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00:00 It's Oli's favourite time of the year because WWE filed their quarterly report to

00:13 the SEC and among its usual numbers and business business business, there were also some very

00:17 interesting details in the legal section of the filing.

00:21 As well as mentioning the ongoing lawsuit with MLW, the filing noted that while their

00:25 own special committee within WWE finished their investigations into Vince McMahon's

00:30 allegations of misconduct in the fourth quarter of 2022, governmental investigations remain

00:34 ongoing.

00:35 The filing then mentions that on July 17th, 2023, federal law enforcement agents executed

00:41 a search warrant and served a federal grand jury subpoena on Mr. McMahon.

00:46 No charges were said to have been brought forward due to these investigations.

00:49 Both Vince and WWE have now issued statements to CNBC, with Vince's saying, "I have

00:54 always denied any intentional wrongdoing and continue to do so.

00:58 I am confident that the government's investigation will be resolved without any findings of wrongdoing."

01:03 John Pollock of Post Wrestling reported that Vince also made an internal statement to the

01:07 rest of WWE and its staff, which said mostly the same thing, continuing to say that the

01:11 internal investigation concluded late last year and he denied any wrongdoing.

01:15 It had also been reported recently that Vince McMahon underwent back surgery, which brought

01:19 about some question marks as to his role within WWE, and we now have a little more info on

01:24 that.

01:25 In the same SEC filing, it was mentioned that Vince had undergone this surgery and was now

01:29 on medical leave as of July 21st, and would remain on medical leave until further notice.

01:35 What this means for his influence backstage on week-to-week creative remains to be seen,

01:39 because this is Vince we're talking about, I don't think he knows what time off actually

01:43 means.

01:44 Women's wrestling has been a big topic of conversation lately, with more vocal criticism

01:48 of AEW's booking as well as WWE's decision to seemingly remove two women's matches

01:52 from Summerslam.

01:54 Dynamite last night had a Women's World Title match as the main event, Oli's going

01:57 to have his review here shortly, but there still seems to be some unrest in WWE.

02:01 One of the two matches that was reportedly penciled in for the show but now doesn't

02:04 seem to be happening was Rhea Ripley vs Raquel Rodriguez, and Rhea may now have shown how

02:09 she feels about that decision, as she's liked a tweet saying "Treat your women better.

02:14 Simple", with screenshots attached of Rhea Ripley and Becky Lynch being annoyed about

02:18 their exclusion on the Summerslam card.

02:21 Rhea also liked another tweet that said that Rhea has every right to be upset about not

02:25 being on the card.

02:26 So it seems pretty conclusive.

02:28 And while not everyone can get on the Summerslam card, of course it does seem odd that there's

02:32 no match for Rhea's belt or the biggest women's star in WWE right now.

02:36 But someone who has made their way onto the card is LA Knight, who will be competing in

02:40 the Summerslam Battle Royale, which I presume is for...fun?

02:44 There's been question marks over Knight's status in WWE, and whether he will actually

02:49 ever be pushed or not, despite the crowd reactions he's been getting.

02:53 There's another update from PWInsider, who report that Knight's booking is all by design,

02:57 and that WWE execs are super high on him, they're just waiting for the right time to

03:01 pull the trigger.

03:02 They've even reportedly gone as far as to praise him for breaking out of the mould of

03:06 the character he'd been presented with, which, if you think about it for a second, means

03:11 they knew that Max Dupree was a bad character.

03:14 WWE, everyone.

03:16 However, Worth Wrestling on Twitter added to this, saying "We can add that there are

03:20 parties worried that the company won't strike while the iron is hot and momentum will fade,

03:25 as they've done with some in the past."

03:28 What?

03:29 No.

03:30 WWE would never.

03:31 And now over to Oli for the Dynamite review.

03:34 It's Thursday, 3.84 years after this show debuted, you know what that means.

03:40 It's time for my review of the 200th episode of AEW Dynamite in about 5 minutes.

03:55 Sammy Guevara took on his mentor Cody Rhodes, remember him, on the first ever Dynamite almost

04:00 four years ago.

04:01 Here, he took on his newer wrestling daddy, Chris Jericho, tagging with Daniel Garcia

04:06 against Chris and Takeshita to open the show.

04:09 The carny piece of S-word Don Callis interfered, but mostly always behind Jericho's back.

04:14 There was no plausible deniability for the finish, though, when Garcia had his Dragon

04:18 Tamer submission on Chris, and Don knocked Garcia out with the baton behind the referee's

04:23 back.

04:24 Jericho looked annoyed initially.

04:26 This wasn't what he wanted to do to his boys.

04:28 But he made the cover anyway, putting him one step closer to joining the Don's family.

04:34 Afterwards, Daddy Magic kept up his excellent serious delivery and called a mandatory J-A-Day

04:39 S meeting for next week.

04:41 Well, we'll presumably have Jericho's final decision, which somehow leads him to

04:45 being booked against Will Ospreay in one of the top matches at All In.

04:48 Speaking of All In's segue…

04:53 Tony Khan promoted All In later this month in Wembley, in what will be the biggest era

05:01 of AEW yet.

05:03 This cued up a montage of some of the promotion's best moments over its 200 episodes.

05:08 What an incredible run.

05:09 From January 2020 to March 2022.

05:12 But as is the life cycle of any wrestling promotion post the Invasion, you'll eventually

05:17 want to do an ECW original storyline.

05:19 Jerry Lynn said he couldn't perry his ass himself because a) all the screws in his neck

05:24 and 2) that'd be called child abuse.

05:26 So he got someone else to commit the child abuse for him.

05:34 Rob Van Dam.

05:35 Side note, child abuse should be Christian's faction name.

05:38 RVD's secret source of weed, yoga and weed means he's 52 years young, springing into

05:43 sudden life by ducking a Perry chair shot and swinging his own heel kick counter.

05:48 Perry ran into the crowd and used a young girl as a shield.

05:51 They were booked for an FTW title match next week.

05:54 The RVD surprise is fun, but I'd had my fill of ECW storylines about 13 years ago.

05:59 And what's happened to Hook?

06:01 Trent pinned Penta in the following Anything Goes match with Jon Moxley, with some supremely

06:05 fun hardcore action reminiscing the best parts of the pandemic era - like the 5 star parking

06:10 lot brawl, suplexes outside through tables, an avalanche destroyer through a table, all

06:16 the thumbtacks, and the final sequence of moves and near falls was terrific.

06:20 After Trent got his win back from being pinned by Penta last week, Mox immediately embraced

06:25 him from behind.

06:26 Oh no, wait, no, he's choking him.

06:28 He's choking him to death.

06:30 This prompted a Best Friends vs Blackpool Combat Club brawl, which saw the faces stand

06:34 tall to challenge Mox and Claudio to a parking lot fight on Rampage.

06:38 No, Tony, collision.

06:39 Collision's the show going against SummerSlam.

06:41 That's on Saturday, not Friday.

06:44 Many were calling for MJF to be a face when he returned last September.

06:47 The crowd wanted to cheer him, and the company suddenly found itself missing all its top

06:52 faces after BrawlOut.

06:54 I understood the reasoning, but I never agreed.

06:56 Character-wise, Max back then was still a heel.

06:59 Planning him would've been needs-driven, not organically from character.

07:02 A year later, though, the timing is perfect, and it's no coincidence that time and patience

07:07 has created one of the most over-acts in wrestling.

07:11 After embracing Cole at the end of their collision tag on Saturday, MJF cut a full-on babyface

07:16 promo once again recalling his villain origin story - of having quarters thrown at him in

07:21 high school, and how that made him believe everyone else in this world is evil.

07:25 He has to stab others in the back before they can do it to him.

07:29 And in trying to protect himself, he became the very scumbag he hated.

07:33 "Getting people to hate him is easy," he said, in potentially a meta commentary

07:37 on performing as a heel or face.

07:39 "Being honest is hard."

07:40 But he's not scared anymore, and he's ready to be the fan scumbag.

07:45 He's a scumbag.

07:48 He called out Adam Cole and booked not just any title match, but THE title match.

07:53 For Wembley or All In.

07:55 Throughout this entire segment, I was waiting for Max to turn on Cole, or Cole to turn on

08:00 Max.

08:01 But they just embraced and smiled at the end.

08:03 This isn't just an incredible storyline, it's another brilliant MJF subversion of

08:07 a wrestling trope.

08:09 Can they coexist?

08:10 Yeah.

08:11 And they become stronger for it.

08:13 Speaking of strong, stronger segway… it appears the antagonistic force will be Roderick

08:29 Strong teaming with the Kingdom, who trashed a backstage area in jealousy.

08:33 Of course, everyone was most looking forward to the 200th episode for the dream in-ring

08:36 encounter decades in the making of Kenny Omega vs Jeff Jarrett.

08:41 But this guy was more into the idea of Generation Me meeting their maker.

08:47 Jarrett's TNA booked Max and Jeremy Buck so badly, it forced them to take indie wrestling

08:53 into their own hands.

08:55 In many ways, Jeff Jarrett is the real cause and founder of AEW.

09:01 The trio's match was typically fun complete, with patented TNA overbooking involving Sonjay,

09:06 Karen, the Hardy Boys for some reason, and a wild Hangman Page from out of nowhere all

09:12 getting involved.

09:13 The Elite One then announced they've signed long-term with AEW and are looking forward

09:18 to the next 200 episodes.

09:20 We'll see them on Dynamite, Rampage, ROH, Heck, even Collision.

09:26 And like that, an unacknowledged rift at the heart of the promotion, and my own, felt like

09:31 it started to close.

09:33 Just like how I felt something go off kilter when Tony Khan announced he'd bought ROH,

09:37 from which I still believe you can trace a throughline of diluting the product and splitting

09:41 attention from managing backstage personnel issues, I felt something resolve itself here.

09:47 I think, and hope, we'll look back on this milestone episode and see this as the true

09:52 start of AEW's return to full strength.

09:56 Kenny referencing Collision makes me think this is the long-term build to the Elite vs

10:01 CM Punk.

10:02 The recently emboldened Mogul affiliates, which now includes AR Fox, got an excellent

10:06 video package, which saw them invade the Buddy Wayne Academy to beat everyone up, smashing

10:10 a father and son photo frame over Nick Wayne's head and calling Darby Allin on the phone

10:15 to let him know what they'd done.

10:16 This was an intense, awesome angle.

10:18 Ozzy Open successfully defended their ROH tag titles against Vikingo and Commander in

10:23 a fun, if slightly sloppy, Styles Clash match.

10:26 It's great to see Mark Davis, no relation, back in the ring.

10:29 And for the main event, it turns out Tony Khan does read fans' signs.

10:33 Quick, someone make a Jeff Jarrett World Champion poster!

10:36 Shida and Toni Storm close the show, where Shida shockingly won the Women's Championship

10:42 for a second time.

10:43 A wonderful, emotional victory, as Shida's first run was in front of zero fans over the

10:49 pandemic.

10:50 Now she'd get to hold the belt in front of what might be the most fans at a show ever

10:54 in wrestling history, outside North Korea, in Wembley.

10:58 The finish was excellent, playing on the Outcast's usual template of interference

11:02 wins, but Shida kicked out of a spray paint in the face and a Storm Zero in an amazing

11:07 near fall.

11:08 And then she won.

11:09 What a moment.

11:10 However, book the Women's division better.

11:13 What does that mean to you?

11:15 If it means sudden title change in a very high profile slot, great.

11:19 Let's be optimistic.

11:20 But I've been optimistic about Women's division follow-ups for 200 shows, and I've

11:24 been disappointed every time.

11:26 I'm at the same place with AEW Women's division booking as I was with NXT call-ups

11:30 in 2019.

11:31 No matter how exciting the debut felt, I was conditioned to know there'd be no follow-up.

11:36 There was no substantial storyline here.

11:39 Shida didn't come down with a Willow Nightingale or a Sky Blue, despite them being on the same

11:43 side previously and the Outcasts being there in full force.

11:47 Never felt like this was a culmination of this six month long Outcasts vs AEW original

11:52 storyline which was there to be told.

11:54 Maybe this was always the plan, but it really did come across like a knee jerk reaction

11:58 to AEW's poor booking of the Women's division over the last two weeks.

12:02 A very heartwarming and well-deserved moment, but I'll reserve judgement for if this is

12:06 the sign of actual change for a couple of months.

12:09 This week's AEW Dynamite is 86%.

12:12 In SummerSlam this weekend, watch minor Luke's prediction for every WWE star at that show

12:18 in three words or less.

12:19 Thank you for watching.

12:25 ♪ I'm talkin' talk ♪

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