WWE Changing, PLEs, AEW Lie Caught In 4K, Roman Reigns Change, Def Rebel Gone

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00:00 - Coming up...
00:14 - CM Punk Calls Out Fans
01:22 - Charlotte Flair Return Denied
03:48 - Roman Reigns Change
04:56 - WWE Changing PLEs
07:09 - AEW Lie Caught in 4K
09:04 - AEW Not Interested In Matt Riddle
09:53 - WWE Dropping Def Rebel
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00:00CM Punk calls out fans, WWE changing their PLEs, AEW lie and get caught, and more.

00:07I'm Luke Owen and this is the WrestleTalk News.

00:14It's Monday and it's an episode of the WrestleTalk News, so you know what that means,

00:19CM Punk is a leading topic for today's episode.

00:22Remember that bit of the pipe bomb where Punk called out fans for waiting at airports for

00:25stuff to get signed which they would then flog on eBay?

00:28Well it turns out 13 years after that promo, it's still an issue.

00:32The rise of social media has seen this activity called out more and more, as wrestlers and

00:36fans alike have berated these fans who pass a bunch of items to wrestlers for signatures

00:41as they're just trying to go about their lives and they say, well that's a bad thing,

00:45don't do that.

00:46This video of Rhea Ripley being asked questions at an airport went viral recently when co-worker

00:50Kevin Owens checked to see if she was okay.

00:53And now CM Punk has once again called this behaviour out on Instagram.

00:57She posted,

00:58Hey guys!

00:59I don't know why I felt the urge to Jericho wave there.

01:02Love your but friendly reminder to respect privacy and boundaries.

01:06Airports are not a meet and greet.

01:08If I have to ask you to please stop following me multiple times, you have crossed a line.

01:13Please stop this.

01:15Thank you and stop using your child as a shield or an excuse.

01:18And you too can call these fans out in the comments down below so go and do that.

01:21They're awful.

01:22Someone who could be soon seeing a return of fans flocking to her to ask for signatures

01:26is Charlotte Flair.

01:27It was reported via Viper on PWN's Discord last month that November was the planned timetable

01:32for Flair's return to WWE after going down with an injury last December.

01:37This led to some speculation that she could be around for this year's War Games, and

01:41would be joining the Smackdown roster to be alongside her IRL husband Andrade.

01:45However, according to Fightful Select in a new update, we will not be seeing Charlotte

01:49Flair in 2024.

01:51Fightful Select writes, Charlotte Flair has been sidelined for all of 2024, and that's

01:56still the case.

01:57They add that new reports suggested she did have creative plans to be involved in the

02:01current storyline between Nia Jax and Tiffany Stratton, however WWE sources confirmed that

02:07she is not cleared yet.

02:08They add, those in WWE believe there will be some time before she returns to the ring

02:12as the injuries she sustained were severe.

02:15Those severe injuries were tears to her ACL, MCL and meniscus.

02:19Now those close to Flair have told Fightful Select that if anyone would return at a speedy

02:23timetable it would be Charlotte Flair.

02:25In February the feeling was she was ahead of schedule, and she recently posted videos

02:29of herself training online.

02:31But the key here is that she's not currently cleared by WWE to wrestle, and as Fightful

02:36Select writes, a WWE source said that until she's clear, it's unlikely creative will

02:41be put in place.

02:42Or maybe they're just telling Shawn that to keep him away from a complete surprise

02:45after all.

02:47That was their plan for Roman Reigns this past Friday.

02:49But before we get into that, here's a trailer for our latest episode of Survival Series

02:53where our hapless heroes were asked to name every WWE pay-per-view ever.

02:58Check it out.

02:59Hello and welcome to another edition of Survival Series, the show where you gotta name em all.

03:05Today I need you to name me every single WWE pay-per-view.

03:11What?

03:12Wrestlemania, Wrestlemania.

03:13What should be the big five?

03:22December to dismember.

03:23Ding.

03:24A crazy time at the Coliseum.

03:25Oh, was that, is this WWE or is this one of those other companies, you know, the wrestling?

03:33Just a song just popping out of my head just now.

03:36This is £20.

03:37It's better than Ivan Brett's fake-ass money.

03:40WWE everywhere, WWE excitement, WWE exit music, WWE...

03:48This past Friday saw the USA Network return of WWE Smackdown, or as I've just been reminded

03:53by this piece of paper that was left here by Tempest on the weekend, SmackSown.

03:57Or SmackOwn.

03:58Either way, it opened with Cody Rhodes retaining the WWE Championship inside a salad steel

04:03cage and headlined by the announcement that Cody will team up with Roman Reigns to take

04:07on the bloodline of Solo Sakoa and Jacob Fatu at Bad Blood.

04:10Man, if this was another era, this show would have been renamed to Bad Bloodline.

04:15Roman made his return to WWE this past SummerSlam, aiding Cody Rhodes against Sakoa in the main

04:19event.

04:20He has since been on Smackdown to lay out Bloodline 2.0 before being taken out by Jacob

04:24Fatu a few weeks ago.

04:25He was then advertised for the USA Network return for Smackdown, but that advertising

04:30then went quiet.

04:32And according to Fightful Select, this is because WWE wanted to keep the thing they'd

04:36already announced quiet.

04:38Fightful Select write, they decided in the last week or two to stop advertising him and

04:42to make him a surprise.

04:44Apparently Roman wasn't even listed on internal rundowns of Smackdown as they did not want

04:48word getting out that he was backstage for the show.

04:51Again, this was something that was already announced and advertised.

04:54The worst kept secret and all that.

04:56Those internal rundowns are used by WWE producers and the like to know who is booked for a show,

05:02what plans are in place for future shows and what injuries are going on.

05:05Things like that.

05:06They'll even note who is currently babyface and heel and who are top of those respective

05:10lists.

05:11According to an update from Figure Four Online, those internal listings have an interesting

05:15note ahead of Bad Bloodline.

05:17The site claims that internal listings for Bad Blood have Sami Zayn vs. Gunther for the

05:22World Heavyweight Championship for that show.

05:24Now that doesn't sound all that insane does it, but along with Roman Reigns and Cody Rhodes

05:29vs. The Bloodline, Nia Jax defending against either Naomi or Bayley, Finn Balor vs. Damian

05:34Priest, Liv Morgan vs. Rhea Ripley for the Women's World Championship and CM Punk vs.

05:38Drew McIntyre inside Hell in a Cell, that would make Bad Blood…

05:43SIX MATCHES LONG!

05:49Since Triple H has taken over the creative direction for WWE, the number of matches for

05:53pay-per-views has moved from a lot-slash-too-many to five, which some argue is too few.

05:59Shows like SummerSlam and WrestleMania have more, but those are exceptions rather than

06:02the rule.

06:03Sami and Gunther's old NXT TakeOver days would have five match cards, that is definitely

06:07his style.

06:08So perhaps Bad Blood is a step in a direction for more matches to be added to WWE pay-per-views,

06:14which is, let's be fair, something the fans have been asking for.

06:17While Sami and Gunther's match has not been confirmed, we do have one official announcement

06:21regarding WWE's Bad Blood.

06:23It's starting an hour earlier.

06:25The show will start at 6pm Eastern and 3pm Pacific.

06:28For us here in the UK, that means Bad Blood will start at 11pm?

06:33Which feels really weird.

06:35And some speculation online suggests that the earlier start time means the show will

06:38run an hour longer, which will allow for a sixth match to be added to the card, as it

06:43will have time for the match itself, entrances, sponsorship plugs and Peacock ad breaks.

06:48What do you make of these pay-per-view changes?

06:50Let me know in the comments down below.

06:51Now look, I've heard of wrestling promotions making changes to pay-per-views, I've heard

06:55about them not paying wrestlers, I've heard about them inflating attendance numbers for

07:00entertainment purposes, but I have never heard of a wrestling promotion telling lies.

07:05So it feels incredibly unheard of that AEW went and did just that.

07:10On Friday night, CMLL had their 91st anniversary event which saw a lot of AEW present.

07:15As Chris Jericho main-evented the show against Mystico, along with Willow Nightingale losing

07:19her CMLL Women's Championship to Zooksis.

07:24As Chris Jericho main-evented the show against Mystico, along with Willow Nightingale losing

07:28her CMLL Women's Championship to Zooksis.

07:32And Orange Cassidy teaming with Rocky Romero and New Japan's Satoshi Kojima losing Evert

07:36to Atlantis Jr, Volador Jr and Ultimo Guerrero.

07:39Now the Jericho match and the Trios match are key to this story, as they were both two

07:43out of three full bouts.

07:45Because Cassidy and Jericho both lost their matches, but they did score pinfalls.

07:50Which might be why AEW put out some highlights from the show on social media, and outright

07:55lied that they were victorious in those matches.

07:58As fans pointed out, that is rather, well, untrue.

08:02AEW put out a new version of the tweet 16 minutes later to say that they were competing

08:07rather than being victorious.

08:09Well that looks like it was just a small social media blunder.

08:12No biggie.

08:13Perhaps the person running AEW's Twitter account got sent the video to a post and hadn't

08:16seen the matches and just assumed that Jericho won because Jericho wins, an honest mistake

08:22you might say.

08:23But that's not the case.

08:24Because Tony Schiavone repeated the lie on Collision.

08:27He said over video highlights, the main event, Chris Jericho met the legendary Mystico.

08:31Back and forth they went in a two out of three falls match, but in the end, with the Walls

08:35of Jericho in the third fall, Chris Jericho gets the win over Mystico.

08:39But that's not what happened, did it Tony Schiavone?

08:42Jericho won the first fall with the Walls, but then was pinned following a Frog Splash

08:46and tapped out to an armbar for a Mystico win.

08:48For shame Tony Schiavone, for shame.

08:51AEW have since put out tweets with the correct information.

08:53What's your favourite wrestling lie?

08:55Let me know in the comments down below.

08:56And also, do have fun with this story because it is very funny.

09:00Let's not take this all too seriously and make me regret putting this in the WrestleTalk

09:04News.

09:05Speaking of Mexico, Matt Riddle recently won the AAA Cruiserweight Championship in Mexico.

09:09Lovely segue there, didn't notice it at all.

09:10He also told Sports Illustrated last week that he thinks one day he could return to

09:14WWE.

09:15He cited CM Punk as someone who said a lot of bad stuff about WWE and even sued them

09:19but was welcomed back with open arms, don't tell them about demolition.

09:23He also said in that interview that he's had conversations with AEW's Tony Khan,

09:27but it was one that didn't go very well, even saying, I don't know if he likes me.

09:32Riddle explained that he tried to do some banter with Tony Khan about his match with

09:35Zack Sabre Jr. and it didn't go down well.

09:38And according to Fightful Select, AEW have little interest in bringing Matt Riddle into

09:43the promotion.

09:44According to Crossout Even Ads, it was also noted to us that AEW talent almost never works

09:49with Matt Riddle on the indies, and when they do, it's in Mexico.

09:53And speaking of not being interested, let's round off this Monday episode of the WrestleTalk

09:57News with some good news from the world of wrestling.

09:59WWE might be getting rid of Def Rebel.

10:02If you don't know the name Def Rebel, that's because they make music no one notices or

10:05even listens to.

10:06They've been derided by fans over the last few years for their rather bland WWE entrance

10:11themes and it would seem, like Frasier Crane, WWE are listening.

10:15PWNexus are reporting that WWE will not be renewing their contract with Def Rebel once

10:20it expires, instead moving to using mainstream artists going forward for themes.

10:24Megan Thee Stallion for example provided a new theme for Smackdown, which Twitter tells

10:28me went down very well.

10:29Lol JK, Twitter is a dumpster fire.

10:32Now go and watch the latest episode of Survival Series where we had to name as many WWE PPV

10:36names as we possibly could.

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