WWE: Stephanie McMahon on Another Australia Event, Employee Released, Road Dogg on Theory’s MitB Booking

Stephanie McMahon Comments on Potential of WWE Holding Another Event in Australia

A recent Wells Fargo TMT summit event featured WWE co-CEO Stephanie McMahon as the guest. One of the topics discussed included McMahon’s thoughts on WWE’s current plans to launch multiple Performance Centers around the world and the idea of holding a global NXT World Cup type wrestling event in the future.

“In addition to that, international is the focus for us, as we have discussed in the past but now we really have the opportunity to create what we call ‘global localization’ or ‘glocal’ where we can create local Performance Centers with local talent, replicate the lines of business that we have here in WWE and do it on a much smaller scale but ultimately, hopefully that’ll ladder up into the bigger product and potentially then creating a World Cup-type scenario which would be fun and exciting. It also then of course is an opportunity for talent to rotate throughout and we can have local stars that can ultimately come up to the main roster of WWE.”

McMahon also gave her thoughts on the potential of WWE holding another stadium event in Australia in the future.

“You look at our new deal in Australia with Foxtel, where we need to bring a stadium event to Australia as well and how are we looking at that in terms of our international Premium Live Events? How does that work in terms of our domestic strategy?… How are we gonna be able to maximize our opportunities there?”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com

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WWE Releases Quetzalli Bulnes, Host of WWE Ahoa Series

WWE employee Quetzalli Bulnes announced on Titok that she was recently released by the company. Prior to her release, Bulnes worked as the host of Spanish-language series WWE Ahora and as an interview for El Brunch De WWE.

“I do not work in the place I used to do hosting work for 4 years. I want to say that it has been a tough trip in which I stopped myself from drinking, go out, or prevent myself from feeling all the emotions. I have to accept that I feel sad and I am a little lost. I don’t know where I am going. Despite the fact I don’t want to drink, I accept that I would my product, Ra [Mexican CBD Brand Terragia]. It has Cocoa to help with depression in sad moments. We start now, I will be telling you everything.”

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Prior to her release, Bulnes was involved in an incident at a house show event in Mexico City, Mexico this past October. This incident revolved around an unscheduled spot involving Bulnes and a Spanish YouTuber named Falbak. During the show, Quetzalli wanted to give Falbak a shout-out moment at ringside and had encouraged him to jump over the barricade. This resulted in Byron Saxton, who was also at ringside, requesting security out of fear of what was going on and Quetzalli telling security to not touch him. Saxton then became angry at Quetzalli over her unplanned spot while Quetzalli then became angry at Falbak over his attempt to get into the ring and doing more than what they had agreed. Falbak had planned without Quetzalli’s knowledge to give her a gift and enter the ring in order to proclaim his love of her and steal a kiss regardless of her response.

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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Road Dogg Comments on Not Caring Over WWE’s Poor Booking of Austin Theory as MitB Holder

A recent episode of the Oh You Didn’t Know podcast featured co-host Brian “Road Dogg” James’ thoughts on not caring about the criticisms over WWE’s poor booking of Austin Theory while he was the holder of the Men’s Money in the Bank briefcase. James stated that he felt it did not matter that WWE was doing a poor job building up Theory and making him lose a lot while he held the briefcase since he was having great matches.

“Sometimes, people get over through defeats. If you think about Austin Theory, working a bunch, having great matches, hadn’t won any of them. I don’t think about that. This is where I’m going to anger more people. Austin Theory is putting on some bangers. Don’t you get over by having great matches? If wrestling is so good and profitable and marketable, then why isn’t his ability to wrestle greatly getting him over? I would argue that it is getting him over. The kid is a stud athlete, good looking, and can go. Sure, he’s losing some matches, so has Seth Rollins, so has everybody.

His character is getting established. He’s going to put on great wrestling matches. He lost the briefcase, to me, that was the thing that kept his heat. Now, I don’t want to see him lose so much. When you have that briefcase, you can beat me every day until Sunday, but at the right time, when that champion is down on his luck just enough, here I come, and that’s all you have to say in every promo. ‘You got beat last week, how do you feel?’ ‘I feel I’m the youngest ever Money in the Bank winner and I’m going to cash this in and become the champion, how do you feel?’ My point was, he’s putting on great matches. I will watch next week when he has a great one, I probably know he’s going to lose, but I don’t care because he’s going to have a great match.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com