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00:00 Welcome to the WrestleTalk News, I'm Pete Quinnell.

00:08 Last night was the AEW Dynamite Grand Slam 2023 edition from Arthur Ashe, where there

00:13 were some pretty huge matches on display, it felt like a mini-pay-per-view.

00:16 However, with the big stakes came some unfortunate injuries.

00:19 Jon Moxley put his international championship on the line against Rey Fenix, and in what

00:23 became the finish of the match, Fenix delivered a piledriver to Mox, which current speculation

00:27 points to the move where Mox got hurt, landing too much on his head.

00:31 Fenix would pin Mox, with Mox not kicking out, but the referee still calling a two count,

00:36 so Fenix hit the same move again, this time for a three count, and winning the title.

00:41 Speculation currently says that this was an audible from Moxley to have Fenix win, with

00:44 Fightful Select confirming that the finish of the match was altered.

00:47 They also note that Mox left under his own power, was checked on by multiple people,

00:51 and repeatedly communicated to people that he was okay.

00:54 PWInsider is reporting that the belief backstage was that Mox suffered a concussion, but this

00:59 is unconfirmed as of right now.

01:01 Best wishes to Mox, I hope you get better soon.

01:03 But that wasn't the only injury on last night's show, as during the MJF and Samoa

01:07 Joe title match, Adam Cole ran down to support his friend.

01:10 In doing so, he jumped off the stage to the floor, before taking a spill, and then being

01:14 around for the rest of the match with a noticeable limp.

01:17 Fightful Select is reporting that Cole was in obvious pain backstage, and was taken to

01:21 hospital after the show.

01:22 He has since reportedly left the hospital, but on crutches.

01:26 The severity of this injury isn't known as of the time of writing.

01:29 Best wishes to Adam Cole, I hope you get better soon.

01:31 Both of these injuries come at devastating times for both men, with Moxley just starting

01:35 up his international title reign, and Cole in the midst of the supremely hot MJF partnership

01:40 in and around the main event scene.

01:41 Spare a thought for both of them in the comments, and fingers crossed, both injuries are minor

01:46 and can be recovered from quickly.

01:47 Godspeed gents.

01:48 In other news, WWE has terminated the working relationship with Panini, the company responsible

01:53 for trading cards and stickers, due to a reported breach of contract.

01:57 This comes from Darren Rovell, a sports business reporter for Action Network, who reports that

02:01 the contract with Panini had two plus years left on the deal, and WWE are actively working

02:06 to shift the rights over to Fanatics immediately, who were due to get the rights starting in

02:10 2026.

02:11 More details on this are sure to come to light soon, so stay tuned to WrestleTalk.com for

02:14 more.

02:15 And in Vince McMahon news, there's always some of that, there's more details on the

02:19 employee meeting held the other day, headed up by Vince and Ariya Manuel.

02:23 In addition to receiving eye rolls from those in attendance because Vince said that WWE

02:26 was stagnating and this merger was the only logical next step, something that is provably

02:31 false by WWE's own admittance, Vince also reportedly commented that he wasn't receiving

02:35 enough applause by his employees, even saying "I'm Vince McMahon, damn it" according

02:40 to PWInsider before following that up with "This is where you're supposed to clap."

02:44 Gross!

02:48 Vince was also reportedly using a cane to walk, still recovering from his back surgery,

02:52 but don't worry, he doesn't think he's on the way out any time soon, as Kurt Angle

02:56 recently mentioned on his appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience, a conversation that

03:00 he shared with Vince after Kurt came back to the company.

03:02 "When I came back to WWE, he said, 'I'm gonna have this company for a lot longer than

03:06 you think, Mr. Angle.

03:08 I'm 73 right now, my mom lived to be 101.

03:11 I'm planning on living till I'm 120.

03:13 I'm never letting the company go.

03:15 I'm always gonna be working here.

03:16 They're gonna have to pry it from my cold, dead hands.'

03:19 Horrifying stuff that in no way makes me feel absolutely dead inside."

03:23 There is so much more news today, like Elimination Chamber being announced for Australia, Sheamus'

03:27 WWE contract going on the ever-increasing pile of ones that expire in 2024, a potential

03:31 date for another AEW pay-per-view this year, and so much more, there's just a lot happening

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05:38 Anyway, it's Thursday, you know what that means.

05:46 Oli is on holiday so I'm reviewing AEW Dynamite Grand Slam Edition in about 5 minutes.

05:51 One of the big criticisms of AEW over the last year is one of excess.

05:56 Last year's All Out has become infamous in online discourse because it had a whopping

06:01 15 matches on the card, meaning that not everything was given time to breathe or get over.

06:07 And that is the only thing people talk about from that show.

06:11 But this year's Grand Slam almost felt like an NXT TakeOver event - just 5 matches, all

06:16 of which were given time to get over and tell their stories.

06:20 And it resulted in an excellent, excellent episode of professional wrestling with one

06:25 half-decent Chris Jericho match.

06:28 And an unfortunate finish to the Mox match.

06:30 Oh, and they didn't book that Edge debut that I'd fancy booked in my head, which

06:34 must mean that Tony Khan is a bad booker or something, get me on Twitter to tell him that.

06:38 But apart from that, Grand Slam was excellent, and it kicked off in the most spectacular

06:43 of ways.

06:44 Eddie Kingston is perhaps the most compelling character in all of pro wrestling right now.

06:50 He always is and always has been, he just often isn't given the platform in AEW to

06:55 show that off.

06:56 He has his moments, sure, but then is sometimes just gone for a bit, or the focus of his story

07:01 is shifted to someone else.

07:03 But when he comes back when he is on TV, it's breathtaking.

07:07 You see, no one told Eddie that pro wrestling isn't real, so he just thinks it's real.

07:12 And because he thinks it's real, he makes me believe that pro wrestling is real.

07:17 And that was on full display here as his long-standing real-life issues with Claudio Castagnoli

07:22 finally came to a conclusion for both the ROH World Championship and the New Japan Strong

07:27 Openweight Championship.

07:29 This feud hasn't been perfect from a TV standpoint, but the final few weeks were exceptional,

07:35 and this match more than matched up to that brilliant build.

07:38 Ian Riccoboni on commentary summed it up perfectly - it's a handicap match, as Eddie takes

07:43 on Claudio and himself.

07:45 Tony Schiavone added Claudio loves wrestling, and he hates Eddie Kingston.

07:51 These lines were the right amount of salt and pepper seasoning to this delicious meal

07:54 of a match, which saw Eddie kick out of the Ricola Bomb, hit a series of backfists and

07:58 a powerbomb of his own to get the win.

08:01 The crowd lost their collective minds as New York's own Eddie not only won the ROH Championship,

08:06 but also beat his inner turmoil and hatred for Claudio.

08:10 As Ian shouted out the names that have held this belt before, like Xavier, Lowkey, Homicide,

08:15 Dave Briscoe and AEW names like Bryan Danielson, Claudio finally shook the hand of Kingston

08:21 and showed him the respect Eddie felt he never got.

08:24 This was beautiful, emotional and perfect.

08:28 And in only that way that pro wrestling can be.

08:31 The broadcast then cut to Roderick Strong in a very fake looking hospital having Getwellsoon

08:35 cards read to him by the Kingdom.

08:38 I love how silly wrestling is.

08:40 Adam Cole finally showed Roddy some care for his neck health by arriving late to the hospital

08:44 and then left almost immediately because he needed to be in Max's corner for tonight.

08:48 What a terrible friend.

08:50 Christian Cage challenged Darby to a handicap match - I mean triple threat match on Collision

08:55 for the TNT Championship with himself and Luchasaurus.

08:57 I wonder if this is where Cage will actually win the TNT title for realsies.

09:02 And while Eddie and Claudio was just about perfect, we next had the…

09:06 Sigh…

09:07 Jericho match.

09:08 Look, I like Chris Jericho.

09:09 I'm a fan of Chris Jericho.

09:11 Chris Jericho is the first bit of WWE merchandise I ever bought when I went to a Raw taping

09:16 in 2008.

09:17 Go and watch my parts fun known list about my favourite wrestlers of all time.

09:21 He made that list.

09:23 But there's something about his AEW stories that sometimes don't click, and this is

09:28 one of them.

09:29 He and Sami had a good match, but the crowd's lack of reaction to it is indicative of how

09:34 little people are into the story going in.

09:37 You can do all the top rope cutters you want, but this New York crowd were not invested

09:42 in Jericho vs. Sami.

09:44 The finish was superb though, as Sami went for a Shooting Star Press and Jericho countered

09:47 with a perfectly timed Codebreaker for the win.

09:51 In a nice little touch, Sami wore the same colours that Jericho wore in his WrestleMania

09:54 match with Shawn Michaels, and just like that match, Sami turned heel afterwards with a

09:59 low blow and Jericho did that same HBK sell for it.

10:04 Don Callis came down to reveal that Sami has joined the family and they left together.

10:09 Right, so here's the problem.

10:12 Jericho was happily going to join Don's group before Callis revealed it was a trap.

10:18 Jericho had decided to abandon his friends in the Autobot and join Megatron in the Decepticons.

10:25 This is why the JAS broke up, because Jericho broke them up by wanting to side with the

10:31 baddies.

10:32 Is now I'm supposed to feel sympathy for Jericho that Sami has instead joined the baddies?

10:37 The same baddies that Jericho wanted to join?

10:40 Chris, I love you.

10:42 And I love you Don Callis.

10:44 And I'm indifferent on you Sami Guevara.

10:46 But this ain't working.

10:47 Headline: Roddy & Max Calls Back

10:48 MJF and Cole were about to do their catchphrase earlier in the day, but Cole was called back

10:51 to the hospital by Roddy, which meant that Max was going to have to go into the main

10:55 event alone.

10:56 Headline: Roddy & Max Calls Back

10:57 Jon Moxley and Rey Fenix got off to a shaky start in their International Championship

11:00 match when it looked like Mox got rocked when Fenix did a big dive onto him before the match

11:04 began.

11:05 But they brought it back around with a good story of Fenix trying to do flip-de-doos and

11:10 Moxley punching him in the mouth.

11:12 But the finish saw Fenix hit a piledriver, the ref counted two, Mox did not kick out

11:16 for the three.

11:17 Fenix did the move again and the ref counted the three.

11:20 As Pete detailed earlier, Mox called an audible because he got hurt.

11:24 A potential concussion.

11:25 Get well soon, Mox.

11:27 It's a shame, but I hope that maybe Fenix can get something out of this.

11:31 My only concern is that - and we've seen this in the past - TK doesn't respond well

11:35 to his plans changing.

11:37 So let's hope he can pivot here for a change and give Fenix a decent run with the belt.

11:43 Sarraya retained the Women's Championship over Toni Storm and her excellent new black

11:47 and white presentation entrance and the crowd were super into Storm's new character which

11:52 has gotten over to a spectacular degree.

11:56 Shame Sarraya won then.

11:57 She used her usual heel shenanigans and hit a second rope rampage for the win.

12:01 It was okay, but the story of the outcast split has only been so-so.

12:06 And the main event saw MJF retain the AEW World Championship over Samoa Joe in an excellent

12:12 main event.

12:13 MJF was wrestling's best heel and is now wrestling's best babyface.

12:17 He might be a perfect wrestler, and this New York crowd were happy to shower him with that

12:23 praise.

12:24 Cole returned from his second trip to the hospital after Max had kicked out of a Muscle

12:28 Buster and a Piledriver on the concrete floor and encouraged MJF to escape the Coquina Clutch.

12:34 He then also distracted enough to allow Max to choke out Joe with some tape behind the

12:39 referee's back for the win.

12:41 This match was so great, and I totally bought the Muscle Buster near fall at the end.

12:47 I really thought that was the end of Max's run as champ.

12:50 Joe, in a show of respect, also shook Max's hand after the match.

12:55 That was an excellent two hours of wrestling.

13:00 Chris Jericho match in the middle.

13:02 AEW Grand Slam is a big 4 out of 5.

13:05 Now go and watch our latest list on PartsFunKnown, which counts down the greatest rivals of Shawn

13:10 Michaels.

13:11 Maybe Jericho will make that list.

13:14 List joke.

13:15 Here's what's next!

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