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:
- Sportsbooks like betonline have CM Punk as a massive favorite over Finn Bálor at Elimination Chamber, and give AJ Lee a roughly 75% chance of beating Becky Lynch Saturday. The Chamber matches are tighter, with Cody Rhodes, Randy Orton, LA Knight, Raquel Rodriguez, Tiffany Stratton, and Asuka all getting decent odds.
- Punk is the underdog in his WrestleMania 42 main event, at least initially. Roman Reigns is being given a 78% chance to win in Las Vegas.
- Bronson Reed suffered a bicep tear on Raw in Atlanta Monday night, confirmed PW Insider. The site says Reed went immediately to Birmingham, Alabama after the show, and will have surgery soon if he hasn’t had it already.
- While Insider didn’t know how long Reed is expected to be out, they did note that ”WWE will have to reconfigure plans as he was originally slated for the Elimination Chamber and also figured into WrestleMania”.
- Chelsea Green told Busted Open her ankle is “chipped”, adding “it’s not the worst kind of break so we’re good” and that her injury is “healing up very quickly”.
- Tommaso Ciampa was originally supposed to debut for AEW on the Jan. 24 Collision, per Fightful Select. The site says severe weather led to the cancellation of Mark Briscoe’s match that Saturday, and with plans calling for Ciampa to confront Briscoe his debut was bumped until the match could happen on the Jan. 28 Dynamite.
- Ring of Honor’s standalone studio taping this weekend in Jacksonville is an “experiment” to see if filming for ROH’s weekly online show can be done separate from Dynamite or Collision. That from Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio.