It’s been a hectic and rumor full week for the WWE, so we’ll go over the last news
there.
We’ll also check out the latest from Roman Reigns and Sami Zayn’s story, and more
Let’s start things off with the latest updates on the status of WWE
This all started with the January 6th return to the WWE from Vince McMahon
Wall Street Journal broke the story and they even revealed right from the start that Vince
McMahon’s main goal during his return to the company was to fully sell the company
by some point in mid to late 2023
Then fast forward a few days later and Stephanie McMahon announced that she was stepping down
from her role as Co-CEO
Stephanie McMahon was given this new position of being the Co-CEO in summer 2022 following
the retirement of Vince McMahon
But before Vince McMahon’s retirement, Stephanie did say that she was taking some time away
from WWE just to be home and spend time with the family
So her little hiatus away from WWE had to be cancelled due to the circumstances that
surrounded Vince McMahon’s retirement and how someone was needed to take that spot
So it looks like now with Vince McMahon being somewhat back in the fold, it looks like Stephanie
McMahon is once again trying to take that hiatus away from the company
Some fans were still looking deep into Stephanie’s announcement, wondering if there was a disagreement
or something else that led to her stepping down, but nothing else has been reported so
far
Stephanie McMahon also revealed that she just had ankle surgery as well, so she’ll also
be recovering from that procedure during her time off
And after the news of Stephanie McMahon stepping away settled down, more rumors of WWE being
sold starting spreading like wild fire on Twitter
It all started when the usual wrestling journalists were all hinting at something big that just
went down
But like a lot of fans pointed out, journalists in other sports just give you the news and
drop the story right away
But in the wrestling journalist industry, they all tease the story with series of weird
and cryptic tweets and it takes forever for them to actually report the story
But the word about what they were all cryptically tweeting on eventually got out, the story
was on how WWE had allegedly been sold to Saudi Arabia, how the company was going back
to being private, and so much more other details
Even the usually reliable sources were all reporting this rumor and it seem real for
a while there
But by the time the next morning rolled around, it turned out that WWE had not been sold to
Saudi Arabia yet and how they were still shopping around and looking at all possible offers
One of the other big potential landing spots for WWE is Disney as well
Disney is reportedly one of the top organizations that could purchase WWE and place the company
under their umbrella
So there’s a lot of potential buyers, but nothing has been inked down quite yet
The reports still claim that the company will most likely be sold sometime in 2023
It was also reported that Triple H held a talent meeting before the January 13th edition
of Smackdown
With all the growing purchase rumors and news of Vince McMahon’s return to the company,
there was a lot of uncertainty amongst the fans and even the talent themselves
According to Fightful, Triple H told the talent that the creative procedure from over the
last few months will not be changing
He said that he may have creative conversations with Vince McMahon about certain creative
related things, but how Vince McMahon is still leaving Triple H with the final say for all
things related to WWE creative
So at least for the time being, nothing appears to be changing from the creative perspective
When Vince McMahon first came back, he stated in the press release that he had no intentions
to get involved with the management teams and Triple H reinforced that same news to
the talent
It looks like Vince McMahon will be willing to lend an ear and give Triple H some advice
and thoughts about WWE creative, but everything is still Triple H’s call to make
So that’s the latest for the timing being
The next big change to the WWE could take place after the purchase and depending on
who the new owners turn out to be
There was even reports that Tony Khan and the Khan family were even keeping a close
eye on the situation of WWE being up for sale
Some reports said that they would like to merge both rosters from AEW and WWE
There were lots of mixed fan reactions to that report as well
So we’ll have to see what happens next with this situation of WWE being up for sale and
which company will make that massive purchase
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Now let’s get into everything new with the Sami Zayn and Roman Reigns storyline
This story picked back up with Sami Zayn once again approaching the Bloodline’s locker-room
He’s greeted by Paul Heyman who comes out of the room
Sami wants to go in and talk about strategy for the main event later on in the night with
the guys
But that’s when Paul Heyman drops a bombshell on Sami Zayn
Heyman reveals that none of the Bloodline members are backstage at Smackdown
And then we get right back into Roman and Heyman’s manipulation and mind games with
Sami Zayn
Heyman says that if they had Sami Zayn go out to the ring with the rest of the Bloodline
members, it’ll look like they’re doubting Sami’s ability to take care of Kevin Owens
on his own
So out of love and belief in Sami, they wanted him to go out to the ring and handle Kevin
Owens on his own
So again, just seems like that’s not the entire truth there
It looks like Roman held the bloodline members back from walking out with Sami because he
really wants to see how Sami handles Kevin Owens on his own
He doesn’t want the other Bloodline members to do all the heavy work on Kevin Owens, he
wants Sami to do everything to see what he does and how he treats Kevin Owens during
that match
Which Roman could be all doing to possibly get more intel on where Sami’s loyalty stands
Sami and Kevin Owens then meet backstage before their match
Kevin tries telling Sami Zayn that Roman and The Bloodline are just using him, and how
Roman is now literally taking days off of work while Sami handles his dirty work for
him
Sami argues that it’s a family bond and Kevin Owens is just jealous and should’ve
stayed on Raw
That gets us to the main event, Sami Zayn is seconds away from picking up the win on
Kevin Owens when all of a sudden, The Bloodline members appear from the crowd and beat down
Kevin Owens
Which of course causes a disqualification and technically gives the win to Kevin Owens
And a lot of fans are confused on why The Bloodline would interfere with the results
of this match especially if it was a big test for Sami Zayn
It’s not like Sami was about to lose when they jumped in, Sami was actually well in
control of the match, so why jump in at that time?
Well fans feel like that last second interference could’ve been another small test for Sami
Zayn
Maybe Roman wanted to see what Sami’s reaction would be towards his win being pulled from
him and witnessing an unexpected beatdown of Kevin Owens first hand
Sami Zayn did calmly confront The Usos on why they interfered when he was handling his
business, but The Usos were all smiles and said that they did it for him
So it’s a tough spot for Sami Zayn right now because obviously something is being hidden
from him
He has every Bloodline member lying and smiling in his face when clearly something bigger
has to be going on
So now the next thing we’ll have to wait on is Roman’s reaction and explanation for
what happened there in the closing moments of that Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens match
But what are your thoughts on today’s stories?
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