Here's more wrestling news for July 24th, 2022.
And we're starting off this afternoon with Vince McMohan
who announced his retirement this week a month after the
wall street journal published their first of two articles
about alleged inappropriate conduct with employees.
It was the journal that first reported on McMohan
and it's fitting that they're here at the end of his run with WWE.
For the weekend edition of the publication,McMohan can be
found directly on the front page with the ominous headline
on the ropes for alleged misconduct McMahon to retire.
WWE is no stranger to being in newspapers, but that's
usually for the activity in the ring rather than the scandal.
And we doubt that this front page will take a
place of pride on the wall in theMcMohan mansion.
Even before the McMahon scandal, there were
rumors that WWE would sell to the right buyer.
And that hasn't changed with Vince no longer
around the company is valued at close to 5 billion.
And on wrestling observer radio, Dave melzter discussed
the possibility of Tony Khan buying WWE Tony Khan himself
on this day does not have the money to buy WWE, but
would he have the contacts to put a proposal together?
Would he want to do.
I think he would want to do it, whether he could do it, you know,
pull it off before, again, I don't rule that one out either.
I mean, that would be the irony of all ironies, but put it this way.
It's not like if Tony goes in there and goes, you know what, I
wanna own both top companies and he gets the right contacts and
the right partners and the right capital and everything like that.
There is not going to be a thing in WWE
where they'll go, oh, he started opposition.
We're never going to sell to him.
If he has the right offer, they.
Buying your opponents is something Vince McMohan
is well versed in doing that to WCW in 2001.
But to be fair, that company was on its last legs.
When they were purchased for around 2 million.
Well, WWE has never been more profitable.
Another possible candidate to buy WWE is the rock
who has a long friendship with WWE co CEO, Nick Khan
going all the way back to their childhoods in Hawaii.
Alvarez said that with Nick Khan's wife being a
showrunner on young rock and Rock's daughter, Ava
rain, part of the business that a purchase is viable.
Even if rock doesn't have the capital right now,
he added that while it's still a bit of a stretch.
It wouldn't be the first time the rock had bought a company
from McMohan referencing the XFL, which will launch next
year as for Khan Alvarez concluded saying it's not expected
that he will make an offer, but WWE wouldn't be put off
just because he's the man who launched AEW three years ago.
When Vince McMahon ran WWE, everyone had to accept his way
of doing things right down to what words were used on TV.
Instead of a hospital injured superstars were checked in at a local
medical facility while non-Title matches were called everything.
Other than that, during wrestling observer radio,
Dave Meltzer said that he does not expect much
of McMohan's quirky language usage to continue.
Now that he's gone saying there's nobody who's going to insist on.
With Vince's daughter, Stephanie in charge.
Some of the big buzzwords WWE likes may stick around, but time will
tell just how much gets to change more from the Vince McMohan saga.
Now was during SmackDown that Brock Lessner walked
out of the show, reportedly pissed off at the news.
It turns out that it's not just the beast incarnate,
who isn't pleased as many top stars aren't celebrating.
Right.
Fightfull select reports that some at the top
of the card were dejected by the news of McMohan
retirement and had no idea it was coming.
This decision will have been extra shocking considering
the talent wide meeting at money in the bank, which
repeatedly reiterated that Vince wasn't going anywhere.
The report reads one WWE talent said that it
shouldn't have taken a scandal for a shake up.
And it made a lot of people wonder who is next
to go, especially in Vince's inner circle.
Right now, McMahon has only publicly made it clear that he's gone.
But many have said that Kevin Dunn is
expected to leave or be forced out Dunn.
WWE's executive producer is considered
by many to be nothing but Vince.
Yes, man.
And there's some in WWE who aren't banking
on McMohan's retirement being permanent.
One source said.
I'm not banking on anything being permanent.
Triple H was phased out.
Stephanie was phased out.
Bruce left the company for a decade.
Johnny has been in and out, and none of them has the power.
Vince does.
I'm not convinced that he can actually stay away,
especially if he feels the heat has died down.
McMohan may be retired, but this scandal isn't
over yet with journalists from the wall street
journal, contacting other former employees.
There is concern within WWE as many sources told fightful
that they have no idea what McMahon will do in his free time.
As he's shown no interest in hobbies outside of pro wrestling.
McMahon's retirement comes a month after the wall street journals.
First of two damning articles into his alleged activities,
but only time will tell if the ex-chairman stays gone forever.
Next week, RAW is returning to Madison square garden where edge is
expected to return, but he will not be coming to New York alone.
PW insider has learned that Beth Phoenix will also be at the show.
And although it's reported, now that she'll be in a backstage
capacity, who knows what the GL Amazon could do next Monday night
in MSG at Hell In A Cell, Cody Rhodes defeated Seth Rolins in the
show's main event in one of the gutsiest performances in years
hours, before the show roads suffered a torn pectoral muscle
while training and the sight of his bruised chest got audible
gas from countless members of the WWE universe in the crowd.
While speaking to comic book.com Rhodes discuss the injury and
how the decision was made to keep it hidden until the show.
No one saw it.
Other than I think Vince McMohan saw it.
I was going to take my robe off for cameras and
the voice of God, whoever is head of production.
In that moment, I remember them saying don't Stu the camera
operator told me they were going to save it for the show.
Very few people had actually seen it
and how bad it was through the day.
It was getting worse because there was so
much blood, so much blood under my skin.
I'm almost anemic.
So if you chop me or squeeze me, you can see it instantly just a
perfect person to have their body ripped in half for that moment.
WWE has said that Cody will be out
until late March with the injury though.
Many expect him to be back far, sooner than that.
Whenever he's back expect roads to be one of the most
prominently featured superstars on TV with a main event run
and world title push expected for the American nightmare.
Rhodes recently made an appearance for WWE at San Diego.
ComicCon as part of a panel showing off the new replica
figures and titles that fans will soon be able to buy.
At one point, some new titles were being showed
off and Cody decided to break a golden rule of WWE
telling everyone that they can be called belts.
Typically WWE has avoided using the term belts,
which hold pants up and use championship or titles to
describe those prizes, to give them a sense of prestige.
When Sam Roberts said that Cody may be allowed
to say belts, but others won't be so lucky.
The American nightmare didn't hold back and
dared WWE to respond to his apparent rule.
Breaking.
If they can find me a thousand dollars
every time I say belts, I'm fine with that.
If they give me a title belt, sure.
It's a championship, but it also physically goes around your waist.
Those are great belts.
The ban on calling titles was part of Vince McMahon's era of WWE.
And for many showed just how controlling the X CEO was.
But the American nightmare is willing to pay the price.
If this rule continues.
Throughout his 20 years in WWE, John Cena has feded With some
huge names, but very few superstars could ever match Cena
on this level in 2014 and 2015 Cena feded with bray Wyatt
and Seth Rollins but these aren't feuds that Rolins at least
fondly, remember speaking to the Metro Rollins said that
neither he, nor Wyatt were ever on Cena's level of stardom.
And that caused resentment in both.
One thing Wyatt and I always had was a
little bit of a chip on our shoulder.
As far as we were never the guy, we were never a Cena.
We were never a Roman.
And so we couldn't be static.
We had to change.
We had to evolve to be relevant constantly.
There was always some sort of struggle and there
was a bond in that struggle that we always had.
I think we go in separate directions and do different things.
But at the end of the day, there's always a connection.
Wyatt hasn't wrestled since his departure from WWE last
year, though, he has said he's not done in the ring yet.
And perhaps when both men reach 20 years of their respective
careers, they'll be held in the same high esteem as big match.
John.
Now, new Japan's will Osprey in AEW's.
Kenny omega have been at odds for some time now, and this
week, things got taken to another level due to a shirt.
On Friday PWT said they had removed a shirt featuring
Osprey doing a one winged angel with text on the
back, reading better than the best bout machine.
A nickname for omega PWT said they had received a
cease and desist that led to the shirt being removed.
And in a video, Osprey said omega was a hypocrite
as he and the elite would continue to tease using
the two sweet, despite a cease and desist by WWE.
Omega took it much different route with his tweet, apologizing to
fans of Osprey and saying that all orders so far will be honored,
but this shirt won't be available for future purchases anymore.
And we're ending with Brock Lesser, who like we mentioned
earlier, walked out of SmackDown this week over the news
of Vince McMohan retirement, while Brock did return by the
end of the show, his brief walkout left WWE scrambling and
had a lot of people thinking about another recent walkout.
After their own walkout in may Sasha banks and Naomi were
suspended by WWE and called unprofessional on the air.
Two things that didn't happen to Brock.
This apparent hypocrisy has not gone unnoticed.
As on Twitter, Saraya formerly WWE's page tweeted that Michael
Cole should have said Brock had let the WWE universe down
the same line he uttered when speaking about banks & Naomi.
Instead of being removed from TV and bashed publicly, Lesser
will instead be challenging for the undisputed WWE universal
championship in the main event of summer slam, but his actions
as well as WWE's lack of response has led to a lot of backlash.