 good job. She brought us back here again with another video. So you guys have been hitting me up like crazy saying it's official CM Punk is signed with AEW. It's official, but you gotta talk about CM Punk is signed. It's you gotta gotta talk about this. And then the shows up in my sub box by WrestleMania himself. CM Punk 100% set for return. John Cena's secret WWE return match new WWE pay-per-view and wrestling news. And I've been seeing, you know, articles and stuff, but I wasn't sure, but it seems like a lot of people are going on this story that this is a real thing. AEW has acquired CM Punk. We got to check this out, man. This is this is crazy. The day of your mind stuff was already next level type insanity as an acquisition for AEW. But CM Punk, that that really does change some things. I'm not going to lie to you. It definitely will create even more buzz with AEW. Let's see what WrestleMania is talking about. What is going on, guys? It is WrestleMania here. Back with another video. Now it's time for the first Smackdown of July and when Money in the Bank behind us, there's sure to be some fireworks on today's edition of the blue brand. Join us now as we look at the 23rd July edition of Smackdown as well as the wildest wrestling news stories and rumors you need to know, including WWE announcing a new pay-per-view. CM Punk is 100% for Chicago. John Cena's secret wrestling match. Does WWE want CM Punk back? Be sure to subscribe and hit that notification bell for daily wrestling videos and follow us on Facebook for exclusive lists. As always, we won't recap the show, but just provide you with the good, the bad and the downright ugly. As always, we start off with the good as number one, John Cena on Smackdown. Cena may have been busy in Hollywood, but his appearance on Smackdown served as a reminder he hasn't forgotten his wrestling roots, nor has he got a phone in his appearances during his limited run in the WWE. Cena's challenge to Universal Champion Roman Reigns was well done with the face that runs the place, knowing which buttons to press to get a solid reaction from the fans. Cena did his best not to turn off Roman Reigns fans, admitting the fans could cheer and boo whomever they want. Cena could have taken the Goldberg route and made one or two appearances before wrestling at SummerSlam, but it appears he's taking advantage of his small window of opportunity to spend as much time with the WWE Universe as possible. 2. Finn Balor Dominates Now until last week, Finn Balor hadn't been in a Smackdown ring in nearly two years, so perhaps that's why he was ready to remind the fans what they've been missing. 3. Finn Balor Dominates Since the Prince headed to NXT, Balor's bout against Sami Zayn was the right way to show Balor still has it. Having Balor challenge Roman Reigns at the end of Smackdown was a fantastic surprise that should have had fans talking while they wait for the inevitable announcement of Cena vs Reigns at SummerSlam. We can't wait for Balor vs Reigns, a pay-per-view level match that will more likely be available on free television. 3. Smackdown is a star-studded show And watching last night's Smackdown, it was impossible not to notice the sheer amount of star power on the blue ground. First, there are main eventers such as Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins, Edge and John Cena. Second are the uppercard stars such as Rey Mysterio, Sami Zayn, Kevin Owens, Bianca Belair, Sasha Banks, Bayer Lee, Baron Corbin, Finn Balor and Biggie. Where things really shine is how the WWE uses all of its stars on Smackdown to create a consistently excellent show. Fox must be thrilled with the number of stars the WWE has put on its Friday night program. As for the USA Network, they're probably more concerned with the weekbooking on what used to be the WWE's flagship show. 4. Tony's terrific debut WWE for the excellent job they've done with Tony's storms so far. Not only hurled in her debut with hype videos, but giving her a chance to impress the fans in her debut match. The WWE Universe knows better than to take a wrestler's debut and give it much weight, whether to win Storm's match against Zelina Vega or carrying across the surprise loss to Jeff Hardy on this week's Raw. But Storm is up to a good start. 4. If I refued A Seth vs. Edge Seth vs. Edge, not the main event feud, but damn there could be. I am looking forward to that. It's gonna be nice. Question is, I don't know who you have winning. I don't know. Because if you have him beat, Edge, you would think he would probably be next in line to go against Roman Reigns. So I don't know. Comment down below, let me know. Who would you have win? Seth Rollins or Edge at SummerSlam? Let me know and let me know why. 5. Fire There's no getting around it that the WWE has been slowly simmering the heat between the two men and finally bringing it to a boil up money in the bank. Last night showdown was another well booked step in the program between the two, with Rollins even recalling the time it could have ended Edge's career back in 2014. This was the time that Seth threatened to snap Edge's neck unless John Cena agreed to let the authority come back. The WWE's mention of their past history was a clever way to add more heat to the feud and to show that Rollins has a long memory when it comes to slight. Edge added to the trip down memory lane, name dropping some of his past affiliations, such as his time in the Ministry of Darkness, serving up a reminder to Rollins that he too is a man with a history of violence. This feud is going to be solid on the microphone and in the ring and we hope it lasts longer than one match at SummerSlam. And be kind to Corbin. Poor pathetic Baron Corbin. It's been a tough time for the former King of the Ring. I think somehow keep getting worse. Once again, Corbin has shown he can take any storyline and make most of it. In this case, a string of bad luck that has him suffer various financial failures resulting in his car being repossessed. It's especially his hairline. Jesus Christ, bro. His hairline is atrocious, bro. Geez. God damn, bro. I'm so glad and blessed and thankful. My hairline don't look like that, bro. Geez. Oh my gosh, yo. Rest in peace with Man Corbin's hairline. Just go bald, bro. That just don't look, oh man. Identity stolen and his attempt to get back on his feet via crowdsourcing site backfiring. Corbin has been portrayed as an arrogant heel for so long but somehow he's found a way to elicit sympathy not only from fellow wrestlers like Kevin Owens but from the fans. Baron Corbin has been nothing less than delightful and while there remains to be seen if Corbin is headed for a run as a babyface, we can't wait for the inevitable rollout of Simpson's means of Han's moment getting hit in a groin. But that was good. What about the bad? Well, to be honest, there's nothing bad other than the WWE airing yet another women's championship match with Carmella unsuccessfully challenging for the title. At this point, we hope the WWE is going to shake up its women's division with the new call-ups like Tony Storm and use other contenders such as Liv Morgan. So if there was nothing bad, then there's nothing ugly about last night's episode of the blue brand. In fact, SmackDown delivered a fantastic- I'm sorry, I might have disagreed with you, WrestleMania. There was definitely some ugly. Those matches, even though they were good in front of the Rollin' Loud crowd, should not have taken place at the Rollin' Loud festival. It's just the piped in fake chance and fake crowd noises, not what's up. The matches were decent, but it just took you out of it because you knew the crowd chants were fake. The crowd looked dead. And then also, the Big E segment where he's supposed to be getting his moment of shine, winning money in the bank, and then it gets interrupted by everyone else in the locker that's in the mid-card division. So I didn't really like that too much. I think Big E should have had more time to really enjoy his moment because that is his moment. So that would be my only critiques from the show. And outside of that, it was solid. So I definitely gave it a 7 out of 10 last night. A follow-up to Money in the Bank. There was a slow tease in Mr. Money in the Bank, Big E hinting at who he plans on challenging for the title. The ever-entertaining work of Roman Reigns at the Blue Brand's top heel, or the WWE's effective use of wrestlers from mid-carders to main-eventers. The Blue Brand continues to be the place for the WWE fans, and there are a number of potentially hot programs for fans to keep their eyes on. What did you guys think of SmackDown this year? Let us know in the comments down below. Now let's move on to the news. Our first story looks at WWE announcing a New Year's pay-per-view. The WWE is about to make history as it plans on airing its first pay-per-view on New Year's Day. WWE.com released the following, WWE will kick off New Year at State Farm Arena in Atlanta on Saturday, January 1st, 2022, marking the first time in history that a WWE pay-per-view event will be held on New Year's Day. The event will stream live on the night of New Year's Day at 8pm ET, exclusively on Pico in the US and on WWE Network everywhere else. The WWE held its new year's pay-per-view during the Ruthless Aggression era, this marks another pay-per-view that has been held on a Saturday rather than the traditional Sunday night slot. Next up, Cena's secret match. A wrestling fan's attending SmackDown got a huge bonus when John Cena teamed up with the Mysterios after the show went off the air to take on Roman Reigns and the Usos. The match saw Cena and the Mysterios defeat the Tribal Chief and his allies, no doubt a good way to entertain the fans and get Cena prepped for his Summer Slam match against Reigns. The rumor hasn't that Cena and the Mysterios will also team up a few times this summer as the WWE holds its various Cena-centric events, billed as the Summer of Cena. Next up, CM Punk is 100% gonna be in Chicago. Okay now let's face it, we've had so many rumors regarding CM Punk whether he signed or not. With many sources stating that there is interest in AEW, while others are saying that he has put pen to paper and has signed with the company. To not to feel even further rumors, Cassidy Haynes of BodySlam.net is claiming that Punk is 100% gonna be there for AEW Chicago events that run in September. Speaking on the podcast, Haynes mentioned, I was told he was 100% for Chicago. They want CM Punk to be in Chicago, he's 100% gonna be there and it's not a matter of if, it's when. Currently AEW is running three events in Chicago. Dynamite on September 1st, Rampage on September 3rd and the All Out pay-per-view on September 5th. To add even more fuel to the fire, guess who's following Living Color? Yeah the artists of CM Punk's theme song in the WWE cult of personality. Hmm, all sounds a bit sus doesn't it? Bro, if you hear that, if you bro, definitely I may have to check it out. I may have to check it out bro. I'm gonna be kinda lost on the wrestlers and stuff like that but I know you guys will help me out. I may have to check this out cuz here's the thing about AEW, I wish I could do reactions to it but once again I'm not trying to get a strike on my channel. I got a strike on my channel a couple years ago from the New Japan Pro so I keep all AEW stuff off the channel cuz they're very strict. So I probably will have to do a live stream so I'm gonna figure out these dates, figure out the times, I may have to do a live stream for you guys, dead ass. May have to do a live stream, check this out cuz I wanna be able to literally just mark out hearing that song, hearing him come out, hearing the holy shit chance. I think that's gonna be amazing. Kenny Omega talks Punk and Danielson in AEW and while the wrestling world waits for confirmation of CM Punk. Rude insurance is a new type of car insurance that can give better drivers better rates. Punk and Brian Danielson signing with AEW, fans are speculating what could happen if the rumors are true. Fans certainly aren't the only people speculating as seen when AEW and Impact World Champion Kenny Omega appeared on the Wrestling Observer Radio to discuss the situation. The cleaner commented, there are two very different athletes, two very different performers, I respect them both. Danielson, I still call him Brian Danielson. Daniel Brian I always knew that he was incredibly intelligent, ridiculously smart, especially related to professional wrestling. For him to create a movement, a legitimate movement with the yes movement, he created it. A organic movement that even people still today, if you heard SmackDown when Finn Balor was challenged in Roman Reigns, they were doing the yes chance. That will forever be a thing just like the what chance. No one's ever transcended wrestling like that outside of like Stone Cold, outside of like The Rock, The Legends. He transcended wrestling. People were doing yes chance outside of wrestling. He created that. Simple as that bro. Simple as that. So I would think WWE would have definitely did their best to make sure they could have kept him as much as possible because he, it's dang you fucking Brian bro. This one of the best wrestlers to ever wrestle. You know what I'm saying? So also praise CM Punk. CM Punk, a guy who probably has a different line of thinking than your current day performer and the average performer. And he has this incredible reputation. He has fans to the state who would follow him to the end of the earth. A very dedicated fan base. And that fan base believes he's the best in the world and will be the best until the end of time. If you're able to have people like that who follow your career so passionately, you probably have something very special about you. Omega said he could not confirm by the signing and noted AEW President Tony Khan has been tight lipped about the entire That's why I said it's not been confirmed on both situations with a lot of leaks are supposedly coming out and they're trying to keep this as quiet as possible. A situation. Honestly at this point in time, he's the only one with an idea. He's been tight lipped and I prefer it that way. I don't want anything to slip that shouldn't be slipping either. All I can speak on are the possibilities. As we pointed out, it's not in AEW's interest to announce either rumored signing just yet. When it does happen, you can be rest assured AEW will feel it's being utilized to the maximum effect. And finally, does the WWE want CM Punk back? And while it looks like CM Punk has signed with All Elite Wrestling, keep in mind it hasn't been officially confirmed. Fans are curious whether the WWE showed any interest in bringing the straight-edge superstar back to the company he walked down on in 2014. According to a report from Ringside News, the site asked around the possibility that Vince McMahon's company might have interest in bringing back CM Punk after so much attention was brought to him. But we were explicitly told that WWE has no interest in doing business with Punk. Anyone familiar with CM Punk's history in the WWE knows that there are any number of reasons why people backstage and some wrestlers don't want Punk back. Likewise, Punk has plenty of reasons not to go back. And in the possibility they didn't want to get into a bidding war with AEW and Punk's uncertainty about the WWE would book him, it's kind of easy to imagine him signing with AEW. But they have it guys, the good, the bad and the downright And it makes sense. I've said it time and time again CM Punk should never come back to WWE. Let that be what it is. It's no point. It's too much bad blood there. You know what I'm saying? They're not going to utilize him correctly. I can tell you this now. They're not. Unless he gets full creative control, they're not going to utilize him correctly. You feel me? I feel like in AEW, he's going to get booked correctly. I feel like he will have full creative control who will be able to, you know, effectively do what he has to do to make the product better. Simple as that. AEW's, they're looking good. The only thing that matters now is how they're going to book AEW. How are they going to maintain all these stars? How are they going to make these stars, you know, work with each other? You know what I'm saying? That's really going to come down to great booking. That's it. It's really going to come down to that because you have literally mega level stars in the company and up and coming stars in the company. And at the end of the day, wrestling is all about, you know what I'm saying? Striking when not striking why the iron is hot. Imagine if they never, you know, went with stone cold when he was starting to get over. They struck while the iron was hot. And hopefully they continue to do that. I don't want CM Punk and Daniel Bryan to overshadow the younger talent because this is the moment where now they could potentially put over the younger talent to get them over to make them stars. That's what it should always be about. Creating the new stars. You know what I'm saying? They're going to have their moment. They're going to have that spotlight. It's Daniel Bryan, CM Punk. I just hope that they do the booking right where they create new stars out of them already being solidified. You know what I'm saying? So it was going to be interesting to see what happens. But hey, man, comment down below. Let me know. Are you guys even more excited with this potential acquisition of CM Punk and AEW or do you guys not too much care? Let me know. I want to get your thoughts and opinions on this. But I appreciate all the love and support. Road to 50K. We're almost there. Y'all appreciate y'all kicking in with me and I'll see y'all on the next one. Peace.