Darby Allin did travel to the last episode of Collision, but was telling people who asked him that “the doctors won’t clear me to wrestle,” so it’s unknown how long his head injury will keep him sidelined. (WO)
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson talks about the seven year journey to make The Smashing Machine: “Seven years ago is when I first met Benny (Safdie) about this. So it’s been over half a decade to get this going and so, it represents believing in and listening to that little voice, and also doing the work, even when it’s scary, and surrounding yourself with like-minded people who are chasing the challenge as well. That would be Benny, Emily, and Kazu (Hiro), who helped with this transformation every day.”
In addition Rock thanked Brendan Fraser for kickstarting his Hollywood career with The Mummy Returns: “I’d love to start off our conversation by giving you flowers. OK? I’m going to deliver a lot of flowers to your doorstep right now. You and I first connected on The Mummy Returns. That was one of the biggest franchises in the world at that time. I was ready to make my transition into Hollywood. And there was a moment where you could have said, ‘This guy, Dwayne Johnson, he’s never acted before; he’s in pro wrestling.’ The word I got back was, ‘Brendan loves the idea. He welcomed you with open arms.’ It meant something to me, because you took a risk on me, and years later, you and I are sitting here. I want to thank you for really changing my life.”
Long story short John Cena says he has 70 unreleased songs from making his rap album.
“Mr. Electricity” Steve Regal (not to be confused with William Regal) passed away on July 30th but word did not travel to the internet until just recently. He was best known in the 1980’s for his time with AWA where he beat Buck Zumhofe for the Light Heavyweight Title and held it for 614 days. He retired in 1996. Regal was the son-in-law of the late Wilbur Snyder. Condolences to his family and friends. (PWI)
WWE NXT last week did a 0.08 and 532,000 viewers. (PI)
MJF is expected back before or at the AEW Worlds End PPV this month. (FF)
Speaking of AEW, Ricochet will defend his National Title against Nino Bryant at a RevPro show on December 14th.
The “mystery man” returned on Raw to help Logan Paul beat up Rey Mysterio.
Jey Uso fully reunited with Jimmy as a tag team on Raw to get back to “Day 1” business.
It doesn’t appear that WWE feels the financial return on the legacy content currently hosted by Peacock (and expiring at the end of this month) is strong enough to shop around and get a big return, but they’ll take an offer IF they get one. In the meantime they plan to continue uploading material piecemeal to their various YouTube channels — WWE Vault, WCW, WWE NXT, et cetera. (FF) They’d probably need to create whole new channels for the other content if they even care to do so.
Here’s the updated Saturday Night’s Main Event card for this weekend. (WWE)
- John Cena vs. Gunther (Cena’s “final” match)
- Oba Femi vs. Cody Rhodes
- Bayley vs. Sol Ruca
- AJ Styles & Dragon Lee vs. Je’Von Evans & Leon Slater
Bron Breakker said on Raw he wants the OLD CM Punk from the early 2010’s in their title match.
