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00:38 - AEW Championships Vacated
00:58 - Stephanie Vaquer Signs With WWE
02:56 - AEW Debut Leaked
03:25 - GRIPEBOMBS: THE WINNER
05:20 - AEW Dynamite Review
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00:00AEW Championships have been vacated, WWE sign a top 3 agent that AEW were interested in,

00:07an AEW debut leaked and my review of AEW Dynamite. I'm Luke Owen and this is the WrestleTalk

00:12News.

00:17Before we get into our first story, this will contain spoilers for this Saturday's collision,

00:20so if you want to skip it, click ahead to the timestamp on screen or in the chapter

00:25in the video description.

00:39During the tapings of this Saturday's collision, the Gang Bang Gang beat three enhancement

00:43talents but were then stripped of their unified trios titles by Christopher Daniels as the

00:47group tried to enact the free bird rule while Jey White is out selling the injuries from

00:51The Angle last week. Daniels announced that new champions will be crowned in a match between

00:55The Bang Bang Gang and The Patriarchy at a later date.

00:58Just seven days after her Forbidden Door match with Mercedes Monet, it was reported by Record

01:02Mexico that both AEW and WWE had interest in signing Stephanie Vakur full time once

01:08her deal with CMLL was done.

01:10Well, it didn't take long for that deal to be done, as CMLL and New Japan announced

01:14one day later in a joint statement that Stephanie Vakur was leaving their promotions, vacating

01:19her belt and dropping out of her scheduled match to Fantastica Mania USA on July 13th.

01:24Vakur would then confirm the news via her own statement on social media.

01:27But little did we know at that point, Vakur had reportedly already paid WWE a visit.

01:33As reported by Fightful Select's Sean Ross Sapp, Sourced had claimed that Vakur was spotted

01:37at NXT Heatwave in Toronto with the belief that she was WWE bound.

01:42In AEW, many were already resigned to the fact that they had missed out. Fightful Select

01:46report that despite AEW holding talks with Vakur, sources in the company thought it

01:51was likely that she was going to sign with WWE, with the company registering interest

01:55in her following her bout at Forbidden Door.

01:58Then just a few hours later, it was confirmed. First by Record Mexico, then PWInsider, then

02:03finally by Shawn Michaels himself who posted on Twitter to welcome Vakur aboard NXT.

02:09Keeping in line with the breakneck pace of this story, shortly after her WWE signing,

02:13Dave Meltzer would then report that the belief in WWE is that Vakur will be first unveiled

02:17at a live event in Mexico City on July 13th, with another event in Monterey the following

02:22night. From there she will head to NXT rather than the main roster.

02:26Corey Brennan of Fightful noted on Twitter,

02:27Stephanie Vakur will begin in NXT for the same reason as Julia. She has wrestled for

02:32most of her career in one country and has not experienced the WWE and American way of

02:36life. It's nothing to do with their in-ring work.

02:39Now that she has signed with WWE, Rev Pro here in the UK have announced that she's

02:43been pulled from her scheduled matches with the promotion, one of which was set to be

02:46against Danny Luna at the Copper Box on All In weekend. This news comes just after the

02:50report that the Motor City Machine Guns might be heading to WWE when everyone thought they

02:55were AEW bound.

02:56But WWE aren't the only ones set to debut a star from a Mexican promotion, as we may

03:01now know the identity of the mysterious Masked Man who got a vignette on last week's Collision.

03:06According to Bodyslam.net, the identity of the mystery man is former AAA star Aramis.

03:11According to their report, Aramis will debut under a new name, Hologram, and is reportedly

03:15set to be given a hacker-type gimmick. LuchaBlog would second Bodyslam's report, as well

03:19as confirm that, no, it in fact was not Ricochet under the mask despite fans telling them otherwise.

03:25And before we get into the AEW Dynamite review, yesterday saw the launch of our new debate

03:29show Gripe Bombs over on PartsFUNknown, where Oli and I went head-to-head in direct competition

03:35to determine which was better, Pipe Bomb or Maths. And here's what happened.

04:06Punk was telling a promo, on the biggest stage of all, to a partisan audience. Scott Steiner

04:11did this promo that was picked up later, transcended its own origins to become one of the touchstones

04:20of wrestling fandom. In a way that the Pipe Bomb probably isn't. Like, the Pipe Bomb,

04:24CM Punk's whole mix is. CM Punk might be a cultural touchstone. But this is the defining

04:29thing, like you said, for Scott Steiner. Most people don't think about what else Scott

04:34Steiner is up to, but they think Steiner Math. So my pick for the best promo is Maths.

04:53Finally we can put it to rest. I won the YouTube poll, I won the Patreon poll, I would have

04:58won the 2K24 tournament but I got screwed via a fast count, and now I've won the debate.

05:05Math is greater than Pipe Bomb. Go watch the rest of the show by clicking the link in the

05:09video description or the card above my head, where Oli, Laurie and I debate topics such

05:13as best member of The Shield, best match of 2024 so far, and who will be the breakout

05:18star of The White 6.

05:20But it's Thursday and you know what that means, it's time for my review of AEW Dynamite

05:25aka the Why Mariah Why edition of AEW Dynamite... in about 5 minutes.

05:30After a recap of MJ's turn from last week and his epic promo from Collision, Will Ospreay

05:35open this week's show to run down Max? He said that Daniel Garcia is unsure if he'll

05:40ever wrestle again, which is wrestling speak for return pop coming soon, and said that

05:45the bidding war of 2024 gimmick didn't get over for MJF because Tony Khan decided to

05:50invest in guys like Ospreay instead. He claimed that he's got more talent in his left nut

05:55than MJF does in his whole body, and that he, Will Ospreay, represents what people like

06:00and want about AEW. He called out MJF who appeared on the big screen and challenged

06:04Will to an International Championship match for next week's 250th edition of Dynamite,

06:11which Will accepted.

06:13Wrestling's most handsome man Andrew Zarian had previously reported that AEW had a huge

06:17match planned for an upcoming Dynamite, saying that it would be PPV worthy. And it looks

06:22like this is the match he was talking about. A huge match that many expected to be at All

06:26In, and that uncertainty about all of our fantasy bookings bled over into the first

06:32match of the evening.

06:33Bryan Danielson has told us that his final full year in-ring would be epic, but he stumbled

06:39at all the opportunities he had. And as such, he does not want to lose the Owen Hart Tournament

06:44as well, because what a way to end his career by main eventing All In for the World Heavyweight

06:49Championship. And on the other side of him is Hangman Adam Page, a man who is hellbent

06:55and determined to make sure that Swerve Strickland is no longer the AEW World Champion.

07:01It made the finals of this tournament feel very unpredictable, because both men were

07:05equally perfect winners. Jeff Jarrett served as the special guest enforcer for the match

07:09to ensure there were no shenanigans, because Jeff Jarrett would never be involved in any

07:13shenanigans and his involvement paid off early when he looked at the heel entrance for Hangman

07:17Adam Page, only for Hanger to walk out of the babyface tunnel. A great bit of subtle

07:22character work. He doesn't think he's a heel, it's all of us that thinks he's

07:27a heel. They then had what could best be described as, a proper well good wrestling match. Proper

07:33wrestling this was. Nigel, who filled in for commentary because Jericho had barred Taz

07:37from the building again, was a great audio foil for Bryan's hopes which elevated the

07:41match further. He also made a Steiner math joke because he clearly watched Gripe Bombs

07:45yesterday. This went through two ad breaks and was just absolutely fabulous. The final

07:50few minutes in particular really amped up the drama. Bryan hitting the Busaiko knee

07:54out of nowhere, the Piledriver on the floor, Bryan being hit into the turnbuckle, the referee

07:58getting bumped, it was utterly compelling stuff. After the referee got bumped, Jarrett

08:03revealed he was wearing a referee shirt, which led to a series of amazing nearfalls. Page

08:09hit the dead eye for another nearfall, locked in the crossface and it looked like Danielson

08:12had passed out, but his arm did not drop and he reversed it into a pinfall and won

08:17the match, won the tournament and won the chance to face Swerve Strickland for the AEW

08:23World Championship at All In. Look, I thought it was going to be Hangman. I kind of wanted

08:28it to be Hangman. But damn if I did not punch the air when Danielson won. It was so dramatic

08:35and it's going to lead to a very dramatic main event at Wembley and I cannot wait. Swerve

08:42came out for a promo to confirm the match and also announced himself for Blood & Guts

08:45on Team AEW, looking to do two things that Danielson couldn't do. He's already beaten

08:50Ospreay and now he's going to lead Team AEW to victory. And he also set up a match

08:55with Kazuchika Okada for next week's 250th episode. A bonkers first hour to the show

09:00this was. The Acclaimed did a rap about the Bucks, I don't care, and Samoa Joe took

09:04on Chris Jericho in a Stampede Street Fight. Senor Joe won jeans because he understood

09:08the assignment, and Jericho continued his trend of fun Attitude Era style brawls as

09:13they ended up backstage and the rest of the Learning Tree beat up Joe. Big Bill chokeslammed

09:17Joe onto a pallet and a forklift, and Jericho drove that forklift through a wall. It was

09:22awesome and very reminiscent of that hardcore triple threat at WrestleMania X-7, aka the

09:27best WrestleMania match of all time. Look, I don't like this Jericho thing either,

09:31but sometimes it works. Claudio Castagnoli, Pac, Kyle Fletcher and Tomohiro Ishii had

09:36around 11 minutes for their Fatal 4-Way match to determine a new number one contender to

09:40either Ospreay or MJF for the International Championship. So they did what they needed

09:45to do. ALL OF THE MOVES. This was a pure sprint and a brilliant one at that. Pac got the win

09:51when he hit the Black Arrow and Brutalizer on Fletcher, he said he will be at All In.

09:55Hangman Page blew off Renee Pickett as she tried to interview him, and told the Elite

09:59that he will be on their team for blood and guts, only so he can get his hands on Swerve

10:04Strickland. Mercedes Monáe tried for a third time to celebrate that she is a double champion,

10:09and was once again cut off by Britt Baker who awesomely beat up the extra security and

10:14left Monáe running scared. This Mercedes Monáe is so much better than the one we had

10:18when she first debuted, and she sold all of this brilliantly.

10:22Brandon Cutler was attacked backstage by a returning Darby Allin who challenged Jack

10:25Perry to a match next week, and the main event was the finals of the Women's Owen Hart

10:29Tournament between Mariah May and last year's winner Willow Nightingale.

10:33Toni Storm cheered on from ringside, this was her idea after all, and she watched as

10:37May mounted her comeback against the stronger Nightingale. She countered the pounce with

10:41her headbutt of all things, Stokely Hathaway and Chris Statlander interfered for some great

10:45nearfalls and May rolled up a powerbomb attempt for the win. A very good main event, but it's

10:51the post-match that everyone will remember.

10:54May and Storm celebrated and danced up the ramp together, and May took the Owen Hart

10:58Cup belt and clocked Storm right in the face. She battered her with it, kicked Luthor in

11:04the nut and sent him off the stage to throw a table, busted Storm open some more, attacked

11:09her with a shoe and kissed her bloody face. It's a chance of you sick.

11:14Two weeks and two epic heel turns, both of which were executed perfectly. You can make

11:20the argument that doing both in a fortnight is overkill, and I think to a degree I agree

11:25with that. But this was also so unexpected that it did not cross my mind until after

11:30the fact. May's turn was always going to come, that's what this story has been building

11:34to for the last nine months, but I didn't think it would be here. This is one of the

11:38best heel turn angles that AEW have ever done, and a brilliant next chapter in this long

11:43running story. The stakes for their title match are all in have grown, and AEW's hot

11:47streak continues. Now go and watch Gripe Bombs in full by clicking the video on screen.

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