In this WrestleTalk News, Bray Wyatt teases a WWE return!
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In one of the better segments on Monday’s episode of Raw, Seth Rollins cut a shoot promo
on Cody Rhodes for leaving WWE to get some new little friends, where he then tried to
tear down the house Rollins was building - probably the most direct reference yet to where Cody’s
been for the last six years.
But maybe that’s because Seth himself only just found out what’s been happening, as
Twitter user DrainBamager has posted a screenshot of the moment Rollins’s official account
joined the post-Double or Nothing Media Scrum to watch CM Punk talk about winning the championship.
Seth Rollins to AEW confirmed.
It’s nice to see any random moment screenshotted from that livestream has at least four of
the five comments arguing with each other.
God damn bots.
We’ve actually been able to procure genuine footage of Seth joining the AEW media call
and his reaction.
FTR might not have been on the Premium Live Event, but they sure were in the ring after
the show went off air, celebrating with their backstage buddy CM Punk.
Guys, you’re in the Pinnacle.
You’re exposing the business.
Now Punk has made his intentions clear for his Kliq-like faction that already holds the
AEW World Championship and ROH and AAA tag team championships: he wants even more gold.
Replying to a photo posted by Wrasslinwizard with the caption ‘New team just dropped
for the trios tournament’ - a reference to AEW’s long rumoured six man tag belts
that will be introduced eventually - Punk himself has replied:
“Just give us the straps so we don’t have to hurt your favs.”
Punk said in an interview last week that he would be happy wrestling FTR for the rest
of his career, he’s become such good friends with them.
It’s good he’s got a few buddies backstage, because it sure isn’t Eddie Kingston, who’s
reacted to AEW’s post about Punk being the new AEW World Champion by simply tweeting:
gross.
We’ve also had the first comment from the man Punk beat, Hangman Page, who’s tweeted:
“i’ve had a while to reflect on my time as aew champion now that it’s come to an
end.
thank you all, not for supporting me, but for supporting the vision.
it’s not about the gold or the glory, it’s about the common love and dignity with which
we treat each other.
change the world” It doesn’t sound like Hangman will be confronting
Punk for a rematch any time soon.
Because perhaps that spot is reserved for a huge ex WWE star returning to wrestling…
It’s been ten months since Bray Wyatt was shockingly released by WWE on the 31st July
2021.
That means it’s been ten months of us all assuming every blackout spot in AEW meant
Bray debuting confirmed, when really…
it’s Sting again.
Or that one time, Satnam Singh.
The first reports had him debuting at AEW’s Grand Slam show in September, then IMPACT’s
Bound for Glory show in October.
Then it emerged he was actually working on producing a movie.
He was most recently spotted doing a meet and greet at WrestleCon in April, that took
place over WrestleMania weekend.
Now, in a series of Twitter activity, we’ve had the clearest tease the former Wyatt, now
going by his real name Windham Rotunda, is returning to wrestling.
Firstly, Rotunda changed his Twitter name from a red circle to WYATT6, a very interesting
development, as he has avoided his Bray Wyatt name since his 90 day non-compete clause expired
last October.
Some have speculated this could mean a WWE comeback, with the number six referring to
the amount of days until his return at Hell in a Cell on Sunday.
His Twitter handle remains Windham6.
He then posted a new profile picture of an upside down moth with a red scribbled out
face, another puzzle loaded with potential meaning.
Could it be a butterfly emerging from its state of metamorphosis?
Are the red lines there to signify fire, like a firefly?
And am I just seeing things, or is that the face of the Fiend when you look at the moth
the right way up in the scribbles oh my god, oh my god it’s staring into my very soul?]
Just like any Bray Wyatt promo, we then got a follow-up of cryptic, semi-frustrating words:
“Everything good that’s ever happened to me, first came a period horrible suffering.
I never ask why, I just wait for the rough part to end.
I was chosen for whatever reason.
And I’ve got s*** to do.
It doesn’t hurt anymore, it burns.
I’m ready now⭕️ “I’m tired of watching.
Tired of hearing irrelevant clowns speculate how I’ll be perceived.
Tired of hearing about my greed, my desire questioned.
Wherever and whenever I decide to return, I’ll remind everyone why they know my name.
Again.
And again.
Believe in me.
#IFoundIt” “Patience.
It’s almost time” Bray Wyatt about to Control his Narrative
confirmed!
As Cody Rhodes has proved, a WWE return is possible.
Wyatt’s relationship with Vince McMahon was recently described as an almost father-son
dynamic, where McMahon would gushingly praise him when he liked what he was doing, but be
cruelly angry when he didn’t.
And for those of you going, well if it was such a father son relationship, why did he
release him?
Vince fired his own son Shane just four months ago.
But Wyatt’s tweets come at a crucial time for AEW too.
Tonight’s episode of Dynamite is not only a big post-pay-per-view episode, which often
sees big angles or debuts, it’s also a big business business business night.
For the first time since Warner Bros has merged with Discovery, putting question marks over
AEW’s long term future on their channels TNT and TBS, executives will be attending
the live show.
Debuting Wyatt, arguably the biggest free-agent in wrestling right now, would be a great way
to impress them.
What do you think Wyatt is teasing?
Let me know in the comments.
Previous reports put Bray’s WWE contract at over $4 million a year.
He reportedly had “a very high asking price” to return to wrestling, which is what caused
last year’s AEW talks to fall through.
But that isn’t the only contract headache Tony Khan currently has to deal with.
Just when you think wrestling is going to settle down, it manages to find a whole new
gear of shock.
And one of the more surprising stories this year is the once unthinkable change in direction
of just WWE talent going to AEW.
Now the high profile stories are about top AEW talent leaving on their own accord to
go to WWE.
Cody Rhodes has eased the immediate burial fears of anyone thinking the grass may be
greener with money.
And Double or Nothing weekend saw the next potential defection explode.
MJF no showed a fan meet and greet on Saturday, and there were reports he even might no show
the pay-per-view the next day.
Watch our WrestleTalk News episode in the video description below to find out about
the backstage heat this has put on Max.
Reports and rumours have been circulating since the start of the year about how Max
feels he should be paid more, with his contract having the same money as when he first signed
- when he was a relative nobody.
Wade Keller on PWTorch has now revealed exactly how far apart that money situation is.
MJF is unhappy with the amount of ex-WWE stars who have come into AEW on contracts worth
substantially more than his.
This situation deteriorated to an extent where MJF was “in a bad place” and “in no
place to be in public”, which is why he no-showed the meet and greet.
“MJF gets really worked up.
And by all accounts, he’s been so worked up that he just became sort of withdrawn and
bitter to observers and people who have been around him or observed him at Dynamite lately.”
The tension between MJF and Tony has been building for two months, initially sparked
by Max not getting approval from AEW for the Ariel Helwani interview he did back in April.
While that was a relatively minor deal, as AEW would’ve more than likely given approval
if asked, it acted as the proverbial straw performing a backbreaker on a camel.
Keller said MJF’s contract is worth “like hundreds of thousands of dollars but it is
modest compared to the contracts of more than a half a dozen free agent signings AEW has
made over the past year…Christian, Mark Henry, Malakai Black, Adam Cole, Bryan Danielson,
CM Punk…
Those wrestlers are getting paid four or five times more than him…So, you know, MJF is
by all accounts is kind of fuming over this.”
Max did get a raise at the start of the year, but he felt disrespected that it was still
so far below other talent.
Keller then added that, if anything, this just makes WWE want him more, with his source
there saying “MJF is coveted and would likely be given a lucrative contract offer” and
Max has been impressed with how Cody has been treated.
Even with WWE’s recent experience with the Sasha Banks and Naomi walk out on Raw, Keller
says: “One source in WWE told me that MJF is seen
as such a commodity that his recent and tractable behavior on and off-air with AEW wouldn’t
deter Vince McMahon from making him a lucrative offer.”
[QUOTE] MJF is under contract until the start of 2024,
so WWE can’t legally make any offers until then.
And in true MJF style, he has liked a tweet of Keller’s story about WWE wanting him
[IMAGE].
Max and Tony are set to meet ahead of Dynamite to discuss the situation, but he is expected
to be off the show to sell his injuries from Wardlow.
PWInsider have confirmed MJF arrived in Los Angeles, being spotted in LAX airport.
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