On the latest Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer said WWE had huge plans for Gable Steveson that never came to fruition: “The original idea for Steveson was to fucking Brock Lesnar him right away. He was going to be at (WrestleMania) right away, but he just didn’t progress fast enough to where they trusted putting him out there. Like they could have gotten him through a match with Chad Gable probably, and a short match and everything like that, but I think that they didn’t trust the spotlight on him. He couldn’t talk, he didn’t have a lot of charisma, and I watched several of his matches with Trevor Lee…Trevor Lee’s such a great worker, right? I remember seeing two of them, and they were, you know, they weren’t good, and I know how good Trevor Lee is.” (wInc)
In a random YouTube short, Kurt Angle ranked his top ten wrestlers: “1. Chris Benoit 2. Shawn Michaels 3. Eddie Guerrero 4. The Undertaker 5. ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin 6. Brock Lesnar 7. John Cena 8. Shane McMahon 9. Samoa Joe 10. Nigel McGuinness.”
ESPN and their subsidiary BAMTech have entered into the lawsuit against WWE over PLEs moving to ESPN Unlimited. Yes, you read that correctly. They actually want to join the lawsuit as defendants of their own accord. (FF)
UFC fighter Mackenzie Dern says she’d be happy to join WWE when she’s done fighting: “Oh yeah, that’d be fun. So much fun, I mean, the Bella (Twins). It’s so cool. I’d be able to once I retire.”
The September 14th episode of Raw did 3.1 million viewers and finished 6th globally. (Netflix)
Skye Blue says Jon Moxley was on the headset for her match at Pro Wrestling EVE 153: “Yeah, Moxley got to be on headset for this match, which was very, very cool, and younger Skye was happy as she could be.”
Former WWE wrestler Cal Bloom (Von Wagner) has joined All Japan Pro Wrestling.
Janel Grant says she feels “forgiveness” for Vince McMahon: “Forgiveness. I don’t know how else to describe it, other than there’s something that does not take up space in my brain. I feel even empathy, because in a weird way, and this is extreme polar opposites, the thing that might… the series of events that caused The Journal story to happen – whatever it was – it equally impacted him. There are so many people involved in (the) decision-making that I can’t sit still and process.Instead, what occupies my brain is whatever series of events and decision-makers caused the anonymous emails to happen or The Wall Street Journal story to happen, and the events that have played out since, however they have played out. That is what occupies my brain.”
Here’s the updated card for tonight’s Dynamite/Collision double header. (AEW)
- AEW World Trios Championship Match: New Level & Swerve Strickland vs. The Demand
- AEW TBS Championship Match: Persephone vs. Hyan
- Will Ospreay & Mike Bailey vs. Gabe Kidd & Claudio Castagnoli
And here’s the early lineup for NXT next Tuesday. (WWE)
- NXT Championship Match: Grayson Waller vs. Mason Rook
- NXT Women’s North American Championship Match: Zaria vs. Thea Hail
- Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic First Round Match: Fraxiom vs. DarkState
- Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic First Round Match: BirthRight vs. Mini Vikingo & Chazz ‘Starboy’ Hall
- Myles Borne returns
Here’s the updated card for today’s Road to Destruction show. (NJPW)
- IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship Match: YOH vs. Taiji Ishimori
- IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship Match: El Desperado & Mistico vs. DOUKI & SHO
- Hirooki Goto & Master Wato vs. Yota Tsuji & Robbie X
- Aaron Wolf, Yuya Uemura & Taisei Nakahara vs. Kosei Fujita, Ryohei Oiwa & Hartley Jackson
- Yuto-Ice, OSKAR, Jeff Cobb & Daiki Nagai vs. HENARE, Great-O-Khan, Callum Newman & Zane Jay
- Boltin Oleg & YOSHI-HASHI vs. Shingo Takagi & Drilla Moloney
- Shota Umino & Masatora Yasuda vs. Shun Skywalker & Dick Togo
- Togi Makabe & Tatsuya Matsumoto vs. Jake Lee & Jakob Austin Young
