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00:00 Could we see Cody Rhodes return to AEW?

00:04 Scott D'Amore fired from TNA!

00:06 My review of AEW Dynamite.

00:09 I am Luke Owen and this is the WrestleTalk News.

00:14 It's been a mad week for WWE.

00:21 Cody Rhodes announced on Smackdown that he wouldn't be facing Roman Reigns at WrestleMania

00:25 despite that being the long-term plan.

00:27 The Rock looked like he was going to face Roman instead, and the fan backlash to it

00:31 was so strong that WWE had to censor "Rocky sucks" chants from Raw as the hashtag #WeWantCody

00:39 grew stronger and stronger.

00:41 Some of this is being reported as a big Worky McWorkface.

00:45 Other reports say that WWE are considering all of their options ahead of today's press

00:50 conference where we will get all the answers.

00:54 But that is not what Sean Ross Sapp is going to be talking about.

00:58 With reports noting that Cody could have potentially been lied to about the plans for WrestleMania,

01:03 it seems his future in WWE isn't quite as clear as it once was.

01:09 On Fightful to The Hump, Sean Ross Sapp was asked about the chances of Cody leaving WWE

01:14 and returning to AEW.

01:17 Now usually we would pull a quote here and you would have to listen to me say it, but

01:22 I think it's important that you see the clip to get the full context of how this question

01:28 was answered.

01:29 You should also go and watch the show in full because it's great.

01:52 It should be made clear, this is not a report.

01:55 This is not a Fightful Select $5 news story.

01:58 It's mostly just speculation.

01:59 However it should also be noted that Dave Meltzer had previously reported that Cody

02:03 Rhodes signed a new contract in October of last year, however SRS reported that while

02:09 the contract had been offered, Cody Rhodes had yet to sign it.

02:14 When asked about this answer on Twitter, Sean Ross Sapp replied, "It's wrestling and I've

02:19 seen the most insane s*** happen over the last 5 years and will never call anything

02:24 impossible."

02:26 Do you think Cody Rhodes could go back to AEW?

02:30 Let me know in the comments down below.

02:31 Personally I don't think it's going to happen.

02:35 But then I also said the same thing about him leaving AEW and I am historically wrong

02:39 about a lot of things.

02:40 But on this one I'm pretty sure he's going to stay in WWE.

02:44 Right?

02:46 Speaking of insane things that are happening in wrestling right now, Impact Wrestling successfully

02:50 rebranded to TNA with their Hard To Kill PPV in January.

02:54 Wrestling hype surrounding the promotion keeps on growing, TNA even had their Knockouts Champion

02:58 Jordan Grace in the Royal Rumble.

03:03 And the man at the heart of all of that was Scott D'Amour, the President of TNA Wrestling

03:08 who by all accounts was very well liked backstage by talent and crew.

03:13 One talent even noted to Fightful Select that he "saves" TNA - which is why the news

03:18 that he's been fired has come as such a shock.

03:21 D'Amour has been replaced by Anthony Sisoni from Anthem.

03:25 The reason for his firing has been given to both PWInsider and Fightful from Anthem themselves

03:31 who say they want to ensure TNA has a greater tie to Anthem day to day moving forward.

03:37 Our own Tempest was contacted by someone from TNA who said, "No one knew it was coming

03:42 except higher-ups.

03:43 No talent or crew.

03:44 Scott D'Amour knows wrestling literally on the deepest possible levels.

03:49 He knows every indie talent in every town.

03:53 No idea what's next."

03:55 This firing was reportedly not well received by those backstage in TNA according to PWInsider.

04:01 A video call was held to let everyone know what was occurring, but Anthem officials reportedly

04:05 contradicted their own press release by saying D'Amour "stepped down" rather than being

04:10 fired - which is what happened.

04:12 Sisoni only reportedly read a pre-prepared statement but did not take questions.

04:16 Fightful Select confirmed that talent were not happy about this news and said they weren't

04:20 given a reason for what happened beyond what was in the press release.

04:24 They also report there was a second call headed up by Tommy Dreamer and Gail Kim which did

04:28 not go down well either - with House of Wrestling reporting that Kim had to ask those on the

04:32 call to mute their microphones as it was becoming chaotic.

04:36 Initially House of Wrestling had been told that Dreamer offered those on the call a chance

04:40 to get out of their contracts if they were really unhappy about the news, but they have

04:45 since learned that wasn't the case.

04:47 One person told them that any releases from this news would be based upon how important

04:51 the wrestlers are to the company.

04:53 Jordan Grace, for example, is someone that TNA will do everything they can to keep hold

04:58 of.

04:59 It's been a crazy week of news and there's even more news on WrestleTalk.com today - including

05:04 John Laurinaitis' lawyer issuing a statement of vice claiming that WWE executives knew

05:10 about the allegations surrounding the late Ashley Mazzaro.

05:13 With WWE issuing a statement in 2019 after Mazzaro's death claiming that they didn't.

05:19 The full details of that plus loads more is all on WrestleTalk.com.

05:24 Before we get into the AEW review however, here's a clip from this Friday's edition

05:28 of Survival Series to whet your appetite for a new round.

05:50 But now it's time for my review of AEW Dynamite - aka the Match of the Year contender/big

05:56 announcement/sting title winner edition of AEW Dynamite - in about 5 minutes.

06:01 This very stacked show opened with what is arguably the hottest thing - the third encounter

06:07 between Hangman Page and Swerve Strickland - the winner of which would become the number

06:11 one contender to Samoa Joe's World Title.

06:14 These two already have had two Match of the Year contenders in 2023 - the second one of

06:18 which ended up coming second in our WrestleTalk Podcast Match of the Year awards.

06:22 So expectations were high going into this next chapter, and boy howdy did it not disappoint.

06:29 The action started off incredibly hot, as did the crowd, and they maintained that pace

06:33 for the rest of the bout.

06:35 These two are so crisp together, highlighted in a moment when Hanger did a moonsault to

06:40 the floor and rolled through because Swerve moved, who then in turn rolled through into

06:43 a flatliner of his own.

06:45 It was so seamless.

06:46 Swerve ducked a buckshot and hit one of his own for an awesome nearfall.

06:50 He got his feet on the ropes following a buckshot lariat from Page, and survived a countout

06:54 attempt by Hanger just getting back in at the 9.

06:58 Swerve awkwardly landed on his ankle, but fought through the pain to hit a dead eye

07:02 through a table on the outside and hit the JML Driver for the 1-2 time limit draw.

07:10 It was timed to perfection, executed to perfection, and was just absolutely perfect.

07:17 An exceptional pro wrestling match.

07:21 But there's just one more thing, and it's not that one table that fell down.

07:25 You might have noticed in my recap there that Swerve sounded like the Valiant Babyface while

07:30 Hangman Page was the heel.

07:32 And this is something that the crowd also felt, cheering Swerve whilst being mixed,

07:36 often booing Hangman Adam Page.

07:39 Page sold this throughout the match like it was weighing heavy on his mind, and it was

07:42 all clearly by design, as Swerve got on the mic after the match to ask for five more minutes,

07:48 and Page said no.

07:51 All you had to do was beat me, and you couldn't.

07:54 I was right all along, you cannot beat me without the Mogul Embassy.

07:59 Tony Schiavone announced on the house mic that Tony Khan made it official it will be

08:03 a triple threat for Revolution - something that Samoa Joe was less than thrilled about

08:07 in a backstage interview.

08:08 Hangman Page left the arena shouting, "He can't beat me."

08:12 I did not see a double turn coming.

08:14 Not only because it's hard to imagine the blue eyed babyface that fought against The

08:18 Elite to capture the World Heavyweight Title being booed by AEW fans, but also because

08:23 Swerve invaded this man's home and cut a promo on his sleeping child.

08:27 And yet somehow, somehow, they've done it.

08:30 And they did it so, so well.

08:33 Tony Storm beat Red Velvet while Deanna Purrazzo did commentary, and they announced Orange

08:36 Cassidy will be defending his International Championship against Tomohiro Ishii on collision

08:41 this Saturday.

08:42 What?!

08:43 And continued the tease of tension between best friends and Trent.

08:46 And if that wasn't awesome enough, here comes some good lucha thing.

08:51 The Blackpool Combat Club are so damn cool, and they had a corking trios match against

08:56 The Lads from CMLL - which put some great shine on the invading luchadors.

09:01 And in an interesting finish, The Rep nearly got bumped and Claudio Castagnoli used this

09:05 chance to hit a low blow during a spinebuster for the win.

09:09 An excellent match, but if you want to make this invading force look credible, I think

09:15 they should have won here.

09:17 Even if the low blow is done to protect them.

09:19 More of CMLL got in the ring after the match, but they were chased off by 2.0 and Christopher

09:24 Daniels.

09:25 And again, if you want to present this invading force as a serious invading force, I wish

09:30 the backup for the Blackpool Combat Club was more impressive.

09:35 The Undisputed Kingdom beat up Chucky backstage, and Tony Khan appeared on screen to make his

09:39 next big announcement - which had already been announced earlier in the day by Ticketmaster.

09:45 AEW will be doing a show from the TD Gardens in Boston in March, and the show will be called

09:51 Big Business.

09:53 You will love Big Business.

09:56 It is the American way.

09:57 TK hyped this as much as you would expect, but in traditional AEW style, the graphic

10:03 is spelled Boston wrong.

10:04 There's only one S in Boston you silly fools.

10:07 I sure hope someone got fired for that blunder.

10:10 That isn't even an S, it's a dollar sign.

10:13 Wait a minute.

10:14 Yes this will likely be the home of the AEW debut for Mercedes Monet, the former Sasha

10:19 Banks in WWE.

10:21 Fightful Select report that Monet has actually been on the AEW payroll since the start of

10:25 the year, and there was consideration to announcing or debuting Mercedes, but instead the decision

10:30 to pass that on to the TD Garden.

10:33 Because of the Ticketmaster leak earlier in the day, I had expected TK to announce Mercedes'

10:38 debut as part of this big announcement, because what he announced was news that we already

10:42 sorta knew.

10:43 But it also lends to the idea that Mercedes Monet won't be the only debut at that show

10:49 with Big Business and all of its heavy money theming could be an all out 2021 situation

10:56 where we get not one, not three, but two new AEW signings.

11:02 Cody Rhodes AEW was unconfirmed.

11:04 Takeshita beat Chris Jericho with his own Walls of Jericho after some screwy interference

11:10 from Don Callis.

11:16 It's funny because Callis used a screwdriver.

11:26 Look I wish I could be more excited about this, but I've seen Jericho put over power

11:29 house hobs and Action Andre Strong, and those didn't lead to much.

11:33 And the main event saw Sting and Darby Allin beat Ricky Starks and Big Bill for the AEW

11:38 Tag Team Championships in a very fun Tornado Tag match.

11:42 Sting continued to celebrate the return of TNA by wrestling in a t-shirt and brawling

11:46 through the crowd, hitting an awesome big dive from an entranceway.

11:49 The best spot of the match for me was Big Bill catching and diving Darby Allin and seamlessly

11:54 hitting a Boss Man Slam.

11:55 It was so, so good.

11:58 Sting hit the Scorpion Death Drop on Starks for the win.

12:01 Sting's got other kids that aren't just Darby and they got in the ring after the match,

12:05 but all four of them were attacked by the Young Bucks in white suits.

12:09 The white suits were such an effective choice, as the blood from Darby Allin stained them

12:14 and they hit their renamed finish, the EVP Trigger.

12:18 A very good old school heat angle, nothing flashy, just weapons, blood and their finish.

12:25 Excellent.

12:26 That wrapped up an excellent episode of AEW Dynamite.

12:29 The opener is a genuine match of the year contender, the finale was a real feel good

12:34 moment and the trios match was awesome fun.

12:37 This week's Dynamite is 4 out of 5.

12:40 Hopefully the Mercedes debut won't end up on a list like this, but do check out our

12:44 latest partsFUNknown list covering wrestlers who peaked with their debuts.

12:48 I gave a lot of input into the Taz entry.

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