Here's your News for August 31th 
2020
WWE Fans Did The Unthinkable During Payback! 
John Cena's Past Leaked By Heath Slater! 
Wrestling News
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And your headlines for today include
How WWE Did a GREAT JOB With 
PayBack PPV And Where They 
Badly Missed Out! 
WWE Fans Did The Unthinkable Yet 
Again During The PPV; WWE In 
Serious Trouble!
Shocking Details About Paul Heyman 
Return Is Revealed! 
Accusations On John Cena Are 
Indeed Real! Former WWE Wrestler 
Speaks Out! 
Mike Tyson And Kurt Angle Share 
The Same Ring And More!
We’re kicking off today with Payback, 
as with just one week’s build, WWE 
tried to put together a stacked show. 
Running just 2-hours-32-minutes, 
WWE packed plenty into a relatively 
short show, and today we’re looking 
at what went right, wrong, and what 
left fans scratching their heads. 

What went right: 
Though not everything was perfect 
from Payback, the show started off  
strong, as the Bobby Lashley-Apollo 
Crews match excited fans and set the 
tone for the evening. 
Both men delivered, and despite 
Lashley being the favourite going in, 
there were genuine moments where 
it looked like Crews would retain, 
and a lengthy feud between the two, 
with Crews now chasing the gold and
eventually regaining it, could help 
elevate Crews even higher. 
Lashley’s win also exemplifies good 
booking of a faction, as Payback 
showed just how good the Hurt 
Business is. 
All three men looked like megastars, 
from being dressed in expensive 

clothes during their pre-match 
interview, to their powerful promos, 
to their post-match celebration in the 
the ring. 
One man who is also in a faction but 
going it alone right now is Big E, 
who showed some serious spirit 
against Sheamus.
Showing fire in his victory over the 
Celtic Warrior, Big E showed he’s 
ready to take his singles run further, 
and despite a botched Belly-To-Belly 
and Big Ending, he wasn’t the only 
one slipping up, and hopefully tonight 
was a one-off. 
With that said, Big E’s fire was 
impossible to ignore, and the skies 
the limit for Big E, if he continues 
to channel it. 
Payback also saw a dynamic Pay 
Per View debut for Keith Lee, who 
clashed with Randy Orton’s 
methodical, often boring pace with 
his own brand of strength and agility.
Orton certainly had his working-boots 
on, as he helped make Lee look like 
a star, even giving the Limitless 
One the win in under 7-minutes, and 
the WWE must capitalise on the 
former NXT Champion whilst they can. 
The last thing we need is for 50/50 
booking to mean Lee jobs out too 
much, rendering this win pointless, 
though the company also has to 
consider Orton’s own star-power, 
now that the Viper has dropped 
two Pay Per View matches in two 
weeks. 
Of course, most of Payback’s results 
fans saw coming, though that’s not 
necessarily a bad thing. 
The show, which didn’t feel like much 
of a Pay-Per-View, had some solid 
storytelling, from the ongoing rebirth 
of the Riott Squad, to the ongoing 
collapse of the Golden Role Models, 
to Big E’s singles push, 
to the emergence of stars like Matt 
Riddle and Keith Lee, to Roman 
Reigns cementing his heel turn 
with his Universal title win. 
Simply put, WWE used Payback to 
further the storylines they’ve spent 
time to invest in, and with effective 
storytelling, fans will tune in to see 
what happens next. 
One person fans will tune in for is 
Alexa Bliss, who watched the Triple-
Threat-Main-Event, and clearly has 
some feelings for The Fiend, and will 
clearly align with him soon-enough.
We’re not sure if WWE were right to
to keep her from the match, but we’re 
looking forward to see where her 
character goes from here, 
and what  the company has in store 
next for the demented romance 
between Bliss and the Fiend.
Shayna Baszler won big at Payback, 
capturing her first title on the main 
roster, but it’s how she won the 
Women’s tag titles with Nia Jax that 
most-impressed fans. 
Locking both Bayley and Sasha 
Banks  in submissions to get the win, 
Baszler proved how talented she is, 
a welcome sign after a year where 
her Royal Rumble and Money in the 
Bank victories were given to 
somebody else. 
What went wrong: 
There’s a lot to praise Payback 2020 
over, but a lot went wrong during 
the show, starting with the kickoff 
match between the Riott Sqaud and 
the IIconics. 
Whilst realigning the Riott Squad has 
given both women something to do, 
as well as add another team to the 
women’s division, we couldn’t ignore 
Liv Morgan’s botches, blowing the 
simplest of spots in the match, 
and hopefully Riott will be able to 
help her improve, something that 
she’ll need to do if they want to be 
Women’s Tag Champions. 
That wasn’t the only issue before 
Payback though, as the company’s 

pre-show panel just didn’t feel the 
same without Renee Young, who 
left WWE following Summerslam. 
Her absence was sorely felt, leading 
to the panel having awkward 
moments, and it may take some time 
for fans to get used to Renee being 
gone, but one thing we know now, 
is that Jerry Lawler and Peter 
Rosenburg just aren’t cutting it 
without her. 
On the show, there were plenty 
of tag teams that suffered losses, but 
no-one seemed more affected than 
Seth Rollins and Murphy. 
Though there alignment this year 
has been one of WWE’s most 
interesting gimmicks, the team has 
become the victims of WWE’s trope 
of bringing teams together, just to 
split them up and have them feud. 
Once again, WWE has thrown away 
a potentially strong team, and its 
hard to imagine Murphy coming out
any better post his inevitable feud 
with the Monday Night Messiah 
than he was going into it. 
Perhaps WWE could shock us all
by having Murphy and Rollins work 
things out and remain a team, but for 
now, expect the company to get rid of 
another tag team in a storytelling 
method we’ve seen countless times 
before. 
And lastly we’re looking at the seven-
day reign of Bray Wyatt, who lost his 
Universal title just a week after winning 
at Summerslam. 
With that said, it’s obvious that the 
chase Reigns for the Universal title, 
which Wyatt was never actually 
pinned for as Strowman was pinned 
it’s another example of the WWE not 
quite knowing how to use the Fiend, 
and we can’t help but think that not
having Wyatt win the title at 
Summerslam would’ve been more 
beneficial for his character, and his 
upcoming feud with the Big Dog. 
What left fans confused: 
There was nothing too confusing 
about WWE Payback 2020, as the 
show was predictable to say the 
least, with no real stand-out 
asides from the Mysterios Vs. Rollins 
and Murphy match, and Shayna 
Baszler’s double-submission finish. 
With that in mind, fans who came to 
see titles change hands got what they 
wanted, as we saw all-three titles on 
the line change hands, a large amount 
of title changes we’re not used to 
seeing, not even at Summerslam. 
The main event certainly felt like 
the rightful main event, and though 
there was plenty of good and bad  
from Payback 2020, we’re confident 
that WWE should never do a Pay Per 
View just one week after a major one 
as it’ll always impossible to live up to 
the hype. 
Thankfully, WWE’s next outing on  
Pay Per View will come on September 
27th at Clash of Champions, and we’ll 
have to see if WWE uses the net four  
weeks to learn from the mistakes 
they made at Payback. 
But what did you think of Payback? 
Do you think the show happened too 
soon, and what was your match of 
the night? Leave your ratings for 
Payback 2020 in the comments below. 
Now that we’ve discussed Payback, 
lets take a look out our daily dose of 
Wrestling News.
We’re entering the Thunderdome first, 
as a fan has once again used their 
seat to show something WWE doesn’t 
want fans to see.
During the Randy Orton-Keith Lee  
match at Payback, one fan held a 
Being the Elite foam finger whilst 
Orton posed to the crowd, despite 
WWE not wanting any AEW imagery 
or merchandise being shown. 
The Thunderdome has admittedly 
seen much worse appear, including a 
fan wearing kay kay kay probes, and Chris 
Benoit, and AEW Tag Champion  
Kenny Omega recently confirmed that 
he was in the crowd. 
After months of no fan presence, the 
Thunderdome was meant to allow 
some sense of normalcy to WWE TV, 
but if fans keep breaking WWE’s rules,  
we wouldn’t be too surprised if the 
company went back to shows without 
actual fans. 
One person who wasn’t in the 
Thunderdome for Payback is Drew 
McIntyre, though fans got an update 
on the WWE Champion following the 
brutal attack by Randy Orton on RAW. 
During the Payback kickoff show, 
Charly Caruso said medical staff were 
fearful that McIntyre’s skull had been 
fractured from Orton’s punt, and there 
was potential bleeding of the brain 
also,with these injuries described as 
career-threatening. 

Of course, this is a kayfabe injury to 
temporarily write McIntyre out of 
storylines, and following Orton’s loss 
to Keith Lee at Payback, we’ll have 
to see what the future holds for Orton, 
Lee, and the WWE Champion. 

Over to SmackDown next, as Roman 
Reigns shockingly aligned with Paul 
Heyman on last Friday’s show, a plan 
that Heyman’s own people didn’t know 
about. 
In a blog on the Heyman Hustle website,  
it was stated that the staff of Heyman’s 
own company didn’t have a clue that he 
was returning, which backs up reports 
that the plan for his return was between 
an incredibly select group of people.
With Heyman being fired as RAW’s 
Executive Director in June, a decision 
that made fans and investors sweat, 
it’s unclear how much creative input
he will have, but with Roman Reigns 
as SmackDown’s top heel, and the 
latest Paul Heyman guy, this 
will be a very interesting time in WWE, 
albeit one only a select few will know 
about before  it happens. 
At Payback, Reigns captured the 
Universal title after entering the match 
late, flanked by Heyman and now we 
have a greater idea of why the two 
were put together. 
During Wrestling Observer Radio, 

Dave Meltzer noted that WWE 
wanted Heyman back on TV to justify 
his deal, saying: 
“They feel the need for Roman’s turn 
to be complete, the other end of it is 
that Heyman has got such a big 
contract and it’s kind of like I think 
that they want to justify the fact that 
he’s got such a big contract and 
he’s not doing anything.”
As one of WWE’s best promos, 
Heyman back on TV is something 
many fans can get behind, especially 
if he’s going to be one full-time, rather 
than only showing up 
with Brock Lesnar is around. 
It’s also been noted that there are 
big plans for a heel-Reigns, 
and with the Big Dog regaining the 
title he never lost, with Heyman by 
his side things are only going to get 
more interesting from here.
From one WWE Champion to another, 
as John Cena did a lot in WWE, 
but one thing he ddn’t do is lose to 
the Nexus at Sumemrslam 2010. 
In the years since, fans have argued 
that the NXT rookies never had the 
same heat after their Summerslam 
loss to Team Cena, and one person 
who remembers that time well is 
Nexus-alum Heath Slater. 
Speaking to Pro-Wrestling Junkies, 
Slater spoke about the situation, 
saying: 
I’ll tell you this much, I’ve had so 
many people ask me that over the 
years. Honestly, I’m not sure if it’s 
100% fact, but I could comfortably 
say it’s a 95% fact. The whole time 
we were there, we were going over. 
We were playing to win. Edge and 
Jericho basically came up with that 
whole match. They planned it 
all out and had where it was, how it 
should be, where I think the last one 
left was Wade. And then the 
next thing you know, 4 hours later, 
it was just not happening that way.” 
“Looking back at it now, if we would 
have took over SummerSlam and ran 
it to ‘Mania, and had some super 
group come and let them destroy us – 
they should have put it in jeopardy 
and really made people believe that 
we were a threat, and want to see 
some group come in and beat us. 
They just cut it off when we were 
almost to the peak of the mountain.”
Who knows what could’ve happened 
if one of WWE’s biggest stars ever 
put over the Nexus a decade ago, 
though nothing can be done about it 
now, even if it’s widely regarded to 
be one of the company’s biggest 
booking mistakes. 
And finally today we’re ending with 
news from Kurt Angle, as the retired 
wrestler has shown he can still go 
in the ring. 
Recently, former UFC fighter Henry 
Cejudo uploaded a few short videos 

of himself and Angle training last 
Saturday, and they were joined by 
boxing legend Mike Tyson at Tyson 
Ranch 
At 51-years-old, the video showed 
that Angle can still go in the ring, 
despite some of his final WWE 
matches not living up to the standard 
that many fans have of the wrestling 
machine.
As for Tyson, his fight with Roy Jones 
Jr has been postponed, giving him 
more time to train, and with both 
Tyson and Cejudo having teased 
AEW matches in the past, 
we’ll have to see what the future 
holds for Angle, and whether he 
could soon be All Elite too, 
when the time is right. 
