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00:00 As some of you may have noticed, this is my third WrestleTalk News in as many days, and

00:15 as such I wanted to open with a story that is interesting to me and about five other

00:20 people - because while we've already had one Team Canada reunion this year, one of

00:24 TNA's greatest factions ever when Eric Young returned to the company to team with Scott

00:29 Damore, we've got another Team Canada reunion, this time in WWE.

00:34 It was reported that Bobby Roode was likely stepping away from in-ring work full time

00:38 and would instead transition into a backstage producer role in WWE.

00:42 He started this over Summerslam weekend and Fightful Select reported that he's been

00:46 working on the Raw shows as well, and this week he shadow produced the Alpha Academy

00:50 and Imperium matches alongside his former Team Canada teammate, the Canadian Destroyer

00:57 PD Williams.

00:59 But yeah, it's not really interesting news for anyone other than me and a handful of

01:07 other people.

01:08 Let me know in the comments if you're one of those people, but this is what happens

01:11 when I do three WrestleTalk News episodes in as many days.

01:14 Anyway, onto actual news, and we've got an update from yesterday's WrestleTalk News

01:18 video which clickbaited the hell out of you all by talking about Lacey Evans' teasers

01:23 that she was leaving WWE.

01:25 All the jokes on you, because it looks like she's officially left WWE.

01:29 "Evans last night posted to Instagram, 'When the clock strikes 12, you will address me

01:33 as Macey Estrella from here on out.

01:36 Oh, and the jacket is up for grabs.

01:38 Be on the lockout.'

01:39 She's a poet, and she didn't even know that she was rhyming those words.

01:42 But it happened.

01:43 The jacket, for those who are just listening to me rather than watching, shame on you,

01:47 has her WWE name, Lacey Evans, on it."

01:50 Also I know at this point you're all expecting me to plug that I'm on Instagram now and

01:53 you should all go and follow me, but I would never be that cheap.

01:56 And then as if to firmly confirm her departure from the company, she changed her Instagram

02:01 profile to include, formerly known as WWE Superstar, Lacey Evans.

02:06 "It has been protocol over the last couple of years for WWE to not make big announcements

02:10 when someone is leaving the company, instead feeding that information to media outlets

02:15 so they can report it instead.

02:17 However, Fightful Select note WWE have not confirmed her release to us, there haven't

02:21 been any internal notifications about it, and she hasn't been involved in any recent

02:26 creative."

02:27 While also not an official confirmation that she is gone, Evans - or Estrella now I guess

02:31 - liked a tweet from a fan who said that WWE didn't deserve her anyway.

02:35 But back to that official confirmation part, and it ties into the reports that Ronda Rousey

02:40 has also left WWE for the second time, but there has not been an official announcement

02:45 of that either.

02:46 Instead, it's just been reported that her rushed feud with Shayna Baszler to lead to

02:50 the Summerslam MMA Rules match was because she had told WWE that Summerslam would be

02:54 her last date with the company as she wants to go back home and have another child.

02:59 And this all brings us to Gable Steveson.

03:01 On last night's NXT, Baron Corbin cut a promo saying that he took an Olympic gold

03:05 medalist and ran him out the building, in reference to his feud with the Olympian Steveson.

03:11 This - as eagle-eared watchers will probably note - is more or less the same verbiage that

03:16 Baszler used to tell us the audience that Rousey is also gone.

03:20 It ties into a report from Dave Meltzer's Wrestling Observer Newsletter which claimed

03:23 all is quiet when it comes to Gable Steveson, and that it was curious that there was no

03:28 follow-up to the Corbin match even though it ended in a double countout.

03:31 He added when asking around about him after his debut match didn't go well as far as

03:36 fan reaction, we were just told that "nobody is talking about him".

03:40 On Endeavor's earnest cause last week, who will be merging with WWE in the second half

03:44 of September to form the new company TKO, CEO Ari Emanuel stated that "plans are underway

03:50 to make cost savings and synergies happen immediately upon closing".

03:55 And this has sparked some speculation that Rousey, Evans and Steveson's deals either

03:59 not being renewed or cut are part of these merger cost saving measures.

04:04 Rousey and Steveson, due to their name value, likely would have had high ticket prices on

04:09 them.

04:10 Steveson came in with a lot of hype behind him, even being drafted to Monday Night Raw

04:14 without having a single match - though he never made it to TV, with reports saying that

04:18 he wasn't improving in-ring at the rate WWE had expected, and was moved to NXT where

04:23 he had his one and only match with Baron Corbin at the Great American Bash - which was heavily

04:29 derided by fans.

04:30 But we have to come back to that lack of confirmation.

04:34 Meltzer also adds in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that Steveson is listed on the

04:38 USA World Championship team for wrestling, and is scheduled for competition in mid-September

04:43 so long as he can get approval from WWE.

04:46 So perhaps this isn't Steveson's departure from the company like Rousey and Evans, but

04:50 more he's taking some time off to do the other thing he does, and will be back in October.

04:56 What do you think of all of this?

04:57 Let me know in the comments down below.

04:59 So yep, it's time everyone, it's time to take a dive into all of the latest CM Punk

05:05 drama.

05:06 If you've been under a rock these past few days, here are some bullet point bits and

05:09 bobs to try and get you up to speed as much as possible.

05:13 So after this past Saturday's collision, CM Punk had a promo that indicated Hangman

05:17 Page was not a draw and his merchandise didn't sell.

05:20 It was later reported that this was supposed to be a joke but didn't land as one, and

05:24 Punk felt bad about how it came out.

05:26 It was also reported that at the same show, Hangman Page was banned from coming into the

05:31 building to film a pre-tape - which brought about more stories of other wrestlers being

05:35 booked for collision and then told they couldn't come into the building - including Ryan Nemeth,

05:40 Matt Hardy and Head of Talent Relations Christopher Daniels.

05:44 There were also reports that Nemeth and Punk either had a civil or heated conversation

05:48 - depending on which report you want to put stock into - about Nemeth's Twitter comments

05:52 alluding that Punk was the softest man alive - which was a response to Punk calling "your

05:56 favourite wrestler soft" in both an ESPN interview and on television.

06:01 And while there is no confirmation that it was Punk that blocked Matt Hardy from coming

06:04 to Collision, it's been more or less confirmed that he did block Christopher Daniels.

06:09 Believing that, because Ace Steel - who was also involved in the Brawlout fight last year

06:13 - isn't allowed to come to Collision, that it's only fair that Christopher Daniels

06:18 shouldn't be allowed either because he broke up that fight and was part of the investigation.

06:23 Despite reports that the Elite have no interest in working with Punk, it was being reported

06:28 that his promo after Collision was a way of trying to "start a program with the group",

06:33 but according to Dave Meltzer, these sorts of promos make the idea of peace between them

06:37 seem further and further away.

06:39 And before you start your "Dave hates Punk and loves the Elite" comments, Sean Ross

06:43 Sapp of Fightful Select has also added, "Those close with the Elite say that these situations

06:48 make them want to distance themselves even more."

06:51 Meltzer has added that this situation is a ticking time bomb in AEW, but there is more.

06:58 Punk has reportedly apologised to Hangman Page via text message for everything that

07:02 has happened in the last year, including - one would presume - going off script and calling

07:06 him out on a TV show that he wasn't even booked for in an effort to make him look bad.

07:10 It's also been reported that Page's pre-tape was never actually planned to be filmed in

07:14 the same building as Collision, and that Punk was not even aware that Page was in town.

07:19 And if he was aware, he would have brought him to the building to try and smooth things

07:24 over.

07:25 When the Battleground podcast asked Tony Khan about all this drama, he dodged the question

07:29 saying, "I thought it was a Krait show on Saturday night.

07:32 I don't have any further comment to that, but I'm very glad people are still interested

07:35 in our wrestlers and what's happening after the wrestling shows."

07:39 That's more excellent managing of the issue there, Tony.

07:42 Right, is that everything?

07:44 Have I covered everything?

07:46 Probably not, and guess what, there's now more.

07:48 Because Fightful Select are reporting that Punk also had a confrontation with Jungle

07:53 Boy Jack Perry about a backstage segment that Perry wanted to do that involved real glass.

07:59 According to those close with Punk, he felt that Perry wanted to film a segment that would

08:04 write him off TV because he didn't want to come into work the following week, which

08:08 he perceives to be a big problem in the company.

08:11 Those sources add that Perry had been advised not to film the spot by Doctors, Production

08:16 and Tony Schiavone, who would have been around for Goldberg breaking his hand and requiring

08:19 surgery in WCW when he punched a car window, and Punk stepped in to say that this was a

08:24 safety hazard.

08:25 He then told Perry, according to Fightful Select, "They don't do that on Saturdays,

08:30 and if he doesn't like it, he can stay on Wednesdays."

08:33 This discussion - or argument depending on which side of the story you want to take - obviously

08:37 became part of locker room talk, and sources told Fightful that Punk felt that Perry was

08:41 having a temper tantrum over not being able to do whatever he wants.

08:45 As with everything in this Punk debacle this week, there have been two sides to every coin,

08:49 and Bryan Alvarez wrote on the Figure Four message board, "Jungle Boy had a vacation

08:53 planned. He wanted to do a pre-taped angle with a car to write him off TV for that week.

08:58 Punk told him no. He felt it was too dangerous to do a broken glass spot and said they cared

09:03 about safety. Jungle was upset about that. That is very different from the story that

09:08 Jack wanted to do a dangerous spot as a way to avoid having to do work."

09:12 To get the final word on all of this, we should check in with our own Heat Magnet Helen Temperature

09:17 to find out just how much heat Punk currently has in AEW.

09:20 "There's not many things hotter. That's a nine."

09:25 Phew, we have gone long again today so there's no time for the NXT One Minute One Take, but

09:30 it was nice to see that Mustafa Ali finally got to do that gimmick that was scrapped before

09:34 he asked for his release. Now I'm going to read The Last Ronin with my good friend,

09:38 British wrestling legend Kendo Nagasaki while you go and check out yesterday's WrestleTalk

09:42 News episode.

09:45 And Damien Priest talked about how Finn Balor wasn't with them because there are troubles

09:48 in the group.

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