What is the story about?
Speculating on the rumors surrounding pro wrestling is a favored pastime of many fans, perhaps second only to actually watching the matches. In this daily column, we take a look at the latest rumors being churned out by the pro wrestling rumor mill.
Important reminder: Rumors are just that — rumors. None of this has been confirmed as fact, it’s just circulating around the pro wrestling rumor mill. We track rumor accuracy in a weekly feature called Rumor Look Back you can find here. Remember, take
it all with a grain of salt.
Rumors for the Day:
- According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, WWE has discussed the idea of John Cena beating Dominik Mysterio for the Intercontinental championship at Survivor Series, and then defending the title against GUNTHER in the final match of his career at Saturday Night’s Main Event in December.
- Per The Observer, “Those at the top in WWE have bragged that the White House itself took their own storyline inspiration from WWE talent.”
- More specifically, “a White House press office official texted a major WWE official” during the height of the Epstein Files scandal. This led to Triple H telling people in WWE that Paul Heyman’s remarks defending Brock Lesnar’s return to WWE were “part of the inspiration” for the Trump administration’s response to the scandal.
- WON notes that the person who is managing WWE’s AI creative storytelling, Cyrus Kowsari, is also there to “be a liaison to the White House as [Paul] Levesque is taking on more duties in politics in some form.”
- Regarding Lesnar’s return to WWE, The Observer says some people in the company were “strongly against it,” and “some women on the staff were even more unhappy with one using the term privately disgusted.” What’s more is that “many production team members don’t believe [Lesnar] moved the needle past the first week and many felt the segment with R-Truth was embarrassing.”
- Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp thinks Nikki Bella has been absent from Raw lately because WWE didn’t have any plans for her to be in Australia for Crown Jewel. The latest he’s heard on Bella is that she “would be around here and there,” and that WWE expects her “to be on the show for a while.”
- F4WOnline’s Dave Meltzer claims that AEW originally planned to book Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi in a tag team match together at WrestleDream, most likely against Hechicero and Josh Alexander of the Don Callis Family. Those plans changed when Ibushi suffered a broken femur.
- Meltzer also said that before Seth Rollins injured his shoulder, there were plans for The Vision “to dominate Raw even more very shortly,” with Bronson Reed and Bron Breakker set to win the world tag team championship.
- Bryan Alvarez points out that some of the matches at WrestleDream where anything is allowed (like Darby Allin vs. Jon Moxley) may face restrictions: “Missouri has a pro wrestling commission, so they are likely going to have very strict rules as to what everyone is allowed to do on the show, which will surely impact all of the no rules matches.”
If you have heard of any interesting rumors that you’d like to add, feel free to post them in the comments section below. Just remember they are rumors and not confirmed as fact, so please take them as such.
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