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Maybe not? Over the last year plus, Roman Reigns has dominated the SmackDown landscape as the Universal Champion. There has been almost no one capable of giving him a serious run for his money and the question became who could actually challenge him for the title. Over that time, there was one name who fans had wanted to see face Reigns, but that might not be the case at the moment.
The Rock has long since been rumored to be the eventual WrestleMania challenger for Reigns, likely at WrestleMania 39 in Los Angeles. During a new interview with Andrew Freund, the Rock said there are currently no plans for a match with Reigns. Rock said that he was very proud of what Reigns and the Usos were doing at the moment, but there is nothing to the idea of the match at the moment. There is however a chance of it down the road.
This could have been something. Check out the interview and some of Rock and Reigns together in WWE:
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His opinion matters. The wrestling world has changed since the rise of AEW and there is nothing to suggest that those changes are going to stop anytime soon. The company has offered the wrestling world a new place to go and that is certainly a good thing. Above all else, it means that leaving WWE is not the end of a wrestler’s mainstream career, which seems to be the case again.
In a new interview with Wade Keller of Pro Wrestling Torch, AEW President Tony Khan spoke about the recent WWE releases. Khan talked about how sad it was to see so many wrestlers being let go from a company and losing their jobs. He also mentioned that in every wave of WWE releases, there are always a few that he is interested in bringing in to AEW. This is the case again with the latest batch of releases, though Khan did not say who he was interested in. Assuming the released wrestlers do not attempt to get out of their no compete clauses, they will be allowed to appear in AEW in 30 or 90 days, depending on t..

Is that a popular opinion? We are on the way to Survivor Series, with less than two weeks to go before this year’s edition. The show will again be focused on a battle between Monday Night Raw and SmackDown for brand supremacy, which has been the case for the last several years. That means there are a few things that need to be covered, but WWE has skipped a few of them. One wrestler does not seem thrilled.
Over the weekend, WWE announced the lineups for the men’s and women’s Survivor Series match. This includes ten men and ten women between the two shows, with nothing leading up to the announcement. SmackDown’s Ricochet responded on Twitter, asking what happened to qualifying matches with a sad emoji. There is no word on if WWE will be holding any qualifying matches for any unannounced matches.
What happened to qualifying matches ?
— Ricochet (@KingRicochet) November 7, 2021
There have been some good ones before. Check out some of the better Survivor Series matches:
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That could have been a lot worse. There have been all kinds of changes to the WWE in recent years and NXT has taken a large share of hits of its own. This has included several wrestlers being released from the company and there is nothing to suggest that those releases are over. It seems that there were almost several more releases than just the ones we saw last week.
Last week, WWE released eighteen wrestlers, with nine of them being from NXT. According to Wrestling Observer Radio, there were ten more NXT wrestlers on the bubble of being released who stuck around. This included wrestlers who are not being used regularly, including Danny Burch and Timothy Thatcher. There is no word on if more releases are coming, or if the wrestlers who stayed are safe at the moment.
There were some very talented wrestlers let go from NXT. Check out some of the people who were released:
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It’s another career. Wrestlers have had hit and miss success with acting. Every now and then you see someone become a star, but those are few and far between. What you might see more of is a wrestler having some minor success while still wrestling at the same time. That seemed to be the case with a current star, but then things took quite the turn for both sides.
Eva Marie was one of the 18 wrestlers released from WWE earlier this week. According to Wrestling Observer Radio, this was partially due to her taking time off to do an acting project not long after she returned. Marie’s age (37 years old), lack of in-ring abilities and lack of getting over with the audience combined with her hiatus led to WWE releasing her. This was Marie’s second run with WWE, after she worked for the company from 2013-2016.
Marie certainly tried when she came back. Check out some of her time in the ring:
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It’s a new way to go. There have been a lot of wrestling stories to pop up over the last few years, but nothing is going to top the rise of AEW. The company has gone from almost nothing to one of the biggest promotions in the world. You almost never see something like this take place and AEW has made some amazing strides in a pretty short time. Now they have done something pretty cool in another sport.
The Buffalo Bills’ Stefon Diggs wore special AEW cleats during the pregame warmups of the Bills’ game vs. the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday afternoon. The cleats were gold with the AEW logo appearing on the side. AEW President Tony Khan is also the Chief Football Strategy Office for the Jaguars and Jaguars cheerleaders have appeared on Dynamite before. It is not clear where Diggs got the cleats or if he had them specially made.
With the @BuffaloBills in Jacksonville today what more fitting pair for my man @stefondiggs to rock for pregame than some @AEW cleats? pic.twitter.com/nknKhSpe..

They might want to work on that. There are a lot of problems in WWE today, including several situations that the company brings on itself. When you look at them overall though, it seems that one of the biggest underlying issues is communication, as it often seems like one side does not know what the other is doing. That seems to be the case again with something fairly important.
According to Fightful, WWE did not tell the majority of the teams that were being split up in last month’s WWE Draft. Only AJ Styles and Omos were told that they would be sticking together, with some of the teams who were being split up only learning about the change via social media. There is no word on why WWE did not let the teams know of the upcoming changes in advance.
There were some good teams split in the Draft. Check out some of them in action:
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He’s good at something else. There were all kinds of wrestlers released from the WWE this week and there is a lot of talent heading to the free agent market. It opens up some interesting options, as you never know where some of these wrestlers might wind up. One wrestler who was released earlier this week has already moved on to something else, and he has even picked up a championship.
Lince Dorado was one of the wrestlers released from WWE earlier this week. According to Fightful, Dorado won a gold medal at the Jiu-Jitsu World League Florida Open on Saturday, though it is not known what division he competed in. Dorado tweeted out a clip of one of his matches on Twitter, saying his goal was to win at all costs and thanking his friends and family for always pushing him.
This was pretty impressive. Check out Dorado on Saturday and in a ring:
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What could have been. WWE did it again earlier this week as they released nearly twenty more wrestlers from the company. That is not the kind of thing that you can bounce back from in a hurry and it is not clear where a lot of those wrestlers are going to go. What is clear is that WWE had to change a few plans, and now we know what was going to happen to some of the wrestlers before they were let go.
Fightful Select is reporting what was planned for some of the released wrestlers before they were let go by WWE:
Katrina Cortez was brought up to Monday Night Raw in 2019 as Sin Cara’s partner in a few losses to Zelina Vega and Andrade. Once the program was over, Cortez was sent back to NXT where there were no plans to do anything else with her.
Scarlett was originally scheduled to be called up to the main roster to wrestle, but was “quickly sidelined” for reasons that are not clear. There had been pushed to pair her with Karrion Kross, though it is unknown if WWE was going to do so. Kr..

Who are you again? There are a lot of ways for a wrestler to get the fans’ attention but some of them are a bit simpler than others. One of the best is to have a name that is unique enough to make someone listen while also sounding like something that could be intimidating. That is a hard combination to pull off and now WWE is trying a different path with two of its wrestlers.
WWE has changed the names of Humberto Carrillo and Angel Garza to just Humberto and Angel, according to both of their WWE.com profiles. This follows WWE’s trend of dropping wrestlers’ first or last names, such as with Cesaro, Big E. and Ali. There is no word on why the names were changed, though the two have been teaming together, under the name Los Lotharios as of this week’s SmackDown.
They are talented guys under any name. Check out the two of them together and apart:
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That’s a serious problem. This week’s WWE releases shook up the company all over again and there are a lot of wrestlers now getting ready to look for work. That is not the kind of thing that a lot of people expected to happen and it can have some pretty rough ramifications on several wrestlers. It turns out that one of them has a unique problem to deal with after being released.
Katrina Cortez was one of the wrestlers released from the company on Thursday. Cortez is originally from Chile and is not an American citizen. Now that she has been released from her WWE contract, she has announced that her work visa expires in thirty days, meaning that she will be forced to leave the country. Cortez debuted for WWE in 2019 and has mainly been used on NXT.
At 18 I made the decision to travel to an unknown country, without knowing English I came here… today I receive an email telling me that my visa expires next month and I will have to sell everything that with much love and effort I have ach..

NXT UK
Date: November 4, 2021
Location: BT Sports Studios, London, England
Commentators: Nigel McGuinness, Andy Shepherd
It’s another title week around here as Jinny is getting a Women’s Title shot against Meiko Satomura. I know she might not be the flashiest, but there is something special about seeing Satomura get in the ring. She really is a legend and it will be nice to see her defend the title again. Let’s get to it.
We open with a quick look at the Women’s Title match.
Opening sequence.
Rampage Brown vs. Flash Morgan Webster This is part of Webster trying to go after the monsters on the show. Brown powers him around to start and doesn’t seem to be sweating Webster that much so far. There’s another toss into the corner so it’s time for Webster to get a breather. Back in and Webster strikes away in the corner to little avail but he manages to send Brown outside for a change.
Brown gets back in and hits something like a belly to belly, followed by a toss suplex to send Webster ..