Speculating on the rumors surrounding professional wrestling is a well-liked pastime of many followers, maybe second solely to truly watching the matches. On this each day column, we check out the most recent rumors being churned out by the professional wrestling rumor mill.
Essential reminder: Rumors are simply that — rumors. None of this has been confirmed as truth, it’s simply circulating across the professional wrestling rumor mill. We monitor rumor accuracy in a weekly characteristic known as Rumor Look Again you will discover right here. Keep in mind, take all of it with a grain of salt.
Rumors for the Day:
- In line with this week’s Wrestling Observer Publication, Rhea Ripley is rehabbing her shoulder proper now as an alternative of having surgical procedure. She’s not at the moment scheduled for SummerSlam in early August, however she should still seem on the present if the storyline requires it or if she heals sooner than anticipated.
- Relating to Chad Gable’s expiring WWE contract, F4WOnline’s Dave Meltzer heard that WWE has made “an wonderful provide to maintain him.” There are “key individuals in AEW pushing him to Tony Khan,” however AEW can’t make a proposal until he turns into a free agent.
- Meltzer additionally talked about that AEW is “in discussions with signing Ross & Marshall Von Erich.”
- PW Insider was “informed by a WBD supply that they’ve been very comfortable seeing Dynamite’s viewers, demo and score rising each week over the past 4 weeks.”
- Per The Observer, the up to date coverage between AEW, CMLL, and NJPW “appears to be that individuals who haven’t labored for AAA of late however are Mexican born” are allowed to work on reveals with CMLL expertise. Rey Fenix final labored for AAA in October 2022, so he was allowed to wrestle on this week’s AEW Dynamite (which featured CMLL stars).
- It’s not clear the place RUSH falls in that classification, as a result of he appeared on Dynamite however didn’t wrestle on the cardboard. CMLL is “okay at instances with Mexican expertise doing angles on reveals with CMLL expertise, however not doing matches.” If RUSH shouldn’t be allowed to wrestle on the identical reveals as CMLL expertise, then his match with MJF doubtless received’t occur at Forbidden Door.
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