Welcome back to wrestling world!
Today we’ll be checking in with former WWE Superstar AJ Lee, Paige, and the biggest story
coming out of the WWE Draft
So let’s get into it with AJ Lee
The former women’s champion is still enjoying her early retirement from the ring, fans can’t
stop speculating about a return to the ring for AJ, but the 33 year old has started to
focus her attention on another career and other serious issues
AJ Lee had her first number one top selling book with “Crazy Is My Superpower”.
A book that followed AJ’s life from her childhood, to her come up in the wrestling
scene, and her entire career
AJ is now taking her writing skills to the comic book scene
AJ started to write comics back in 2019 with the Glow series, but AJ has just been selected
to write another series
AJ and her best friend, Amy Garcia, will write “At the Spine of the World”, a comic book
based on D&D’s Forgotten Realms
The description of the book says:
“At the Spine of the World” takes place in Icewind Dale and Ten-Towns, an area blighted
by feral beasts, continual blizzards, and some sort of strange madness that is gripping
its residents.
Saarvin, Dragonborn ranger, makes an appearance, alongside a host of colorful new characters!”
So with two big comics now on her record, AJ was recently interviewed and she opened
up about the issues that she always saw with comics and how she’s trying to fix that
with her stories, she had this to say:
“Growing up, not being able to see Latinas in genre, or women in powerful roles in general,
lit a fire under me to create that representation for myself.
I literally had to put on spandex and beat up bad guys to become the superhero I didn’t
see.
It’s hard for me to answer because that lack of visibility informed my present career
and mission statement, so I wouldn’t want to butterfly effect myself into complacency.”
“Instead, I prefer to ask ‘What changes can I make now?’
I must continue to create that representation so future Latinx generations, and communities
of every color, know they belong, in every genre, as superheroes of their own valuable
stories.”
this is a serious issue that AJ is trying to tackle with her new stories.
There was no big comic or superhero story starring a Latina, or any woman at all for
that matter when she was growing up, so AJ is trying to change that narrative and give
young readers a big character to look up to that’s just like them
AJ is on a roll of securing these big writing roles, so hopefully she keeps it up and accomplishes
her mission and of course, her fans are still hoping that there will be a chance for her
to return WWE in the future
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The battle between WWE and the superstars over the third party ban seems to still be
going on
It was announced this week that WWE officially took over as the owners for the superstars’
twitch channels and other third party platform pages
This has been a crazy back and forth story over the last few weeks and it’s been honestly
really hard to follow
NXT superstars don’t seem like they put up much of a fight.
A lot of them announced that it was there last day on cameo this week and many of them
took down their merchandise from third party platforms
But the fight really seems to be coming from the bigger superstars
When this news first came out, Superstar were expected to leave twitch and live streaming,
but that no longer seems like the case
Superstars will still remain on twitch, but all of the profit will reportedly go straight
to WWE and then the superstars will receive a certain percentage
We’ve seen superstars like Paige and others all switch their twitch branding to their
real names to sort of find a loophole out of this situation, but it doesn’t seem like
that’s going to work
Just because you’re using your real name on twitch now doesn’t mean that you exempted
from this new rule all of a sudden
This rule still applies to you.
Paige has been very vocal about this situation and still appears to be fighting back and
has had enough
She tweeted out that she learned a lot about unionism this week
She’s obviously teasing and referring to the idea of the superstars creating a union
that will free them of some of the over the top rules such as the third party ban
Zelina Vega even responded to Paige and seemed to be in support of the idea, but no progress
has been made
It’s been a popular topic among fans.
Some think that a union would be good for them, while others think it will be a nightmare
AJ Styles also commented on the fact that WWE was now in full control of the income
from twitch and had this to say during his own stream:
“Nobody is on here making millions on Twitch.
We are not pro gamers.
That’s not what is happening.
I feel like, for us, it’s an opportunity to do what we love – play video games and
interact with our fans.
It’s a chance to appreciate you guys appreciating us – that’s basically what’s going on.
Especially with what’s going on in the world.
We don’t get to see you guys anymore unless you’re on the video screen in the ThunderDome.”
“We don’t get to see you; we don’t get to talk to you; we don’t get to do much.
This is the next best thing.
I don’t know what they’re hoping to get out of this.
The communication has not been as great as we’d like.
There’s a lot of us who are all on the same page – we’ve talked to each other.
We’re facing the same thing.
It’s all doom and gloom or, ‘Oh, that’s all they want.’
I feel like this is an opportunity for me and my channel to say, ‘This is what’s
really going on’ and debunk some stupid rumors that are going on.”
So everyone can appreciate AJ Styles’ comments for cleaning some of this confusion up
Like Styles said, obviously the superstars aren’t on there making millions of dollars,
it was just a little side income and a great way to interact with the fans, so that’s
why they all started doing it
But for whatever reason this rule was put into effect and flipped everything upside
down
The story is still confusing and hard to follow.
Are the superstars okay with what’s happening right now or do they plan on fighting back
in someway?
We’ll have to wait and see how things play out
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The WWE Draft is taking place this week and everyone is on the clock ready to be drafted
However, there are some backstage strategies that are still going on with how the drafts
unfold
As we saw last year, WWE tried their best to keep all real life wwe couples together
on the same show
Of course life was was completely different last year, raw and Smackdown were both on
the road and both brands were in completely different cities
So being on the same brand with your significant other was very crucial because if you were
on separate brands, you really weren’t going to see each other that often
But now in 2020, raw and Smackdown take place in the same arena and there’s no traveling
at all involved, so maybe it would be easier for couples to be on separate shows?
But according to reports, that’s not the case, WWE is still following the plan from
last year and they’re still trying their best to keep couples on the same brand
The report didn’t promise that it will happen for every single couple.
It just said that WWE would try their best to do it for everyone
But there might be a couple or two that do get split up, but for the most part, all the
couples will remain together
It’ll be interesting to see over the next few days how the draft results are and how
much couples were able to stay together on the same brand
On top of the WWE couples and trying to keep them together, WWE also has to please USA
Network and Fox because both networks obviously want the best talent for their shows
You already know that Fox sports doesn’t want to let go of superstars like Roman reigns,
Sasha Banks, or Bray Wyatt
But on the flip side, USA Network may be putting in the request to have one of those big stars
on their show
So as you can tell, there’s a lot of work that goes on behind the scenes for the WWE
Draft, but we’ll see how the finals results turn out in a couple of days
What are your thoughts on today’s wrestling news stories?
What did you think of AJ Lee’s comments?
What are your thoughts on the twitch drama?
And what are your thoughts on the WWE Draft?
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