The latest word on Asuka is that even though she’s been out since last year due to injury, her return to WWE television is NOT imminent. Apparently creative plans were discussed earlier in the year even though there was no chance she’d be cleared before WrestleMania. (FF) She had surgery on her knee in June and a normal timeline for knee surgery would be a year, but exactly what part of her knee was surgically repaired is unknown.
El Hijo Del Vikingo appeared on Raw last night and helped Penta win his MITB qualifying match over Chad Gable and Dragon Lee.
Speaking of last night’s Raw, Seth Rollins vowed to win Money in the Bank and cash in the briefcase for the world title. By the end of the show he fulfilled at least a portion of his promise by qualifying for MITB in a win over Finn Balor and Sami Zayn.
Snoop Dogg congratulated Mercedes Mone on winning the Women’s Owen Hart Cup with “let’s go cuzz.” And yes if you didn’t know the lore, Mercedes Justine Kaestner-Varnado is a first cousin relative of Calvin Broadus, for real.
MVP reminisces on Vince McMahon changing the finish of a Cody Rhodes match in the middle of said match: “We’re going through the match, Cody and I have great chemistry, there was no panic. We’re fine, we’re just going to work. We get through everything and we’re going through the comeback. MVP is supposed to beat Cody. He’s bumping and feeding for me, I’m going through the comeback, I grab Cody to hit the Playmaker and the referee says, ‘Vince says Cody is up! Vince says Cody is up!’ We’re seconds to going off the air, live. I’m about to hit my finishing move. This match is over. I hear from under my leg, ‘What the fuck.’ I just say, ‘Cody, reverse this, Cross Rhodes.’ He came through, hit the reversal, hit the Cross Rhodes, 1, 2, 3, Cody wins. We come back through the curtain. Vince takes off the headset and he’s laughing. That shit was funny as hell to him. He thought it was hysterical. If we had fucked that up, he would not have been laughing. It wouldn’t have been funny at all. That’s why I tell these young guys, ‘You have to learn how to work.’ I remember being pissed off. Vince thought that shit (was funny), I was not laughing. I remember, I even said some slick shit to Vince. I don’t remember what I said, but I said something like, ‘Tell the other fuck boys to do that,’ something like that. I was hot. I didn’t lose it, but I said it enough like, ‘Fuck that shit.’ He was laughing and thought it was funny. I always cite that story for having the ability to go out there and work live.”
Speaking of Cody Rhodes his new audio podcast launches in two days. It won’t surprise you to hear it’s called What Do You Wanna Talk About?
Gunther confronted Jey Uso on Raw about their upcoming title match in two weeks and Uso vowed to make Gunther tap out again.
