There appears to be some more seeds being planted for another potential meeting between
Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns down the line, so we’ll see what’s going on there.
We’ll also check out what’s going on with Charlotte Flair, Dominik Mysterio, and more
Let’s start things off with Charlotte Flair
Charlotte has been a key part of WWE programming for nearly a decade now
And everyone just saw the absolute instant classic match that she had with Rhea Ripley
at Wrestlemania 39
So there’s no denying how big of a role she plays in WWE
But reports are now claiming that WWE may be without Charlotte Flair for a long time
as she takes a break away from the company
Charlotte Flair missed the entire second half of 2022 with a WWE hiatus
She got married during that hiatus and went through some other difficult times as well,
but she finally returned on the last episode of Smackdown in 2022
Charlotte’s return was massive because she instantly dethroned Ronda Rousey for the Smackdown
women’s title and would go onto hold the title for the entire road to Wrestlemania
And like we saw at Wrestlemania 39, her title reign came to an end as she passed the torch
and the title to the young and upcoming Rhea Ripley
So reports are claiming that Charlotte Flair is back on hiatus and informed the company
about her break shortly after Wrestlemania
There’s no time table for this Charlotte Flair hiatus, maybe it’s as long as her
2022 one, maybe it’s a bit shorter, but there’s just no information out there on
it’s length right now
But it’s safe to assume that maybe she’ll be out of action for a few months and maybe
a show like Summerslam could be a spot for Charlotte’s return
It’s WWE’s second biggest event of the year and it often includes several big returns
and surprises
As a matter of fact, the last three Summerslams have all featured some big returns
2020 featured Roman Reigns’ return, 2021 featured Brock Lesnar and Becky Lynch, and
2022 featured Bayley and Damage Control
So it’s starting to become this little yearly traditional for us to see some major returns
at Summerslam, so that’s definitely a potential spot for Charlotte’s return
But for the time being, the Smackdown women’s division will be led by its new champion Rhea
Ripley
It’s not Rhea Ripley’s first world title reign by any means, but Rhea currently has
the most momentum she ever had, so a lot of fans are hyped to see what this reign turns
out to look like for her
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It’s no secret that Dominik Mysterio has truly been a big breakout star for WWE
He had his initial run by being by his father’s side, then he started teaming up with his
father, and then he had the big heel turning moment of joining The Judgment Day
Then once WWE started having those moments of having Dominik and Rhea attack Rey Mysterio,
and especially after Dominik’s arrest, his character and charisma just went to another
level and of course led us to the version of Dominik Mysterio that we see today
And according to the latest new reports on Dominik, they claim that all of the WWE high
ups are allegedly extremely high on Dominik Mysterio and how there’s lot of big plans
in store for him on WWE television
And just a few days after that report came out, there appeared to be some major hints
of what some of those big plans could be
Dominik Mysterio appears to be preparing to do something in the ring with Bad Bunny at
Backlash
This all started when Bad Bunny ripped that weapon out of Dominik’s hand at Wrestlemania
to make sure he didn’t cheat against Rey Mysterio
Then a few nights later on Raw, we saw Dominik Mysterio confront Bad Bunny and get in his
face about that Wrestlemania moment
Which also led to Damian Priest choke-slamming Bad Bunny through the commentary table
And of course Bad Bunny and Damian Priest have so much history together in WWE dating
back to 2021
Damian Priest was the one who took Bad Bunny under his wing and even teamed up with him
at Wrestlemania 37
But things are obviously different now with Damian Priest now being a member of the Judgment
Day and Bad Bunny being an ally to Rey Mysterio
So a lot of fans believe that the route WWE is teasing here is Rey Mysterio and Bad Bunny
versus Damian Priest and Dominik Mysterio at Backlash in a tag team match
Bad Bunny will already be at that event as the host, but put him inside the ring in front
of his hometown and it should be even more electric in there
So that appears to be what we could see there at Backlash
As far as the other Judgment Day members, a lot of fans are pushing to see Rhea Ripley
defend her title against Zelina Vega at Backlash
Zelina Vega is Puerto Rican, so fans think it’ll really be a special moment for her
if she has that title match with Rhea Ripley take place at Puerto Rico during Backlash
And it sort of makes sense for that match up to happen because Judgment Day already
has issues with L.W.O. and Rey Mysterio, so it sort of works out perfectly if Zelina steps
up to challenge Rhea
Finn Balor also spoke about Edge on the Smackdown after Wrestlemania and fans are begging and
hoping that their feud doesn’t continue
It’s been nearly one full calendar year of the feud between Finn Balor and Edge and
everyone thought the Hell In a Cell match was the finale, so if Edge and Finn’s feud
still continues after that, a lot of fans will start to grow tired of this story
Especially considering how Edge has said several times that he wants to retire in Summer 2023,
it would be nice to see him mix things up with some new opponents instead of facing
Finn Balor till the end of time, so that’s something that fans are paying close attention
to as well
But even more big moments and matches are on the way for The Judgment Day
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Now let’s get back into one of the unfinished stories from Roman’s title reign
The first big unfinished story is of course Roman’s issues with Jey and that tension
there
But the other unfinished story that Roman has is with Seth Rollins
They met at Royal Rumble 2022, had a great feud of Seth Rollins successfully getting
into Roman’s head by using their shield memories together, but the match ended in
disqualification
So when you go back and look at the list of everyone Roman has overcame during this title
reign, there’s an asterisk next to Seth Rollins’ name because Roman didn’t technically
defeat him
It was a disqualification finish that saw neither man pick up the win over each other
But the story never continued, Roman would go onto continue his story with Brock Lesnar
later that same night, and him and Seth never crossed paths again after that
But if you’ve been paying close attention to Roman and Seth on social media and some
of their comments about each other in multiple interviews, it definitely seems like the both
of them are planting serious seeds for another meeting between the both of them inside the
ring sometime in the near future
It’s even more interesting that they were both recently asked to name their biggest
Wrestlemania 40 dream opponent and they both actually picked each other
Roman Reigns had this to say during an interview with ESPN when he was asked to name his dream
opponent for next year, quote:
"I think Seth is a good answer.
We have a lot of open-ended history.
I think there's a lot of competitive brotherhood there.
There is an estranged love due to our past history.
There's always been - and this is just Seth - an underlying friction to where we can easily
butt heads.”
End quote
And Seth Rollins had this to say about his dream opponent for next year’s Wrestlemania,
quote:
"There's a few of them out there, man.
I mean, realistically, Roman Reigns is someone that I have only wrestled on pay per view
and singles matches twice.
Yeah, and you look at a lot of the other, say long term rivalries, you know, Rock [and]
Austin, they did three mania matches themselves, three of them, two of the main events I think.
You look at Cena and Orton and they had a million.”
End quote
So depending on if The Rock isn’t again, depending on the direction they take Cody
Rhodes in…
Seth Rollins versus Roman Reigns may be a perfect Wrestlemania 40 main event
Roman will be around 1300 days as champion by that point, approaching four years as champion
and he only faced Seth one time during those four years and it of course featured that
disqualification finish
So it’ll still feel like a fresh matchup between two top superstars that have a lot
of history together
And not to mention that Seth Rollins is one of the very few names left that seem like
a realistic threat to end Roman’s title reign
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