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00:00Is the WWE brand split over?

00:02WWE talent sent home?

00:04My review of NXT and AEW Dynamite and more.

00:08I'm Luke Owen and this is the WrestleTalk News.

00:17The most recent version of the WWE brand split came in 2016 when Stephanie McMahon and Mick

00:22Foley took over Raw, while Shane McMahon and Bryan Danielson ran Smackdown.

00:26That was only 8 years ago, but somehow feels like a totally different universe.

00:31Since then the company has mostly stuck to the brand split, however over the last month

00:35or so it feels like they've not been that bothered by it.

00:38Nia Jax and Tiffany Stratton had a match on Raw, The Judgement Day and Rhea Ripley were

00:42on Smackdown, Jey Uso and Gunther went to the blue brand and Jimmy went to the red one.

00:47All while Jakara Jackson and The Lash Legend were on both shows and on NXT at the same

00:51time.

00:52Granted, the argument against all of that would be, well it was Crown Jewel and that

00:58was built around into promotional matches.

01:00Another argument is that both shows are, for the time being, on the same network, so there

01:05aren't channel heads demanding other guys and girls to show up on their stations.

01:08But that will change when WWE moves to Netflix in 2025, which, and I hate to be the one who

01:14makes the passage of time feel ever decreasing, is only 8 or so weeks away.

01:19Off the back of a report that Netflix have requested certain names to be on their show, Fightful

01:23Sleg report that with Smackdown being on USA Network and Raw being on Netflix, each platform

01:28will need unique talent.

01:31Netflix requesting certain names means that they understand that there will be some parity

01:35there.

01:36SRS also adds that talent do not know which shows they will be on yet.

01:40Interestingly, in answer to the question, is the brand split dead, Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful

01:45Select replied, it's not 100% dead.

01:49Which could mean that while there will be a brand split in 2025, there will be more crossovers

01:54of talent across both shows.

01:56In other backstage news, Dave Meltzer is reporting that Bruce Prichard and Michael Hayes are both

02:00on temporary leave of WWE.

02:03This report has since been backed up by several other outlets.

02:06Some fans felt that something was amiss with Michael Hayes following Crown Jewel, as it

02:10was reported that Jamie Noble was the producer of the Bloodline six-man tag at that show.

02:15Usually this role is reserved for Michael Hayes, as he's the producer of all Roman Reigns

02:19matches and segments, as he goes back with the Anawaii families of the 1970s.

02:23Meltzer writes that Hayes' absence is due to personal issues.

02:27As for Bruce Prichard, Meltzer was told that it was due to a family emergency.

02:30He adds both are expected back, although the time frame was said to be indefinite.

02:34Though both men going on leave at the same time could cause some to get some red string

02:38and a cork board Meltzer write that the two are not connected, and this is not WWE getting

02:43rid of the old guard.

02:45Viper Select add in their report, neither one of these absences are Vince McMahon related

02:50for conspiracy theorists.

02:51And speaking of the old guard, last night's NXT took place in the old ECW arena and WWE

02:58went full ECW on this ECW tribute show.

03:02Jada Parker beat Lola Vice in a hardcore match with ECW's Dawn Marie as the special guest

03:06referee.

03:07I'm a poet and I didn't even know I was rhyming those words, but it happened.

03:11Wes Lee attacked ECW's Rob Van Damme, who was trying to give advice to Kalani Jordan,

03:15and ECW's Lil Guido and Tony Mameluke of the Full-Blooded Italians met with Tony D'Angelo

03:20and his family in a fun segment.

03:22Javon Evans beat Wes Lee with some distractions from ECW's Rob Van Damme, and Robert Stone interrupted

03:27Ava's announcement of Deadline, but was gored out of his boots by ECW's Rhino.

03:31ECW's Bubba Ray Dudley teamed with Trick Williams and the latter of which got pinned

03:35by Rich Holland following a knee strike.

03:37Bubba and Williams then did the Wazzup spot, which was more of a WWE spot than an ECW spot,

03:42and ECW's Devon Dudley came down with a table and put Ethan Page through it.

03:47Tony D'Angelo defeated ECW's Lil Guido, and William Regal had a segment backstage with

03:51his IRL son, Charlie Dempsey.

03:53ECW's Francine was shown at ringside as the show was main evented by an awesome 10-woman

03:59tag, as TNA's Jordan Grace teamed with Stephanie Bakker, Julia Kalani Jordan and Zaria to beat

04:05Fallon Henley, Jason Jane, Jasmine, Cora Jade and Roxanne Perez.

04:09This was so much fun, and a great way to cap off what was a fun episode of NXT that was more

04:15of a tribute show to a company that died 23 years ago.

04:19I'm all for ECW tributes, don't get me wrong, but of all the ECW tribute shows I've

04:24seen, and boy howdy have I seen a lot, this was on the lower end.

04:28Resident Evil Votes are reporting that The CW expects this episode of NXT to get the highest

04:33rating the show has ever done, which personally I can't see being the case.

04:38It's not on its usual night, it didn't have a main roster star like CM Punk or Randy Orton,

04:42and it's going up against AEW and election coverage.

04:45The AEW is probably the least important factor in all of that, but it is still a factor.

04:51And speaking of AEW Dynamite, the show opened with Tony Schiavone bringing out the Hurt Syndicate,

04:56with MVP introducing each of their members and letting the AEW roster know if you accept

05:00a business card, things can be great, but if not, you'll end up like Swerve Strickland.

05:06Swerve came out and laid out a challenge for Bobby Lashley at Full Gear, which MVP accepted.

05:10A huge first match for Bobby Lashley in All Elite Wrestling, and a great debut for the

05:17Hurt Syndicate.

05:18The newly named Death Riders of Pac and Claudio Castagnoli took on Orange Cassidy and Darby

05:22Allen in a tremendously fun match with four awesome guys that the crowd was super into.

05:28They went nuts for both Allen and Cassidy's hot tags, but the match broke down when Wheelie

05:32Yuta got involved, Marina Shafir booted the ref, and Jon Moxley choked out Orange Cassidy.

05:36Can't have a DQ if the match gets thrown out, but you can't fool me Tony Khan, I see

05:42what you're doing here, this is still a DQ, you've just rebadged it you fool!

05:47I hated this finish, but the post-match was cool, as Cassidy and Darby got laid out by

05:52the Death Riders before the conglomeration ran down for the save.

05:55Death Riders cut a promo later with Mox saying that he is disappointed in Darby Allen.

05:59This led to Tomohiro, Ishii, Mark Briscoe and Kyle O'Reilly taking on The Learning Tree

06:03in a Hardcore Trios match.

06:05It's funny, because Tony Khan and I are roughly the same age, he's like a few years older

06:10than me, which means that he and I grew up with the same style of wrestling TV show.

06:14And this is just what that used to include.

06:17Just look at last night's NXT show.

06:19Random hardcore matches where dudes hit other dudes with random things, and none of it really

06:24means anything, and then a finish happens.

06:26I think you pop and you whoop and you ooh and you ah for the table breaks and ladder breaks,

06:30but like using French words to describe things, it does feel a bit passe.

06:35With that said, I did enjoy this a whole hell of a lot.

06:38Big Bill in particular was great.

06:40Mark had the match won with the J Driller and the froggy bow from the top of a ladder through

06:44a table, but he's not facing Jericho next for the ROH Championship, so Brian Keith broke

06:48it up and Ishii hit Jericho with a Brain Buster and Sliding Elbow for the win.

06:51Which brings us to Adam Cole vs Malakai Black, and the reports that the latter might be done

06:58with AEW.

06:59Last week, when Cole took on Buddy Matthews, the crowd seemingly turned on Adam Cole and

07:03booed him in favour of Buddy Matthews.

07:06I thought it was a one-off, a one-time crowd having a bit of fun, but in this match, Malakai

07:11Black hit the Black Mass, and Cole kicked out, and the crowd booed again.

07:16Cole then hit the Panama Sunrise, and Black sat cross-legged asking him to finish the match,

07:20which he did by dropping the boom and getting the win.

07:22Afterwards, they hugged, and Cole cut a promo saying that Malakai Black is one of the best

07:26he's ever been in the ring with.

07:28This led to some online speculation that this was the Tommy end for Malakai Black in All Elite

07:33Wrestling.

07:34A rare singles match, a rare pinfall loss, and an almost goodbye tribute from one of the

07:39company's top stars.

07:40Fightful Select report this might not have been a send-off, but write that those in AEW do

07:45believe that he is done with the company as soon as the end of this year, or perhaps

07:49early next year.

07:51You might recall Tony Khan saying in a media call that Black was with AEW for at least

07:55five years back in 2022, and it would appear that is technically true if AEW exercised options

08:02that extend his deal.

08:03Fightful add, when there were rumours that Malakai wanted to go back to WWE in 2022, we're

08:08told AEW wasn't interested in letting people out of their deals to go back to WWE, whether

08:14it be him or someone else.

08:16While not similar as he wasn't there previously, we saw recently that AEW added time to Ray

08:21Phoenix's contract due to injuries, which prevented him and his Lucha brother Pentagon

08:25Jr. jumping ship to WWE.

08:27Interestingly, and this is a bit of fun, Justin Wang tweeted, was just chilling with him last

08:32week, he's not injured, leaving or retiring.

08:34Gotta say, it's a pop from me getting to quote Justin Wang on this show, it's like

08:38being able to report what Grand Pooh Bear might have said about Adam Cole on Twitter.

08:42Following Cole's match, he revealed that if he and Roderick Strong can win one more match

08:45each, it will be a triple threat at full gear between him, Roddy and MJF.

08:49Max made a phone call to someone from home, later revealed to be a big dude who offered

08:53Don Callis lots of money to take out Adam Cole.

08:56Rene tried to interview Jay White, who instead got attacked by Adam Page, and the two had

08:59a brilliant brawl and saw Juice Robinson make the save.

09:03This was great and I love Adam Page.

09:06Chris Statlander will face Mercedes-Monnais at full gear, and Camille tried to do it for

09:09the Monet and run Statlander over, but missed.

09:13Christian Cage cut a promo on ECW and said that Kip Sabian was a fatherless loser looking

09:21for some guidance, so he brought him into the fold, and is less of a disappointment than

09:25his other sons.

09:26He called out Hook and revealed that he did attack Taz because he wants another son in

09:30his ranks, and Hook ran down to attack them, but they bailed, so he killed the security

09:35instead.

09:36Oh yeah.

09:37Women.

09:38Penelope Ford took on Jamie Hayter in a match where Ford looked really great, and Hayter

09:40got the win with a desperation haterade.

09:43It's only Ford's second match in two years, but it didn't feel like it, and it was great

09:46presentation, but less than five minutes is unforgivable.

09:50It didn't even go two segments with an ad break, it was just entrances, a sprint of a

09:55match and a finish.

09:56Do better.

09:57It's a broken record at this point, but since Mariah May's winner all-in, the AEW women's

10:01division has been ice cold and seemingly just on hold until Toni Storm comes back.

10:07So thankfully, maybe things can move into a better direction as Mina Shirakawa was announced

10:13to be on Dynamite next week.

10:14Speaking of a change of pace and with the Young Bucks off TB until next year, Kazuchika Okada

10:19can get back to being Kazuchika Okada.

10:21He had a video promo putting over the return of the Continental Classic, and now he wants to

10:25become the best tournament performer of all time.

10:28This was great, and it got me so hyped for the return of the C2, I really hope that Shelton

10:33Benjamin is in it this year.

10:34And the main event saw the Don Callis family take on Ricochet and a mystery partner.

10:38Yeah, I know who this is, I said to myself while writing my notes this morning, the mystery

10:44partner will be Will Ospreay.

10:46I even wrote that down.

10:48So I was rather surprised when it was actually a returning powerhouse Hobbs, who was no longer

10:52under contract with Don Callis.

10:54This match was so damn fun and featured some awesome pairings, like the meatiness of Hobbs

10:58and Takeshita, and the speediness of Ricochet and Fletcher.

11:01Ricochet backflipping out of Takeshita's wheelbarrow German suplex genuinely took my breath away.

11:07And the surprises continued as not only did this match have a clean finish, Ricochet pinned

11:12Takeshita.

11:13Fletcher attacked Ricochet after the match, but Mark Davis ran down to get into a shoving

11:16match with his Aussie Open partner, and got attacked by Lance Archer and Brian Cage.

11:21The local selector reported that Davis is now officially cleared to wrestle again, which

11:25is great news.

11:26Adam Cole had a brawl with Takeshita as they're having a match next week, and Will Ospreay

11:30ran down to make the save for Davis in an awesome closing angle.

11:33This was a great way to cap off what was a very fun addition of AEW Dynamite.

11:38But did you know that a wrestler had a bit of a Twitter meltdown and accused Tony Khan

11:43of being a communist?

11:44Check out yesterday's WrestleTalk News for more information.

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