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00:00Vince McMahon lies called out, WWE shoot on Fox, a WWE show cancelled FOREVER, FOREVER.

00:13And more.

00:15I'm Oli Davis, and this is the WrestleTalk News.

00:21Get exclusive videos over on our Patreon.

00:24I begin this episode with one of those rare headlines that, for anyone who's watched

00:28WWE over the last decade, makes perfect sense despite how ridiculous it reads.

00:33Mr McMahon docuseries interviews unable to be used because Vince sounds too much like

00:38a frog.

00:39This is apparently a shoot, and not a rib-it.

00:41Vince's appearances over the last ten years have become more and more indecipherable, presumably

00:52from shredding his vocal cords with the character's gravelly voice in the Attitude Era.

00:57As a result, he is often difficult to understand in the Netflix show.

01:00And it turns out that was the clearest of the audio, according to the behind the scenes

01:05team David Shoemaker and Bill Simmons.

01:08We had four hours of Vince's interview on the cutting room floor because he sounded

01:12like a frog one day.

01:13Apparently the best thing that ended up on the cutting room floor was Vince recalling

01:17him promoting Evil Knievel's failed Snake River Canyon jump in the 70s, which Vince

01:22promoted.

01:23You can hear the full version of what happened by watching our Fall of the McMahons video

01:26In an interview with Kevin Ione, another one of the series' producers Matt Maxson has

01:32discussed Vince's, let's say, liberal approach to the truth.

01:36There's a moment in the series that I don't think anybody else has caught on to as much.

01:40There's a moment where Vince says, you know, there are times where I, you know, what I

01:45say isn't necessarily what I mean.

01:48That was just such a fulfilling thing.

01:50He's like, I'm the chairman of the board, I'm not going to tell you the truth.

01:55He even set that up at the very beginning.

01:57He's not a reliable narrator.

02:00That moment, for me, is the most important part in the whole six hours.

02:04It's when Vince is defending him criticising Ted Turner for taking all of his top stars

02:09in the 90s, when Vince had done just that same thing to the territories in the 80s.

02:15The director Chris Smith asks if that's hypocritical, and Vince eventually explains

02:19What I say a lot of the time is totally different to what I think.

02:23And the public doesn't understand that sometimes.

02:27As a businessman, you have to throw things out there that's not really the way you

02:31feel.

02:32But it controls thought process by doing that.

02:35Maxson explains that Chris Smith peppers the series with spots, doubting Vince's version

02:39of events.

02:40Like Vince himself saying he won't tell us the real stories right in his very first

02:46interview.

02:47Vince, of course, disagrees with this.

02:49Or at least he says he does in order to control the public's thought process, and released

02:53a statement just before the show came out saying it takes soundbites out of context

02:57and uses editing tricks to incorrectly confuse the boundaries between the character of Mr.

03:03McMahon and Vince himself.

03:05The best way to correct that?

03:07Make your own documentary.

03:09Apparently there was a rumour that former WWE Head of Production and pioneer of the

03:12Crash Zoom Kevin Dunn was producing a show for Vince that would act as a response to

03:17the Netflix documentary.

03:18PWInsider have set the record straight after speaking to sources close to Dunn.

03:22They were told, he is not working on any McMahon-centric projects at all currently.

03:27But Janelle Grant, the woman who filed the sexual assault and trafficking lawsuit that

03:31led to Vince's resignation back in January, sure is.

03:34Grant's action against Vince is currently on legal pause while the US Department of

03:38Justice conducts their own investigation into McMahon.

03:41But the PR war continues, and following Netflix's docuseries going live, Grant's team have

03:47released their own statement claiming the show has only scratched the surface of McMahon's

03:52criminal and horrific behaviour, and doesn't tell the full story of his abuse, sexual assault

03:58and human trafficking of Janelle Grant.

04:01Including a list of stories from former WWE employees, pro wrestlers and reporters about

04:06McMahon and WWE's toxic culture throughout the years.

04:10Like joking about sexually trafficking his own daughter Stephanie on TV.

04:14Former WWE wrestler Sable telling Jay Leno in 1999 that WWE made her do things she didn't

04:20want to do.

04:21Rita Chatterton's allegation against McMahon of rape, which has since been settled.

04:25Current AEW wrestler Mercedes Monet saying she left WWE because she didn't like the

04:29way McMahon talked down to her.

04:31USA Today covering Vince wanting to do a storyline where he impregnated his own daughter.

04:36Bret Hart saying he thinks you'll find this kind of predatory behaviour everywhere in

04:40WWE.

04:41Kevin Owens describing the allegations against Vince as shameful.

04:45Ronda Rousey saying a male wrestler grabbed the drawstring of her pants.

04:49Ashley Massaro alleging WWE told her not to talk about being sexually assaulted during

04:53a show for the troops.

04:55Former wrestler Francine saying she was told to get Vince's attention by rubbing oil

04:59all over her boobs.

05:01Gail Kim recalling racism and microaggressions when working at WWE.

05:05And Nikki Bella saying Vince yelled at her and her sister Brie for winning the fan vote

05:10for Diva of the Year.

05:11On the 6th September, after five years and $1 billion, WWE's incredibly lucrative TV

05:17rights deal with Fox came to an end.

05:20Like many other TV partners of WWE in the past, Fox reportedly felt shortchanged by

05:25what they had seemingly been promised heading in.

05:27The original conversations reportedly had the show using megastars like Ronda Rousey

05:32and Brock Lesnar, but when SmackDown started on Fox, they would barely feature.

05:37Fox also found themselves in the awkward position of having SmackDown on their station promoting

05:42WWE Premium Live events on the Peacock platform, one of their competitors.

05:47So WWE moved SmackDown to the USA Network on the 13th September.

05:51Fox issued a press release that the Wrestling Observer describes as subtly knocking WWE

05:57out by pointing out the football game that replaced SmackDown's usual slot on Friday

06:0120th did 81% better than the previous programming they had there last year.

06:09But WWE are beyond petty shots like that these days.

06:11Vince McMahon is gone.

06:12It's owned by TKO.

06:14They are a proper company now that doesn't need to get wrapped up in all the little details

06:19and arguments and pesky things.

06:21Oh yeah, but one more thing.

06:22The next week, the Wrestling Observer is reporting the usual source, the one that suspiciously

06:27very pro-WWE, has been reporting the 27th episode of SmackDown actually beating Fox's

06:33football head-to-head, even though SmackDown is no longer on Network.

06:38Slam.

06:39Take that, Fox, you losers.

06:41WWE are much better than-oh yeah, just one more thing.

06:44The actual ratings don't come out until Monday or Tuesday, so these figures must be

06:47based on the Fast Nationals, which are super early estimate viewing figures that can be

06:53wildly off, especially for live sports, which often don't include the end of the game

06:57or West Coast viewership.

06:59It's speculated WWE use these more favourable, but probably not correct figures to boost

07:04their profile against Fox.

07:06In the end, Fox's deal with WWE turned out to be a money loser for them.

07:10While the ratings were strong, and they had no trouble selling commercials in the time

07:14slots, they were paying so much to WWE, they reportedly struggled to break even on the

07:19deal.

07:20So this show could definitely work on Fox, just not for WWE's inflated price tag.

07:27Tony Khan has just entered the chat.

07:28There's been reports that AEW are in talks with Fox to put a new show there, which is

07:33speculated to be called Shockwave, as AEW recently filed to trademark that name.

07:38And now former AEW Champion Swerve Strickland has dropped this bombshell in an interview

07:43with Queen's Flip.

07:44We're about to move, we're about to get on Fox, SmackDown is leaving Fox, and then

07:49we're taking Fox.

07:51TNT, TBS and Fox, we got all three of them things.

07:56These several months are kind of WWE's own superstar shake-up with their own flagship

08:00shows.

08:01SmackDown has moved from Fox to USA, Raw will move to Netflix in January, and on Tuesday

08:061st October, NXT will seemingly become NXT 3.0 when it premieres on the CW Network.

08:13WrestleVotes has reported that NXT is set to get a significant overhaul in presentation,

08:18potentially even including a new colour scheme and logo.

08:21Corey Brennan of Fightful adds that after last Tuesday's episode, the final one on

08:25the USA Network, the set was taken down, suggesting a new one will be debuted tomorrow.

08:31NXT head chef Shawn Michaels has teased that and more, first saying the presentation of

08:36the show will feature some cool bells and whistles, and when talking to Sports Illustrated,

08:40he teased new wrestlers could be getting added to the roster.

08:43And there are other big, big surprises coming down the pike.

08:46If you thought we were stacked before, you haven't seen anything yet.

08:50And that goes on both sides of the roster.

08:53Stephanie Vecchior debuted in the final segment of the last USA episode.

08:57And the Motor City Machine Guns and former New Japan star Hikaleo, the real-life brother

09:00of Tama Tonga and Tonga Loa, are reportedly signed with WWE, and are expected to feature

09:06on NXT.

09:07And they'll hopefully also be able to say naughty words.

09:10Because the other major change is that NXT is expected to take on a TV4 team rating.

09:15Because that's what it's being listed as on the CW's schedule.

09:18All WWE programming has been TVPG since July 22nd, 2008.

09:25This might pave the way for Raw also becoming a more adult product when it moves to Netflix

09:29in 2025.

09:30But it's fairer thought for one WWE show that didn't make the cut in all this overhauling,

09:35as PWInsider is 99.9% sure that The Bump is gone forever.

09:42Launching at the same time SmackDown premiered on Fox, The Bump has been running since October

09:462019 as a weekly, hour-long talk show, which is streamed on the WWE Network and across

09:52WWE's YouTube channel and social media.

09:54It was mostly hosted by Kayla Braxton and Matt Camp, where they'd interview special

09:58guests in the studio or remotely.

10:00But in February, Camp was released.

10:03The Bump was supposed to go on a hiatus, but it hasn't come back, and its social media

10:07channels have gone dark.

10:09A brand new WrestleTalk Original went live yesterday about the incredibly interesting

10:13case of the first time ever a wrestler was sent to prison for a wrestling move, and the

10:18ramifications that could have for the entire industry.

10:22Here's a clip.

10:24What happens when a professional wrestling match breaks down into a real act of violence?

10:30When a wrestler, in the heat of the moment or as a planned act of revenge, gives their

10:34opponent one of the industry's oldest, darkest secrets, known as the receipt?

10:41The unfortunate truth is nothing.

10:44It's an established practice in the industry.

10:46That is, until a landmark case in 2021 that changed British law, and potentially the future

10:53of wrestling around the world.

10:56I'm Oli Davis, and this is the story of when a wrestler was sent to prison for a wrestling

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