Here's more wrestling news for September 8th, 2022.
And we're starting off with cm punk as the effects of his actions.
During last week's all out media scrum continue to be felt.
Punk went into business for himself, lashing out at the
elite cold cabana and Adam Page during the press conference
and fought with the young bucks and Kenny omega backstage.
On this week's dynamite punk and the elite were
stripped of the AEW world and AEW world trios titles.
But that may not be all punk faces when it comes to a punishment.
According to sources who spoke to fight for while
omega the bucks and others have been suspended
punk and his trainer a steel could still be fired.
It is believed that punk started the fight with the
elite, and it's been confirmed that steel through a chair,
which hit Nick Jackson in the eye and also bit omega.
It is said that out of everyone involved, only punk
and steel were names considered for termination.
And the hashtag fire cm punk was trending on social media.
Recently at this time, Tony Khan hasn't confirmed that
punk and steel are fired, but with reports that the police
were involved and legal charges have been filed, the AEW
president may have no choice, but to let both men go.
Cm punk stays with AEW a indeed be numbered, but he's not the
only star who could be leaving our screens on a permanent basis.
Earlier this year, thunder Rosa captured the AEW women's world
championship, but an injury has forced her to take a hiatus and an
interim women's champion has been crowned on his unleashed podcast.
Brad shepherd reports that Rosa has asked
for her release from the company stating.
You've got the incident with thunder, Rosa, and frankly,
the insults and attacks of the company burying her.
Why would the company bury their top
champions like they did with thunder, Rosa.
She didn't get time with Tony Shani to get her over.
You've got brick baker and Tony storm.
You've got Tony storm going out there in the media,
scrum, joking about her allegedly being injured.
And you've got Tony Khan smirking the entire time.
So what's going on with thunder, Rosa,
because there's more here than meets the.
Here's what I can tell you is that thunder Rosa requested her release.
After the marina SHAIR match, she didn't get that.
She wanted time off, but since that time she has
not requested her release again, she asked for her
release because of the mismanagement and bullshit.
That's a fact now, where is she?
Have they worked things out?
It doesn't seem like it.
The shapre match referenced is a match between the two in
June this year where thunder Rosa was accused of sandbagging
deliberately not working with her opponent to make SHAIR look
bad as for the comments made on the all out media scrum, Tony
storm insinuated that Rosa isn't injured and is instead being
kept away from AEW for the time being due to significant heat.
She has backstage.
It's worth mentioning at this time that thunder Rosa's husband, Brian
has denied that Rosa asked for her release after the chare match.
Ultimately the last thing Tony con needs
right now is another top name causing a stir.
But with Rosa out for the foreseeable future, the fate of the women's
world champion is something the AEW president will have to deal with.
Last month, Patrick Clark, formerly known as velvet
team dream was arrested twice once for ownership of drug
paraphernalia and another for trespassing and battery.
In the first degree, there's now been an update in the case,
as we now know more about exactly what happened with the
battery charge level in against the former NXT superstar.
TMZ is reporting that dream assaulted a gym employee last
month by punching him in the face and biting on the evening
of August 20th at the club, Orlando fitness facility documents
from the incident say that the employee had told Clark
to leave the area as it was closed for cleaning, which is
when the former superstar became irate and argumentative.
The situation escalated to the point where Clark was told
to leave the building and Clark responded with threats
to kill the gym employee before hitting him in the face.
After a brief scuffle Clark bit, the man and
was arrested after officers observed teeth marks
on the employee's chest near the right armpit.
Clark has pled not guilty in the case.
Those chances of returning to WWE seem to get smaller and smaller
each day and will keep following this case for further updates
in April, 2021, pat McAfee joined SmackDown as their comment.
One more.
Pat McAfee joins SmackDown as their color commentator and has
been praised by fans and those in the industry for his passion.
In addition to his work with WWE, pat also has his own show
on YouTube, but now has yet another huge role to his name.
The New York post were the first to break the news that
McAfee is now a member of ESPN's college game day TV show.
And we'll be bringing his expertise to this Saturday's game
between the Alabama Crimson tide and the Texas Longhorn.
The role is described as a full-time gig for McAfee
and ESPN, but it adds that he is also going to keep
up his work on his YouTube show while it was initially
reported that McAfee would also keep up with SmackDown.
Pat later confirmed that while he'll be doing things
with WWE, his role on the blue brand will be on hold.
Responding to the news on Twitter.
Triple H said, McAfee approach WWE about the possible deal with
college game day and that the company would never stand in Pat's way.
Triple H also confirmed that pat will remain a member of
WWE, despite his hiatus from SmackDown, calling McAfee, the
architect of an exceptional career before coming to WWE McAfee
was a star punter in the NFL and football fans will soon
get to hear more from pat starting this Saturday in July.
Vince McMahon confirmed his retirement from WWE a month after
stepping down from his role as CEO and chairman of the company.
Well, McMahon's retirement came in part due
to the ongoing investigation against him.
WWE were quick to praise the former boss with Stephanie
McMan, even leaning a thank you Vince chant on the
first post Vince SmackDown, one name who benefited from
Vince McMohan is Seth Rawlins as was under the ex CEO's.
Watch that Seth became a multi-time
world champion and top name in WWE.
Speaking on the out of character podcast.
Seth told Ryan satin that he had both good and bad experiences with
Vince McMohan saying with Vince, it was kind of a double edged.
One more time with Vince.
It was like kind of a double edged sword.
On one hand, you knew exactly who to go to all the time.
Every answer needed to go through Vince.
That was security in that if you needed something
and he needed an answer Pronto, he was right there.
You knew exactly that if you got yes from
him, nothing else beneath that mattered.
So that was really cool.
You could understand his vision.
Once you worked with him for a long
time, you started to understand that.
On the other side of that, he was very flippant.
He was very all over the place.
That was to his credit part of his genius, but it was
also like very stressful to deal with as a talent.
Now MCM man's role as head of WWE,
creative has been taken over by triple H.
Someone else that Rowlins has a good relationship with.
So expect the visionary to be in the
forefront of programming for years to come.
Triple H has certainly risen in power following the
Vince McMohan retirement, as he's now head of creative
and talent relations, but he's not alone in moving up.
The corporate ladder, Sean Michaels worked
closely with triple H when they were running NXT.
And now the heartbreak kid has received a promotion.
CBS sports has confirmed that Sean has been promoted as senior
vice president of talent development, creative after being
listed as VP of talent development, creative during an August
press release Michael's work behind the scenes began in 2016
and as an NXT trainer before moving on to becoming a writer
and producer with triple H, when the games cardiac event
caused him to take a break Michael's then took control over
NXT programming, and now has even more influence backstage.
Considered by many to be the greatest of all time.
Sean Michael's work in the ring speaks for itself, but now Mr.
WrestleMania has formed a new legacy in WWE as an incredibly valuable
individual behind the scenes back to AEW is this week's show had a
lot going on due to the cm punk scandal, but it'll be a dynamite.
Daniel Garcia will remember for a very different reason.
Last night's episode saw Garcia face Wheeler UDA for the
ring of honor peer championship and the self-professed
dragon Slayer was able to get the win and the title.
This was the second time the two had faced off for the
peer championship as UDA and Garcia went at RO H's death
before dishonor, though, UDA retained on that night.
Not only did Garcia win the championship this week,
but he did so in his own hometown of Buffalo, New
York, and even had west side gun perform his entrance.
The Buffalo crowd were firmly behind
Garcia for the entire match and erupted.
When he made the Blackpool combat club member tap to the
dragon Tamer finisher Garcia's relationships with the Jericho
appreciation society have been strained as of late and with
Chris Jericho and the BCCs Brian Danielson set to face off
next week in an Roh world title semifinal things could be
able to get more interesting for the new Roh pure champion.
As we mentioned earlier, triple H suffered a cardiac event last
September at around the same time he lost control of NXT, September,
2021, mark the relaunch of NXT into NXT 2.0, which was met with a
ton of backlash from fans who preferred the black and gold brand.
Speaking to aerial Hellani of BT sport.
Triple H.
Address the change from NXT to NXT 2.0 and made it clear.
He wasn't a fan at.
When I stepped away for health reasons, and there was already
pressure to change the direction and change what it was.
And that happened.
I knew what the changes were.
I don't know that I necessarily agreed with all of them.
The game added that.
Well, not everything in NXT.
2.0 has been to his liking.
There's also been a lot of positives with the new show next week
will mark a year of NXC 2.0, and with triple H now, head of creative.
It'll be interesting to see how the paints
plattered brand ring in their anniversary.
We're ending today as we started with cm punk, as the general
consensus about the two time former AEW world champion has not been
great with reports that punk instigated the fight at all out words
like unprofessional and whiny have been thrown around about him.
But there are some on his side, it's been said
that the a w roster has never been more anti cm.
Punk.
Anthony Bowens is ready to stand up for the Chicago wrestler.
Speaking to wrestling, Inc.
Admittedly, before all out Anthony Bowen said that punk has
been a good asset to AEW and that he's had a great relationship
with punk since joining the company Bowen's praised punk
is someone who brings an analytical point of view to AEW
as well as a significant amount of money from ratings.
Given that Bowens made his comments before all out.
We can't help, but wonder if his view has changed.
And while punk may have indeed been a good asset,