Hello and welcome to the October 4, 2018 edition of the WrestleTalk news round-up. You know what this is by now. We take a look at a few of the smaller news stories from today in the world of wrestling, and give them a nice little cuddle and get to know them a little bit more.
If anyone has any intro ideas, please @ me in our Discord server because I’m really struggling to keep this up.
On with the news…
Shinsuke Nakamura on adjusting to the WWE style & his matches with AJ Styles
WWE United States Champion Shinsuke Nakamura was a recent guest on Sirius XM‘s Busted Open Radio, where the Japanese star discussed adapting to the WWE style of working.
“WWE style is a much different platform than other wrestling companies. Each wrestler wrestles under strict rules that fans never know. Time-wise, they’re really strict, so you have to choose what is the most important thing to show in five, three, two minutes. It’s completely different with other wrestling.”
There are many different styles’ in wrestling, and one of them is called AJ.
Nakamura also discussed his recent WWE Championship program with the ‘Phenomenal One,’ and he reckons if they come back to it in the future, it would be be vastly improved.
“Yeah, but still I want to wrestle him again. I think I can do more great matches. Wrestling on pay-per-view, wrestle on TV show, time is very strict. So, finally I feel like I got used to the WWE style. Maybe next time, if I wrestle AJ, I can create more than before.”
Nakamura has had four pay-per-view matches against AJ Styles in 2018, and won a grand total of absolutely zero of them.
Brian Kendrick turns babyface on 205 Live
Just gonna take a quick second to tell you 205 Live is WWE‘s best weekly show, and you should start watching it if you haven’t been.
Right, now that’s out they way, former WWE Cruiserweight Champion Brian Kendrick seemingly turned babyface on the most recent edition of the ‘most exciting electrifying awe-inspiring astonishing breathtaking hour of TV in the whole wide world.’
Kendrick had been in a long time alliance with Drew Gulak and Gentleman Jack Gallagher until last night. The ‘Man with a Plan’ decided to attack Gulak and Jack, only for the tables to turn and Kendrick to be the one on his back.
If you missed the round-up a couple of days ago, Kendrick now seems to be fulfilling a new backstage role in the company. Does this turn have anything to do with that? Probably not, but I needed a clever way to hyperlink it, shut up.
Three matches added to ROH Glory by Honor
ROH Glory by Honor is set to take place on October 12 in Baltimore, Maryland, and three matches have been announced by the promotion and added to the card. They are:
- Jonathan Gresham vs. Bully Ray
- Hangman Page vs. Shane Taylor
- Marty Scurll vs. Hurricane Shane Helms
JUST ANNOUNCED: @TheJonGresham vs @bullyray5150 at #ROHGBH: Baltimore!
Fri Oct 12 – 8pm ET – @UMBCEventCenter
Tickets: https://t.co/NWuXkaiSyG
Info: https://t.co/yQBOtiPakBStreaming LIVE for #HonorClub! pic.twitter.com/x9xuXggZqk
— ROH – Ring of Honor Wrestling (@ringofhonor) October 3, 2018
Those matches look very, very tasty indeed.
The other matches confirmed for the show are:
- Jay Lethal (c) vs. Silas Young – ROH Championship
- Bullet Club (Cody & the Young Bucks) vs. SoCal Uncensored (Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian & Scorpio Sky)
- The Briscoes (Jay & Mark) vs. The Bouncers (Beer City Bruiser & Brian Milonas)
Mick Foley’s son played Mr. Bootyworth in New Day pancake segment
So, New Day made some pancakes and got battered by the Bar on SmackDown this week. But that’s not important.
What is important, is the identity of their pancake mascot bloke. And, as it turns out, it was Mick Foley’s son. I mean, who else could it have been?
Dewey Foley actually works for WWE in a backstage capacity, and he tweeted the following after the show:
Sheamus and Cesaro are my heroes
— Dewey Foley (@DeweyHaveTo) October 3, 2018
He’s worse than Ciampa.
6 years ago by Liam Winnard
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