WrestleRant Radio - August 18, 2022: Shawn Michaels Interview, NXT UK Officially Folding, CM Punk-AEW Drama & More!

For the first time ever, two-time WWE Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels is on WrestleRant Radio with Graham "GSM" Matthews talking about the latest A&E documentary on D-Generation X, if he'd change anything about the group's history and if it's work today, his vision for NXT 2.0, why the NXT call-up process will be more seamless going forward, building relationships with the talent, who he'd put in a modern-day DX, and more!
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From there, GSM flies solo and has a ton to say about Hit Row's return to SmackDown last Friday night, why Theory vs. Dolph Ziggler may have headlined Monday's Raw, AJ Styles challenging Bobby Lashley for the United States Championship and why Dexter Lumis' first feud on Raw should be with The Phenomenal One, the terrific promo exchange and subsequent match between Drew McIntyre and Kevin Owens, highlights from Tuesday's NXT Heatwave special including Santos Escobar's final NXT match and several familiar faces from NXT UK showing up, the latest on the future of the NXT UK brand and how it'll be evolving into NXT Europe in 2023, thoughts on Wednesday's very newsworthy edition of AEW Dynamite, why rushing into CM Punk vs. Jon Moxley for the Unified AEW World Championship next week is a bad idea and what they might be going for, news on apparent heat between CM Punk and Adam Page, and Kenny Omega's long-awaited return to the ring.