TALLY HO: THE MONE` VOYAGE or BASH IN BERLIN PREDICTIONS (Wrestling Soup 8/29/24)
WRESTLING SOUP
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4.4 • 746 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2024
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
This episode delves into the controversial statements by Dave Meltzer on the dissolution of NXT UK and the future prospects of NXT Europe. It covers WWE’s strategic moves and their effects on the UK independent wrestling scene under new management by TKO. Additionally, it critiques AEW's management, spotlights wrestling stars like Ricochet, and addresses Mercedes Monet's contributions to women's wrestling. The episode also previews the upcoming Bash in Berlin event set for August 31st at the Uber Arena in Berlin, Germany, featuring discussions and predictions on key matches such as the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship, a mixed tag match involving Damian Priest, Rhea Ripley, Cody Rhodes vs. Kevin Owens for the WWE Championship, a strap match between CM Punk and Drew McIntyre, and a main event showdown between Gunther and Randy Orton for the World Heavyweight Championship. Speculations on outcomes, character arcs, and recent storylines are also presented along with shout-outs to collaborators and hints at forthcoming content.
00:00 Meltzer's Controversial Comments on NXT UK
00:37 WWE's Strategy and NXT Europe's Uncertain Future
01:21 Business Tactics and the Impact on UK Promotions
03:46 The Speak Up Movement and Its Effects
06:51 AEW's Presence in the UK and Fan Reactions
07:53 Speculations on CM Punk's Future
13:33 Kevin Owens' Potential Move to AEW
16:04 AEW's Financial Uncertainty and Wrestler Contracts
20:06 Christian Cage's Surprising Win and AEW's Booking Decisions
23:44 Dory Funk Jr.'s Tribute Match in Japan
35:50 Fan Loyalty and Wrestler Interactions on Social Media
47:01 Rappers and Collaborations
47:20 Sports Analogies and Fan Loyalty
48:00 Iconic Athletes and Team Changes
50:58 Mercedes Monet's Wrestling Journey
52:38 Women's Wrestling Evolution
01:04:52 Critique of Sasha Banks
01:12:56 Upcoming Wrestling Events
01:30:10 Closing Remarks and Acknowledgments
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| 0:00.0 | Wrestling suit for a mature audience. |
| 0:05.0 | I don't available. |
| 0:07.0 | Meltzer also said some stupid shit today about NXT UK. |
| 0:14.0 | I don't know if you saw that bit. |
| 0:16.0 | NXC. UK doesn't exist, right? |
| 0:18.0 | We knew that it kind of died. And the big premise was eventually |
| 0:21.8 | WWE would create NXT Europe. And this was back in, I think, like 2019, 2020 is when |
| 0:30.5 | these decisions were made that NXT UK was going to be gone and then NXT Europe was going |
| 0:35.9 | to come around during the Vince era. |
| 0:38.9 | And since then in 2022, 2023 is when Vince was usurped and gone from the company, |
| 0:45.4 | dealing with all that with Endeavor and stuff. Endeavor was later on in 2003. But Dave makes his |
| 0:51.0 | post and he says, you know, I just keep thinking, like, remember when they closed |
| 0:55.5 | NXT UK? This was a couple of years ago now and they were going to immediately reopen NXT Europe |
| 1:01.4 | and then they instead almost fired everyone. Most of the people that worked NXT UK were fired. |
| 1:07.6 | And I thought if you're going to do NXT Europe, like you say, why are you firing people? |
| 1:14.6 | They were under 25,000 a year contracts. |
| 1:17.6 | It's not like they were paying giant money to these people. |
| 1:20.6 | The cost savings was negligible. |
| 1:23.6 | Other people were telling me that they're never going to do this Europe thing. |
| 1:27.6 | They say it because they didn't want to admit shutting down the UK thing was because the UK thing was their original idea to offset the ITV show. |
| 1:37.7 | I always hear we're doing the European thing, but it's been years now, and I'm hearing less now than I heard years back ago that they are. |
| 1:45.8 | Maybe someday we'll hear about it, but now there's new ownership. |
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