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In this episode we look at WWE's perspective on the differences between Jey Uso and LA Knight, what are the plans for Oba Femi at SummerSlam, Tommy Dreamer departs TNA Wrestling, and Tessa Blanchard makes her decision by departing TNA and heading to CMLL.
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02:47Today, jumping in with the WWE and their perception of LA Knight versus their perception of Jey Uso.
02:54Topic of discussion across multiple platforms this week, what culture, WrestleZone, F4W, everybody
03:01talking about the fact that WWE believes that Jey Uso is a more talented in-ring worker than
03:08LA Knight, and the theory is, is that because of a lot of the botched moves and errors that
03:13LA Knight has had in his matches, that for some reason that validates that perspective.
03:18And I'm here to tell you that I completely disagree.
03:21One, let me be clear, I am not taking anything away from Jey Uso.
03:24Jey Uso has gotten over so organically with the fan base, he's so popular, it's ridiculous.
03:30I have no problem with Jey Uso earning his flowers and being a part of the main event scene.
03:34I think that's absolutely warranted.
03:37My issue is this, take a look at the matches that Jey Uso performs in and take a look and
03:42see what happens.
03:43Jey Uso's matches are full of punches, super kicks, splashes off the turnbuckle.
03:49Every single item that we're talking about is a relatively basic move.
03:54You don't see a lot of really innovative stuff coming from Jey Uso.
03:58When you talk about LA Knight, take a look at some of the botches.
04:01His jumping from the middle to top turnbuckle to drop the elbow.
04:05The jumping up into the turnbuckles to flip somebody off the corner.
04:08These are much more athletic moves, much stronger skill set, and frankly, much more prone to having
04:15a botch or an error.
04:16Now, what do you do?
04:17Do you program those moves out of his matches so you don't have those errors and make him
04:21quote unquote more coachable?
04:23Like some people are claiming that Jey Uso may be.
04:26Is Jey Uso more coachable or is his moveset a safer moveset?
04:31So there's not as many opportunities for the botches.
04:34Let's be honest.
04:35A year ago, people were talking about whether or not Jey Uso was gassed out in all of his matches.
04:40So if Jey Uso was getting gassed out so bad a year ago that people were talking about moving
04:45him out of the main event scene because he wasn't able to hang with people like Roman Reigns,
04:50CM Punk, Cody Rhodes, and people of that nature, then how do we suddenly code switch to LA Knight?
04:55By the way, LA Knight got over organically with the crowd and was on the rocket by himself
05:02to the top, and they force-fed a championship match with Roman Reigns in Saudi, which totally
05:10destroyed his momentum.
05:12Had they never sped that program up, forced him to do that to make the Saudis happy, who
05:17knows where LA Knight would be right now?
05:19Instead, he got pigeonholed after that match into an upper-mid-card thing for so long, we
05:25haven't really seen LA Knight in a main program.
05:28And let's be honest.
05:29Look, if you don't want to put him over Roman Reigns, that's fine.
05:31There is no reason somebody like LA Knight couldn't be in the picture to be the guy to
05:36have dethroned Gunther, to be a guy to go one-on-one with CM Punk, to be a guy who
05:41could
05:41wrestle with Cody Rhodes.
05:43There's no reason if you're that worried about protecting the bloodline and Jey Uso and Roman
05:48Reigns and people like that, Jacob Fatu.
05:50So, I don't see why, when you consider all those factors, you would think Jey Uso is
05:56a more talented in-ring worker than LA Knight.
05:59I think he is a safer worker because of the moveset that has been put in place for him.
06:04But I don't necessarily think that he is a better worker.
06:07That's something that's totally subjective.
06:09I'm going to hold to my opinion.
06:10Obviously, you have yours.
06:11If you have a comment, please put it down below.
06:13I would love to hear from where you see what you have to say about that.
06:16Moving over to TNA Wrestling, breaking news today.
06:19Tommy Dreamer announced on Busted Open Radio that he has decided with Carlos Silva to mutually
06:26part ways amicably from TNA Wrestling.
06:28He is no longer the head of the creative department there.
06:32The short-term solution is Delirious, who's been assisting with creative, is going to apparently
06:38take over short-term.
06:39There is already conversation about former WWE writer Road Dogg coming in and becoming
06:45the guy who takes over creative.
06:47That's purely speculative at this point.
06:50But huge news seeing that Tommy Dreamer leaving that position he's been in for quite a long
06:55time.
06:55Some people, especially, it's been noted that talent were frustrated, many of them, with
07:00the creative direction of the company the last year or two, that they don't feel like it
07:04was growing at the rate necessary, certainly since the move to AMC.
07:08Now, I don't know if I necessarily agree with that.
07:10You had a lot of talent that was leaving the company.
07:12People could say that they were leaving because of the creative.
07:15I think they were leaving because of the money.
07:17I don't think Joe Hendry was getting bad booking.
07:20I think his programs were just fine in TNA.
07:23But let's be honest, TNA money is not WWE money.
07:27When you see other talents like Ace Austin and people like that going to AEW or The Rascals,
07:35that's not just because they didn't want to be in TNA, it's because there's a money factor
07:41involved in AEW pays better than TNA does.
07:44So to assume that everything falls on Tommy Dreamer's creative as to why people were leaving
07:51and things like that and then use that as almost like a scapegoat for a reason to get
07:54rid of the guy, I don't necessarily agree with that.
07:57Now, I'm not telling you you shouldn't have moved on from Tommy Dreamer.
07:59Maybe they should have.
08:00I don't know.
08:01I don't see where the road dog coming in is going to drastically change the product.
08:06But if that's what TNA believes and if they feel like they needed to shake something up
08:10and this is how they're going to do it, then so be it.
08:12Now, where does Tommy Dreamer go from here?
08:14Now, look at this stage of his career.
08:15Maybe he wants to take a step back.
08:17Maybe he wants to do a GCW thing, a Maple Leaf Pro because he really appreciated Scott
08:21D'Amore.
08:22Does he want to come into WWE and work in AAA?
08:24Does he want to try to do something as an agent in the main roster or in NXT?
08:28I don't know.
08:29Does he want to go to AEW and try to help Tony Khan in some way, shape, or form?
08:33Who's been very open to having really innovative, no pun intended for the innovator of violence,
08:38but very innovative people come in and offer suggestions and guidance and mentoring to
08:43his younger talent.
08:44I don't know.
08:45But Tommy Dreamer obviously has a lot left to give to the business.
08:48I hope he finds something amazing to land on his feet and be a part of the business going
08:52forward.
08:53And I hope that this does, if anything else, gives Road Dog a way to get back into the business
08:57because I also think he's an incredibly creative guy who had so much, it seemed like, at least
09:03from WWE Unreal, to say about people like Chelsea Green and stuff like that, where I think he
09:08had a different view of talent sometimes than maybe Triple H does.
09:12And right now, with everybody having such an issue with the repetitive booking of WWE,
09:16maybe Road Dog, the reason he's gone is because he saw that too.
09:20And maybe he was critical of that.
09:22I don't know.
09:22I wasn't in the room.
09:23It's purely speculative.
09:24Moving on from there, in TNA news also, it was announced the other day that Tessa Blanchard
09:29has negotiated her release from TNA Wrestling.
09:33The word came out last week that there was some conflict of interest and some heat on Tessa
09:37for taking a booking with CMLL, a place where ever since the accusations, allegations, whatever
09:44you want to call it, about her somewhat racist comments in, I believe it was Japan, some of the
09:51things she said while working at a show in Mexico, some other things that have come up
09:56throughout the last couple of years.
09:57Let's be quite honest.
09:58Since the pandemic, prior to the pandemic, I mean, she was a TNA world champion.
10:02She beat Brian Cage and Sammy Callahan.
10:05She was really looking like she was going to be something special in this business.
10:09Probably WWE or AEW bound.
10:11If you remember, she won like the women's four-way at the original All In.
10:15And that never came to fruition.
10:17And it didn't come to fruition because there were allegations about her being racist, being
10:21a bully in the back and things like that.
10:23Things that were corroborated by people like Chelsea Green, who no matter what you think
10:27of her on-screen character, Chelsea Green has a phenomenal reputation for being a quality
10:32human being, a great person.
10:34So I would tend to lean towards believing her perspective on things.
10:38I do know, look, I'm just going to be fair.
10:40I've seen statements and comments from Tessa Blanchard where she has apologized and been
10:47very remorseful about things that she may or may not have said in the past.
10:52Some people believe that she has not been remorseful enough.
10:55That is not for me to decide.
10:57I was not one of the parties that was offending somebody else.
11:00And I was certainly not one of the people who was being offended.
11:02So I don't have the right to say anything either way.
11:05All I'm stating is I have seen that whether it's enough to atone for what she said or did,
11:10I don't know.
11:10That's up to the general public to decide, but it plays into what we're talking about
11:15right now, which is her leaving TNA because she basically couldn't get any other jobs in
11:19North America and TNA came calling and they brought her back.
11:22She's been spending the rest of her time in CMLL for years since the pandemic, really.
11:27And they book her more frequently.
11:30And it sounds as though we all have confirmed reports, but it sounds as though that CMLL was
11:34the one who was kind of pushing the letter and saying, listen, you need to pick a side.
11:38You're either CMLL or you're TNA and you CMLL being that they do book her more frequently
11:43seem like they were going to be the ones that she was going to side with.
11:47And look, if you go and see the CMLL shows, they're drawing 10 to 15,000 people every single
11:51week for their programming.
11:52So it does not surprise me that she would choose them as her option.
11:57Look, I hope she has a tone for everything she's done.
12:00I hope she genuinely feels bad if she did anything for, for whatever she did do.
12:04Um, I hope that the parties who were privy to being offended when it happened, um, feel
12:09like they have received justice in some way, shape or form.
12:12I hope that they, um, have had the opportunity for her to try to make amends to them on a
12:17personal level.
12:17I have no idea if that's true or not.
12:20I hope that's the case though, because you would hope that somebody would do that.
12:23But at the end of the day, we're going to have to wait and see what happens for Tessa
12:26Blanchard over time because she's running out of options.
12:29I mean, this is a young lady who really should have been having a rocket ship strapped to
12:33her in WWE at some point and really been one of, you know, talk about the four horsewomen
12:38of WWE.
12:39She could have been on that level.
12:41She could have been in the ring with Charlotte Flair.
12:43Think about a Charlotte Flair, Tessa Blanchard tag team, an old school horseman field of things
12:49that could have happened.
12:50And she let these personal demons, so to speak, get in the way of intelligent decision-making.
12:56So we'll have to wait and see how things plan out.
12:58And one other lady who's in the news, Rhea Ripley, who is injured at the moment, we don't
13:03know how severe, but there is a story from WrestleTalk yesterday came out saying that there's
13:08a possibility, actually I apologize, I believe that it was WhatCulture Wrestling that stated
13:14that she would probably be out until SummerSlam, which is like six weeks away.
13:19That's a significant injury and that it could significantly impact the plans for SummerSlam.
13:24We could be seeing Charlotte Flair taking on Jade Cargill instead.
13:28What do we do with the championship if that's the case?
13:31Does Liv Morgan lose her King of the Ring match, or I apologize, Queen of the Ring match, so
13:36that whoever wins could challenge her?
13:38So there's no fuss about the stipulation of the champion being challenged by the winner
13:43of the tournament?
13:43I don't know.
13:44I really don't know how you play this.
13:46It's going to be very interesting to see how WWE books this.
13:48And the other thing I'm looking forward to seeing how WWE books is this Obafemi situation.
13:54Let's be honest.
13:55After Raw, Obafemi wins his matchup.
13:57He defeats Dominik Mysterio.
13:59I think the general populace expected Brock Lesnar to come out and cost him the match and
14:02move Dominik into the finals.
14:04That would have been a lot easier to explain Dominik losing to Jey Uso or Dominik losing to
14:08Javon Evans or something like that.
14:10And instead, we are going to see Obafemi in the finals.
14:15When he gets to the finals, what are you going to do?
14:17What is going to be the next thing that you do with him?
14:21I saw Ali Davis on WrestleTalk throw out the idea, and I have to say I don't hate it,
14:29that night one Obafemi could face Brock Lesnar in a career versus championship match and he
14:38could retire Brock Lesnar in Minneapolis and then follow that up on night two with his championship
14:43opportunity against Roman Reigns and win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship that night.
14:49I could see that happening.
14:50I really could.
14:51I have said before, and I'll say it again.
14:54I think the easier way to do it rather than having Obafemi wrestle two matches and make
15:00him so strong that like, I mean, let's be honest.
15:03If Obafemi goes out into a match and night one destroys Brock Lesnar, night two destroys
15:08Roman Reigns, who's ever going to beat him?
15:11Nobody.
15:12So I don't think you should do that.
15:14I really don't.
15:14I understand what Ali's going for.
15:17And Luke Owen said the same thing.
15:19I understand why they went there, but that is not where I would go.
15:23Where I would go would be, I would have Oba win.
15:26I would have Brock Lesnar interfere during a promo between he and Roman and make it a three-way
15:33match that way somehow you could protect Roman in the finish.
15:38Yes.
15:38You could still have Oba retire Brock Lesnar, but not beat Roman Reigns.
15:44And that's, I think what's important because I want to save Oba and Roman for WrestleMania
15:48if possible.
15:49I don't know.
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