Simon Gotch has been cleared to wrestle outside of WWE, as his 90-day non-compete clause after his release from WWE has come to an end.
Gotch signed with WWE back in 2013 and was part of the Vaudevillians act alongside Aiden English. Gotch was released by the WWE back in April of this year and has asserted his intentions of working for other promotions ever since his departure.
It was reported last week that Kevin Owen’s DVD is currently a hot seller, however that may not be the case exactly.
The Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports that this story surfaced when several fans received emails from stores like Best Buy and Amazon saying that they don’t have any copies of the DVD available and won’t for several weeks. This doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s a hot item and could be an indication that these companies have under-ordered the DVD because the demand was slightly higher than previous WWE releases. These companies are waiting for a new shipment DVDs before the next batch becomes available for customers.
As of this writing, there is no concrete numbers available in terms of what Owens’ DVD sales are like because it’s a new release.
Russo is joined on today’s show by his co-host Jeff Lane, and they will attempt to ‘castrate the marks and their dirt sheets’.
Russo points out that this is all in good fun for him, and he doesn’t hate any of these men. Unfortunately, there seems to be some real hatred on the other side of the fence from guys like Wade Keller, Ryan Satin and Mike Johnson. To show his respect to Dave Meltzer, whose father passed away this week, Russo will not be discussing Meltzer’s comments this week.
The first clip of the day presents Bryan Alvarez ranting about the fact that WWE broke up Enzo and Big Cass. Alvarez says that there’s no wonder WWE’s ratings are declining when they decided to break up one of the more popular acts on their roster due to their constant search for ‘heat’.
Russo says that there’s something political going on in the background. He’s heard rumblings of Amore’s backstage issues stemming back to his time in NXT and that probably carried over to the main roster. Quite frankly, Alvarez is right in this case because Enzo and Cass were over, and the fans loved them. However, Russo’s smart enough to understand that heat draws money, and since Cass turned on Enzo the fans have been chanting Enzo’s name with more passion than ever before.
GFW’s next set of tapings will be on August 17th, which will be a Destination X themed episode of Impact Wrestling and will be on a “live” taped delay. Here are a couple of spoiler notes for the show:
Alberto El Patron will defend his title against either Bobby Lashley, Matt Sydal or both on the show.
Sonjay Dutt will face Trevor Lee in a Ladder match with the X-Division title that was stolen by Lee.
They are expected to announce the next Hall of Fame inductee to be honored at Bound for Glory.
It’s also being said that they will debut new title belts on this show.
As always, we will be providing live results. Check back here August 17th for our coverage.
Smart Money bets appear to be coming in for Sunday’s WWE Great Balls of Fire event as several matches have seen shifts in the odds.
Roman Reigns, who was a slight favorite against Braun Strowman, is now the underdog in his match at the event. Also, The Hardys are now heavy underdogs against Shesaro after being the favorites. Seth Rollins is now a favorite against Bray Wyatt.
Here is the updated odds courtesy of PaddyPower:
Brock Lesnar 1/25 (favorite)
Samoa Joe 17/2
Braun Strowman 1/8 (favorite)
Roman Reigns 9/2
Seth Rollins 1/7 (favorite)
Bray Wyatt 4/1
Big Cass 1/14 (favorite)
Enzo Amore 11/2
Alexa Bliss 1/18 (favorite)
Sasha Banks 6/1
Cesaro & Sheamus 1/25 (favorite)
Matt & Jeff Hardy 15/2
The Miz 1/14 (favorite)
It’s expected that there will be more changes as we get close to the event.
It looks like The Bella Twins may be getting a third reality television show.
Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s edition of the Wrestling Observer News Letter that The Bella Twins may be doing a non-wrestling show that would include topics such as cooking, fashion, and traveling. This idea for this show apparently came about after the success of their YouTube channel.
