Here's more wrestling news for July 21st, 2022.
And we're kicking off this afternoon with NXT
2.0 as the Axiom character made its ring debut
being described as a mathematical superhero.
The gimick is a change of pace for a kid who is now Axiom,
but it may have been stolen from another wrestler on Twitter.
Chelsea green accused WWE of stealing the Axiom character from Deonna
Purrazzo, who confirmed that she pitched the idea four years ago.
Well,Purrazzo never became a mathematical superhero in WWE.
She has done well for herself since being released in
2020, but the former impact knockouts champion can't be
too thrilled to see her character be used for someone else.
Two weeks ago, Wardlow on the AEW TNT championship from
Scorpio sky dismantling the man of the year in mere minutes
to capture his first title in Tony Khan's promotion.
Last week, Wardlow kept up his winning ways by retaining
against orange Cassidy and many believe that AEW did the
right thing by giving the popular wrestler, the et TNT title
WWE hall of Famer road dog does not share that opinion.
However, as during a guest appearance on Dr.
Chris Featherstone's podcast, he completely eviscerated
the promotion for their handling of the big.
I wasn't a fan.
It took him 18 minutes.
The first they give him the jabroni title, it doesn't mean nothing.
When he was a guy that seemed like he was
the guy and maybe he is in the future.
I just don't think you needed to give
him that other than the best title.
And then it took him 18 minutes to beat the jokey guy.
I didn't understand it at all.
It was literally booking 1 0 1.
You put your big, huge, beautiful baby face against this other
beautiful baby face in orange Cassidy with a gang of guys out there.
Like, what are you trying here?
What are you trying to do in this segment?
What story are we telling?
It's just a good win for Wardlow.
Okay.
Six minutes.
Kick me, kick me, kick me, go for the super kick and I power bomb.
The crap out of you."
Interestingly, these comments come not long after Road
Dogg’s old tag partner, Billy Gunn has said he hopes to
get his friend a job in AEW which may prove difficult.
After this rant.
AEW has spent a lot of time investing in Wardlow and Mr.
Mayhem is certainly holding his own.
Now that he's away from MJF, but the
TNT champion isn't to everyone's taste.
Now at WrestleMania 34 Nya Jax de throne, Alexa
bliss to capture the raw women's championship
marking the former's only singles title win in WWE.
The storyline between the two friends was related
to body image issues, which split fans who thought
that the insults about Jax's size often went too far.
Speaking on the wives of wrestling podcast, Jack said
that she enjoyed the story going into the match as both
she and bliss have had real life struggles with their
image, but she also expected the finish to be changed.
Jack's explained that given that things change all the
time in WWE she was constantly thinking that the finish
would be altered and that bliss would retain the gold.
Instead, this only served to make her title win
mean even more to JAX's who said that her niece
who's tall has her own body confidence issues.
And she hopes that the angle helped her.
Being released from WWE last year, Jax has said, she's
unsure whether she'll wrestle again, but her title win in
April, 2018 will always stick out for the irresistible force.
This Monday, WWE will celebrate 20 years of the debut of Ray Mysterio.
And while it'll be a celebration of his career, the
former world champion has plans for his retirement.
Speaking to sports illustrated.
Ray says he does think about life after the ring and said that when
he is finished, he'd like to see his son, Dominic, Don, his mask.
The mask is incredibly sacred in Lucha Libre.
So it goes to show how much faith Ray has
in his son whose future looks bright in WWE.
During this week's dynamite Brody king defeated Darby Allen in the
show's opener, but the house of black member wasn't finished there.
Grabbing Allen after the match, this prompted both sting and
Malachi black to appear for their respective sides, but it was
another man who became the focus point during the segment, Miro
made his entrance and the Redeemer seemed slightly different from
his usual aggressive persona, staring at Malachi black and Brody
king from outside the ring, a smirk could be seen on Black's face
as the Bulgarian wrestler could be the next member of his stable.
Then again, it could be that Miro wants to
fight the house of black rather than join them.
But fans will have to stay tuned to see what happens next.
At WrestleMania 36, then universal champion Goldberg was meant to
face Roman reigns before the latter pulled out due to the pandemic.
It wouldn't be until February 20, 22 and a major heel
turn that Reigns would face off with the hall of Famer
defeating Goldberg at the elimination chamber event.
Rains would get the win that night.
But as Goldberg made clear this week to Bleacher
report, he's not done with the tribal chief.
It doesn't eat at me by any stretch of the
imagination, but it eats at me 100% Roman and I were
on a collision course for a long period of time.
It never happened when it would've been the best, but to say anyone
that beats me doesn't deserve to have their ass kicked afterwards.
I'd be a liar.
If I said anything.
Other than that, Goldberg was also asked if there was anyone else
he'd love to step in the ring with and answered with someone who
he also believes could be the next Goldberg and NXT champion.
Bron Breakker Goldberg had tested positive when
he was offered the match against reigns, but had
recovered by the time the bout finally took place.
And it'll be up to WWE to decide whether
the hall of Famer gets his rematch.
In March this year, the wrestling community lost Scott
Hall, who tragically died after a series of heart attacks
at the age of 63, WWE would air a heartfelt tribute
package for the former razor Ramon shortly after, but
it appears that something else was nearly in the works.
That's according to Hall's best friend, Kevin Nash, who
explained during an episode of click, this, that given
how close Hall's passing was to WrestleMania 38, that
there were ideas pitched for the showcase of the imortals.
WWE wanted to do some things.
I just told them.
I said, man, you guys can do whatever you wanna do.
There was talk about doing a hologram thing with Scott and some
other things I said, you guys can do whatever you wanna do.
I said, I'm not.
I said, I'm not gonna fucking say anything negative
about anybody that wants to do something for him.
Ultimately WWE did not go with some big hall
tribute at WrestleMania, a wise decision.
As the last thing the company would want to do at their biggest annual
show is to remind fans that a man just died under awful circumstances.
Hall's legacy lives on, in the memories he
made for fans and the friends he made in life.
And he didn't need a hologram to accomplish either of those.
When Ronda Rousey joined WWE in 2018, she
became arguably the biggest signing ever having
established herself for years in the UFC in January.
This year, Rousey returned to WWE TV after a year, three year hiatus.
And while she's been dominant, once more, a
UFC star is an impressed speaking to MMA hour.
Juliana Pena described rousey as a joke for
joining the sports entertainment juggernaut.
She opened up the door and was destroying people in 10 seconds and
became a star because she was demolishing people in the first round.
And that's great, but she got knocked out twice and never came back.
So how legit is she?
She had to go to pro wrestling and I get that.
And I think that that's great.
But as a fighter and somebody who is competitive, I
know that deep down, it probably truly bothers her.
The fact that she went away off of two knockout
losses and never came back to make her name good.
She's kind of a joke in the MMA world now, because
she's a, what's the word sellout, but for me, for
real shit, for like, you're the real, real deal.
I would say that that's in the UFC and if she ever wants any of that
real smoke, I'm ready in the end Rousey will do what's best for her.
And for the new mother that's working in the much safer WWE.
During this week's NXT 2.0 a battle Royal was held to determine
the next opponent for NXT women's champion, Mandy rose, which was
won by Zoe stark in her first match in nine months, Stark's return
meant that she wasn't promoted for the show ahead of time, but
one superstar had the opposite experience for much of the match.
Japanese superstar Sarray was among the many women advertised
for the match, but the show went ahead without any sighting of.
WWE did not give any explanation either on or offscreen
as to why Sarray was promoted, but not used for the show.
As her absence has been interesting to say the least many
fans have criticised Sarray's current gimmick, but would have
enjoyed seeing the massively talented superstar in the match.
We know that Zoe stark will have an NXT women's title match one
day, but for Sarray time will tell when she will appear next.
And if WWE will even address her hiatus from this week's show, And
we're ending today with Ric flair, who'll wrestle his final match
on July 31st and what will be an emotional night for the nature?
Boy flair will team with his son-in-law Andrade El Idolo to
face Jay lethal and Jeff Jeff Jarrett with the former NXT
champion may not be the only family member to get involved
during the latest episode of his, to be the man podcast.
Ric tease that his daughter Charlotte may get involved on the show.
Can I tell you something right now, and I'm saying
this from my heart and you know her very well.
Jeff, if she sees him behind the curtain may get
the shit beat out of him by Ashley, before he ever
gets to the fucking ring, she stands by her man.
Good Lord.
I wouldn't want her coming up to me at a hundred miles an hour.
That was not a smart comment, especially to her husband.
If she wasn't coming.
I know she's there now.
Both him and Karen Jarrett, they both better walk around her on glass.
Given that Charlotte is a WWE star.
You'd presume that she wouldn't be
appearing on camera during the event.
But to be fair, WWE is allowing Jeff Jarrett their
head of live events to appear for flare's last match.
Despite the controversies flare has had WWE
still has a lot of love for the nature boy.
And if he wants his daughter to make an appearance for his final
ever match, then the McMohan based promotion may grant that wish.