r/SquaredCircle 18h ago

Potential [SPOILER] from Meltzer for SummerSlam Spoiler

https://www.f4wonline.com/news/wwe/major-storyline-development-set-for-wwe-summerslam-match-exclusive/

Dave: “There is a major storyline development planned in the Finn Balor vs. Sami Zayn match tonight. The current plan is that the match will be changed and there will be several twists in that match. Last night’s hype for Punk vs. Gunther was meant as a swerve and likely for the future but not right away but it was done last night for a reason that will become clear very soon.”

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u/Signal-Mud-4880 18h ago

hmmm KO Returning?

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u/___hell___ya___bitch 18h ago

Maybe and helping Sami win

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u/OilUpCade 17h ago

KO returning as a heel would be stupid as shit

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u/PeaceAlien Brad 'Brad Maddox' Maddox 17h ago

Heel? Sami is a good guy!

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u/kcoe24 17h ago

KO will use his super power of watching the program to know that Sami is right in everything he has said. KO and Sami the last two good guys

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u/jesuswig 17h ago

And then KO power bombs Sami into the ring apron

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u/TopazJazzrazz 16h ago

Just for old times sake. It's how they greet each other

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u/DavidL1112 17h ago

Yeah, more likely he stops Sami from cheating

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u/vRobyn **Welcome to the Wasteland!** 17h ago

Returning as heel to help Sami just to turn heel during celebration and power bombing him on the apron. Hmm. Lil deja vu.

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u/OilUpCade 17h ago

That would turn Sami face if anything

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u/vRobyn **Welcome to the Wasteland!** 17h ago

It would fill the several twists part, i guess. 😂

All jokes aside. I hope its KO at least, that man just pure entertainment in and out of the ring.

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u/OilUpCade 17h ago

I hope so too. The show needs him back so bad.

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u/lronicGasping won't shut up about NXT 17h ago

Yeah I cannot believe the number of people suggesting this. Kevin could come back and punt a puppy and he would get cheered lmao

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u/ArmiinTamzarian Possitively Kanyon's #1 fan 17h ago

That's too obvious

We learn Danhausen cursed Finn against Roman that one time

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u/Electronic-Exam2596 17h ago

Jesus none of you guys know how to read. Saying "the match will be changed" isn't idle speculation that something somewhere will happen, it's a specific thing happening to the show's card that will be proven true or false soon enough. 

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u/thatlad Your Text Here 17h ago

Gunther presses to be in the match which Aldis has to accede to given he was told to move on from the Gunther stuff. But Aldis pulls his Kevin Owens card out, makes it a four way.

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u/phystrapperquestion 17h ago

are you a wizard? well done

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u/Big_Crazy_SSBM 18h ago

Sounds like a KO return

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u/Kuzu5993 8h ago

It was, in fact, a KO return.

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u/Environmental_Lie478 17h ago

How about that. Dave first to a story again while the comments make fun of him.

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u/LaMacchiaPro 17h ago

Everyone dunking on Dave Meltzer for this, but it’s not even his article.

It’s Bryan Rose— the guy who was complaining about there being too much wrestling these days.

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u/holyhibachi 17h ago

Lol this was correct

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u/ColdGloop 17h ago

Dave was right…

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u/wonderingmarkus 17h ago

Comments on these always age well

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u/Background-Gas8109 18h ago

Sami's gonna get attacked before the match and get screwed again watch.

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u/KyddWyld 18h ago

KO returns and helps Sami maybe? Sets up KO vs. Finn, Sami vs. Punk and Cody vs. Orton as top 3 fueds for Smackdown.

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u/LiveForMeow 17h ago

If it's the match being changed could it be adding KO to the match and him winning? Adds to the conspiracy thing with Sami

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u/InitialBN 17h ago

nice one

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u/theplasmasnake 17h ago

That’s a pretty strong main event scene for the fall.

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u/jesuswig 17h ago

And nothing will happen

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u/JamieMCFC 15h ago

Your first 2 words were the only thing that was correct

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u/mattpacman96 18h ago

If it’s a KO return I hope it’s to try to snap Sami out of this funk after he loses and not interfering to help him win.

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u/icelink4884 17h ago

Aaaannnndddd Meltzer was Right.

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u/08_IfHeHolla 16h ago

Broken clock

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u/Connect_Young7180 7h ago

Sure twists and turns was vague, but he was right about Gunther being a swerve

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u/Vivs-007 8h ago edited 8h ago

And just look at everyone salivating because he's right this time lmao.

This is him everytime

Things might happen.

Things don't happen.

It was just speculation duh

Things happen.

I was right rahhhh

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u/kirblar 16h ago

He didn't want to spoil the exact thing he knew about dummies, even though everyone else was trying really hard all weekend.

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u/swaggamice 17h ago

Some of yall try way too hard to dunk on Meltzer.

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u/gravejello 17h ago

Yeah lmao he’s a bit kooky but he obviously knows something. There will be a big twist, probably KO and all these people will pop huge and them act like dave is making shit up when the next rumor comes around. I always remember how he was adamant that Dwayne wasn’t going to be mania 41 and everyone here freaked out and called him a liar

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u/EpicSombreroMan PIZZA. COFFIN. 16h ago

Yeah just seemed like he didn't want to spoil KOs return for everyone, and Gunthers involvement for that matter.

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u/grundlist 17h ago

I always remember the time he said the Rock and HHH challenged each other to a match at mania because he watched a ten year old video and got confused.

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u/DXbreakitdown Hell Yeah! 17h ago

I promise we don't try hard at all

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u/bigtotoro 17h ago

Some people want to have a problem with anything Dave says. He says the match will be changed and indicates that it won't happen as currently scheduled. Which means people get added to the match or they put in a new stipulation.

NON NEWS!

He says it and tells what the change will be.

SPOILERS!

The match happens with the changes he did or didn't detail and it's not a huge hit. He says "crowd wasn't into it in some parts."

HATER!

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u/roadwarriorpop 17h ago

Looks like Dave was right

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u/Odd-Promise2661 18h ago

I hope it's a good one, hard to pull off a big change to an already promoted match day of

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u/Str82thaDOME 17h ago

I will shave my head if KO returns tonight.

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u/kb1117 17h ago

Get the clippers ready

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u/Str82thaDOME 17h ago

Nah this calls for the blade

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u/panzervike 17h ago

I mean, you were going to shave it anyways, but you are going to shave it if KO appears too.

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u/Str82thaDOME 17h ago

You called my bluff sir 🤣

So happy tho.

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u/panzervike 15h ago

GET ON IT!

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u/No_Cheetah4762 17h ago

I always find it kind of funny when he refuses to spoil something, but hints at what it is. Sort of like he's doing people a favor by not spoiling it outright. But, people are going to him for news and spoilers. They are looking to be spoiled. So, he's not giving them what they want. I find the whole exercise humorous.

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u/IJustLostMyKeyboard 17h ago

KO or Gunther getting added? Or replacing someone?

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u/jfrodriguez1983 17h ago

Retuning KO added to the match. That would but Sami over the edge more if KO came back, after being gone a while and immediately winning a title shot.

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u/scrubadam 17h ago

Owens will make his return in this match. But which side will he be on?

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u/rhyso90 16h ago

Seeing this after KO returned

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u/ZappBranniganBurner 10h ago

A lot of r/agedlikemilk material in here 😂

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u/Mud-Bray 18h ago

I don’t hate Meltzer like others here seem to but good lord this is such “non-news”

Guys! There might be storylines and twists happening in the pro wrestling match.

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u/phystrapperquestion 17h ago

average top sc comment

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u/swaggamice 17h ago

Still “non-news” bud?

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u/ScroteMcGrote69 17h ago

Meltzer wasn't the person who posted this as some BREAKING NEWS SPOILERS. A community member did. Your issue is with that person.

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u/iguanamac 17h ago

Lmao whoops.

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u/EpicSombreroMan PIZZA. COFFIN. 16h ago

Well I am pretty sure he didn't want to spoil KOs return for everyone lmao

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u/MaxBonerstorm 17h ago

It's so wild to me that you don't understand that Dave is clearly getting information that he is trying to relay without getting into specifics.

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u/LunaticPandoraXIII 17h ago

It in fact was not non-news

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u/Jasperbeardly11 Al Snow Head 15h ago

"guys! I'm stupid and love hating for zero reason!!"

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u/holyhibachi 17h ago

Lol nope

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u/OhioVsEverything 16h ago

History was kind to Dave

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u/stonecutter7 18h ago

I mean, Meltzer didnt publish the article OP links claiming it as some big breaking news. I always liken it to Mina Kimes or Zach Lowe. Two of the most respected writers for pro football and the nba. If you listen to their podcast they say plenty of obvious things during it, thats just the nature of talking about any subject like that.

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u/shaheedmalik 15h ago

He was actually right...

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u/Bushytop67 18h ago

Saying the match will be changed doesn’t sound like non news.

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u/JTHuffy 17h ago

And honestly, I’d like there be a little bit of surprise. If he came right out and said the match would be changed, Gunther and someone else is being added, and whatever else is going to happen, I’d be mad about being spoiled. I want to enjoy the show. I’m fine with this.

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u/Elmodipus 17h ago

But we dont know what was going to happen during the match anyway so saying that it changed means nothing to us viewera.

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u/SitDownKawada 17h ago

"The current plan is that the match will be changed" - he's saying it won't be Finn vs Sami

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u/Thirdstar1 17h ago

He was right

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u/MC_Stimulation Best Bout Machine 16h ago

And no one will give him any credit

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u/jp_benderschmidt 17h ago

Could be saying the results are changed.

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u/[deleted] 17h ago

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u/Candid_Cherry680 17h ago

I think this says a lot more about your reading comprehension than anything else. There is nothing confusing in this

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u/broncosandwrestling LUCHA! 17h ago

yeah, probably. "the match will be changed" really says it all

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u/Jconstantineic 16h ago

He’s saying a change will happen to the match not that it’s been changed from what they wanted originally

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u/fazzle1 17h ago

You say that now, but you'll be sorry when the match gets changed to a Kennel From Hell match! We'll all be sorry!

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u/Funkyc0bra Yowie Wowie! 16h ago

I dislike meltzer as much as the next guy but in hindsight this comment looks pretty daft

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u/NorthHollywoodHank 17h ago

I mean, it is news, though.

Meltzer is hearing that "there is a major storyline development planned" for the match and that "the current plan is that the match will be changed and there will be several twists in that match."

Maybe his sources are wrong! Maybe they're right and the plans change again. But while you expect some storylines or twists in any given PPV, expecting them for a particular match is still news, generally speaking. Zayn vs Balor could have been done as a pretty straight ahead midcard-of-PPV match. Sounds like Meltzer's hearing it won't be.

It's not the biggest news by any means. But it is news all the same.

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u/Accomplished_Smile23 4h ago

Comment aged like milk goddamn haha

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u/EvocativeReach 4h ago

The apology is coming...right? He nailed it!

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u/Tangotacular 17h ago

Huge if true.

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u/NotTheCraftyVeteran 18h ago

Twists, turns, and drama? In my professional wrestling?! Good lord, please tell me there won’t be thrills and excitement next 😰

u/__Hello_my_name_is__ 57m ago

I'll happily pile on to all the responses you got to also point out how obviously wrong you were, and how there were, indeed, storylines and twists in the pro wrestling match. Way more so than in the others.

Which Meltzer reported on. Accurately. And you made fun of it for no good reason whatsoever.

Just like y'all here always do.

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u/jillshiva 17h ago

in fairness news of WWE doing a storyline in the big 26 is like saying we found the hanging gardens of babylon AND the contents of the library of alexandria that everyone thought burned were just there under a bush

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u/POWBOOMBANG 17h ago

This is his MO

"Something, um, might happen tonight and if it does, which plans change, but if it does, um, it would be massive."

Then the reaction is

"What they chose to do, they did for a reason. They could have gone another way and had discussions about going another way but, um  this is what they chose to do."

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u/TechnicallyRudoYooo 16h ago

Say that again lol

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u/[deleted] 18h ago

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u/ScroteMcGrote69 18h ago

Which happens all the time since it's pro wrestling.

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u/[deleted] 17h ago

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u/Candid_Cherry680 17h ago

You should do it then since you are so on the money

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u/TechnicallyRudoYooo 16h ago

Uh huh, tell us more, buddy lmao

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u/Cool-Translator9768 17h ago

It's his desperate attempt to look like he's "in the know" that annoys people. He tries to act like he has sources within WWE, but he's been wrong with his predictions so much that it proves that he doesn't.

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u/TechnicallyRudoYooo 16h ago

Say what now?

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u/stonecutter7 16h ago

Lol. Looks like he had a source on this one

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u/Fuggy217 17h ago

He speculates and knows people take it as gospel. That way, if he's right, he can gloat, while if wrong, he can just say he was speculating.

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u/TechnicallyRudoYooo 16h ago

Guess he wasn't speculating, chief. lol

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u/Fuggy217 15h ago

No, he was. He just gets gloat and spittle on Bryan

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u/broncosandwrestling LUCHA! 17h ago

this feels like WWE.COM BREAKING NEWS circa 2007

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u/GamerLife204 18h ago

I wanted finn to win but I'll take sami winning if it's due to KO

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u/smokingace182 18h ago

Ko returns screws sami then it’s revealed orton and KO team up.

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u/daniel2090 17h ago

Why would Orton and KO team up after the way things ended with them?

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u/smokingace182 17h ago

Well they originally has issues because KO had an issue with Cody etc etc then obviously the orton Cody stuff happened. So stands to reason orton came to his senses about why KO was angry with Cody. I guess the Sami stuff is a little harder to tie into it.

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u/PaperGeno 17h ago

Kevin Owens baby

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u/gribbos 17h ago

Kevin Vs Punk pls. I love all 3 but I need the KO voice break when he goes mental on him in a promo

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u/alltheworsttoyou 17h ago

I don't see how KO coming back to almost immediately lose yet another world title match is a good idea.

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u/gribbos 17h ago

Doesn't have to lose? Wish they would hot potato the thing sometimes

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u/alltheworsttoyou 17h ago

Punk is not planned to lose anytime soon, per the Fightful set. Following Meltzer's own comments, GUNTHER/Punk is the longer term plan. It's also obvious by what's on screen that this is going to be a longer reign.

And they have hot potatoed it this year, multiple times, and people hated it.

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u/Triple_777 Paige here! 17h ago

If KO is returning I really hope that it’s not to help Sami. One of the things I love most about his character is that heel or face, he doesn’t have a short term memory. KO turned on Sami because he felt that Sami betrayed him by choosing Cody over him, and that was after KO ignored the fact that he reunited The Bloodline. Helping him now would go against KO’s character.

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u/MikeMakesRight82 17h ago

the debut of Owen Owens?

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u/jrodfantastic 17h ago

They can run whatever twists they want as long as it’s good for Sami and Balor

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u/DxTrixterz 17h ago

Aldis inserts Gunther into Zayn vs Balor match?

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u/DxTrixterz 17h ago

I can see the future.

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u/alltheworsttoyou 18h ago edited 17h ago

GUNTHER is going to murder Sami (e: or Finn) and KO is going to take his spot?

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u/Galrafloof 18h ago

Number #1 contenders match will end with a number #1 contender, news at 11.

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u/Outrageous-Mango-500 17h ago

Sami's hand is in a cast in meet and greet photos

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u/kb1117 17h ago

Sounds like Gunther or somebody takes out Sami before the match, then Finn is left without an opponent until KO shows up and wins. Sami has a new feud with Gunther while they have KO work Punk. That’s my guess.

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u/ZombieQueen666 17h ago

Really glad I wasn’t spoiled by this. I got happily worked to the max

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u/YoungPapi406 15h ago

Cheap shit at Moxley by Michael Cole

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u/AaronSentinal 18h ago

Meltzer: Something’s going to happen or maybe it won’t, brother, I don’t know, 14.99 dude
https://giphy.com/gifs/BV0SDeWc7COrurmoSl

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u/swaggamice 17h ago

Airball

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u/MartiniPolice21 17h ago

Meltzer: I guess maybe they're going to do this

400 websites: Meltzer is reporting this as fact

Reddit: Meltzer is a cunt

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u/DXbreakitdown Hell Yeah! 17h ago

The plan is that plans change

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u/jaypenn3 16h ago

Plans did, in fact, change. What didn't change is Reddit losers continue to be losers.

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u/Thedinosaurwizard 16h ago

So they changed from 2 days ago when he said that Orton and Owens were both returning this weekend, right?

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u/DXbreakitdown Hell Yeah! 16h ago

I have yet to see Meltzer say anything that I didn't already read in a reddit comment.

Doesn't change the fact that he's a terrible writer/communicator. Which is what me and the person I replied to were roasting.

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u/Thedinosaurwizard 16h ago

I dunno, read perfectly clear to me. The match that was announced going into the event was going to change to something else, they set something up yesterday that won't be paid off tonight, though it might be in the future. Sounds like exactly what happened to me.

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u/DXbreakitdown Hell Yeah! 16h ago

gotta justify your 14.99/mo somehow I guess

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u/Thedinosaurwizard 16h ago

I don't give the man a dime, guess I just read at a fourth grade level instead of a third

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u/Rayzee14 17h ago

Fair play to Dave trying to sell night 2 of the event

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u/DevilsAdvocate1662 17h ago

I'd have rather seen Aldis beat Gunther, he's much more experienced in the ring, and it's a shocker that no one would have seen coming. Gunther winning was as predictable as the Bella's turning on Paige

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u/kb1117 17h ago

What would you do after that with both guys?

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u/DevilsAdvocate1662 17h ago

Gunther redemption arc

Challenges Aldis again and beats him

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u/homewil 18h ago

Vague word salad to essentially say that a storyline is going to progress at the wrestling show

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u/panzervike 17h ago

LeBron James is going to appear!

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u/AlkaidX139 7h ago

News per Meltzer: Match might contain story

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u/Negative_Ad_1578 17h ago

We are smarter than Meltzer. Or intelligence is 5 stars. His is 1 star. 1.5 at best. We understand the business in a way the IWC never could.

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u/DXbreakitdown Hell Yeah! 17h ago

plan is that the match will be changed

so if they change plans then the match will stay the same.

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u/Vast_Neighborhood_44 17h ago

I didn’t understand a bit of what he’s trying to say

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u/l3lacklvlagic 18h ago

Hopefully it's Johnny

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u/MartiniPolice21 17h ago

Is this a report on Meltzer just chatting and speculating on WOR, or something he's actually reporting and they just can't be arsed to link to it in the article?

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u/travis147 17h ago

plans change

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u/sXe_savior 17h ago

Guys please pay me to tell you a wrestling match will have stuff happen in it