The 5 News Week: What's With The Reports Of AEW "Kicking Journalists Out Of The Post Media Scrum"?, More WWE Releases Are Coming!?

Hello, my fellow wrestling fans and welcome to the 5 news week. The post where I report 5 major or minor news of the week that I don't have time to do it separately. Without further ado, here are the 5 news week.

What's With The Reports Of AEW "Kicking Journalists Out Of The Post Media Scrum"? 

Let's talk about this news because that is an example of how interpreting a narrative through one lens is extremely dangerous. 

Last week, AEW All Out happened (click here to read my review for it) and so did the post-show scrum. 

The aftermath of it saw a few publications running a story of All Elite Wrestling "removing scrum access to journalists that ask challenging questions".

In the article itself, they quoted a now-deleted tweet from a Bleacher Report writer, Jonathan Snowden saying: 

'They are actively removing access from people who ask any challenging questions to them.'



Snowden then got hate for it and people were claiming that AEW was "shady". 

People even brought up his Twitter history and it was not good, to say the least, but that has nothing to do with this. 

I reached out to the guy via Twitter and Jonathan Snowden told me that he's gotten great access with WWE AND AEW. 

I saw a bunch of tweets from notable journalists saying the exact same thing. 

So, Why would a guy that's had a good experience with both parties say something like that? 

Side note, one of the sites that shall not be named, noted that the questions were "all very positive". 

So, I had to watch the AEW All Out scrum AGAIN and saw that it wasn't the case. 

Tony Khan addressed the Matt Hardy situation and Justin Barrasso of Sports Illustrated followed up with a question in relation to Matt Hardy's concussion. 

I'm going to end this story with this. 

A journalist's job is to get answers no matter how challenging the question is or not. 

Not every news writer's tweets are news. If they were news, trust me, they'll let you know. 

NXT UK Conducting A Heritage Cup Tournament. 

NXT UK is gearing up for a return to air new episodes on the WWE Network. 

And Already, they got a tournament lined up. 

It's called the Heritage Cup and the tournament will be conducted in British round rules. 

Here are the rules according to WWE.com:

• All matches consist of six three-minute rounds.

• All matches are 2-out-of-3 Falls.

• Falls can be won by pinfall, submission or count-out (I corrected the spelling because the original said, "falls can won be won" but I ain't faulting them because I've been there). 

• Once a fall occurs, the round ends.

• The match ends once a wrestler has won two falls.

• In the event of a disqualification or knockout, the match instantly ends without the need for two falls.

• If all six rounds are completed, whomever is ahead on falls wins the match.

• There will be a 20-second break between each round.

The 8 participants in the tournament are Noam Dar, Flash Morgan Webster, Alexander Wolfe, A-Kid, Trent Seven, Dave Mastiff, Joseph Conners and "a final wildcard entrant yet to be determined." 

This isn't the first time that WWE used the "British Round" stipulation. 

Last year, Kassius Ohno faced Sid Scala in a British Round match on NXT UK. 

The only difference between that match and the tournament is that last year's match had 30-second breaks between each round while this has 20 seconds. 

This should be fun. 

More WWE Releases Are Coming!? 

On Thursday, a long time WWE road agent, booker and Hall Of Famer, Gerald Brisco was released from WWE which is a shock given that he's been with the company since 1984. 

The very next day, Wrestling Inc posted a report that WWE was letting go of people from the live event side of things. 

The specifics were 12 to 15 people. 

The report also stated that the people furloughed like Mike Rotunda and the aforementioned Gerald Brisco were let go altogether. 

A source close to Wrestling Inc told them that the live event department "is in shambles" 

Damn. 

We're probably not going to have next year's Wrestlemania with a full crowd if that's the case. 

Miro Is With AEW For How Long? 

A year or at least that's what Pro Wrestling Sheet and Ryan Satin have reported (that's a site that I've not mentioned in quite some time). 

Honestly, I hope nothing but the success for the former Rusev. 

An Update Regarding Ivar's Injury. 

Ivar from the Viking Raiders suffered a cervical injury during an 8 man tag match against The Hurt Business. 

For all of you slow mofos, a cervical is basically the neck area. 

Dave Meltzer. You know, The person that is well-liked by everyone? 

Well, he gave an update regarding the status of Ivar's injury basically stating that it's worse than a "stinger". 

But, it isn't fully transparent whether Ivar needs surgery or not. 

Whether the injury is worse or not, I wish him nothing but a fast recovery. 


What do you think about the news I just reported and follow me on the tweets @omartheplayaguy? Anyways, stay safe smarks.