Hello and welcome to the WrestleTalk News - I'm Oli The Elf, what's your favourite
colour?
If you answered 'Death and Destruction' because you're name's Braun Strowman - then
that's totally fine.
Death and Destruction is definitely a colour.
Braun Strowman Is The Elf Among Men In a rich Christmas tradition that includes
Sexy Santa Braun Strowman and, of course, Wonder Braun, we now have a new festive Braun
char-how'd the hell did this get on m- We now have a new festive Braun character,
the Elf Among Men.
WWE have uploaded a parody of Will Ferrell's Christmas film Elf to their YouTube channel,
where Strowman buries the Cruiserweight division by calling Drew Gulak an elf and then seemingly
murders him, skips in front of traffic and then seemingly murders a driver, and then
plays with a Jack in the Box, and seemingly murders that too.
And apparently kayfabe isn't the only thing that's been scrapped in WWE.
As it seems a long reported WrestleMania match might be off.
WrestleMania 34 Match Scrapped?
WWE started teasing an MMA Four Horsewomen of Ronda Rousey, Jessamyn Duke, Marina Shafir
and Shayna Baszler vs WWE Four Horsewomen of Charlotte, Sasha Banks, Bayley and Becky
Lynch match back at the Summer's Mae Young Classic.
The reported plan was to stage the 8-woman tag at WrestleMania 34, and the various components
appeared to be slotting into place - with Baszler debuting on NXT, Duke and Shafir undergoing
wrestling training and Rousey supposedly being very close to signing with WWE.
This week's announcement of the first ever women's Royal Rumble in January seemingly
laid the groundwork for this MMA faction to debut - a multi-person gimmick match being
the perfect way to protect their still developing in-ring skills.
But the latest Wrestling Observer Newsletter is reporting that Duke and Shafir have recently
stopped their wrestling training, implying the WrestleMania horsewomen match has been
scrapped.
This could be in favour of a Ronda Rousey singles match at WWE's biggest show of the
year instead.
Women's Royal Rumble Sasha Banks has confirmed to USA Today that
Stephanie McMahon's Royal Rumble announcement on this week's Raw was indeed a shoot - with
none of the women's division in the ring with her knowing what she was going to say:
"Yeah they didn't tell us, they just said that Stephanie would be coming out."
Meanwhile, after Wrestling News World's report that the women's Rumble match will
have 20 entrants, and Dirty Sheets claiming it'll have 30, we now have PWInsider with
a new number, who wrote: "the initial pitch for the match back in November was for there
to be 15 women in the match."
But they do note it's now expected to be more, given how strong WWE is pushing the
match.
Randy Orton Taking Time Off PWInsider are also reporting that Randy Orton
is currently scheduled to take the months of February and March off, after working a
light schedule in January.
After the Royal Rumble, Orton is only advertised for the 6th February Smackdown Live taping,
and then for no TV or live events until after WrestleMania on the 9th April.
He's also not advertised for WWE's tour of Europe in May.
Happy Holidays Which is a good segue into Luke and I doing
the same next week for Christmas - meaning this is the last WrestleTalk News episode
of 2017.
Don't worry, though - we've got loads of Top 10s, WrestleRamble episodes and even
a WrestleSketch going up in our absence.
And then we'll return even bigger on Tuesday 2nd January!
Thank you all so much for supporting WrestleTalk this year.
Let's make 2018 even biggerer for the Drive to 5...hundred thousand subscribers.
We're still working on the slogan.
Merry holidays everyone, and have a happy New Year.
Luke and I made a wrestling Christmas song!
And Batista is 'very serious' about a WWE return!
Click the videos to watch more.
I've been Oli Davis, and that was wrestling.
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