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00:00Real reason Janelle Grant is not in the Vince McMahon doc, AEW wants Kevin Owens, details

00:06on an insane wrestling arrest and more. I'm Luke Owen and this is the WrestleTalk News.

00:16Back in January, former WWE employee Janelle Grant filed a lawsuit against Vince McMahon,

00:21John Laurinaitis and WWE, claiming she was a victim of sexual assault, harassment and

00:26sex trafficking. The case caused ripples across the wrestling landscape. Vince, who had just

00:31returned to WWE to sell the company and merge it with UFC to form TKO, was removed from

00:36the board of directors and his name has not been mentioned on WWE TV since. While he was

00:41not directly named in the lawsuit, Brock Lesnar was reported to be involved, and all of his

00:46creative plans including Royal Rumble, Elimination Chamber and WrestleMania matches were pulled.

00:52Both men were removed as playable characters in WWE 2K24. But it wasn't just WWE TV that

00:58saw changes, as Netflix's docu-series about Vince's life was also altered. The documentary

01:03was announced back in 2020 by Nick Khan as a joint venture with WWE and the filmmakers

01:08Chris Smith of Tiger King and Fire fame and 30 for 30's Bill Simmons. Over 200 hours

01:14of material was submitted for the documentary and some of the biggest names in the industry

01:17were interviewed for it, including Vince McMahon himself.

01:21But a lot changed over those four years, particularly the allegations of hush money scandals in

01:252022 and the Janelle Grant case of 2024. The documentary, reportedly, took a 180 and now

01:32looks very different. Pogues Wrestling reported that WWE were no longer involved in the final

01:37product which is released on Netflix next Wednesday. There was some trepidation from

01:41fans wanting this to be a Wharton Hall documentary, as Netflix will be the home of WWE in 2020

01:47and 2025. Those trepidations were not helped when the first trailer was released which

01:51talked about Vince's business successes, and Janelle Grant's team revealing that

01:55she was not interviewed for the documentary. Dave Meltzer, who is interviewed for the documentary,

02:00however has said,

02:01"...I can only say that the director who did it covered, with me, every single thing

02:06that I would expect someone to cover. There were no stones unturned."

02:11Those who have seen early screenings have called it a massive burial of McMahon, and

02:15Meltzer adds,

02:16"...I know that there are people who are in WWE who are not happy with it."

02:20Noting that pro-Vince people in WWE feel it's an unfair portrayal, and anti-Vince people

02:26will argue it doesn't go far enough. The coverage of the Janelle Grant case reportedly

02:29comes in the sixth and final episode. Netflix did reveal that they reached out to Grant

02:33to be interviewed for the documentary, but she declined. And now her team has revealed

02:38her reasons why in a media call.

02:40Anne Callis, Grant's representative, told the media,

02:42"...Janelle deserves the opportunity to tell her full story, not be a part of someone

02:47else's. She will get her day in court and McMahon will be held accountable. As we said,

02:52in fact, she would like to expedite all proceedings as quickly as possible, and Janelle has the

02:56right to tell her story in her own way at the right time."

03:00Callis added, even though they're not involved, that they hope the documentary does the case

03:04justice. She also wanted it known that while the documentary about Vince McMahon will cover

03:08the case, Vince McMahon is not the only person named in the lawsuit. She said, "...through

03:13our lawsuit, we seek to hold all wrongful parties accountable, Mr. McMahon, John Laurinaitis

03:18and WWE. If you have been affected by anything we've covered today and you do need to talk

03:22to someone, please visit our Support Each Other page at WrestleTalk.com, a link for

03:26which is found in the video description down below."

03:28On to lighter wrestling news topics, and say it with me folks, 2024 is the year of contracts.

03:33But in this past week, that's not been entirely accurate. While WWE have shown up

03:38a lot of their 2024 expiring deals like Seth Rollins, Finn Balor, Drew McIntyre, Natalya

03:43etc., PWInsider reported that the company were aggressively going after contracts that

03:48are expiring next year in order to get talent to re-sign ahead of time. Reportedly this

03:53includes Nia Jax, Rhea Ripley and Liv Morgan. And now Fightful Select have a new name for

03:58that list. Sean Ross Sapp is reporting that WWE sources tell Fightful that Kevin Owens

04:03has been approached for a new contract. SRS notes that Owens is yet to sign this deal,

04:08but communication has been made. His deal is up in January 2025.

04:13And WWE are not the only interested party in Kevin Owens. As Fightful Select reports,

04:17those that we spoke to in AEW said that the company has long had major interest in bringing

04:22Owens in when and if he's available. They're expected to make him an offer if he reaches

04:28free agency. It was reported that AEW had interest in Owens when his contract was expiring

04:32in 2019. Owens told Pete Rosenberg in 2022 that he has two more years left on this current

04:37deal and added, "...I don't see a reason why I wouldn't sign another one when it's

04:40done because I don't feel like I'm anywhere near done. But who knows what could happen."

04:45Owens is good friends with The Young Bucks dating back to their time in PWG, and is the

04:49man who introduced Cody Rhodes to them when he was fired in 2016. But if Owens does stick

04:55around he'll be there for the WWE debut of the Lucha Bros. According to WrestleVotes

05:00Radio, WWE's marketing department has been given the green light to make merchandise

05:04for the pair, which would indicate they have signed deals with the company. This includes

05:09t-shirts, promotional material and masks. And Corey Hayes of PWN is reporting that Penta,

05:14El Zero Miedo and Rey Fenix have signed multi-year deals with WWE and will be heading straight

05:21to the main roster bypassing NXT.

05:23The Lucha Bros going to WWE has been rumoured for some time now, even though Penta did his

05:28best to quieten those rumours down and it had been reported that they were set to win

05:31the trio's championships at All In before word came that they would not be re-signing

05:35with All Elite Wrestling. There's no word on which roster the Lucha Bros will be heading

05:39to, but maybe Smackdown should be their home as they're going to need as much talent

05:44as possible.

05:45Remember just one week ago when we all celebrated the news that WWE Raw was moving away from

05:51it's terrible three hours and going back to the much nicer two hours? Well, we'll

05:57have more on that in a moment, but first we now go to Turbo John for a special message

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06:04Hi everyone, it's 80s Wrestler here Turbo John. Now you may know my brother Turbo Jake

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06:20ever going to see him again, but I know the truth. The truth is Turbo Jake done gone hand

06:25gliding and he's just kept on gliding since. We ain't seen him, we don't know hide nor

06:30hair where he actually is. I know one of these days he is going to be back, but until then

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06:41at Patreon.com forward slash WrestleTalk. You support us over there and you can get

06:46a load of extra stuff from me and my brothers and the rest of the Turbo family, including

06:51getting your name read out on this fine little WrestleTalk show right here, including the

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07:02the prettiest pirate D I am, the pinnacle of success Luke Kelly, the abominable Michael

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07:37has been tremendous in supporting me, my family, and finding my brother Turbo Jake

07:44on his hand gliding journey. Until then, I hope that you jam that jam, and I hope that

07:50you work out.

07:52According to a new report via WrestleVotes Radio, once WWE Raw moves to Netflix in 2025,

07:58Smackdown itself will see some big changes. Last Friday Smackdown saw a few minutes overrun

08:03as USA Network don't have the same 10pm hard out that Fox have with their news, which

08:07meant the show ran just over two hours. And on January 3rd 2025, it's reportedly only

08:13going to get longer. We may have lost three hour Raws, but we're getting three hour

08:18Smackdowns instead. Not only that, but those who don't watch the show on USA Network

08:22might be able to view it somewhere else once it's finished. The other big news here is

08:26that there are rumours that once the show ends it will be available on Netflix, which

08:30we haven't heard elsewhere. Those are the internal talkings right now, is that probably

08:34the day after, Smackdown will be available on Netflix.

08:37Lastly for today's episode on AEW's Cash, Wheeler has opened up about his arrest from

08:42last year. Wheeler was involved in an alleged road rage incident on July 27th 2023, where

08:47he allegedly waved a firearm at the victim. He filed a not guilty plea on August 3rd,

08:52turned himself in to the police on August 18th, and it was all dropped in May of 2024

08:57when the prosecution opted to abandon the case ahead of trial. Should Wheeler have been

09:01found guilty, he could have served up to five years in prison.

09:05And now speaking with AEW Close-Up with Renee Paquette along with his FTR tag partner Dax

09:09Harwood, Wheeler has talked about the arrest and the toll it took upon him. Harwood reveals

09:14that Wheeler planned on retiring following the arrest as he didn't want it to affect

09:18Dax's wrestling career. Wheeler added,

09:21I told my lawyers when it happened, I would not take any sort of plea deal. I would not

09:25plead guilty to any charge whatsoever, that I was not guilty and I was not going to take

09:30any sort of plea. But, on the flip of that, that means I face the full repercussions if

09:36they do find me guilty.

09:37In a crazy revelation, Wheeler tells Paquette that the police never pulled him over, never

09:42conducted a search, didn't have another witness, nor did they have any pictures or

09:47video of the incident. As Wheeler puts it, all they had was one guy's statement and

09:52that was it.

09:54Speaking about the topic on Twitter, Sean Ross Sapp added,

09:56It was legit a guy saying he waved a gun with no other evidence. No footage, no traffic

10:02cams, nothing. It was insane it made it that far.

10:06That's all from today, but before you go please do check out this clip from our most

10:09recent episode of Cutscene where I chart the troubled history of getting Deadpool made

10:14and how Ryan Reynolds was instrumental in getting it done.

10:18Reynolds, who had been wanting to make a Deadpool movie for five years at this point, was given

10:22an ultimatum by 20th Century Fox. He recalls the conversation at the time was,

10:27If you want to play Deadpool, this is your chance to introduce him. And if you don't

10:32want to introduce him in this fashion, we'll have someone else play him.

10:36Reynolds wasn't even present for the shooting of the finale of X-Men Origins Wolverine,

10:40with Scott Adkins filling in for him to do the stunt work.

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