Here are some of the latest WWE rumors that are floating around.
5) WWE Has Discussed Breaking Up Faction
Big E was recently interviewed on the podcast, My Mom’s Basement. During this, he revealed that WWE management has pitched them ideas for breaking up The New Day.
This is something that Big E is strongly against. Here is what he said, (h/t to Fightful for the quote below):
“We’ve heard rumors in the past and had a conversation with a very important person who said, ‘Alright, this is the idea.’ But we’ve been adamant about [not breaking up]. I get why fans want a breakup. It’s something new. But if you look at the history of breakups, tell me one, besides The Shield — they were always designed to break into individual stars — I can’t think of a single break up that benefited all members. Rusev Day was so hot, getting great reactions on a nightly basis. They break up, Aiden turns on Rusev, and then Aiden is off TV two or three weeks later.
I don’t even think they had a big pay-per-view match. I don’t think Rusev’s career benefited from it either. The same thing about the Wyatt’s. The chances that all three of us would break up and have great runs, I find it to be very slim. Also, we’re having so much fun as a group. If you break us up, I’m going to go back to being serious? I’m going to turn on Kofi and now, what kind of dynamic do we have? I don’t see a feasible way to do it. We’ve only scratched the surface on what we can do. It’s a lazy fix to break us up.”
My Take:
- It is interesting that they have been pitched storylines for them breaking up. I agree with him that they should stay together though. My only hope is that Big E gets a singles run at some point but that doesn’t mean he has to split up from The New Day for it to happen.
4) Word No Longer Banned By WWE
According to Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio, the word ‘wrestling’ was recently unbanned by WWE.
Paul Heyman is said to be a big fan of using the word to promote matches, which is why Edge vs Randy Orton is being billed as the “greatest wrestling match of all time”. The unbanning is said to be something that Heyman pushed for.
My Take:
- I am glad that ‘wrestling’ is no longer on the banned list. It was always silly to me that they couldn’t celebrate being called professional wrestling.
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