WWE: More WM 39 Match Pitches to Steve Austin, Xavier Woods Defends Ridge Holland Over Big E Injury, John Cena

WWE Reportedly Pitched More Match Ideas for Steve Austin for WrestleMania 39

As noted before, WWE had considered plans for a potential match between Brock Lesnar and Stone Cold Steve Austin at this April’s WrestleMania 39 event in Inglewood, California. Besides Lesnar, WWE had also considered plans for Austin to face off in a potential match against Roman Reigns at the event.

Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that WWE officials recently pitched more match offers to Austin to gauge his interest in working at next month’s WrestleMania 39 event. These new pitches reportedly were not necessarily for marquee type matches with one pitch involving a potential match between Austin and LA Knight.

It was reported that Austin is currently scheduled to do some WWE-related promotional work soon for their recently released WWE 2K23 game.

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Xavier Woods Issues Support to Ridge Holland Over Death Threats & Online Harassment Over Big E Injury

This past Saturday was the one year anniversary of Big E suffering a serious neck injury putting the future of his career in serious doubt. Big E suffered the injury during his tag team match with Kofi Kingston against Sheamus and Ridge Holland on the March 11, 2022 WWE SmackDown show.

Holland stated on Twitter that he has been recently receiving death threats and online harassment towards himself and his family over his unfortunate role in Big E’s injury.

Death threats. Threats to my family. Lobbying for me to lose my job. Being labeled as racist. Great stuff 👍🏻 keep ‘em coming.

— Ridge Holland (@RidgeWWE) March 13, 2023

New Day member Xavier Woods recently issued his support of Holland on Twitter requesting for people to stop with their hateful messages towards Holland and his family. Woods also requested for people to use their energy to do something positive instead like continuing sending support and love to Big E.

Pro Wrestling is extremely dangerous. All of us involved understand that. Ridge & his family do not deserve to be treated this way. Please do not send any hate towards them. Instead use your energy to do something positive like sending love to E. Be kind. Please be kind. https://t.co/3iPM30qBtk

— Austin Creed (@AustinCreedWins) March 13, 2023

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John Cena Comments on Vince McMahon’s Sexual Misconduct Allegations

AP News held a recent interview with John Cena. One of the topics discussed included Cena’s thoughts on a potential sale of WWE to a new owner within the near future.

“That’s way above my paygrade. I just don’t know what’s going on with that. I love Vince McMahon. He’s everything you could want in a great friend, business partner, father, mentor. I love the man. But his business dealings are his business and what he shares with me, that’s between us. But I don’t know what’s going on with the corporate structure in the WWE or the creative direction of the WWE. But when I’m there as a performer, it’s (WWE champion) Roman Reigns’ show. In my mind, he needs to be in the conversation, and in my mind, he’s the greatest of all time.”

Cena also gave his thoughts about the sexual misconduct allegations against WWE Executive Chairman Vince McMahon and if it was tough for him to reconcile his feelings towards McMahon over the allegations.

“No. I mean, everyone has the right to have their perspective. I have the right to have mine. When you love somebody, you take them as imperfectly perfect as they are. We all make mistakes, we all have poor decisions. Lord knows I’ve made my collection of poor choices. That doesn’t mean I’m not going to love somebody. There’s no way I can go on record and say I don’t love Vince McMahon.”