Here's your wrestling news for July 21st, 2022.
And we're kicking off today with AEW as a shocking heel turn unfolded.
During last night's episode of dynamite during the Chris Jericho
versus Eddie Kingston, barbed wire, everywhere match Tay Conti
brawled with Ruby Soho over control of the shark cage key, which
was keeping the Jericho appreciation society from interfering.
Went on Anna jay appeared.
It looked like she was going to confront her former best
friend, but instead attacked Soho before reuniting with
Conti , the two helped bring down the shark cage, allowing
the JAS members to begin their assault on Kingston.
And this comes one week after Conti , essentially
invited Jay to join JAS in a backstage segment.
Not only did this heel turn happen, but it happened
in Anna Jay's hometown of Atlanta, Georgia.
And it's certainly a homecoming that she
and her fans will remember for a long time.
The barbed wire everywhere match was a grueling and bloody
bout for which the Jericho appreciation society spent.
Most of its suspended above the ring when cutting a promo
with a barbed wire wrapped microphone, Kingston was attacked
by Chris Jericho who used a barbed wire wrapped ring.
Bell barbed weer also covered the ropes, which proved to
be especially painful for Jericho while Kingston would
be sent crashing through barbed wire, laid in tables.
We mentioned that the Jericho appreciation society
was able to interfere, but that was short-lived thanks
to Ortiz and the Blackpool combat club confronting
them and attempted lionsault salt was reversed.
Thanks to Kingston using a chair wrapped in barbed wire
and the mad king took the violence to a new level when he
grabbed some wire and wrapped it around Jericho's neck.
Sammy guevara proved to be the difference maker, breaking up the hold.
And it was when Jericho wrapped his arm and Bobed
wire to hit the Judas effect that he was able to
get the win after feuding for much of this year.
It's possible that this marks the end of the Jericho Kingston feud.
And if so, it'll have been a bloody violent end
to one of AEW's biggest stories of the year.
It was certainly a violent match, but one that
didn't please a lot of AEW's fan base on Twitter.
Several fans criticized the match as under delivering
as many felt that if this is the end of the
feud, that Kingston should have come out on top.
It's possible that AEW is stretching
this storyline out to all out though.
Fans aren't thrilled with this storyline
continuing after so many matches already.
While the match was better received than the John
Moxley versus Kenny omega barbed wire death match,
which is infamous for its Post match antics.
It still didn't win over a lot of fans showing that sometimes
Barbed wiered just isn't enough for a compelling story.
AEW is currently facing a litany of injuries
that is kept much of the roster out of the ring,
but one wrestler did make the return last night.
Dynamite Luchasorus and Christian cage scored a quick win over
the varsity blondes, but the Paris celebration in the ring was
cut short by the returning jungle boy, the former AEW tag team
champion ran to the ring with a chair and had a stare down with
Luchasorus before the colossal wrestler stepped aside effectively
ending his Alliance with cage and reforming Jurassic express jungle.
Boy would then chase cage out of the arena in his first appearance
in suffering his shoulder injury towards the end of last month.
It's believed that jungle boy was injured during the triple
threat tag team title ladder match weeks earlier in which the
young bucks won the gold from Jurassic express as for Luchasorus
As for Luchasaurus this brings to an end, his very brief heel turn.
And while fans may criticize WWE for rapid heel and face
turns, that's what happened this week on AEW programming,
AEW has never shied away from taking shots at WWE.
And this week's edition of dynamite proved to be no exception.
During the show Cole Carter became the latest X WWE talent to
appear for AEW after working until recently as Troy two dimes
Donovan in an interview segment, Tony Shivani took a dig at
WWE saying the last time he checked Carter had been sleeping
with the fishes in NXT 2.0, Tony D’Angelo and Channing Stacks.
Lorenzo rode off Carter's character by throwing his body into water.
And while it wasn't outright stated that two times is dead.
It was heavily implied.
Inuity Carter was fired due to a drug violation policy, but WWE
has encouraged him to try out again for the company in a year,
as they see a lot of potential in him, that attitude may have
changed given he is now competed for AEW as it remains to be seen.
If he'll become a permanent member of the AEW roster.
Now in January, John Moxley returned to AEWTV after
a stint in rehab, due to alcohol related issues.
Moxley has been able to get his drinking under check.
And he's now got a huge sponsorship from a non-alcoholic
beverage company after winning the AEW interim world title.
At Forbidden Door Moxley spoke about securing a sponsorship
from athletic brewing and on Twitter this week, the
company confirmed that they're working with the champ.
Their tweet includes a video of Moxley drinking,
the non-alcoholic beer, which he calls delicious
and his hard work is paid off with this sponsorship.
On his wife's podcast.
Moxley said that he is an avid drinker of
athletics, non-alcoholic beer, and he'll certainly
have plenty more to drink while staying sober.
Thanks to this new deal over to the WWE.
Now, as next week's raw will air from Madison square garden.
An edge is expected to make a comeback to TV.
It's been over a month since edge was kicked out of the judgment day.
And not only is he coming back, but he'll be
coming back with one of his most popular gimmicks.
According to Brian Alvarez on wrestling observer
live edge will be returning as the rated R superstar
with new merchandise being prepared for his comeback.
The rated R gimmick has been historically portrayed as a
heel and while wrestling wisdom would suggest edge will
return as a face, given that he was attacked by a heel
group Alvarez made it clear that nothing is for certain.
Edges return will follow on from weeks of WWE teasing
his comeback with a series of cryptic vignettes, which
reference some of the hall of Famer greatest opponents.
We know that the judgment day will be on next week's
show as they'll be facing the mysterious on Ray's
20th anniversary with WWE, but expect the rated R
superstar to make his presence felt during this match.
Earlier this month, it was reported that Monday
night raw would be ditching its PG rating in
favor of the more mature TV, 14 classification.
That change hasn't happened yet, though it has
had fans excited and recently the TV 14 rating
was confirmed for a different show on peacock.
Next Saturday's summer slam premium live event had
been listed as a TV 14 event, exciting audiences who
hope the show will be more violent than previous years.
However, in an update, the rating was changed and for the
time being summer slam is now being rated as a PG event.
It's certainly interesting that the rating for the show
would change as if it was meant to be PG all along.
Then someone must have messed up by rating
summer slam TV 14 in the first place.
Ultimately there's been no public confirmation.
The WWE that raw will be headed to a new rating,
but we'll have to wait and see whether what goes
down at summer slam really is PG or warrants.
A higher rating since AEW has founded.
The company has been at odds with WWE,
but not everyone is at odds with each.
AEW's buddy Matthews is in a relationship with WWE's Rhea, Ripley.
The latter of whom has been out with an injury.
Now, the couple shared what could be their first official photo
together, as they're seen cuddled up together, despite being in
different companies, the modern day, Romeo and Juliet are making
things work, and we wish them the best with their relationship.
More from AEW now as negative one has appeared
on programming from time to time and also has a
guaranteed contract with the company when he turns 18.
Negative one is the son of the late Brody Lee and AEW
are doing what they can to make his tough time easier.
But some think that AEW has an ulterior motive, some have gone
as far as to accuse AEW of exploiting Brody Lee's death for
ratings and good PR, but in an interview with men's health,
his widow, Amanda Huber was quick to defend the company.
That's not it such grace and such kindness that I personally
don't feel like they've exploited him or taken advantage of us.
Everything always felt to me like it's
done with nothing, but love negative.
One added that if his dad was here, he
knows he would just want him to be happy.
And that he loves getting to work with AEW the wrestling world and
the Lee family were shaken when Brody passed in December, 2020.
But despite what some will think AEW is doing what they
can to help simply because it's the right thing to do.
Now the Blackpool combat club has been making waves in the
company since forming and recently went viral for their
antics out of the ring, a photo of the BCC doing their best
imitation of British band Madness's album cover for their
one step beyond recently caught wind online and fans have
William Regal to thank during his gentleman villain podcast.
Regal explained that he was a huge madness fan growing
up, calling the band a national treasur in Britain.
They might be deadly serious between the ropes, but William Regal
allows the Blackpool combat club to have fun once in a While.
And for Regal, it was a fitting tribute to one of his favorite
bands at WrestleMania 31 bray Wyat faced the undertaker in
what was almost exclusively, a one-sided feud on TV, despite
Wyatt appearing for weeks on TV, without any sign of the
phenom, having to carry the storyline by himself, the eater
of worlds fell to the undertaker when it mattered the most.
On his latest episode of his DDP snake pit podcast,
diamond Dallas page spoke about the match and speculated
that backstage politics kept bray from winning.
I don't understand why a lot of things get done there sometimes.
You know what sticks out to me the most is like, why wasn't
bray Wyatt the one who stopped taker streak, because then you
could have just kept on going and have him take on the streak.
I don't know why personalities, politics.
I don't know why.
I don't know why they do certain things.
Well, bray would eventually have his big push in 2019 as the
fiend that wouldn't be until years after his lost the phenom as
wyat's potential would go underutilized for a very long time.
And we're ending today with Sheamus, one of WWE's
most veteran superstars with the Celtic warrior.
Isn't too happy at the moment.
According to sources, Sheamus is unhappy with
his current direction in WWE believing that the
promotion has done little for him over the past year.
Sheamus even reportedly expressed his desire to quit the
company back in February around the same time that his former
tag partner Cesaro left and Bruce Pritchard set up a meating
between the Iris superstar and Vince McMohan McMohan, who was
still CEO of WWE at the time was able to coax Sheamus back after
making several promises, including a short WWE world title run.
That rain hasn't transpired, at least not yet.
And with it now being five months, since that
promise, it looks unlikely that it'll ever happen.
Now, negotiations are once again happening between WWE and Sheamus.
And the matter is said to be very serious
compared to the last time he was coaxed back.
A former world champion, us champ tag, team
champ, and one of just three men to win a Royal
rumble king of the ring and money in the bank.
Sheamus is one of WWE's most decorated stars, but
his days with the company may indeed be numbered.