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Report: Bray Wyatt ‘closer’ to making WWE return

Posted on by Ian Carey

Bray Wyatt could be nearing a return to WWE. 

The 36-year-old has been out of action since late February with an undisclosed illness. However, according to a report from Fightful Select, Wyatt is “closer” to being medically cleared. 

WWE and Wyatt are reportedly being extra cautious regarding his condition and long term health. 

“After today’s update, it was explained to Fightful that the illness that Bray Wyatt is actively recovering from was both career and life threatening,” Sean Ross Sapp later posted to Twitter. 

Regarding a potential timeline for Wyatt’s return, one source noted to Fightful that creative pitches have been made that would see him back on WWE programming next month, although this is dependent on him being medically cleared. 

Wyatt returned to the promotion at Extreme Rules last October following a series of QR codes being shown on WWE programming in the weeks leading up to the show. The codes linked to a WWE website with various imagery that teased his return. 

Wyatt hasn’t wrestled on WWE programming since defeating LA Knight in the Mountain Dew Pitch Black match at the Royal Rumble. He hasn’t wrestled at all since a 2/26 house show event in Rockford, Illinois. 

 

Wrestling Observer Radio: UFC class action lawsuit and WWE tie-in, AEW and NXT, ratings, G-1 update

Posted on by Bryan Alvarez

Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer is back with tons to talk about including the UFC class action lawsuit with tons of details on how it also could apply to WWE, G-1 update with latest standings, ratings, CMLL Anniversary Show line-up, plus AEW and NXT TV reviews and more. A fun show as always so check it out~!

Timestamps:

Start: UFC antitrust lawsuit update and how it may apply to WWE

20:00: G1 updates

32:17: Ratings

40:42: CMLL Anniversary show lineup

44:19: All In ticket sales update, AEW Dynamite recap

1:02:26: WWE NXT recap

1:13:52: AEW Rampage spoilers

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Logan Paul praises Ricochet & Samantha Irvin following WWE SummerSlam

Posted on by Ian Carey

Logan Paul had some kind words to say regarding Ricochet and Samantha Irvin on his podcast. 

The 28-year-old was sporting a black eye as he spoke about his SummerSlam experience on Tuesday’s edition of Impaulsive. Paul said he received the injury after getting kicked in the face early in the match. 

“SummerSlam was fun,” Paul said. “I was really tired in there, I was exhausted for some reason and especially trying to focus on the match and perform while I’m tired and also knowing the weight of the night ahead because that wasn’t even the most exciting part of the night for me. We got a f—in flight to Dallas to get to. I literally exited the ring still sweating, huffing, and puffing into the SUV onto the jet to Dallas. Made it with time to spare. It was a night to remember.”

Paul continued to talk about Irvin providing one of the most viral moments from their match when she announced him as the winner. 

“I think we got the most viewed social clip as well. Well, not ‘we’, well, I was in it. Samantha Irvin, the ring announcer, who was my opponent’s fiance. I was kind of taunting her beforehand. I was like, ‘You know you’re gonna be saying Logan Paul’s the winner after I beat your man.’ And there’s a video of her announcing me winning the match after, ‘And your winner is Logan Paul!’ And she has just a look of torture and sadness, despair on her face but it’s still delivering that energy of a ring announcer and I think that clip got like 30 million plus views or so.”

“People really responded to our match,” Paul continued. “Ricochet is so good, the guy’s so good. He made it easy to look good. It was a fun match and I’m interested to see how this conversation continues in my WWE career story arc with this boxing weaving in. I want to hop back and forth, I don’t know if it’s ever been done.”

Paul is scheduled to face MMA fighter Dillon Danis in a boxing bout on October 14 in Manchester. It will be his first fight since going eight rounds with Floyd Mayweather in an unscored exhibition bout on June 6, 2021. 

Paul recently said he was close to fighting Nate Diaz but things fell apart after WWE got involved. 

WWE shortens Mustafa Ali’s name

Posted on by Bryan Rose

Mustafa Ali is the latest to have his name shortened.

WWE.com updated Mustafa Ali’s bio page this afternoon, shortening his name to just Ali. Any mention of his former first name has been dropped, so it is likely going forward he will only be going by his last name.

He had returned recently on television after being out a few weeks last month due to a concussion. As fate would have it, his injury actually was the catalyst for Kofi Kingston to enter the main event scene on SmackDown. He replaced Ali as part of a gauntlet match to determine who would enter last in the Elimination Chamber. Although he didn’t win the match, nor did he win in the actual Elimination Chamber itself, his performances connected with the crowd.

Ali is not the first to have his name changed once he was brought up to SmackDown. Otis (Dozovic), Tucker (Knight), (Luke) Harper, (Erik) Rowan and Andrade (Cien Almas) also had longer names before they were shortened.