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00:00 I'm Laurie Blake, welcome to the WrestleTalk News, on Fridays we wear pink.

00:10 It's almost the end of the year and 'tis the season for contracts to come up in AEW

00:16 as we've seen a bunch of talent, including AEW originals, reach the end of their terms

00:20 with the company.

00:21 The latest is another name that seems to be quietly bowing out rather than, y'know,

00:26 slinging all the muck as they go.

00:28 Eagle Eyed Browsers noticed that The Bunny, one of the first women to join AEW in March

00:32 2019, quietly had her roster page removed.

00:35 She'd previously sat between Taya Valkyrie and Thunder Rosa.

00:38 And now look, no Bunny!

00:40 Someone make the rabbit disappear!

00:41 PWInsider did some digging and they discovered that The Bunny has officially departed AEW,

00:46 with sources noting that the two sides mutually agreed to part ways with no further details

00:51 being added.

00:52 So it could be a case of her feeling like her time in the company is done, a lack of

00:56 good creative or a better offer from elsewhere.

01:02 Bunny's real life partner The Blade is still with AEW though, and still teaming with The

01:06 Butcher.

01:07 The pair even worked a dark match on Dynamite this week, so what does that mean?

01:11 The Bunny joins a list of recent AEW exiters that include Jade Cargill, Lexus King aka

01:16 Brian Pillman Jr, and because I had to tell you that bit, that rebrand hasn't gone so

01:21 well, Sonny Kiss and Brock Anderson.

01:23 Cargill and Pillman have both made their way to WWE, Sonny Kiss has appeared in Impact,

01:27 while Brock Anderson has yet to surface in another wrestling company.

01:31 And that is some rotten glock, I mean luck.

01:34 I'm not saying this is the case, but there is a notion going around that AEW doesn't

01:37 have space on its roster for all of these talents, or room to give them the creative

01:41 and storylines.

01:42 It's hard to buy into as AEW has so much bloody television.

01:47 And on top of that it's got Ring of Honor, which has admittedly yet to secure a TV deal.

01:52 Not for lack of trying.

01:53 On the parts of TV execs, seemingly as a new report from House of Wrestling claims that

01:57 the CW, they have just signing up NXT for a 70% increased media rights deal, as well

02:02 as nabbing the NWA, apparently made some overtures.

02:06 Tony Khan about Ring of Honor.

02:08 The report said that the high level CW exec, probably Arrow himself no doubt, approached

02:13 Khan at the LA Forum in 2022 about the possibility of bringing Ring of Honor to the network.

02:18 However, Khan reportedly didn't pursue the talks as he doesn't want to entertain new

02:23 deals for ROH until the AEW television rights are in play in 2024.

02:29 Khan is also said to believe that by waiting he will have more options and leverage in

02:34 the marketplace.

02:35 Of course on the flip side, Khan might also find himself in a world in which he's trying

02:38 to hawk wrestling and people are like, nah mate I've already got one.

02:42 In fact I've got two.

02:44 And CW's double whammy of wrestling content hasn't gone unnoticed by one former NWA talent

02:49 who departed the company under a dark cloud only to join up with the WWE.

02:55 Nick Aldis, the former NWA World's Heavyweight Champion, was suspended by the company after

03:00 publicly announcing that he'd asked for his release and criticising the brand and dubbing

03:04 it "toxic" on social media.

03:07 With the new announcement, Aldis took a few pops at the in-house competition at CW, posting

03:11 a video of a graphic of the NXT logo coming soon to CW with the NWA's theme music laying

03:17 over the top.

03:20 On the subject of NXT and it's shiny new TV deal, there's been some questions as

03:24 to what this means for the promotion going forward and if there will be any major changes.

03:29 There's already been reports saying that the plan is to keep NXT on Tuesday night,

03:33 so that bit's going to remain the same, but now there's talks about where it's

03:37 going to take place.

03:38 This is just speculation, so take it with a healthy pinch of salt, but educated speculation

03:42 from Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio who spoke about what NXT could do with all

03:47 this lovely new money they're getting, including potentially taking NXT on tour.

03:52 He said "Let's talk about taking them touring with the extra money.

03:56 I told you."

03:57 He said there's pluses and minuses of it.

03:59 The pluses are, if it looks good and it looks better, because the look of the TV show is

04:03 very important when it comes to viewership, so moving to bigger places will help to a

04:07 degree.

04:08 Meltzer also mentioned the scope for more tickets being sold for bigger arenas and whether

04:11 that extra revenue would offset the cost of travelling from town to town, but with new

04:15 money coming in it does seem more affordable to do it now.

04:19 However, he did also mention one big negative.

04:22 He said if you were taking the people out of town with the travel days and everything

04:26 like that, it does give them less days in the gym, and it does take a lot of the people

04:31 who work with a talent away for a couple of days.

04:34 Simple answer, just skip leg day.

04:36 Skip it.

04:37 No one needs it.

04:38 Obviously to mitigate that they could potentially just run their shows in Florida arenas, as

04:42 the PC is located in Florida.

04:44 However, Meltzer also pointed out that would be a case of diminishing returns and you could

04:49 only run that market so many times before the audience becomes burnt out.

04:53 Tell that to Full Sail University.

04:56 So it's a bit of an interesting question mark hanging over NXT's future right now,

04:59 and while they've done the occasional out of town show for their special pay-per-views,

05:03 perhaps we could at the very least see more travel for TV specials and such going forward.

05:08 We'll just have to wait and see.

05:10 But while NXT may be staying put on Tuesday night, things aren't so set in stone for

05:14 Smackdown with their new TV deal with the USA Network.

05:17 Because here's the thing, after the deal was originally announced, reports indicated

05:21 that there weren't any plans for Smackdown to move from the Friday night slot that it

05:24 currently has on Fox.

05:26 However, that may be about to change.

05:29 Thanks again to more Dave Meltzer speculation.

05:39 On Wrestling Observer Radio, Uncle Meltz mentioned that there could be a chance that Smackdown

05:42 is moved off of Fridays because TKO are considering a package deal idea for WWE and UFC pay-per-views,

05:49 with a WWE pay-per-view taking place on a Friday night and a UFC pay-per-view in the

05:53 same location on a Saturday night on any given weekend.

05:57 Does that make our lives easier?

06:00 That might make our lives easier.

06:01 That of course wouldn't leave room for Smackdown on Friday nights anymore, so it would most

06:04 likely get shifted to another day, perhaps back to its old Thursday night slot.

06:10 That would make our lives easier.

06:12 Meanwhile in the ongoing Vince and TKO saga of who's really got the power here, following

06:16 on from TKO's new SEC filing listing Vince McMahon's presence on the board of directors

06:20 as a risk factor, as well as the allegations against him, it seems old Vinny M has decided

06:25 to sell off a lot of his shares of TKO stock.

06:28 8,400,000 of them.

06:31 That is.

06:32 That's a buttload of stock.

06:33 But that only equates to about 30% of his company's shares.

06:37 In the company's filing they note that the most recently reported stock price was $84.60

06:42 per share, which has dropped a little to just over $80 per share according to Brandon Thurston

06:46 of WrestleNomics.

06:47 But even so, if all of those shares get sold, that is roughly $700 million that Vinny Mac

06:54 is taking home to the bank.

06:55 That's going to buy you a lot of moustache wax.

06:57 TKO itself can buy some of those shares back, and it intends to, noting in the same filing

07:02 that they have interest to purchase $10 million worth of it back, as well as Ari Emanuel,

07:06 the CEO, and Mark Shapiro, the President and COO, wanting to buy a million dollars worth

07:11 of stock each as well.

07:13 And it's just yet more signs that Vince's power and control in TKO is diminishing.

07:18 With him being listed as this risk factor, Ari Emanuel blaming Vince's power to sell

07:22 his share soon as the reason why the stock price was down overall.

07:26 And now that share selling is bloody happening.

07:28 It's been said before, but I'm going to say it again, I really think this might be

07:32 the end of Vince's control over WWE.

07:34 While we're on the subject of business, there was an ongoing $250 million lawsuit

07:38 filed against both WWE and AEW.

07:41 Did you know about that?

07:42 The lawsuit was filed for plagiarism, market damages, product damages, personal damages

07:46 and financial damages by Anthony Dwayne Wilson.

07:49 Now you might be thinking, wow, that sounds very serious.

07:52 What's going on here?

07:54 That is until you read the filing itself, which has now been dismissed three months

07:57 after it was filed.

07:58 And here is just a snippet.

08:02 "WWE and AEW are still using infringing works of mine, claiming they created these

08:06 things and are not crediting me or paying for them.

08:09 These things have cost me fans and income.

08:11 I am a writer and professional wrestler.

08:13 My creative works are my livelihood.

08:15 I am seeking control of AEW and removal of stolen works, a public apology and a financial

08:21 settlement for damages.

08:22 My works and career will see until I retire.

08:25 WWE board chair, WWE stock for freelance work and business tactics of mine.

08:30 Return all ships and plunder."

08:32 So he wants control of AEW, I think he might have seen one too many wrestling storylines.

08:37 He also wants to return all ships and plunder.

08:39 What does that mean?

08:40 There was a D on the 'and' in that bit.

08:42 Later on business briefly as following on from the news that Raw's Fatal 4-Way match

08:46 had a botched finish after Ricochet was knocked to loopy, speculation began about what was

08:50 actually supposed to have happened.

08:51 Because it seemed as if there was supposed to be a double pin with Ivar and The Miz both

08:55 getting the win at the same time.

08:57 And now that has been confirmed by Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio, who mentioned

09:01 that the original plan was for Ivar and Miz to get pins and then the two to face each

09:05 other on Raw which The Miz would win, setting up the Gunther vs. Miz match for Survivor

09:09 Series which has now just been confirmed.

09:11 Anywho.

09:12 It all worked out in the end.

09:14 And finally today some congratulations go out to Carmella and Corey Graves who have

09:18 welcomed their new baby boy into the world.

09:21 The pair, whose real names are Leah Van Dale and Matthew Polinsky, shared the first photo

09:25 of their new son on Instagram, who's named Dimitri Paul Polinsky.

09:29 Once again congratulations to Carmella and Corey and welcome to the world Dimitri.

09:33 That's a nice way to end the news on a Friday.

09:36 Happy bloody Friday folks and if you want to watch more from us click the video over

09:39 there to watch the new episode of No Holds Barred where we're playing just one with special

09:43 guests Michael Blumenauke and Nina Flippin' Samuels.

09:47 Go check it out.

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