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00:00Several top WWE stars get their names changed, rumours about Shinsuke Nakamura's WWE status,

00:06was John Cena meant to be a babyface right now?

00:10And more.

00:11I'm Big Frickin' Dirty Oli Davis, and this is the Big Frickin' Dirty WrestleTalk

00:15News.

00:18Today marks 410 days since Vince McMahon resigned from WWE, but who's counting?

00:23In the year plus since, Triple H has thankfully dropped almost all of the ridiculous Vince-based

00:28creative ideas from his 40 year reign of terror.

00:31Characters and stories now make long term sense because scripts aren't frequently

00:34rewritten hours before the show goes on air.

00:37The camera no longer zooms in and out and shakes it all about whenever someone's hitting

00:41their opponent with a chair.

00:43And Chad Gable has now broken away from his Shorty G gimmick by becoming a serious wrestling

00:48machine.

00:52But there has been another hangover from the Vince era.

00:56And a few people still have silly names.

00:59Seth Rollins, for instance, was listed on WWE's official roster page as Seth Frickin'

01:04Rollins.

01:05Arguably a fine nickname for someone to give you on your entrance or in a catchphrase,

01:10but to put it in the official name feels outdated now WWE has a more realistic, sports-based

01:15presentation.

01:16But it seems Roman Reigns beat up Seth so hard following Raw's main event steel cage

01:20match, he beat the frickin' out of him.

01:23After this week's Raw aired, it's been noticed that WWE has dropped the Frickin'

01:27from Seth Rollins' name on their roster page, which you can see in this picture where

01:31Seth is posing as the Fonzie Bear in his official render.

01:38This follows the Frickin' nickname not appearing on Seth's name bar graphic on Raw over the

01:43last several weeks.

01:44And he's not the only one, as Big Bronson Reed and Dirty Dominik Mysterio have also

01:51both had their nicknames dropped on WWE.com.

01:55So they're now only listed as regular sized Bronson Reed and relatively clean Dominik

01:59Mysterio.

02:00If you look through the whole roster page, Shinsuke Nakamura is still listed on there,

02:05despite some rumours saying he's leaving the company.

02:08Nakamura was barely seen on WWE TV last year.

02:12Despite wrestling regularly in dark matches or at live events, he wrestled six matches

02:16on Raw in the first few months of 2024, but then wouldn't be seen again on TV until

02:22November on SmackDown.

02:25There he debuted his new Wayward Samurai gimmick, and shockingly beat LA Knight for the US title

02:29at Survivor Series the following week.

02:32He's only had four matches since, one of which was last Friday's episode of SmackDown,

02:37where he lost the US title back to LA Knight.

02:40It was an unceremonious end to Nakamura's pretty nothing title reign.

02:45After that weekend, rumours began to spread on social media that PW Tortured said Nakamura

02:50was set to leave WWE in the near future.

02:53But the source of that report, Wade Keller, then revealed that's not what he said, and

02:58that he'd been misquoted in a social media post.

03:00Fightful backed Keller up, reporting that they hadn't heard anything about Nakamura

03:05leaving WWE.

03:06But then the Wrestling Observer entered the chat.

03:08When the rumours started going around, the Wrestling Observer reached out to WWE for

03:12comment.

03:13When the story first broke, I immediately asked WWE, and they immediately got back to

03:18me.

03:19What they said was false was that Nakamura was leaving.

03:21But the Wrestling Observer noted there was still some uncertainty around the situation.

03:26He tried to clarify if Nakamura's title loss on Friday was his final appearance for

03:31WWE.

03:32But WWE didn't respond to that question, even though they did answer the Nakamura leaving

03:38one.

03:39The speculation here, so get those pinches of salt ready, is that Nakamura wants to return

03:43to Japan, maybe to take part in his former rival Hiroshi Tanahashi's retirement year.

03:48Despite being under contract with WWE, Nakamura has been allowed to wrestle in Japan twice

03:53over the last two years.

03:55Which even under the Triple H regime is still pretty rare for a main roster guy.

04:00Nakamura wrestled for pro wrestling Noah on their New Year's Day shows in January this

04:03year and back in 2023, where he took part in the Great Muta's retirement tour.

04:09Noah reportedly has a working relationship with WWE, though, which saw NXT stars Josh

04:14Briggs and Tavion Heights wrestle in their N1 tournament last year.

04:18If Nakamura was part of Tanahashi's retirement tour, that would be with New Japan Pro Wrestling,

04:23who are affiliated with AEW.

04:26But while WWE might be blocking Nakamura from wrestling elsewhere, their new ID scheme wants

04:31indie promotions to start booking their developmental talent right away.

04:35Please, anyone, we need you to book these wrestlers!

04:39Last October, WWE announced their new ID system, which would support indie wrestlers with training,

04:45mentorship and money, providing a more clear pathway from learning to be a wrestler all

04:50the way through to getting signed with WWE.

04:54WWE partnered with several wrestling schools as part of this, which included Cody Rhodes',

04:59Seth Rollins' and Booker T's.

05:01And last week, WWE debuted their latest wrestling brand Evolve.

05:06This was run by Gabe Sapowski, one of the minds behind the ID system, which would feature

05:11Performance Center trainees and those signed to ID contracts.

05:16Triple H even announced two new championships for the brand, a men and women's ID titles,

05:22which could also be defended in indie promotions around the country.

05:26Some see this as an exciting new pathway from grassroots wrestling into the top of

05:31the profession.

05:32Others, however, see it as WWE's latest way to control every aspect of the wrestling

05:36industry and muscle in on indie promotions, just like how Vince did when he was killing

05:40the territory system.

05:41Especially if WWE will start to exercise creative control on their ID wrestlers having to win,

05:47and booking their title in other people's promotion.

05:50But what I don't think anyone banked on was how desperate the WWE ID Twitter would

05:56get.

05:57On the 9th March, it posted a reminder to all independent wrestling promoters, you can

06:01book all WWE ID talent in your promotion.

06:05This includes all WWE ID talent who are getting exposure on WWE Evolve.

06:11Contact talent individually for booking info.

06:13And then, two days later, it posted again, with all the energy of me texting Megan, just

06:17checking you saw my last message because it's been 3 hours.

06:20I can see the blue ticks.

06:21In fact, I actually saw you start typing at one point, but you still haven't replied.

06:25Hey independent wrestling promoters, the fans have spoken.

06:29They want WWE ID prospects on your indie shows.

06:33Look at the likes.

06:34Flame emoji.

06:35Look, point down, please, look at the likes emoji.

06:38Then they posted GCW and FSW, the names of two indie wrestling promotions, without actually

06:43tagging them.

06:44Or they just started typing random letters and hit publish.

06:47What do you think is going on with WWE's ID system?

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

06:53Speaking of desperate attempts at promotion, have you checked out Patreon.com forward slash

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07:04Luke Sullivan and Tempest count down the 10 best WrestleMania stages of all time, which

07:09went live over the weekend.

07:11And also, if you sign up now, you'll be able to watch the first episode of the brand

07:15new WWE 2K25 series of Monday Night War on Early Access this Friday.

07:22John Cena shockingly turned heel, like me and JBL have been saying he has for like 20

07:29years now, at WWE's Elimination Chamber PLE.

07:32Some, like The Rock's head writer Brian Gowitz, claim this has been the plan all along.

07:37Others, like the Wrestling Observer, have reported the original plan was for Cena to

07:41turn heel in the main event of WrestleMania.

07:44Siding then with The Rock to beat Cody and win his record-breaking 17th World title.

07:49We'll likely never know the full truth, mostly because The Rock will flood us with

07:53PR documentaries about how he knew everything in advance and he's a genius.

07:57But WWE's latest Cena merchandise release might provide an interesting clue.

08:02Because it all seems to be based around him being a babyface.

08:07Ahead of Heel John's first TV appearance on next week's Raw in Belgium, WWE have

08:11released the John Cena Farewell Tour Brussels collection.

08:16Which still kind of presents him as a noble babyface, with his slogan Never Give Up on

08:20some socks.

08:22Even if the product description does mention buying one doesn't require selling your

08:26soul to The Rock.

08:27It implies Cena's heel turn could've been moved forward, and the merchandise strategy

08:31around his European tour dates were based on him being a good guy.

08:36From good-slash-bad guys to Paul Heyman guys.

08:39Triple H has told the Hollywood Reporter that Heyman has a new mentor-y.

08:44Braun Breaker is a young guy, incredibly athletic, great character, he's a sponge.

08:49I have Heyman spend a lot of time with him to help develop him with his promos, to help

08:53develop his character, to help push him in a direction.

08:57Then Paul talks to me and talks to the writers about where do we want to take that, and then

09:01he's the conduit for where we want to go to that talent.

09:05Breaker has previously discussed working with Heyman onscreen in the future, saying it could

09:09happen at some point down the line.

09:11The next next big things, however, are wrestling in NXT.

09:15And last night's ROBLOX special from Madison Square Garden saw one of the most impactful

09:20booking decisions of recent times.

09:23A TNA act actually won on NXT TV.

09:26Yes, the Hardys beat Fraxium to retain their TNA tag titles, likely building a rematch

09:31for Fraxium's NXT tag titles, but the biggest news really happened in the main event.

09:36The winner takes all match of the NXT Women's Champion Julia vs Women's North American

09:41Champion Stephanie Viqueux, where the care won, making her the first woman to be a double

09:46singles champion in NXT history.

09:49The reported real reason behind this is because Julia is working through an injury, and she

09:53needs to take time off.

09:54Now go watch us count down the 10 best WrestleMania matches of all time in the brand new episode

10:00of Tables, Lists and Chairs by clicking the video onscreen now!

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