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11:14 - AEW Canceling Collision?
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00:00A Bloodline Family Controversy, Brand New WWE Title Designs, AEW Cancelling Next Saturday's

00:07Collision and more. I'm Luke Owen and this is the WrestleTalk News.

00:15We kick off today's news with some light-hearted fun, as Kyle Fletcher has been speaking with

00:20the Daily Express US about his time in All Elite Wrestling, his style of wrestling and

00:24reveals that his girlfriend Sky Blue has told him he can no longer do a certain wrestling

00:30move.

00:39I did a moonsault where I landed testicles first on the guardrail. From that point on

00:54when she was like, you're never doing that moonsault again.

01:04It is hard to transition from that silly story to one that is a bit more serious, but I'll

01:09do my best. While their ranks on WWE TV appear to be growing all the time, with Heiko Leio

01:13expected to join NXT soon and WWE reportedly keeping their eyes on Zilla Fatu to potentially

01:19join the company, the Anoa'e Bloodline Family is still massive outside of WWE. Oli

01:25Davis did a full video breaking it down on just how massive it is and how it does not

01:29include Samoa Joe.

01:30And one of those family members, Journey Fatu, the brother of Jacob Fatu, has been reported

01:35missing by his tag partner Juicy Fennel. Juicy posted a missing poster for Journey on Twitter

01:41using the hashtag Where's Journey along with a hotline number. This post of course

01:46gained some traction, with several people passing on their well wishes to Journey especially

01:50given the real world situation of Hurricane Helen. But sometimes those real world things

01:55can interfere in wrestling world things. Because Journey Fatu is not missing.

02:01It turns out this was all a work, a storyline that Fennel and Fatu have been working on

02:05for some time, but decided to launch it at the worst possible time. Once it was revealed

02:10it was an angle, the QR code on the missing poster revealed it was a storyline, Chris

02:15Hero called it out on Twitter in a now deleted tweet saying,

02:18To anyone involved in this, you should be ashamed of yourselves.

02:21Deleted, apologize and never do dumb ass like this again. I'm so embarrassed to see this,

02:28especially when loved ones across the country are actually missing from a very real tragedy.

02:33Shame on anyone for sharing this in an effort to push a dumb ass storyline.

02:38While Hero did delete that tweet, he has retweeted others calling out the angle.

02:42Fennel himself has now posted on Twitter,

02:44First and foremost I want to apologize for any emotional damage and distress I have caused

02:49with the following Journey angle. We have been working on this story since early August

02:53for our home promotion. Unfortunately, I wasn't aware of the situation that is currently happening

02:59in the real world. I want to apologize for my ignorance to current world events. I am

03:04sorry. To those I have offended with this, I apologize sincerely. This was only meant

03:09to be a story and it blew up. I am sorry.

03:12Fennel has deleted the post with the missing poster, hotline and QR code, but is continuing

03:17to run the angle.

03:18In an effort to lighten the mood somewhat, Oli and I recently posted our exclusive review

03:22of TNA Turning Point 2006 over at Patreon.com forward slash WrestleTalk, the second in our

03:29five part series looking at TNA's most successful rivalry Samoa Joe vs. Kurt Angle.

03:35But while that is all well and good, and Angle and Joe is great, we're mostly enjoying

03:40the Voodoo Kin Mafia. Get it? VKM. It was Road Dogg and Billy Gunn firing back at WWE

03:48for redoing DX and making it lame, and it led to this moment on the most recent show.

03:53Notes from a BG James press conference last week.

03:57What? They did a press conference?

04:00They did a press conference to address all of the things that are going down. This is

04:03coming off the back of the Million Dollar Challenge.

04:07So this is after Turning Point. Well, we haven't covered Turning Point yet.

04:13He said his 15 year old son came up with Voodoo Kin Mafia.

04:17Yeah, I can see that.

04:20Because TNA came up with VKM, and their original idea was Very Cool Men.

04:36This sounds like an absolute mess. Wait, is the press conference Sep that-

04:40Yeah, Sep was the taping.

04:42And where was it?

04:44I don't know, it just says BG James press conference.

04:46Who was there?

04:47Press.

04:51Look, we've got some more to get onto with VKM. We've got more to get onto, but apparently

04:58they've split up the team of Lance Hoyt and Ron Killings, because apparently, management

05:02has come to the conclusion that Hoyt can't dance.

05:04It's been three weeks. We just finished Genesis, and it was really good.

05:35They've lost their minds.

05:36Yeah, two hour shows in one hour chunks.

05:47That is just a snippet of a three hour, 38 minute video podcast reviewing the show in

05:52its entirety, news around it and, unfortunately, me reading my forum posts from 2006. Shoutout

06:00to The Smart Marks, let me know in the comments if you used to visit that message board back

06:03in the day. Head on over to Patreon.com forward slash WrestleTalk to get that episode and

06:07more exclusive and bonus content to fill up your ear and eye holes.

06:12Speaking of shiny new things, NXT had their debut on the CW last night, going on the road

06:17no less to Chicago. It was a stacked episode with two title matches and main roster appearances

06:23from Bianca Belair, Jade Cargill, The Miz and CM Punk. The show opened, however, with

06:28a bit of news. Prior to the show going live, it was reported that NXT was getting a makeover,

06:33Fightful Select reporting the Performance Center set in Orlando is undergoing updates

06:38while the brand is on the road. Not only that, but the brand got a brand new logo. And with

06:43a brand new logo comes brand new belts. The show opened with Shawn Michaels revealing

06:48new belt designs for the NXT Men's and Women's World Championships. What do you think of

06:53these new belt designs? Let me know in the comments down below.

06:56Also on the show, Roxanne Perez retained her newly designed NXT Women's Championship

07:00against Julia as Cora Jade returned from injury to attack the challenger. Jade has

07:04been injured since January of this year with a torn ACL. When the injury happened, it was

07:09reported that she could be out for up to a year. Perez even did an interview with the

07:13Ring of Wrestling show yesterday where she worked as all, noting that Jade could be back

07:18in a month's time. Well played, Perez.

07:21Also on the show, Wes Lee defeated TNA's Zachary Wentz in a Street Fight. The Miz hosted

07:26a talk show segment with Tony D'Angelo and Oba Femi for their title match next week,

07:30and Fatal Influence beat Jada Parker and Lola Vice. Kalani Jordan was then backed up by

07:34Belair and Cargill to take out Fatal Influence. We got a video package for the upcoming debut

07:39of Delta, and the main event saw Trick Williams win back the NXT Championship from Ethan Page

07:45with CM Punk as the special guest referee. Punk gave Page the GTS as Trick was celebrating

07:50his title win.

07:51Unlike Smackdown, there was no overrun for NXT on the CW, and Corey Bennett of Fightful

07:56Select reported overruns are not expected on CW. He also reported, we're told that

08:01scenes backstage have been very busy throughout the day, and that there were revised rundowns

08:06handed out close to showtime.

08:08In a separate report, Brennan also cleared up some potential misconceptions about NXT's

08:13move to the CW. Over the weekend, fans noticed that CW's listing for NXT had it as TV-14

08:19while it was previously listed as PG while on USA Network. This ties into reports that

08:24WWE could be moving to a more edgier product when Raw heads to Netflix in 2025, though

08:31Fightful Select reported that WWE do still want to remain a PG product.

08:36And on the subject of NXT potentially being TV-14, Brennan asked several people in both

08:41production and on a talent level, and writes, no one was told of an impending shift in presentation

08:46related to the age rating change, nor has anyone been told that the show will be TV-14.

08:52Now, why would WWE want to stay PG when you could be TV-14? And it's the usual answer,

08:59money.

09:00Hello, I like money.

09:02Brennan writes, those we spoke to were all sceptical of the possibility of change as

09:07it would cause issues with advertisers on the brand. While the show will remain the

09:11same as it always is, one source from production noted to Brennan that perhaps the TV-14 listing

09:16was a way for WWE to not have to censor the crowd or talent swearing. That same source

09:22also told Brennan that it would be weird for NXT to be TV-14 while Raw and Smackdown are

09:27still PG.

09:28One viewer got in touch with us to let us know that prior to the show airing, NXT was

09:32listed as a PG show on The CW. Shout out to Christopher Holson for getting in touch.

09:37Dave Milton noted of NXT on CW, whatever the number NXT gets tonight, CW has only had 9

09:44shows top .10 this year and the highest is .15. So it would be a shock if it's not

09:51the Network's top rated show all year. It being the debut show, with appearances

09:55from main roster talents coupled with how hot NXT has been as of late, the rating is

09:59expected to be a good one.

10:01And the same can be said for Monday Night Raw. Although it wasn't at first, as Nielsen

10:07originally published that the show did 1.27 million viewers. While this made sense given

10:12the strong football competition, it would be the lowest figure for a regular episode

10:16of Raw in the show's history. However it was revealed about an hour later that this

10:21number was just the live viewership and did not take DVR numbers into consideration. Which

10:26means this week's Raw actually did 1.52 million viewers, which is a very strong number

10:32given the very strong competition.

10:35WrestleNomics report that CM Punk and Drew McIntyre's Hell in a Cell segment was the

10:38highest point, pulling in 1.75 million viewers. The main events of Braun Strowman and Bronson

10:43Reed did around 1.45 million viewers and was all kinds of awesome, but did come with

10:49a cost. Ryan Alvarez reported via Wrestling Observer Live that Strowman was injured during

10:54the match, potentially tearing his groin following a Samoan Drop from Reed. Should have listened

10:59to Sky Blue. It was just before Strowman knocked Reed off the apron through some chairs, where

11:03it looks like he can barely walk let alone run. Alvarez notes, he knocks Reed off the

11:07apron, and there was a long period where he was just kind of laid in the corner and there

11:12were wrists furiously communicating to the back.

11:14Lastly for today, and though speculation is running wild on social media that AEW's

11:19new TV deal with WBD will be announced today or on tonight's Dynamite, there is also

11:24a question mark over next week's Collision.

11:27Next Saturday is WrestleDream, and it's unlikely AEW would counter-program their PPV

11:32with… themselves. Dave Meltzer noted that there was still no confirmed answer on what

11:37will happen to that episode of Collision. He notes that next Tuesday, when AEW is moved

11:42from Wednesday nights because of baseball and will go head-to-head with NXT, they are

11:46set to tape Dynamite and Rampage as per usual, with no current plans to tape Collision matches.

11:52Meltzer speculates that perhaps Collision could be part of a three hour block with Rampage

11:56which it did on the weekend of All Out, but that would require them to tape some matches.

12:01However he reports, sources in the company have said that most likely at this point,

12:05there will be no Collision show on Saturday the 12th.

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