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Baron Corbin the New Favorite to Win Money in the Bank
While appearing on Sunday’s installment of Live Audio Wrestling, Dave Meltzer discussed the upcoming Money in the Bank Ladder match that will see Baron Corbin, Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn, Dolph Ziggler, Shinsuke Nakamura, and AJ Styles competing for the Money in the Bank briefcase.
Dave Meltzer indicated that Baron Corbin is the favorite to win the match as the company is really high on him at the moment. “Yeah, I think there’s a pretty good chance [of Baron Corbin winning],” said Meltzer.
He continued, “He’s the guy that [WWE] is talking about elevating because… I don’t know. I don’t see him against Jinder. A lot of the times, the Money in the Bank winner is someone that you don’t really think of as at that level, and usually they end up winning the championship. Sometimes it works, like with Edge, and sometimes it doesn’t.”
It was reported last week that Nakamura was the early favorite to win the bout. As we get closer to the event, things will likely change as they always do within WWE.
WWE Trying To Erase “This Is Your Life” Segment from Existence
WWE is already trying to forget the “This Is Your Life” segment took place on Monday’s episode of RAW featuring Alexa Bliss and Bayley.
In the YouTube highlights for Monday’s show, WWE only posted part of the segment which shows Bayley walking down to the ring to confront Bliss. The company titled the video segment, “Alexa Bliss takes Bayley on a painful trip down Memory Lane” with no reference at all to “This Is Your Life.” They even deleted Twitter footage that they were posting during the show, trying to forget that it even happened.
The segment drew fierce criticism from fans on social media and even those in the arena tried to hijack it with “delete” chants.
Vince Russo’s The Brand Recap – Analyzing Bash at the Beach 2000, Getting ‘Screwed’ by Bischoff & Hogan, Shoot or Work? More!
Russo is joined on today’s show by his co-host Jeff Lane. On this episode, Russo will discuss the events leading up to and during WCW’s Bash at the Beach PPV on July 9th, 2000.
Lane says that he was 21 years old at the time and he watched this PPV live. He thought the entire thing was a shoot and even the dirt sheets reported that it was a shoot at that time. It wasn’t until years later when he was smartened up by a friend, who Russo had told that the whole thing was a work. Russo says that even to this day, people ask him if that angle was a work or not.
Russo says that he never watches his old shows because it really hurts him to do so. For so long people have criticized him for ‘killing WCW’ and while it never made any sense to him, he allowed it to get to him. After watching this show, he thinks that premise is hilarious. This PPV occurred three months before he left the company, and the audience is insanely hot and 100% into the product for the entire duration of the show.
He says that the more he thinks about it, he was completely set up by Eric Bischoff and Hulk Hogan. The things that he’s about to say regarding Bischoff on his show today are not new, and he’d say it to Bischoff’s face if Bischoff were to come on the show to discuss it.
Possible Match for Sunday’s Extreme Rules
Dave Meltzer mentioned on the latest installment of Wrestling Observer Radio that WWE has been building for a future match between Goldust and R-Truth on weekly RAW programming.
Meltzer said that the match could be added to Sunday’s Extreme Rules event. It was not mentioned if a stipulation would be added to the gimmick pay-per-view match or not, but it’s possible. We will let you know if they announce the match ahead of the show.
Bischoff on Wrestling Recap w/ Hornswoggle – Run as RAW GM, Release from WWE, Working the Indies, More!
Bischoff welcomes Swoggle (formerly WWE’s Hornswoggle) to the show.
Swoggle informs that he was a fan of wrestling since he was four years old. His height restrictions should have put a damper on his ambition to become a professional wrestler but it didn’t. He also had back surgery as a kid, and the doctor told him he wouldn’t be able to compete in contact sports or use a trampoline.
He didn’t listen to the doctor and continued to pursue his dream of becoming a professional wrestler. At age 17 he started getting trained by Mr. (Ken) Anderson who trained him as a wrestler, not as a midget, which Swoggle really appreciated.
His first wrestling memory is WrestleMania 6, and he was a huge fan of The Ultimate Warrior. He says that Warrior was a superhero to him, and this inspired him to become a wrestler.
Swoggle informs that his first big break came when he was backyard wrestling one day and local recruiters arrived and offered some training and an opportunity to work in a legitimate wrestling ring. This was a huge break for him, and he jumped at the opportunity.