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Support our sponsor this week by using the link below for the special Solomonster offer!EXPRESSVPN - Get an extra three months FREE of the #1 trusted VPN at http://www.expressvpn.com/solomonsterIt was the END OF AN ERA this week with WWE and UFC coming together under TKO Group Holdings and Endeavor now taking majority ownership of WWE. Unfortunately, this included massive WWE office cuts and I'll explain how many people lost their jobs and which divisions got hit the hardest, plus Nick Khan comments on why PLEs may be moving to Sundays, Royal Rumble coming to Tropicana Field, a major WWE event said to be coming to Australia and the possibility of CM Punk returning to WWE... The Rock returns to WWE on Smackdown, but not before stopping by Pat McAfee's show and revealing that a match with Roman Reigns was LOCKED for Wrestlemania 39 and I've got details on how far in advance it was planned, why it didn't happen and why I believe it will NEVER happen despite Rock's repeated teases, plus how it would impact Cody Rhodes and his attempt to "finish the story"... Nia Jax is back in WWE and why it's the return that absolutely no one asked for... Jade Cargill leaving AEW for WWE, the latest on where she will be this week and the best place for her after she debuts... an embarrassing moment on AEW Collision involving Keith Lee... THE GREAT DEBATE about the AEW All In attendance at Wembley Stadium takes a turn this week... AEW GRAND SLAM 2023 PREDICTIONS, including a pitch for why Samoa Joe should beat MJF for the AEW World Championship, and the very real attendance struggles the company is experiencing right now... thoughts on Becky Lynch winning the NXT Women's Championship for the first time... and a NEW Hulk Hogan lie discovered this week?***Follow Solomonster on Twitter for news and opinion:http://www.twitter.com/solomonsterSubscribe to the Solomonster Sounds Off on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSolomonster?sub_confirmation=1Become a Solomonster Sounds Off Channel Member:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9jcg7mk93fGNqWPMfl_Aig/join

Support our sponsor by using the link below for the special Solomonster offer!BETTERHELP - Get 10 PERCENT OFF your first month and give online therapy a try at http://www.betterhelp.com/solomonster to start being your best self. Thanks to BetterHelp for sponsoring this week's episode!Solomonster reviews AEW Dynamite for September 13th with final hype for Grand Slam next week and Samoa Joe punching his ticket to an AEW World championship match with MJF. Plus, Konosuke Takeshita and Don Callis set their sights on Kota Ibushi, Hangman and Swerve make it official for Wrestle Dream and the women get short-changed in a four-way match with high stakes, even though it never really felt like it.***Follow Solomonster on Twitter for news and opinion:http://www.twitter.com/solomonsterSubscribe to the Solomonster Sounds Off on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSolomonster?sub_confirmation=1Become a Solomonster Sounds Off Channel Member:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9jcg7mk93fGNqWPMfl_Aig/join

Support our sponsor by using the link below for the special Solomonster offer!BETTERHELP - Get 10 PERCENT OFF your first month and give online therapy a try at http://www.betterhelp.com/solomonster to start being your best self. Thanks to BetterHelp for sponsoring this week's episode!Solomonster reviews WWE Monday Night Raw for September 11th, the final Raw under the ownership of Vince McMahon, and I can't think of a more fitting closing shot than the return of NIA JAX. Kairi Sane might want to reconsider her pending return after this. Drew McIntyre and Xavier Woods had an excellent match, and Chad Gable made it clear that he wants one more shot at Gunther's Intercontinental title, but overall, it was a lackluster show up against the opening night of Monday Night Football. Plus, the latest on the Matt Riddle situation and LA Knight's contract status.***Follow Solomonster on Twitter for news and opinion:http://www.twitter.com/solomonsterSubscribe to the Solomonster Sounds Off on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSolomonster?sub_confirmation=1Become a Solomonster Sounds Off Channel Member:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9jcg7mk93fGNqWPMfl_Aig/join

Support our sponsor by using the link below for the special Solomonster offer!BETTERHELP - Get 10 PERCENT OFF your first month and give online therapy a try at http://www.betterhelp.com/solomonster to start being your best self. Thanks to BetterHelp for sponsoring this week's episode!Impact Wrestling hits 1000 episodes this week and that has Solomonster feeling nostalgic about the good and the bad we've gotten from Impact over the past 20-plus years. He also talks about the death of Adnan Al-Kaissie, or General Adnan from his time in WWE with Sgt. Slaughter, and shares some interesting tales from his life as a childhood friend of Saddam Hussein and the time Saddam threatened to shoot Andre in the head during a match in Iraq... a historic week coming up with the close of the Endeavor deal for WWE, why their employees are worried and what it means for the fans who watch the product... LA Knight signs a new long-term deal with WWE, how long it's believed to be for and what's being said about their plans for him... GUNTHER makes history as the longest-reigning Intercontinental champion of all time and two ideas on how and when to have Chad Gable beat him for that title... WRESTLEMANIA 40 may still be seven months away, but some of the key matches for the show seem clear at this point, and he runs down what those and other matches may be and where other people fit into those plans... then on the AEW front, he's got MORE FALLOUT from the CM Punk termination including reaction from some of the top stars in WWE, the rumored idea Punk had for a return earlier this year and why it was never going to happen, Ace Steel released from his AEW contract and the legal letter sent by Punk to The Elite over a BTE skit... Bryan Danielson claims this will be his last year in wrestling and challenges Zack Sabre Jr. to a match at WrestleDream... the epidemic of OPEN CHALLENGES in AEW... the beef between Santana and Ortiz spills over onto social media, how much of it is setting up an angle between the two?... and thoughts on the not-so-new Kurt Angle documentary on Peacock, including his first broken neck heading into the Olympics, his drug addiction, his "Perc Angle" days in TNA and why Angle doesn't consider himself GOAT material for his run in WWE.***Follow Solomonster on Twitter for news and opinion:http://www.twitter.com/solomonsterSubscribe to the Solomonster Sounds Off on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSolomonster?sub_confirmation=1Become a Solomonster Sounds Off Channel Member:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9jcg7mk93fGNqWPMfl_Aig/join

Solomonster reviews WWE Smackdown with Jimmy Uso trying to work his way back into the good graces of Roman Reigns, even after all that has already happened. Even if you believe it makes sense because he wants to be the next Tribal Chief, this story is dragging and not in a good way. On the other hand, LA Knight continues to light up these crowds and is getting even more screen time on the show, which is a good thing. And we have a little tease of possible faction warfare involving The Bloodline, The Judgment Day and Bobby Lashley's new crew.***Follow Solomonster on Twitter for news and opinion:http://www.twitter.com/solomonsterSubscribe to the Solomonster Sounds Off on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSolomonster?sub_confirmation=1Become a Solomonster Sounds Off Channel Member:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9jcg7mk93fGNqWPMfl_Aig/join

Support our sponsor this week by using the link below for the special Solomonster offer!EXPRESSVPN - Get an extra three months FREE of the #1 trusted VPN at http://www.expressvpn.com/solomonsterSolomonster reviews AEW Dynamite for September 6th, the post-All Out edition, with the start of the Grand Slam Eliminator tournament, an excellent confrontation between MJF and Samoa Joe and the start of a program with Hangman Page and Swerve Strickland. The pacing wasn't as chaotic as it usually is with the Wednesday shows, which was a notable plus.***Follow Solomonster on Twitter for news and opinion:http://www.twitter.com/solomonsterSubscribe to the Solomonster Sounds Off on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSolomonster?sub_confirmation=1Become a Solomonster Sounds Off Channel Member:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9jcg7mk93fGNqWPMfl_Aig/join

Support our sponsor this week by using the link below for the special Solomonster offer!EXPRESSVPN - Get an extra three months FREE of the #1 trusted VPN at http://www.expressvpn.com/solomonsterSolomonster reviews WWE Monday Night Raw for September 4th with Gunther successfully defending his Intercontinental Championship against Chad Gable and soon to surpass the Honky Tonk Man as the longest reigning IC champion of all time. Long live the new king. He gives his thoughts on the match, why Gable should get one more shot, when to do it and what type of match it should be. Plus, The Judgment Day gets a new member and The Miz fights an invisible man.***Follow Solomonster on Twitter for news and opinion:http://www.twitter.com/solomonsterSubscribe to the Solomonster Sounds Off on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSolomonster?sub_confirmation=1Become a Solomonster Sounds Off Channel Member:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9jcg7mk93fGNqWPMfl_Aig/join

Support our sponsor this week by using the link below for the special Solomonster offer!EXPRESSVPN - Get an extra three months FREE of the #1 trusted VPN at http://www.expressvpn.com/solomonsterSolomonster reviews AEW All Out 2023 from the United Center in Chicago, a show that exceeded expectations and actually topped All In for overall quality (one man's humble opinion). Orange Cassidy's International title reign finally comes to an end, Bryan Danielson returns and makes Ricky Starks, and the rest of us, experience a disturbing sense of brutality, Takeshita picks up the biggest win of his career and Samoa Joe starts some shit with MJF. The first PPV of the post CM Punk era showed us that AEW is going to be just fine.***Follow Solomonster on Twitter for news and opinion:http://www.twitter.com/solomonsterSubscribe to the Solomonster Sounds Off on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSolomonster?sub_confirmation=1Become a Solomonster Sounds Off Channel Member:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9jcg7mk93fGNqWPMfl_Aig/join

Support our sponsor this week by using the link below for the special Solomonster offer!EXPRESSVPN - Get an extra three months FREE of the #1 trusted VPN at http://www.expressvpn.com/solomonsterSolomonster reviews WWE Payback 2023 with two fantastic matches and other matches that were NOT fantastic, but were not bad either. Plus, breaking news from that evening about Tony Khan terminating CM Punk from AEW and initial thoughts on the bombshell announcement.***Follow Solomonster on Twitter for news and opinion:http://www.twitter.com/solomonsterSubscribe to the Solomonster Sounds Off on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSolomonster?sub_confirmation=1Become a Solomonster Sounds Off Channel Member:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9jcg7mk93fGNqWPMfl_Aig/join

Support our sponsor this week by using the link below for the special Solomonster offer!EXPRESSVPN - Get an extra three months FREE of the #1 trusted VPN at http://www.expressvpn.com/solomonsterOne year after AEW's most embarrassing night at Brawl Out, Tony Khan has FIRED CM Punk from All Elite Wrestling in a bombshell announcement. Solomonster has all the details that we know about, including Tony's claim that his life was put in danger by Punk's actions last weekend, what exactly is alleged to have happened backstage at Wembley Stadium, what sparked the incident with Jack Perry in the first place, how this situation could get even messier, why it was the right move to make and why a CM Punk return to WWE may not be as obvious as some may think. ALSO... we've got a full preview and PREDICTIONS for AEW All Out 2023, including the planned main event and the return of Bryan Danielson, earlier than expected from his broken arm... FALLOUT from WWE Payback 2023 with two excellent matches and Cody Rhodes bringing Jey Uso to the Monday Night Raw roster, plus where it may be leading... more tragic details on the death of Bray Wyatt... the former tag team on their way back to WWE and the brand they're expected to be on... and Road Dogg blames THE FANS for cheering for Becky Lynch at Summerslam 2018 when they should have been booing her. Who knew that we were the real heels all along!***Follow Solomonster on Twitter for news and opinion:http://www.twitter.com/solomonsterSubscribe to the Solomonster Sounds Off on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSolomonster?sub_confirmation=1Become a Solomonster Sounds Off Channel Member:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9jcg7mk93fGNqWPMfl_Aig/join