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00:00WCW pay-per-views returning, Dijak calls WWE contracts illegal, Mercedes Monet shoots on

00:07DaHaters, and more.

00:09I'm Oli Davis, getting elected for the Pipebomb Greater the Math Party, and this is the WrestleTalk

00:15News.

00:22Pop culture is just one society-wide Ouroboros, the ancient Egyptian symbol of a dragon trying

00:28to blow itself.

00:29It's a metaphor for how trends just keep cycling over and over again.

00:33That's why, in 2024, low-slung jeans are back in fashion, people other than Matt and

00:39Jeff Hardy are wearing mesh tops, and Avril Lavigne is my jam right now.

00:44I'm with you!

00:48And also, almost a quarter of a century after it closed, WCW is now more talked about than

00:54ever.

00:55Following the Eric Bischoff PR docuseries Who Really Killed WCW on Vice, and WWE filing

01:01to trademark the initials WCW for merchandising purposes in early June, WWE has now gone on

01:07a spate of trademarking various pay-per-view names from WCW's past.

01:12Superbrawl, The Match Beyond, and, most appropriately for me trying to make Solo Sakoa's own Bloodline

01:18name faction happen, New Blood Rising.

01:22All three of those trademarks are for entertainment services, namely, an ongoing show about professional

01:27wrestling.

01:28Entertainment services, namely, the production and exhibition of professional wrestling events

01:32rendered live and through broadcast media, including television, and distributed via

01:37various platforms across multiple forms of transmission media.

01:41WWE has already repurposed several WCW pay-per-view titles for NXT, with Halloween Havoc and the

01:47Great American Bash getting annual specials.

01:50Perhaps with New Blood Rising, they could be looking to do this for the main roster,

01:54with a Bloodline Civil War themed show in the latter part of this year, as November's

01:59Crown Jewel is the only announced PLE post-August.

02:02Or it could be something far more substantial.

02:06In early June, I speculated that WWE filing to trademark WCW for merchandise purposes

02:12could be part of their new parent company TKO strategy.

02:16One of the first things new media company owners do is take an audit of their new purchasers'

02:21IP, and identify what they could be doing more with.

02:24Just look at Disney buying anything, and how they immediately start making too many series

02:29of that one thing you liked in the 80s.

02:31But WCW has a serious amount of unrealised potential.

02:35Just look at AEW's huge buy rate for February's Revolution show, which was built around Sting's

02:40retirement.

02:41TKO could do anything with it, from a new, hopefully much better documentary, a one-off

02:46WCW Retro special episode of Monday Night Raw slash Nitro, or even a whole new WCW branded

02:53spin-off show on Netflix.

02:56What do you want to see WWE do with the WCW brand?

02:59Let me know in the comments, where I'll be replying to people FROM OUTTA NOWHERE WITH

03:03THE SAME ANSWER I'M GIVING EVERYTHING RIGHT NOW, PUT SHANE MCMAHON ON IT.

03:08Before then, though, there's WWE's Money in the Bank PLE on Saturday 6th, taking place

03:13in Toronto, Canada, eh?

03:15And a very famous wrestler from Toronto, Canada, eh? has just dropped a tease on her Instagram,

03:21with Trish Stratus posting a video of her walking around the street wearing her Stratus

03:25Faction jacket.

03:27Trish hasn't been seen in WWE since losing to Becky Lynch at last September's Payback,

03:31where she turned on her protégé Zoey Stark.

03:34Stark, coincidentally, qualified for the Women's Money in the Bank match on Monday's

03:38Raw.

03:39Stratus has been advertised for meet and greets for Money in the Bank's premium packages,

03:43so it could also be her way of promoting that, rather than an actual wrestling appearance.

03:48Unlike Trish, who'll probably always be cheered even as a heel, Mercedes Monet will

03:53always be booed even if she's a face.

03:56So thankfully, on Wednesday's episode of Dynamite, AEW finally booked her as a full-on

04:01villain.

04:02She was seen with the heel Elite Authority figures, and entering a feud with returning

04:05babyface Britt Baker.

04:07Luke speculated on our AEW review podcast that this wasn't always the plan.

04:12He reckoned AEW wanted to do a babyface vs babyface feud with Monet and Britt, just as

04:17they had done with Monet vs Willow.

04:19Even though that would've been better as a traditional heel vs face dynamic too.

04:22But because Monet got booed so much at Sunday's Forbidden Door by the New York crowd, she's

04:27from Boston, Luke suspects Tony Khan decided to course correct and lean in to the fan reactions.

04:33And now Mercedes herself might have confirmed this in her latest newsletter.

04:39My fellow board members of yours truly, CEO Mercedes Monet, I would like to know whoever

04:44was a part of the crowd that switched sides on me in the middle of the match.

04:48Oh, do you think I missed that?

04:49Come on, have a little fun, fess up now.

04:52If there's one thing you can always expect at a wrestling show, it is that the crowd

04:56is unpredictable, and you may not know what's going to happen.

05:00But one thing is for sure, it will be something surely to remember.

05:03In fact, New York City, I should be thanking you.

05:07Changing sides.

05:08Cheering on Stephanie over me mid-match.

05:11That was like a lightbulb moment for me, and now I have some far more exciting stuff up

05:16my sleeves.

05:17CEO isn't a character, it's a whole entire cooperation, baby.

05:22I guess she means corporation there.

05:24And we're expanding as we speak, stay tuned.

05:27And Mercedes isn't the only one who's been shooting from the hip.

05:31Bang bang.

05:32After being called up to the main roster following a successful NXT run, Dijak was shockingly

05:37released last Thursday, where he's since gone on his own kind of revenge tour, posting

05:42a letter with his side of the story on X, sharing many stories about the terrible Vince

05:46McMahon era, he was T-Bar in Retribution, remember, and now going so far as to label

05:51WWE's business practices… illegal.

05:54In an interview with Forbes, Dijak said, I don't support releasing people.

05:59I don't think it's a secret at this point that nobody's a fan of the WWE contract.

06:05That isn't a real contract, because they can just release you at any point for any

06:09reason.

06:10I think that's silly nonsense.

06:11I don't know why that's allowed to be legal.

06:14It just feels illegal to me, and I feel like nobody's taken the time and monetary effort

06:19to challenge the legality of it.

06:21We're so clearly not independent contractors.

06:24That's the most made-up nonsense in the history of the world, and people have talked

06:28about this ad nauseam.

06:30Something needs to be done about it.

06:33Dijak has been on a media hot tag since his release, which has caused some online to turn

06:37against him.

06:38But as Mansoor points out on X, it really upsets me that people are desperately searching

06:42for a reason to hate Dijak.

06:44If you guys could only meet him, you'd know it's not hard to justify hating this miserable

06:49prick.

06:50Ooh, that's Mansoor.

06:52Sorry, let me correct that.

06:55Ooh, that's Mansoor.

06:57Elite.

06:58After reports that former WWE stars Mansoor and Mace were backstage at AEW recently, the

07:03two have been announced for their ROH debut under the tag team name The MXM Collection.

07:09Or Empire M Collection.

07:10I don't know how it's stylised.

07:12Perhaps Mace's former Retribution leader Mustafa Ali could join him and Dijak in AEW

07:17too, as the TNA X-Division champion was reportedly backstage at Wednesday's show in Chicago.

07:23Although PWInsider write it was only to visit, with no further details provided.

07:28And Fightful Select has reported Ricochet's agent was backstage at Wednesday's episode

07:32of Dynamite too, who is leading negotiations between the two sides.

07:36Ricochet's WWE contract officially expired on the 1st July, meaning he couldn't be

07:41part of the Forbidden Door show the night before.

07:44Meanwhile, that whole TNA-WWE invasion thing is still happening.

07:48Honest.

07:49NXT's Charlie Dempsey, the real-life son of William Regal, showed up on the July 4th

07:53episode of Impact, shoving Leon Slater off the top turnbuckle to then beat everyone up

07:58in the ring.

07:59And in a final bit of WWE currently wrestling news, Angel Garza has revealed in a Facebook

08:04livestream that he's signed a new three year contract with WWE, which he described

08:09as a very, very, very good deal that he couldn't turn down.

08:13He didn't criticise his booking, said he's there to do whatever WWE requires of him,

08:18and that he's not going to be on his knees like some co-workers because he's still

08:22getting paid and doing his job.

08:24Seems like that three year deal had a clause in section 19.1a of SASS.

08:40Mirror?

08:41Pete did say I should check out the, uh, text on the t-shirt here.

08:45Wait a second.

08:49Oh my god.

08:51Pete was right.

08:53It doesn't say Pipebomb greater than math.

08:56It says...

08:58Chetam.

09:00Chetam?

09:01What does Chetam even mean?

09:03I need to...

09:04I need to take a photo of this.

09:06Send it to Pete, goddammit.

09:09He was right!

09:10Taking a photo!

09:12Look at that.

09:14It's time to do some thumb filters, though, before I send it to him.

09:17Let's, uh, edit this.

09:19I know.

09:20I'll invert it.

09:21I'll do the old croppity-do switcheroo trick.

09:29Son of a bitch.

09:34Math.

09:36Greater than.

09:39Fine.

09:43Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

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