Hello and welcome to the WrestleTalk Super
News - I’m Oli Davis.
We’ve got a packed show for you today, including
a wild Sasha Banks sighting in Japan, several
top WWE stars returning soon, and one ex-WWE
star who just announced his wrestling comeback!
Click the timestamps in the video description
below to jump to any of those stories right
now!
And make sure to have a Super Click party
and give us a subscribe, click the thumbs
up button and answer our question of the day
down below:
What do you think of WWE using Becky Lynch
and Seth Rollins as an onscreen couple? Because
I’ll be replying to people in the comments
FROM OUTTA NOWHERE… telling you how I find
Becky’s current Twitter profile picture
strangely attractive.
Despite being a very much real-life couple
- a fact Michael Cole likes to point out,
on average, every 2.9 minutes on Monday Night
Raw - fans have criticised Becky and Seth,
myself included, for weirdly not actually
having much onscreen romantic chemistry, with
their segments together feeling slightly stilted.
Lynch has addressed these thoughts in the
best way she knows how: by owning everyone
on the Twitter:
“Yo, @WWERollins, internet says we need
to work on our chemistry. Will you Gorilla
Press me like this after we win on Monday?”
- with a gif of the Patrick Swayze lift from
Dirty Dancing.
Which she followed up with burns on her opponent
from last week’s Raw:
“UPDATE, @MariaLKanellis. Tried this and
almost impregnated myself.”
And tonight’s intergender tag match of Zelina
Vega and Andrade.
“Unfortunately, the only small child I’ll
carry now is Zelina on Monday.”
“Also, tell Andrade to ask his old lady
(which is his real life girlfriend Charlotte
Flair) what it's like to get beaten repeatedly
by The Man.”
And Rambo Apocalypse Crossfit Jesus’ contribution
to defending his and Becky’s love was by
tweeting:
“C8H11NO2+C10H12N2O+C43H66N12O12S2”
...which, for a change, isn’t Seth making
a reference to his bank account - it’s the
chemical equation for the feeling of love.
Awww. Which can also cause schizophrenia,
extreme paranoia and insanity.
Run, Becky, he’s going to turn heel on you!
But even if Seth and Becky’s onscreen relationship
was clicking, they’d still have been overshadowed
in their segment last week by the baffling
case of Mike and Maria Kanellis.
This is the greatest, greatest, cuck I’ve
ever known Segway!
Seth and Becky took on Mike and Maria Kanellis
in an intergender tag on last week’s episode
of Raw, but the match quickly became more
about both Mike’s literal and metaphorical
manhood.
The Kanellisi reportedly asked for their WWE
releases at the start of this year, and Maria
teased that both their contracts were expiring
at the end of last month. Last week, though,
PWInsider revealed the couple had re-signed
lucrative five year deals worth half a million
dollars per year - just the latest example
of a high-figure contract for relatively low
level talent WWE has signed to stop the flow
of talent to other companies like New Japan,
ROH and, most importantly, All Elite Wrestling.
So WWE immediately started to reap the returns
on their investment by booking the Kanellisi
against two of the promotion’s top stars
on their flagship show, which saw Mike tapping
out to Becky’s Disarmher...Disarmhim...Disarmperson,
and Maria revealing to him that she’s pregnant,
but she doesn’t know how, because he isn’t
man enough to put a baby in her.
So what exactly is going on backstage…?
During last week’s episode, Pro Wrestling
Sheet’s Ryan Satin observed this could be
a storyline that’s been planned for a while
now…
“When Mike and Maria re-signed with WWE,
a source of mine told me there was a pitch
to do some sort of cucking angle with them.
Fast forward to a few weeks later and Maria
is now on RAW calling Mike her "bitch" and
commentary is pointing it out.”
It was an excruciating burial of Mike Kannelis
that will take months and months of very good
booking for him to come back from, and PWInsider
reported soon after that Maria was indeed
pregnant, but the couple only informed WWE
about it after they’d signed the five year
deals. It was speculated the segment was a
way to punish the Kannelisi, but now a few
sites and Maria herself are claiming something
else…
WrestlingInc have reported that Mike and Maria
actually re-signed with WWE in early June,
but only learned Maria was pregnant only a
week and a half ago. WWE was already aware
the Kannelisi wanted another baby, and them
signing them is apparently part of the company
“trying to make their environment more modernized
for working mothers. That includes having
a room for young children at their four major
pay-per-views, as well as scheduled time off
for family events.”
Maria plans on working through her pregnancy
for as long as doctors will allow, and intends
on returning to WWE as soon as she’s medically
cleared.
Maria herself has taken to Instagram to argue
her and Mike re-signing is actually part of
a much larger progressive step for herself
and women in the wrestling industry - particularly
WWE - comparing it to her previous run in
the 00s, and - in a classic Paige here move
- somehow blamed wrestling fans for WWE’s
historic misogyny.
“Fans circa 2009: I can’t believe they
treat ditzy Maria so bad. Why are the matches
so short? Why can’t a Diva be older than
35? Where are women’s rights? Fans circa
2019: I can’t believe Maria got pregnant
again! How dare she have a family? She can’t
work and have a family!”
“At the end of the day, WWE was where I
started and it’s where I wanted to complete
my career. And when they came to the table
with the opportunity to have a family and
a career it sealed the deal. People think
they know everything but it’s all in the
details.”
“I’ll still “complain” I have freedom
of speech. I also have the ability to change
things by using my voice. I.e. first woman
to sign a contract with ROH, first woman to
work long term with New Japan, etc... you
may not like it. But I don’t do it for you.”
Unsurprisingly, another force behind the ‘cuck’
storyline on Raw was its new Executive Director
Paul Heyman. The sensationalist, soap opera
booking is a very Heyman trait, and Dave Meltzer
has confirmed as much with his backstage sources,
writing: “it was clear the Strowman/Lashley
segment [and] the Mike & Maria Kanellis segment
were clearly Heyman ideas, which has been
confirmed.”
The Wrestling Observer has also corroborated
PWInsider’s report from last week that Luke
Gallows and Karl Anderson have agreed or actually
re-signed with WWE for five-year deals.
Anderson and Gallows are reportedly committed
to the company and their new main event faction
push as The Club with AJ Styles.
And they’re not the only acts we’re going
to be seeing more of on WWE TV from now on…
As Randy Orton and Rey Mysterio are both returning
FROM OUTTA… well, brief periods off from
injury.
Firstly is Mysterio, who WWE have already
officially announced for tonight’s episode
of Raw, after the former United States champion
had to relinquish his title due to a shoulder
injury he sustained in May’s Money in the
Bank - not because he unfairly won that championship
while Samoa Joe’s shoulders were up.
Orton got no such send off, though, disappearing
from outta nowhere over the last few weeks
on SmackDown. Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp
has now revealed the reason for his absence,
writing Randy “has been dealing with somewhat
of a neck injury” which got “jammed up”
in a live event match last month. As Orton
already had some vacation time coming up,
he was given an extra two weeks off to rest
up. He’s expected to return to WWE TV imminently.
Interestingly, Randy’s injury came after
a series of house show matches against Aleister
Black - meaning it could actually be Orton
who’s been playing knock down ginger on
Black’s cupboard for the last half year,
and they’ll be facing each other at Extreme
Rules.
But while those WWE stars are returning to
Raw and SmackDown, one former WWE wrestler
has just announced he’ll be making his comeback
to the entire industry…
After an almost two year break, the former
Damien Sandow in WWE, now called Aron Rex,
has revealed he’ll be making his return
to wrestling on Twitter:
If only there was a new wrestling promotion
founded by Sandow’s former Rhodes Scholars
tag team partner Cody he could make his return
in…
CM Punk to AEW confi-I mean, Damien Sandow
to AEW confirmed!
And he’s not the only wrestler sparking
speculation on Twitter. Because meanwhile,
in Japan…
A wild Sasha Banks has been spotted hanging
out with some of the country’s top wrestlers!
Banks hasn’t been seen on WWE TV since her
and Bayley lost the women’s tag team championships
to the IIconics at WrestleMania 35 - after
which Sasha reportedly tried to quit the company.
She apparently had a positive meeting with
Vince McMahon in May, though, and has been
filming footage for WWE 2K20, hinting that
she’ll make her return to WWE over the Summer.
Before then, though, she’s visited several
top Japanese wrestlers over the last few days,
including going for dinner with Pro Wrestling
NOAH’s Marufuji, working out with wrestler,
bodybuilder and J-Pop star Reika Saiki and
also hanging out with Joshi wrestler Mina
Shirakawa.
Sasha is a long time fan of Japanese professional
wrestling, and the trip comes after numerous
social media teases about her leaving WWE
- including liking positive posts about AEW.
While her meeting with McMahon is said to
have gone well in May, that was before Dean
Ambrose proved you can find success outside
the company, reinventing himself as Jon Moxley
in both AEW and New Japan - something Sasha
could now be considering herself.
One other notable part of those pictures,
though, besides where she is and the people
she’s hanging out with, is that Banks has
dyed her hair back to her trademark purple
- suggesting she’s nearing an in-ring return.
And it just so happens the Amalie Arena in
Florida has updated their website to now list
Sasha as one of the featured Superstars at
the 22nd July episode of Raw.
What huge death in Avengers: Endgame was changed!
Find out the crazy backstage story by clicking
the ScreenStalker video on the right! And
who won WrestleTalk’s ScreenGrapple awards
for Worst Way To Stretch a Match Over An Adbreak?!
Click the video below that to find out! I’ve
been Oli Davis, and that was wrestling.
