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** The reigning NXT Champion Ethan Page joined Busted Open and discussed CM Punk’s involvement in the forthcoming NXT Title match between himself and Trick Williams:
Honestly, for me, CM Punk brings so much to the table (in the NXT Title match). What I was and what I am, I’ve seen both sides of it and I can’t argue the fact, I mean, the guy moves numbers. People care what he has to say, people care what he’s doing, where he’s at and the fact that he’s where I’m at and we’re gonna be in his hometown in Chicago, first episode. Big arena, place is gonna be packed. It’s massive. I don’t take for granted — I know you were saying when we (were) going back-and-forth, I’m happy that I got to hold my own but it doesn’t discredit my respect for who he is. I understand that it’s very big that he has been involved in this episode, this match and the night that we make history, October 1st so, really big. Very, very, very, very, very big.
** Coming up on October 6th, Ricochet will be returning to Japan and he’ll be teaming with CIMA for the GLEAT promotion. He shared on Talk Is Jericho that CIMA extended the invitation. While discussing their history, Ricochet shared that CIMA indirectly stopped him from quitting wrestling full-time.
I just announced, October 6th, I’ll be in Osaka. Me and CIMA actually will be tagging for the first time in years. GLEAT. He has a company. It’s called GLEAT… (Good thing about working at AEW is being able to do matches outside of the company) Absolutely and so, he asked me if I was able to do it and he’s kind of literally the reason why I’m here because I was actually gonna — not quit wrestling but just start doing my actual job more and do wrestling on the side but then he called me over to Japan and that literally changed the whole trajectory of my career and we just tagged everywhere and he taught me so much so, as soon as he asked me, I knew I had to do it, and now all the Japanese fans are like, ‘Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!’ So, it’s just a good feeling…
** WWE SummerSlam 2025 will be a two-night event from MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Sonya Deville hails from New Jersey and while appearing on WWE – Die Woche, she expressed her desire to be on the show(s) and said she’ll make it happen by any means necessary. If she could face anyone at the event, it’d be fellow New Jersey native Liv Morgan. Deville said Liv is her ideal opponent in any scenario.
I just got goosebumps because I saw the (SummerSlam 2025) announcement just a few minutes ago and I was like, ‘I will do anything to be on that pay-per-view.’ I will be on that New Jersey, MetLife SummerSlam pay-per-view if it’s the last thing that I do and it has to be against Liv Morgan. Two Jersey girls. It has to be against the champ. I mean, there’s so many stories we could build there, there’s so many things we could tell. We’re both Jersey girls. I mean, it’s gotta be Liv.
Yeah (Liv is my ideal opponent in every scenario). Yeah. Yeah. 100 percent. We bring out the best in each other I think and I think Liv has the ability to do that with a lot of people. But, at a time where I was really coming out of the G.M. role and trying to get my wrestling boots back and trying to get back in there and build my confidence… The way that my career took me and she helped me do that and more. Yeah, it was a game changer at that point in my career so, yeah, me versus Liv, SummerSlam New Jersey. I’m booking it now.
** While guest appearing on Cheap Heat with Peter Rosenberg, WWE Women’s World Champion Liv Morgan reflected on the importance of the match she had against Becky Lynch at the Day 1 Premium Live Event. Morgan opened up about them being the sole women’s match on the card and the pressure she felt.
I feel like in that point in my career, that was one of my bigger opportunities (WWE Day 1 vs. Becky Lynch), and we were the only women’s match on the Day 1 card. It was the first time we were doing Day 1. I take that as a big responsibility and I’m being highlighted in a way that I’ve never been before and I need to knock it out of the park and so, just putting extra expectations on myself and standards on myself because I want to be — perfect doesn’t exist but I’m trying to go out there and execute perfection, and so, I think just all of that, I was like, ‘Whew!’ You know? It was just a lot of pressure for me in that moment because, like I said, I was in a spotlight that I hadn’t been in before, as a solo competitor.
** At the NXT on CW premiere, CM Punk is going to be the special guest referee for Ethan Page and Trick Williams’ NXT Championship match. Punk told 103.5 KISS FM that he’ll try to outdo Seth Rollins’ referee outfit from SummerSlam. Punk added that he thinks he’ll be wearing the ref cam for the NXT Title bout.
Brother, I’m gonna try to outdo goofy Seth Rollins with my referee outfit I think, and I think they want me to wear that headset that he had on, that ref cam too so things are gonna get wild. We’ll see how it goes.
** When AEW ran their Dynamite and Rampage shows from the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, Matt Taven’s 95-year-old grandfather drove into the city from New Hampshire to see him. Taven shared on the Stick to Wrestling Podcast that once Tony Khan found out about his grandfather, he made sure Taven had a match that night. Taven added that Khan thought about putting him on earlier so his grandfather could leave at a decent time.
I had like 40-something people there (at an AEW event in Boston) where, there’s certain things I’ll always kind of be grateful for Tony Khan forever. I’ll always be grateful for Tony Khan and for two things in particular that pop in my mind: Jay Briscoe. Everything that he did for the Briscoe family, and when he found out that my 95-year-old grandfather was gonna be in Boston, he made sure we had a match and stuff and then he even was like, ‘Oh, should we have done it earlier? You know, so you can get out of here on time’ and like, was just so accommodating and it was like, man, he cared so much about that. Giving me that moment. My 95-year-old grandfather trucked it down from New Hampshire. I could tell after our match he was tired, he was ready to go home but, I got to wrestle in front of him in The Garden which was something, you know, growing up, a kid from New England, that’s what you dream about… I’m a softy for Tony for life after that one so, it was funny because right after the match, I gave the tag belts to Mike (Bennett) and I was like, ‘I’ll be back.’ I ran into the crowd and there’s just (this) hilarious footage of me hugging my cousins. My cousins, like, taking their shirts off and stuff like that. Just getting crazy and it just was a special moment but, when all this is done, I’ll remember that one for sure.
** Three-time GHC Heavyweight Champion Kenoh is hosting a second set of tryouts to find a talent to bring into Pro Wrestling NOAH. It’ll take place November 2nd at Radiant Hall in Yokohama, Japan.
** Scott Johnson of Going Ringside conducted an interview with Bianca Belair and Montez Ford.
** Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes joined Good Karma Wrestling.
** Tori Talks Wrestling hosted a live interview with Matt Hardy:
** Guest appearing on K100 w/ Konnan & Disco was Scott D’Amore.
** September 26th birthdays: Naomichi Marufuji, Damian Priest, Asuka, Ortiz and Buddy Matthews.
** To promote NXT’s move to The CW, Trick Williams appeared on FOX 2 St. Louis.
** KLAS 8 News Now rolled out a video piece featuring Shawn Michaels, Roxanne Perez, Oba Femi, Lola Vice and Tank Ledger.
** There’s an interview with Bron Breakker that was conducted by WAFF 48.
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