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00:00 I'm Oli Davis, this is the WrestleTalk News - where we'd like to congratulate WWE and

00:11 Triple H on...money.

00:13 Saturday's SummerFest event has been revealed as not just the highest grossing SummerSlam

00:19 in company history, but actually their highest grossing 'premium live' event outside

00:25 of WrestleMania.

00:26 That means, revenue-wise, SummerSlam pulled in over $8.1 million, making it WWE's 10th

00:33 best money-making show of all time.

00:36 Which as a publicly traded corporation, will definitely take their word for.

00:40 WWE would never treat numbers like they were wrestlers' heights, inflating, I don't

00:45 know, say 51,477 tickets sold to officially announce 59,194…

00:51 51,477.

00:52 8.1 million, these are all impressive numbers.

00:58 But there's another figure I'm interested in today.

01:01 1752, aka the amount of time between the first match graphic for SummerSlam's Roman Reigns

01:07 vs Jey Uso main event, and the bell actually ringing.

01:13 That took 17 minutes, 52 seconds.

01:16 If that duration was a match, it'd be the fourth longest on the show.

01:20 In fact, the whole main event presentation, from first graphic to closing final shot on

01:25 a once again victorious Roman, is 57 minutes, 43 seconds.

01:30 Or 22% of the entire show.

01:34 This isn't a one's off.

01:36 Last year's worth of premium live events and episodes of SmackDown have been heavily

01:40 dominated by the Bloodline saga.

01:42 And while it's working, as those segments and matches frequently pull in the most views

01:46 and have been responsible for increasing business across the board for WWE, it does inevitably

01:51 come at the expense of everyone else on the roster.

01:54 In an interview with the Mail Online, Sheamus - who is on the same SmackDown show as the

01:59 Bloodline saga - has expressed frustration over Reigns getting such a high share of TV

02:04 time.

02:05 "Obviously there's the luxury of getting all the storyline time and everything.

02:09 I feel like Roman's made the most of the opportunities he's had.

02:12 But I feel like there's guys on the roster begging for that amount of time to tell their

02:16 own stories, and that's one of the only things that's going.

02:19 The rest of the roster needs story time too.

02:22 It's story time with Sheamus, baby."

02:26 Sheamus specifically brought up the Madison Square Garden episode of SmackDown from the

02:30 7th July.

02:31 That hosted the big Tribal Court segment, where Roman pretended he was going to hand

02:35 over the role of Tribal Chief to Jey before Swerve totally punched him in the dick.

02:41 At the time, reports had that segment allocated for 20 minutes to open the episode.

02:46 It overran by double the scheduled in time, running at 40 minutes total.

02:50 This led to a lot of other stars having their matches or segments cut short, like Karrion

02:54 Kross vs AJ Styles, which had been built up for a few weeks.

02:58 The Bloodline still had another 10 minutes to close that episode, meaning they practically

03:01 took up half the show.

03:03 Sheamus confirms in his interview that he had his match affected then too.

03:07 He reveals that he originally had two segments planned with Austin Theory, but that turned

03:11 into three small segs on the floor, so that's tough as well to go out and do that.

03:16 Sheamus makes sure to say he's not taking anything away from the Bloodline All Reigns.

03:21 He acknowledges it's the biggest thing in the company right now, and it's a complex,

03:25 multi-layered story that takes time to tell.

03:28 But it does come at the expense of the rest of the roster.

03:30 Do you think the Bloodline saga has taken up too much TV time?

03:34 It's kind of classic WWE.

03:35 Here's a hot thing.

03:37 So let's focus on that at the expense of not building anything to take its place when

03:41 it's over.

03:42 John Cena cough John Cena.

03:44 Let me know your thoughts down in the comments below.

03:46 Not that it really bothers Reigns, he's issued his first ex-ex-ex, that's what we're

03:54 saying now since retaining at Summerslam, ex-ex-exing, a picture of his view from the

04:01 beach with the caption 'Umbrella Service and still the only Tribal Chief'.

04:08 It's good to have an umbrella of course.

04:09 In case it Roman Reigns.

04:33 the only backstage issue at Summerslam.

04:53 Segway Slam.

04:55 There was also whatever the f*** that MMA match was.

05:00 The decade plus spanning feud of Ronda Rousey vs Shayna Baszler somehow came together in

05:05 a five minute video package on the other week's episode of Raw, with Baszler delivering such

05:09 an emotional performance, her sudden turn on Ronda at Money in the Bank felt retroactively

05:14 foreshadowed.

05:15 While fitting with their shared MMA past, the actual Summerslam match was unfortunately

05:18 made awkward by the new 'MMA Rules' stipulation.

05:22 The idea was this was going to look and feel like an MMA fight.

05:25 But sports entertainment rules like 10 counts and not adhering to the ref's stoppage

05:29 decision undermined that credibility.

05:31 WWE tried to book a match that would cater to both wrestling and MMA fans, and ended

05:36 up serving neither.

05:37 Apparently this tension ran through the entire creative process, as Dave Meltzer has revealed

05:42 on Wrestling Observer Radio.

05:43 "There were issues between WWE creative and them as far as how it was going to go.

05:47 And you don't have knockdowns in an MMA fight and do 10 counts or whatever, but it's

05:52 like you have some people stuck in one mentality of combat and others in another and it kind

05:57 of, I think that it kind of hurt that."

05:59 Meltzer has followed up on F4WOnline that the match was Rousey's WWE farewell, at

06:04 least for now, and that she's not expected back at any specific date.

06:08 This is why she took her first ever submission loss in WWE to put over her real-life friend

06:13 Shayna on the way out.

06:14 But it wasn't just Ronda on her way out, as fan footage of the crowd at Summerslam

06:19 has shown large streams of people using the MMA match as a bathroom break.

06:24 Elsewhere on Summerslam, Triple H's comments about Brock Lesnar going off script and embracing

06:28 Cody Rhodes in an unplanned spot following their match isn't just a working McWorkface.

06:34 As PWInsider have corroborated, that was actually a surprise addition from Lesnar, which is

06:38 another example of Brock's remarkable creative instincts.

06:42 As for me, that took what was match of the night to the definitive moment of the show.

06:46 Fightful Select is reporting the Slim Jim Battle Royal sponsorship spot was huge in

06:51 terms of MONEY, and the Cylindrical Meatstick brand were ecstatic to have LA Knight win

06:56 it.

06:57 Knight's come a long way since mounting due matches by doing… other sponsored matches.

07:03 Fightful also write that Io Sky's Money in the Bank cash-in was not a last minute

07:07 decision.

07:08 Perhaps this is why the SmackDown Women's Championship three-way was one of the four

07:11 potential women's matches that made it onto the Summerslam card.

07:14 And PWInsider have revealed the real reason Michael Cole is going to be commentating on

07:19 both Raw and SmackDown from this week.

07:22 It was a request from WWE's parent company Endeavor, and WWE's broadcast partners,

07:27 so the USA Network and Fox, who want to make Michael Cole the face of the product going

07:32 forward.

07:33 This is more interesting than it sounds, as to my knowledge, this is the first onscreen

07:37 decision we've heard about coming from WWE's new corporate overlords.

07:41 We'll have to see if this is just a one-off, because new TV deal negotiations are currently

07:46 underway, or if it's the sign of things to come.

07:49 While the merger dust is settling.

07:51 Over in AEW, several top stars have come out to publicly defend accusations of a toxic

07:55 backstage environment.

07:57 The allegations come from veteran women's wrestler Lu Fisto, who spoke of conflicting

08:01 instructions behind the scenes and gleeks of wrestlers trying to undermine each other.

08:05 Lu Fisto was never signed by the promotion, but did appear on an episode of Dark Elevation

08:10 last April.

08:11 AEW World Champion MJF has shot back at her comments in a lengthy ex-put-I can't get

08:16 used to saying ex.

08:18 In reality, the only reason you're spewing bulls*** is because you're aware deep down

08:22 you aren't going to make it, so what's the harm in spewing reckless lies and trying

08:26 to hurt hardworking, talented people on your way down to obscurity?

08:30 We have an amazing women's locker room.

08:32 Sarraya also said this is one of the best locker rooms I've been in.

08:35 Lu Fisto has since deleted her ex account and has pulled out of her next independent

08:39 booking.

08:40 It was also AEW Collision on Saturday, Saturday.

08:44 Ben Layton and I will be reviewing the episode in full on the WrestleTalk Podcast channel

08:48 later today, but for now, here's a one minute, one take.

08:52 Let's absolutely boss it.

08:55 Timer, one minute.

08:57 FTR beat Big Bill and Brian Cage in a really good match.

09:00 FTR called out The Young Bucks for All In After to decide the best team in history.

09:04 CM Punk vs Kenny Omega confirmed.

09:07 Chris Statlander got beaten up by Mercedes Martinez for the whole match, then just eked

09:10 out a win at the end.

09:12 Ciamonte turned on Chris after for Willow to make the save.

09:15 Samoa Joe squashed Ser Penteco in the quickest collision match ever, then called out CM Punk

09:20 for All In.

09:21 The acclaimed Say Daddy Ass really has retired.

09:24 House of Black beat Action Andrade, Darius Martin and Lee Johnson.

09:26 A random graphic then just announced House of Black vs CMFTR for the trios titles next

09:32 week.

09:33 What?

09:34 Christian turned heel on his own daughter, the Bang Bang Gang and my favourite faction

09:38 right now.

09:39 CM White beat Metalik, and CM Punk beat Ricky Starks in a solid main event with guest enforcer

09:44 Ricky Steamboat counting the final pin.

09:46 Starks attacked Steamboat afterwards because that's the only way they could get South

09:50 Carolina to cheer for Punk.

09:52 Yes.

09:53 5 seconds remaining.

09:54 That's pretty damn good.

09:55 I'll see you all on the WrestleTalk Podcast channel shortly.

09:58 Now go watch Pete's review of SummerSlam 2023.

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