Here's your News for August 29th 
2020
WWE Plans For Roman Reigns! 
Kenny Omega On Smackdown! 
WrestleMania 37 Plans Changed! 
Wrestling News!
And your headlines for today include
WWE’s Plan For The New Paul 
Heyman Guy , Roman Reigns 
Revealed!
Triple H Sells MILLIONS OF 
DOLLARS In WWE Stock!
WWE Fans Did The Unthinkable 
During Last Night’s Smackdown!
PPV Worth Match Set For Next 
Week’s Monday Night RAW!
WWE Wrestler Officially Pulled From 
WWE Main Roster!
New Matches Added To Payback 
Pay Per View!
Something BIG is About To Happen 
With Retribution At Payback Pay 
Per View!
Hugely Disappointing NEWS as 
WWE Is No Longer Certain About 
Planned WrestleMania 37 Main 
Event!
Major News on AOP Return! 
Comeback Plan Is Revealed!
Renee Young Reacts To MJF 
Mentioning Her On AEW Dynamite 
And More!
We’re kicking off with SmackDown 
news today, as when Summerslam’s 
tagline was ‘You’ll never see 
it coming’, most fans thought that 
was addressing the return of Roman 
Reigns, but what the Big Dog did 
on SmackDown last night was truly 
shocking. 
Reigns , who was the last man to 
sign the no-holds-barred triple-threat, 
Universal title match contract for 
Payback, appeared at the end of
the blue show, following the main 
event where big E and Heavy 
Machinery defeated Sheamus, 
Miz and John Morrison. 
After Adam Pearce eventually 
reached an agreement for Roman 
to sign the contract, Reigns vowed to 
win the Universal title this Sunday, 
saying ‘That’s not a prediction, 
that’s a spoiler,’ a Paul Heyman line, 
and Roman was seen sitting next to 
Heyman as SmackDown ended,
who told Pearce ‘Believe that’. 
With the Big Dog the latest Paul 
Heyman guy, Reigns is certainly the 
favourite to leave Payback as 
Universal champion, though we can’t 
help but wonder what this new 
relationship means for Brock Lesnar, 
and whilst Lesnar is on RAW and 
Reigns is on SmackDown, we 
wonder whether the two 
former-enemies could align with the 
Beast returns. 
PW Insider is reporting that Roman 
is expected to be SmackDown’s top 
heel from now on, with Braun 
Strowman also turning heel, 
as the plan is to make Bray Wyatt and 
The Fiend the top babyface on the 
roster.
Whatever the case, Roman and 
Heyman together could make for 
some much-watch TV,  
and with Roman’s promo being one 
of the best things we’ve seen on 
WWE TV in a very long time, 
and a swerve fans didn’t see coming, 
Payback will be a very interesting 
show. 
We’re looking at WWE’s corporate 
side now, as WWE COO Triple H 
has sold a lot of stock.
According to filings obtained by Heel 
by Nature, the Game sold 45,388 
shares at $45.61 each on August 26th,
earning him $2.07 million.
The next day, the executive-VP of 
Global Talent Strategy made 
a much-smaller sale of 7419 shares 
for $45.83 each, earning him just 
over $340,000. 
In total, the game made close-to two-
and-a-half-million-dollars, with over 
81,000 shares left, and after he made 
over a million by selling stock in May, 
the Game is doing pretty well, and 
that’s not including his WWE salary. 
Over to AEW now, as Excalibur didn’t 
return to Dynamite as scheduled this 
week, but did still work the show. 
After being absent following PWG 
show footage of him using the 
N-Word came to light, 
Excalibur returned this week for AEW 
Dark, and Jim Ross even snapped a 
photo with the masked announcer in 
the building prior to the show.
Chris Jericho filled in on commentary 
on Dynamite in the wake of 
Excalibur’s absence, 
and the controversial commentator 
hasn’t even been mentioned since the 
videos, which also feature Kevin 
Owens using the N-Word, came to 
light. 
It’ll be interesting to see where the 
company goes from here with 
Excalibur, as they’ve previously  
banned both Hulk and Linda Hogan, 
and we’ll have to wait and see what 
happens next behind the AEW 
commentary desk. 
This week’s SmackDown didn’t just 
see a Roman-Heyman alliance, as 
well as great action in the ring,  
but also an appearance from Kenny 
Omega. 
Whilst the AEW Tag Champion 
didn’t appear live, one fan used their 
Thunderdome seat to project an 
image of Omega, or at least his 
doppelganger, which a lot of fans 
called attention to, though we’re yet 
to hear if WWE banned anyone for this,
like they’ve done in prior weeks. 
Usually those people who are banned 
have shown some pretty disgusting
imagery, from a KKK rally to Chris 
Benoit, and whilst an appearance by 
Omega is far cleaner, 
we’re sure WWE doesn’t want the 
AEW star on their screen. 
We’re looking ahead to RAW now, 
as this Monday’s show will see Rey 
Mysterio face Seth Rollins. 
This will be the first singles match 
between the two since their Eye-for-
an-eye match that Rollins 
won at Extreme Rules, forcing Rey’s 
eye out of its socket, though not 
severing the optic nerve. 
Rey returned to RAW this past 
Monday to team with Dominik, who 
lost to Rollins at Summerslam, 
to face the Monday Night Messiah 
and Murphy. 
That match ended in a no-contest 
when Retribution interfered, and 
though the Mysterios are set to face 
Rollins and Murphy at Payback, 
fans will get to see Rey and Seth 
face off the next night on RAW. 
Speaking of the Monday Night 
Messiah, Austin Theory was once 
one of his disciples, but that alliance 
has officially ended. 
After claims on inappropriate conduct, 
Theory was pulled off TV, 
and now that WWE have officially 
pulled him from the main roster and 
moved him back to NXT, 
as confirmed on WWE.com, we’ll 
have to see where his budding 
program with Bronson Reed goes 
from here. 
We’re looking ahead to Payback 
next, as another huge match has 
been confirmed.
Ever since Matt Riddle joined 
SmackDown, the Original Bro has 
been feuding with King Corbin, 
including a King’s Bouty being 
announced that resulted in Riddle 
coming out on top of Corbin’s plans 
time-and-time again. 
After calling out Corbin this week on 
SmackDown, Riddle instead faced 
Shorty G, though after Riddle got the 
win, Corbin furiously agreed to a 
match at Payback, Riddle’s first  
Pay-Per-View match since his call-up. 
SmackDown also saw Jeff Hardy 
successfully defend his 
Intercontinental title against Shinsuke 
Nakamura in an open challenge, 
before Sami Zayn, carrying the title 
that he never actually lost, but was  
instead, forced to forgeit. 
Zayn made it clear that he is after the 
IC title again, and called Hardy a fraud, 
and after some physicality, made it 
clear that he believes he is still the 
Intercontinental Champion, 
vs champion match has been 
rumoured for Payback. 
On a week’s notice, this Sunday’s 
show is  a stacked card, with a 
Universal title triple threat confirmed 
between Bray Wyatt, Braun Strowman 
and Roman Reigns. 
Bayley and Sasha Banks will defend 
their Women’s tag team titles against 
Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler, whilst 
US Champion Apollo Crews will 
defend against Bobby Lashley. 
Randy Orton will face RAW’s newest 
signing Keith Lee, whilst Riddle will 
face Corbin, and the Mysterios will 
face Seth Rollins and Murphy. 
And with the IC Title match rumoured, 
as well as Big E Vs. Sheamus and 
Kevin Owens vs. Aleister Black also 
rumoured, this Sunday’s show will be 
a huge event, just one week after 
Summerslam. 
On group who aren’t scheduled to 
appear this Sunday is Retribution, 
but we’re sure that won’t stop the 
anarchistic group, especially after 
they didn’t appear at Summerslam.
On Twitter, Dominik Djakovic, who 
is widely believed to be a member 
of the group, posted a series of 
numbers, and when translated using 
a cipher, spells out the word Sunday. 
With Payback being this Sunday, 
many believe that Dijakovic 
confirmed that Retribution will 
appear on the show, and this theory 
was only strengthened by the NXT 
Superstar deleting the tweet shortly 
after he posted it. 
It’s been reported that the Retribution 
who are appearing now will not 
necessarily be the ones unmasked, 
and it’ll be interesting to see what 
impact, if any, the Retribution  
stable make this Sunday at Payback. 
We’re taking a look ahead 
to WrestleMania 37, as the plans for 
next year’s show aren’t as certain 
as before. 
We previously reported that the main
-event of Mania would be Edge Vs. 
Randy Orton in an I-Quit match, 
which was reportedly pencilled in by 
Vince McMahon as soon as Edge 
got injured. 
In the most recent Wrestling Observer 
Newsletter though, Dave Meltzer  
noted that the match, which was 
rumoured to be for the WWE title is 
no-longer a lock, saying: 
At last word there was no longer a 
100 percent clear main event 
direction for the show. If Orton is  
going to win the title, then Lee should 
beat him here to set up Orton vs. Lee 
title matches, since they have
no  other babyfaces ready for Orton 
with the way they’ve booked Mysterio
and Owens (who Orton beat on TV) 
and with Black turning.
While Drew McIntyre has done great 
as champion, especially in the current 
situation, his reign will end one day, 
and we’ll have to see if Edge and 
Orton face off  for the gold, at the 
biggest show of 2021.
Over to AEW now, and Ricky Starks 
has spoke about his journey to the 
company. 
It was during Starks’ debut match 
against Cody Rhodes that Tony 
Khan decided he wanted to sign him, 
and Starks later joined Taz’s stable 
of clients alongside Brian Cage. 
Speaking to AEW Unrestricted, 
Starks brought up his rough past, 
that gained a lot of attention prior  
to entering AEW, and said: 
“If you have had life experiences, 
okay? Case in point, I have been in 
countless fights, especially when I 
was younger and things like that. 
That helps me out when I’m in the
ring because I understand what it’s 
like to really be punched and really 
be kicked.”
“I love those time periods in my life 
because it’s only made me better 
for today.”
Given his life experiences that he 
uses in the ring, putting Starks with 
Taz and Cage is a perfect fit for him, 
and with him in a programme with 
Darby Allin, another tortured soul, 
these two could be enemies for a 
long time.
Back to WWE now, and after Rezar 
sustained a Bicep injury in March, 

the Authors of Pain could soon be 
back on TV. 
That’s according to their former 
manager Paul Ellering, who spoke on 
the Two-Man Power Trip podcast 
recently, and added that there were 
plans for the three to reunite, before 
the current global situation and 
Rezar’s injury got in the way. 
It’s now being reported that the former 
RAW and NXT Tag Champions are 
expected to return in late September
or at the end of the year, though not 
with Seth Rollins, who they were 
aligned with, before they were
taken off TV. 
It’ll be interesting to see what happens 
with them when they return, as they 
were reported favourites of former-
RAW-Director Paul Heyman, but 
given that they weren’t used 
even Heyman was in charge, that 
doesn’t bode well for AOP.
We’ve got some much needed good
-news for 2020 now, as former Impact 
World Champion Tessa Blanchard 
has gotten married. 
After her marriage to Daga was 
postponed due to the current  
situation, the two finally tied the knot, 
and with a guest list including Gail 
Kim, Brian Cage and Tessa’s father 
Tully Blanchard, we’d like to send 
our congratulations to the happy 
couple.
And WE’RE ending today with AEW 
news, as MJF recently made some 
pretty disparaging remarks in his 
contract signing with Jon Moxley. 
On Dynamite, MJF claimed Moxley 
couldn’t retain his World
Championship at All Out without the 
Paradigm Shift, and added: 
“If you’re not man enough, you 
should tell that hot little wife of yours 
I’m single.”
This comment didn’t go down with 
Moxley, , though Renee did see the 
funny side, as after tweeting that 
she’s unemployed and optimistic, 
responded to a fan who brought up 
MJF, asking what his problem is. 
Renee only recently left WWE, but 
reportedly has a lengthy non-compete 
clause with WWE, though after MJF’s 
comments, and Renee’s response, 
there’s plenty of reason to believe
she’ll be All Elite alongside her 
husband, when the time is right. 
