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.
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Johnny Ace Back On Being The Talent Relations For WWE.
John Laurinaitis returning as the talent relations for world wrestling entertainment aka big f**king yikes.
From F4WOnline and Dave Meltzer, Johnny is *sigh* back on the talent relations side of WWE and will be reporting to WWE's executive vice president of operations, Brad Blum.
The article did go on to mention that the talent relations side division has been split into "talent management and talent branding".
Fightful select has some additional information on this story about the backstage reaction of the news and pretty much, some of the talents weren't too happy with the news.
Keep in mind that WWE hasn't officially confirmed this news.
I don't need to say anything other than yuck.
Cliff Compton On The Idea Of The Deuce And Domino Act Going Modern.
Cliff Compton aka Domino of Deuce 'n Domino "fame", recently spoke with Lucha Libre Online.
During the interview, Cliff revealed that the Deuce 'n Domino was going to be revamped by adding Maryse and removing Cherry (the on-screen manager for the former tag team champions) but it didn't pan out (shout out to Andrew Thompson of Post Wrestling for the transcript):
"That’s an example of there was an idea and it was with Maryse and she was kinda gonna intervene with Deuce and Domino and in storyline and she wanted to push Cherry out and Maryse was a very — in those days, her character was very — she was pretty shrewd.
She was mean, she was beautiful, she knew it and she wanted to push Cherry who was Deuce’s girlfriend and my sister and she was gonna manage us and the original idea was she was gonna modernize Deuce and Domino, take us — because with Deuce and Domino, we didn’t think we were in the 50s.
We clearly knew it was 2008, it was just our look, but she was gonna kind of fancy us up and it was gonna be a much bigger deal than it turned out to be.
It just didn’t pan out and that happens so much in that line of work so there was this long couple of months storyline with Maryse and Cherry and there were talks of feuding with different teams and we were gonna be swapping managers but it never really panned out and it just kind of fizzled which is unfortunate but that happens in WWE.
Every wrestler will tell you that happens. I wish the original plan happened because it was gonna be a lot of fun.
It just, it never panned out unfortunately and it just kind of — Deuce and Domino just kind of broke up and everyone was like, ‘Well what happened?’ And they just didn’t go with the original plan but that happens all the time. It happens to everybody."
I wasn't a fan of the act in general. I thought it was too vintage for my taste but I haven't seen the act since I was a kid *clicks on a random episode of Smackdown in 2007*.
WWE Hitting The Road Once Again!?
Well, this is interesting (yea, no sh*t, Omar).
This piece of news came from an article on Yahoo detailing the WWE Network move to NBC's Peacock (sounds funny after reading the last line).
In it, the piece mentioned the location options for the Thunderdome since the current host of the Thunderdome, Tropicana field has a home opener for Tampa Bay Rays on April 9th (had to Google the word "home opener") and the possibility of touring in July.
Now, that doesn't mean WWE is going to hit the road again in July.
It was just vaguely added in a piece that was primarily focused on WWE's partnership with Peacock.
Who's The Heel And The Babyface Regarding The Shane McMahon And Braun Strowman Feud?
Well, Dave Meltzer on the Wrestling Observer Radio will answer that for ya.
Meltzer said that Shane O is the bad guy in this storyline while Braun Strowman is the good guy quote (from Give me sports):
"Although the Shane McMahon – Braun Strowman stuff tonight was like at the highest level. This was just…the mentality is they’re trying to find a way for Shane McMahon to be the heel so the idea is he’s just going to be this d*** making fun of the dumb guy.”
If this is a way to build SYMPATHY FOR Braun Strowman then WWE got their storytelling basis wrong.
If anything, it makes Shane the babyface because Braun (the character) is acting like a Goddamn idiot since his suspension in December that could've been avoided had Braun not headbutted Adam Pearce.
AEW Revolution Is The Highest Grossing Non-WWE PPV!?
From the Wrestling Observer Newsletter and Dave Meltzer (shout out to pro wrestling news hub), All Elite Wrestling's latest PPV brought in the best PPV numbers for not only the company itself but for any other non-WWE show since 1999.
The money they generated was $6 million but it might exceed $7 million.
This is great news for not only AEW but for the entire wrestling industry.
It's so refreshing to hear that a company that isn't WWE is doing pretty well.
And well deserved because the PPV was fun (click here to read more of my thoughts on Revolution).
What do you think about the news I just reported and follow me on the tweets @omartheplayaguy? Anyways, stay safe smarks.
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