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00:00 Welcome to the WrestleTalk News, I'm Pete Quinnell.

00:09 Some people, not naming names here, couldn't be me, have been talking about the Bloodline

00:13 Saga as potentially one of the greatest stories WWE has ever told.

00:17 And while there were some definite down periods where it didn't seem like anybody but Reigns

00:23 was getting over, there have been some people who have looked significantly better after

00:26 being involved with the Bloodline.

00:28 Namely, Solo Sakoa, The Usos and Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens.

00:32 And while Jey has lined up to face Roman at Summerslam this weekend, Solo being involved

00:36 in that story too, Zayn and KO are the undisputed tag champs, and seem to be having quite the

00:41 run.

00:42 But how long will it last, because we might not be seeing Kevin Owens wrestle at all for

00:46 too much longer.

00:47 It had been reported back in late 2021 that KO had signed a three year deal with WWE,

00:53 meaning his contract expires in...2024.

00:55 Let's add that to the list of wrestlers who are having their contracts expiring that

00:59 year, it's so many.

01:01 But it seems when late 2024 rolls around, we won't be talking about KO potentially

01:05 leaving to go to AEW, but more about whether he's actually sticking around with WWE,

01:10 and crucially, in what capacity.

01:12 Because KO spoke to the Toronto Sun in an interview recently where he said, "I really

01:16 don't know what's left for me to accomplish in WWE.

01:19 I used to say I don't see myself not being in the ring for another 5 to 10 years, and

01:22 if I said that right now, I don't know if that's true anymore.

01:25 I know I want to be involved in the WWE and I know I have a place here, I just don't

01:29 know where it is exactly.

01:31 Maybe it's still in the ring, maybe it's not, I don't know."

01:34 He went on to say that he doesn't know right now, but he's just going to enjoy the year

01:37 and a half he's got left on his contract and see how he feels.

01:40 I for one would very much miss KO in the ring if he did decide to hang up the boots, but

01:44 Kevin Owens as a coach or a producer?

01:46 That sounds like a massive boon for WWE.

01:48 Meanwhile over in AEW, there's been quite a lot of chatter about the AEW Women's Division

01:53 as of late, what with criticism mounting over their booking, Lufisto speaking on someone

01:58 backstage with too much power causing her to not do more with the company, and now...there's

02:02 this.

02:03 After confirming that Britt Baker was not the person Lufisto was talking about via Fightful

02:07 Select, on a Q&A podcast with Sean Ross Sapp, he mentioned that he constantly hears about

02:13 trash talking in the AEW Women's locker room.

02:16 Ross also noted that Lufisto was supposed to do more with AEW, but because of a "no

02:21 good situation" that he believes emerged from a ton of miscommunication, those plans

02:25 ended up not happening.

02:27 There have been reports in the past of heat between Thunder Rosa and Britt Baker among

02:30 others, so yeah, it's not looking too great in AEW on the women's side of things right

02:35 now.

02:36 And the same could be said for WWE's Women's Division too, as on last night's Raw we

02:40 seemingly got confirmation that two women's matches are being pulled from Summerslam.

02:44 Becky Lynch vs Trish Stratus instead took place on the show last night, and then a rematch

02:49 was scheduled for two weeks time for their Winnipeg show on Raw, Luke will have more

02:53 details on that shortly in his Raw review, and Rhea Ripley vs Raquel Rodriguez which

02:57 had reportedly been penciled in for the show was seemingly scrapped when Raquel was injured

03:01 by Rhea on the show too.

03:02 There's a chance that match could still happen, but it seems highly unlikely all things

03:07 considered.

03:08 There have been reports that Summerslam was full with their 9 matches, so now it looks

03:12 like there's some more space for other things to take those spots.

03:14 I wonder what they'll be.

03:16 Probably John Cena appearing again to give Detroit a WrestleMania.

03:20 Now over to Luke.

03:22 And now it's time for my review of Monday Night Raw, aka, hot damn those Shayna Ronda

03:26 promos were a great addition of Monday Night Raw, in about 5 minutes.

03:31 The show opened with Logan Paul cutting a promo on Ricochet to really, really great

03:37 heat from this crowd.

03:38 He kept putting over that he was going to make this match go viral, which is very fitting

03:42 to his character but is slightly undermined when the commentators also say it's going

03:46 to be a very viral match.

03:48 Because then it just sounds like the company thinks it's going to be a viral match.

03:51 Ricochet came out to, surprisingly, shake Logan Paul's hand because he knows that

03:57 they're going to put on a viral worthy match.

04:00 Paul then went against this by saying Ricochet's fiancé, ring announcer Samantha Irvin, would

04:04 do the unthinkable when Logan Paul wins.

04:08 She will do her job and announce him as the winner.

04:13 This was clearly too much for Mr. Shay who brawled with Paul and got knocked out by the

04:16 one lucky punch.

04:17 The lame Samantha line aside, this was a decent opening segment.

04:21 Not Cathy interviewed Imperium which set up a match between Ludwig Kaiser and Matt Riddle

04:25 where seemingly Kaiser's position in Imperium would be on the line if he lost.

04:29 Thankfully because this group rules, he in fact did not lose, beating Matt Riddle in

04:33 a hard hitting affair that the crowd lapped up.

04:36 I announce that Cody Rhodes has joined TikTok so you should all go and follow him.

04:40 And while we're on that subject, I've just joined Instagram.

04:43 It's thisisluke.owen.

04:44 So please go there and follow me and feed my needy ego and give me a sense of self-worth

04:52 in the form of a decent follower number.

04:57 The best thing in WWE right now, you heard me Bloodline, got its next chapter when Maxine

05:02 Dupree took on Valhalla in Maxine's first singles match and Sarah Logan's first WWE

05:08 singles match in around three years.

05:10 This was a relatively sloppy affair, but that's also part of the charm as the story is, Maxine

05:14 is learning how to wrestle.

05:16 Remarkably though, most of the sloppiness came from the far more talented and trained

05:19 wrestler Valhalla.

05:21 Maxine hit some arm drags, Otis' Caterpillar and Manami Toyota's Japanese Ocean Cyclone

05:26 suplex into a very nice bridge for the win.

05:29 I'm gutted that these six aren't getting something bigger on the Summerslam card outside

05:33 of Chad being in the Battle Royal, but this angle continues to be tremendous fun.

05:38 Judgment Day cut a promo that covered a lot of the usual groundwork they go over, and

05:42 this brought out Raquel Rodriguez to brawl with Rhea Ripley that was all kinds of great

05:46 until it came to Raquel's selling.

05:50 She bless her, she's not a good actor.

05:54 But this segment did have a PT Williams spotting in it, so it gets 5/5.

05:57 Raquel's acting was way worse in a backstage segment with Adam Pearce, who said she can

06:01 get a shot at Rhea Ripley when she is medically cleared.

06:04 We got two video packages for the Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler feud, which were so great.

06:10 They covered their history in the MMA world, including their mentor/mentee relationship

06:14 on Ultimate Fighter, and quite brilliantly and perfectly painted both of them as the

06:19 babyface and heel of the story.

06:21 Ronda was certainly sympathetic in putting over Shayna, and Baszler was certainly a heel

06:26 because she said she was going to murder Ronda's daughter's mother.

06:29 Which is Ronda.

06:30 But Ronda was also painted as the baddie as they highlighted how the WWE crowd do not

06:35 like her, and Shayna was the babyface by pointing out this very correct statement of fact.

06:41 These were remarkable, and easily the best promo work Ronda has done in her entire WWE

06:47 run.

06:48 And for a feud that wasn't that heated going in, it's become - in my estimation - one

06:53 of the bigger matches on the Summerslam card.

06:56 They'll be fighting under MMA rules at Summerslam, which sounds overly gimmicky, but I'm still

07:00 pretty stoked about it.

07:01 Shinsuke Nakamura and Tommaso Ciampa continue to toil away in the mid-card vortex of getting

07:05 no reactions and short matches with little heat.

07:07 Nakamura won with a handful of tights, and Bronson Reed watched on from backstage.

07:11 This was not as good as it should have been.

07:13 Brock Lesnar cut a promo on Cody Rhodes which brought out the newest star of TikTok.

07:17 Have you followed me on Instagram yet?

07:19 And he shook Brock's hand for what reason I don't know, nor do I particularly care

07:26 at this point.

07:27 But it was weird to do effectively the same angle as the opening one of the show where

07:30 the rivals shake hands and only to brawl instead.

07:34 Because you'll never guess what Cody and Brock did next.

07:38 They only went and bloody brawled didn't they?

07:41 Who could have possibly seen that coming?

07:43 There was also no PT Williams sighting in this segment, so zero out of five.

07:47 But next was, for my money, the best in-ring thing on the show as Chad Gable took on Gunther

07:52 in a five minute challenge.

07:54 Credit to the commentary as well as the wrestlers on this one as they did a great job in getting

07:58 over the desperation of Gunther as he realised he'd underestimated Gable and time was ticking

08:03 away from what he thought was going to be an easy win.

08:05 He locked in the Sleeper with around 40 seconds to go, but Gable wasn't tapping so he beat

08:10 him up and went for the Powerbomb, but Gable reversed and sent him to the outside.

08:14 But time expired and Gable was set to be announced as the winner until Gunther stopped that announcement

08:19 and asked for more time.

08:21 Which means we got more great wrestling and a superb pissed off Gunther finish where he

08:27 chopped the soul out of Chad Gable's body, then chopped that soul back in so he could

08:31 chop it out again and Powerbomb him into the earth for the win.

08:35 This was all superb and I think sets up Gable for an icy program after Drew's match at

08:40 Summerslam.

08:41 Becky Lynch and Trish Stratus are not wrestling at Summerslam, we're actually going to do

08:44 that match here tonight on Raw, but Zoey Stark jumped in to cause the DQ.

08:50 Trish and Zoey left Bexlaying and then told Adam Pearce that, hey, the rematch has happened,

08:54 now it's taking place.

08:55 Pearce instead told her that the rematch will happen in a couple of weeks time when WWE

08:59 is in Canada.

09:00 And the main event saw Sami Zayn and Seth Rollins beat Judgment Day in a fun tag match.

09:04 The finish saw Priest hit the Razor's Edge on Rollins and then realised he could go for

09:08 the cash-in.

09:09 Rollins then handed him the briefcase but with a slight moment of hesitation.

09:12 And it was enough of a hesitation for Rollins to recover and hit the stomp for the win.

09:16 A very creative finish that further teases the issues within the Judgment Day.

09:20 Go Home shows have not been the strongest weapon in the Triple H booking arsenal, but

09:24 this one was actually pretty good.

09:26 It hyped up the key matches for Summerslam and in some cases added more heat that wasn't

09:31 there before.

09:32 So big thumbs up from me, I gave it 4 out of 5.

09:35 That's all from this edition of the WrestleTalk News, why not go and check out myself and

09:38 the other WrestleTalk lads on Board Game Club over on PartsFun known from last week.

09:42 Here's a clip while I check my Instagram follower update.

09:46 Hoho, what are we up to?

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