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00:00 3, 2, 1...

00:07 Are you serious?!

00:14 Of course!

00:18 Name me a promo that hasn't only defined a wrestler, defined an era of wrestling, defined

00:26 an entire promotion.

00:29 This promo transcends wrestling.

00:33 This promo...

00:34 If you've said to someone "TNA", this would be one of the first things they think of.

00:38 It's Steinermaths.

00:39 It's Steinermaths.

00:40 Steinermaths?!

00:41 Steinermaths?!

00:42 That's... it's... it's not better than the pipe bomb.

00:53 How could anyone ever even think that?

00:56 I need to prove it.

01:00 CM Punk makes an emotional post, a major wrestling star officially finished with their promotion,

01:06 The Rock vs Roman Reigns' WWE plans and more.

01:10 I'm Oli Davis, and this is the WrestleTalk News.

01:20 Despite real-life pirates delaying WWE shipping the Elimination Chamber structure to Australia,

01:25 Paul Burchell will have his revenge!

01:28 The Premium Live event played out exactly as planned.

01:32 Exactly as planned being a relative term there, as a month before, it was almost a totally

01:37 different card.

01:38 The show was reportedly once meant to have Seth Rollins vs Australia's own Bronson Reed,

01:43 which had to be pulled when Seth got injured, Brock Lesnar vs Dominik Mysterio, which had

01:48 to be pulled when Lesnar was referenced in Janelle Grant's lawsuit against Vince McMahon,

01:52 and, at various points, Jade Cargill was reportedly set to compete in the Women's Chamber.

01:58 But the most noteworthy change for the show was the men's Chamber match, which was supposed

02:02 to be won by CM Punk.

02:05 Punk lasted to the final two in the previous month's Royal Rumble, to be thrown out by

02:09 the eventual winner The Rock.

02:11 Wait, sorry, I mean Cody Rhodes.

02:13 WWE have confused me.

02:16 Unfortunately, Punk tore his triceps when taking a Future Shock DDT from Drew McIntyre

02:21 in the match, which is expected to take him out until later this year, missing the Chamber

02:26 match he was supposed to win, and facing Seth Rollins at WrestleMania XL for his World Heavyweight

02:32 Championship that he was very likely supposed to win too.

02:35 Which led to Punk posting on his Instagram story as Elimination Chamber was hours away

02:41 - "Had a rough day mentally today.

02:43 My heart and spirit are in Perth.

02:45 Just a hard day staying positive and nobody wishes I was there performing for the fans

02:50 more than me.

02:51 Enjoy the show.

02:52 Appreciate you all."

02:54 This is Punk's third significant injury to disrupt world title plans for him in the

02:58 last two years, with Punk having to relinquish his AEW Championship in June 2022 after suffering

03:04 a broken foot, and again with a torn triceps in September that year.

03:09 Although that was also because of brawler-NO DREW THIS IS SERIOUS.

03:12 Don't be mean to him.

03:14 Drew's totally going to show up on Raw tonight with Punk's post on a t-shirt.

03:17 In some good CM Punk news, though, he might be able to finish his story… in a video

03:24 game.

03:25 The full roster has been released for WWE 2K24, with two notable exceptions.

03:30 Lesnar will not be available as a playable character, likely due to the aforementioned

03:34 lawsuit reference.

03:36 And also, there is no CM Punk listed, despite him returning to the company in November.

03:41 Punk hasn't been in a WWE game since 2K15, but it's been reported he might make it

03:47 in a late DLC.

03:48 As I mentioned earlier, Fightful Select have revealed that Rollins was originally supposed

03:52 to defend his World Heavyweight Championship against Bronson Reed at Elimination Chamber,

03:58 because Bronson Reed is Australian.

04:00 Reed's push was hinted at on TV earlier this year, when he started to cut promos about

04:05 coming for a champion who didn't know they were being targeted.

04:08 Unfortunately Seth's knee injury meant that match was pulled, but it worked out well for

04:12 Bronson in the end, because despite being more than willing to travel to Perth for Elimination

04:18 Chamber around the same time his wife was due to give birth, he stayed in America, where

04:23 he himself posted "Full disclosure, originally I was set to be at the Elimination Chamber.

04:28 It would have been an incredible moment.

04:30 Unfortunately, plans changed.

04:32 But everything happens for a reason.

04:34 My wife and I have had our baby early.

04:36 I was supposed to miss the PLE to make sure I'm here for my family.

04:40 Thank you for all your support to all my friends and family who have reached out to Triple

04:44 H for guiding me.

04:45 Now I'm not just big, I am Big Poppa."

04:50 Congratulations to Bronson Reed there.

04:52 Wait a second, Big Poppa?

04:54 Not you too, Bronson!

04:56 The pipe bomb's better.

04:58 It was a busy Saturday for wrestling, not just with Elimination Chamber, AEW Collision

05:03 and Bronson's baby.

05:04 It was also New Japan Pro Wrestling's new beginning in Sapporo - which probably should've

05:09 been renamed 'Final Ending in Sapporo' because it marked the final appearance of

05:14 Kazuchika Okada.

05:15 New Japan announced last month that Okada would not be renewing his contract after 14

05:20 years with the promotion, but he would stay on through most of February to complete the

05:24 new beginning shows he'd already been advertised for - where he put zero people over.

05:30 He beat Will Ospreay in Ospreay's last New Japan match, he vacated the never-openweight

05:34 six-man belts rather than drop them, and he beat his long-time rival and New Japan President

05:39 Hiroshi Tanahashi in what was billed as their last ever match.

05:44 It was an odd, rather unceremonious end to one of the greatest top star reigns in wrestling

05:49 history.

05:50 Looking wisdom usually has wrestlers putting over the next generation of stars when they

05:53 leave a promotion, but Okada beat everyone, and also said in an interview, "I can tell

05:59 you one thing about the future of New Japan.

06:02 It's not a chance.

06:03 It's a crisis.

06:04 The next generation can't just think, 'Oh, this is our chance.'

06:07 They have to step up and save the company."

06:11 And in his final New Japan match, going out with a relative whimper to the bang you would

06:15 have thought for Okada leaving the promotion, he won the second match on the card.

06:20 A ten-man tag of him teaming with his Chaos faction mates Hiroki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii,

06:25 Toriyano and Yoshi Hashi, beating Francesco Akira, Great O Khan, Jeff Cobb, Matt Riddle

06:30 and Callum Newman.

06:32 Okada pinned Newman, a former WrestleTalk Scholarship winner who has all the ability

06:36 to grow into the next Will Ospreay.

06:38 Okada's final New Japan moment happened later in the night, though.

06:42 After successfully defending his IWGP World Heavyweight Championship against Tsunada,

06:47 Naito invited Okada to the ring, said "until we meet again", did his signature taunt

06:53 at him, got the better of a brief wrestling sequence of reversals, and rolled into his

06:57 Tranquillo pose again.

06:59 Okada smiled, and just walked out the ring, and through the crowd, and out of the promotion.

07:08 Likely to America.

07:09 Oh, but I get it now.

07:11 Okada's probably going to AEW, which means they're building a forbidden door match

07:16 of him vs Naito, where Okada is finally going to put someone over, and thus the whole promotion

07:22 of New Japan.

07:24 Still not what I would've done, but at least New Japan gets something out of all of this.

07:29 Yeah, can't wait for that show.

07:32 But just one more thing.

07:35 Okada then did an interview with Tokyo Sports where he said "I'm already looking ahead

07:39 to what's next, and I'm leaving with the intention of never coming back to New Japan."

07:44 I'm a little sorry about that, but I don't think so.

07:48 What do you think of Okada's last run in New Japan?

07:50 Let me know in the comments.

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07:57 deep dive into the break-up of the Shield will be released there soon.

08:01 And also you can get a shoutout from wrestling legend Turbo Jack!

08:06 Ahahahahaha!

08:07 Oh hi there!

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08:25 Series Thunderdome Edition and the all-new WrestleTalk Extra, where Oli Davis and Luke

08:31 Owen go through the whole of the break-up of the Shield.

08:34 And the crunkiest amongst you can get a shoutout on this very show!

08:39 So thank you to the cleaner Kenny Shaw, the British Bulldog Philip Boy J Smith Jr, he

08:45 can last Shawn for longer than you and the ring.

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09:00 Back to New Japan, in the last year, the promotion has lost three of their top stars - Jay White,

09:11 Will Ospreay and Kazuchika Okada.

09:13 In an odd reversal of traffic, though, their immediate future instead seems to be based

09:18 around wrestlers who were released by WWE - the former Dolph Ziggler, now called Nick

09:23 Nemeth and Matt Riddle.

09:25 After both men debuted in New Japan last month, Nemeth won the IWGP Global Championship from

09:31 David Finlay at the New Beginnings show.

09:33 Nemeth tweeted in both Japanese and English "THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING, LET'S F-ING

09:39 GO"

09:40 And he wasn't kidding, as Nemeth would later appear via video on Sunday's TNA taping,

09:45 where he revealed he'll be defending that newly won belt against Steve McClin at TNA

09:50 Sacrifice on the 8th March - where Samoa Joe apparently has a 33-NO, NO SCOTT STEINER MATHS.

09:57 Riddle also captured gold at the New Beginnings shows, beating New Japan legend Tanahashi

10:02 to win the TV title - making the most of hashtags in a post afterwards.

10:06 The King of Bros is back on top, and your new television champion!

10:10 Thank you everyone for supporting me and showing me love.

10:13 Longitudinal emoji #NJPW #NJPWWorld #Bro #Stallion #TVChampion #RudeDude #Sapporo

10:21 The most recent Wrestling Observer Newsletter has summarised who knew what and when in the

10:26 Cody Roman Rock fiasco.

10:28 Apparently Cody was first told he'd be facing Roman at WrestleMania last Fall, but wasn't

10:33 told until the day he won the Royal Rumble that they had changed their minds to The Rock

10:38 - which was confirmed behind the scenes as part of Rock's deal to join the TKO board

10:43 on the 3rd January, and had been heavily negotiated as far back as December.

10:47 Cody, of course, then went on to win the Rumble.

10:50 But would the working idea that would be to build a match against Roman further down the

10:55 line?

10:56 Which isn't what Rumbles are made for!

10:58 It was the social media backlash for Cody bringing out The Rock that prompted WWE to

11:03 change their plans.

11:04 Rock didn't want to be booed as a babyface, so he decided to go heel.

11:09 It was then hidden from almost everyone that WWE would be reverting back to Roman vs Cody

11:14 until the press conference, as The Rock wanted that to be a surprise.

11:18 But The Rock vs Roman is still the plan long term, as the Wrestling Observer notes how

11:23 Johnson is still throwing in the occasional tease of a match between them.

11:27 So the idea from a company standpoint is that match will happen.

11:32 Just won't be at WrestleMania XL.

11:34 Now go watch me, Luke and Pete count down the 10 best wrestling promos ever in the controversial

11:40 brand new episode of Tables, Lists and Shares.

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