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• The Rock’s WrestleMania 41 Plans Shift: How CM Punk Changed WWE’s Creative Direction
One Big Thing WWE’s WrestleMania 41 plans underwent major changes after CM Punk’s Survivor Series appearance, leading The Rock to suggest a John Cena-centered event instead of his anticipated match with Cody Rhodes. Key Details CM Punk replaced Seth Rollins at Survivor Series 2024 WWE fast-tracked the Rollins vs. Punk storyline Plans shifted to consider […] The post The Rock’s Wr...2025
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• Seth Rollins’ Survivor Series Replacement by CM Punk Altered WWE’s Creative Direction
The Rock’s role in WWE’s WrestleMania 41 has been a subject of ongoing evolution, with behind-the-scenes changes reshaping what was once a clear trajectory for his match with Cody Rhodes. ......2025
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• Ted DiBiase Sr. Recalls WWE’s Creative Downturn In The 1990s
During a recent edition of his “Everybody’s Got A Pod” podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Ted DiBiase Sr. discussed the potential influence of Vince McMahon’s steroid trial on the lackluster creative direction of the 1990s as WWE attempted to develop a family-friendly product. You can check out some highlights from the podcast below: On the […] The post Ted DiBiase Sr. Recalls WWE&...2025
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• AEW’s Creative Direction: Bully Ray Calls for Tony Khan to Follow Paul Heyman’s Blueprint
One Big Thing WWE Hall of Famer Bully Ray criticized AEW’s reliance on former WWE talent, urging Tony Khan to follow Paul Heyman’s ECW model of elevating homegrown stars. Why It Matters This debate highlights a crucial challenge for AEW: balancing star power from established names while developing its own talent roster. Key Details Ray […] The post AEW’s Creative Direction: Bully...2025
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• New creative direction reportedly for Smackdown, JBL tells a McMahon/Cole story
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• Marty Scurll Reveals Role in Creative Direction for AEW and WWE Talent
Marty Scurll’s name will always be surrounded by controversy thanks to the allegations made against him during the #SpeakingOut Movement. However, he is still active in the pro wrestling scene ......2025
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• The War Raiders get emotional after ending 5-year title drought

WWE.com The War Raiders overcame years of heartache and injuries to capture the WWE World Tag Team Championship in a thrilling victory on Monday Night Raw. The War Raiders’ quest for the WWE World Tag Team Championship ended in triumph on Monday night. Erik and Ivar, with an assist from Damian Priest, defeated Judgment Day’s Finn Bálor and JD McDonagh to win the titles in the main event of...2024
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• Report: Ricochet signs multi-year deal with AEW

WWE.com Fightful Select is reporting that former WWE star Ricochet has signed a multi-year deal with All Elite Wrestling. Furthermore, it sounds like there might be plans for him to make an appearance this Sunday (Aug. 25) at AEW’s All In 2024 pay-per-view event that’s being held in London’s Wembley Stadium. Ricochet’s WWE contract expired and he became a free agent this summer after he wa...2024
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• Rumor Roundup: WWE release, McIntyre contract ending, Omega surgery, AEW return, more!

WWE.com 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 wrest...2024
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• The end is near for AJ Styles: ‘I’m done. I’m going to retire’

WWE.com In an interview before WrestleMania, Styles told The Ringer that he wants to go out with the proper match and story. WWE is entering a new era, as proclaimed before, during, and after WrestleMania. Yet despite its fresh, crowd-pleasing creative direction, the success of its signature event, and a recent changing of the guard, the industry leader in pro wrestling might be going out ...2024
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• Ronda Rousey on her lifelong history with concussions & where WWE run went wrong [Exclusive]

Welcome to another edition of the ‘Monday Gorilla Position’! A weekly column here at Cageside Seats that dissects the latest shows and reports in the world of WWE & AEW. In addition to interviews with your favorite professional wrestlers. Ronda Rousey has kept a great deal bottled up inside over the last decade. No doubt it’s been a cathartic experience to finally tell the world he...2024
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• Sami Zayn’s road to WrestleMania is coming to an end too soon

WWE.com Raw airs tonight (Mar. 11) with a live show from Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. This is the third episode of Raw during the six week build towards WrestleMania 40, which takes place on the weekend of April 6 and April 7. Sami Zayn’s road to WrestleMania is coming to an end too soon Tonight’s Raw features a Gauntlet match that will determine Intercontinental Champion GUNTHER’s cha...2024
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• WWE Superstar Suffers Reported Broken Hand
Piper Niven is injured. Under Triple H's creative direction, she reverted to her Niven persona last year. Her tenure on the main roster includes becoming a WWE Women's Tag Team Champion alongside Chelsea Green, stepping in for Sonya Deville following an injury. Their reign ended when they were defeated by...2024
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• A split of Damage CTRL could prove to be best for all parties involved
WWE.com You can talk about whether cracks exist in The Bloodline all you want, but when it comes to the story of Damage CTRL, we may as well be watching foundational splits like the ones that brought down the house in Encanto. As was made evident this past week on Raw, IYO SKY and Dakota Kai are clearly upset with where they’ve ended up after several months of Bayley’s leadership. Almost ...2023
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• FTR’s decision is a no-brainer now that Vince McMahon is back in charge of WWE
AEW on Twitter Dynamite airs tonight (Apr. 5) with a live show from UBS Arena in Long Island, New York. There are more than seven weeks to go until AEW’s next pay-per-view on the calendar, Double or Nothing, which is scheduled for May 28. FTR’s decision between WWE and AEW is a no-brainer The Gunns are putting the AEW world tag team titles on the line in tonight’s main event against FTR. T...2023
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• Cody Rhodes Says He Was Offered '15 Times More' To Return To WWE Than Previous Run
Cody Rhodes left WWE in 2016 after being frustrated with the creative direction as Stardust. Rhodes went on to become arguably the top name on the independent scene, and helped start AEW with Tony Khan, The Young Bucks (Matthew Jackson & Nicholas Jackson), and Kenny Omega. In 2022, Cody announced he would be leaving AEW, paving the way for a return to WWE. Before his return was official, Cody me...2024
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• Come back, Wade Barrett: Why the return of ‘Bad News’ could be good news

WWE As tensions between Barrett and longtime friend Drew McIntyre erupted, questions about Barrett’s future grow, raising interest in a potential Barrett comeback. Things took an unexpected turn on Raw this week when WWE teased a confrontation between Drew McIntyre and announcer Wade Barrett. McIntyre was upset with Barrett, his longtime friend, for interfering in his attack on CM Punk the...2024
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• Roman Reigns and Paul Heyman talk about a potentially edgier Raw coming to Netflix

Bloomberg Live The Tribal Chief and The Wiseman appear together for the first time since WrestleMania to talk about WWE’s flagship show moving to the streaming giant in 2025. Roman Reigns and Paul Heyman made their first public appearance together since WrestleMania XL on Thursday. The Tribal Chief and his Wiseman joined other top sports and business leaders at Bloomberg’s Power Players su...2024
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• Ricky Starks Says He's Never Turned Down AEW Creative
Ricky Starks took to social media to clarify that he's never turned down any AEW creative. Ever. Users on X/Twitter were arguing over Starks' position in the company and reports regarding his creative direction. The user wrote, "The fact that his attitude when given the smaller opportunities was to pout and disagree with creative is the main reason why he didn't get bigger shots." Starks replied...2024
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• Report: Ricochet signs multi-year deal with AEW
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• Roman Reigns’ part-time WWE schedule is starting to fill up again

WWE Following Roman Reigns’ surprise return to WWE this past weekend at SummerSlam, we already know that the Original Tribal Chief will be at tomorrow’s (Aug. 9) SmackDown taping at BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. SmackDown is coming to the Kia Center in Orlando, Florida, for the following week’s (Aug. 16) episode, and now we know that the Head of the Table will also be in the building on ...2024
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• Rumor Roundup: WWE release, McIntyre contract ending, Omega surgery, AEW return, more!
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• Alba: Rock's WrestleMania XL Spectacle Sets Tone For New Era Of WWE
PHILADELPHIA - If the glory of pro wrestling rests in the spectacle, WrestleMania XL Night 1 embodied the peak of the art. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, a ten-time World Champion who happens to also be Hollywood’s biggest star, reclaimed said glory by pinning Cody Rhodes in what was billed as “the biggest tag team match in WWE history.” Rock and WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns knocked off the ...2024
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• WWE’s Dexter Lumis opens a pro wrestling school in Florida

WWE.com The long-missing Raw superstar prepares to shape wrestling’s future at his new learning facility, Hatchet Pro Wrestling. Dexter Lumis has been off WWE television since last May. In December, a report from Fightful stated that Lumis wasn’t injured but that he also hadn’t been at many tapings while waiting for a creative direction. Now comes word that Lumis is preparing to shape wre...2024
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• The War Raiders get emotional after ending 5-year title drought
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• Michin Says She Fully Trusted Triple H To 'Not Fumble' Her Upon WWE Return
Michin (Mia Yim) was released by WWE in November 2021 after an ill-fated run as a member of RETRIBUTION and going months without appearing on television. Michin would work for TNA Wrestling and make independent appearances before returning to WWE in November 2022 when Triple H had more control over the creative direction. Speaking to Alistair McGeorge of Metro, Michin explained how Triple H bein...2024
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• Alba: Rock's WrestleMania XL Spectacle Sets Tone For New Era Of WWE
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• Sami Zayn’s road to WrestleMania is coming to an end too soon
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• More Behind Vince McMahon Out, Triple H In WWE Creative
Things have been different on WWE Raw and Smackdown, in case you haven't noticed. PWInsider reported what Fightful had mentioned on our WWE Raw post-show this past Monday -- that things had appeared a little different on the surface. They expanded, saying there's been a bit of a morale boost associated with a line of thinking that Triple H is largely directing creative again, not Vince McMahon. We...2023
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• Mustafa Ali is ‘no longer working with WWE’

Mustafa Ali’s Twitter Mustafa Ali has had a contentious relationship with WWE at times, which resulted in him requesting to be released from his contract in early 2022. Things between Ali and WWE seemed to improve in the aftermath of Vince McMahon stepping down from power last summer. But whether it’s Vince or Triple H booking the WWE main roster TV shows, Ali hasn’t gotten much of a break...2023
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• Drew McIntyre Isn’t Happy With His Creative Direction, Contract Offer From WWE Amidst Being Pulled From SmackDown
Drew McIntyre was pulled from SmackDown on Friday, and was also pulled from a meet and greet. While it was reported this was a medical issue, more details have now come to light. Speaking on the situation, Wade Keller for PWTorch mentioned that drew is unhappy with his current situation with WWE and it points to creative […] The post Drew McIntyre Isn’t Happy With His Creativ...2023
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• Will WWE be able to regain the momentum lost after WrestleMania?
WWE.com Do you happen to remember the closing moments of Super Bowl XLIX? Down 28-24 to the New England Patriots, the Seattle Seahawks had the ball at the goal line with 26 seconds remaining in the game. All they had to do was hand it off to their stud running back Marshawn Lynch and they would have left Arizona with their second consecutive World Championship. Instead, the Seahawks decid...2023
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• FTR’s decision is a no-brainer now that Vince McMahon is back in charge of WWE
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• Ted DiBiase Sr. Recalls WWE’s Creative Downturn In The 1990s
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• The War Raiders get emotional after ending 5-year title drought
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• Come back, Wade Barrett: Why the return of ‘Bad News’ could be good news
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• Michin Says She Fully Trusted Triple H To 'Not Fumble' Her Upon WWE Return
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• Alba: Rock's WrestleMania XL Spectacle Sets Tone For New Era Of WWE
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• Ronda Rousey on her lifelong history with concussions & where WWE run went wrong [Exclusive]
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• Sami Zayn’s road to WrestleMania is coming to an end too soon
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• A split of Damage CTRL could prove to be best for all parties involved
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• Will WWE be able to regain the momentum lost after WrestleMania?
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• The ex-AEW guy was never going to win in the main event of WrestleMania
WWE.com Raw airs tonight (Apr. 3) with a live show from Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California. This is the first episode of Raw during the five week build towards Backlash, which takes on May 6 in Puerto Rico. A lot of WWE fans are very upset about Cody Rhodes losing at WrestleMania Cody Rhodes talked a big game for months but ultimately failed to finish the story at WrestleMania 39...2023
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• The ex-AEW guy was never going to win in the main event of WrestleMania
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• Vince McMahon ruins everything
WWE.com It’s amazing how quickly one can go from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows, huh? This past weekend’s WrestleMania 39 event was in many ways a big celebration of what makes pro wrestling so much fun. Some of the highlights include the cathartic triumph of Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens, Charlotte Flair and Rhea Ripley having perhaps the best women’s match in company history, Dom...2023
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• WWE Asks Fans If Triple H Improved Television Product
Triple H took over WWE’s creative direction when Vince McMahon retired in July 2022. Since then, The Game has acted as Chief Content Officer, a position that was unchanged by ......2023
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• Drew McIntyre Displeased with WWE’s Creative Direction and Contract Offer
Former WWE Champion Drew McIntyre was pulled from WWE SmackDown and a signing that was scheduled to take place earlier today. While the reason for his absence was initially attributed ......2023
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• Michin Says She Fully Trusted Triple H To 'Not Fumble' Her Upon WWE Return
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• Vince McMahon is officially a WWE employee again
WWE.com That was revealed in a new SEC filing that also gives Vince control over his life story, and CEO Nick Khan a nice raise. To this point, Vince McMahon’s return to WWE after a six-month scandal-induced retirement was positioned as a Board of Directors-level move. He’s never really relinquished control over the company — as controlling shareholder, McMahon’s always had the voting pow...2023
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• Ricky Starks Says He's Never Turned Down AEW Creative
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• WWE Sources Report Triple H Has Assumed Full Creative Leadership, Vince McMahon Steps Back
There now appears to be a real shift in WWE's creative direction. It is believed Vince McMahon is no longer the driving force behind the story arcs. McMahon had stepped down for a period last year, returning several months later to focus on higher-level oversight. While Triple H has spearheaded...2023
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• Come back, Wade Barrett: Why the return of ‘Bad News’ could be good news
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• Roman Reigns and Paul Heyman talk about a potentially edgier Raw coming to Netflix
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• Reason Behind WWE Bad Blood 2024’s Early Start Time
WWE has an exciting lineup of events planned, and with Triple H in charge of the company’s creative direction, many changes have been introduced. One of these changes includes the ......2024
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• Roman Reigns’ part-time WWE schedule is starting to fill up again
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• Rumor Roundup: WWE release, McIntyre contract ending, Omega surgery, AEW return, more!
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• WWE Anticipates Huge Turnout for European Tour in 2024

The Big Picture WWE’s European tour in April 2024 is expected to draw large crowds across major cities in the UK, showcasing the company’s continued success and popularity under Triple H’s creative direction. Why It Matters Shows scheduled for Birmingham, Cardiff, London, and Belfast signify WWE’s strong market presence outside the US. The anticipation of […] The post...2024
• The end is near for AJ Styles: ‘I’m done. I’m going to retire’
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• Alba: Rock's WrestleMania XL Spectacle Sets Tone For New Era Of WWE
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• Ronda Rousey on her lifelong history with concussions & where WWE run went wrong [Exclusive]
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• Sami Zayn’s road to WrestleMania is coming to an end too soon
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• Alba: Rock's WrestleMania XL Spectacle Sets Tone For New Era Of WWE
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• Ronda Rousey on her lifelong history with concussions & where WWE run went wrong [Exclusive]
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• A split of Damage CTRL could prove to be best for all parties involved
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• Will WWE be able to regain the momentum lost after WrestleMania?
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• Real1 (Enzo Amore) is done at MLW, and accusations are flying about why
MLW.com Yesterday (April 1), Wrestling Observer reported that MLW had released Real1, aka NZO, fka Enzo Amore. This was surprising, seeing as the Court Bauer-owned promotion just recently announced Real1 would challenge World champion Alex Hammerstone this upcoming Saturday (April 8) at their Battle Riot show in Philadelphia. What happened? Sources told Fightful Select Real1 turned down “m...2023
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• Vince McMahon is officially a WWE employee again
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