Speculating on the rumors surrounding professional wrestling is a popular pastime of many followers, maybe second solely to really watching the matches. On this each day column, we check out the newest rumors being churned out by the professional wrestling rumor mill.
Vital reminder: Rumors are simply that — rumors. None of this has been confirmed as reality, it’s simply circulating across the professional wrestling rumor mill. We observe rumor accuracy in a weekly function known as Rumor Look Again yow will discover right here. Bear in mind, take all of it with a grain of salt.
Rumors for the Day:
- Sources instructed Sports activities Illustrated that Vince McMahon has no plans to depart WWE/TKO, and “nonetheless wields nice energy within the firm.” Vince’s relationship with Ari Emanuel stays good after Emanuel made the decision to have Triple H run artistic with out interference.
- As for McMahon promoting practically $700 million value of TKO inventory, SI says he wanted to be extra liquid however it’s not clear what the money is for.
- “The plan proper now” is for AJ Kinds to return on SmackDown this Friday, based on Wrestling Observer Radio’s Dave Meltzer.
- On WOR, Meltzer additionally mentioned what he mentioned is “a number of negativity” in and round AEW proper now. Despite the fact that gross income is up, he attributed a few of that to poor ticket gross sales at many latest and upcoming reveals. A few of it is usually as a consequence of there not being sufficient tv time to go round given the roster measurement.
- One other issue is the firing of post-production head Kevin Sullivan, particularly the optics of former WWE exec Mike Mansury deciding Sullivan was out. Despite the fact that Mansury & Sullivan do completely different jobs, Meltzer mentioned for a lot of AEW originals the transfer was one other case of “WWE guys taking the place of people that had been right here from the beginning.”
- Relating to expertise complaining about issues like tv time on social media, Fightful Choose’s Sean Ross Sapp has heard that Bryan Danielson & the AEW disciplinary committee are fining individuals “based mostly on social media conduct… I find out about no less than one or two individuals who have been fined by him.”
- Fightful additionally says that AEW’s Jack Perry is not below suspension. That information got here on the identical day a number of websites reported on Perry submitting a trademark for “Jungle Boy”.
- With reference to logos, Bodyslam.internet’s Cassidy Haynes reached out to WWE about stories of Jey Uso not utilizing Yeet and was instructed that the corporate’s attorneys are trying into a possible problem with an indie wrestler’s declare. WWE has at the moment stopped utilizing the phrase, however “there could also be hope but for Yeet to stay round”.
- Los Angeles’ Globe Theatre is closing in any case. That per Status Wrestling proprietor William Quintana; his promotion is shifting all their reveals to the Vermont Hollywood.
When you have heard of any attention-grabbing rumors that you simply’d like so as to add, be at liberty to put up them within the feedback part beneath. Simply bear in mind they’re rumors and never confirmed as reality, so please take them as such. And test our weekly Rumor Look Again right here to maintain observe of how usually rumors grow to be right.
