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00:00Good news for AEW and their TV rights!

00:03WWE backs Vince McMahon's motion in the Janelle Grant lawsuit, CM Punk's backstage

00:08attitude and more.

00:09I'm Luke Owen and this is the WrestleTalk News.

00:18As AEW approach their 5th anniversary with Double or Nothing at the end of the month,

00:21there's been a lot of chatter online about their profitability and the chances of them

00:26getting a new TV rights deal from Warner Bros. Discovery, who've been their TV partners

00:30since October 2019.

00:32WWE have got all of their TV rights deals wrapped up.

00:35Smackdown will be moving from Fox to USA Network, while NXT will be moving off USA Network to

00:40The CW, and Raw will be moving off cable entirely as it embarks on a new C with Netflix.

00:45It was also announced recently that WWE will remain on USA Network for the final few months

00:50of 2024 before it moves to Netflix in January of 2025.

00:54And these TV rights have come with big revenue increases.

00:57WWE's ticket sales and merch and all of that may be up, but their biggest driver of

01:01revenue will always be the TV deals.

01:04And that is why it's been such a big discussion for AEW.

01:08Ticket sales are not as strong for All Elite Wrestling as they were a couple of years ago.

01:12Interest in the product doesn't appear to be as high as it was a couple of years ago.

01:16But maybe none of that will matter if they get another five year deal with a big money increase.

01:22So I think it's fair to say that a lot rides on this TV deal.

01:26And Warner Bros. Discovery has been in media conversations a lot recently as it looks like

01:31they're set to lose their NBA coverage, which presents two worldviews.

01:35Number one, less money from advertisers and therefore less to spend on other projects.

01:40And two, more money saved and a bigger need to invest in a reliable TV show that constantly

01:46brings you ratings that put your channel in the top five for cable every Wednesday.

01:51Losing the NBA would also free up Thursdays, which Sean Ross Sapp on Fightful's Raw post

01:55show noted would be a desired day for AEW to move collision to.

02:00With Warner Bros. Discovery Upfronts taking place today, many expected this is where we

02:05will get the announcement of a new AEW TV deal.

02:08But Mike Johnson of PWInsider is reporting that while AEW will be mentioned as part of the

02:14Upfronts, we do not believe that the two sides have locked in a new media rights deal and

02:19do not expect there will be any sort of announcement in that regard.

02:23Not believing that the two sides have reached a deal doesn't sound like good news, however

02:27Fightful Select have added to PWInsider's report saying,

02:30we're told that the announcement of a new deal is expected to be kept very close to the

02:36vest and summer or fall could be the more likely announcement point.

02:40Which makes it sound like there is a deal in place, just not one they're ready to announce

02:45yet.

02:46But if there's no new deal to announce, why would AEW be mentioned in the Upfronts at all?

02:51Well, according to Fightful Select, there is a pilot for a new AEW related program with

02:56WBD that was set to be announced for social channels this week.

03:00Fightful Select note, this isn't going to be a reality TV show, and the rumors circulating

03:05online suggest this could be a new show hosted by RJ City and Renee Paquette.

03:10There could be another reason that WBD aren't announcing this AEW deal, and it all comes back

03:15to the streaming wars.

03:17And we'll have more on that in a bit, but first we want to show you the trailer for

03:20our latest WrestleTalk original, which looks at Roman Reigns' Universal Championship

03:24reign from start to finish in one of the longest videos we've ever made.

03:30Spanning nearly four years, Roman Reigns has been ruling as the head of the table.

03:35Fans were just so sick of being force-fed what they were supposed to like.

03:39Family, tradition, legacy, the responsibility of being champion.

03:43Those are the pillars of Reigns' new character.

03:46I think it might be the best storyline WWE have ever done.

03:50And if you compare how they handled Jay joining, and how they handled Jimmy, one feels significantly

03:56more anticlimactic than the other.

03:57I think there was a time where we all thought Sammy was the person.

04:02Cody brought in The Rock as a replacement for himself, who wrote that?

04:08Join me as I take a look at Roman Reigns as world champion and the bloodline from start

04:12to finish.

04:17Please do subscribe and enable notifications to know when that video goes live, which is

04:21this Saturday.

04:22And get a brew ready, because it clocks in at just under two hours.

04:27And please do give Pete and the rest of the team some cheat pops in the comments down below,

04:31because they have worked really, really hard on this video.

04:35Back to those AEW TV talks.

04:37One of the reasons a new AEW deal might not have been announced is because Warner Brothers'

04:41discovery want to put more focus on their Max streaming platform.

04:46And Fightful Select report that WBD have had interest in putting AEW's pay-per-views

04:51on Max for some time now, with proposals from WBD to AEW going back as far as last year.

05:00They add that when AEW first signed with Warner in 2019, Max was not a focus for WBD, but now

05:06it is, and almost every deal that WBD does is with Max in mind.

05:11And it was recently announced that Warner Brothers' discovery would be teaming with

05:15Disney to merge their Disney+, Hulu and Max platforms into one big streaming platform that

05:21presumably they're going to call Cable.

05:23So perhaps one of the reasons WBD have been keeping this AEW deal close to the vest, as

05:28Fightful Select put it, is because there needed to be a big Max integration, but they need to

05:33figure what Max looks like in this post-Disney partnership.

05:37Gear shifting now to the ongoing Vince McMahon lawsuit filed by Janelle Grant, which accused

05:41McMahon, John Laurinaitis and WWE of sex trafficking, sexual abuse and more.

05:46There has been a lot of back and forth since the case was made public back in January, with

05:50Laurinaitis' lawyer saying that he was also a victim of McMahon before siding with him

05:54in a fight against the lawsuit together.

05:57McMahon has reportedly hired the same PR firm that had Harvey Weinstein as a client to help

06:01rehabilitate his image, with Dave Meltzer noting on Wrestling Observer Radio that McMahon

06:05wants to get back into the business world, but perhaps not specifically the wrestling

06:10business world.

06:11In another new filing, McMahon's lawyers claim text messages from Grant to Vince show

06:15that the relationship, and the violent sexual nature of it, was consensual, but provided

06:19no screenshots and claimed that McMahon deleted all of the messages once the relationship ended.

06:25His team also filed a motion to move the Grant case out of public court and into

06:29private arbitration.

06:31Since the case was made public, WWE have distanced themselves from McMahon.

06:35He was removed from the WWE 2K24 game as a playable character, even blurred out in the

06:40cutscenes, and the company have made concerted efforts to put over that this is a new era

06:46of WWE, a post-Vince McMahon era.

06:49But they are named in the lawsuit, with Nick Khan and Stephanie McMahon revealed to be two

06:54of the unnamed executives that Grant alleges knew of McMahon's actions.

06:59And now in a new filing, WWE have shown support in McMahon's motion to move the case to arbitration.

07:06The filing writes that WWE disputes Grant's allegations, and argues that the NDA she signed

07:11when her alleged affair with McMahon was broken off had a proviso that precludes Grant from

07:16taking this to court.

07:17Grant and her legal team had already dismissed this in their initial claim, citing the Speak-Out

07:22Act and the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protecting Act of 2000, which argue the NDA

07:28and its proviso are unenforceable.

07:30WWE's legal team, on the other hand, argue neither apply to their request for arbitration.

07:36If you have been affected by anything we've spoken about today, please do visit WrestleTalk.com

07:40forward slash support eachother for links for people to reach out to.

07:43We gear shift again now to talk about the return of CM Punk, and a new report from the Wrestling

07:48Observer that claims Punk will be making an in-ring return to WWE fairly soon.

07:52Punk made his return to WWE back in November after being fired from AEW in the summer following

07:58the Brawl Inn incident at their all-in Wembley Stadium show.

08:01He had a couple of matches for WWE in December, beating Dominic Mysterio on two house shows,

08:06and then got injured during the 2024 Men's Royal Rumble.

08:09He's continued his feud with Drew McIntyre, who is also out of action, and the current rumour

08:13is that Punk will be back in time for SummerSlam to potentially do that Drew match, and that

08:18could now all be potentially on the card.

08:21The Wrestling Observer notes that if Punk did indeed get surgery at the end of January,

08:25which is what was reported, then he'll be ready for wrestling again at the end of July

08:29or early August, just in time for SummerSlam.

08:32Punk left All Elite Wrestling with a lot of negativity and backstage scuttlebutt.

08:36From publicly calling out Hangman Page on an episode of Dynamite when Page wasn't

08:39even in the building, to the public bashing of the company at the All Out press conference,

08:44to the backstage fight with the Elite, banning people from being backstage at Collision and

08:49the real glass argument and scuffle with Jack Perry that led to his firing.

08:53He also spent the better part of a decade going scorched earth on WWE, blasting the company

08:59for firing him on his wedding day in 2014, and their relationship with Saudi Arabia, once

09:04even telling The Miz to go and suck a blood money covered duck.

09:08But from all accounts since his return, this is a different CM Punk to 2014, and a different

09:13CM Punk to the one in AEW.

09:16Shane Helms, a producer for WWE, recently told Behind the Turnbuckle that, in the last

09:20six months, Punk has been a pleasure to work with.

09:23He said, in terms of the feeling backstage, he's been a pleasure ever since he's come

09:27back and I never had any problems with him to begin with, so I'm not surprised he's

09:31been a pleasure with me, but I haven't heard of anything bad either.

09:35This backs up reports from the likes of Fightful Select who have noted that Punk has had no

09:38issues with WWE since his return, and has actually been very helpful backstage when visiting NXT.

09:44And speaking of NXT, we saw a title change there last night.

09:47Tony D'Angelo took on Charlie Dempsey for the Heritage Cup, and although the scores were

09:51tied for quite some time, it all came down to the final moments of the fifth round.

09:56And despite interference from returning no-quarter-catch members Damon Kemp and Miles Bourne, D'Angelo

10:01scored the final pinfall to win the cup.

10:04This is D'Angelo's third championship reign in NXT, having previously held the NXT Tag

10:08Team titles twice.

10:09Both he and Stax were rumoured to be called up to the main roster during the 2024 draft,

10:14but those plans were evidently changed.

10:16That isn't the only bit of news from D'Angelo and NXT, as his match with Dempsey nearly didn't

10:20go ahead.

10:21NXT General Manager AFA announced earlier in the show that D'Angelo would be fined $20,000

10:25for the scene that was caused at the end of last week's show, a fine that he quite

10:28easily paid in cash.

10:30With all these talks of CM Punk, why not check out how we would book him in the 2025 Men's

10:36Royal Rumble match, as we try and predict every entrant in that match way too far in advance.

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