WWE: Tyson Fury Reportedly in Talks for Return, Alexa Bliss on Her Dark Persona, Next NXT Tour

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Jul 6, 2022

Tyson Fury Reportedly in Talks with WWE for Summer Return

Professional boxer Tyson Fury reportedly has been in talks with WWE over a potential summer return, according to GiveMeSport.com.

It was reported that their sources stated that Fury recently held talks with WWE officials about a potential return for him to the company at some point during this summer. These same sources also stated that no plans have been made official yet and it is currently not known what capacity Fury would be returning in.

It was also reported that Fury’s return likely would tie into the company’s upcoming Clash at the Castle event on September 3rd in Cardiff, Wales.

Fury last appeared for WWE at their November 8, 2019 episode of Friday Night SmackDown and last competed for the company at their Crown Jewel 2019 event in October of 2019.

Alexa Bliss Comments on Working with Bray Wyatt Being the Most Fun Time of Her Career

A recent episode of the Out of Character with Ryan Satin podcast had Alexa Bliss as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Bliss’ thoughts about her time working together with former WWE talent Bray Wyatt.

“Working with The Fiend, with Windham [Bray Wyatt], was the most fun I’ve ever had in my entire WWE career. He is so brilliant with his creativity and he puts so much effort into his character and so much research. It made me want to step my game up, 100%, being like, ‘He put this much thought into his character, I need to put twice as much thought into mine.’ When you step into someone else’s kind of gimmick, you don’t want to bring it down, you only want to elevate it. I put so much effort into that and protecting the character and protecting when we did the Firefly Fun House and it was so fun. It’s very sad that we don’t work together anymore because it was so much fun and I think the WWE Universe saw how much fun we were having.”

Bliss also gave her thoughts about the amount of research she did in order for her dark persona character to stay true to her vision and concept of The Fiend.

“I jumped fully in. The amount of cult documentaries and different scary movies and things I would watch. For me, I wanted to have my character have an identity crisis. With that, that’s why I reverted to a child’s mentality because for me, personally, when I had my eating disorders, it was a traumatic thing for me and my brain went back to a child-like defense mechanism. I kind of took part of that into my character. I remember thinking, ‘what do I like watching as a child? I like watching The Big Comfy Couch.’ I got the concept of Lilly from the girl from the Comfy Couch, her doll Molly. I took a lot of childhood things that I loved and brought that into the character and also took part of the movie Orphan where the girl is 30 posing as a child and took that into the character as well. There are a lot of things of my real interests and real things as a child that I actually brought into the dark Alexa character.”

Bliss also gave her thoughts about how she wanted to continue with her dark persona character following her split with The Fiend after WWE’s WrestleMania 37 event last year.

“When The Fiend and I got separated, it was, ‘How do I transition this character to make it different than what it was with The Fiend?’ I don’t know if that came across as well, but I really tried to make it different while also protecting what The Fiend and I had built with our dynamic. For me, it was a lot of research and working with my acting coach, especially for the therapy, it was a lot of working with things in my past that caused me trauma and bringing that out in therapy sessions, that’s why when they bring out Lilly, I looked at Lilly like it was my pig Larry and remember thinking, I had to watch Larry pass, so when the therapist brought out Lilly, I envisioned Larry and if Larry came back to life, what would I say to him? That was a lot of research and effort and things that go into the character that people may or may not realize or understand that we put so much work into.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

WWE Announces Next Live Events Tour for NXT for August & September

During Tuesday’s episode of NXT 2.0, WWE announced the full schedule of upcoming house show events for their NXT 2.0 brand for the months of August and September in Florida.