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~ Vince McMahon shows up on the WWE Network. Everyone who was watching has now been directed to this, and there has been tweets and emails telling everyone to tune in whether it be on the Network, Youtube, Facebook, or Twitch.
Vince McMahon: Hello everyone. Now the WWE is one of the most successful companies of all time. It is a company I built up, and I will be damned if I ever see it fall. However...HOWever, there have been some problems in the past year, if not a little bit longer. So effective now, the WWE is returning to TV-14 programming. Raw, Smackdown, NXT, and all of our shows on the Network can do this programming, or lower, of course. I believe that will give these superstars and staff the drive to do better.
Now onto my next step for this breaking news. Ratings haven't been great. We no longer see a PPV selling rate. Both of those seems to be overall hurting us, and I did not see that happening if I am being honest with all of you. I will now agree that I believe for the past six years I have been a bit out of touch, but I am back BABAY! Effective right now every superstar that has a wrestling clause in their contract is now a full-time wrestler. Chris Jericho, Brock Lesnar, Goldberg, Sting, Shane McMahon, and Triple H to name a few.
With that bombshell, we will be having some trades, and free agent signings between the Raw and Smackdown General Managers. The commissioner role is now gone with Shane McMahon having to give up his position to become a full-time performer anyway. Stephanie will continue to run Raw, just as the General Manager now, and I will become the new General Manager of Smackdown! Triple H has to relinquish his ownership of NXT with this move, and with that I have given the complete power to NXT to Daniel Bryan, with William Regal remaining as the General Manager and Jason Albert as the main Coach.
Thank you all very much for tuning in, and sorry for the disruption of your previous broadcast. It will be right back to you, and I hope you all enjoy the new direction we are heading.
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The Miz: Welcome everyone to Tough Talk! I am The Miz, and I will be hosting tonight as we figure out some roster changes with the huge news announced by Vince McMahon! Now, welcome my first guest, the new COO of NXT, Daniel Bryan.
Daniel Bryan: I know we have had our differences in the past Miz, but if I could I would recruit you to NXT to help out the roster. However, with my first move I think it will be ever bigger. I have talked to Vince and Stephanie, and we have come to terms to send the Cruiserweight Division from Monday Night Raw to NXT as our mid-card Championship. 205-Live will be dissolved with this move, because NXT will start coming to you all LIVE this coming Wednesday on the WWE Network.
The Miz: HUGE news, Daniel! Do you think you could release an early roster of NXT?
Daniel Bryan: Of course, I am glad you asked as I am sure this is going to be a little confusing to start.
NXT Roster:
NXT:
Adam Cole
Akam*
Aliester Black
Alexander Wolfe*
Asuka
Bailey Allen
Bianca Belair
Billie Kay
Bobby Fish*
Brandon Burkett
Drew McIntyre
Ember Moon
Eric Young*
Hideo Itami
Jazzy Gobert
Johnny Gargano
Kairi Sane
Kassius Ohno
Killian Dain*
Kyle O'Reilly*
Kyle Jerome
Lars Sullivan
Mercedes Martinez
Nick Miller*
Nikki Cross*
No Way Jose
Peyton Royce
Rachel Evers
Rezar
Roderick Strong
Ruby Riot
Sawyer Fulton
Serena Deeb
Shane Thorne*
Shayna Baszler
Tamina
Tanner Allen
Tommaso Ciampa
Toni Storm
Cruiserweight Division
Tag Teams:
TM-61
Sanity
The Authors of Pain
reDragon
Daniel Bryan: And since the Cruiserweights had to overcome a huge tournament already, Neville will be keeping his Cruiserweight Championship coming to NXT. However, over the coming weeks we will find seven competitors for him as it will be an eight man ladder match for the Cruiserweight Championship at the next TakeOver! Now for the NXT Championship, we will be holding a specific tournament to determine who will be the next Champion of our brand! More on that on Wednesday! Thank you for your time, Miz.
The Miz: Some crazy news coming from the new COO of NXT, Daniel Bryan. Now we head to our Raw General Manager, Stephanie McMahon!
Stephanie McMahon: Thank you for having me on the show, Miz, I am very excited to get to talking about all of this amazing news.
The Miz: Perfect! So, first question, am I still on Monday Night Raw? *laughs*
Stephanie McMahon: I think you are an amazing talent Miz, and are our Intercontinental Champion. So, yes you are. However, I would like to announce that my brother, Shane McMahon, will be joining us on Monday Night as a full-time in-ring talent! We all talked it over, and he thought it would be best to be a member of Raw, and my husband, Triple H, will be performing for Smackdown Live.
The Miz: That all sounds like a great plan! Now Steph, I did the same for Daniel, can we get a sneak peak of the roster?
Stephanie McMahon: Most definitely!
Monday Night Raw Roster:
Alexa Bliss
Bayley
Beth Phoenix
Big Cass
Big Show
Bo Dallas*
Braun Strowman
Bray Wyatt
Cesaro*
Chris Jericho
Curt Hawkins
Curtis Axel*
Dana Brooke
Darren Young
Dash Wilder
Dean Ambrose*
Elias Samson
Finn Balor
Goldberg
Goldust
Heath Slater*
Jason Jordan
Jeff Hardy
John Cena
Kane
Karl Anderson*
Kurt Angle
Luke Gallows*
Mark Henry
Matt Hardy
Mickie James
R-Truth
Rhyno*
Rob Van Dam
Samoa Joe
Scott Dawson*
Seth Rollins*
Shane McMahon
Sheamus*
The Miz*
Titus O'Neil
Tag Teams:
The Miztourage
The Hardy Boyz
The Shield (Dean Ambrose & Seth Rollins)
The Bar
The Revival
Beauty & Man Beast
The Club
Stephanie McMahon: Before anyone does see this, and complain, yes Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar are members of Smackdown Live now. And I have to get going to figure out some other stuff for Monday Night Raw with us adding Goldberg and Rob Van Dam full time!
The Miz: Thank you, Steph! Now we welcome someone who made all of this happen, Vince McMahon!
Vince McMahon: I apologize in advance my time is going to be short, Mike. So I will follow suit on some questions! Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar are moving from Raw to Smackdown. Triple H, Batista, and Sting have been added full-time to Smackdown Live as well. The Undertaker is still a free agent for the time being, as well as many other superstars that are technically still contracted to the WWE. And here is a sneak peak of our roster!
Smackdown Live:
Aiden English
Alicia Fox
AJ Styles
Batista
Baron Corbin
Becky Lynch
Big E*
Bobby Roode
Brock Lesnar
Carmella
Chad Gable
Charlotte Flair
Dolph Ziggler
Emma
Epico Colon*
Erick Rowan
Fandango*
Jey Uso*
Jimmy Uso*
Jinder Mahal
Kane
Kevin Owens
Kofi Kingston*
Konnor*
Luke Harper
Mojo Rawley*
Naomi
Natalya
Nia Jax
Nikki Bella
Paige
Primo Colon*
Randy Orton
Roman Reigns
Rusev
Sami Zayn
Shelton Benjamin
Shinsuke Nakamura
Sting
Summer Rae
Triple H
Tye Dillinger
Tyler Breeze*
Viktor*
Xavier Woods*
Zack Ryder*
Tag Teams:
The New Day
The Hype Bros
The Ascension
The Fashion Police
The Usos
The Colons
Vince McMahon: Thank you, Miz, and I hope we can do a full length interview next time we meet up. I am just way too busy with this news being broken! But on a final note, we will be holding matches with the current champions versus a few competitors because I do not feel it is right to strip talent of their Championships!
The Miz: No problem, Boss! That there wraps up Tough Talk hosted by none other than myself, The Miz!
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