WWE: Sasha Banks on Career Future, Current Plans for Roman Reigns, Johnny Gargano

Sasha Banks Comments on Future of Her Wrestling & Entertainment Careers

A recent episode of the Ahch-To Radio 99 show had Sasha Banks as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Banks thoughts on the future of her careers in the wrestling and entertainment businesses.

“There is so much that I’m creating right now. It’s all under an umbrella. I’m an actor, writer, producer, and extraordinaire entertainer. All within those realms, I’m doing something. You just have to stay tuned. You have a microphone, that’s something big I want to do. Not podcasting, but music. I don’t know if that’s the number one next thing because acting…there are a lot of things coming up acting right now. I’m really starting to focus my mind around music and the music realm and being kind of a director in that space of creating a musical video piece.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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WWE’s Current Plans for Roman Reigns & Undisputed WWE Universal Championship

WWE officials reportedly currently do not have any plans for Roman Reigns to compete nor defend his Undisputed WWE Universal Championship at next month’s Extreme Rules 2022 event, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

Dave Meltzer reported that his sources stated that WWE officials current plans are for Reigns’ next title defense to take place at their next event in Saudi Arabia this November. In regards to potential opponents, those same sources also stated that neither Kevin Owens nor Seth Rollins have been considered as potential choices for Reigns’ match.

Meltzer speculated that WWE officials likely are considering either Drew McIntyre or Karrion Kross as the potential opponent for this match. Meltzer also speculated that WWE could also end up picking someone on the level of a Goldberg or Lesnar for a past WWE star name as a potential option as well.

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Johnny Gargano Comments on If He Considered Retiring from Wrestling During His Free Agency

A recent episode of the After The Bell with Corey Graves podcast had Johnny Gargano as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Gargano’s thoughts about his upcoming in-ring return at this Monday’s RAW show in Portland, Oregon.

“Hopefully, I remember how to do this [Gargano laughed]. To be fair, and I — when I was gone, I hadn’t stepped in a ring at all. I made it a point to not get in a ring, just because I wanted a complete mental break of all of this. I didn’t wanna think about wrestling, I didn’t wanna do wrestling, I didn’t wanna do any of that. I knew it’d be better for me in the long run to kind of step away that way. So, up until a few days before I came back in Toronto, I hadn’t been in a ring. When we found out — again, I’m using the word ‘snuck’. They snuck me into the Performance Center a few days before I came back in Toronto and I was able to get in the ring and roll around and move around a bit and I’ve been doing that here and there, every other week, every other day. But I will say, it is amazing how quickly it comes back. It is very much like riding a bike. The minute I got in the ring and hit the ropes and rolled and things like that, I was like, okay, that’s how you do this, I remember. But, to say I’m doing it in a Performance Center compared to an arena on Monday Night Raw which is a fun little thing in itself. We’ve had happy accidents along the way to where my return was in Toronto where me and Tommaso [Ciampa] won the tag team titles at TakeOver: Toronto and my first match back is going to be in Portland which is the site of TakeOver: Portland which was the last arena show, the last TakeOver arena show that I was a part of before the pandemic. So that was the last arena I wrestled in, literally was in Portland and my first match back is going to be in Portland.”

Gargano also gave his thoughts on if he had considered retiring from wrestling following the birth of his child earlier this year and lengthy break he took for his career.

“Yes and no [did I ever think about stepping away from wrestling permanently]. I gave myself kind of a year. When I left in December, I kind of said, okay, I am content being gone December — I think December 7th might have been my last NXT show — December 7th to December whatever, December-January. I was okay taking off a full year, letting my body rest, letting my body recover but also letting my mind recover and also reenergizing myself. I’ve done this for almost 18 years at this point and I’ve been very lucky, I haven’t had any major injuries, I haven’t had any major time off, knock on wood somewhere. So, I haven’t had any downtime so for me and as you guys know, there is no off-season in what we do so we’re just going consistently, especially when before I even got here, on the indies, I was going pretty hard every single week at multiple shows, double shots, wrestling multiple times a weekend, staying in shape, doing all that stuff like that. It mentally wears on you and especially in this current day and age with social media and things like that-that get in your head and the mental health problems we all have to kind of go through. I was just totally fine taking this year, spending it with my baby and being a stay-at-home dad, working on my dad bod which I did, working on my dad bod, getting ready to go and just being happy. I was totally fine with that, with wrestling not being in my life. I don’t know if there was any point where I decided maybe I won’t come back. Obviously, it crossed my mind a few times when I’m staying at home and I’m able to do whatever I want and I don’t have anyone to answer to, anywhere to go, I wake up in my own bed every single day, I work out in my own gym, I hang out with my kid, it’s a great life.”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com