WWE: Karmen Petrovic Suffered Ankle Injury, Randy Orton on Being Happy for WWE’s New Era & Vince McMahon Being Gone, More News

Karmen Petrovic Suffered Ankle Injury

Tuesday’s NXT show featured Natayla defeating Izzi Dane in a singles match. This match was notable for NXT talent Karmen Petrovic walking out with Natayla but with the assistance of a crutch. During her appearance, NXT commentator Vic Joseph stated that Petrovic had suffered an injury at a NXT house show this past weekend.

Following the show, Petrovic provided an update on Twitter stating that she is currently dealing with an ankle injury.

never gave in, never gave up… i’m the only thing i’m afraid of.. ⏳🗡️ pic.twitter.com/TkUBWAPnCP

— karmen petrovic 🗡 (@karmen_wwe) June 5, 2024

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Randy Orton Comments on Being Happy for WWE’s New Era & Vince McMahon Being Gone from WWE

A recent episode of Sportskeeda’s WrestleBinge podcast featured Randy Orton as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Orton’s thoughts about him being happy that WWE has entered a new era under its new management regime and Vince McMahon being gone from the company.

“Off the top of my head — and, listen, I love Vince, he gave me so many opportunities. But I think it was kind of time for him to move on. It’s unfortunate that it happened in the way that it happened. But it’s nice having people in charge of me that understand how important it is for you to be home for birthdays, and home for Thanksgiving, and home for Christmas.

Vince McMahon, he had Raw on Monday night live. He doesn’t care if you had kids. I came to him when I was 35 and my back really started going and I pleaded with him like, ‘Man, I got to like not do as many shows, maybe do half the tour and be able to recover.’ And he just looked at me and was like, ‘Oh, I need you on those shows, Randy. Mother Nature gets us all.’ And to hear that and go, ‘Ok, well I guess there’s no other thing I can do other than just wear myself out down to the nub until I can’t walk anymore for this man.’ And all of the opportunities he gave me, it’s nice having him out of there. And it’s nice having his son-in-law Triple H running the game. Nick Khan’s great. Everybody at TKO that’s come in [and] stepped in, they seem to get it. And it’s just a different era…

I think the way that they care for talent nowadays and make sure that talent’s good and if they need a little bit of a break — we’re only human — they get it, most of the time.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com

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WWE News & Notes

Wednesday’s WWE Speed show on Twitter featured Andrade defeating Karl Anderson to advance to the Finals of WWE’s newest #1 Contender’s tournament for the WWE Speed Championship. Andrade will be facing off against Tommaso Ciampa with the winner to be the next official challenger for Ricochet’s title.

NXT talent Brooks Jensen is currently involved in a storyline revolving around his issues with NXT management and NXT head booker Shawn Michaels that is similar to Grayson Waller’s past storyline with Michaels in NXT. Tuesday’s NXT show featured Jensen making a surprise appearance during a commercial break spot and berated Vic Joseph at the commentary table leading to him being escorted away by security before the show returned from its break. Following his non-televised appearance, Jensen continued his storyline on Twitter after getting kicked out of the venue.

Tuesday’s NXT show also featured the announcement of Wendy Choo making her in-ring return at next week’s show on June 11th. In an interesting note, the vignette aired for Choo’s upcoming in-ring return teased at Choo returning with a new evil persona in potential reference to her former Mei Ying character.

Lionsgate recently released the debut trailer for their upcoming The Killer’s Game film featuring Dave Bautista and Drew McIntyre among the cast.

The Hollywood Reporter reported that Tiffany Stratton recently signed a deal with Paradigm Talent Agency to represent her in the entertainment industry. It was reported that Paradigm “will work to build Stratton’s business across books, graphic novels, acting, brand partnerships, speaking engagements, and more.”

Braun Strowman recently announced on Instagram that he is currently working on a project for a new television show. Strowman stated “I’ve missed hitting diners on the road,” Strowman wrote while sharing some video of a meal he was eating. “And I can’t wait to drop the news about a tv show I’ve been working on!!!“

In a recent interview with Adrian Hernandez, Trick Williams gave his thoughts about CM Punk’s backstage appearances at the Performance Center and him being a “positive light” for everyone in WWE’s NXT brand. Williams stated “Mentor is a perfect way to put it, man. He has been a blessing for all of us who would take the time to actually go talk to him and reach out to him. He’s helped me with a few things that I feel like, if the crowd knew about it, they would be very grateful that he did. I’m just going to leave it there. Shoutout to CM Punk, man. He’s been a positive light for all of us here in NXT.” (Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com)

In a recent interview with the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast, former WWE talent Jinder Mahal gave his thoughts about how he originally did not like his Majahara entrance theme song but Vince McMahon was a big fan of the song and even danced to it. Mahal stated “I get that a lot. A lot of people tell me that, like, ‘Your theme’s a banger.’ Even a lot of the boys. Actually, Tamina told me one time my entrance music was playing, and Vince was dancing in Gorilla Position. Yeah [laughs]. I said the same thing. ‘What?’ So yeah, he was dancing in Gorilla, like Indian dancing [laughs].” Mahal continued stating “Yeah, I didn’t actually like it that much. Because based off of what I had given them as inspiration, it was nothing like that. [I gave them] other Punjabi songs. There’s an artist called Diljit [Dosanjh], I gave them some of his songs as a sample. But I love it. It’s good. I love it now. It grew on me. It’s a dope song, perfect for me. My music got switched temporarily when I was with Shanky, but likely it got brought back. When I was in NXT, they brought it back.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

WWE recently announced one new match for the card of next week’s NXT show on June 11th:

• Singapore Cane match – Lexis King vs. Dante Chen