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00:00 I'm Laurie Blake, this is the WrestleTalk News.

00:09 On Fridays we wear pink.

00:12 Our top story today concerns a scheduling snafu that led to a turn in the tide for the

00:16 Tuesday/Wednesday Night War.

00:18 Because yes, the war is still on.

00:20 Just because they're not fighting on the same day doesn't mean the war's not on.

00:23 There's always been war on Tuesday Wednesday nights.

00:27 Because this week's AEW Dynamite fell foul of a booking incident which led many providers

00:32 and listings to say that both this week's and next week's show would be live at 4pm

00:38 Eastern time instead of the usual 8pm ET.

00:41 It seems like this gaffe has had quite the serious knock on effect as it meant that Edge

00:44 Adam Copeland's first TV episode since joining AEW drew only 800,000 viewers according to

00:51 Brandon Thurston of WrestleNomics.

00:53 This is a drop of over 50,000 viewers since last week, 50,000 people missed out on them

00:58 tight jeans.

00:59 Don't worry, Tempest are going to make up the numbers for you by re-watching the clip

01:03 of him on YouTube.

01:04 Oh Canada.

01:05 The major dip in figures also gave NXT an opening to come out on top of the weekly watch

01:10 battle drawing a higher than usual 857,000 viewers because WWE has been putting in the

01:16 effort with NXT, sending main roster stars to go there and work, talking it up, all alongside

01:22 continuing to put on great matches and it's paying off.

01:25 It's important to note that Dynamite did come out victorious in the key 18-49 demos,

01:30 scoring a 0.28, which all of my years of doing this tells me is good, even if I still don't

01:35 understand what it means.

01:37 Point 28 of what?

01:39 While Adam Copeland's debut Dynamite may not have had the desired viewership pot, he's

01:44 definitely had an effect on ticket sales, with WrestleTix noting that 1,010 tickets

01:49 were distributed for the Stockton Arena show after Edge was added.

01:53 Meanwhile WWE is doubling down on giving NXT that main roster rub as it's been reported

01:58 that an upcoming episode of Raw is set to see the heaviest ever promotion for the brand.

02:03 That's because main roster stars like Cody Rhodes and Asuka are all slated to appear

02:07 on the October 10th edition, as is John Cena in the corner of Carmelo Hayes as he takes

02:12 on Bron Breaker, who's going to be backed by Paul Heyman.

02:15 With the TV rights deal coming up and the show being scheduled against Dynamite's

02:19 schedule Tuesday, WWE seem to be stacking NXT and hoping for a historically high viewership

02:25 number.

02:26 Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio noted that he doesn't think WWE is done with cramming

02:29 the show full of main roster stars either and that Raw's promotion will be probably

02:34 the heaviest ever and I would expect more big roster names on that show next week that

02:39 you know will get announced on Monday.

02:41 And the weird thing is AEW almost narrowly avoided going up against this bumper version

02:46 of NXT with their scheduling issues as the show was slated at not only the wrong time

02:49 but the wrong day next week.

02:52 The debacle prompted a clarification tweet from Tony Khan saying the TBS schedule is

02:55 wrong for Dynamite tonight and also wrong for next Tuesday.

02:59 Next Tuesday, #TitleTuesday, Dynamite is also 8pm ET/7pm Central on Tuesday the 10th of

03:06 October, my birthday.

03:09 Title Tuesday is set to feature Edge's first AEW match taking on Luchasaurus and Sarraya

03:13 defending the AEW Women's World Championship against Hikaru Shida.

03:17 One name in the mix at AEW who hasn't done more than appear in the crowd at All In is

03:21 Mercedes Monet who is thought to begin working with the company once she recovers from her

03:26 ankle injury.

03:27 And now the former Sasha Banks has tweeted that she might be interested in next month's

03:30 full gear in Los Angeles saying during an Instagram Live.

03:34 When is that?

03:35 I don't know, I've got to ask my friend.

03:36 A little AE-dub, it's coming here to LA I guess.

03:40 Sure, if I'm free.

03:41 I've got to see.

03:42 I've got to check the schedule.

03:43 I know we're really busy, we're doing a lot of things, travelling a lot.

03:47 Non-committal but a tease nonetheless.

03:49 Anyway, so with CM Punk out of the wrestling mix that has left poor old Brian Children

03:55 without much going on.

03:56 So he's been trying his hand at commentary.

04:01 Should go well.

04:02 And he's being thrown away.

04:03 Oh dear, but he's coming back.

04:04 Oh, and he's back again.

04:05 Oh, and he's whacked them both down with his lovely forearms.

04:06 A shake of the ropes.

04:07 Oh, and he's got a little bit of a kick.

04:08 Oh, and he's got a little bit of a kick.

04:09 Oh, and he's got a little bit of a kick.

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05:13 Oh, and he's got a little bit of a kick.

05:34 Oh, and he's got a little bit of a kick.

05:58 Oh, and he's got a little bit of a kick.

06:24 Oh, and he's got a little bit of a kick.

06:53 WWE loved to place him in as he and Drew McIntyre began a short alliance.

06:57 While this seemed like little more than fuel to feed an eventual Drew McIntyre heel turn

07:02 and feud, it turns out that WWE had much more significant plans for Riddle and Drew than

07:07 first appeared.

07:08 Because according to WrestleVotes on Twitter, the unofficially named Glazz Bros were due

07:12 to get a very different name, one that screams "limited edition McDonald's sandwich",

07:17 much more than it does "wrestling tag team".

07:19 The McRiddle, yes, the McRiddle.

07:24 WrestleVotes added that WWE even went as far to design merchandise items with this team

07:29 name.

07:30 So maybe Drew got away from that one.

07:33 Despite McRiddle being lost to the seas of time, thankfully, one team was recently resurrected

07:38 in glorious fashion amid high fan demand.

07:41 That of course being DIY.

07:44 Yep, Ciampa's long search for his best pal Johnny Wrestling came to an end on Raw this

07:48 week as the Do It Yourselves boys laid some vintage beats onto Imperium's Lukevid Kaiser

07:54 and Giovanni Vinci.

07:56 Despite the DIY reunion seeming like a no-brainer for so long, many have begun to lose their

08:01 hope.

08:02 Yet in an alternative timeline we could have seen this reunion happen as far back as June,

08:06 and that comes according to Fightful Select.

08:08 Let's all cast our minds back to the June 19th edition of Raw, which emanated from Cleveland,

08:13 Ohio, a show that was a victim of many late creative changes.

08:16 Notably a planned Seth Rollins World Heavyweight Championship Open Challenge being accepted

08:21 by a returning Tommaso Ciampa.

08:24 This did not happen as Ciampa instead returned and faced The Miz.

08:31 According to Fightful the original plan was to see Ciampa answer the challenge and be

08:34 quickly beaten down by the Judgment Day, leading to a massive return for Gargano to make the

08:39 save in Cleveland, Ohio.

08:42 As was reported at the time, Gargano was in fact backstage in Cleveland on June 19th,

08:46 with plans heavily changed in the days prior before being nixed altogether, leading to

08:51 an extra three month wait for Mr. Wrestling.

08:54 This reportedly led to loads of frustration, but thankfully Johnny got to spend a lot of

08:58 his time being squashed by Omos on the WWE house circuit, so it's swings and roundabouts.

09:04 Speaking of changed plans, AEW has likely had to do their fair share of script rewrites

09:09 of late, and not because of the whims of some old moustached oil tycoon who looks like Carter

09:14 beats the devil, no it's unfortunately been because of that darn injury bug.

09:19 Because on night that also saw Jon Moxley get sidelined with a concussion, Adam Cole

09:23 also blew out his ankle, jumping from the entrance ramp at September 20th's Dynamite

09:28 Grand Slam.

09:29 On the following week's Dynamite, Cole revealed that he had broken his ankle in three places

09:33 and was set to have surgery, however many still speculated over the extent of Cole's

09:38 injury.

09:39 The news outlet did reaffirm that Cole was expected to be out for some time, if you're

09:41 still not convinced maybe take it from the man himself.

09:44 Because speaking on his Twitch channel, Cole discussed his current status, confirming that

09:48 yes his ankle is broken.

09:50 "My ankle is broken.

09:52 When it's all said and done, when I'm eventually able to get everything all fixed,

09:55 I'm going to need to get two surgeries and it will be a total of eight screws and

09:59 a plate in my ankle."

10:01 Cole described the injury as the most painful he'd ever had, revealing that doctors have

10:06 no idea how it happened.

10:08 Cole said that despite the physical pain, it's more painful mentally, which sucks

10:12 to hear.

10:13 Hopefully Roddy's shrunk and maybe stopped getting him to move furniture.

10:18 As well as Cole's home decorating, one other unfortunate occurrence from Wednesday's

10:21 Dynamite was the absence of Don Callis family member Sammy Guevara.

10:24 Guevara was originally advertised to be teaming alongside Tekeshter to take on Chris Jericho

10:28 and Kenny Omega in tag action, however Callis later announced that the Spanish God was not

10:34 medically cleared to compete.

10:36 Next letter Ozzy opens Carl Fletcher unsuccessfully filling in much of the chagrin of Callis,

10:40 but what of Sammy?

10:42 According to Dave Meltzer and Wrestling Observer Radio it unfortunately looks like yet another

10:45 concussion, which Guevara seems to have suffered at some point during his trios match at WrestleDream

10:50 on Sunday.

10:51 Sammy got a concussion on the pay-per-views is what happened, so he's out until next

10:55 week, could be, who knows, but yeah he's out.

10:59 Again, that's a major bummer.

11:00 Hopefully Guevara will be back on TV healthy enough soon, and we at WrestleTalk would like

11:04 to extend our well wishes to Cole and Guevara in their respective recoveries.

11:08 And finally I thought it would be a nice idea to finish up today's news with a couple

11:11 of laughs as it's time to look at what Hulk Hogan is claiming to have happened this week.

11:16 What lies will the man tell now?

11:18 Because speaking in a new interview with Chris Van Vliet, Hogan dropped numerous bombshells.

11:22 These including revealing scrap plans for his WWE retirement match against John Cena

11:26 at WrestleMania, comparing the script for his upcoming Netflix biopic starring Chris

11:30 Hemsworth to the Godfather, and saving the best for last, that WWE had plans for his

11:34 son Nick Hogan to wrestle at WrestleMania 39.

11:37 Yeah, you heard that right, Nick Hogan.

11:40 Known best for appearing on Hogan Knows Best back in the mid-2000s and being, you know,

11:47 just Hulk Hogan's son.

11:50 Sounds totally feasible.

11:51 According to Hogan, Shane McMahon contacted Hogan regarding a match at Mania, however

11:55 due to Hogan's health he couldn't do it, meaning Nick could be the surrogate for his

12:00 father.

12:01 Surrogate was in quotation marks.

12:03 Hogan mentioned that Nick had been training at Rikishi School and had it figured out,

12:07 however plans were nixed and then Nick blew both his shoulders out.

12:11 In response to this story, Fightful Select reach out to a WWE higher up who effectively

12:16 told them that, brace yourselves, Kendo, brace yourselves.

12:21 That was a load of bollocks.

12:26 The WWE source told Fightful, "In no way is that true.

12:30 I can't think of a time in the last 13 or 14 years that Nick Hogan's name has been

12:35 brought up at all, much less in a creative capacity.

12:39 There has never been a serious conversation about him being involved in anything that

12:43 I can think of, even when Hulk would mention him being involved in things, there just wasn't

12:48 an interest or a benefit to that."

12:52 To be fair to Hulk, the higher up then did confirm that Shane does often have wacky ideas,

12:56 yet cast a doubt on whether even Shane would pitch something that out there.

13:01 That is damning with faint praise.

13:03 Even Shane.

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