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:
- It was confirmed to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that WWE has plans for a title match between Cody Rhodes and Roman Reigns, but “not necessarily at WrestleMania.”
- Even though John Cena still loves Vince McMahon, Bryan Alvarez at F4WOnline says it’s “increasingly unlikely” but “not impossible” that McMahon will be in attendance for Cena’s WWE retirement match next weekend at Saturday Night’s Main Event.
- According to The Observer, “There has been talk of transitioning Nikki Bella to a heel manager role down the line.”
- Fightful Select asked over two dozen people in WWE about Becky Lynch’s claim about a main roster star who blacklisted women he pursued or slept with. None of the people Fightful spoke with knew who she was talking about. It sounds like WWE may be planning to look into the matter.
- There are people in AEW who predicted Netflix would win the bidding to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery before the news became public, according to Fightful. AEW doesn’t expect there to be any major developments in the short-term as a result of this story.
- A source in WWE told F4WOnline’s Dave Meltzer that TNA wants AJ Styles to return in January to wrestle a match on the first show of its new TV deal with AMC.
- Meltzer claims that Paul Heyman wanted Austin Theory in The Vision “largely to make him a star and to protect [Bron] Breakker and [Bronson] Reed from having to take pins.” Even though Theory was the mystery man at War Games, if the angle drags out until January, “it could be Chris Jericho” who is revealed as the masked man.
- Darby Allin’s injury on the Nov. 26 episode of AEW Dynamite was the result of a single blow to his head, and not due to an accumulation of wear-and-tear on his body over time, per Meltzer. It wasn’t the coast-to-coast dropkick at the end of the bout that injured him.
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.
