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UFC 276: Israel Adesanya does Undertaker entrance, McMahons in attendance

Posted on July 3, 2022 by Josh Nason

With WWE at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Garden Arena for Saturday’s Money in the Bank, there was some crossover at UFC 276, also in Las Vegas Saturday, both in the main event and several noted attendees.

As part of his entrance at the T-Mobile Arena, UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya channeled The Undertaker — complete with entrance music, hat, fog, and an urn. He even raised his arms to brighten the arena lights at the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWusg4MR1EE

Adesanya is a noted WWE fan and has talked about wanting to wrestle there in the past. Adesanya successfully defended his title, taking a unanimous decision over Jared Cannonier in the main event.

An even bigger WWE presence was shown on air during the pay-per-view as Vince McMahon, Stephanie McMahon, Paul “Triple H” Levesque, and Pat McAfee were all shown at cageside (image above).

Vince, a noted friend of UFC president Dana White, is currently under investigation by a special committee of the WWE Board for misconduct. Stephanie is interim WWE CEO & Chairwoman after Vince voluntarily stepped down as the investigation takes place.

He still remains active as head of creative and has been notably more visible since news of the alleged misconduct broke last month.

McAfee was sporting a neck brace to sell his attack from Happy Corbin after Money in the Bank ended.

Figure Four Weekly: Looking at WWE’s promise of change

Posted on December 27, 2018 by F4W Staff

After promising change, the challenge for WWE going forward is to make a real commitment to that instead of having it be a short-term ratings fix.

Those vague promises of change were made during the opening segment of last Monday’s episode of Raw. Following two straight weeks of record-low ratings — with the first of them even being brought up on WWE television as Seth Rollins said Baron Corbin was the reason for the ratings dip — it was advertised that Vince McMahon would return to “shake things up.” Vince appeared and brought out Stephanie McMahon, Triple H, and Shane McMahon. WWE oddly blurred the lines between kayfabe and reality, with the McMahons also blaming Raw’s issues on Corbin. Stephanie admitted that WWE hasn’t been doing a very good job for the fans lately and said they haven’t been listening to their audience. In storyline, that was blamed on “absentee management” — and it was stated that those days are over. WWE said they would be empowering their wrestlers and fans, giving them what they want, and that new faces and matchups would be coming in the weeks and months ahead.

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WWE Raw video highlights: The McMahons return

Posted on December 18, 2018 by Joseph Currier

After advertising that things would be shaken up, Vince McMahon, Stephanie McMahon, Triple H, and Shane McMahon appeared on Raw last night and promised that change is coming.

Stephanie admitted that they haven’t done a very good job for the fans lately. With Baron Corbin no longer general manager of Raw, the McMahons are “taking back” the show in storyline and will be in charge of SmackDown as well. They hyped that there would be new wrestlers and matchups in the coming weeks and months.

Significant changes weren’t apparent on last night’s episode. It was announced that — along with Lars Sullivan — EC3, Lacey Evans, Heavy Machinery (Tucker Knight & Otis Dozovic), and Nikki Cross will be coming up from NXT, and Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn will be returning soon.

To close the episode, an eight-woman gauntlet match set up a Raw Women’s Championship match for next week.