This Week In Pro Wrestling: The Miz and Cody Rhodes clash, predicting Roman Reigns' future and AEW's fire streak
Now that we are passed the Wrestlemania season completely, stories are starting to spice up for WWE as well as AEW. It was another great week in professional wrestling. Backlash is the next event WWE is building towards, and AEW just finished their Battle of the Belts II, which we will cover later.
What a week it was for the WWE. Cody Rhodes came in guns blazing going toe to toe on the mic with The Miz. Miz is one of the best superstars in the world on the mic and Cody did miss a step. They got raw and personal on Miz TV setting up a great match later on the show. Cody got the W, but afterwards Cody had to deal with the Visionary Seth Rollins. Seth was still cleared frustrated after his loss at Mania, he wants to run it back with better preparation this time around. It was set right there, Cody vs. Seth at Backlash. Can’t wait!
Bianca Belair still high off her victory over The Man Becky Lynch, has run through the Raw women’s division to get her title. After making light work of Queen Zelina (she needs a push here in the near future, she’s awesome!) Sonya Deville made it known of an open challenge contract she had Belair sign. Being the showman villain she is, Sonya built up Belair’s next challenger only to attack her from behind. Sonya Deville staked her place at the front of the line. After all the hell she put Naomi through, Bianca Belair better be ready to be challenged in a different way that doesn’t require all her physical strength.
The best storyline going on right now for WWE for this guy is The Bloodline against RK-Bro. Now I love the Street Prophets as much as the next person, and their time will come to hold those belts again, but right now, the story is The Usos/RK-Bro. They dropped some serious heat in their promos on both Raw and Smackdown. The matches to go along with the story to get to this point were even better. If I am hopeful, this will lead to a Roman Reigns/Randy Orton match for his unified title.
I am not forgetting about Shinsuke. He will do awesome in his program with Roman, but I don’t believe for it to be a believable story that Shinsuke can take the belt off him. Randy Orton makes a believable story, as he is big enough to take that title off Roman in a big PPV match, if it happens. This is all wishful thinking of course, but it would make for an awesome build up to either Money in the Bank or even Summerslam.
Lastly for WWE, Charlotte and Ronda has turned into an ‘I quit’ match at Backlash. Ronda was not in attendance this week, but Charlotte has carried this story from the get go, so I believe she will do the same going forward. Will Charlotte tap out again as she has done before at the hands of Sasha? I wonder where they go here. Is it time for Charlotte to drop the title? We’ll have to wait and see.
Man, I am really enjoying my time watching AEW over these last few weeks. The BlackPool Combat Club is starting to build steam as they just bring a new style of wrestling to this business. What better people to do it, than Jon Moxley, Bryan Danielson, and William Regal. You can add Wheeler Yuta to the mix as it seems they’re trying to set him up for a big push soon. They took down The Gunn Family who hasn’t lost a trios match since they joined AEW.
I LOVE THE JERICHO APPRECIATION SOCIETY! They are the heel faction AEW needs to get under the professional wrestling fans nerves. They’re sports entertainers. If you want to piss off a wrestling fan, say sports entertainer. To counter that, bring out a group of professional wrestlers, Eddie Kingston, Santana and Ortiz. It’s going to be violent. It’s going to be fire promos. It’s going to be a great story until they settle this in an all out brawl.
MJF and Wardlow. I mean, that’s just great. The ultimate, pompous villain against the big, strong hero who is in debt to the villain. When will Wardlow get his chance at MJF? I can see this going to a match between the two and MJF wins he keeps control over Wardlow or Wardlow wins he gets out of his contract he signed. This is a long game story and I love the angle they’re going. But, I like MJF as a villain. He’s the best in the world as a heel. We shouldn’t cheer for the heel, I get it Bully Ray, but when someone is so good at that character, it’s hard to root against him.
I will keep this part short. Hook is coming to Dynamite. That’s it. Hook is coming. Tune in.
Lastly for this week, Adam Cole BABAY and Hangman Adam Page tore the damn house down on Rampage. Tables, chairs, barb wire, more chairs. It was great. Although I think Cole should have taken the belt, seeing Hangman was dictating the whole match, he is deserving the spot. CM Punk is waiting in the shadows. His time is coming faster than I thought. He’s putting on bangers, especially after his match with Penta, and Dustin Rhodes this coming week. He has to issue his challenge this week right? It is a great time to be a wrestling fan.
That’s all this week everyone. I know I wasn’t able to cover everything, to include Sammy regaining his TNT title. I miss Miro. Or the Limitless Keith Lee getting pinned by Ricky Starks. Hell even Riddle/Jimmy was an amazing match. If you want to continue the conversation, by all means drop a comment or hit me up via the social media. Twitter: @zero2hero or IG: Rproctor23. Talk with everyone next time!
