Triple H On "Cancelling" 205 Live?
We gonna start this week of The 5 News Week (or the 4 news week because one of the 5 posts in this article is a short predictions post and it has been kind of a slow news week) with a piece of news that had some fans misinformed. I'll tell you why *Simon Miller hits his head*.There were headlines going around the interwebs that says "205 Live Officially Cancelled" or "Triple H Confirms 205 Live Brand Is Ending" and those headlines were true (September fools!?).
No, but in all seriousness, those headlines were faker than Brad Shepard's "sources" and those news stories all grabbed an excerpt from an interview Triple H did with Newsweek about the NXT brand in general and how 205 Live will be used under the NXT banner:
"NXT UK will sit under that NXT banner as well, probably 205 too breathing some life into it a little bit. That creates three distinct brands that talent, over the course of their career - which hopefully is long - where they can migrate from one to the other and be reinvigorated and have fresh starts and have longer, more meaningful and lucrative careers while staying within the same company."
Hunter then further elaborated:
"You'll start to see 205 begin to. I think it always existed as an island onto itself, a little bit, and it's become lost in this limbo. You'll begin to see it move more towards the NXT banner and the talent there. We have a lot of talent. For them to begin to compete either open against anyone or in the cruiserweight division, but have that title sit under the NXT brand is more meaningful. It creates more opportunities for more people."
Those headlines clearly missed the "three distinct brands" part. Now, Meltzer chimed in about the future of 205 Live in The Wrestling Observer Newsletter about the different options being considered for the purple brand and one of those options is to have the show being filmed before or after NXT has aired.
That didn't specify whether 205 Live will be taped after Smackdown has aired or in full sail but we shall see. Also, highly recommend checking out that interview from Newsweek. It's like reading a short documentary if that makes any sense?
Quick Clash Of Champions Predictions.
Since it was a slow news week this past week, I decided that I should post my quick Clash Of Champions predictions and my winners will be in bold letters:Becky Lynch vs. Sasha Banks For The RAW Women's Championship.
Seth Rollins vs Braun Strowman For The Universal Championship
Kofi Kingston vs Randy Orton For The WWE Championship.
Roman Reigns vs. Erick Rowan. No Disqualification Match.
Bayley vs. Charlotte Flair for The Smackdown Live Women's Championship.
Braun Strowman And Seth Rollins vs. Dolph Ziggler And Robert Roode for The RAW Tag Team Championship.
The New Day In Big E And Xavier Woods vs The Revival for The Smackdown Live Tag Team Championship.
Shinsuke Nakamura vs. The Miz for The Intercontinental Championship.
A.J. Styles vs. Cedric Alexander for The United States Championship.
Nikki Cross And Alexa Bliss vs. Mandy Rose And Sonya Deville For The WWE Women's Tag Team Championship.
Drew Gulak vs. Humberto Carrillo vs. Lince Dorado For The Cruiserweight Championship.
Luke Harper Still Going To Be Not Used By WWE.
In the "no shit, Sherlock" news, Vince McMahon will still keep Luke Harper at home despite being in contract right now and doesn't see any value in him according to you guessed it, Dave Meltzer but this time it's on The Wrestling Observer Radio.I don't get it. Why does Vince want to keep the guy even though he doesn't see any value in him?
Indi Hartwell Signs With NXT.
Now, you're probably saying to yourself like "who?". Indi Hartwell has been in the wrestling scene since 2016 (that surprisingly rhymed) in Australia and wrestled all over Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide as well as wrestling in US based promotions like SHIMMER, RISE And BattleClub Pro.Now, Square Circle Sirens and Casey Michael stated in the site's Patreon page that she has signed with WWE and will be showing up at the performance centre in Orlando next month. Just by reading her body of work in that exclusive article, she has built a great career for herself at a very young age so I can't wait to see what she does inside the *sign* squared circle.
TJP On Being Offered To Work With Bellator.
TJP recently had an interview with WrestlingINC about being offered to fight in Bellator and here's how he described his reaction to that:"I kinda had the same reaction that everyone else did, your guess is as good as mine. It was around my birthday week where I was in between travel and my manager forwarded me this offer. It's probably the most out-of-left-field offer I've gotten since I was asked to do a Bar Mitzvah after I left WWE."
He continues on:
"It's not something that I talk about a lot because it doesn't seem to be totally relevant. My heart's never really been in MMA so I can see why people think this is out of left field. But I can fight a little bit and I started training back when I was being recruited by New Japan. Before they sent me to The Dojo in Tokyo, I started out in Los Angeles and it was more or less an MMA thing; we did zero pro wrestling,"
"We would get a lot of guys from Shark Tank or the Raw Center in LA that were in camp. They would hold their camp at our facilities so most of my early training was getting my ass kicked by those guys."
What do you think about the news I just reported and follow me on the tweets @omartheplayaguy. Anyways, stay safe smarks.
Additional sources: https://www.sescoops.com/latest-on-the-future-of-205-live/, https://www.sescoops.com/vince-mcmahon-reportedly-does-not-want-to-use-luke-harper/,
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