WWE: Ricochet’s Contract Reportedly Set to Expire Soon, Shawn Michaels on More Potential Crossovers with NXT, Sonya Deville on Her ACL Injury

May 31, 2024

Ricochet’s WWE Contract Reportedly Set to Expire This Summer

Ricochet’s contract with WWE reportedly is currently set to expire soon, according to Fightful Select.

It was reported that their sources stated that Ricochet’s current contract is set to expire this summer and Ricochet and WWE officials have been in recent talks for a potential new deal.

It was reported that should Ricochet become a free agent, he is expected to get a lot of interest from about every company that could afford him.

Ricochet has been working for WWE since January of 2019.

Shawn Michaels Comments on Potential for More Crossovers with NXT

KTNV Channel 13 Las Vegas held a recent interview with NXT head booker Shawn Michaels. One of the topics discussed included Michaels thoughts about the potential of WWE having more crossovers with other wrestling companies for their NXT brand.

“Well look, obviously a lot of those decisions get made by people above me. But look, I have no doubt that there’s gonna be some very exciting announcements coming down the pipe, let’s put it that way. I will say this, again, it comes back to wanting to entertain the people that do this and you just said it, for fans, we have wanted A, B, and C for so long. I don’t know. I guess with those of us that get to do this behind the scenes, those are things that we’ve wanted to see, why not see if we can bring you guys one of these things you’ve been looking for. Obviously a very exciting time to be a wrestling fan and we’ll see how much of it culminates Battleground on June 9, I’m sure a lot of things are going to be going on that night, so I wouldn’t miss it.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Sonya Deville Comments on Her Recent ACL Injury & Feeling Devastated After Relinquishing WWE Women’s Tag Titles

As noted before, Sonya Deville made her surprise return to WWE earlier this month. Prior to her return, Deville had been out of action from WWE since July of 2023 due to a torn ACL injury and surgery.

A recent episode of the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast featured Deville as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Deville’s thoughts about how she had suffered her recent ACL injury.

“I had no idea. I must be so naive to this. I’ve been an athlete, I was like, I’m fine. I tagged out. Alright, I’m lying. I knew something was wrong. It felt a little weird. My knee buckled and I was like, ‘Oh, that was weird, but I’m fine,’ I have eight minutes left in this match. We’re about to go to a commercial break. I need to get it together. So I tagged out to Chelsea and I got on the apron. Luckily, we were in a commercial break. So I was like alright, let me suss out the situation. So I’m hopping on the apron and anyone in the live audience was probably like, ‘What the heck is she doing?’ But I’m hopping up in down on the apron trying to gauge if I can trust my knee. Sure enough, it was sketchy at best. I was like, ‘Oh God, well, I’m in a match with Bianca, Charlotte, Chelsea, it’s a tag match, no less. I’m not about to change the entire match right now on live TV.’ So I was getting the comeback run on me and I had another eight minutes to wrestle. So I was like, we just got to do this. So Chelsea tagged me in for the hot tag. I had two comebacks ran on me. We did some falsies, I think a superplex. The whole time I was like, ‘Oh my God, I hope I don’t fall flat on my face.’ Sure enough, we made it to the end and I limped back, I got my rental car, went to my hotel, tried to pretend like it didn’t happen, because in this business, no one wants to be injured and out of play. Because I just won my first title. I was so sad, I was like, It’s fine. It’s just a sprain, I’ll wrap it. Long story short, I woke up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and I fell face-first into the wall. I was like, Oh, I think something’s wrong.”

Deville also gave her thoughts about how she felt devastated having to give up her WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship due to her injury situation at the time.

“I was so devastated. I mean, I’d been with the company for nine years. Of course, part of being in the WWE is to one day grab that brass ring and get gold around your waist and that’s what I had been striving for, of course. So I finally got my first championship and I was so happy. I was so elated. I was ready to make those titles mean more than ever before. [Then] The injury came, which is probably why I ran back to my hotel and hid in my room and didn’t tell anyone I was injured.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com