So today we’ll be taking a look at some stories regarding Lana, Roman Reigns, and
much more
Let’s start things off with the Lana news, what’s happening there
As it’s been known for several days now, CJ Perry, formally known as Lana in WWE, was
released from the company recently
Lana’s release, and basically everyone else’s release from that entire list all came as
a surprise to everyone
Lana’s husband, Miro, is obviously having a lot of success in AEW right now, but Lana
remained in WWE and really gave it her all to perfect her craft and improve in every
way possible in the ring, which she absolutely did
Lana 2017 vs Lana 2021 in the ring are two completely different people.
She truly put the time in and you can see just how much she improved watching her first
few matches compared to her last few matches in WWE
Natalya has even vouched for Lana in recent interviews as well, saying that instead of
taking time off and going home, Lana would spend hours training with Natalya in their
free time
She was serious about improving and even having a goal of becoming women’s champion
Lana was originally set for a decent push in late 2020, not in the world title picture,
but reports at the time kept mentioning that WWE had big plans for her
Lana going through the tables for 9 weeks straight was part of those weird plans
There’s still some mixed reports on the whole table story, it was apparently supposed
to build an underdog narrative for Lana and get the fans to root for her
But with it happening 9 times straight, reports were also speculating that someone backstage
had to be getting a kick out of it, so that’s why it happened so much
There was a little payoff where Lana had the opportunity to put Nia Jax through a table
and get her revenge
Lana was also the sole survivor at Survivor series, picking up the win for Team Raw
So she had a lot of great moments sprinkled in there
All that was supposed to be topped off with Aus-ka and Lana winning the wwe women’s
tag team titles at TLC
The match was set, the build up was there, they were number one contenders, so what happened
after that?
Well Lana was attacked on Raw by shayna and Nia and was written off with a leg injury
It wasn’t a real injury, just a storyline related injury to pull Lana from that match
The reason why they pulled Lana out was because Charlotte Flair was cleared to return, so
they replaced Lana for Charlotte
Aus-ka and Charlotte would end up actually winning the tag team titles at TLC, stealing
what was supposed to be Lana’s moment
So Charlotte’s Return really derailed Lana’s direction and seemed to have Lana in a state
of limbo and being lost in the shuffle
Lana would disappear for a few months, but would re-emerge by forming a new tag team
with Naomi
Everyone thought that maybe Lana and Naomi would climb their way to being tag team champions,
but that never happened either
Lana and Naomi had a match together on Raw recently and several days later, Lana was
cut
It’s being reported that Lana was allegedly promised that they would still have big plans
and direction for her character after Charlotte’s Return sort of threw everything off the tracks
for her
But now that Lana is gone and if that was actually promised to her, we can now see it
was a lie
Lana never really got anything going after that Charlotte replacement at TLC
There was no standout moments for Lana after that fake leg injury at all, which is very
unfortunate
WWE’s network special of Lana also gave a behind the scenes look at what she was going
through and made fans respect Lana even more and they never really capitalized on the success
of that network special
So what’s next for Lana?
Well the answer is simple, it seems to be the answer for a lot of ex-WWE talent nowadays,
but that answer is AEW
Now it’s a heated debate online in the wrestling community and that’s the question of “is
AEW picking up too much former WWE talent?”
Everyone had their options on that question and it’s been a heated topic recently, especially
with the new signings of Mark Henry and Andrade
But the answer is quite simple when you really think about it
The older talent such as Sting, Paul Wight, and Mark Henry were likely signed since they
are big names in wrestling and bring attention
The younger talent such as Miro, Andrade and others were likely signed because they are
still in their primes of their career and extremely talented at what they do
Miro recently mentioned Lana on AEW as well and a lot of people understood that mention
as him trying to get Lana through the door at AEW
As we’ve been seeing recently, Lana’s passion has become wrestling, so if she wants
to keep that going, what better place then to reunite with Miro on AEW
What do you think Lana’s next move should be?
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Is there a strict rule that WWE has to follow for Roman Reigns’ usage?
That’s what the rumor has been in recent weeks
Obviously we know what Roman Reigns’ character is about and things that he says
His character is very vocal about how he likes to be used on Smackdown
Roman reigns either opens the show or closes the show.
There is no in-between for Roman Reigns
If he’s not featured in the main event segment for Smackdown one week, chances are that he
likely opened up that edition of Smackdown
That seems to be the new unofficial rule when it comes to Roman Reigns
Such as Backlash for example.
Reports claim that the WWE championship match between Bobby Lashley, Drew McIntyre, and
Braun Strowman was all set to close out and main event the Backlash special event
Well according to reports, that’s when someone backstage started pointing out the fact that
Roman Reigns and Cesaro should main event the snow
WWE would eventually make the change and put Roman Reigns back in the main event
And even before backlash, Roman Reigns has always had the main event spot over the WWE
Title
There’s been a few occasions where Roman Reigns didn’t main event the show, such
as TLC where Orton and The Fiend’s inferno match closed the show
But that was obviously a special occasion considering the fact that they wanted to go
off the air with a burning fiend in the ring, so that make sense
But besides those very few occasions, the new Roman Reigns rule seemed to be in full
effect
It looks like from this point on, Roman Reigns won’t be walking out for a segment in the
middle of Smackdown or wrestling in the middle of a pay per view event
Roman Reigns is either going to open the show or close it, that seems to be it
As far as Roman Reigns Smackdown Storyline goes, there seems to be a big update
Some fans were expecting Jimmy to be Roman‘s next challenger, but it now looks like that
guess is wrong
Reports are saying that all signs seem to point to Rey Mysterio as the next challenger
for Roman Reigns
That challenger also makes a lot of sense for Roman Reigns
Rey Mysterio is a legendary superstar that’s also a credible threat to Roman Reigns
Rey Mysterio has done the impossible before and nearly defeated Brock Lesnar for the WWE
title just a few years ago
So he’s definitely credible enough for Roman Reigns
Not to mention that Rey Mysterio has a reason to go after Roman Reigns now after Roman attacked
him and Dominik during the tag team match
Rey Mysterio probably wants to go after Roman Reigns for that brutal attack Roman gave him
and his son
What better way to get back at Roman Reigns then attempting to dethrone him as universal
champion at the same time
So there definitely is a lot of story to touch on there
The list of challenges for Roman Reigns is getting a bit thin after he defeated a long
list of superstars
But Roman May have at least 3 opponents lineup
Rey Mysterio, maybe something with Jimmy down the line, and there’s been some rumors of
John Cena at Summerslam
so the champ could have his hands full here over these next few months
But what are your thoughts on today’s stories?
Do you think Lana was lied to and what are you thoughts on this new apparent Roman Reigns
rule?
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