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\u2014 Bryan and I will be back tonight covering the weekend news. We had a Friday show with with Garrett talking about a ton of different topics including Forbidden Door live, More details on how the WWE sale went down with the key players and ultimately the decisions, Sami Zayn as WWE champion, and thoughts on WWE\u2019s counter programming right now of AEW and Wednesday\u2019s Dynamite show.<\/p>\n
\u2014 The big news today is that Shemamus will be leaving WWE soon as his contract is expiring and was offered a pay cut so decided to leave. It\u2019s identical to the Kofi Kingson and Xavier Woods situation. The basic thing is TKO is in the business of paying stars incredible amounts of money who move business and less so in paying those who don\u2019t move business, especially given Sheamus is 48 and has been hurt a lot. On a real sports team, those decisions are made all the time. <\/p>\n
It will be interesting if AEW takes him. Age is a factor and you don\u2019t want to be the WWE old-timers division. He was having very good matches when healthy. A lot of ex-WWE talent has been a negative in AEW, but there are obvious exceptions. II don\u2019t know where he\u2019ll fit in but it\u2019s more mental. If you consider WWE as the big league and that being an ex-WWE guy makes you superior to AEW guys, in the end this won\u2019t work. If you want to be a pro wrestler, and don\u2019t consider WWE the be-all and end-all of pro wrestling and want to have the best matches of your career and make money, it can work out well. If your goal is to show WWE they made a mistake and want to get back there, most likey this won\u2019t work out well but it could. If you think Paul loves you but evil TKO caused this, it won\u2019t work at all. <\/p>\n
He\u2019s a good wrestler who works hard, but he\u2019s not a business difference maker even if you can see the wheels in MJF\u2019s brain working with the idea he can make money with him. There are a number of people (New Day, Sabin & Shelley, Aleister Black, Kairi Sane, Zoey Stark, and Kay Lee Ray) wh become free agents later this month and I would assume some go to AEW but not all. AEW also already has too much talent for what they can already use well.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Tomoaki Honma announced his retirement during yesterday\u2019s New Japan show. Honma was one of the most underrated wrestlers in the business until a bad neck injury robbed him of a lot of his athletic gifts. During the heyday of the G-1 Climax tournament, Honma was a guy who would lose almost all his matches but have some of the best matches in the tournament, somewhat like Ishii but he never even got the wins Ishii got. Honma, 49, said that his final match will be next year in Yamagata, so he will have had a 30 year career.<\/p>\n
\u2014 I\u2019ve literally heard nothing about big international bouts this weekend. Arena Mexico sold out Friday, breaking the CMLL official record for both most sellouts in a calendar year and also extending the record for consecutive Friday night Arena Mexico sellouts to eight. Volador Jr. beat Flip Gordon to win the Historic middleweight title on Friday.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Bishop Dyer vacating the MLW tag titles would seem to indicate the Baron Corbin return is near.<\/p>\n
\u2014 A correction on Friday\u2019s show talking about Dynamite Kid. When I brought up Dynamite in a wheelchair during the visit by Bret Hart, that was in 1993 and Dynamite wasn\u2019t in a wheelchair until 1997. Bret, Brian Knobs and Joe Scarpa went to see him and he wasn\u2019t aware Bret had won the WWF title.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Damian Priest was the mystery WWE champion who debuted in AAA as we had been reporting.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Raw tomorrow night in Chicago has Sami Zayn vs. Cody Rhodes for the WWE title, Sol Ruca vs. Raquel Rodriguez for the IC title, Street Profits vs. Bron Breakiker & Austin Theory for the tag titles. CM Punk is not advertised for the show. We do know he was pushing to return on this show but we have not been told 100 percent it\u2019s on.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Vin Diesel noted that they have started production of Fast Forever, in what they are saying will be the last Fast & Furious franchise movie. No word if John Cena or Dwayne Johnson will be involved in this one.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Congratulations to Stephanie (Nixon) Newell and Miranda Alize on their engagement.<\/p>\n
\u2014 The City of Parma, OH, just outside Cleveland, had its 4th of July parade yesterday and Miz was the Grand Marshal.<\/p>\n
\u2014 For A&E tonight at 8 p.m. will be WWE\u2019s Greatest Moments on the first decade of Smackdown, 8:30 p.m. will be Greatest Moments of CM Punk, 9 p.m. is Most Shocking Moments of the 80s,m 9:30 p.m. is Great Royal Rumble moments of the 200s, 10 p.m., is LFG and , 11 p.m. is Greatest Moments of HHH and 11:30 p.m. is Greatest Moments of Stephanie McMahon.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Mauriciio Ruffy said that he was going to Las Vegas this coming week and said he was available as a replacement if either Conor McGregor or Max Holloway can\u2019t fight.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Today\u2019s Mexico vs England soccer game is going to do an NFL playoff level number. The cheapest live ticket was $4,585 with 87,523 seats.<\/p>\n
\u2014 TNA Impact on Thursday has Hardys vs Great Hands for the tag titles, Xia Brookside vs. Lei Ying Lee in DQ for the Knockouts title, Jada Stone vs. Alisha Edwards in the Knockouts TV title tournament, Jody Threat vs Gabby Forza and Indi Hartwell vs Vickie Venuto in other tournament matches plus The Righteous vs. Ricky Sosa & Leon Slater vs Bear Bronson & Brian Myers in a three-way.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Les Thatcher had his first pro wrestling match on July 4, 1959 in Blue Hills, ME.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Roman Reigns, John Cena, Cody Rhodes, Rhea Ripley, Jey Uso, and Liv Morgan are set to compete in the Fanatics Games. That will be at the Fanatics Fest NYC, which runs 7\/16 to 7\/9 at the Javits Center. The event features 50 athletes and celebrities facing 50 fans across eight sports challenges, with $2 million in total prizes and a $1 million cash grand prize.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Sorry to hear about the bad news regarding Sheldon Goldberg, a New England based historian and promoter. Just when his health was turning around, he stepped up on a curb, and heard a pop in his Achilles tendon and now needs surgery.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Hillbilly Jim turns 74 today. Mark Lowrance, the former Dallas announcer, turns 67. Jerry Seganovich of the Nasty Boys turned 62. Jamie Dundee turned 55. Tatsuhito Takaiwa turned 54. Adam Cole turns 37. UK heavyweight star Wayne Bridges was born on this day in1936. Mini star Little Tokyo was born on this day in 1941, real name Shigeu Akabane. Waly Seiber, better known as Waldo Von Erich, the working brother of Fritz Von Erich, died 17 years ago today at 75. Doug Donnan better known as Karl Von Brauner, was 78 when he died on this day 17 years ago. 81 years ago yesterday, Angelo Poffo, the father of Randy Savage and Lanny Poffo, set a world record doing 6,033 sit ups. He set out to set the world record by doing 6,000 and then decided to do 33, one for each year Jesus Christ was alive. The record has been broken many times since then. (thanks to Tony Richards)<\/p>\n
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