AEW Could Save WWE From Potential Major Lawsuit; August 10th Live Wrestling News Round-Up

Booker T is a huge fan of a recent change made on WWE TV.

As seen on the August 4th episode of SmackDown, The Street Profits interrupted a match between The OC and The Brawling Brutes, causing a no-contest whilst sporting a more formal look.

As the former Tag Team Champions stood at the top of the entrance ramp, a delighted Bobby Lashley would join them, pleased with the actions of his newest associates.

The new alliance has also impressed Booker T, who was very complimentary of Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins’ new look and attitude on his Hall of Fame podcast. The former World Heavyweight Champion also believes that the previous presentation of The Profits should not return.

You can read Booker T’s full comments, here.

Jey Uso was never going to beat Roman Reigns at SummerSlam because WWE has a plan.

Fans were disappointed when Roman Reign’s successfully defended his WWE Unified Universal Championship against the rising Jey Uso.

While Reigns was always expected to win, it’s been reported that Reigns’ path has been somewhat locked in for a number of months.

Appearing on Maguire on Wrestling, Dave Meltzer surmised that WWE’s endgame will see Cody Rhodes pin Roman Reigns to win the World Title.

Read the full report from Dave Meltzer, here.

Ric Flair has described what is missing in his life following a retirement from in-ring competition.

Speaking with Theo Von on the This Past Weekend podcast, The Nature Boy revealed what is absent from his life following the book being closed on a legendary wrestling career:

“The biggest thing I miss about wrestling is the camaraderie, personally,”

Along with being a legendary in-ring performer as an individual, Flair has also been a member of some of the most significant factions in wrestling history, with The Four Horsemen and Evolution being two of the most notable examples.

You can read more from this interview, here.

On an ITR Live Tour, Mick Foley explains why he became Mankind instead of Cactus Jack and went on to immediately feud with The Undertaker!

Check it out below!

Following last night’s episode of AEW Dynamite here is everything confirmed for AEW All In:

Announced:

• MJF vs Adam Cole
• FTR vs The Young Bucks
• Sting & Darby Allin vs Mogul Embassy
• MJF & Adam Cole vs Aussie Open (Pre-Show)
• AEW Women’s Championship Finals

Rumoured:

• Jeff Jarrett vs Grado
• Will Ospreay vs Chris Jericho
• CM Punk vs Samoa Joe

How do you feel about the line up so far? Let us know by hitting the thumbs below!

WWE has celebrated LA Knight’s unpredictable rise to the top of the card by sharing a compilation of his ten greatest insults since joining the WWE.

Check out the incredible video below!

WWE’s SummerSlam PLE stole headlines last weekend but it wasn’t the only wrestling show on TV.

Last Saturday AEW presented a stacked episode of Collision featuring the return of WWE Hall of Famer Ricky ‘The Dragon’ Steamboat and huge matches for CM Punk and FTR.

But sadly the show was doomed to fall from a ratings POV.

Speaking on this morning’s Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer would state that AEW Collision “got killed” by SummerSlam but noting that the show will certainly bounce back up next week.

Check out his full comments below.

Meltzer: “I mean, when MJF and Adam Cole wrestled FTR, the number was way up from every other week other than week one for the show.

Then this week, you know, they got killed and it was because going they were going head-to-head with SummerSlam. But man, they got, you know, 414,000 viewers…It was slightly lower than Rampage.

Collision went from, you know, challenging for number 1 to number 16 for the night.”

Alvarez: “You know, I will say about Collision is it’s not even so much the MJF and Adam Cole thing is hot. But it was specifically that they were FTR for the Tag Team Titles.

Because I know going into that match. I mean, I was more interested in result of that match than anything in a long time. I was wondering if they were going to actually put the titles on these two, or if they were going to do a breakup.”

Do you think Tony Khan has made a mistake by running AEW Collision on a Saturday? Let us know by hitting the thumbs below!

Although it appears that Sting will not be leaving his gloves and boots in the ring at All In as previously reported, ‘The Icon’ is set for a featured match on the show.

During the August 9th episode of AEW Dynamite it was revealed that Sting will be teaming on-screen son Darby Allin to take on Mogul Embassy represented by Swerve Strickland and AR Fox.

The match will be Sting’s first in the UK since he teamed with Bully Ray to take on Aces and Eights in a UK IMPACT Wrestling event a decade ago back in 2013.

You can check out the announcement of this match below!

AEW Full Gear could be heading to Los Angeles.

According to a new report via Fightful Select, AEW’s traditional November pay-per-view will take place at The Kia Forum in Los Angeles, California on Saturday, November 18th. The report notes this is how the event is listed on internal company calendars.

If this date proves to be correct it would require Collision to be moved, although there is no word on how this would play out.

You can read more on this report, here.

Last week former WWE Superstar Melina sat down with Ring the Belle to talk all things her career.

From her incredible WWE run, the future of her in-ring career and the problem of backstage drama – Melina tells all!

Check out this fantastic interview in full below!

Following this morning’s blockbuster show, the semi-finals for the 33rd edition of the G1 Climax have been confirmed.

Will Opsreay, Kazuchika Okada and Tetsuya Naito advanced to the semi-finals as expected.

However, there was shock (and in some cases disappointment) earlier in the show as IWGP Heavyweight Champion SANADA fell at the hands of his former teammate the divisive EVIL.

EVIL has advanced to the semi finals where he will take on Kazuchika Okda whilst Will Ospreay clashes with the charismatic Tetsuya Naito.

You can read full results from today’s show, here. 

Following his shocking defeat at the hands of Roman Reigns, WWE has released a behind-the-scenes look at Jey Uso’s road to the main event of SummerSlam.

Check out the never before seen footage below!

It’s a bad day to be Dominik Mysterio because…

Rhea Ripley and Buddy Matthews are getting married!

Ripley and Matthews broke the news on August 9th, with Ripley posting a photo on Instagram of her wearing an engagement ring with the caption “1000x YES! Pure F—ing happiness! ❤️.”

Once the announcement made its way around social media, thousands of fans sent congratulations to the couple, as others joked Ripley’s on-screen relationship with Dominik Mysterio had pressed Matthews into action.

You can read more on this amazing news, here.

Here’s everything that went down at the latest AEW Rampage taping.

AEW Rampage Results

• Darby Allin def Brian Cage. There was a beatdown on Darby post-match by the Embassy but Sting made the save.
• Orange Cassidy def Johnny TV. The BCC came out afterward for a staredown
• Saraya def Skye Blue to advance to All In. The Outcasts attacked after the match but Madison Rayne made the save.
• ROH Tag Team Champions Aussie Open defeated The Outrunners. They cut a promo after accepting the challenge from MJF and Adam Cole for All In.

All spoilers come courtesy of PWInsider.

AEW All In has set a new European record.

As reported by WrestleTix, the monster event at Wembley Stadium has now sold 79,346 tickets, which takes it past SummerSlam 1992 which saw an attendance of 79,127. SummerSlam was also held at the famous venue, albeit before it was demolished and rebuilt. On that famous night, the card was headlined by the Intercontinental Title match between Bret Hart and the British Bulldog.

You can read more on this incredible record, here.

he Jericho Appreciation Society finally fell apart on the August 9th episode of AEW Dynamite.

The show opened with a mandatory meeting featuring all members of the group, but things didn’t go to plan for Chris Jericho.

He began to speak and tried to explain himself, but he was cut off by Daniel Garcia. The star said he’d put Jericho above everyone else, but questioned why his mentor wouldn’t do the same for him and left. Something that would become a theme.

What then followed was 2.0, Sammy Guevara and Jake Hager both explaining that they no longer liked or respected Chris Jericho and quitting the faction also.

You can read more about the implosion of the Jericho Appreciation Society, here, and can check out the segment below!

Dominik Mysterio may be spending this morning grieving the loss of his ‘Mami’ after Rhea Ripley announced her engagement to AEW star Buddy Matthews, but just last month he was answering a question that has bugged WWE and PlayStation fans for almost 20 years.

During an appearance on SmackDown back in 2005, a then eight year old Dominik Mysterio was shown backstage during Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio‘s iconic ‘custody of Dominik’ feud.

During the segment Mysterio is shown playing on his PSP (PlayStations version of the Nintendo Switch for you younglings) and Reddit and other social media platforms have been trying to workout was Dominik was playing for the best part of two decades.

Well during an appearance on Up Up Down Down, Mysterio would reveal that the internet got it wrong and he was not playing FIFA but in fact Grand Theft Auto.

Respond to Mansoor, who had claimed he knew it was FIFA he played on his PSP behind-the-scences, Mysterio would note:

“Why would you assume I play FIFA…It was not [FIFA that he was playing backstage] I think it was GTA.”

Check out the full video below!

Just to provide some clarity to the post below on AEW saving WWE from a potential lawsuit, here is how UFC’s hearing could impact Vince McMahon‘s company.

Speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer would reveal how a negative hearing towards the UFC would almost “guarantee” the same charges be brought towards the WWE.

“The judge was pretty specific and very much was like the judge in the MLW case and was pretty negative when it comes to the big company and having 90% market share and abusing that power to keep salaries low.

When you read all that, much of this, there are differences but there are more similarities than differences between WWE and UFC when it comes to this, because WWE has been far more anti competitive than the UFC has. In terms of trying to keep other companies from flourishing, now they have not been as successful because of AEW – there is no AEW in MMA, there are people who want to be AEW like ONE and PFW…

But the whole thing as far as this [is] the risks of trial are very bad for Endeavour if this goes to trial and they lose [because] it pretty much guarantees that the ruling that would come out of the trial would be used against WWE so they would have a second lawsuit especially now they have merged.

So it behoves them to settle out of court but if they settle out of court it would be a a lot, a lot, a lot of money, Doing that you are still going to open it up because someone is going to see that they settled out of court… and it’s the same company who runs the WWE. It’s almost a guarantee that it would happen if the UFC lawsuit is successful in any sort of way.”

xGood Afternoon!

Hope everyone is doing well and has had an awesome week so far!

I will be with you this afternoon from 12:00 pm to 6 pm BST (8 am – 1 pm EST) with all the latest news and rumours from AEW, WWE and NJPW.

This afternoon we will be kicking things off with some of today’s biggest stories, including:

• AEW could save WWE from a major lawsuit.
• UFC lawsuit could have major implications for the WWE.
• Dominik Mysterio answers 18-year-old WWE mystery.
• Two championship matches confirmed for AEW All In.
• Sting‘s opponent at AEW All In confirmed.

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