3) Rumor Killer On A Match Getting Scrapped At Wrestlemania 36
After Smackdown last week, some speculation started to grow about WWE scrapping Elias vs King Corbin from the Wrestlemania 36 card. This was because they did a big bump where Elias was dropped off the upper perch at the WWE Performance Center.
On their website, WWE has provided a new update. They say that Corbin vs Elias is still on for ‘Mania:
Elias escapes serious injury and vows to compete against King Corbin at WrestleMania
After undergoing an extensive evaluation, Elias has escaped serious injury and suffered no broken bones, WWE Digital has learned. Despite King Corbin’s heinous assault on last week’s Friday Night SmackDown, Elias has been recovering at a rehab facility and swears that, somehow, some way, he will compete against Corbin at WrestleMania.
The songsmith was blindsided by his royal rival following a musical performance, which led to Corbin knocking Elias off an upper perch at the WWE Performance Center.
My Take:
- If I am being honest, I have zero interest in this match. It just seems like something that was tossed on the card at the last moment.
2) What Led To Montez Ford’s Brutal Bump On RAW
In case you missed it, Montez Ford landed hard on the outside of the ring during RAW this week. He went for a dive over the ropes and ended up landing flat on his back on the outside of the ring.
On Wrestling Observer Live, Bryan Alvarez provided some details about what went wrong. Here is what he said (h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the quotes below):
“Here’s what happened. Montez was making this big comeback and he hits the ropes and Seth tries to grab his foot but Montez just keeps running.”
“So as it turns out, apparently what happened was, when Montez hit the ropes, Seth was supposed to trip him, okay? Now granted, Seth was a little bit late but he wasn’t that late and he actually did get a hold of Montez’s foot. Now maybe Montez, as he started running, realized that [Seth] was too far away and in his mind thought ‘there’s no way that this guy is gonna get to me, I’ve just gotta keep running.’ But Seth is actually very athletic and fast and he did get to him. But one way or the other, Montez apparently had it in his mind that ‘I gotta do this dive, I didn’t get tripped.’ So he ran and he just did an unplanned flip dive over the top. Austin Theory didn’t know it was coming so Austin Theory just looks up and here comes this guy and Montez crashes and nearly kills himself and Theory…I don’t know know if maybe…I don’t know what was in anybody’s mind but maybe Theory thought, ‘Oh dude, maybe I was supposed to catch him and I forgot.’”
“So he took a bump and then everybody’s dead. The spot was that Seth was supposed to trip Montez and Montez just did the dive anyway that he wasn’t supposed to do. So that’s what happened in that spot.”
My Take:
- Montez Ford is definitely a trooper as that looked like it hurt.
Use the buttons below for more on our WWE rumor round-up.