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00:00 A new WWE for 2024, Cody Rhodes winning at WrestleMania and Mercedes Monét's next

00:07 move revealed… maybe.

00:10 Until another report comes out saying the exact opposite.

00:13 I'm Oli Davis, and this is the WrestleTalk News.

00:23 Much like your basic cousin on Instagram who blamed everything wrong in their life on just

00:27 the fact it was 2023, but 2024 is going to be so different.

00:32 2024 is his year.

00:34 He's finally going to open his own vape shop.

00:37 There's too many vape shops in the street you're looking to open on already, Ian.

00:41 Maybe just stop getting fired from your retail jobs.

00:44 Endeavor has also declared New Year, New Me.

00:48 Or should I say New Year, New WWE Me.

00:52 It's a pun.

00:55 Despite the WWE sale being first announced in April 2023, the corporate merger - which

01:00 saw Endeavor take a 51% stake in the new company TKO, which contained WWE and the UFC - the

01:07 deal wasn't fully complete for another five months, finally being closed in September.

01:12 Yet it's only now, another four months after that, that WWE is finally completing its transformation

01:18 into a post-Vince McMahon world.

01:21 Even though Vince is still one of the main owners.

01:23 Initially, that feels like a pretty drawn out timeline.

01:26 Triple H first took control of WWE creative on Vince's first departure in July 2022.

01:32 The effects were felt instantly, as the promotion would go on to arguably their greatest run

01:36 of 'premium live events' in its history for almost a year.

01:40 Morale reportedly improved backstage, and weekly television started to clear WWE's

01:45 very low bar of just making sense.

01:48 But like any good horror movie, you think you've killed the monster, but you actually

01:51 only wounded it, and it's going to come back even scarier with a creepy moustache

01:56 for a whole other final act.

01:58 You could argue Triple H and WWE's CEO Nick Khan couldn't fully realise their vision

02:03 because of the looming, shoulder-padded ghost of McMahon leering from forced exile.

02:08 Many Vince loyalists, like longtime head of production Kevin Dunn, were also still in

02:13 their roles.

02:14 But the Endeavor deal Vince potentially pulled off to regain control of WWE didn't work

02:19 out that way.

02:20 Instead, Endeavor have empowered Khan and Triple H to make changes, particularly to

02:25 the old regime, mindset and personnel that McMahon had entrenched.

02:30 These New Year's resolutions came into effect even before 2024 started, with news that Dunn

02:35 was leaving WWE.

02:37 PWInsider have reported many felt his exit was because he felt disrespected for being

02:42 a Vince McMahon guy, with the relationship getting ugly in his final month post-handing

02:47 in his notice.

02:48 Express and Observer Newsletter has added Dunn actually made his decision two months

02:52 ago, so just over a month into the full Endeavor era, when the new parent company started wanting

02:58 to make budget cuts to improve profitability in the department and started making decisions

03:03 on the production side without relying on his opinions.

03:07 With Dunn's divisive visual style gone, which can be summed up by saying ALL THE CRASH

03:12 ZOOMS, we might be pointing back to the Day One Monday Night Raw special in the future

03:17 as the moment Triple H's more NXT presentation fully realised itself on the main roster.

03:24 And it's not just a literal new look for WWE's programming.

03:27 If Nick Khan has his way, it'll be a whole new way of operating behind the scenes.

03:34 Dave Meltzer reported in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that both Khan and Triple H are

03:38 seeking Japanese allies to partner WWE with.

03:42 The first step of this plan has already been executed.

03:45 When NXT star Charlie Dempsey wrestled for All Japan Pro Wrestling on January 3rd, apparently

03:50 WWE are also targeting both the women's promotion Stardom and its partner company,

03:55 the third biggest promotion in the world, New Japan Pro Wrestling.

03:59 Who are kind of in a relationship right now with AEW.

04:03 Fightful Select has now added what they've heard about this story, with several sources

04:07 noting WWE was in a new era, and things could be done a lot differently.

04:13 "We're leaving the Vince age and entering the Hunter Khan epoch," which hints at significant

04:19 changes in how they'll be doing business.

04:22 McMahon didn't just refuse to work with other wrestling promotions, he often actively

04:26 ignored their existence on WWE programming.

04:29 That's why CM Punk saying "maybe I'll go to New Japan, maybe I'll go back to Ring

04:33 of Honor" was such a big deal in his 2011 Pipe Bomb.

04:37 You never heard other promotions referenced in that time.

04:40 But with you kids nowadays with your forbidden doors and your tickety tocks, you don't

04:46 know how hard it was in 2010.

04:48 Perhaps because of NXT's original mission to discover and develop new wrestling talent,

04:53 Triple H had to think differently.

04:55 He needed to look outside WWE for the next superstars, and, as a huge fan of the Old

05:00 Territories system, he brokered working relationships with Evolve, British Promotions, Progress

05:04 and ICW, and Germany's WXW.

05:08 He would even bring in wrestlers on a freelance basis like Jushin Thunder Liger, Kota Ibushi

05:13 and Zack Sabre Jr - appearances unthinkable under Vince McMahon's main roster.

05:18 Nick Khan seems to feel the same way, with Fightful revealing he had spoken to New Japan's

05:23 Rocky Romero about a partnership years ago, likely early 2021, which was reportedly a

05:28 way to keep Bryan Danielson in WWE.

05:31 But Vince would quickly shut down any discussions about working with them.

05:36 It's unlikely even Triple H and Khan can make a WWE/New Japan forbidden door scenario

05:41 happen now, though, because of New Japan's strong partnership with AEW.

05:45 Fightful writes that neither side sees it happening, but it is at the most possible

05:49 point that it's ever been, with WWE showing consistent interest, and a change in management

05:54 at the very top of New Japan, with Hiroshi Tanahashi becoming its new president.

05:59 At some point, if Tanahashi feels WWE can be trusted, or grows frustrated with AEW,

06:05 just taking all their top stars, in a pure business sense, New Japan partnering with

06:10 WWE will be far bigger for them.

06:13 Even then, though, the culture of Japanese companies is to prioritise loyalty.

06:17 Which is why New Japan had stuck with Ring of Honor and CMLL for so long, despite those

06:22 relationships not making the most business sense.

06:24 In the meantime, WWE will have to plug away at convincing New Japan that they're a new

06:30 person, they've changed, they're not going to keep cheating on their girlfriend anymore.

06:34 Seriously, Ian, sort your life out and stop cheating on Tracy.

06:37 She's a nice girl.

06:38 Fightful writes that early signs between WWE and All Japan Pro Wrestling are positive,

06:44 with their All Japan sources being happy with Dempsey's performance and conduct.

06:48 That said, they're understandably wary of the, until very recently, Giant Evil Corporation,

06:53 and are adopting a cautious 'wait and see' strategy.

06:56 Which is coincidentally what I advise us all to do about Cody Rhodes beating Roman Reigns

07:01 at WrestleMania.

07:13 Cody lost to Roman Reigns in the main event of WrestleMania 39, a decision so unfathomable

07:17 at the time, someone threw a rubber chicken in the ring.

07:20 But in WWE's defence, their business has gone from strength to strength in the years

07:25 since, and Cody has continued to rise as one of the company's top stars.

07:30 Unfortunately, though, the chances of him finishing his story are caught between the

07:34 rock and a hard place, as Dwayne Johnson has now set himself up for a match against Reigns.

07:40 While that could happen at the WrestleMania-sized Elimination Chamber in Australia, it's largely

07:44 expected to take place at WrestleMania itself - which could take priority over Cody's

07:50 championship match.

07:51 Cody, however, remains unperturbed, and has posted a silhouette of Rocky on his Instagram

07:57 story - for the benefit of CM Punk, who has never seen a Rocky movie, not his fault.

08:01 This is significant in three ways.

08:04 1.

08:05 Rocky is famously set in Philadelphia, the site of WrestleMania 40.

08:09 2.

08:10 Rocky is sometimes what people chant at The Rock.

08:13 I don't know what that means, I just thought of that one.

08:16 And C) in the first Rocky movie, Rocky lost to the dominant champion Apollo, but in the

08:21 sequel he manages to defeat him.

08:29 The story could be as many of us expected.

08:32 Cody lost at WrestleMania 39, but set up a bigger story and rematch, finally beating

08:37 Roman at WrestleMania 40.

08:39 There's many ways to build this.

08:41 You could win back-to-back Royal Rumbles, you could win the Elimination Chamber, or

08:46 you could turn into Wrestling Oprah.

08:48 Cody has gone on a heartwarming run of granting fan dreams recently - first giving away a

08:53 Christmas tree to a fan in the crowd at Raw's festive special, then giving The Wrestling

08:57 Club - a school club of young wrestling fans - tickets to WrestleMania XL.

09:02 And now, at WWE's 6th January live event, he did this.

09:29 Cody did go on to say it's going to be a logistical mess, but they'll figure it

09:36 out.

09:37 It's a new story to finish.

09:38 And I bet, by the time that magical wedding happens, maybe later this year, maybe next

09:43 year, Mercedes Monet will still be debating whether to go to AEW or WWE.

09:48 After Fightful Select reported on January 1st that the former Sasha Banks and WWE, Mercedes

09:52 Monet, was set for an imminent debut on AEW, with conflicting reports coming out that a

09:58 WWE return remains a possibility, Dave Meltzer has now written, "What I know is that AEW

10:03 does expect her to start on TV soon, but has noted, until it happens, and the contract

10:09 itself is signed, I wouldn't consider anything 100%."

10:14 What are the 10 worst wrestling entrance themes of all time?

10:17 They're some real stinkers.

10:19 Some aren't even technically music.

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