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00:00 Welcome to the WrestleTalk News, I'm Pete Quinnell.

00:11 After a somewhat shaky 2022 and 2023 for AEW, it seems things are starting to look up for

00:16 the promotion. Their quality of pay-per-views hadn't really dipped, but now they seem

00:19 to be putting on consistently good TV, good wrestling, the C2's going down as a success

00:23 so far, they're finding their feet again after what had been a real rough patch.

00:28 Which is why it's so surprising that one of the higher up names backstage in AEW has

00:32 reportedly been let go. Dave Meltzer originally reported, which was also corroborated by Fightful,

00:37 that AEW's Vice President of Post-Production Kevin Sullivan was fired. AEW's Senior Vice

00:42 President and co-executive producer Mike Mansoori made the call to him, with Sullivan having

00:46 been with AEW since October 2019, the same time that Dynamite launched.

00:51 It was clarified by Impact Wrestling ring announcer David Penzert on X that Sullivan

00:55 was the VP of Post-Production, meaning he would have been responsible for the studio

00:59 that edits Rampage, video packages and promotional ads, and not the live production side of the

01:05 company. What makes this firing so curious though, is the information around it. Also

01:10 in Dave Meltzer's report was the fact that Sullivan was very highly thought of, and that

01:14 he built the entire AEW post-production team. So what happened? We don't know, but there's

01:20 some real question marks around this, as Meltzer notes there were a lot of questions going

01:24 around regarding what happened, as the firing has seemingly taken many by surprise.

01:29 Kevin Sullivan then posted on X to say he wasn't fired, wait a second that's the

01:33 wrestler Kevin Sullivan, no relation to this Kevin Sullivan. Nice one, Kev.

01:38 There's obviously a lot of news surrounding this story we don't know yet, so stay tuned

01:41 to WrestleTalk.com for any and all updates.

01:44 Meanwhile there's been some legal issues brewing in WWE because main event Jey Uso

01:48 was in the actual main event last night, that's wild. And since splitting from the Bloodline,

01:53 Jey has continued to be massively over, his entrants getting big reactions, his matches

01:57 being continually great, and now he's got a whole new line of merch with Yeet Chants

02:01 getting over too, so considering they built this whole new Jey character around the Yeet

02:05 Chant and merchandise, you'd think they'd make sure they could actually do that first.

02:09 Wouldn't they?

02:10 So Yeet as it turns out is reportedly trademarked according to S.E. Scoops. The trademark was

02:14 reportedly filed in 2021 by a wrestler from West Virginia called Casey Huffman. WrestleVotes

02:19 report that the word and merchandising will no longer be associated with Uso going forward.

02:24 Yeah, good luck stopping those chants. Maybe they'll still use Yeet, but just change

02:28 the word ever so slightly. Like take out one of the E's so it becomes Yet. Yet? It works,

02:34 right?

02:35 Now here's some news to add to the pile of holy s*** 2024 is going to be a nutty year

02:39 for wrestling. Sports Illustrated is reporting that Kazuchika Okada is set to become a free

02:44 agent in early 2024, at the end of January specifically. And not only that, he is reportedly

02:49 seriously entertaining signing with AEW or WWE instead of re-signing with his current

02:55 home promotion, New Japan Pro Wrestling.

02:57 Okada appeared on Dynamite back in October, which was partially done to further his WrestleKingdom

03:02 match with Bryan Danielson, but it also reportedly was to give him a better sense of how AEW

03:07 works and runs. WWE would be the other possible destination, where Okada has been the subject

03:12 of many reports for years regarding WWE interest in him. There's no doubt that both promotions

03:17 will be pushing heavily to sign up the arguably biggest star in New Japan today. Okada to

03:22 AEW confirmed. Or Okada #30 in the Royal Rumble confirmed. That would be legitimately insane

03:28 now that I've said it out loud. My God.

03:32 Over to Luke.

03:33 Thank you very much Pete, but before we get into the Raw review, it's time to hear about

03:36 another potential match of the year candidate. So joining me for the first time in quite

03:40 some while is someone who assures me they are on the nice list. It's Mark Markerson.

03:46 Welcome back.

03:47 Oh Luke, the pleasure is all yours. This week's match of the year candidate was a piece of

03:51 technical class. It was the very picture of competition. A well-worked contest featuring

03:55 one of the premier athletes in the game. At Black Label Pro's Slammilton event, Shazza

04:00 McKenzie took on Sean Ross Sapp in a street fight. They started with a lockup before Sapp

04:05 hit a very clean drop toehold. In theory he might have sustained an injury, but he bravely

04:09 pushed through before the brutal McKenzie brought a kendo stick into the equation. McKenzie

04:13 took full advantage with some lethal shots that could be heard echoing around the greater

04:17 Berwyn, Illinois area, but Sapp was able to swing the momentum back in his favour, drawing

04:22 on his well-documented MMA training by locking in a wicked kneebar and slamming her with

04:26 an unbelievable impaler DDT for a breathtaking near fall. But McKenzie managed to slither

04:32 out of danger and in a heart-stopping climax, she hit a vicious spear to send Sapp crashing

04:36 through a doorframe and picking up the victory. Luke, I just thought it was outstanding wrestling.

04:42 I get it now. I get it. It's all a big, big ha-ha joke. It's funny. Yeah, no, it's good.

04:47 It's a good one. I enjoyed that. Why me? Well, you know, cause that was, that was a comedy

04:52 match. It was a joke match for, for charity. They raise a lot of money for charity as well.

04:56 So, you know, I think you'll find it was a piece of wrestling history and I loved it.

05:00 So I'm going to give it 33 stars. Dan, it was, Dan, it was, it was a, it was a joke.

05:05 It was Dan. Mark, it was, it was a, it was a joke match. Like it's, it was there to raise

05:12 money and it did a great job in raising money for charity. But like, yeah, I mean, you can't

05:17 be serious. No, you're not serious. All right. Miss me with your tribalism. Dan, Mark. Who's

05:25 Dan? Mark. I don't know who Dan is. Mark. Sick of this. And all Dan. It was.

05:35 I think that's probably enough from Mark or Dan for this week. Cause it's time to review

05:44 Monday Night Raw, AKA the episode of Monday Night Raw in about five minutes. The show

05:49 opened with Drew McIntyre cutting a promo saying that someone left the company and has

05:54 come back looking for a bigger spot on the card, which funny enough is also the Drew

05:58 McIntyre story. This elicited some CM Punk chants as it was reported that nearly 2000

06:04 extra tickets had been sold for this show based on the return of CM Punk, who sadly

06:10 was not here tonight. Drew continued his promo and it brought out Sami Zayn who said that

06:14 he worked and overcame his adversities to headline WrestleMania and asked the question,

06:19 "Are you making your family proud, Drew?" I don't know about that, but I can tell

06:23 you what Drew is doing. He's ripping off Dan Layton's Truth Gimmick. This led to

06:27 Drew vs. Sami, which was as great as you would expect it to be. It was all built around a

06:32 very simple spot of Sami tweaking his knee doing a simple axe handle from the middle

06:36 rope. It got worse throughout the match meaning Sami could barely stand or do a running dive.

06:41 They call that selling, Seth. Drew gave him a chop block and Claymore for the win. He

06:45 later battered Sami backstage. This was a great presentation of Drew McIntyre.

06:50 Byron Saxton interviewed Shayna Baszler about Nia Jax, and Jax interrupted a Becky Lynch

06:54 promo to point out that they never actually did anything off the back of Jax breaking

06:59 her face that one time. This led to a match between Jax and Baszler that was way better

07:03 than you'd expect it to be. It put over Jax strong as she survived the Kirifuda Clutch

07:07 and squashed Baszler in the corner with the Banzai Drop. Becky then came out to face with

07:11 Jax after the match. This was pretty good.

07:14 Pete and Dan made another appearance on Monday Night Raw in the CM Punk video package which

07:18 still pops me every time, and I guess that we're all just cool with Ciampa now as they

07:22 chummed up with him backstage before Imperium walked in to do some lame comedy. That Miz

07:27 feud has really rubbed off on them in a bad way.

07:30 DIY then beat Imperium in a two out of three falls match that was pure PWG in its final

07:36 fall. The issues between Giovanni Vinci and Ludwig Kaiser continued, and Vinci blamed

07:40 Kaiser for the loss and said that he would need to explain it to Gunther - who we later

07:44 saw scolding Kaiser in the background of another shot. This action was fantastic, but please

07:48 stop breaking up Imperium.

07:50 Chelsea Green and Piper Niven made fun of Tegan, Nox and Natalya saying no one buys

07:54 their friendship. I agree. And I guess that feud must continue as Nattie says she wants

07:59 to go for those tag belts. Speaking of tag teams, The Creed Brothers trained with New

08:03 Day and Alpha Academy walked in so all the Raw tag teams could stand in a row, and Maxine

08:08 did some squats with Tozawa. Wrestling.

08:11 The Judgment Day have spent a large portion of 2023 feuding with towns like Sami Zayn,

08:15 Jey Uso, Seth Rollins and Cody Rhodes off an opening and closing Raw. And they're

08:20 going to finish 2023 by feuding… with R-Truth. You know what, good for R-Truth, he's a

08:27 former NWA World Champion. Truth had broken into the Judgment Den and messed things up

08:31 for them, which set up a match between Judgment Day Job Squad of Dominik and JD McDonough

08:35 to face off against The Creed later on tonight.

08:38 The Party Girls then took on Tegan and Nattie in a pretty sloppy match that the crowd weren't

08:42 all that into. There was a light Tegan chanter at one point, but the loudest person in the

08:46 match was Nattie trying to get Tegan chanted. But despite the backstage segment we saw earlier,

08:50 it turns out this feud must not continue as The Party Girls won, and then they booted

08:55 Chelsea Green off the apron.

08:57 Cody Rhodes came out for a promo to call out Shinsuke Nakamura, but Nakamura only appears

09:01 in video form these days, and he explained why he attacked Cody. And it's actually

09:06 quite brilliant. Nakamura explained that he and Cody have a similar story. They both won

09:11 the Royal Rumble, they were both destined to win the championship gold at WrestleMania,

09:15 and they both came up short. And Nakamura's loss saw him spiral, so if he can't finish

09:20 his story, he'll finish Cody's instead. It's great motivation, and Cody challenged

09:25 him to a match that will take place next week. This was all very, very good.

09:29 The Judgment Day Job Squad then did the J-O-B to The Creed Brothers, who looked awesome

09:34 - particularly Julius Creed, who ran wild with suplexes from the hot tag that got more

09:39 and more over the more and more he did them. Great stuff. Dom and JD then told Damien Priest

09:43 backstage that he should take The Creed seriously.

09:46 We got a big recap of Randy Orton signing with Smackdown, and Adam Pearce told Seth

09:50 Rollins that CM Punk will be on the show next week because he wants to sign him to Raw.

09:55 Seth laughed at this and said that it's all going to blow up in Pearce's face when

10:00 Punk shows his true colours. I am so ready for Corporate Man Punk.

10:04 Rollins also chatted with Jey who said that he's been working 15 years to get a shot

10:08 at a singles world title… conveniently ignoring that he's had quite a few bites of Bad Apple,

10:15 one of which was only a couple of months ago. But they did do a great job in hyping this

10:19 match up. Jey got a brilliant video package earlier in the night, and Michael Cole spent

10:23 the whole show putting over what a big opportunity this was for main event Jey Uso.

10:29 And while the crowd were more hot for CM Punk earlier in the match - get ready for those

10:33 Punk Champs ruining your favourite matches everyone - Jey and Seth actually got the crowd

10:38 into the actual match, and the guys in the ring doing the wrestling with their wrestling.

10:45 Sort of. They were more into Jey and wanted to see Jey win, and were more or less fine

10:52 with Seth Rollins.

10:53 There were some light boos when Rollins won, but the majority enjoyed the very good wrestling

10:58 on display. Jey was given two massive near falls, one off a spear and another off a spear

11:03 and a splash, but it was a Rollins stomp that put him away. Seth's back was so bad in

11:07 this match that he did multiple dives. They call that bad selling, Sami. Drew killed Jey

11:12 after the match and put him through the announcers table.

11:15 This was a very good edition of Monday Night Raw. The crowd may have paid to see Punk,

11:19 but what they got instead was a solid night of wrestling. This week's show is 4 out

11:24 of 5.

11:25 And speaking of Punk, Oli Davis went back and looked at all of the times One Bill Phil

11:29 shot on WWE, so you should go and watch that right now.

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