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0:00 - Coming Up...
0:21 - NXT No Mercy Results
2:36 - WWE Hardcore Title Return?
3:43 - Real Reason Bloodline Missing
4:56 - WWE No Involvement In Vince McMahon Docuseries
7:09 - Kevin Owens & CM Punk WWE Heat
8:36 - Ricky Starks Pushes Back On AEW Rumors
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00:00Is WWE bringing back the Hardcore title?

00:03Kevin Owens isn't friends with CM Punk?

00:06The real reason the Bloodline missed Friday's SmackDown and Saturday's Bash in Berlin?

00:11And more.

00:13I'm Oli Davis, and this is the WrestleTalk News.

00:22Because watching wrestling is the equivalent of working two full-time jobs now, WWE's

00:26Bash in Berlin wasn't the only show happening over this past weekend.

00:29There was also TNA Emergence, AEW Collision, WWE SmackDown and NXT No Mercy.

00:36Friday's Emergence show saw Zachary Wentz become the X Division Champion in an Ultimate

00:41X match, Nick Nemeth retain his TNA World title against Josh Alexander in a one hour

00:46Iron Man match, 3 falls to 2, and JBL making yet another surprise debut in a wrestling

00:51promotion, coming down after the main event and whispering something in Nemeth's ear.

00:56This follows JBL also showing up at AAA's TripleMania show, where he turned heel to

01:00side with Konnan and Delberto Del Rio, all wearing the same trench coat and cowboy hat.

01:06He's like a crap Nick Fury in a WWE's anti-AEW partner promotion universe.

01:11AEW Collision saw Shida become Mercedes Monet's TBS title challenger for All Out, and Carl

01:17Fletcher had a fantastic match against Tomohiro Ishii, but the biggest non-Bash in Berlin

01:21show of the weekend was definitely No Mercy.

01:26The show opened with Axiom and Nathan Frazier beating Chase University for the tag team

01:30titles, prompting Ridge Holland to turn heel on his own faction afterwards, taking everyone

01:35out and then putting Andre Chase through the commentary table.

01:39Speaking of heel turns, Zachary Wentz beat the recently heeled Wes Lee, thanks to their

01:43former Rascals faction mate and freshly crowned TNA X Division Champion Trey Maguirel stopping

01:48Lee from using a chair.

01:50Jelani Jordan and Oba Femi retained their North American championships.

01:53Roxanne Perez also retained against Jada Parker, because this was more about the post-match

01:58angle.

01:59After being teased since WrestleMania, we got the actual debut of former Stardom and

02:03Marigold wrestler Julia.

02:06And the main event had Ethan Page retain his NXT title against Joe Hendry.

02:27Further in his feud with Trick, who was the special guest referee, that's a lot of

02:33wrestling belts I just covered.

02:35So let's add another one.

02:37Raw star Karrion Kross has publicly pitched for WWE to introduce a new Hardcore Championship.

02:43It would be awesome to hold an Extreme Rules tournament right now in WWE to introduce a

02:48new Extreme Wrestling Championship.

02:51No rules, no DQ, pinfall, submission or knockout.

02:56WWE did try to recapture the chaos of the beloved Attitude Era Hardcore title by introducing

03:01the 24-7 title in 2019.

03:04They quietly retired the belt in November 2022, though, because it sucked.

03:08It was partly because they only had half the equation.

03:11Yes, the Hardcore titles 24-7 period was enormous fun, but it was also just as much about the

03:16actual Hardcore wrestling matches with weapons and blood.

03:20Matches WWE couldn't feasibly do as a PG product on the USA Network and Fox.

03:26But as of 2025, Monday Night Raw will be moving to Netflix, where WWE are expected to make

03:32their programming more adult-oriented.

03:34Be more liberal with swear words, for instance.

03:36And Kross teased just that, replying to a fan who asked about Netflix wanting more programming

03:41BINGO.

03:43The weekend also saw WWE SmackDown, which acted as the go-home show for the following

03:47night's Bash in Berlin.

03:49Cody Rhodes and Kevin Owens going face to face in the ring, revealing Cody had picked

03:52up a leg injury ahead of their WWE Championship match.

03:56But there was a notable absence of one of the brand's biggest acts.

04:00The entire Bloodline.

04:02F4WOnline is reporting Solo, Sakoa, Jacob Fatu, Tama Tonga and Tonga Loa and Roman Reigns

04:08were missing from Friday's SmackDown because much of the family went home for Affer's

04:12funeral, which took place this weekend.

04:14Jey Uso had also posted a picture of him at the funeral wearing a badge commemorating

04:18Affer and the caption RIP Uncle.

04:22Affer was a WWE Hall of Famer, not just as one half of the Wild Samoans tag team, but

04:27also as one of the main figures in the Anoa'i family the Bloodline is based on.

04:31He's the uncle of Yokozuna, Roman Reigns, Emaga and Rikishi, and a great uncle to Jacob

04:36Fatu, Solo and the Usos, and was responsible for training many of the younger members.

04:41I've put a link to my Bloodline Explained video in the video description below where

04:44you can learn the full story behind that fascinating family.

04:48Affer died on the 16th August, aged 80 from a heart attack, less than two months after

04:53his brother and wrestling tag partner Siga had also passed away.

04:57It wasn't just the Bloodline missing from Bash in Berlin, though.

05:00Triple H stayed in America because his oldest daughter is going to college.

05:03Can we all just recognise how lovely that is, and how impossible that sentence would

05:08have sounded just two years ago with WWE's toxic work culture?

05:11It meant that Cody Rhodes took the lead on the post-Bash in Berlin media conference,

05:16really showing how highly the company thinks of him as a spokesperson.

05:20Because he was even better than Triple H. After several PR blunders from Leveque at

05:24the post-show media scrums this year, Cody was able to answer questions about Vince McMahon

05:28with immense professionalism, when he was asked if he was going to watch the Netflix

05:32docuseries based on him, which had just been announced as coming out on the 25th September.

05:37In terms of am I going to watch it, not to sound cheeky, I'm deep in a Game of Thrones

05:42rewatch and that is a hell of a lot of commitment.

05:44I think there's a bit of misinformation in terms of WWE has no involvement in this

05:49documentary as far as I know.

05:51Firstly, Cody, just stop at the Battle of Winterfell.

05:54That's where the show ends, there's no more show after that episode.

05:58Secondly, Cody claims WWE has no involvement in the docuseries.

06:02It was actually WWE who announced their involvement four years ago, not any dirt sheets, during

06:07their 2020 Q3 earnings call, saying the project would be produced by them and Bill Simmons.

06:12That's why there's direct interviews with Vince before his resignation in the show.

06:17Four years is a long time, though, with Vince's multiple scandals and WWE being merged into

06:22TKO with new leadership.

06:24Perhaps WWE has scaled back on how involved they are since McMahon's controversies.

06:28Cody did admit he'll likely watch the series at some point, and was then asked if he and

06:32the locker room personally believes Janelle Grant's accusations, as the WWE roster have

06:38been silent on the matter.

06:39I don't think that's a matter of belief vs non-belief, but I wouldn't look at it

06:43as an active attempt from the locker room to be silent.

06:46We just are doing what we're doing day-to-day WWE business.

06:49The journalist pressed again as to whether he believes Grant's accusations, and Cody

06:53replied, I don't know enough about the information to give you a good enough answer there.

06:57I'm sorry.

06:58On to nicer things, Cody posted a video of him and Kevin Owens following their Bash in

07:02Berlin match with the title Friends Then, Friends Now, Friends Forever.

07:08Just turn on each other already.

07:09Which is more than Kevin Owens can say for CM Punk.

07:13KO and Cody's friendship isn't just a pro wrestling storyline.

07:16In fact, it's so much of a shoot, there's an argument it indirectly caused the formation

07:21of AEW.

07:22When Cody decided to leave WWE in 2016, it was Owens who hooked him up with his very

07:28good friends the Young Bucks to help introduce him into the independent wrestling scene.

07:32That relationship went pretty well, with Cody, the Bucks and Kenny Omega leading the rise

07:36of mid-2010's Ring of Honor, Cody joining the Bullet Club, them all running a little

07:41show called All In, and them all becoming EVPs of the first serious opposition to WWE

07:46in two decades, AEW.

07:49Which gives some context to KO's comments about famed Young Bucks hater CM Punk in an

07:54interview with Malesport.

07:56We never talk.

07:57We have no reason to talk.

07:59We're not friends.

08:00We're not.

08:01We don't, you know, we're just not.

08:02I don't know.

08:03We have no reason to talk.

08:05If we work together, we will talk, but just not a thing we do.

08:08Owens also told Gorilla Position.

08:10We have no relationship.

08:11No, we're not each other's type of people, I don't think.

08:14There's like a 10-foot vicinity, I'd say, that if we enter in, then we have to kind

08:18of, hey, hi, otherwise we don't, and that's fine.

08:21It's perfectly fine the way it is.

08:24And when asked about the perception that Punk has changed as a person, KO said,

08:28I don't know that, and I don't care, to be honest.

08:30He is who he is, I am who I am, and it's fine that way.

08:34Wrestling friends.

08:36Another person who's friends with Cody is AEW's Ricky Starks, who attended WrestleMania

08:4140 in person to watch Rhodes win.

08:43Starks hasn't been seen on AEW TV since that previous week's AEW collision, where

08:48he seemed to suffer an injury.

08:50Ever since, there's been reports and rumours about Ricky's AEW contract being up imminently,

08:54him being bound for NXT, and that he had turned down a storyline for his AEW return.

09:00Now Starks himself has denied that last one.

09:04Enough is enough.

09:05Usually I don't even speak on this, but it's tired.

09:07I never turn down anything, ever.

09:11Just stop.

09:12Now go watch our review of Bash in Berlin by clicking the video on the right.

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