Featured Columnist IVNovember 11, 2024
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Bleacher Report catches you up on the newest information from the WWE Universe.
Unveiling of U.S. Title a Shock to Girls’s Division
SmackDown basic 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 positive how the primary champion will likely be decided.”
Aldis specified the belt “is not going to be awarded” or “handed over” however did not present any particulars past that.
Some type of match is essentially the most logical route. That is typically 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 crew, 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 (through Ringside Information’ Subhojeet Mukherjee) reported WWE is hopeful that Rhea Ripley will likely be again in motion in time for WrestleMania 41 subsequent April in Las Vegas.
WWE announced in October that Ripley will likely be sidelined indefinitely due to a fractured proper orbital socket. On the time, it was robust to know whether or not the harm 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 harm.
The harm 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 carry a ton of closure because it got here by disqualification, and the addition of Rodriguez offered a brand new wrinkle to the feud.
Now, that must be placed on the again burner.
Having Ripley for WrestleMania would not less than permit for her and Morgan to have the fitting stage to carry 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 have been offered. In the case of Jey Uso, it is abundantly clear he is thought of someone in that higher echelon on the lively roster.
He reportedly was the highest vendor at WWE Store final month, and Fightful Choose (through 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 heart 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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