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00:00I'm Oli Davis, and this is the WrestleTalk Moustache.

00:21Brock Lesnar hasn't been seen in WWE since losing to Cody Rhodes at last year's SummerSlam.

00:26He was planned to make his return at the Royal Rumble to set up one of the biggest matches

00:29the company could do, a singles match against Dominik Mysterio.

00:33But just days before the show, Janelle Grant filed her lawsuit against Vince McMahon, which

00:38also mentioned a world famous athlete and former UFC Heavyweight Champion.

00:43With Cain Velasquez long gone from WWE, reporters quickly identified this individual as Lesnar.

00:49He was dropped from the Rumble and Rhodes' WrestleMania plans, where he was intending

00:52to face Gunther, was edited out of video packages and, at great expense, totally removed from

00:59that year's 2K video game.

01:01But now, ten months on, a rare photo of the very private beast has emerged.

01:06And he's looking pretty jacked.

01:08Country singer-songwriter Ward Davis posted a photo following a concert last Friday in

01:13Canada of him and Lesnar backstage, and the caption, dude, I get to meet some cool ass

01:18people.

01:19Guess he hasn't read all of the allegations this year.

01:23Brock Lesnar came out to the show last night.

01:25He broke four of my ribs when he put his arm around me for this picture.

01:28Usually, when you see a big name wrestler currently on hiatus looking that jacked several

01:32months out from the Royal Rumble, you go, that big name WWE superstar return confirmed.

01:38And WWE did oddly make reference to Brock on an episode of Raw last month, when both

01:42Cody and Seth Rollins separately mentioned slaying a beast.

01:47Fightful reported there were no plans for him to return to WWE, though, and there haven't

01:51been any talks between them for months, perhaps.

01:54And this is my speculation here, Lesnar could make a comeback to WWE's partner company,

01:59the UFC, which has slightly looser moral guidelines, as a side door return to TKO.

02:05As the Wrestling Observer has always speculated, it's often just a matter of time with these

02:09things.

02:10Historically, the big names, no matter how controversial or difficult to deal with backstage,

02:15tend to go back to WWE if there's enough money to be made.

02:19We should expect Brock to return if the lawsuit goes away.

02:22And Vince has arguably never been in as good a position to do just that.

02:27Unsurprisingly, the ramifications of the US presidential election for professional wrestling

02:31go beyond NXT being moved to Wednesday last week.

02:34Because the country's President-elect is a WWE Hall of Famer, and once close personal

02:40friend of Vince McMahon.

02:42Grant's lawsuit against Vince is currently on pause while the Justice Department conducts

02:46a federal investigation into the allegations of sexual assault and trafficking against

02:51him.

02:52Accusations which he denies.

02:53This has so far included a federal search warrant last July, where they searched McMahon's

02:58phone.

02:59As of right now, McMahon hasn't been formally charged or accused of a crime by the federal

03:03prosecutors.

03:04The Wrestling Observer Newsletter has pointed out that Donald Trump winning the election

03:08has to be considered great news for Vince McMahon, a Trump administration is now going

03:13to be hot on the idea of a Justice Department investigation of McMahon given the connection

03:18between him and the family.

03:21While Vince's marriage to his wife Linda is a unique situation, let's say, they are

03:27still married.

03:28And after Linda being the head of the Small Business Administration in Trump's first

03:31term, she was a key person in his re-election campaign.

03:35She has donated over $10 million to the Trump campaign in 2024 alone.

03:40Any favourable treatment will only affect the federal investigation, though, as the

03:44Janelle Grant and Ring Boy lawsuits are civil cases.

03:48So Cody Rhodes is on his own too.

03:50At the start of September, Wesley Isolde, the lead singer of Boston hardcore punk band

03:55American Nightmare, sued Cody Rhodes over his use of the American Nightmare band name

04:00in clothing and other merchandise.

04:03But unlike a lot of copyright chances, Wesley has a pretty good case.

04:07Because he's talked to Cody in the past, who legally agreed he wouldn't do certain

04:12things.

04:13Because it turned out that entertainment has more than one American Nightmare.

04:17Isolde registered the trademark back in 2016 for music, clothing and apparel and entertainment

04:23services, mainly live music performances.

04:26Cody filed for the same American Nightmare trademark in 2019 for wrestling-related activities,

04:31which started a legal back and forth between him and the band.

04:35They eventually settled the dispute in March 2021, while Cody was still under contract

04:40with AEW, where they agreed Cody would make a one-off payment of $30,000 and he could

04:46use American Nightmare on his merchandise under the condition that such items prominently

04:51used Rhodes' name, likeness or wrestling-related imagery, in a size at least 75% larger than

04:58the American Nightmare text.

05:00This was so it was clear that the American Nightmare merchandise was for Cody Rhodes

05:04the wrestler, not American Nightmare the band.

05:09But recently, Wesley alleges Cody and Fanatics, WWE's merch partner, has been selling t-shirts

05:14that breaches the agreed 75% rule.

05:18Which has meant some of American Nightmare the band's fans have bought American Nightmare

05:22the Cody's merch by mistake.

05:25The lawsuit alleges that on information and belief, WWE and Fanatics intentionally caused

05:30Runnels to breach the settlement agreement.

05:33Previously, the band were seeking damages of at least $150,000, as well as treble damages

05:39of up to $300,000 related to federal trademark infringement.

05:44But now the Boston Herald is reporting Wesley is asking a federal judge to award him at

05:49least $900,000 for the alleged breach of the agreement according to court documents.

05:55Apparently neither WWE, Cody or Fanatics have responded to the lawsuit.

05:59They have until the 15th November to submit an answer.

06:02It all created pitch here from me.

06:04The American Nightmare band should play Kevin Owens down to the ring next time he's on

06:08SmackDown.

06:09KO is currently in a work shoot style blood feud against Cody and Randy Orton, pushing

06:13the WWE's onscreen kayfabe world into a heightened realm of realism.

06:18The latest angle on Friday's SmackDown saw Owens hit Orton with a piledriver, which Michael

06:23Cole referred to as a banned move on commentary, and Randy was stretched out.

06:28WWE have since posted a kayfabe medical update.

06:31You can tell it's kayfabe, because that piledriver was the safest piledriver you've

06:35ever seen.

06:36Breaking!

06:37After last night's brutal attack by Kevin Owens on SmackDown, Randy Orton has been diagnosed

06:42with a surgical cord neu-neuropra-neuropraxia.

06:49There is no timetable for his return.

06:51This is playing off Randy's previous injury, where he had 18 months recovering from double

06:55spinal fusion surgery, while hopefully also building the return of KO's finisher from

07:00Ring of Honor.

07:01The awesome packaged piledriver.

07:03We'll have to see if Orton is back for Survivor Series at the end of this month for the match,

07:07Royal Rumble in February, or maybe…

07:10The Retro Looks Saturday Night's Main Event in Mid-December!

07:14Because according to PWInsider, WWE will feature a retro presentation for the special show,

07:20with the original Saturday Night's Main Event arena seating.

07:23Also on Friday's episode of SmackDown, months after the concept was first reported on, WWE

07:28finally debuted a midcard ladies' championship, the women's United States title.

07:34Come on Chelsea Green, this is made for you!

07:36Nick Aldis only announced the belt itself, and that the inaugural champion would have

07:39to earn the belt, they wouldn't be given it.

07:42Charlotte Flair.

07:44Fightful is reporting that the announcement was kept quiet in the company, and the talent

07:48they spoke to did not know about it until the day of the show, although they expected

07:52something to be announced in either December or January.

07:54They also don't know if a midcard women's belt will be introduced for Raw, like a women's

07:59Intercontinental title, nor how the inaugural champion would be decided.

08:03If the last year of Pool of X booking is anything to go by, it's a tournament.

08:07It will definitely be decided in a tournament.

08:09But there's barely enough time for one Bloodline segment on SmackDown.

08:13How are WWE going to accommodate a whole extra division?

08:16While PWInsider is reporting that three hours for both Raw and SmackDown in 2025 are back

08:23on the table.

08:24Both shows are currently two hours long, which, although is far more digestible, it means

08:28Raw's larger roster is being underserved with TV time.

08:32Hopefully some NXT wrestlers will be added to the main roster at the start of the year

08:36to bolster the rosters even more.

08:38Seth Rollins has advised WWE to prioritise new big heels there, as he's told the Pivot

08:43Podcast.

08:44We're sort of in this era of babyfaces, if you will.

08:47I mean, you've got guys like myself and Cody and Randy Orton and Sami Zayn, and now

08:52Roman's back as a babyface.

08:53And so you've got this era where everything is just clicking and people are loving so

08:57much of what's going on.

08:59I'm looking around and I'm kind of thinking, oh man, we're missing some good heels around

09:04here, you know.

09:05We're missing some good ones.

09:06Gunther, Kevin Owens and the New Blood faction are arguably WWE's only male main event

09:11heels right now, with Brom Breaker and Bronson Reed rising up the midcard.

09:15Perhaps WWE's next big bad guy is from your local high school hall indie show.

09:20WWE's ID program, where they sign indie wrestlers to pre-NXT developmental contracts,

09:26has had several more names announced.

09:28Bryce Donovan, Marcus Mathers, Sam Holloway, Jack Summit, Zara Zaka and It's Gal.

09:34William Regal was shown offering Mathers and Holloway their contracts in a video backstage

09:38at Friday's SmackDown.

09:39Interestingly, Fightful Select is reporting former NXT star Timothy Thatcher has also

09:44joined the ID program.

09:46Just not as a young trainee, he's a 41 year old with 19 years experience in the business,

09:51but as a trainer.

09:52Thatcher had been released back in 2021, shortly before NXT was rebranded as NXT 2.0.

09:59WrestleNomics and Post Wrestling have reported that WWE's ID program had been in development

10:03for quite some time, but that it was unlikely to have actually been implemented if Vince

10:08McMahon was still in charge.

10:10While AEW did get some good news over the weekend with the return of Julia Hart on Saturday's

10:15collision, the post-mortem on the 1st November episode of Rampage was dire.

10:21That show drew a record low audience of just 172,000 viewers and a .05 rating in the 18-49

10:28demographic.

10:29For context, Rampage had been doing under 300,000 viewers, which was already considered

10:34low.

10:35The Wrestling Observer writes that the large drop was almost inexplicable, as there was

10:38no stiff competition going against them at the same time.

10:42This might be symptomatic of AEW losing interest in Rampage's quality, as the show isn't

10:47expected to continue into 2025.

10:50The 1st November episode had LFI beat the Butcher, Beef and JV Drake, and Lio Rush beating

10:55Commander.

10:56Fun matches, but evidently not enough draws to get people to watch them.

11:00AEW arguably have to start marketing more for the Strawbs.

11:04What does Strawbs mean?

11:06Find out right now in my brand new video essay explaining some well-known and very obscure

11:11wrestling terms.

11:12Here's a clip.

11:14Do you ever get confused when people use pro wrestling language?

11:18Like kayfabe?

11:19And heat?

11:20Are you concerned you might be a queen?

11:23Or a strawb?

11:25Does this Hulk Hogan tweet melt your brain?

11:27Goodnight Hulkamaniacs and Jabroni Marks without a life that don't know where to work when

11:32you work a work and work yourself into a shoot, Marks!

11:35Then you need to learn how to speak wrestling with me, Oli Davis.

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