Today, we’ll get into a handful of topics from Maria exposing WWE, to Jeff Hardy’s
WWE status, and Edge’s future, so let’s get into it
Starting off with Maria and Mike Kanellis.
With Maria and Mike Kanellis being released earlier this year, it’s officially safe
to say that their few years back in the WWE was a bit underwhelming to say the least
Maria and Mike first appeared on WWE television back in 2017.
Of course this was Mike’s real first run with WWE, but it wasn’t Maria’s first
time with the company
Maria first debuted in the WWE during the early 2000s.
Maria severed as a backstage interviewer and slowly transitioned into an in-ring competitor
Maria had a sweet, bubbly and clueless persona to her character that really made her a fan
favorite.
She stood out from the rest of the WWE women’s roster and had a real unique character
Unfortunately, WWE and Maria went their separate ways a handful of years later and that’s
when Maria met her husband, Mike Bennett, outside of the WWE
Maria and Mike, who were both obviously wrestlers, decided to take their relationship on screen
and they started traveling all over the world from company to company
Maria and Mike had a successful run in New Japan and even made some noise in impact wrestling
for a while as well
The hype around the couple was getting so big that WWE started to take notice of them
and wanted to sign them
Maria and Mike signed with WWE and made their first appearance in 2017.
Some WWE fans expected a lot from Maria and Mike.
You see the success that Karrion Kross and Scarlett are having right now?
That’s what some fans expected to see from Mike and Maria, but obviously that never happened
Maria and Mike debuted with this weird gimmick that’s hard to really explain.
I guess their gimmick was that they were a couple that was madly in love?
It was really complicated to ready and never went anywhere
They were assigned to Smackdown and had a few feuds towards the start of their WWE run,
but things quickly went in the wrong direction for them
Maria was quickly taken off of television after announcing her pregnancy and Mike was
gone as well because he was going through a rehab program
Then the couple were frustrated and wanted to be released from the company.
However, a few weeks past and then we were hearing the news that they signed a massive
5 year extension because WWE had made promises to actually use them on TV
We started to see the start of that push last year.
Maria and Mike returned and were constantly on TV week after week, but during that push
for them, Maria announced on Raw that she was pregnant again
Maria would disappear shortly after that announcement and Mike went missing as well right after
her
WWE then released the couple in mid 2020 as a part of their budget cuts for the pandemic
So that brings us up to date, now let’s look into how Maria is exposing the WWE
The couple was released two months after they welcomed their second born
The release was a complete shock to maria because she claims that she specifically asked
for WWE’s blessing on having another baby and WWE had no issue with it
Fast forward a few year months later and they’re basically fired and their massive extension
is terminated
In a now deleted tweet that started up a massive wave of discussion, Maria had this to say:
“Did you ever hear the one about the woman that was released from WWE during a pandemic
2 months after being told having another baby wasn't an issue...?
Hashtag: more on that later, hashtag: only wrestling company that released people”
This tweet started such a huge back and forth battle between Maria, Mike, and the fans
Maria did bring up some good points and so did the fans.
The fans noted that no person should have to ask their employer about growing their
family
Maria also mentioned how WWE was the only company to release talent during the last
few months and that’s true as well.
No other company has had to make budget cuts to their roster the way WWE had to do in the
last few months
I think the reason behind that is because WWE was a little reckless with their budget
pre-pandemic.
They were giving Brock Lesnar all these millions for like 3 matches a year, they gave Goldberg
a couple million just for two matches.
It was even reported that they gave professional boxer, Tyson Fury, 15 million dollars for
his one match recently as well
Just so reckless and throwing these millions of dollars at these outsiders like Tyson Fury
when that same 15 million dollars could’ve been used to save superstars’ jobs during
the start of the pandemic
So that’s just my personal opinion on why WWE was the only company to make cuts.
They just pay out so much money to these big part-time stars that it ended up really hurting
them this past spring
Maria responded to one fan and said “Don’t hate WWE.
I don’t hate any company.
I understand that change is slow.
But, I also want better and more so I continue to fight and tell my story.
More on that soon”
Mike also tweeted and said that WWE had nothing to do with his rehab and it was his own decision
Another fan asked what exactly was promised to them when signing and mike said that there
wasn’t much promised to the first time, but when they resigned the huge extension,
a lot was promised and that’s what played a role in them signing that deal even though
they were unhappy at the time
After hours of going back and forth with fans on twitter, Maria said that this isn’t the
place to share her story and that she will be sharing the rest of the story on a much
bigger platform, so it looks like there’s more to come from Maria and Mike
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Next up, we’ll be taking a look at Jeff Hardy’s WWE status because this is getting
a bit interesting as well
Jeff Hardy will be 43 years old in August and obviously he’s coming towards the end
of his in-ring career
Jeff Hardy returned to the WWE alongside his brother Matt, so why is Matt gone and Jeff
is still stuck in WWE?
Well when AEW was really getting started up and signing a lot of talent, it looked like
WWE didn’t want any of their superstars signing with AEW
WWE was no longer releasing any superstars and was freezing the contracts of injured
superstars.
Meaning that if you were injured for 6 months, your contract is frozen and you’ll have
to serve those 6 months when you return
That’s what happened to Jeff, if he never got injured then his contract would’ve been
up at the same time as Matt’s, but since he was out for a handful of months last year,
he now has to serve those months in the ring right now
So technically speaking, Jeff probably has several months left on this contract and the
discussion has started to pick up
Could Jeff Hardy be heading towards AEW once her serves these few months of his frozen
time?
That’s a big theory going around right now
The fact that Jeff lost at Backlash has everyone thinking that WWE will probably continue to
bury him until his last day of this contract
That’s something that WWE did to Matt Hardy earlier this year.
He was getting squashed by everyone on Raw and was even walking around in a neck brace
at one point, so many are fearing if this same sort of thing could be happening to Jeff
Reports claim that even though the possibility of Jeff Hardy going to AEW is still there,
it doesn’t look like he will be buried by WWE at this current time
His loss at Backlash was likely done to just continue to feud and storyline, but we’ll
see how that plays out and if AEW will actually be in Jeff Hardy’s future
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Next up is Edge.
Edge had one of the most unexpected miracle returns earlier this year.
After what Edge went though nearly 10 years ago, we all thought we’ll never see him
wrestle again, but he returned and did the impossible
Unfortunately, Edge has been injured again and will be out of action for the rest of
the year which is horrible
With Edge’s previous injury and now his new injury, Booker T asked Edge about his
plans to retire and if anything has changed
Edge had this to say about the situation:
“I want to finish it on my terms.
I’m really stubborn on that in this run, I guess.
I really want to, with this, try and show that selling still sells.
I feel like that’s been lost.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m guilty, too.
You can watch the TLC matches and say ‘but, but, but!’
And I get it.
I was young and I was there and I did it.
I was always told by the Steve Austins, by the ‘Takers of the world, ‘hey man, if
you just slowed down and tried this and that, and this and that.’
When I started doing that, that’s when I started making real money.”
Edge’s current deal was reportedly a three year deal with limited dates, so the hall
of famer will be with WWE for the next few years and then will probably have to make
a hard decision of extending the deal or retiring on his terms
WWE had a lot of big things planned for Edge during the back half of 2020, including a
big role in this year’s summerslam
This year’s Summerslam will be held at the performance center, but WWE still planned
on making it feel special with some big matches
Edge was supposed to be in one of these big Summerslam matches, but obviously he’s unable
to compete
But if Edge’s recovery goes smoothly, we could see him return by early 2021
We’re wishing Edge a speedy recovery and can’t to see him pick back up from where
he left off.
Edge definitely showed that he can still put on amazing matches, so we can’t wait to
see more from him
What are your thoughts on all of today’s stories?
How do you feel about Maria’s comments about WWE, Jeff Hardy possibly on his way to AEW,
and Edge’s retirement plans
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