was part of his cult.
Ugh.
I just wanna see them together.
Why not?
Bo and Bray have been polar opposites on screen, but the pair are
real life brothers and are both the sons of former WWE superstar irs.
WWE has brought back several ex superstars as part of the
company's new era, and the Wyatt could indeed be next.
His brothers comeback may not be far behind.
Back to dynamite, as John Moxley overcame new Japan's
Juice Robinson last night in a world title eliminator,
but his celebration was short lived post-match.
Adam Hangman page appeared and didn't waste time
getting in the face of the reigning AEW world champion.
Page earned a title match against Moxley during last week's Grand
slam rampage, but fans had a mixed response to their face off.
While some were excited for the upcoming title match,
others were critical of the decision to push page,
especially after the recent controversy with CM Punk punk's.
Comments after all out led to a fight breaking out
backstage, but punk has said to have only been angry
because of a line page used in a promo for months earlier.
Other fans took a different response.
Absolutely loving Paige's Dolly Parton shirt and argued that
the Moxley Page feud feels big time AEW is without some of their
top stars, including punk, Kenny Omega and the Young bucks.
So while Paige is now being given another opportunity
to step up, many are questioning if this is the right.
Since returning in 2016, Goldberg has had a handful
of matches for WWE with his most recent coming
at the elimination chamber event in February.
Recently, Goldberg said that he doesn't have any matches
left on his current contract, but it has been reported
that he will compete at Crown Jewel in November.
We now have an update on his situation as no matter what
Goldberg status for the show is, he will be in Saudi Arabia.
Zero news reports that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin
Salman has personally invited Goldberg to the nation
and will be at a car show the same day as crown jewel.
It was also stated that if the Hall of Famer can make crown jewel,
then he will, but no matter what, Goldberg fans in Saudi Arabia
will get a chance to see the former universal champion in person.
After AEW All Out and CM Punk's, explosive media scrum
comments, a fight broke out backstage, resulting in punk,
a steel, and the elite all being pulled from programming.
None of these men have appeared for AEW in any
capacity since what happened, but the young
bucks may be gearing up for a return very soon.
While speaking on Instagram to promote the Buck's new
shoe from Champ Sports, Matt Jackson reflected on his
career saying that the fans have been great to himself and
Nick, and he's looking forward to seeing them very soon.
Tony Khan has not given any date for when the ongoing
suspensions will be lifted, but it is believed that
the bucks in Omega won't be punished as severely
as punk, who is believed to have started the fight.
Right now an investigation is being held, which
will determine who exactly is to blame and what
further punishments Tony Khan should dish out.
But it may not be long before, at least the bucks are back on tv.
We've got some tragic news from WOW women of wrestling next
as ring announcer, Dan Masters has died on social media.
Jack Ford confirmed the news saying that Masters
had died in an automobile accident in El Salvador.
Wow is still trying to find their own spot in the wrestling world.
And Masters was taken from this world far too soon, and
we at Slat Rock would like to offer our condolences to his
friends, family, and those who knew him at this awful time.
It's been months since Fanson Naomi in a WWE ring
as both she and Sasha Banks are continuing to serve
their suspensions following the May 16th raw walk.
Naomi may not have wrestled in a while, but she's been
active outside the ring and has now partnered with Marvel.
In a tweet, the former smackdown women's champion
shared an animated image of her holding Thor's hammer
and promoted the DVD release of Thor Love and Thunder.
This promotional tweet Marks Naomi's first appearance in
a piece of Disney owned content following the footsteps of
her tag partner, Sasha Banks, who appears in the Mandaloren.
At one point, it was believed that Naomi and Banks
were done with wwe, which doesn't appear to be the case
now that Vince McMohan has retired and expect the glow
to bring the thunder when she next appears on WWE tv.
During this week's raw, the MIZ once again tried
to escape the clutches of Dexter Loomis hiring
his own private security, deemed the Miz force.
This group proved to be very ineffective in trying to stop
Loomis, and as you might expect, weren't a real security team.
Thanks to the local competitor, we know that these
guards were actually played by wrestlers of the local
area, including Michael Richard Blaze, Jack Pride,
Steven Crow, Emmanuel, Andrew Love, and Bobby Shank.
Blaze, Pride and Crow are part of the Clandestine
Society, a wrestling training facility based in Edmonton.
While love is the owner of Indie Promotion, ACW Ontario,
As for Shink, he is a graduate of Lance Storms Wrestling
Academy, but these names from the North couldn't save Miz or
themselves from Dexter Lumis this week as a WWE superstar and
former Raw NXT and Women's Tag team champion Rhea Ripley has
accomplished a lot, but the journey to the top has not been easy.
Like many people, Ripley has struggled with her mental health
and has now opened up about some of the darkest days in her life.
Sitting down with Fox Sports, Ripley spoke about the
dark days and how close she was to ending her career.
I was like centimeters from just absolutely giving up
and wanting it all to stop and I wanted to go home.
There was a lot of things that went into that.
I just sort of had to change my mentality and realize
I had worked so hard to get to the point that I
was at, and I wasn't gonna let these things stop.
Ripley lives in the US these days, thousands
of miles away from her family in Australia, and
that clearly takes a toll on the raw superstar.
Nevertheless, Ripley was able to overcome these dark days and is
pleased with the success she's having, and we can expect more of that
with the judgment day on her side until his final farewell in 2020.
The undertaker rarely broke character, but
there were a few times with the dead man.
Let the mask slip.
In 2002, during a feud with Brock Lesnar, the Beasts advocate,
Paul Hayman introduced Tracy, who it was claimed that the undertaker
had been having an affair with while his then wife Sarah was
pregnant, ditching kfabe Traci called the undertaker mark a nod to
his real name of Mark Calloway, but the angle was quickly ditched.
In his book, there's just one problem.
Former WWE head writer Brian Gewirtz, explained that the reaction
was so bad from fans that Vince McMahon decided to ditch the
storyline and Tracy was off WWE TV in weeks never to be seen Again.
It's not clear whether the reaction was bad because
the fans didn't believe the undertaker would cheat on
his wife, or if they thought the angle was too much
of a soap opera, though it was likely a bit of both.
Tracy's last appearance for WWE was at the No Mercy 2002 event
where she admitted that the claims of an affair were all a lie.
And WWE thankfully kept the dead man away from such
soap opera storylines for the rest of his career.
And we're ending with more from Gewirtz’s book, which has proven
to be a fascinating read to learn more about WWE behind the scenes.
In 2002, while Gewirtz was working for wwe, the company brought
back Vince Russo, who like in W C W, had a lot of ideas that
didn't go down well in the book though, Gewirtz claims that
the rumor of Russo wanting to fire the undertaker, believing
nobody liked the character anymore was completely false.
Russo didn't want to fire the undertaker, but he did
want to strip the then WWE undisputed champion of the
title without any explanation on screen and have a
tournament to Crown r v D as the new top star backstage.
Russo's reasoning was that the undertaker was not hip and cool, but
the idea was rejected and Russo himself would be gone not long after.
Stripping champions without a reason is exactly what happened
in W C W in 2000, less than a year before the company collapsed.
So it's probably for the best that this didn't happen in WWE.