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00:00 I'm Laurie Blake, welcome to the WrestleTalk News, on Fridays we wear pink.

00:11 Now I don't know how you feel, but 2023 in WWE has been too safe.

00:14 We've had great stories, and then we've had them again for like 6 more months, but

00:18 we're missing the drama, the ups and downs, the teetering on a knife edge at all times,

00:22 the feeling that scripts might get ripped up at a moment's notice, I'm obviously

00:26 being sarcastic.

00:27 But fans of dramatic U-turns might get a kick out of this one, as it's the kind of

00:31 thing that would give old Don Toretto a tickle.

00:34 So Mustafa Ali has made his way to NXT TV in recent times, and on this past Tuesday's

00:39 show he debuted a new character, appearing on a podium, claiming to be a leader to the

00:43 American people and angling for a program for the North American Championship.

00:47 This is all a character that he reportedly wanted to pursue on the main roster, but WWE

00:52 never ran with it.

00:54 To go along with the new look he updated his Twitter and Instagram profiles with new logos

00:57 and designs.

00:59 For like a day.

01:00 Because Ali's profiles have now gone black.

01:03 Usually a dramatic sign that someone is leaving the company, but in this case he hasn't

01:07 deleted all of his posts, he's just blacked out the profile pictures.

01:10 So it's just a bit of a weird backtrack overall.

01:13 But Ali did post the obligatory new profile pic post with a blacked out image, so at least

01:19 he's having fun with it.

01:20 But what does it mean for the character?

01:21 Who knows, maybe they decided to go in a different direction.

01:25 More tangible is the news we talked about earlier in the week, and that is of Edge's

01:29 WWE contract being up following his match with Sheamus on Friday's Smackdown in Toronto.

01:35 Canada.

01:36 Where Edge is from.

01:37 This news initially came from Edge's trainer, but now the Rated R Superstar has confirmed

01:40 it himself in an interview with ET Canada saying "This is the last match on my current

01:46 contract.

01:47 I don't know.

01:48 I honestly don't know.

01:49 I probably won't know until I get to the locker room that night and decompress.

01:52 Let all the anxiety and tension that I never used to have before I performed, I have now.

01:57 That's strange for me and makes it much harder to do this.

02:00 I'm going to be 50 in October.

02:02 It's not easy anymore."

02:04 Notably, Edge doesn't say whether he has another contract lined up, will be giving

02:08 up the wrestling game altogether or maybe…

02:13 Maybe…

02:14 It's AEW confirmed!

02:17 Or well teased!

02:19 By AEW star Dax Harwood, who posted a photo of himself, Edge and Beth Phoenix just hanging

02:23 out all casual like days before Edge's final WWE match.

02:28 We'll have to wait and see what Edge does following his final match on this current

02:32 contract, he says himself he's not going to call it until after the match.

02:34 I don't really care which company he actually retires in, but the match has to be Edge and

02:39 Christian vs. the Harleys vs. the Dudleys and then they all retire together.

02:43 That would be lovely.

02:44 Now do you remember the other day when I clickbaited you, or what was it?

02:47 Tuesday according to my broken watch, about Lacey Evans' WWE departure?

02:51 Well I've got an update about her departure from WWE which she announced and was subsequently

02:55 removed from WWE's current roster page.

02:57 I got you real good.

02:58 I clickbaited you real good.

02:59 So good it wasn't a clickbait.

03:01 Though Evans teased the hell out of leaving the company, no word had actually come down

03:04 on whether it was a release or a contract expiry until now.

03:08 Dave Meltzer and PWTorture both confirmed that it was in fact a contract expiry.

03:13 Seemingly both Evans and the company were happy to just run out the clock on their seven

03:17 year working relationship.

03:19 This also means that Evans is now a free agent with no non-compete clause and is able to

03:22 work wherever she wants.

03:25 So watch out for her.

03:26 She's apparently opening a diner.

03:28 Sticking with WWE now and one man who we don't see as often as we once did is John Cena.

03:34 But you can't see him.

03:36 Now while Cena is a bona fide mega movie star these days, his WWE ties remain and there

03:42 may be one nagging accomplishment in the ring that he feels he needs to tick off still.

03:46 That being capturing the Intercontinental Championship, the one prize that he never

03:51 got his mitts on throughout his 21 years in the company.

03:55 He had the US title and who cares about the rest of the world.

03:59 And maybe, just maybe, Cena has now dropped a tease that that could be in his sights.

04:05 The massive asterisks around this whole thing is that it came from Cena's notably weird

04:09 and unpredictable Instagram account which already this month has posted a picture of

04:12 Stone Cold Steve Austin with his face replaced with a Greek food dish called souvlaki and

04:16 the legendary rapper Eazy-E driving around in a Nintendo 64 game console.

04:20 So yeah, big pinch assault here because it's basically Bizarroland.

04:24 However Cena's latest post was one that got fans speculating as it was nothing but

04:28 a picture of the Ring General Gunther.

04:31 Potentially teasing that a future match could be on the cards.

04:33 Cena loves a foreign heel.

04:35 He loves them.

04:36 It's also worth noting that Gunther has expressed his desire to defend his title against

04:39 Cena in the past.

04:40 In fact, after winning the gold last year, the Austrian told Sports Illustrated that

04:44 facing Cena was one wish he had in order to bring the prestige of the IC title back.

04:50 You can come out on a tag, Gunther.

04:52 While Gunther has already done that and then some, a Cena rivalry would be a nice bit of

04:57 icing on the cake.

04:59 Crossing over to AEW now and given all the drama and reported talent unrest stemming

05:03 from he who shall not be named.

05:05 It's easy to imagine the company's backstage area consisting of fire, screaming, rabid

05:11 dogs running around biting people.

05:13 You know, the usual.

05:14 Mad Max vibes.

05:15 It can't be that bad, as numerous surprising outside AEW names were reportedly in town

05:20 for this week's AEW Dynamite, according to Fightful Select, including a pair of former

05:25 WWE stars.

05:26 Funnily enough, the two ex-WWE names in question share a little bit of a history and it both

05:32 ties to current AEW collider Miro.

05:36 One of which is Miro's wife CJ Perry, formerly known as Lana, and Miro's former on-screen

05:41 flame Summer Rae.

05:44 Awkward.

05:45 It's reportedly both Perry and Rae were backstage in Nashville, and while the former

05:49 was visiting her husband with the couple also living in the area, it is less clear why Rae

05:54 was present.

05:55 Although as Fightful notes, she has expressed an interest in making more wrestling appearances

05:59 in the future, with her last match coming back at Royal Rumble 2022.

06:03 However, saving perhaps the most random for last, there was also a former WCW World Champion

06:08 backstage in Nashville.

06:09 And no, before you get your hopes up, it wasn't Goldberg.

06:13 No, it was perhaps the GOAT of all WCW Champions, David Arquette.

06:18 Again, no clue yet why or what he was doing at the show, but he was there.

06:23 Maybe he was just negotiating his opponent for All In.

06:27 One final name of note backstage at a recent Dynamite was, unlike the others, a contracted

06:31 AEW talent, albeit one we haven't seen in a little while.

06:35 I'm talking about TBS Champ- sorry, former TBS Champion Jay Cargill.

06:41 Yes, after reigning as TBS Champ for 508 days, Cargill decided to take a vacay away from

06:48 AEW following her title loss to Chris Statlander at May's Double or Nothing PPV.

06:52 While she was always assumed to be coming back, Cargill's lack of enthusiasm when

06:56 asked about her return by fans on Twitter had some questioning her AEW status.

07:01 But then again, she was on holiday.

07:03 This is how I react to coming back to here when I'm on holiday.

07:06 What do you mean I don't want to come back?

07:08 Rest easy, as according to Fightful Select, Cargill was present for the August 9th Dynamite

07:12 in Columbus, Ohio, with a report confirming the 31-year-old is still under contract with

07:16 the company and her hiatus is and was agreed upon.

07:19 While there's no real indication that could spell a return soon, Cargill's presence

07:23 back in an AEW show is at least a promising sign of a return coming up soon.

07:28 Cargill vs. Arquette at All In maybe?

07:31 Alright so that was two relatively calm bits of non-punk related AEW news, so that means

07:36 we must get into the CM Punk stuff.

07:39 It's like a deconstructed s*** sandwich, with two bits of bread first, then the s***,

07:45 now with the s***.

07:46 Because while much of the talk among the Brawl Out culprits has been on CM Punk and The Elite,

07:50 one name that hasn't featured in the news for a while is Ace Steel.

07:54 The most porn name in all of porndom.

07:57 Leading into the debut of AEW Collision in mid-June, Steel was reportedly a large sticking

08:01 point for negotiations between Punk and AEW.

08:04 Because Punk wanted Steel back in person at shows and AEW didn't really want to do that

08:09 for obvious reasons.

08:12 Eventually it seemed the two compromised with it, reporting that Steel would work with AEW

08:15 on Collision remotely, just not attending the shows in person.

08:20 And that was it really, until yesterday when Fightful Select provided an interesting little

08:26 update on Steel's status at present, two months into Collision's life in AEW.

08:30 Fightful confirmed that Steel has been back since Collision's launch, however not in

08:35 person and with no plans for that to change.

08:38 According to AEW sources that spoke to Fightful in May, Steel is considered an insurance risk

08:43 due to the Brawlout situation and as a result wouldn't be permitted to attend shows.

08:48 But being away from the company in the aftermath of Brawlout, Steel reportedly met with Tony

08:52 Khan where it was agreed he could return in a remote capacity while also being free to

08:57 pursue work outside the company.

08:59 Maybe even encouraged.

09:00 Please go and work with other people Ace.

09:02 Even more interestingly it was also revealed that Steel received pay from AEW for the time

09:07 that he was out.

09:08 Since returning, the report states that Steel has had periodic talks with Tony Khan while

09:12 also suggesting things for CM Punk to do, with his AEW deal said to be up in the Fall

09:17 or Autumn of 2024.

09:19 While Steel may not be physically present on Collision, he did reportedly play a part

09:24 in AEW's undercover boss CM Punk reportedly sending AEW head of talent relations Christopher

09:28 Daniels home from a recent Collision taping.

09:31 Yes, a talent reportedly sent an AEW official home.

09:36 Wrap your head around that one if you will.

09:39 The reason for this was reportedly due to Steel's absence, because Punk felt that

09:43 if Steel wasn't allowed on Collision, neither should Daniels be due to his presence in the

09:49 Brawlout fracar last September.

09:51 In the latest bizarre development to this story, a rather curious decision was made

09:55 regarding this week's Ring of Honor tapings, because usually ROH is taped on a Saturday

10:00 which is the same day as Collision.

10:02 However, this week they were held on Wednesday in Nashville on Dynamite's taping.

10:08 While this isn't overly strange, just wait for who appeared on those tapings.

10:13 Because according to Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez on Wrestling Observer Radio, Christopher

10:17 Daniels, Ryan Nemeth, Brandon Cutler and Colt fricking Cabana all appeared on that taping.

10:23 Considering that not one of those names are allowed to be present at Collision tapings

10:26 and therefore wouldn't be able to appear on Ring of Honor consistently, the decision

10:31 to have them all appear is super strange.

10:34 Even Meltzer admitted that the situation was bizarre, with no reason for both why the tapings

10:38 were moved or the four men's involvement being known.

10:42 Alvarez speculated that perhaps AEW will stage tapings for some of ROH on a Wednesday and

10:47 some on a Saturday in order to facilitate the use of the names on Punk's blacklist.

10:52 However Meltzer doesn't see that happening.

10:55 He continued to say that the change of tapings makes sense due to the need to tape the August

10:59 26th collision following the August 23rd Dynamite, causing regular changes to the scheduling.

11:04 Either way it's a bit odd.

11:06 Lastly we've got a quick note on the already infamous Texas Chainsaw Deathmatch on this

11:10 week's AEW Dynamite.

11:12 While the match has split the opinion online, it reportedly pleased Warner Bros Discovery

11:16 according to PWInsider and more importantly it earned AEW $100,000, all of which was donated

11:22 by Tony Khan to food banks in aid of the Maui wildfires.

11:26 Which is good stuff TK.

11:28 And now after much speculating online we now know the identity of the man behind the leather

11:32 face mask and no, it was not David Arquette.

11:36 But he was there.

11:37 Instead it was AEW enhancement talent Dean Alexander, perhaps best known for appearing

11:42 on the now dead AEW Dark, who took up the iconic role on Wednesday.

11:47 So there you have it, another one of wrestling's great mysteries solved.

11:50 Happy Friday everyone, we can all sleep easy for the weekend.

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