Today we’ll be diving into the latest with Paige and her status, Roman Reigns, and Alexa
Bliss’ latest new teaser
Let’s start things off with this Roman Reigns update
So as we now know, Roman Reigns versus Brock Lesnar is happening at WWE’s first ever
“Day 1” event that takes place on January first
There has been some new changes to the WWE pay per view schedule, there was no December
event this year, the usual December event was replaced with the new Day 1 event
And since the Day 1 event is technically a January event, it has pushed back the Royal
Rumble into a slightly different time slot as well
But the main question thats going around is why WWE decided to use Brock Lesnar versus
Roman Reigns at Day 1 rather than saving it for the Royal Rumble card?
Well there has been a few new articles and reports that have been releasing lately that
are discussing that situation
The reports claim that Brock Lesnar versus Roman Reigns will not be happening at the
Royal Rumble because that event is big enough to hold its own and doesn’t really need
the help of Brock and Roman
People are hyped every year for the Royal rumble without knowing a single match on that
card, fans are just excited for the rumble matches itself, there’s already a mystic
there with that event, so it doesn’t really need extra help
So that’s why the reports claim WWE decided to use the big WWE Universal Title match at
Day 1 instead of Royal Rumble
Day 1 is a new event, it doesn’t really have no historic moments or matches since
it is a new pay per view
so in order to kick this event off on the right foot and make it feel special and valuable,
WWE decided to put Roman versus Brock on the Day 1 card
No matter how many times we see Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns face-off, it’s always gonna
be a main event, must-see match, so that’s the reasoning behind moving it from Royal
Rumble to Day 1
Another reason why this match isn’t happening at Royal Rumble could be because of the rumor
that WWE wants to stretch the feud out into a series of matches, that’s what keeps being
said
So we know they’ll be a series of matches, but we obviously don’t know the results
of those matches
Will Roman cheat every time against Brock Lesnar?
Will Brock eventually win the title and then Roman wins it back?
Those options are definitely all possibilities
So it’s just something to keep in the back of your head, maybe Day 1 and Royal Rumble
could end up extending this feud, we’ll see how this story continues to unfold there
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Another name that had popped up recently regarding her status is Paige
A lot of active and inactive superstars have lost their jobs with WWE over the last few
years due to WWE’s budget cuts
The biggest names from former world champions to brand new main roster talent, all gone
from these budget cuts
One inactive talent that has survived all these waves of releases is Paige
Paige was signed to WWE and took over the NXT and main roster scene early in her career,
she made a miracle recovery to return with Absolution, but unfortunately went down with
another extremely scary career ending injury
Paige would later return to be the Smackdown GM and then manage Aus-ka and Kyrie Sane
But for Paige’s actual last WWE television appearance, you have to go all the way back
to the first few shows of the pandemic era for WWE in early 2020
So almost two years since she was last used on television, but thankfully she’s technically
part of the company and is still signed
Wrestler Observer also discussed this topic recently and speculated that they can still
be holding onto Paige for special appearances and events since she is still a very big name
And who knows, maybe they can find another non-wrestling TV role to put her in down the
line
So even with Paige no longer being able to wrestle, it’s clear that WWE still sees
a lot value with Paige because they’re not cutting ties with her, despite their massive
budget cuts
hopefully we see paige again down the line in some other role in WWE
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There was another small return teaser dropped by Alexa Bliss following WWE Raw this week
The main event of the night was a big title match in the women’s division between Becky
Lynch and Liv Morgan
Considering that the match was in the main event spot, there were a group of fans wondering
if this could’ve been a good return spot for Alexa Bliss
Have her big return in the closing moments of Raw and go off air like that, but obviously
that didn’t happen, there was no return or interference from Alexa Bliss during that
title match
But Alexa did take to twitter the following morning to post a two worded tweet that said
“just wait”, along with a gif of a woman standing still in the middle of the room while
there’s absolutely chaos happening all around her
So not much was said in the actual tweet itself, but there could be some symbolism there
The “just wait” part of her message obviously being another way of her saying “just wait
until I return”
Then the woman standing still in the gif could symbolize Alexa Bliss herself, here is everything
going on, Liv Morgan and Becky have all the attention, there’s new women’s tag team
champions, all this stuff going on in the women’s division, and it’s like all the
women in the division forgot Alexa even existed
So maybe that’s that’s what the gif signifies, you have all this stuff going on in the division
right now, but just wait until Alexa Bliss is back
As far as Alexa’s return goes itself, it is pretty weird and hard to predict, it’s
almost like the situation The Fiend was going through when he was coming back from his few
hiatuses
How do you bring back a supernatural character the right way and what do you do with them
upon their return?
Last time we saw Alexa Bliss, she was pinned cleanly and lost a world title match, so it
doesn’t really make sense for her to return instantly into the title picture
It especially doesn’t make sense to make Alexa return into the title picture if there’s
no plans for her to win the title
If Alexa has this big return only to be pinned again by Becky cheating and holding the ropes,
it does eliminate some of the hype off that return
That’s why those rumors and theories of Alexa coming back and maybe bringing a tag
team partner with her to fill in that Lilly role, and have them enter the tag team division,
seems like a good possibility
If Alexa returns with an actual Fiend persona, that could be exciting, but at the same time,
it could be very problematic knowing WWE’s creative struggles with supernatural characters,
they really don’t know how to handle them, so that’s the only downside to Alexa returning
with an alter ego
But knowing what Alexa went through during her final appearance at Extreme Rules, it
almost feels like we have to see a changed Alexa
She can’t just pop up with another Lilly doll and pick back up like nothing happened,
some drastic change and payoff has to take place as of result of what we saw go down
at Extreme Rules
This haunted doll was shredded to pieces, consequences and repercussions have to be
coming to the women’s division from Alexa Bliss for what happened to lilly, it’s the
only logical answer for her story at this point
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