00:00The Bloodline are getting their own WWE Championship, a WWE show cancelled, major AEW plans and
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00:31While Marvel is dead to me now, I've always been a DC fan, Booster Gold 444444 life, WWE
00:36appears to be moving towards my Marvel-inspired fantasy booking angle, the anti-Roman cross-brand
01:12S.W.O.R.D.
01:13S.W.O.R.D. is, of course, the space-based counterpart to Marvel's Shield agency Unworld.
01:19And Drew McIntyre is now my S.W.O.R.D.'s Nick Fury, approaching Seth Rollins on this
01:24week's Raw about their shared enemies CM Punk and Roman Reigns.
01:29And if you add Cody Rhodes to that list, the guy who stole his Winged Eagle title Kevin
01:33Owens might also be interested in joining.
01:37Now declaring himself the true WWE Champion since Saturday night's main event, where
01:41he lost when Cody cheated and used a chair that dastardly coward, Owens visited WWE Headquarters
01:47as part of the Raw Netflix press conference, where he found the Champion's Gallery Room
01:52and put a photo of him over Cody's face on the WWE Champion image.
01:57But this brought the attention of S.W.O.R.D.'s Drew McIntyre, who pointed out this is very
02:01similar to what he did to a picture of Damian Priest back when they were feuding over the
02:06World Heavyweight title back in June, posting, can I copy your homework?
02:11Sure.
02:12Just change it a tiny bit, with a clip of him putting his photo over Priest's face
02:16in the same gallery room at WWE HQ.
02:19Drew and Owens are on different brands, so they haven't been able to interact recently
02:24like Drew has with Seth.
02:26Until now, where Owens replied, I'm considering adding a Claymore to my moveset too.
02:32I mean, I mean, repertoire of offensive manoeuvres.
02:42KO is most definitely making a pointed reference to CM Punk here, the mortal enemy of both
02:46Drew and Seth.
02:48As Punk said in an interview last weekend how much he hates the word moveset, which
02:52itself might've been a shot at his mortal enemy over in AEW, Hangman Page, who had used
02:56the word moveset several days before, which was a shot at Logan Paul for using his arsenal
03:02of punchy grapples.
03:03Oh no, I've gone cross-eyed.
03:04Owens had also said he has the best assortment of attacks at the Netflix Raw press conference.
03:11Another shot at Punk.
03:12It does feel like a Seth, Drew and KO Sword faction is already stealthily forming, especially
03:17with a new report from WrestleVotes Radio about Drew recently walking out of an interview
03:22in kayfabe.
03:23A source states that McIntyre's viral comments on Busted Open Radio last week were not scripted
03:28in any way, and that WWE loved the reaction to what went down.
03:32We are told McIntyre will be a huge focus as we head into 2025.
03:38Perhaps Drew could be Sword's leader, going against the tangled web of friendships and
03:42alliances of Cody, Punk, Roman, Jey Uso and Sami Zayn.
03:47Drew has already attacked Jey and Sami, while Seth is currently still friends with them.
03:51But with Owens on SmackDown, he hasn't crossed paths with his best friend slash enemy
03:55forever Sami since Sami teamed with Roman Reigns again.
03:59Which is what made Owens so mad at Cody.
04:01And KO has already teased in his Michael Cole Carpool Karaoke interview earlier this month
04:06that, as far as Sami Zayn's concerned, trust me, we're going to cross that bridge when
04:11we get to it.
04:12And now Sami has been interviewed about KO's actions on the In The Clique podcast.
04:17I don't really know what to say there, because nothing, you know, it's one of the rare times
04:22where Kevin and I kind of went our separate ways and nothing really terrible happened.
04:27No, I just stayed on Raw and he went to SmackDown and we were tag team champions.
04:33We lost the titles, we went separate ways, nothing really, you know, nobody turned on
04:38the other.
04:39No, no, no hurt feelings as far as I know.
04:41And then, you know, I have no reason to, I don't really know.
04:47I don't know what he's thinking.
04:50I don't really have time to stop and think about what he's thinking.
04:53I see some of his actions, do I agree with all of them?
04:55No, I understand most of them, I don't necessarily agree with all of it.
05:00You know, but there's also, here's the thing, I think the way it affects Kevin to see, let's
05:04say, Cody teaming with Roman, I don't know if it affects him the same way when he sees
05:09me teaming with Roman.
05:10I don't know that.
05:11Maybe it's worse, maybe it's better, but those are two very different relationships.
05:16You know, my relationship with Kevin, as is pretty well documented now, we go back
05:1920 years, we started in the game together.
05:22It's always going to be a little different, a hit a little different when it's someone
05:25you grew up with like that.
05:26So I don't know, I don't really care to speculate right now because I've just got too much on
05:31my plate between Bloodline Business and Drew McIntyre and Seth and CM Blunt, all this going
05:38on on Raw.
05:39It's like just trying to keep your head in the game, you know, so much like Kevin, I
05:43suppose when we cross paths, we'll have to deal with it when we get there.
05:46But you know, I don't really know that I did anything to him, so we'll just have to see
05:52how it goes.
05:53I'm sure it's totally fine.
05:55Historically, Kevin Owens is famously an emotionally rational man who does not turn on Sami Zayn.
06:01And perhaps Shawing Sword could have a fourth member in Dominik Mysterio, who told No Contest
06:06Wrestling he wants a match against Punk after they wrestled Punk's first in-ring matches
06:11during last year's holiday tour.
06:13I've seen kind of what he can do.
06:15It's nothing special.
06:16He does the same things.
06:17I'm pretty sure I can read his playbook.
06:19Actually, here's a good one.
06:21I know his move.
06:22Smorgasbord of Strikes.
06:24He meant to say Smorgasbord of Strikes, Punk.
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08:16Roman Reigns vs Solo Sakoa is a blood feud years in the making, where they will finally
08:21clash one-on-one on the debut episode of Raw on Netflix on January 6th.
08:26It's such a three dimensional story, with deep ties into the Anoa'e family and Samoan
08:31culture, that they're fighting over the Ulu Fala, which denotes the head of the family,
08:36rather than an unnecessary championship belt that will just make it feel like any other
08:40pro wrestling rivalry.
08:42So WWE reportedly want to add a championship belt that makes it feel like any other pro
08:48wrestling rivalry, WrestleVotes have posted.
08:50Sources indicate WWE has discussed introducing a Tribal Chief Championship into the storyline
08:56between Roman Reigns and Solo Sakoa, similar to the People's Championship presented
09:01to The Rock at WrestleMania earlier this year.
09:04It seems to be one title in, one whole pro wrestling show out, as Fightful is reporting
09:08the weekly NXT Level Up show is coming to an end.
09:12NXT Level Up replaced 205 Live in February 2022, where it would run for almost 150 episodes
09:19on Peacock following SmackDown every Friday night.
09:22It was mostly just a developmental show for WWE's developmental show, and there have
09:26been rumours since NXT moved to the CW Network in October that it would be finishing soon.
09:31Apparently last night's Level Up taping would be the last of the show's run, which
09:35is seemingly being replaced by WWE's new reality competition show called WWE LFG.
09:41There's some very good news over in AEW, as not only were their ratings up for Wednesday's
09:46Dynamite, pulling in 625,000 viewers compared to the previous week's 594,000, but also
09:54Fightful is reporting Kenny Omega is set to return sooner than you'd think.
09:58Despite being oddly announced for a match against Gabe Kidd at the AEW New Japan Wrestle
10:02Dynasty show in Japan on January 5th, AEW ran a video package for Kenny on this week's
10:08Dynamite.
10:09According to Fightful, sources in the company are discussing his AEW return for December
10:1428th's World's End pay-per-view.
10:16And bolstering the roster even more for 2025 will also be Adam Edge Copeland, who Fightful
10:22is reporting is now cleared to return from his fractured tibia injury back in May, and
10:27is expected to be back on the 1st January episode of Dynamite, which will be AEW's
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10:56And Luke and I will be back next Sunday to review AEW World's End.
11:00In the meantime, Merry Christmas, and go celebrate right now by watching TNA's Barbed Wire
11:05Christmas Tree match in Worst Match Ever.
11:08Here's a clip.
11:35And as always, thanks for watching, and we'll see you next time.
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