Here's more wrestling news for August 8th, 2022.
And we're kicking off this afternoon with Logan Paul.
And when he debuted for WWE fans were apprehensive about the
YouTuber, making the move to the world of professional wrestling.
With that said, Paul has so far impressed in his two official
matches, which have seen him pick up wins at both wrestlemania
and summer slam one name certainly impressed by Paul is X-Pac.
And while speaking to TMZ sports, the two time
hall of Famers saw big things in Logan's future.
He's a natural man, huge future.
A lot of people can be great athletes like
him, but he has like an aptitude for this man.
His timing is really good.
He grasps the psychology of a match.
He could be like WWE champion material at
one point, gotta call it like you see it.
Well, Paul May one day be WWE champion
that won't be happening anytime.
Soon as the young superstar is working on a return to
boxing with a fight expected to happen this September.
It'll ultimately be triple H's decision
as to who becomes WWE champion.
And time will tell whether a list including Bruno
Sam Martino, Hulk Hogan, Steve Austin, and John Cena.
One day includes Logan Paul in July, 2012.
To mark the 1000 episode of raw WWE made the red brand a three
hour show, a running time, typically reserved for special event.
The change from two to three hours was a decision made by
the USA network who wanted more WWE content each week though,
the longer show hasn't gone down well with fans, it's often
a struggle to sit through three hours of raw in one sitting.
And when speaking on a recent episode of click
this Kevin Nash criticized the show as too long.
I think one of the problems that the company
has right now is that raw is three hours.
I thought that was the demise of nitro.
When it went three hours, three hours is too long.
It's like asking your fan base every
Monday to watch fucking Titanic or avatar.
It's just too fucking long.
I would love to see a breakaway of raw and have raw, be
immature M rated show and be played on Friday nights on FX.
I don't know where they could get a deal with.
Interestingly, a clip from an old episode of the broken
skull sessions was shared online recently, where triple
H said he would rather see raw as a two hour show.
Triple H may still feel that way, but that doesn't mean we'll see
the show getting shorter anytime soon as it'll ultimately be the USA
networks decision to make speaking of triple H, we are still mere
weeks into his role as head of talent relations and head of creative.
And he's already brought around a lot
of changes since the game took over.
Fans have seen the return of Bailey from injury, EO sky.
When it looked like she was leaving and Dakota,
Kai, who was released from WWE earlier this year.
Carrying cross and Scarlet Bordeaux are also back with WWE after
being released in a much different vision for WWE from just a few
weeks ago, during the gathering in Charlotte, North Carolina, long
term wrestling promoter, Jerry Jarrett was asked about potential
changes to WWE during a Q&A they didn't tell me not to tell anybody.
So I'll tell you.
Triple H called earlier this week, the raw crew and the
SmackDown crew had said my father-in-law and Stephanie's father.
We admire him and respect him.
He reached success that we would never know without
him, but we don't know how to do it his way.
And we're not going to try, we're going to try a new way.
And I think the new way is to put
wrestling instead of sports entertainment.
I mean, that's pure speculation on my.
Things have already changed in WWE, under triple H's regime
and more is expected to change soon enough in what could be a
new boom for the company that is now away from Vince McMohan.
Now with Dakota, Kai carrying cross and Scarlet
Bordeaux all recently returning to WWE, there's been
plenty of speculation on who could join them next.
fightful select has reported that triple H plans to
bolster WWE's roster with more returning superstars.
But despite what some have said, Malachi black, isn't one of
those names recently, an unreliable account called JobberNationTV
claimed that black Andrade were among some who were trying to
get out of their AEW contracts specifically to return to WWE.
The account said how AEW is now the prison, but Sean Ross
Sapp responded with a single word to the report fake.
Nowhere else is reporting that black Andrade trying to get out of.
And this report should be taken as a rumor and speculation
at best, perhaps one day Andrade and Malachi black will be
in WWE again, but at this time there's no evidence backing
up the idea that they're deliberately trying to get out of
their current AEW deals since returning to WWE in 2012 Brock
Lessner has worked with some of wrestling's biggest names,
including the undertaker, John Cena, Roman reigns, and cm punk.
In 2017 Lessner was universal champion, which would last for over
500 days, but wasn't on board with facing a certain superstar
as per the brand supremacy story line of survivor series.
The then universal champion was set to face WWE
champion, Jinder Mahal, but as explained by road dog
on the wrestling Outlaws, that match never happened.
So yeah, Brock Lessner said I'm not working with him.
And he said that about several people by the.
Instead of Mahal, Lester would face AJ styles
who beat the modern day Maharaja on an episode
of SmackDown in the UK to get the title off him.
Mahal's 2017 push was strange, but some fans appreciate that
WWE was willing to push someone different for a change though.
Lessner clearly, wasn't a fan of the Canadian
Indian superstar back to the present.
As for months, there's been a lot of talk about Montez
Ford, who many expect big things from in the future.
Even the rock is on board with Ford,
calling him a future WWE champion.
And that is certainly something that the street
profit has in mind at a recent WWE live event.
Ford posed with a fan's WWE championship title, and it's
clear just how badly Montez wants to be championed for real
one day, we'll just have to wait and see whether Ford one
day becomes a world champion, but with Triple H running
creative, don't be surprised if a huge push is in its future.
If the street profits do eventually split.
NXT news now as the brand is back on tour
and conducting on televised live events.
But one recent show didn't go as planned for one superstar and
last Saturday's NXT live event in Gainesville, Georgia Tatum
Paxley faced Sloana Jacobs, but the match didn't have a finish.
The boaut was stopped after Tatum was kicked in
the face and her chin landed on the ring post.
When medical staff tended to her, her face was bleeding
severely, and the decision was made to end the match prematurely.
It's been reported that Paxley suffered a broken
nose on the match, and it goes to show that injuries
don't just happen when the cameras are rolling.
When Shane McMahon returned to WWE
at this past, January's Royal rumble.
His comeback was incredibly short lived
after a chaotic and unprofessional display.
Backstage McMahon was fired days later by his father,
Vince McMahon and removed from all future plans.
This included a planned WrestleMania feud with Seth Rollins being
canned and Vince declaring that as long as he was running things,
his son Shane would never receive another pop in WWE with Vince.
Now gone though.
Some are hopeful that Shane will be returning, but according
to fighteful, that won't be happening in their report.
It's noted that WWE's new regime has no plans for Shane
to return in any capacity to the promotion at this time.
Well, that could one day change.
There's no word on when, if ever that
would be so for now, there'll be no.
Here comes the money on WWE TV right on their fight forever
console video game, which recently had several leaks.
Online leaks are nothing new in the world of gaming,
but it turns out that the details leaked were
a closely guarded secret, even to those in AEW.
Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful has learned that when the cover
art was leaked for AEW fight forever, many people in promotion
had no idea what it looked like until it was shared online.
That's partly because it was an AEW's
graphics team who designed the cover.
But instead the people at THQ Nordic, and it's also
said that many of the people on the cover didn't know
they'd be there until they saw it for themselves.
The game will release on PS5Xbox series PS4, Xbox
one, Nintendo switch and PC, and with a reported
eight figure investment into their games department.
So at the very least 10 million, AEW is banking on this game.
Being a huge hit with fans in 2015, after losing his
us title and feud to John Cena, Russv have blamed his
manager, Lana ending the onscreen partnership between the.
Rusev would go on to employ Summer Rae.
His new manager, Lana would turn her eye to Dolph Ziggler,
even kissing the show off during the May 18th, 2015 raw
recalling the segment on the latest episode of the sessions.
CJ Perry said how the rehearsal for the kiss was incredibly awkward.
Especially with Vince McMahon standing there.
We got called in it's John Laurinaitis Vince Dolph and Miro.
We had to practice the kiss and Miro was turning red in the corner.
Vince is like, what?
We're all adults.
What's the problem.
We're all adults.
It's professionalism.
Don't be weird.
So we do it.
And Vince goes, no, no, no, no, no way slower.
He doesn't fully kiss Johnny ACE, but he gets like this close.
I mean, it was hilarious.
Dolph is dying.
That's why we went so slow in that segment.
I recently watched it with one of my friends and I was like,
this is so slow, but everyone was like, you look so innocent.
Like you've never done it before.
And that's what Vince was going for.
He wanted it to be innocent.
Like she had never kissed anyone before.
It was very weird.
The angle with dolphin.
Lana was shortlived as the real life engagement of
Lana and Rusev would see the couple reunite in 2016.
And we doubt anyone wants to relive watching Vince
McMahon nearly make out with John Laurinaitis.
And we're ending today with Sammy Guevara and Tay Conti
who are set to be married after the former TNT champion.
Pop the question in Paris in June of this.
The pair have slowly been revealing some
of their wedding plans on social media.
And we've now learned of one interesting name who will have a
big role at the wedding on Twitter Conti shared pictures of her
bridesmaids, which includes none other than current WWE superstar.
NikkiASH the former women's champion will have
shared a locker room when the pair were both in NXT.
And it's clear that Nikki made a big impression
on Conti during their brief time together.
Well, WWE and AEW are at odds, and will likely
continue to be at odds for years to come.
There's a lot of friendships between
the two companies and their employers.
Won't stop Nikki being there on her friend's big day.