In this WrestleTalk News, the real reason Liv Morgan won the SmackDown Women’s Championship
at Money in the Bank, Tony Khan open for an AEW x WWE crossover show, Luke’s review
of Raw and more!
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This past weekend, WWE did something crazy, bold, daring and shocking.
They had their new women’s Money in the Bank holder cash it in on the same night.
I know!
They’ve never done that before!
Especially not with women!
Liv Morgan won the briefcase earlier in the night and then cashed it in on Ronda Rousey
following the latter’s title match with Natalya to become new SmackDown Women’s
Champion.
Brand split be damned!
While the move was a welcome one, received well by many, it was certainly a little out
of nowhere, from outta nowhere you might say, though now we might know the reason why this
came about.
Someone who is claimed to be Ronda Rousey’s photographer took to their Instagram story,
posting from ringside at Money in the Bank, where they said:
“Respect to Ronda Rousey, who never wanted or asked to be champion…
And demanded that the most passionate pro wrestler be awarded the most prestigious title
in our industry…
#respect @(Liv Morgan)” Of course take this with a pinch of salt as
this is just a claim, though it is interesting that it does seemingly come from someone close
to Rousey.
What do you think?
Did Rousey demand that Morgan win the belt?
And if so, is that a good thing?
Let us know in the comments!
We’ve only just closed the Forbidden Door, but it seems there’s an entirely different
and probably more forbidden door that has yet to be propped open, that has mostly been
a one-way door with the exception of one major talent going the other way through it, this
analogy is becoming stretched - I’m talking about the door between AEW and WWE.
It’s always been fantasy booking from fans to have a big crossover show between the promotions
and get huge dream matches like Roman Reigns vs Kenny Omega, The Lucha Bros vs The Usos,
and have never before seen on WWE programming talent like Miro, Bryan Danielson, Malakai
Black, Andrade El Idolo, Adam Cole…Kyle O’Reilly…Jon Moxley?
Ah well.
Well, on an appearance on The Ringer’s Masked Man Show, Tony Khan said it might not be as
crazy as you’d think: “I’m not sure if that’s gonna happen
[AEW and WWE doing a joint show].
But, I would be open to talking about that type of thing.
It’s not crazy but it’s a bold prediction.”
On the subject of that little Forbidden Door show that we just had recently, Miro competed
in a Fatal Four Way for the new All-Atlantic Championship at that show, however with the
definitely not confusing rules of a battle royal into a number one contenders match into
another match to determine that AEW Interim World Championship also at that show, some
fans did question why certain wrestlers weren’t in the battle royal to begin with - such as
Miro.
Miro recently spoke with WhatCulture Wrestling on this, saying:
“I know I’m a World Champion material.
I know I’m in that class…[Jon Moxley vs Hiroshi Tanahashi] is beneath me, man, that’s
a secondary title.
That’s not what I care about.
If I would’ve cared, I would’ve put myself in that battle royal, I would’ve won it
all, and I would’ve gone for the Interim Championship.”
And now hot tag to Luke!
And now it’s time for my review of Monday Night Raw - aka it’s the fourth of July
and no one is watching so let’s not really do anything edition of Monday Night Raw - in
about 5 minutes.
The show opened with new United States Champion Bobbles Splashley introducing us to the episode,
and said that no one from any division or promotion can beat him for the belt.
Bobby Lashley to Forbidden Door confirmed.
Austin Theory came out and announced they’re having a rematch at Summerslam - sigh [side
screen] - and also announced that he planned on cashing in his Money in the Bank contract
after the Brock Lesnar/Roman Reigns Last Man Standing Match.
They’re having a six-man tag later on.
The Mysterions cut a promo before having a match in front of Rey’s hometown crowd and
- bloody hell look at the state of Dominik’s hair [zoom in on Dom’s hair].
I know I don’t have much of a leg to stand on here, but cut those sideburns, hippy [DOM
SIDE SCREEN]!
They then took on The Judgement Day in their first match on Raw since kicking Edge out
of the group 29 days ago.
Good decision, guys [side screen].
And they lost.
Because they’re a big group of losers.
This faction was suffering when Edge was in charge because the creative were at loggerheads
with the talent - Edge wanted them to be serious, but WWE wanted them to be a spooky ooky supernatural
group - now with Edge out the picture, The Judgement Day have a much tougher hill to
climb: WWE not caring about them.
This is Retribution 2.0.
Still, the crowd liked Rey winning.
So… yay.
The Miz cut a promo about Logan Paul, who was treated like a much bigger star than anyone
on this Raw roster, and then AJ Styles made his entrance for a match against The Miz.
Now, I’m not kidding with what happened next.
AJ made his entrance for his match against The Miz.
We then got an ad break, we got a DID YOU KNOW about Logan Paul, we got a backstage
segment with Street Profits hosting a part for July 4th setting up a hot dog eating contest
for later on, we got a backstage segment of The Judgement Day attacking The Mysterios
- that’ll get their heat back, right?
- we then got the commentators talking about NXT 2.0’s Great American Bash tonight, and
THEN we got The Miz’s entrance for his match against AJ Styles who has just been standing
in the ring for the last 10 minutes.
This has to be a rib at this point.
AJ won the match, and was then attacked by Ciampa who aligned himself with Miz.
Well, Logan Paul needs someone else to beat before Summerslam.
Corey Graves, and I’m not kidding here, said that, “every leading man needs a supporting
cast”.
Tomasso Ciampa is the supporting cast to The Miz.
F**k this company.
But I can’t to be too mad about WWE, because Liv Morgan is the SmackDown Women’s Champion.
And she’s bloody wonderful.
She cut a very affable promo talking about her journey to becoming Women’s Champion
and it was genuinely lovely.
She’s such a likable personality, and this crowd were so hard behind her that it was
wonderful to see.
This is WWE listening to its audience, and giving them the thing they want.
It shouldn’t feel like the rariety that it is, but let’s savour these moments.
I loved all of this, but then Natalya came out to spoil the fun.
Meep moop I’m Natalya the sharpshooter is the most devestating Natalya Hart Dungeon
beep boop.
Carmella also came out to set up a rematch with Bianca Belair - sigh [side screen] - and
Belair ran out for the save.
So I smell a tag team match playa.
Which the good guys won when Liv pinned Nattie.
The smartest decision as it gives Liv a big win over the previous number one contender
to set her up for a much bigger match against Ronda Rousey at Summerslam.
This was thumbs up all round.
Seth Rollins beat Ezekiel in a match that was set up over tomato ketchup.
You think this is about ketchup.
It was a good match, and Riddle attacked Rollins after the match to continue their feud.
I was quite excited for the hot dog eating contest between Angelo Dawkins and Otis - thinking
back to the beer drinking contest between Austin and JBL at Saturday Night’s Main
Event, or the Pizza Eating Contest between Matt Hardy and MVP at No Mercy 2007.
While it was never going to be not as Ausin and JBL, it could easily be better than Hardy
and MVP.
Sadly it was neither, as we didn’t get to see the contest and just saw who won, which
was Tozawa.
Comedy, I guess.
And it was all to set up Otis blowing chunks at the end of the six man tag of Lashley and
Street Profits against Alpha Academy and Austin Theory.
Vince McMahon comedy, I guess.
Also, look at the Street Profits, showing so many signs of dissension by… working
together and being fine.
It almost feels like WWE want to tell the story of them breaking up, but the Profits
are like, naaaahh not doing that.
R-Truth came out as Uncle Sam and then got killed by Gunther.
Brand Split lol.
To be fair, I popped when Walter came out.
Gunther vs. Reigns at Mania, please.
And then main event saw Becky Lynch beat Asuka in a fun No Holds Barred match which was slighly
ruined for me by Corey Graves.
You see at one point, Asuka put a trash can on Becky Lynch then drop kicked her.
Great spot.
Then Corey called Auska The Grouch, a reference to Oscar the Grouch from Sesame Street.
The only problem is that OSCAR THE GROUCH LIVED IN THE TRASHCAN, YOU MUPPET.
Becky is Oscar in this scenario!
Anyway, this was great, and Lynch winning hopefully ends this feud.
WWE looked at the calendar, saw it was July 4th, and decided not to try too hard because
no one will be watching the show due to the holiday.
Totally fair, really.
And it wasn’t a bad show, it was just a show.
A long show, don’t get me wrong, but just a show.
So I guess this episode if 3/5?