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00:00Fans unhappy with new WWE deal with Disney, Paul Heyman says Brock Lesnar can't be cancelled,

00:07my review of AEW Dynamite and more. I'm Luke Owen and this is the WrestleTalk News.

00:14Yesterday at 6am WWE got up, got up, got up and dropped the bombshell that they had signed

00:19a new deal with ESPN to air PLE starting in 2026. This is off the back of their deal with

00:25Peacock coming to an end, and while a lot of fans presumed they would go all in on Netflix

00:29like they have with the rest of the world, they instead announced a deal with Disney.

00:34This is also part of ESPN launching a streaming service, which WWE PLEs will air on, while

00:39select PLEs will be available to watch on ESPN's cable channel. ESPN also recently got the rights

00:44to the NFL Network, which will become part of this new streaming service. This is just

00:49in the US, and will not affect the Netflix deal that WWE have elsewhere in the world like

00:53in the UK. According to CNBC, the deal is worth $325 million per year, and with the deal lasting

01:00for the next five years, that is a whopping $1.6 billion for WWE. It kicks off with WrestleMania

01:0742 and will last until just before WrestleMania 46. As Fightful Select reports, this is likely

01:13a strategic move so that when WWE looks to renew their PLA deal or shop it elsewhere, WrestleMania

01:182021 would be one of the first things new customers would get. So how much will this cost WWE fans

01:24to watch PLEs on this new ESPN service? $29.99 a month. Or $300 for a year's subscription.

01:34Which, maths fans will want to point out, is a lot more than Peacock, Netflix, and of course,

01:39the WWE Network which famously pushed its $9.99 price tag on TV. An ESPN representative

01:45told Fightful Select subscribers to ESPN via any traditional TV provider, including cable

01:49or satellite, will be automatically granted access to the full ESPN direct-to-consumer

01:54service via authentication in an existing ESPN app, without paying the $29.99 a month fee.

02:00So for example, if you subscribe to DirecTV, you will just need to sign in via the ESPN app,

02:06and you will have access to everything that ESPN platforms have to offer, including WWE PLAs.

02:12It's worth noting, this is not an official statement from ESPN, just a representative's

02:17comments. While not confirmed as of yet, there's some speculation that this ESPN direct-to-consumer

02:22service could be added to a bundle deal with Disney+, the same way that Hulu is set to become

02:27part of a bundle deal while also being sold separately.

02:31As for the WWE archive on Peacock, one user on Reddit posted, if you look at Peacock's

02:35internal code, all WWE videos are set to be removed on March 18th, 2026. Fightful added

02:41in their own report that WWE have an advanced deal with Google, which means the WWE Vault

02:46YouTube channel could become the new home for all of WWE's archival footage. However, nothing

02:52has been confirmed, and it's this lack of clarity in some areas that has angered fans

02:56outside of the fact that this new service is more expensive than Peacock. On top of that,

03:01while that ESPN representative has said that you can access the direct-to-consumer service

03:06through cable providers, Brandon Thurston of WrestleNomics has been told by someone close

03:10to the deal that Charter, Spectrum, DirecTV, FuboTV, Hulu Live TV and Verizon Fios are the

03:16only cable providers that have that luxury. He notes this only accounts for half of the paying

03:22homes in the US, as Xfinity, Comcast, YouTube TV, Dish TV and Sling are not part of this deal.

03:29However, Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer has said that the deal is still a work in

03:34progress, adding that while that is true for the minute, many, if not most, of those listed

03:39as not getting it for free will have it for free at launch. Deals just haven't been cut.

03:45So if the deal wasn't all sorted, why announce it now? Well, Disney had an earnings call two

03:50and a half hours after the deal announcement, so it's probably a stock market thing.

03:54What do you make of the news? Leave a comment down below, and remember you can use the promo

03:57code WrestleTalk at SurfShark.com forward slash WrestleTalk to get a great deal on a great

04:02VPN. Wink.

04:03It's been a few days since the shock return of Brock Lesnar to WWE at the end of Summerslam

04:08who F5 John Cena to set up a new feud. While Lesnar has not been on WWE TV for two years,

04:13he was persona non grata in WWE following January 2024, when Janelle Grant filed a lawsuit against

04:19Vince McMahon, WWE and John Laurinaitis with accusations of sexual abuse and trafficking. Lesnar was

04:24not named in that original lawsuit, but was reported to be the ex-WWE star that Grant was

04:30offered to as a playmate that would produce personalized sexual content as part of a deal

04:34to come back, according to those accusations. Grant's team then confirmed these reports

04:39when they filed an updated complaint that explicitly named Brock Lesnar as that ex-WWE star. Lesnar

04:45was planned for a return at the 2024 Royal Rumble, which he was then pulled from following

04:50the lawsuit. He was removed as a playable character in WWE 2K24 and he, along with Vince McMahon,

04:55became a name that could not be said on TV and was edited out of video packages.

05:00According to the Wrestling Observer, WWE's legal team signed off around four weeks ago

05:04on the idea of Lesnar coming back, something WWE themselves more or less confirmed on this

05:09past Monday's Raw, when they said that Triple H and Nick Khan reached out to Brock about

05:12him coming home. When asked how talent felt about Lesnar coming back, Sean Ross Sapp wrote

05:17in a Fightful Select Q&A, very mixed emotions. Not everyone is sweeping it under the rug,

05:21but if you're asking if people are actively going to walk out of the company, I don't

05:25see that happening.

05:26When asked if talent were given a heads up about the return, Sean Ross Sapp replied,

05:30not even cameraman Stu was given a heads up on Brock. WWE didn't tell anyone and doesn't

05:35care how talent feels.

05:37And now Paul Heyman has spoken about Brock's return to Ariel Helwani where he said, obviously,

05:42the decision was made, it's time to bring back Brock Lesnar. Whatever that decision is based

05:46on, I respect it. If there are critics of it, get over it. He's here, and he's going

05:51to be here, and you ain't going to be able to cancel him. And I'm happy to have him back

05:55because the audience is happy to have him back. If we brought him back and the audience rebelled

05:59against it, I wouldn't be happy to have him back.

06:02He also said, there's always going to be critics of anything that we do, and very few

06:06people ever make it to the top in life without either making mistakes or having skeletons in

06:11their closets. In response to Lesnar's return to WWE, Grant's lawyers put out a statement

06:15saying, we look forward to the full set of facts, including those about Mr. Lesnar, coming

06:20out in a court of law where they belong.

06:23And lastly, before we get into the AEW Dynamite review, there was some confusion following a

06:27PW Insider report that Austin Theory had been removed from WWE's internal roster, which

06:33some read and aggregated as, he'd been released by the company. Fightful Select reports that

06:38they'd reached out for clarification and were told he isn't off the roster completely,

06:43and instead has just been moved to the injured list alongside names like Ilya Dragunov and

06:48Zoe Stark. Theory's long running tag partnership with Grayson Waller ended abruptly on TV recently,

06:53and Waller instead has been working with The New Day.

06:55But it's now time for my review of AEW Dynamite in about five minutes.

06:59The show opened with an announcement that Jon Moxley demanded a match this week, as he's

07:03frustrated having lost to Hangman last week, and speedball Mike Bailey stepped up to the

07:07challenge. Well, he's not going to get a win over Bobby Lashley any time soon, is he? LOL. More on that in a bit.

07:13This was a great match, and it shows why names like Bayley and Kevin Knight have been such

07:16great additions to the AEW roster. Not only are they great wrestlers, but they can connect

07:21with the crowd and get over. It means the crowd buy into the heel heat and go nut for the babyface

07:26comeback.

07:27Wheelie used to trip Bayley, but was dragged away by Darby Allin, and speedball got a superb

07:31niffle off the back of that distraction. But Moxley put him away with the bulldog choke

07:34and death rider. Moxley and Shafir later found Yuta in a body bag with a challenge for

07:38Forbidden Door. Mercedes Monet called Renee and Mark, and then found one of her three contenders

07:42for the TBS Championship at Forbidden Door, when Alex Windsor beat Queen Almanada, Sky

07:46Blue and Billy Starks in a good match. A bit clunky and choreographed at times, but fun

07:50overall. Tony Storm came down to be in the corner of Windsor, as her Forbidden Door opponent

07:54Athena was in Billy's corner, and the two collided as Windsor got the roll up win.

07:58Monet and Athena then laid out the faces after the match, I smell a tag match player.

08:02Carl Fletcher had a championship celebration with Don Callis, where Callis got him a new oil

08:05painting of them looking all jacked and nude together, and he'll be facing Tomohiro Ishii for

08:10the TNT Championship on Collision, which, let's be honest, feels more Forbidden Door than

08:13anything announced for Forbidden Door so far. Adam Copeland cut a promo saying he's having

08:17a match with Stokely Hathaway next week as he's not allowed to touch FTR, and the Young

08:20Box got their latest humiliating entrance as production didn't fully raise their stage

08:25door, changed their music and called them Max and Jeremy. Shoutout to you 2010 TNA.

08:31They then lost to Brodido in a superb match that went through two commercial breaks. It told

08:35a great story of Brodido having cool tag moves, but their inexperience as a tag team was no

08:40match for the overwhelming experience of the Bucks. However, the Bucks are in their own

08:45head having lost their EVP ship and still don't even know what to call their finish, which

08:49allowed Brodido to hit their cool move and get a shock win.

08:52Rene interviewed the Hurt Syndicate and MVP gave MJF a thumbs down, officially removing

08:56him from the group. There was a report that this was supposed to last longer, and MVP has

09:00heat in AEW, and while Fightful Slug reported that there is heat with MVP and some members

09:05of the locker room, particularly Mike Bailey, there is no heat with MJF.

09:10Clearly responding to and shutting down this report, MVP posted a video of him and the rest

09:13of Hurt Syndicate jokingly telling Mike Bailey to F off while recording a vlog to social media,

09:18which Bailey replied to with heat.

09:2112 Strickton cut a good promo on Kazuchika Okada, and a trio's match was set up for collision

09:24as the Triangle of Madness will take on Queen Aminada, Willow Nightingale and a far too enthusiastic

09:29Chris Statlander. And the main event was a great match between MJF and Mark Briscoe.

09:34Hilariously they promoted that MJF won the CMLL Light Heavyweight Championship over the

09:38weekend, but called him the CMLL World Champion in his name bar. Nice gaslighting there.

09:45The story of the match was proving Hangman's point. Max is a coward, and Mark is more deserving

09:50of a shot at the title. MJF kept rolling away from attempts with a froggy bow, and he kept

09:54running away and only got the heat with underhanded tactics. My only real complaint about the match

09:58is the consistency of rules. As Mark got out of the table, which the commentator said,

10:01well that'll get him DQ'd, but the referee wasn't stopping him, and then he crashed

10:05through the table when MJF again rolled out of the way with a froggy bow. Max looked to

10:08get the count out win. When Mark made it back in, MJF hit the heat seeker, and the referee

10:12missed Briscoe's foot on the ropes and Max got the win. MJF attacked Mark after the match

10:16and busted him open, bringing out a cowboy to brawl with Max. A good ending, to a really

10:21good show.

10:28You're born to do this. You earned this. You stop getting in your own head. I'm happy.

10:48You're happy? Yeah, I think I'm happy. Yeah, I did okay. Just woof. It's crazy out there.

10:55It's crazy. That's why we do these things. It's moments like that when you get them.

11:03when you get them.

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