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00:00 - Coming up...
00:22 - Darby Allin, Children’s Entertainer
01:25 - WWE Bad Blood Fallout
05:05 - The Rock Secret Plans
06:40 - Triple H Criticism
07:52 - AEW Backlash
08:48 - WWE News
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00:00A match finish botched at Bad Blood?

00:02Rock the Dwayne Johnson's huge secret WWE plans?

00:06Triple H still isn't good at media conferences?

00:10And more.

00:11I'm Oli Davis, and this is the WrestleTalk News.

00:22Last week, it was reported AEW and Warner Bros Discovery had agreed a new TV deal worth

00:27$185 million per year, making AEW the second most profitable North American wrestling company

00:35of all time.

00:36Yet, despite all that money, one of their top performers is still having to supplement

00:40their income with outside work.

00:43Let me introduce you to Darby Allin Children's Entertainer, who's posted, pulled up at

00:48a random birthday party, and taught everyone the Coffin Drop lol.

00:52homie in background mid-Coffin Drop, with video included.

01:14He was reposting the birthday boy's dad's message, thanking Darby for making the day

01:18so memorable.

01:19Next year, kid, we'll use real glass.

01:22And when you're all grown up, you can bleed everywhere in a cage.

01:25WWE's Bad Blood took place on Saturday, which was opened, not main evented by, CM

01:30Punk vs Drew McIntyre in Hell in a Cell.

01:33PWInsider is reporting that WWE were very pleased with the match, feeling that it restored

01:38the stipulation to its sense of danger and violence that it's lost in recent years.

01:43This is mission accomplished for Punk, who publicly said in an interview that WWE had

01:48diluted the Hell in a Cell stipulation by having a pay-per-view named after it.

01:53Meaning you had a Hell in a Cell that needed matches, rather than the storyline driven

01:57way round of matches needing a Hell in a Cell.

02:01The PLE also saw several returns, the first one of which immediately screwed up the finish

02:06of a major match.

02:08After two lengthy periods away from the ring because of her Mast Cell Activation Syndrome,

02:12Raquel Rodriguez slash Gonzalez returned in the Liv Morgan vs Rhea Ripley Women's World

02:17title match.

02:18While Raquel was a babyface the last time we saw her back in February's Elimination

02:22Chamber, she is a former two-time women's tag team champion with Morgan, so her teaming

02:27with the heel Liv made sense.

02:29Unfortunately, what didn't make sense was the finish of the match she returned in.

02:34Through an unexplained series of lockpickings and ankle chainings, Dominik Mysterio had

02:38found himself hanging upside down from his shark cage over the entrance ramp.

02:42Ripley couldn't resist the pinata fun to be had, so she got out the ring, ignoring

02:46her opponent, and started wailing on him with a kendo stick.

02:50This is when Gonzalez made her return, beat up Ripley, threw her in the ring and put Morgan

02:54on top of her for the cover, but the referee called for a disqualification instead of counting

03:00the pin.

03:01I said in my review video that Rhea had more than enough reasons to lose, getting distracted

03:05by Dom having Raquel attack her, that they should've just had Liv beat her via cheating

03:10rather than a rubbish DQ victory to Ripley to try and protect her without giving her

03:14the title.

03:15And it turns out, that's exactly what WWE intended, I'm a genius.

03:19Fightful Select is reporting that all the interference was supposed to be done behind

03:23the referee's back, but he ended up seeing absolutely everything.

03:28He felt like he had to call for a DQ rather than the planned finish of Liv getting a pinfall

03:33win.

03:34PWInsider writes that Raquel is back full time, and she'll be part of the Judgment

03:38Day faction moving forward.

03:40The other returns, because there's so many of them, were Bloodline related, with Jimmy

03:44Yuso and Rock the Dwayne Johnson appearing at the end of the show.

03:47Jimmy was written off TV back in April, when he was attacked by the debuting Tamatonga

03:52as Solo Sokoa took control of the Bloodline faction.

03:55This was so Jimmy could take time off to recover from an undisclosed injury.

03:59PWInsider is now reporting Jimmy is fully healed and is also back full time.

04:04But while Jimmy immediately aligned with his Tribal Chief Roman Reigns against Solo's

04:08new blood, The Rock's return was far more cryptic.

04:12Jimmy just walked out on the entrance ramp, counted 1, 2, 3, which has been speculated

04:18to mean everything from queuing up his theme tune to teasing a Rock Cody Roman WrestleMania

04:22triple threat, and then made a slitting his throat gesture.

04:26He posted a video of him immediately following his return on Instagram, walking off backstage,

04:31telling a security guard he'd introduce him to his sister if he had one, telling a

04:34picture of John Cena to eat some fruity pebbles, and momentarily got lost spinal tap style between

04:39all of WWE's production trucks.

04:41Rambling over long Rock promos on social media.

04:44We are so back.

04:45He mostly kept his return reasoning and any other plot points to himself, teasing that

04:50The Rock will tell us his feelings when The Rock is ready.

04:53The only tangible morsel was him saying there's been a bunch of bulls*** that's been going

04:57on in the past six months.

04:59So Solo Sokoa has revealed everything to us instead.

05:02It was Rocky all along.

05:06Because doing shock angles after the copyright logo is so last Survivor Series, Triple H

05:10has now started doing major angles after the show has completely gone off air.

05:15With Kevin Owens turning heel on Cody Rhodes in the parking lot, which fans shared their

05:18own footage of on social media.

05:20But that wasn't the only off-air plot point.

05:23The New Blood faction was chased off through the crowd by the super friends of Roman, Cody

05:27and Jimmy at the end of the show.

05:29Solo and Jacob Fatu had to watch The Rock's return up in the stands, where a fan standing

05:34right next to them captured this footage.

05:41Solo tells Fatu that The Rock coming back was part of the plan, supporting the theory

05:47that Sokoa isn't actually the Tribal Chief at all.

05:51He's been following orders from the final boss Dwayne Johnson to steal the Bloodline

05:55faction from Roman after he had lost his titles at WrestleMania 40.

05:59That means it was The Rock who recruited the Tongans.

06:02Which makes sense, as he considers their father Haku an uncle, and The Rock who told them

06:06to beat up Jimmy Uso and Paul Heyman.

06:10In other majorly eventful things that happened after Bad Blood went off air, Cody Rhodes

06:14teased something even bigger for Atlanta, which has started speculation WWE is bringing

06:19WrestleMania to the city, like every other city WWE has run for the last two years.

06:24And Triple H has posted an update on KO's post-show heel turn.

06:28We are aware of the incident outside of the arena last night between Cody Rhodes and Kevin

06:32Owens.

06:33The matter will be dealt with internally.

06:36Something else Triple H should consider dealing with internally is basic media training.

06:41While Paul Ovec's booking of WWE's premium live event has been incredibly strong since

06:45he took over, his performance in the post-show media conferences have often caused controversy.

06:51Like following January's Royal Rumble, where he was seemingly unprepared for any questions

06:55about the Vince McMahon lawsuit and resignation that happened just days before.

06:59And after May's Backlash show, where he said sites like Fightful weren't credible,

07:03prompting him to send Sean Ross Sapp a cheeseboard to apologise.

07:07Following Bad Blood, Triple H was asked about the lack of diversity on WWE PLEs, specifically

07:13the lack of black male wrestlers.

07:15Lovec responded, I don't see the difference in anybody.

07:18I don't see the colour.

07:19I don't see the nationality.

07:21I don't see any of it.

07:23I just see talent.

07:25This received criticism on social media, as the phrase I don't see colour has fallen

07:29out of favour.

07:30It implies you don't see the experience someone has had to go through.

07:34Triple H's old champion Cody Rhodes could've told him that, as he famously spoke about

07:38deciding never to use that phrase in a 2019 post-AEW show.

07:42I told Brandi one time that I don't see colour, and she said, well, then you don't

07:47see my experience.

07:49Tony Khan, meanwhile, doesn't see heels and faces.

07:52After a lengthy babyface run with the best friends, and then a partnership with Willow

07:56Nightingale, AEW's Chris Statlander finally turned heel on Willow back in May's Double

08:01or Nothing, siding with manager Stokely Hathaway.

08:04Statlander exceeded expectations in her new role, almost stealing the show at All Out

08:09when she beat Nightingale in a fantastic street fight.

08:12But on Saturday's episode of Collision, Statlander was randomly a babyface again,

08:17getting beaten up by Camille in a feud with Mercedes Monet.

08:20There was no explanation on commentary, no backstage angle, and no Hathaway, who had

08:26been managing her for over a year.

08:28This received a lot of criticism from AEW's own audience, with many self-professed fans

08:33saying even they are frustrated by the lack of storytelling here.

08:37And the backstage explanation from Fightful Select won't help that, as they've simply

08:41reported Statlander and Hathaway's partnership was dropped because there wasn't an option

08:46to continue that story.

08:48Goldberg was rumoured to be in talks with AEW last year, but that seems far less likely

08:52after Bad Blood, when he appeared in a segment with Gunther and Triple H raised his hand,

08:57despite Goldberg saying some very critical things about Leveque as recently as March.

09:01Goldberg said you're next during the segment, implying a match against Gunther, and Triple

09:06H said after the show, I saw Bill earlier in the day and it was great, and I saw Bill

09:11later in the day and there was a different look on his face with a spark in his eye so

09:15I would say never say never.

09:18Goldberg being in Gunther for the World Heavyweight title at the next Saudi show confirmed.

09:21Goldberg will potentially join another WCW alumni Diamond Dallas Page, who was shown

09:27in the crowd at Bad Blood, and posted on X that when he got home, the whole experience

09:31convinced him to sign a Legends deal with WWE.

09:34A brief bit of fantasy booking, if you'll indulge me.

09:37DDP is established onscreen as a close friend of Cody's, which he is in real life.

09:41Cody enters a feud with Randy Orton.

09:43Randy Orton Legend Kills DDP with DDP's own move, the Diamond Cutter, aka the RKO.

09:50Now go watch my full review of WWE Bad Blood by clicking the video onscreen now.

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