Featured Columnist IVNovember 11, 2024
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Bleacher Report catches you up on the most recent information from the WWE Universe.
Unveiling of U.S. Title a Shock to Ladies’s Division
SmackDown common supervisor Nick Aldis introduced Friday the addition of a United States Championship for the ladies’s division.
WWE followers weren’t the one ones for whom the information got here as a shock. Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp reported Saturday that “the ladies on WWE’s roster did not know the WWE United States Title announcement was coming till the day of, and are not certain how the primary champion can be decided.”
Aldis specified the belt “won’t be awarded” or “handed over” however did not present any particulars past that.
Some kind of event is essentially the most logical route. That is usually how WWE determines a brand new champion or settles on a singles match to determine who will get to assert the gold.
The plan has presumably already been sketched out by the corporate’s artistic staff, although you’d suppose that define would’ve been offered to the expertise nicely prematurely of unveiling the championship belt.
WWE Aiming for Ripley Return by WrestleMania
Mike Johnson of PWInsider.com (by way of Ringside Information’ Subhojeet Mukherjee) reported WWE is hopeful that Rhea Ripley can be again in motion in time for WrestleMania 41 subsequent April in Las Vegas.
WWE announced in October that Ripley can be sidelined indefinitely due to a fractured proper orbital socket. On the time, it was powerful to know whether or not the damage was real or a part of a storyline since a backstage assault by Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez was offered because the supply of the damage.
The damage is in fact real and would require a prolonged restoration interval.
Ripley’s rivalry with Morgan seems to be removed from over. Beating Morgan at Dangerous Blood did not convey a ton of closure because it got here by disqualification, and the addition of Rodriguez supplied a brand new wrinkle to the feud.
Now, that must be placed on the again burner.
Having Ripley for WrestleMania would at the least enable for her and Morgan to have the proper stage to convey their lengthy narrative to a passable conclusion.
That also leaves the small matter of what to do with Morgan, although. The Uncooked ladies’s division feels prefer it’s in a holding sample now for the subsequent few months.
Fanatics Excessive on Jey Uso’s Merch Gross sales
The WWE Universe has lengthy had a voice, albeit a small one, in selecting which stars acquired pushed and the way they had been offered. With regards to Jey Uso, it is abundantly clear he is thought of anyone in that higher echelon on the energetic roster.
He reportedly was the highest vendor at WWE Store final month, and Fightful Choose (by way of Mukherjee) reported an nameless supply at Fanatics has been “placing over” the previous member of The Bloodline.
Because the extended unraveling of the unique Bloodline faction occurred, loads of followers questioned whether or not it was all setting the stage for Uso to take middle stage. His loss to Roman Reigns at SummerSlam just about put that concept to mattress.
However the numbers converse for themselves. The Bloodline story undoubtedly helped to raise Uso right into a tier he hadn’t occupied earlier than.
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