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00:00 WWE blocking talent from shows, what's next for Sheamus? Are TNA Talent Planning a mutiny?

00:06 And more. I'm Luke Owen and this is the WrestleTalk News.

00:11 2024 has already seen some incredible wrestling matches from every promotion around the world.

00:22 Whether it's Bryan Danielson vs Kazuchika Okada from WrestleKingdom, or Danielson vs

00:27 Zack Sabre Jr from New Beginning in Osaka - the War Games match on that show was also

00:31 brilliant - or it's Hangman Adam Page vs Swerve Strickland on AEW Dynamite, Will Ospreay

00:37 vs Josh Alexander in TNA, the awesome Elia Dragunov vs Trick Williams match from NXT,

00:42 Ospreay vs Michael Oku from Rev Pro this past weekend - one of the greatest wrestling matches

00:48 I've ever had the pleasure of seeing live - we are being spoiled as wrestling fans right

00:54 now. Tomorrow night I'm going to get to see Oku take on Robbie X and Leon Slater in

00:58 a triple threat at Riot Cabaret. That is nuts. But all of this great wrestling is why the

01:04 term 'dream match' can often feel like it's getting thrown around without a lot

01:08 of any real meaning behind it. Yeah, sure, Bryan Danielson vs Zack Sabre Jr is a dream

01:15 match. Yeah, sure, Robbie X vs Mustafa Ali is a dream match. But how's this for a slice

01:22 of fried gold? Minoru Suzuki vs Maki Ito.

01:27 Oh I hope you were able to catch your socks as they were blown off your feet. The match

01:32 will take place on March 31st at TJPW's Grand Princess 24, and Ito herself posted

01:38 about the match on Twitter saying that it was kill or be kill. I think they should try

01:42 and cute or be cute. I think they should try and out-cute each other. Maybe even gimmick

01:47 swap for the match. Suzuki can come down to the ring and sing his own entrance song. But

01:52 let's just hope that they play nice.

01:55 And speaking of playing nice, WWE are the hottest ticket in town right now. The return

02:01 and subsequent heel turn of The Rock has made an uber babyface out of Cody Rhodes, and now

02:05 shows that were already selling well are now selling out. This past Monday's Raw in Anaheim

02:11 was a legit sellout, as was last Friday's Smackdown, and WrestleTix are reporting via

02:16 Twitter that next week's show in San Jose is also likely to sell out as there's less

02:21 than 200 tickets available. It harkens back to the glory days of the company during the

02:27 Attitude Era when episodes of Raw or Pay-Per-Views would open with Jim Ross telling you that

02:32 this is just another sold out crowd. WWE is so hot right now, creatively speaking. But

02:40 the more things change, the more they stay the same.

02:44 Following Jordan Grace's appearance in the Royal Rumble, there was some speculation that

02:47 there could be some sort of forbidden door that had been opened and there would be tons

02:51 of exchanges between TNA and WWE. But that hasn't really been the case. And now Martin

02:57 Best, the co-owner of Progress Wrestling, has spoken to Tom Campbell of Cultaholic about

03:02 how WWE didn't approve of them booking talent that also worked with All Elite Wrestling.

03:09 "WWE and Progress went into a working relationship during WWE's expansion in the UK when they

03:14 launched NXT UK, which itself was WWE trying to capitalize on the rise of British wrestling,

03:20 referred to as Britwrest, which saw shows like Progress, Rev Pro, NGW, ICW, Eve and

03:26 many more sell out shows on a consistent basis. The relationship saw the UK-based promotion

03:31 still get access to talent that had signed with NXT UK like British Strong Style and

03:35 also get their shows aired on the WWE Network. But it wasn't just NXT UK talent that Progress

03:41 were using, as they also booked other independent talent, some of which also happened to work

03:47 with AEW like Swerve Strickland, Anthony Ogogo and Jonathan Gresham, who at one point was

03:52 Progress' world champion."

03:54 Progress' deal with WWE to air their shows on the Network ended in January of last year,

03:59 and it was the bookings of Ogogo, Swerve and Gresham that WWE took issue with, removing

04:05 their matches from the WWE Network even though at that point, Gresham wasn't even working

04:11 with All Elite Wrestling. This meant that some Progress shows were aired without world

04:16 title matches.

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05:11 Luke, I think I'm just going to write out the conversation we had for the ad.

05:17 That'd be ridiculous, P. I mean, how would you end the video?

05:20 Well, I- I-

05:22 Best told Cultaholic, there were a couple of times where we were bringing in wrestlers

05:35 and talent from other promotions which maybe they would have viewed as competitive to the

05:40 WWE landscape, so on a couple of occasions, they omitted one or two contests.

05:45 He says that Progress asked WWE, "What was the point of us making shows for you if you

05:50 don't want to air all of those shows?" and that Progress were aware that WWE would

05:55 push back on talent being booked from rival promotions.

05:59 He added, "We were aware that might have prevented some of our content going on the

06:03 network but we were absolutely not willing to compromise the quality of our shows because

06:09 ultimately we've got to deliver a wrestling match and a wrestling show that satisfies

06:14 our fans."

06:15 On a similar note, Kevin Nash revealed on his Click This podcast that Sting asked him

06:20 to be in attendance for his retirement match at AEW Revolution next month, but due to Nash's

06:25 relationship with WWE, he isn't allowed to be there.

06:29 Sting and Nash's relationship goes back years, with the pair being part of the same

06:33 NWO Wolfpack faction in WCW and winning tag gold together, which is why Sting wanted Nash

06:39 to be there in the audience for his final match.

06:43 Nash revealed, "Sting asked me to be part of it and I just said that, because of my

06:47 positioning with WWE, I couldn't.

06:50 If I went in the crowd, it would be a potential conflict of interest."

06:54 He added, "I think he was disappointed.

06:56 I mean, I was disappointed.

06:58 But I knew that WWE would say no."

07:02 Rob Van Dam has revealed that his recent appearances with All Elite Wrestling - even though he

07:07 asked WWE if it was okay to take the All Elite Wrestling bookings - lost him his WrestleMania

07:13 40 bookings.

07:14 So what would you do?

07:16 Would you want your talent or talent associated with you appearing on other shows, or would

07:21 you take the other route like a lot of other promotions do and work together?

07:25 Let me know in the comments down below.

07:27 It's been nearly seven months since Sheamus last wrestled in a WWE ring, losing to Edge

07:32 on an episode of Smackdown - which would also be Edge's last match in WWE before he went

07:36 to AEW - though it has been reported that Sheamus was dealing with a shoulder injury

07:41 that was keeping him off TV.

07:43 But now the Celtic Warrior is teasing a potential comeback, tweeting, "Anyone missing 5 star

07:49 banger matches?"

07:50 Hilariously when a fan said they wanted "character and story" and not "5 star wrestling",

07:55 Sheamus replied, "Watch a soap opera then."

07:58 This would suggest that Sheamus is close to a wrestling return, and there is now a Gunther

08:04 WrestleMania spot open where he could finish his own story.

08:08 But there's also speculation that Sheamus could be on his way out of WWE as his contract

08:14 expires this year and he has been sharing a lot of creative frustrations he has with

08:19 WWE.

08:20 He told the Daily Star in August last year following his Match of the Year contenders

08:24 with Gunther at Clash of the Castle and Gunther and Drew McIntyre at WrestleMania 39, "I

08:28 came out of that with so much organic momentum and it was just wasted.

08:34 It didn't go anywhere.

08:36 There was no avenues and nowhere to go and that's frustrating."

08:41 He even went as far to say that the 2022 War Games match that he was a part of at Survivor

08:45 Series was s***.

08:47 He also took issue with the Bloodline story, saying, "I feel like there's guys on the

08:51 roster begging for that amount of time to tell their own stories and that's one of

08:56 the only things that's going.

08:58 The rest of the roster needs story time too."

09:01 He went on to express his frustrations of Bloodline segments always going over time,

09:05 which impacts the rest of the show and reduces everybody else's screen time.

09:10 But while some of you in the comments may jump to the Sheamus at AEW confirmed bandwagon,

09:15 he seems to be trying to work himself into that Gunther WrestleMania match - tweeting

09:19 that he wants to finish the trilogy and finally win the one title in WWE that he's never

09:24 held - the Intercontinental Championship.

09:27 Where do you think Sheamus will end up?

09:29 Let me know in the comments down below.

09:30 But it's not just Sheamus who's been sharing his frustrations with his employer, as there's

09:34 something strange in the TNA neighbourhood.

09:37 2024 was supposed to be THE big year for TNA Wrestling.

09:42 They just rebranded themselves back to TNA after several years under the Impact Wrestling

09:46 name looking to capitalise on the nostalgia that people have for the total non-stop action

09:51 brand.

09:52 You know, people like me.

09:53 Their first PPV of the year, Hard To Kill, was praised by fans and critics alike, and

09:58 they followed that up with an episode of Impact that featured both Will Ospreay and Kazuchika

10:03 Okada.

10:04 And then Anthem, the parent company of TNA, fired the guy who was spearheading these big

10:10 changes.

10:11 It has since come out that Scott D'Amour, the guy in question, was looking for Anthem

10:15 to put more money into the promotion to push it further.

10:18 When that wasn't an option, and Anthem decided they'd rather just fire Scott D'Amour,

10:23 D'Amour attempted to buy TNA, but his offer was rejected.

10:28 Talents were reportedly very upset at this firing, as many of them were loyal to Scott

10:33 D'Amour.

10:34 There were reports of Wrestling reporting that a separate talent call headed up by Gail

10:37 Kim and Tommy Dreamer was chaotic.

10:39 A couple of days ago, Sean Ross Sapp posted on Twitter that he had some TNA contract news

10:43 coming out, which ended up being Steve Macklin's deal with TNA is ending soon.

10:48 But around that same time, all of the members of the TNA roster started posting the same

10:53 hourglass emoji.

10:55 Josh Alexander, Chris Bay, Jordan Grace, Mike Bailey, Masha Slamovich, Giselle Short and

11:00 many others including ring crew like Dave Penza all tweeted the same thing.

11:05 It led to speculation that there is a potential TNA talent mutiny on the horizon.

11:10 Though, many have pointed out that Tommy Dreamer is also posting the same thing, which would

11:15 indicate this could be one big storyline work.

11:18 A storyline work about a real life situation?

11:20 TNA really is back!

11:22 However, it also comes at the same time that Anthem announced they have exercised their

11:27 one year option on Josh Alexander's contract, keeping him with the company until 2025.

11:32 Had Anthem not exercised that option, Alexander would be a free agent right now.

11:38 And in an update from Fightful Select, that's sort of what Alexander wanted.

11:43 Despite doing an interview with Sports Illustrated, who first broke the contract news that he

11:47 was happy to stay in TNA for another year, Sean Ross Sapp reports that while there were

11:50 rumours that he'd asked for his release from TNA, it was actually that Alexander had

11:54 requested that TNA not pick up his option.

11:58 Fightful report that Alexander was open to negotiate with TNA, but he also wanted to

12:02 survey the landscape and see what other deals he might be able to get.

12:06 Fightful Select write that there are no concerns from the company about Alexander meeting his

12:11 contractual obligations and working hard while he's there.

12:15 But what are some of the strangest kayfabe injuries you've ever seen in wrestling?

12:18 Well, Tempest counts down 10 of them in our latest parts fun known list.

12:22 Check it out right now.

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