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00:00Anger over more top WWE firings, a big AEW problem, a Bloodline Family member health

00:06update and more.

00:08I'm Oli Davis, and this is the WrestleTalk News!

00:182024 has shown just how effective positive momentum can be for WWE.

00:23Up until a year ago, whenever the company released anyone, there would be breaking news

00:27live streams, social media outrage and excitement over when, and how, AEW would pick them up.

00:34Now this year, with news WWE has parted ways with a 34th person, the general reaction is

00:40yeah, well maybe that makes sense with a TKO merger.

00:43While there have been a number of talent releases in 2024, with names like Jinder Mahal, Jerry

00:48Lawler, Cameron Grimes and Xia Li being let go, the bulk have been back office corporate

00:53members of staff.

00:54This is a usual consequence of business business business mergers.

00:57With WWE and the UFC now being one company, they don't need to double up on having their

01:02own departments like sales and graphic design.

01:05Although TKO did say there wouldn't be any more releases last year, and with TKO technically

01:09being a brand new entity, it doesn't have the loyalty to long term members of staff.

01:15This has seen WWE fire such beloved workers as Sue Atchinson, who had been with the company

01:20since 1986 and was behind their relationship with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and long time

01:25executive John Porco, most recently the Senior Vice President of Live Events Marketing, who

01:30had joined in 1999.

01:32PWInsider has now reported another name has left the company.

01:36WWE Vice President of International Events and General Manager of Emerging Markets, Michael

01:41Levin.

01:42Levin has worked for WWE for over seven years in the London office, and his position has

01:46been reportedly phased out during the merger.

01:49But in confirming Levin's departure, Fightful added a more surprising release.

01:54Senior Director of TV Event Relations Steve Rubin, who had been with WWE for 26 years, first

02:02starting out as a production assistant and working his way up through the company.

02:07The Wrestling Observer have added that Rubin was very popular behind the scenes in WWE,

02:12and many have complained privately about his release, and one person has taken it online.

02:18No stranger to public rants, Ric Flair has posted on X with the first letter of every word capitalised,

02:26this is the worst professional move I've ever seen in my entire life, makes me think

02:31he's critiquing a wrestling match, to let go of a man who was so generous and good, who

02:36accommodated everyone including me and my family and my world of friends.

02:42God bless you Steve Rubin, I'm so sorry.

02:46One of the other corporate names released by WWE this year was Dan Ventrell, but according

02:50to Fightful that wasn't just because of the merger.

02:53It was because he didn't properly communicate with a lot of talent who have contracts expiring

02:58soon.

02:59Which is why one of WWE's biggest stars and a current champion could just walk out of

03:04the company in a couple of weeks.

03:13Fightful is reporting that current Women's World Champion Becky Lynch has approximately

03:17three weeks left on her WWE contract, and hasn't yet signed a new one.

03:23Both sides have been in talks, but the terms haven't yet been agreed.

03:26It shows how different the company is now compared to under Vince McMahon.

03:29I'm not sure Vince would have ever put a title on a wrestler a month out from their

03:34contract expiring.

03:35In fact, he would have probably used that to get them to re-sign a new deal first, then

03:39buried them once they had.

03:40Yet Levesque booked Lynch to win the vacated title due to Rhea Ripley's sudden injury, giving

03:45Becky way more leverage in any future negotiations.

03:50Even when, you could have had just Liv Morgan win it, whose contract isn't imminently up.

03:55It's still widely expected Becky will agree a new deal with WWE, just like the other big

04:00names who had their contracts running out this year have.

04:03Like Finn Balor, Drew McIntyre and Becky's real life husband Seth Rollins.

04:07I'm just presuming it will now be for loads more money.

04:11Unless, much like the back office staff, TKO decides they don't need wrestling people anymore.

04:16They've got a whole UFC right there.

04:18The benefits of the TKO merger weren't just in consolidating service departments of

04:22the company.

04:23There was also much potential for onscreen business synergy.

04:26Like UFC fighters appearing in a WWE ring, or maybe even WWE wrestlers getting in the octagon.

04:34One more fight.

04:35One more fight.

04:36No, not that kind of fight.

04:38With news that UFC heavyweight Derrick Lewis is in talks with WWE, and him running out

04:42of the cage to hug Randy Orton from out of nowhere after his fight night win on Saturday,

04:47UFC President Dana White has said, listen, some of the fighters who fight here have always

04:52dreamed about doing a WWE match or whatever it is, and I don't have a problem with that.

04:57I didn't have a problem with that when Vince was consistently f***ing with me for no reason,

05:01and now that that's not the case anymore, I obviously would absolutely do it.

05:06Interestingly, that's not the only synergy White proposed.

05:10Dana noted the plan moving forward is to host entire TKO weekends, with powerslap on Friday

05:16still a thing apparently, UFC on a Saturday, and a WWE show on a Sunday, all presumably

05:23in the same venue.

05:24Currently, every WWE premium live event announced for this year, up until September's Bash

05:29at Berlin is taking place on a Saturday night.

05:33Perhaps after that date, which would follow TKO's first birthday, WWE PLEs could be moving

05:39back to Sundays.

05:40Which was the tradition until Nick Khan joined the company in 2019.

05:44What that means for Friday's Smackdown, which is when powerslap would take place, remains

05:48to be seen.

05:49Perhaps it's a sign that'll be moving days of the week once it comes off Fox long term.

05:54Now here's a message from powerslap's next big signee, Turbo Jack.

06:22And if you bear enough, you get a shout out from the greatest status wrestler ever to

06:27walk god's green earth!

06:28Oh god, I miss my wife.

06:30So thank you the hundred dollar man, C.D. Horvour, Baldin' Brummie, Bratlin' Thoth,

06:35Pig Jiggy, Josh Martin, Double L, Liam Leonard, The Pin, Hickle of Success, Luke Kelly,

06:41The Mapman, Matthew Allen, Abominable Michael Abbott, King of the Conquest, Steven Mullinex,

06:46Pay for the Course, Sargeath, and where there's Will, there's Will Campbell.

06:51Go to Patreon.com forward slash WrestleTalk to get your own shout out for loads of exclusive

06:58videos.

06:59The King and Queen of the Ring show in Saudi Arabia will take place on the 25th of May.

07:04Make sure to subscribe right here on WrestleTalk, where me, Luke and more will be doing live

07:08reactions.

07:09And there's been several more live show results over the weekend in the tournament.

07:13At WWE's house shows on Saturday and Sunday, LA Knight beat Santos Escobar, Tiffany Stratton

07:19beat Mitchum, Kofi Kingston beat Rey Mysterio, and Shayna Baszler beat Maxine Dupree.

07:24Dupree had to replace Zelina Vega as the tournament curse continued, making Vega the fourth person

07:30not to be medically cleared for the first round.

07:32There's two weeks and still eight wrestlers in each tournament to work around if any more

07:36injuries do happen.

07:38AEW, however, don't have that much wriggle room.

07:42The main event of Wednesday's Dynamite was to reveal the two surprise Team AEW members

07:46to join FTR going against the Elites Jack Perry, Kazuchika Okada and the Young Bucks at Double

07:52or Nothing's Anarchy in the Arena.

07:54Unfortunately, one of them, just four days later, might end up having to be pulled from

07:59that match.

08:00Eddie Kingston and Bryan Danielson were the two wrestlers revealed, so of course, at least

08:04one of them would have a hard hitting New Japan match in between that and one of AEW's

08:08biggest shows of the year.

08:10Kingston wrestled Gabe Kidd in a no rope, last man standing match at New Japan's Resurgence

08:14show on Saturday.

08:16Kidd won the match, along with Eddie's last remaining Continental Classic title for New

08:20Japan's strong openweight belt.

08:22The match's finish show saw Kidd suplex Kingston off the apron through a table outside, but Eddie's

08:28leg crashed hard on the guard rail.

08:30He wasn't able to get up for a long time, but was heard by members of the crowd saying

08:34he thought he could make it back into the ring.

08:37This was for the final angle, which saw Jack Perry and the Bucks invade New Japan and hit

08:41Eddie with a BTE trigger.

08:44The Wrestling Observer writes there is still no update on Kingston's condition, and the

08:48only thing they've heard is that people are crossing their fingers and are hoping he's

08:52okay.

08:53Hopefully this is all an elaborate work and Kingston is fine, but there is an unfortunate possibility

08:58that Eddie was injured, but just managed to do the angle, which could help write him off

09:02Double or Nothing if needed.

09:05In a positive health update, Atha Anawaii has been discharged from hospital after suffering

09:10two heart attacks.

09:11Atha is one half of the legendary Wild Samoans tag team, and the uncle of Roman Reigns Rikishi,

09:17and loads more.

09:18Check out our Bloodline Family Tree Explained video by clicking the link in the video description

09:22below for the full, highly confusing breakdown.

09:25He currently runs WXW Wrestling, not the German one, which gave this update on Facebook.

09:30On Thursday, our beloved patriarch Atha, the Wild Samoan, had a successful TAVR procedure

09:36to replace his aortic valve.

09:38Yesterday afternoon, he was discharged from the hospital.

09:41We're all so grateful that this final hurdle has been passed.

09:44Now he has more back rehabilitation to do, but our Pops kicked out again and is one of the

09:49strongest human beings in the world.

09:52Thank you all for your prayers and concern.

09:54Now go watch Luke, Pete and I try to predict every entrant in the Men's Royal Rumble match.

09:59Way too far in advance.

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