CM Punk Upset, Major Star Gone, The Rock vs Roman Reigns WWE Plans | WrestleTalk

3 2 1 are you serious of course of course name me a promo that hasn't only defined a wrestler defin an era of wrestling to find an entire promotion this Pro promo transcends wrestling this promo I if you've said to someone TNA this will be one of the first things they think of is steths is steths steths stamats that's it's it's not better than the pipe bomb H how could anyone ever even think that I need to prove it CM Punk makes an emotional post a major wrestling star officially finished with t

heir promotion The Rock versus Roman Reigns's WWE plans and more I'm Ali Davis and this is the wrestle talk [Applause] news support wrestle talk despite real life pirates delay in WWE shipping the elimination chamber structure to Australia Paul burel will have his revenge the premium live event played down exactly as planned exactly as planned being a relative term there as a month before it was almost a totally different card the show was reportedly once meant to have Seth Rollins versus Austra

lia's own Bronson Reed which had to be pulled when Seth got injured Brock Lesner versus Dominic Mysterio which had to be pulled when Lesnar was referenced in Janelle Grant's lawsuit against Vince McMahon and at various points Jade Cargill was reportedly set to compete in the Women's Chamber but the most noteworthy change for the the show was the men's Chamber match which was supposed to be won by CM Punk Punk lasted to the final two in the previous month's Royal Rumble to be thrown out by the ev

entual winner The Rock wait sorry I mean Cody rhods WWE have confused me unfortunately Punk tore his triceps when taking a Future Shock DDT from Drew McIntyre in the match which is expected to take him out until later this year missing the Chamber match he was supposed to win and facing Seth Rollins at Wrestlemania XL for his World Heavyweight Championship that he was very likely supposed to win too which led to punk posting on his Instagram story as elimination chamber was hours away had a roug

h day mentally today my heart and spirit are imp just a hard day staying positive and nobody wishes I was there performing for the fans more than me enjoy the show appreciate you all this is Punk's third significant injury to disrupt World title plans for him in the last two years with Punk having to relinquish his aew championship in June 2022 after suffering a broken foot and again with a torn triceps in September that year although that was also because of brw no Drew this is serious don't be

mean to him Drew is totally going to show up on Raw tonight with Punk's post on a t-shirt in some good CM Punk news though he might be able to finish his story in a video game the full roster has been released for WWE 2K 24 with two notable exceptions Lesnar will not be available as a playable character likely due to the affl mentioned lawsuit reference and also there is no CM Punk listed despite him returning to the company in November Punk hasn't been in a WWE game since 2K15 but it's been re

ported he might make it in a late DLC as I mentioned earlier fightful selective revealed that Rollins was originally supposed to defend his world heavyweight championship against Bronson Reed elimination chamber because Bronson Reed is a Australian Reed's push was hinted at on TV earlier this year when he started to cut promos about coming for a champion who didn't know they were being targeted unfortunately Seth's knee injury meant that match was pulled but it worked out well for Bronson in the

end because despite being more than willing to travel to Perth four elimination chamber around the same time his wife was due to give birth he stayed in America where he himself posted full disclosure originally I was set to be at the elimination chamber it would have been an incredible moment unfortunately plans changed but everything happens for a reason my wife and I have had our baby early I was supposed to miss the pl to make sure I'm here for my family thank you for all your support to al

l my friends and family who have reached out to Triple H for guiding me now I'm not just big I am big POA congratulations to Bronson Reed well wait a second big POA not you to Bronson the pipe bums spanner the pipe bums spanner it was a busy satday today for wrestling not just with elimination chamber aew collision and Bronson's baby it was also New Japan Pro wrestling's new beginning in saporo which probably should have been renamed final ending in saporo because it marked the final appearance

of kazuchi kakada New Japan announced last month that aarda would not be renewing his contract after 14 years with the promotion but he would stay on through most of February to complete the new beginning shows he' already been advertised for where he put zero people over he beat will Osprey in osprey's last New Japan match he vacated the never openweight six-man belts rather than dropped them and he beat his longtime rival and New Japan president Hoshi tanahashi and what was build as their last

ever match it was an odd rather unceremonious end to one of the greatest top star Reigns in wrestling history booking wisdom usually has wrestlers putting over the next generation of stars when they leave a promotion but aarda be everyone and also said in an interview I can tell you one thing about the future of New Japan it's not a chance it's a crisis the Next Generation can't just think oh this is our chance they have to step up and save the company and in his final New Japan match going out

with a relative whimper to the bang you would have thought for aard leaving the promotion he won the second match on the card a 10-man tag of him teaming with his Chaos Faction mates heroki goo Tomah hero ishi Tori Yano and Yoshi Hashi beating Franchesco Akira great oan cob Matt riddle and Callum Newman aarda pins Newman a former wrestle talk scholarship winner who has all the ability to grow into the next will Osprey C's final New Japan moment happened later in the night though after successfu

lly defending his IWGP world heavyweight championship against anada Nao invited aarda to the ring said until we meet again did his signature taunt at him got the better of a brief ressing sequence of reversals and rolled into his tranio pose again aarda smiled and just walked out the ring and through the crowd and out of the promotion likely to America oh but I I get it now aard is probably going to aew which means they're building a forbidden door match of him versus Nido where aarda is finally

going to put someone over and thus the whole promotion of New Japan still not what I would have done but at least New Japan gets something out of all of this yeah yeah can't wait for that show yeah but just one more thing aarda then did an interview with Tokyo Sports where he said I'm already looking ahead to what's next and I'm leaving with the intention of never coming back to New Japan I'm a little sorry about that but I don't think so what do you think of A's last run in New Japan let me kn

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r top Stars Jay White will Osprey and kazuchi kardo in an odd reversal of traffic though their immediate future instead seems to be based around wrestlers who were released by WWE the former Dolph Ziggler now called Nick nth and Matt riddle after both men debuted in New Japan last month nth won the I GP Global Championship from David Finley at the new beginning show nth tweeted in both Japanese and English this is only the beginning let's effing go and he wasn't kidding as nth would later appear

via video on Sunday's TNA taping where he revealed he'll be defending that newly won belt against Steve mcklin at TNA sacrifice on the 8th of March where Samoa Joe apparently has a 33 no no Scott steer maths riddle also captured gold at the new beginning shows beating New Japan Legend tanahashi to win the TV title making the most of hashtags in a post afterwards the king of bros is back on top and your new television champion thank you everyone for supporting me and showing me love long the tud

inal Emoji # njpw # njpw World # bro # stallion # TV champion # rud dude # saporo the most recent rest and observer newsletter has summarized who knew what and when in the Cody Roman Rock Fiasco apparently Cody was first told he'd be facing Roman of WrestleMania last fall but wasn't told until the day he won the Royal Rumble that they had changed their minds to the Rock which was confirmed behind the scenes as part of Rock's deal to join the TKO board on the 3rd of January and have been heavily

negotiated as far back as December Cody of course then went on to win the rumble but with the working idea that would be to build a match against Roman further down the line which isn't what rumbles are made for it was the same social media backlash for Cody bringing out the rock that prompted WWE to change their plans Rock didn't want to be booed as a baby face so he decided to go heal it was then hidden from almost everyone that WWE would be reverting back to Roman versus Cody until the press

conference as The Rock wanted that to be a surprise but The Rock versus Roman is still the plan long term as the wron Observer notes how Johnson is still throwing in the occasional tease of a match between them so the idea from a company standpoint is that match will happen just won't be at WrestleMania XL now go watch me Luke and Pete count down the 10 best wrestling promos ever in the controversial brand new episode of tables lists and shares