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:
- Wrestlevotes Radio says Bron Breakker is currently WWE’s “whiteboard favorite” to win the men’s 2026 Royal Rumble match in Saudi Arabia.
- Speaking of WWE’s whiteboard, two of the topics that will be covered in season two of Netflix’s WWE Unreal docuseries, according to Bodyslam.net, are R-Truth’s contract drama earlier this year, and Seth Rollins faking an injury before cashing in the Money in the Bank contract at SummerSlam.
- Wrestling Observer Radio’s Bryan Alvarez says Darby Allin really was hospitalized “for a while” after getting hurt in his Continental Classic match against Kevin Knight on the Nov. 26 episode of AEW Dynamite. AEW’s claim that there will be an update on Darby’s status on this weekend’s Collision is legitimate, in the sense that AEW doesn’t actually know yet if he has to be pulled from the tournament.
- Alvarez also claims that several big NXT call-ups are expected in WWE over the “next month or so.” It sounds like some of these call-ups are long overdue.
- F4WOnline’s Dave Meltzer says the sale of Warner Bros. Discovery (AEW’s media partner) should take place “within the next couple of weeks,” with Netflix and Paramount currently the front-runners, and Comcast in third place. Meltzer thinks AEW will have a worse outlook if Netflix purchases WBD, because Netflix isn’t interested in owning WBD’s cable stations like TBS and TNT.
- In his Uncrowned column on Yahoo, former TNA President Scott D’Amore said he was actually the man under the mask who executed a gore while pretending to be Rhino at TNA Slammiversary in 2019. Rhino was still under contract with WWE at the time, so they needed someone else to play the character that night. D’Amore compared this angle to the mystery man at War Games, who still may turn out to be the character Seth Rollins, even if someone else was actually wearing that disguise at Survivor Series.
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.
