WWE News - August 2025

[Dolfan in NYC]

SummerSlam is tomorrow! Paris at the end of the month!

[Dolfan in NYC]

Per WON, Speed is done. 

Final champs are Sol Ruca and El Grande Americano.

 

 

[Cliff Hanger]

8 hours ago, Dolfan in NYC said:

Per WON, Speed is done. 

Final champs are Sol Ruca and El Grande Americano.

Ending it 15 months into a 2-year deal is really weird; I presume there must have been a clause that would allow either side to kill it under certain circumstances, but since it was a minimal effort to produce my instinct is that X would have canceled it to save the money rather than WWE saving the two to five people-hours. 

Unless (puts on tinfoil hat) they decided to cut X out of the equation to keep Paul on good terms with the federal government

[TheVileOne]

What's ironic is Mattel just revealed a new Andrade figure with his WWE Speed Title as an accessory at Comic-Con. 

[Dolfan in NYC]

Karrion Kross & Scarlett's have not signed the WWE's offered contracts.  

Their contracts run out at the end of the week.  

 

(So when Killer Kross shows up on Dynamite next week, try to look surprised.)

 

[Dolfan in NYC]

Okay hold on, cause I just got to the office and this is a big enough thing to do it's own thread. 

[Dolfan in NYC]

ESPN's acquisition of WWE PLE's in here:

 

[Dolfan in NYC]

 

[Casey]

every day I see more and more why Punk likes Bret Hart so much. They're both dicks lol.

EDIT: also the chairman of Saudi Arabia's sportswashing thing is hinting that WrestleMania is coming to Saudi in 2027

Edited August 6 by Casey

[The Natural]

37 minutes ago, Casey said:

EDIT: also the chairman of Saudi Arabia's sportswashing thing is hinting that WrestleMania is coming to Saudi in 2027

Oh, goodie a Saudi Arabia WrestleMania. Ironic that Bl00d Money shows go out a great time, 6pm in the UK compared to the early hours when in America but I still don't watch them. I'll stop here.

Edited August 6 by The Natural

[The Comedian]

2 hours ago, Dolfan in NYC said:

 

That shit was cool when Benoit did it tho, right? 

[EVA]

Bret has always hated chops, and I have always assumed he disliked Gunther for exactly that reason.

[Dolfan in NYC]

9 minutes ago, The Comedian said:

That shit was cool when Benoit did it tho, right? 

OOC, did Bret & Benoit ever have a match in WCW?  It's been so long and their overlap was relatively short... what like 2 years tops? 

[The Natural]

5 minutes ago, Dolfan in NYC said:

OOC, did Bret & Benoit ever have a match in WCW?  It's been so long and their overlap was relatively short... what like 2 years tops? 

Yes. Most famous one was the Owen Hart tribute match on WCW Monday Nitro, 4th October 1999. Had a few more as well.

Edited August 6 by The Natural

[just drew]

50 minutes ago, The Natural said:

Yes. Most famous one was the Owen Hart tribute match on WCW Monday Nitro, 4th October 1999. Had a few more as well.

It was Bret’s last really great match. 

[The Natural]

11 minutes ago, just drew said:

It was Bret’s last really great match. 

Agreed.

[The Comedian]

6 hours ago, EVA said:

Bret has always hated chops, and I have always assumed he disliked Gunther for exactly that reason.

I think the chop hate was a product of his feud with Ric Flair...

[Phantom Lord]

Yeah Bret says in his book that he hated taking chops from Flair. I mean I can see his point when you're chopping to the point of bloody chests and stuff.

[The Natural]

The Undertaker hated chops as well.

[zendragon]

He said at one point that he would only let Flair chop him twice, he didn't like the chops (if it really hurts its not working) and he didn't like that Flair would improvise during Bret's comback. I wish announcers would put over chops, forearms and palm strikes as being safer than throwing a closed fist.

I don't think there where many if any chops in his Benoit matches.

Edited August 7 by zendragon

[odessasteps]

Bret is the Alan Moore of wrestling at this point. 

[Niners Fan in CT]

14 hours ago, The Comedian said:

I think the chop hate was a product of his feud with Ric Flair...

This is exactly it.  Bret told him that he'd take a couple but he's not going to be doing a back and forth chop fest where they are hurting each other for real.  He told Flair that his strikes look like they hurt but he's not actually hurting anyone.  

And Bret is right.  I'm not against Flair and Garvin chopping the shit out of each other,  it was fantastic.  I'm not against Gunther.  But Bret is right in that his punches and kicks always looked like they were connecting and he didn't have to do chops. 

[Niners Fan in CT]

24 minutes ago, odessasteps said:

Bret is the Alan Moore of wrestling at this point. 

I don't think that's true.  He doesn't think everyone sucks.  In that same interview he put over Punk, Roman Reigns and some others as people he likes to watch. 

[Dolfan in NYC]

On 8/5/2025 at 11:44 AM, Dolfan in NYC said:

Karrion Kross & Scarlett's have not signed the WWE's offered contracts.  

Their contracts run out at the end of the week.  

Meltzer says WWE has blinked.   Kross & Scarlett have been given new contract offers and he "doesn't expect them to go anywhere."

 

...again, when Hangman Page and MJF both eat Kross Hammers to end Forbidden Door, make sure your jaw drops. 

[The Natural]

3 hours ago, Niners Fan in CT said:

This is exactly it.  Bret told him that he'd take a couple but he's not going to be doing a back and forth chop fest where they are hurting each other for real.  He told Flair that his strikes look like they hurt but he's not actually hurting anyone.  

And Bret is right.  I'm not against Flair and Garvin chopping the shit out of each other,  it was fantastic.  I'm not against Gunther.  But Bret is right in that his punches and kicks always looked like they were connecting and he didn't have to do chops. 

Bret Hart has some of the best punches and kicks ever. I think Bret Hart has the definitive version of nearly every move: Best Sharpshooter of all time, European Uppercut, Suplex, Superplex, DDT, Elbow drop, Bulldog, Hart Attack clothesline, regular clothesline etc. Excellence of Execution is such an apt name for him.

3 hours ago, Niners Fan in CT said:

I don't think that's true.  He doesn't think everyone sucks.  In that same interview he put over Punk, Roman Reigns and some others as people he likes to watch. 

Thank you.

Edited August 7 by The Natural