00:00CM Punk shoots on AEW regrets Vince and Linda McMahon separate
00:09Dear God, Jake Paul wants to come to WWE now too!
00:13And more.
00:14I'm Oli Davis, and this is the WrestleTalk Mustache.
00:26Since attacking Seth Rollins with six consecutive tsunamis back in August, Big Bronson Reed
00:36has become Raw's top meat man, despite losing major matches to both Seth Rollins and Braun
00:41Strowman so far.
00:42But he's not just squashing dudes under his top rope falling weight, he's also squashing
00:46dudes on the Twitter.
00:48Now he's part of Team New Blood for Survivor Series WARGAMES, he's targeting his opponent
00:54Roman Reigns and Rollins.
00:56Sierra.
00:57Hotel.
00:58India.
00:59Tango.
01:00I hope you Seth Suckers and Roman Rump Munchers cry about it.
01:06Right now, I am in control.
01:08Confessed Roman Rump Muncher right here.
01:10I acknowledge the guy.
01:12What can I say.
01:13It feels like WWE is heavily building Seth to join Roman's OG bloodline to get revenge
01:18on Reed in WARGAMES.
01:20But both PWInsider's Mike Johnson and Fightful's Corey Brennan have been speculating on a surprise
01:25fifth babyface member.
01:27Not Seth, who, in his defence, has kept saying very strongly he will never team with Roman
01:31again, but Roman's wise man Paul Heyman's connection.
01:36CM Punk.
01:37So it's quite interesting that Reed has called out Punk too.
01:42I am money.
01:43I'll whoop him so hard his Pepsi logo will turn to a Coca-Cola one.
01:48Taste the feeling, bitch.
01:50This is in relation to Punk being interviewed by Pete Rosenberg, where Punk said that apart
01:55from Seth, he'd really like to face Reed.
01:57I think Chad Gable's on the top of the list.
01:59I think Bronson Reed's on the top of the list.
02:01Kaiser is someone I see a lot in.
02:03It could be fun.
02:04Gunther.
02:05Which is really nice.
02:06What a vote of confidence for those guys.
02:09So Punk made sure to immediately undermine it with an industrial grade neg.
02:12He's here to make money, not friends.
02:14I'm selfishly talking about guys I want to wrestle on house shows.
02:18But then you talk about the money stuff, you talk about the marquee stuff, you talk
02:22about what is a match that you could see main eventing a pay-per-view.
02:25That's what gets my juices flowing.
02:28I think whenever myself and Roman Reigns are face to face on television, I think that's
02:33going to be a moment.
02:34I think there's the table set for myself and Cody.
02:37And you never know when The Rock's going to come back.
02:39Well, his latest movie's flopped, so probably in about a month.
02:42There's big match John Cena coming right around the corner.
02:45Rosenberg also asked Punk about whether there was anyone in AEW that he wanted to feud with
02:50or wrestle, but didn't get a chance to.
02:52To which Punk replied, no, I feel like I wasted some matches on some people for sure.
02:57That is what it is.
02:58Some people understand the business, and some people don't.
03:01I think everybody here understands the business.
03:05This is likely a shot at Hangman Page, whom Punk feuded with in May 2022 while they were
03:10having real-life tension behind the scenes.
03:13Which ultimately led to Punk's infamous Brawlout promo and backstage fight with the
03:17Elite.
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03:25Time for a break.
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04:42AEW have announced that their annual Revolution pay-per-view will take place at California's
04:48Crypto.com Arena, formerly known as Twitter, I mean the Staples Center, on the 9th March
04:53next year.
04:54The venue choice raised a few eyebrows in the wrestling industry, as up until now, WWE
04:59have enjoyed a 25 year relationship with the location since it opened in 1999.
05:05Which has been so close, the arena even had an exclusivity agreement with WWE for professional
05:11wrestling.
05:12So what happened for the venue to suddenly start working with WWE's biggest competitor?
05:17Two days ago, WWE announced that their January 6th debut on Netflix with Monday Night Raw
05:22will take place at the brand new Inuit Dome in Inglewood, which only opened in August.
05:27According to Fightful, this broke WWE's exclusivity agreement with the Crypto.com
05:32Arena, and WWE choosing the venue's newest competitor has rubbed them the wrong way,
05:37with one source noting how the venue had previously saved WWE back in 2009 when they
05:42were forced to move out of the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado, which eventually led
05:46to the infamously terrible 25th May 2009 episode of Raw, main evented by a fake Team Lakers
05:52vs Team Nuggets match, so Vince McMahon could mock the owner of the Nuggets for bumping
05:56them from their original location.
05:58That's also the match that got Mr Kennedy fired for injuring Randy Orton.
06:01Good night all round.
06:02And in more wrestling venue news, what do WWE, cheap hotels and my tight underpants
06:08all have in common?
06:09No ballroom.
06:24No Hammerstein Ballroom.
06:26Because AEW is running it.
06:28AEW have confirmed they will tape an episode of Dynamite from the Hammerstein Ballroom
06:32to be broadcast on Christmas Day.
06:34This is in addition to the previous week's episode of Collision and Ring of Honor's
06:38final battle event.
06:39In even more big business WWE news, a major change will be coming to one of the promotion's
06:44broadcast partners.
06:45While Monday Night Raw, rousing, will move to Netflix from the start of next year, SmackDown
06:50will stay on the USA Network in the United States.
06:53Comcast is the owner of the USA Network, but the Wall Street Journal is reporting the parent
06:59to move forward with a plan to spin off its NBCUniversal cable TV networks, which includes
07:04the USA Network, in a $7 billion move.
07:07WWE have a five year, $1.4 billion deal to air SmackDown on the USA Network, which includes
07:13four annual primetime specials, like next month's Saturday Night's main event.
07:18But with the media landscape shifting towards streaming platforms, with Netflix now adopting
07:22the live broadcast and advertising models of traditional TV, USA Network might not be
07:27in a position to renew come 2029.
07:31And speaking of major changes in business relationships, after decades of speculation
07:35and rumours, it's come out that Vince McMahon and Linda McMahon are indeed separated.
07:42Vince and Linda McMahon got married in 1966, where they would go on to co-found the modern
07:47Titan Sports version of the WWE.
07:50Linda would remain in one of the company's top executive positions, at various times
07:54the co-chief executive, president and or CEO.
07:58She was also involved in one of the greatest angles ever, in the Vince vs. Shane match
08:01at WrestleMania X-Seven.
08:03Linda resigned from her WWE CEO position in 2009 to transition into a career in Republican
08:09politics.
08:10Vince was forced out of WWE earlier this year due to mounting allegations of sexual abuse,
08:15which he denies.
08:16Both still own shares in WWE's parent company TKO, and, legally, remain married.
08:23But there have been reports and rumours for decades that Vince and Linda are, in reality,
08:28separated.
08:29It's been described as something of an open secret behind the scenes, with Vince admitting
08:33to multiple affairs over the years.
08:35Jim Cornette once said that Vince and Linda were living apart when he was running OVW,
08:40which would've been back in the early 00s.
08:42Now, with Linda set to be nominated to President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet, reportedly as Secretary
08:47of Education, the Washington Post has published a profile on Linda McMahon, where, almost
08:52in a throwaway sentence, they confirm this long-standing rumour.
08:56The McMahons are currently separated, according to Linda's attorney Laura Brevetti, who
09:01called the ringboy's lawsuit baseless.
09:04With Linda set to enter the US government again, this could be a subtle distancing of
09:08herself from the scandal-ridden Vince.
09:10Despite all the controversy around Vince, many of which directly implicate WWE too,
09:15the company has somehow remained largely criticism-free.
09:19So why not see how far they can push it and start working with Jake Paul too?
09:23Paul, who reportedly had 60 million households worldwide watching or attempting to watch
09:28his boxing match against Mike Tyson on Friday night on Netflix, is the brother of former
09:33United States Champion Logan Paul.
09:36Logan appeared in the ring after the fight, where he told Tyson he would kill him, Mother
09:40Effer, if they fought.
09:42You'll potentially prepare yourselves for the darkest timeline, as Jake has now spoken
09:46on his brother's implausive podcast that he would love to come to WWE to be Logan's
09:53manager, where Logan spoke about his ultimate goal to one day become WWE Champion.
09:59In far more palatable WWE debuts, Nick Aldis has told Chris Van Vliet that he has two contracts
10:04with WWE, one as a producer behind the scenes, so an employee, and the other as an onscreen
10:10talent for his general manager role.
10:12But he's waiting for WWE to ask him to get back in the ring.
10:16I would like to lace them up.
10:17I don't care if it's on a regular basis, but I've earned it once.
10:21If it was one more time, so be it.
10:24Like I said, I feel like I meet the criteria to be on that canvas at least once.
10:29My bicep is 100 percent.
10:31In that same interview, Nick revealed that his real-life wife, former WWE Women's Champion
10:36Mickie James, might factor into future company plans too.
10:40After she had a cameo appearance at last month's Bad Blood PLE, WWE apparently told
10:44her, hey, we'd love to see you again, we'd love to do more.
10:48This comes the same day that Mickie herself replied to a fan asking for one more match
10:53in WWE or TNA.
10:55I think we might, could make that happen.
10:59HARDCORE COUNTRY EMOJI.
11:02In our final story today, let's all pay tribute to NXT's beloved faction, Chase
11:08University.
11:09Andre Chase debuted his heel teacher character three years ago on the September 21st, 2021
11:15episode of NXT.
11:16He would recruit various names over the years, with the line-up finally consisting of Tia
11:20Hale, Duke Hudson and Riley Osborn.
11:23They won the NXT tag titles twice, and became one of the brand's most beloved acts.
11:28But after Ridge Holland betrayed them on losing the tag titles at September's No Mercy,
11:33Chase faced Holland on last night's episode, where if Andre lost, Chase U would have to
11:39disband.
11:40Holland won, giving him a title shot at Trick Williams at Deadline, but sadly meaning Chase
11:46U is no more.
11:48Cheer yourself up by going to watch me, Luke, Sullivan, Laurie and Tempest play a wrestling
11:53board game.
11:54Here's a clip.
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