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:
- Opening odds for Survivor Series at places like betonline have The Vision-led Men’s WarGames team slightly favored over their opponents, as is the babyface side of Women’s WarGames. Dominik Mysterio currently is being given a 75% chance to take the Intercontinental title back from John Cena, while Nikki Bella is a big underdog to Women’s World champ Stephanie Vaquer.
- Based on Sheamus’ report from his NXT house show match with Je’Von Evans and John Cena’s own visits to the WWE Performance Center, Cena is “is very, very high on Je’Von”. That from Wrestling Observer Live’s Bryan Alvarez, who thinks it’s another sign WWE “finally figured out that they have something special in Je’Von Evans”.
- David Otunga told Chris Van Vliet that reports John Cena had the finish of Cena’s match against Nexus at SummerSlam 2010 changed at the last minute were “100% accurate… that’s what happened, that is what happened.”
- WWE added two new names to the PC roster from the SummerSlam tryout, signing gymnast and pole dancer Jessica Bognadov, and football player and internet content creator Cyrus Habibi-Likio to Developmental deals, per PW Insider. That site’s Mike Johnson also reported that WWE NIL program signee, track & field athlete and influencer Meghan Walker got a full-time Developmental contract after the tryout.
- Joe Hendy’s new WWE deal is “a main roster level” one, writes Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp in a Patreon Q&A. That means Hendry is “making above the main roster minimum” despite being primarily featured on NXT.
- The eight-minute match Maya World and Hyan got on Collision last week “was a direct result of how well they handled the prior week” when they filled in after Nixon Newell and Miranda declined to perform, according to Fightful Select’s AEW contacts. Hyan and World are not signed yet, but AEW plans to use them more in the future, and the site’s sources “wouldn’t be surprised to see the duo under contract sooner than later.”
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.
