Here's your news for June 9th 2020 New Gimmick For WWE SmackDown Superstar! Randy Orton SHOOTS On NXT! NEW WWE Title Design! WWE News! 2 00:00:15,648 --> 00:00:18,118 And your headlines for today include
Edge Takes It Personal With An NXT Superstar
WWE Adds Big Title Match To Backlash Pay Per View
WWE Plans An Interesting Segment With Rey Mysterio
Cameo During WWE RAW This Week You Might Have Missed
WWE Superstar Getting A Major Make Over
An Update On Luke Gallows And Karl Anderson
Matt Riddle Wanted To Attack Kurt Angle
Major Twitter WAR Between AEW And WWE and MORE!
We’re kicking off today with news from NXT TakeOver: In Your House, as the show received
generally favourable reviews from both fans and wrestlers.
One person who commented on the show was Randy Orton, as the Apex Predator decided to troll
the gold brand roster, saying that he’d heard the show was so great, he was slapping his leg for them.
For those of you who don’t know, NXT Superstars are notorious for slapping their legs in matches
which delivering superkicks, and the Viper was more than happy to poke fun at this cliché.
This isn’t the first time Orton’s twitter has been a source of social media entertainment,
as he often pokes fun at others, and we hope that the Viper never stops doing this.
One person who didn’t see the funny side to Orton’s sarcastic comments is Tommaso Ciampa,
who took to his own social media to take shots at the Viper.
Saying that he and his daughter have had trouble sleeping, the NXT lockerroom leader said that
watching Orton’s matches helps sends them off to dreamland, saying that they’re better
than Nyquil.
Signing off the tweet with the hashtag ‘An Entire Locker Room who Busted their Asses”,
Ciampa may have come up short at In Your House to Karrion Kross,
,but he also watched his fellow Superstars put on a hell of a show.
Given Orton’s lengthy tenure in WWE, it’s obviously hard to impress him,
though this tweet did pique Randy’s interest.
Taking a shot back at Ciampa, Orton said:
Looks like I hurt the feelings of the self appointed lockeroom leader of a wrestling school.
Let me know what time #legslap class starts so I can take my game to the next level.
Ciampa wasn’t the only person Orton called out, as when one fan said that he heard Backlash
will be terrible, the Viper pointed out it hasn’t even aired yet, and called them a mark.
Clearly, the Viper wasn’t in the mood to let people tweet whatever they wanted at him, and time
will tell whether Ciampa and Orton settle their differences in the ring down the line.
Speaking of Backlash, this Sunday’s show will see Edge and Orton face off in what is being dubbed
the Greatest Wrestling Match Ever, but another huge match added to the show.
As last week’s SmackDown saw Bayley and Sasha Banks capture the Women’s Tag Team titles from
Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross, it was confirmed on WWE’s official Twitter that the former champions
will have a title rematch this Sunday, but in a triple threat tag title match that’ll also feature
the IIconics.
This trio of teams should make for an interesting match, which’ll help fill out the Backlash card, and
fans will have to wait and see who leaves the Performance Center this Sunday as the WWE Women’s
Tag Team Champions.
We’re looking at last night’s Raw next, as Rey Mysterio appeared via satellite to speak
about his current condition.
Following Seth Rollins’ attack to his eye, Mysterio said that it’s healing, but there’s a possibility of
permanent damage to the cornea, and threatened the Monday Night Messiah with a 619
in the ring as soon as Mysterio is cleared to wrestle.
This was Mysterio confirming that he’s not retired, despite teases from WWE in recent weeks, and
Rollins invited both Rey and Dominik, who has been reintroduced into storylines, to RAW next week.
It’s been previously reported that Dominik will turn heel on his father en route to stepping in the
ring soon, and it looks like this heel turn may come as soon as next week.
The segment ended with Aleister Black attacking Rollins out of nowhere, and whilst the Architect
was left reeling on this week’s show, it’ll be interesting to see what he has to say next week,
when he confronts both father and son.
Speaking of RAW, this week’s show saw the Street Profits and the Viking Raiders take part in a
decathalon, and a certain someone was featured in the segment that some might know,
but not recognise.
The woman featured in the decathalon segment was Catalina Garcia, who fans may recall
teamed with Sin Cara for a few weeks in May 2019, but wore a mask,
which is why most fans didn’t recognise her.
The Chilean Superstar didn’t leave the company when she was taken off the main roster,
instead sent back to the Performance Center, and this provided her to appear
without her mask on RAW this week.
Speaking of a new look for a Superstar, we’ve got news from SmackDown next, as it seems
fans will soon see a new side to Tamina Snuka
Following her loss to Bayley at Money in the Bank, fans haven’t seen much of her, and on Twitter,
Tamina explained why, showing a video of herself in a straight jacket in a mental hospital.
In the video, she also spoke about giving ten years of her life to the fans for seemingly nothing, and
also began hearing voices towards the end of the video.
As if this wasn’t strange enough, she also had a British accent at the end, and spoke about a monster
that’s coming, as it seems the former 24/7 Champion has truly gone off the deep end.
Given her stop and start pushes, numerous injuries and her lack of high-profile feuds in her decade
with WWE, it’s not hard to see why Tamina has snapped, and this video appears to be an attempt by
WWE’s creative team to focus on her career one more time.
Time will tell whether this angle actually leads to a championship or a major feud for Snuka, but
after years of not being used, anything is better than nothing.
Now, last Sunday saw NXT TakeOver: In Your House, where Velveteen Dream came up
short against NXT Champion Adam Cole.
Even before the match, there was reports that Cole would soon be called up to the main roster,
but it now looks like that won’t be the case, according to WrestleTalk, who reported:
Our sources have confirmed that while [Velveteen Dream] was discussed as someone to potentially
bring up, higher-ups in both WWE and down in NXT have made the call to keep the former North
American Champion with the black and gold brand for the time being.
As per the stipulation of the match, this now means that Dream can’t challenge for the gold as long
as the Undisputed Era star holds the title, and it’ll be interesting to see what’s next for Dream on
NXT, now that he’s currently unable to challenge for the top prize.
We’re looking ahead to this Sunday’s Backlash Pay Per View,
as the WWE has confused a lot of fans by touting the upcoming Edge Vs. Randy Orton singles
contest as the greatest wrestling match ever.
It turns out that the fans aren’t the only ones perplexed, as while speaking to ESPN, Edge gave his
views on the accolade, saying there’s no such thing as the greatest wrestling match. He added:
“You’re not going to be able to say definitively, what is the greatest song of all time?
What is the greatest movie of all time? What is the greatest band of all time? It’s impossible,
because there’s no general consensus — you can have great matches,but what is the
greatest is going to be different to almost everybody.”
The match between Edge and Orton was reportedly filmed at the Performance Center at the
weekend to make sure they had time to make it look as good as possible, and whilst it may not
end up being the greatest wrestling match of all time,
everyone involved have certainly tried their best.
Speaking of the Edge-Orton match, Bryan Alverez took to Wrestling Observer Live to speak about the
already-taped match, and addressed Dave Meltzer’s comments about the amount of selling.
Speaking about the possible finish for the match, he added:
“I still don’t know the finish, but they’re going to do a great wrestling match and I believe
that Randy is gonna do something diabolical and he is going to cheat to win.”
It’s interesting that Orton was the one who wanted a straight- up wrestling match, but could
do something underhanded to win, as whatever happens, the match will reportedly be taken
very seriously by everyone involved.
Back to NXT now, as this Wednesday’s show will see NXT Champion Adam Cole face
Dexter Lumis in non-title action.
Lumis made a brief appearance during Cole and Dream’s Backlot brawl, as he drove off with
Roderick Strong and Bobby Fish in his car, and looks to topple yet another Undisputed Era member
this week
Finn Balor Vs. Cameron Grimes has also been announced for the show, and given that Grimes handed Balor
his only televised loss of 2020 last month, we’re sure the inaugural
Universal Champion will be hungry for revenge.
We’re taking a break from WWE now and looking at Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson,
who have announced a special event for August 1st.
Dubbed Talk n’ Shop A-Mania, no addition details for the show were given, though the teaser
showed a ring in the woods, with the phrase nothing that if you build it, they will come
Fans may know the Talk ‘N Shop name from Gallows and Anderson’s podcast that they host with
new Japan’s Rocky Romero, and hopefully more details will come out as we get closer to August 1st
Back to WWE now and following her WWE Women’s Tag Title win with Sasha Banks, many have started
referring to SmackDown Women’s Champion Bayley as ‘Bayley Two Belts’, referencing
Becky Lynch’s historic win at WrestleMania 35.
With that said the self professed Role Model took to Twitter to say that she’s not copying the Man
as she said: SHEEP!!!!! you better stop calling me "Bayley 2 Belts"!!!!!!!!! I'm not
a Becky Lynch replacement!!!!!!! Instead, you can refer to me as BAYLEY DOS STRAPS!!!!!!
Your loving Role Model! Thank you and good day!!!!
Bayley’s demand was quickly followed by the so-called Sheep, as the nickname was quickly
trending by Monday afternoon.
Given that Bayley and the Boss will be defending their titles at Backlash, their reign may indeed
be a short one, but Bayley Dos Straps is clearly making every second of her reign count.
We’ve got some Matt Riddle news next, as the Original Bro is now a SmackDown star, and whilst
fans will remember his NXT fight pit with Timothy Thatcher, Riddle wanted to do more.
Speaking to Alex McCarthy of Talk Sport, Riddle spoke about how it was to have Kurt Angle officiate,
saying that there’d be money in having the Original Bro attack the Olympian.
Riddle added how he hoped the match would go, as he said:
“I really hoped it would cost me the combat inside the cage and then the Bro would burst and
Kurt Angle! Any German Suplexes against an Olympic gold medalist by the Stallion? You tell me
everyone at home wouldn't be like 'no, he didn't just throw it upside down!', Because that's what I do!
It would have been crazy."
Obviously, that didn’t happen, as Thatcher defeated Riddle in the ring and Angle left unscathed, but
it would have been an interesting fight between Angle and Riddle, if they had crossed paths in the cage.
From one SmackDown star to another now, as Lacey Evans is yet to hold gold in WWE, but did
recently take place in a Twitter War nobody expected.
It turns out that the Sassy Southern Belle is feuding with AEW’s Brian Cage,which
started when Cage posted a video of himself hitting a
turnaround springboard moonsault.
It wasn’t long until fans accused Cage of stealing Evans’ move, which was done before her by
Kevin Owens and Marc Mero, and Evans said she doesn’t even knew her Cage is, before
adding that in her four years in wrestling, she’s already doing the move better than him.
Cage responded that he was doing the move before Evans was in wrestling, whilst Evans
called out quote ‘nasties’ trying to call her out for a move she never claimed was her own.
The two went back and forth on the matter before things settled down, and hopefully Cage
doesn’t throw any right hands on this Wednesday’s Dynamite, so he can avoid more Twitter
drama from the Lady of WWE.
We’ve got title news to report next, as according to Wrestling Inc, the NXT Title is set to
undergo a makeover.
Their report states that the title will be the same design, but bigger in size, whilst the United
States title will be getting an entire new look, though it wasn’t noted when the alleged new
design will be revealed.
A new US Title design has been something fans have been wanting for quite some time, so
fans will have to wait and see whether Apollo Crews is holding
a new version of the gold in the near future.
And we’re ending today with news from WWE recent releases, as the April 15th departures have had
a ripple effect on the remaining roster.
According to a Tweet sent out by WrestleVotes, their sources were asked about how comfortable
Superstars feel competing during the ongoing global situation, and it was reported that less than
20% of the current WWE roster want to leave the company
With the number being so low, it appears that many Superstars who wanted to leave WWE this
year have already done so, and whilst we might see an exit every now and then, the current roster
WWE has seems full of people who want to stick with WWE.