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We’ll play weddings, awkward bar mitzvahs, but most importantly…
...Paul Heyman’s birthday. Again, no flaws in that concept at all.
And we’d make sure to wish him a much better birthday than WWE.
To celebrate the Mad Genius’ 53rd birthday yesterday, WWE tweeted: “Happy Birthday
to the most infamous ADVOCATE in @WWE history, @HeymanHustle!”
Which is a really nice message. It’s like there’s no animosity at all between Heyman
and WWE for Paul effectively working against the promotion for the last six months when
negotiating Brock Lesnar’s contract extensions. But then you play the clip attached to the
tweet, “Stephanie McMahon & others discuss Paul Heyman’s departure from WWE” - which
includes Stephanie not being very nice about the birthday boy:
“I think at the end of the day Paul couldn’t swallow that he wasn’t the boss, and he
didn’t know how to work with somebody who was the boss, and who didn’t just take all
of his ideas and agree with them. ... It just was a distrustful situation. If you can’t
trust someone, you can’t be in business with them. It just doesn’t work.”
Happy birthday dear Paul E… Heyman himself picked up on WWE’s unique
style of well-wishing, tweeting: “What a wonderful clip for @WWENetwork to
choose to wish me a happy birthday! DAFUQ thought "here's a great clip we can play to
demonstrate our appreciation of Heyman's contributions and our acknowledgement of his talent?"”
Hey, Paul, go easy on Stephanie. She’s had a busy few months. Wrestling against Ronda
Rousey at WrestleMania, randomly booking Mick Foley as the special guest referee at Hell
in a Cell a week before the pay-per-view, and, of course, inventing the concept of Women’s
Wrestling.
WWE’s first ever all women’s pay-per-view Evolution is set to take place on the 28th
October, which has already announced Alexa Bliss vs Trish Stratus and Lita vs Mickie
James for the card. Some sites are now claiming the full line-up
has been leaked, though, with an alleged booking sheet for the whole show turning up online.
However, not only should this be taken with a huge pinch of salt, as this is just an unsubstantiated
rumor for now, but also proceed with caution, because it contains spoilers for the Mae Young
Classic. We’re entering the Spoiler Room Brawl in 3… 2… 1…
Rhea Ripley will defend her NXT UK Women’s Championship against Jinny, Killer Kelly and
Dakota Kai. Which will be followed by a ‘special announcement’
and then a Carmella talkshow segment with “The ladies of GLOW” - which is presumably
the cast of the Netflix show, not the original 80s wrestling promotion.
A six woman tag with The Riott Squad vs Sasha Banks, Bayley and Ivory (that latter of whom
wrestled for the original Glow). The Mae Young Classic 2018 final between Toni
Storm and Io Shirai - which has already been decided in the tapings, just not announced.
A 20 woman Battle Royal, with the winner facing Kairi Sane for the NXT Women’s title later
in the night. Asuka and Ember Moon rekindling their fantastic
NXT rivalry despite now being on opposite main roster brands.
Naomi vs Melina, which has been teased by both women on social media.
The already announced Mickie James vs Lita. Kairi Sane vs the winner of the Battle Royal
for the NXT Women’s title. The already announced Alexa Bliss vs Trish
Stratus. Alicia Fox and Kelly Kelly vs The IIconics
vs Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville vs Beth Phoenix and Natalya for the long-rumoured WWE Women’s
Tag Team Championships. Becky Lynch vs Charlotte Flair for the SmackDown
Women’s title. And the long reported Nikki Bella vs Ronda
Rousey main event for the Raw Women’s Championship. That’s a lot of matches.
TicketDrew has tweeted, however, that he believes this ‘leaked’ card “is more than likely
not real”, but he still reckons “Ronda V Nikki will happen and we see the debut of
the Women’s Tag Titles.” Mick Foley is returning to Hell in a Cell!
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