Here is your's news for 
july 30th 2020
Rusev Retired From Professional Wrestling! 
Eric Young Rips Into Vince McMahon! 
WWE Wrestling News!
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And your headlines for today 
include 
Shocking Debut Of TWO Former 
WWE Wrestlers In AEW!
AEW World Title Match Booked 
For Dynamite Next Week! 
Former WWE Superstars 
Signs Multi – Year Contracts 
With AEW ! 
Edge Shows off Tricep Surgery 
Scar, Gives Status Update!
WWE Reportedly Planning To 
Honor 6 Time WWE Champion!
Former WWE United States 
Champion Says He Is Done With 
Professional Wrestling!
Excalibur Missing From AEW 
Dynamite Following Resurfaced 
Video With Language!
Former WWE Wrestlers Tells 
Vince McMahon To His Face That 
He ‘Failed As A Leader’!
WWE SummerSlam Location 
Scouting Progress REVEALED! 
and more
We’re starting today with news
from Kairi Sane, as whilst the 
former NXT Women’s Champion 
has wrestled her final WWE 
match, the company isn’t too 
worried about her next move. 
According to Fightful, the company 
isn’t concerned about seeing the 
Kabuki Warrior in AEW, as they 
“WWE wanted to keep her on 
board in some capacity, but Kairi 
let it be known months ago that 
she wanted to return to Japan 
to be with her husband. 
We’re told there were no concerns 
of her wrestling elsewhere in 
America.” 
The report also noted that Sane’s 
time with WWE may not be over 
just yet, as there are pushes for 
her to work as a coach or trainer 
for WWE in her homeland, and this 
follows on from reports that the
company wanted the Kabuki
Warrior to serve as a company 
ambassador back in Japan. 
Of course, AEW has a lot of 
talented wrestlers including some 
from Japan, but for now, don’t 
expect the Pirate Princess’ ship 
to drop anchor in Tony Khan’s 
company. 
Speaking of AEW, this week’s 
edition of Dynamite saw a huge 
debut, as Matt Cardona appeared 
on the show. 
The former Zack Ryder appeared 
following Cody Rhodes’ 
successful TNT Title defence 
against Warhorse, as John Silver 
an Alex Reynolds showed up to 
give Cody a post-match beatdown. 
Cardona then appeared to help 
Rhodes even the odds and shake 
hands with the champion, with
the announcers referring to the 
Broski by his real name, 
and AEW poste a link to his merch 
store quickly afterwards. 
Cardona was part of the April 
releases, after being with WWE 
since 2005, and when his non-
compete clause expire on July 
18th this year, he posted a teaser 
hyping his return to the indies. 
This week’s show also saw the 
wrestling return of Ariana Andrew, 
formerly known as Cameron
in WWE.
The former Superstar has been 
out of wrestling following her 2016 
WWE release, which came after 
five years with the company, and 
though it’s unclear whether she’s 
signed a contract or is just 
appearing for the tournament, it’s 
good to see dah-bomb-dot-com 
return to the ring. 
Before Ryder was released in April 
2020, he’d reunited with Curt 
Hawkins in WWE, who now goes by 
Brian Myers and is with Impact, and 
though the pair continue to hot their 
Major Wrestling figure podcast
it’ll be interesting how the duo 
does in different companies. 
More AEW news now, as  next 
week’s show will see a huge 
World Title match for Jon Moxley. 
This week’s show ended with 
Moxley and Dayby Allin defeating 
Brian Cage and Ricky Starks and 
following the match, in a brutal 
match that ended with Cage caking 
a thumbtack skateboard to the back. 
Post-match it was revealed that 
Moxley will defend his title against 
Allin next week but that isn’t the 
only big news for next 
Wednesday’s show. 
Its’s been confirmed that Matt 
Cardona will make his in-ring 
debut for AEW when he teams
with Cody to face Alex Reynolds and 
John Silver of the Dark Order, 
whilst other members of the sinister 
group will face FTR, The Young 
Bucks and Kenny Omega and 
Hangman Page. 
The show will also see Chris Jericho 
and Orange Cassidy have a debate, 
with a special guest 
moderator that Jericho was 
hyped about, and we’ll have to 
see what Le Champion 
has up his sleeve on next 
week’s show. 
AEW’s Women’s division will also 
get a focus next week, a the 
company’s women’s tag-team 
tournament will begin on their 
YouTube channel next Monday. 
On this week’s Dynamite, the 
rules for the drawing process 
were revealed, and are as follows: 
• The tournament will feature 
eight teams, all chosen via a 
random draw. 
• The sixteen female competitors 
will each draw a color with those 
drawing matching colors paired up. 
• The selections are final and 
can't be appealed.
Former Women’s Champion Nyla 
Rose, flanked by Vickie Purple, 
made the first choice, drawing 
purple, which paired her with 
Ariana Andrew, and we’ll have to 
wait and see 
how these two get on in the 
tournament. 
Speaking of returns, this week’s 
Dynamite also saw Matt Hardy 
return to the show after a few 
weeks away, but came back 
with a much different look. 
Interrupting Sammy Guevara, 
who returned from suspension 
himself last week, Hardy 
cost Guevara and the Inner Circle 
a big ten-man-tag match, but what’s 
more notable 
is that Matt was just his 
normal self. 
Last week, Hardy released a video 
where he proposed that he should 
drop all his gimmicks, and 
given that he showed up as 
himself wearing on of his own 
PW Tees shirts, 
that seems to be what AEW are 
going for. 
Only time will tell what will happen 
with Hardy’s many gimmicks, but 
what we know for now I that 
the no-longer-Broken one has his 
eyes set on Sammy Guevara. 
Dynamite this week also saw a 
huge contract signing, though it 
wasn’t for a match, but instead to 
confirm that FTR are official 
AEW stars. 
After their arrival on the May 27th 
Dynamite, Dax and Cash have had 
quite an impact, an now we 
know not to expect the former 
WWE Tag Team Champions in any 
other company. 
Back to WWE now, and we’ve 
got news from Edge, who has 
given an update on his torn tricep.
After suffering the injury at 
Backlash against Randy Orton, 
though his tricep was partially 
torn already, all plans for the 
Rated-R Superstar have been 
put on hold. 
Appearing on this week’s edition 
of the Bump, Edge showed off a 
particularly nasty surgical scar, as 
well as the brace that’s holding 
his arm in place. 
The Hall of Famer went on to say 
that he’s at the point where can 
almost fully straighten his arm, 
but didn’t give much indication of 
when fans can expect him back 
in the ring. 
With an injury such as Edge’s 
fans shouldn’t expect to see him 
back in the ring for the rest of the 
year, but with rumours that the 
Rated-R Superstar is expected to 
compete at WrestleMania 37 next 
year, hopefully he’ll be back 
before then. 
From one former World Champion to 
another now, as there are 
reportedly plans to honour ‘Stone 
Cold’ Steve Austin in the works. 
According to Wrestle Votes, the 
WWE are planning some form of 
event for the Texas Rattlesnake to 
celebrate his 25th Anniversary, 
similar to what the company did 
with Triple H earlier this year. 
Though Austin signed with WWE in 
late 1995, fans wouldn’t see the 
future World Champion until 
the January 8th, 1996 episode of 
RAW. 
Word is that there’ll be a bunch of 
new merchandise focussed around 
the Bionic Redneck, as well as 
as well as a live appearance by 
Austin himself, hopefully with an 
actual crowd in attendance. 
There’s hopes that the WWE will be 
able to bring fans back to arenas 
this fall, and hopefully Austin 
will get to celebrate his truly 
incredible career in front of legions 
of fans when the time is right. 
We’ve got news from former 
WWE Superstar Rusev, who now 
goes by Miro, as the Bulgarian has 
said he’s officially done with 
professional wrestling. 
Ever since his release in April, the 
three-time former United States 
Champion has been happy 
enough on Twitch, and when he 
was asked about a WWE return 
during a recent Twitch stream, 
broke his big news, saying: 
I’m done. I’m done with wrestling. 
I’m a professional Twitcher now.
Miro is seemingly doing pretty 
well on Twitch since he’s gone 
pro, and added that whilst he
did send a text to Vince McMahon 
after his release, he didn’t receive 
a reply. 
Given that Cody Rhodes recently 
commented about possibly bringing 
the former Rusev to AEW, it’s 
hard to tell if the former Superstar 
is actually done, but for now, the 
Bulgarian Brute seems more 
than happy getting paid by a 
full lobby to play video games. 
Over to NXT now, and there’s 
been some big matches booked 
for next week’s show. 
Rhea Ripley and Dakota Kai will 
battle in a number-one-contenders 
match, with the winner being 
next in line for Io Shirai’s NXT 
Women’s Championship. 
Damian Priest, Oney Lorcan and 
the debuting Ridge Holland will also 
compete in Triple Threat action, 
with the winner of that joining the 
TakeOver Ladder match for the 
vacant North American Title, 
which already includes Bronson 
Reed and Dexter Lumis. 
Imperium will also be defending 
their NXT Tag Team Titles against 
the Undisputed Era next week, 
and whilst the Undisputed ones 
will be hoping to regain some gold 
following Adam Cole’s NXT title 
loss, that’ll be easier said than 
done against Imperium. 
Back to AEW now, and if this 
week’s episode of Dynamite 
sounded different to you, there’s 
a reason why. 
On this week’s show, Jim Ross, 
Tony Schiavone and Taz provided 
commentary, and there was no 
mention of Excalibur, who usually 
calls the action. 
Myltiple videos surfaced this week 
of Excalibur using the , 
which got him and AEW a lot of 
unwanted attention, and a young 
Kevin Owens can be seen in one 
of these videos. 
We’ve heard no word from AEW 
about this situation, and Excalibur 
has been silent about the videos 
as well, and it’s interesting that 
they made no reference to 
Excalibur’s absence on the show, 
as the company usually explains 
why someone is away. 
Of course, this is an ongoing 
story and we’ll provide an update 
as it develops, 
though things don’t look good 
for the announcer. 
Over to Impact Wrestling now, as 
Eric Young is doing much better 
in his old stomping ground than 
his time in WWE. 
While speaking to Chris Van Vliet 
this week, the former Sanity 
member had plenty to say about
his time in Vince McMahon’s 
company, and even revealed 
some hard-truths 
that he said directly to Vince 
McMahon himself. He said: 
“If you have a 3-hour television 
show, pro-wrestling television 
show, and you can’t find something
me to do then you are failing as a 
leader,” Young told Vince. “Plain 
and simple. You failed your 
company. You failed the 
shareholders, you failed the fans 
and you failed yourself.”
That was quite a brace thing for 
EY to say to his then-boss, and 
it’s probably not a huge surprise 
Young ended up on the release 
list shortly afterwards. 
Whilst some may see this as 
Young sabotaging his own WWE 
career, the fact remains that 
WWE’s ratings are dwindling, 
shareholders are angry and 
company stock isn’t being 
anymore, an all this together 
means it looks like Young’s harsh 
words may have been true. 
We’re looking ahead to Summerslam 
next, as the company is creating a 
ton of buzz 
for their biggest party of the 
Summer. 
We’ve previously reported that the 
show won’t be at Boston’s 
TD Garden, though WWE hasn’t 
confirmed a new location, and 
there’s now a report saying that 
the company 
is looking at a venue in the 
Northeast. 
Rhode Island was one of the 
names considered, as the state 
hasn’t had a main roster 
Pay Per View since Backlash 2009, 
and now New Hampshire has also 
been thrown in the mix. 
It’s worth noting that these are 
still early stages for the company, 
who didn’t even apply for hosting 
the shows, as it’s being reported 
that this scouting took place over a
month ago. 
The idea of hosting Summerslam 
outside of the Performance Center 
is to bring back an actual crowd 
to WWE, something the company 
hasn’t had luck with yet, and 
ultimately, this decision is up to
local government. 
It’s also been reported that some
where like Myrtle Beach, Puerto 
Rico or even a boat could be the 
host of Summerslam, but for now, 
the person who has the best idea 
what’s going
to happen is Vince McMahon 
himself. 
And finally today we’re ending 
with news from The Bump, as the 
show has given it’s first-ever half-
year awards for the Superstars 
of 2020. 
In unquestionably the strangest 
year in WWE history, Kayla 
Braxton hosted the special virtual 
awards ceremony, which saw 
Superstars and big moments be 
recognised for their achievement
The Golden Role Models took the 
tag-team of the half year, whilst 
Johnny Gargano Vs. Tommaso 
Ciampa was deemed the rivalry 
of the year. 
Unsurprisingly, the Greatest 
Wrestling Match ever between 
Edge and Randy Orton took the  
inspiring match, whilst it was the 
Boneyard match that took its 
spot as the best 
cinematic match of the 
half-year. 
There were plenty of contestants 
for Superstar of the half-year, but 
ultimately, it was Drew 
McIntyre, the reigning WWE 
Champion and Men’s 2020 Royal 
Rumble winner, 
who added another accolade 
to his resume. 
It’ll be interesting to see if a second 
half-year Bumpies ceremony is 
held at the end of 2020, and who 
will win, as a lot could change in 
WWE before December, 
especially in this 


unpredicatable year. 
