NEWS - WWE NXT Releases Acknowledged On TV! Cody Rhodes Wants To Bring Back A Classic WWE Title! Return Of Former AEW Champion For Owen Hart Cup! Royal Rumble 2023 Location Revealed?!
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🗓️ 4 May 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Today's wrestling news, including...
WWE NXT Releases Acknowledged On TV!
Cody Rhodes Wants To Bring Back A Classic WWE Title!
Return Of Former AEW Champion For Owen Hart Cup!
Royal Rumble 2023 Location Revealed?!
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| 1:00.0 | Coming up on today's wrestling news, WWE acknowledged wrestler releases on NXT 2. But |
| 1:06.7 | ew, Cody Rhodes wants to bring back a classic WWE Championship, the Vasty Blonds will challenge |
| 1:13.2 | the House of Flak on this week's Dynamite. A former AEW Champion is set to return on this |
| 1:19.0 | week's rampage and has the location for the 2023 Royal Rumble being revealed. I'm Alan |
| 1:25.8 | Wilborn. And this is the news, let's start off then with the ongoing story of the WWE |
| 1:34.0 | releases, as you probably know, 10 people were released on Friday night from WWE, the majority, |
| 1:40.3 | of course, from NXT 2. But oh, the likes of Dakota Kai, Dexter Lumis, Malcolm Vivians, |
| 1:47.2 | Persia Prota and some of those releases were acknowledged or made a joke of on last night's |
| 1:54.8 | NXT 2. But oh, spring breaking, the pay-per-view, I'm not a pay-per-view, it's not even a premium |
| 2:00.8 | line then, it's just a big live show thing that they did. It's got a special name this week. |
| 2:05.0 | Anyway, the show was going on title matches and the like, and then they cut backstage to Indy Hartwell, |
| 2:10.9 | who was married in storyline to Dexter Lumis, was a former partner of Persia Prota in a tag team, |
| 2:16.8 | who was dating Jude Blaney Hadson. So Indy Hart's well backstage, she's looking at her wedding, |
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