Here's your Wrestling News for October 5st 2020
And your headlines for today include Will NXT Be A Part Of WWE Draft? Furloughed WWE Star Is Called Back By WWE! AEW NEWS! WWE NEWS! 3 00:00:06,239 --> 00:00:11,878 Will NXT Will Be Involved In The WWE Draft Or Not? WWE Clarifies!
Adam Cole Attack Angle Closes WWE NXT Takeover 31!
WWE Performance Center Gets A New Name After Renovation!
Ember Moon Revealed As Mystery Returning WWE NXT Champion During TakeOver: 31; Mocks BO
Dallas!
Furloughed WWE Talent Is Called Back By WWE!
Famous WWE Vehicles Discovered ROTTING Outside For Decades!
Marty Jannetty Admits To Committing Horrible Things When He Was A Teenager!
Why Triple H Fought For NXT To Stay Out Of WWE ThunderDome?
Chris Jericho Comes Clean About Heat With Goldberg
AJ Styles Reveals How He Was Knocked Out By Former WWE Superstar And More!
We’re kicking off today with this week’s Draft, as there’s rumours that this year, NXT will play a big
part in the Shake-Up. In the past, the gold brand has had a limited role, with some NXT
Superstars being selected in 2016’s Brand Extension, and the show having a minor role in last year’s draft.
Earlier this week though, WWE posted a tweet, asking fans who they’d would draft to RAW,
SmackDown and NXT, indicating that all three brands will be involved. With that in mind, the tweet was
quickly deleted, and our sources say It was just an error on part of the Social media team, but it certainly
got fans talking. It’ll be interesting to see if this was a simple error as claimed, or if this
year’s draft, which’ll start on this Friday’s SmackDown and end on Next Monday’s RAW, sees any
gold-brand Superstars move to a new home, but one thing we know is that the landscape of WWE is
about to undergo some major changes.
Speaking of NXT, last night saw TakeOver 31, which didn’t go too well for the Undisputed Era.
Earlier in the night, it was revealed that Adam Cole had been attacked backstage, but that didn’t stop Kyle
O’Reilly from giving his all in the main event, where he challenged Finn Balor for the NXT Championship,
though he ultimately came up short against the Prince. Post-match, both champion and
challenger showed a sign of respect, as they shook hands, but this was interrupted by Ridge Holland,
who carried the laid out Cole on his shoulder, and tossed him over the Barricade.
This in turn, led to the rest of the Undisputed Era, Bobby Fish and Roderick Strong to come out and
check on their fallen comrade, though Holland was long gone by that point of the show.
It looks like the former Rugby League star will be feuding with Cole from now on, which should end rumours
that Cole, or the entire Undisputed Era, will be called up in this week’s Draft, and time will tell just how well
Holland fares in what’ll be his biggest feud to date. Last night’s event took place at
WWE’s Performance Center, but the location has now received a brand new look and name.
From now on, the venue will be called the Capitol Wrestling Center, a callback to the Capitol Wrestling
Corporation which was founded by Jess McMahon, and later Vince James McMahon, the father of the
Chairman, in 1953 Speaking to Sports Illustrated about the Capitol Wrestling Center, Triple H
revealed that the name isn’t the only change to the venue, as he said the area will have all the bells and
whistles of the Amway Center Thunderdome, but will keep the edgier feel of NXT.
The new name wasn’t the only big difference at the Capitol Wrestling Center, as fans were able to attend
albeit in very specific areas. Wrestling Inc are reporting that bringing back live fans was a main
reason for this renovation, and all fans must test negative before entering, must wear their mask at
all time, and also pass a screening survey. They added: Each group that arrives will be taken
separately from everyone else to their pod prior to the start of the show. The same procedure will be used
when exiting afterwards. Fans will not intermingle with any NXT talent. \Fans were kept in pods during the
show, similar to Michael Cole’s cole mine of 2011, as the WWE isn’t taking any risks with the new Center,
and with plans for full-capacity by 2021, this revamped Center and live fans may be just what WWE needs
to get the edge on AEW, especially in that crucial 18 to 49 demographic.
More from TakeOver 31 next, as fans were teased the return of a former champion at the show, and we finally
got our answer. After the Io Shirai-Candice LeRae match, Toni Storm returned to the
gold brand, with many believing the former NXT UK Women’s Champion was the one returning, but then a
video package played of the Mystery Superstar arriving on their motorbike. Removing their helmet, the Mystery
Superstar was revealed to be Ember Moon, a former NXT Women’s Champion, and it’s clear she wants
to hold the gold again. This is certainly a feel-good story, as Moon had previously described
her injury as possibly career-ending, which may be why fans didn’t suspect her.
Instead a popular theory was that Bo Dallas would be returning to NXT, and on Twitter, Moon poked fun at
this, telling fans if you BOlieve, anything can happen. Now, the Shenom is back after an
underwhelming main-roster run, and we can only hope that she fares better in the gold brand from now on.
Though TakeOver 31 has just happened, we’re already looking ahead, as the show is bringing back
one of the most requested Intellectual Properties of WCW. During TakeOver, a commercial was
played featuring Shotzi Blackheart howling at the moon, hyping the fact that NXT will host Halloween Havoc
on October 28th. Ever since WCW closed it’s doors, fans have been wanting to see
Halloween Havoc, and it’s giant Pumpkin return, and though WWE have brought back events like
Starrcade and the Great American Bash, this October tradition continued to go un-used for years.
This will be the first Halloween Havoc under the WWE banner, following the company’s purchase of WCW in 2001,
and though no matches have been announced so far, we expect costumes and characters on what’s
sure to be the spookiest night of WWE’s calendar.
We’re looking back at WWE’s April 15th releases now, as another name has been brought back to the company.
Earlier this year, referee turned producer Scott Armstrong was furloughed but is now back behind
the scenes, as he posted a selfie backstage at TakeOver 31, with the caption confirming that he’s quote
“Back in the saddle.” Armstrong teased something big had happened to him recently, as when
referee D A Brewer’s bike was stolen, Armstrong replied saying he’s got a good story for him, and it looks like
this is the story in question. With a career that started back in 1983, Armstrong brings nearly
40 years of experience to his roleas a producer, and after a rough year, which has seen Scott furloughed and
his father Bullet Bob die in August, it’s good to see some good news for the Armstrong family.
Now, WWE TV has featured many famous cars from the past, from Eddie Guerrero’s low-riders to JBL’s
limo, but not every car gets a great send-off when their time is up. Instead, many vehicles are just
abandoned when they’re no longer needed by the company, something that a reader of Jalopnik recently
discovered, when they found Vince McMahon’s legendary Cement-filled Corvette.
When ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin filled the car with cement on the October 12th 1998 RAW, the vehicle was
priced at $50,000, though we reckon being undrivable for the past 22 years, weighing a ton to move, as well as
having weeds growing out of it may have diminished it’s resale value slightly.
With that in mind, we’re sure there’s plenty of WWE fans who’d love to own a one-of-a-kind piece of wrestling
history like this, and with WWE still without a physical Hall of Fame, auctioning off this car may be what’s
best for business. We’ve got an update from Marty Jannetty now, as the former Rocker
has given more about his controversial past. Earlier this year, Jannetty seemingly
confessed to killing a man in his teens, as the man was trying to assault the younger-Marty, but after involvement
by the Georgia Bureau of Investigations, explained that this was part of a storyline.
This defence raised a lot of questions, as we never heard of a promotion using this angle or booking Marty,
and while speaking to Hannibal TV, the former Superstar admitted that what happened was actually real,
adding: “I have to say it’s a storyline for the police department… me and my
nephew poured gasoline on the body and we burned the body up… there were so many bone things that we
dug a whole and put the bones in there.” Jannetty also added that he was
angry at people being mad at him for selling someone, rather than the person who tried to force themselves
on him. We’ll have to see if the Georgia Bureaue of Investigations gets
involved again due to this new revelation, but for now, it seems that Jannetty has been caught lying
about this terrible incident. Back to NXT now, and though the gold brand and 205 Live will now air
from the Capitol Wrestling Center, that nearly didn’t happen. While speaking to Sports Illustrated
about the new venue, Triple H revealed there were talks of having NXT at the Thunderdome, an idea
he was very resilient to. He said: “The spectacle of it is awesome. But one of my goals is to make sure NXT
has its own feel and vibe. Now we’re ready to make our splash, and when people see what we have created,
people will understand why this is the best environment for us.” The fact that the Amway Center’s logo
appeared in one of Ember Moon’s mysterious vignettes caused many fans to believe that the Gold brand
was soon moving to the Thunderdome, but now NXT and 205 Live will have their own home and
their own feel to their programming, thanks to Triple H.
Two people fans won’t be seeing at the Capitol Wrestling Center are Chris Jericho and Bill Goldberg,
and despite rumours of backstage heat between the two for years, that is no longer the case, according to
to Y2J himself. Speaking on the latest edition of his Saturday Night Special, Le Champion
spoke about the real animosity between the two that existed in the past, but added that those negative
feelings aren’t there anymore. He added: “Bill and I have a very good rapport.
We get along great in WCW before we got pitted us against each other.
Went to hockey games with each other. Nothing but love for Bill.” With how unpredictable wrestling is,
especially nowadays, we’ll have to see if Jericho and Goldberg every share the same ring again,
and though it’s not looking likely at this present moment, very few things are certain in the world of
Professional Wrestling. And we’re ending today with news from AJ Styles who’s spoken on his
Twitch account about one of the most painful bumps he’s ever experienced.
On the stream, the Phenomenal One spoke about his TNA days, where he faced D’Lo Brown, and added
that when he was on a table, Brown frog-splashed him from a ladder, causing him to black out.
Styles said that he remembers being in a dream-like state, and telling himself that he needs to get up,
which is exactly what he did, and he went on to finish the match. The former WWE Champion added
that he did not suffer a concussion, and instead attributed him blacking out to having the air knocked out of
him, but concussion or not, this clearly wasn’t a fun bump for the Phenomenal One to take.