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Vince Russo’s The Brand Recap w/ Kristian Harloff – Writing for WWE, Relationship with Roddy Piper, WWE Limiting Their Talents, More!

Russo welcomes former WWE writer Kristian Harloff to the show.

Harloff says that he was always a huge wrestling fan, and his favourite performer was ‘Macho Man’ Randy Savage. He moved to Los Angeles to become a writer and a stand up comedian, and he met Paul Heyman through a WWE event one evening. He asked Heyman how to get a chance to write for WWE and Heyman told him to write a letter. He told Heyman he already did that, so Heyman told him to write another one.

He wrote the company again, this time including his take on an in-depth ‘Invasion’ angle. This caught the attention of Stephanie McMahon and she flew him into Stanford for an interview.

Russo asks Harloff why he’d want to make the jump from being a stand-up comedian to writing professional wrestling. He says that he always wanted to work for WWE and he had to take the chance. Unfortunately, shortly after arriving in WWE he realized that it wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows behind the curtains.

Harloff informs that he got on management’s radar quick, but not in a positive way. During his first pre-show production meeting which was led by Vince McMahon, Harloff raised his hand to ask questions on multiple occasions. Coach came up to him after that and told him to settle down a little bit, because you don’t want to be ‘that’ guy.

Matt Hardy Responds to a Critic Saying He Betrayed TNA

The fight for the BROKEN Gimmick is still on between Anthem and The Hardys. Recently, after a lot of heated public discussions over the issue, Matt Hardy was accused by a Fan of “Betraying TNA”.

Hardy Replied:

Triple H Welcomes Bobby Fish to NXT

As previously reported, the recent episode of NXT saw the long-awaited debut of former ROH and IWGP tag team champion Bobby Fish. Fish squared off against Aleister Black in a losing effort. You can read our full spoiler report from Wednesday’s tapings here.

Triple H took to his Twitter to react to Fish’s arrival to the NXT brand:

https://twitter.com/TripleH/status/885338756785491968reac

WWE Mae Young Women’s Tournament Results – July 13th, 2017

WWE heads to Full Sail University for tonight’s Mae Young Women’s Tournament. Here are the spoilers:

* All the women are introduced before the tournament.

* Princesa Sugehit defeated Kay Lee Ray.

* Serena defeated Vanessa.

* Shanya defeated Zeda.

* Piper defeated Santana Garrett.

* Mia Yim defeated Sarah Logan.

* Mercedes Martinez defeated Xia Li.

* Rhea Ripley defeated Miranda Salinas.

* Abby Laith defeated Jazzy Gabert.

* Toni Storm defeated Ayesha Raymond.

* Dakota Kai defeated Kavita Devi.

* Candice LeRae defeated Renee Michelle.

* Rachel Evers defeated Marti Belle.

* Bianca Belair defeated Sage Beckett.

* Lacey Evans defeated Taynara Conti.

* Nicole Savoy defeated Reina Gonzalez.

* Kairi Sane defeated Tessa Blanchard.

This concludes the tapings.

The Taz Show Recap – NXT Analysis, Kurt Angle Documentary, Where Does Strowman Go From Here? More!

Blocks 1 & 2:

Taz opens today’s show by speaking about the second of four straight press conferences, promoting the upcoming boxing match between Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather. He calls these press conferences riveting entertainment, but if they continue to do the exact same thing it’s going to get old rather quickly. He believes that these two are going to have to get physical at the last press conference, just to give the fans something to hold onto as they build towards the fight in August.

A listener calls into the show and says that he wishes WWE would just turn Roman Reigns heel, and he believes that even Reigns wants to turn heel at this point. Taz agrees with the caller, and says that for the longest time he thought Reigns was determined to get over as a babyface, but as of late it sure seems like Reigns has embraced the heel overtones of his character.

Taz wonders if we’ve seen the last of Braun Strowman vs. Roman Reigns, because if WWE wanted to keep Strowman off television for a while they wouldn’t have shown him walking out of ambulance at Great Balls of Fire. The caller says that he has heard rumours that WWE if preparing for a Fatal 4-way match at SummerSlam for Universal Title between Strowman, Reigns, Samoa Joe and Brock Lesnar. Taz says he’ll be surprised if that happens.

Taz expects we’ll see Strowman back on RAW by next Monday, and then we should get some answers as to where WWE is heading with him creatively moving forward.

Talk is Jericho Recap w/ Sheamus & Cesaro – Best-of-7 Series, Tagging Together, WWE Travel Woes, More!

Jericho welcomes Sheamus & Cesaro to the show.

Jericho asks how their Best-of-7 series came to be. Sheamus says that prior to the WWE Draft, he was World Champion as part of the League of Nations and Cesaro had returned from an injury on absolute fire. Somewhere along the way they both lost some momentum, and at the Draft they were selected second last and last.

Cesaro says that he was quite angry that evening and Sheamus agrees. They felt that they should have been drafted higher, and they were both very motivated to prove doubters wrong. The company decided to pair them up for a couple of matches, and after that Mick Foley told them they’d be doing a best of 7 series.

Sheamus says that they kicked the shi* out of each other in every one of those matches, and he recalls one uppercut in particular from Cesaro when he actually felt his jaw move. Jericho says that as the series progressed every match got better and better, and Sheamus agrees. They capped off the series with a double count-out in the 7th match.