Some very unfortunate news just came out regarding Bray Wyatt, so we’ll see what’s going
on there.
We’ll also check out what’s new for Rhea Ripley, Liv Morgan, and much more
Let’s start things off with the latest for Rhea Ripley
Rhea has just surpassed 100 days as WWE world women’s champion and everything has been
going great for her so far
She’s obviously a great talent and great champion, the only real ongoing criticism
that the fans really have about her title reign is that they want more feuds and more
titles defenses, which is something that obviously isn’t Rhea’s fault, she’s not the one
that books the show
But that appears to be the fan’s biggest compliant right now with the title reign,
they just wanna see more high profile feuds and title defenses there for Rhea Ripley
Over those 100 days Rhea Ripley has basically just feuded with Zelina Vega and Natalya
The feud with Natalya started off a bit strange because it was two squash matches, but the
third one surprised everyone with how intense and hard hitting that match turned out to
be, so it definitely ended on a big high note there for Natalya versus Rhea Ripley
And that final match between Natalya and Rhea looks like it also connected Rhea Ripley to
her next feud
After Rhea Ripley successfully defended against Natalya, she tried to give Natalya a post
match beatdown, but out came the women’s tag team champions, Liv Morgan and Raquel
Rodriguez, to save the day, and that made Rhea retreat
Well the July 10th edition of Raw appeared to continue the tension between Rhea Ripley
and the women’s tag team champions
Rhea approached Liv and Raquel, telling them to both stay out of her business
Rhea was of course referring to the week prior where Liv and Raquel came out to save Natalya
from that post match attack
It’s been reported that Rhea Ripley’s Summerslam opponent will allegedly be Raquel
Rodriguez
And according to Rhea and Raquel’s run-ins with each other over the last few weeks, that
appears to be on its way of happening, it looks like it really will be Raquel Rodriguez
versus Rhea Ripley at Summerslam for the world women’s title after all
That potential matchup is exciting because Rhea and Raquel have had plenty of iconic
matches in NXT and the two of them are close friends in real life, so putting them together
for a match at one of the biggest shows of the year could be a great move
The only real story obstacle here is that Raquel is still tag team champions with Liv
Morgan
We usually don’t see a current tag team champion get a big singles match for another
world title, that is pretty rare to see
So it’ll be interesting to see how that factor works into the entire story
Liv and Raquel will defend their titles on Raw against Chelsea Green and Sonya Deville,
so maybe they’ll also use this match to further progress the Raquel versus Rhea feud
Maybe it looks like Liv and Raquel are gonna successfully retain their titles, but maybe
Rhea Ripley gets involved and costs Liv and Raquel their titles
Liv and Raquel got into Rhea’s business with Natalya, so Rhea returns the favor in
an even more devastating way of assisting Chelsea and Sonya in winning the tag titles
from Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez
And that does seem like a possibility that’ll really give Raquel a great reason to come
after Rhea Ripley
Rhea costed them their titles, so now Raquel is gonna stand up and try to take away Rhea’s
title at Summerslam
So it’s most likely gonna be Rhea Ripley versus Raquel, but it’ll also be interesting
to see what Liv Morgan’s role will be in this feud
Liv Morgan has rich history with both women
She spent a lot of time in a tag team with Rhea Ripley before The Judgment Day came around,
and she has won multiple tag team titles with Raquel
so Liv knows both of them very well and it’ll be interesting to see what happens there with
Liv Morgan and how she’ll play a role during this match at Summerslam
If Raquel is unable to defeat Rhea Ripley at Summerslam, or Liv accidentally costs Raquel
the match… will their relationship with each other be able to overcome that big defeat
as well?
Raquel versus Rhea definitely looks like it’s shaping up to be the major feud that the fans
have been waiting for from Rhea Ripley’s reign, so that should be very exciting to
watch unfold
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Bray Wyatt’s long hiatus is quickly approaching month number six and not much news has been
coming out
Fans were hopeful that Summerslam season could be a good spot for his long awaited return,
but some unfortunate news just dropped that has fans worried that a Summerslam season
return may be off the table
Fightful is reporting that as of the second week of July 2023, Bray Wyatt is still allegedly
not medically cleared to compete inside the WWE ring
So he hasn’t been medically cleared to competing in the ring since early February and is reportedly
in that same exact state all these months later
It’s currently unknown if any actual progress has been made in his recovery process or if
he’s literally in the same state he was in back in February, that part is a big mystery
itself
So it’s definitely unfortunate to hear reports like that, but fans are still hopeful that
he can cleared and return sometime in the future
And speaking of Bray Wyatt, The Undertaker recently went viral for sharing his thoughts
on how he feels WWE should book Bray Wyatt going forward in the company
Undertaker had this to say about Bray Wyatt’s character direction while speaking with Metro,
quote:
“They need to back Bray’s character up to the original character, get away from – they’ve
kind of got themselves booked into a situation where it’s kind of difficult for him to
have matches.
I think the original Wyatt Family Bray, that’s the money.
I got to work with Bray at ‘Mania the year after I got concussed in the Brock match.
I worked with Bray – I think a lot of him, and I like what he’s doing.
I think they just have to figure out how to… they need to back it up I think.
His promos, and then his ability to work – he’s an incredible, incredible worker but he’s
not getting the opportunity to do it.
I hope the best for him, I really do think a lot of him.
We’ll see what happens there.”
End quote
So that’s Undertaker’s thoughts on Bray Wyatt’s current usage
He’s saying that Bray got the abilities both in the ring and on the mic, it just appears
to be his new character that’s causing a lot of the disconnection and issues in Undertaker’s
eyes
And Undertaker does have a fair point, a character like The Fiend was obviously a major hit and
quickly became one of the hottest things in pro wrestling when it first appeared, but
since the character was portrayed to be this super-human monster, it’s a bit difficult
to write that sort of character into storylines and wrestling matches because if you’re
gonna present it as this monster and creature, he obviously can’t lose any matches to regular
humans
And that’s why the Fiend started to get off track a bit
So Undertaker doesn’t appear to be a fan of Bray Wyatt’s monstrous alter egos and
masked characters, he thinks they’re difficult to book
Taker believes that Bray Wyatt’s money-making perfect gimmick is his original character,
the eater of world Bray Wyatt, also known as Buzzards Bray Wyatt
So despite there being no solid updates on Bray Wyatt’s status, there’s still a lot
of theories and conversation being had about him, so hopefully we get to see him back in
a WWE ring real soon
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