WWE: WWE’s Current Plans for The Rascalz in NXT, Hulk Hogan Says He Signed New Five Year WWE Legends Deal, More News

WWE’s Current Plans for The Rascalz for Their NXT Brand

As noted before, this past Tuesday’s NXT show featured TNA Wrestling talents The Rascalz (Zachary Wentz & Trey Miguel) defeating Gallus (Wolfgang & Mark Coffey) and Hank Walker & Tank Ledger in #1 Contender’s Triple Threat match for the NXT Tag Team Championship.

Fightful Select’s Corey Brennan reported that his sources stated that WWE officials currently have plans for more talent crossovers between TNA and NXT. Brennan reported that The Rascalz are expected to be part of these crossover plans for the next couple of months.

Brennan reported that those spoken to stated that NXT officials were “incredibly happy” with Wentz’s performances and backstage attitude since making his return to their NXT brand as a TNA star.

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Hulk Hogan Says He Signed New Five Year Contract with WWE

A recent episode of the Impaulsive podcast featured WWE Hall of Famer Hulk Hogan as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Hogan stating that he recently signed a new five year contract with WWE.

“Working with Vince (McMahon) for all that time, and now working with Nick Khan. I signed a five-year deal. I’m 71 years old in a few weeks. I signed a five-year deal for the licensing and merchandising stuff, and ambassador stuff, if they need me to do something for WrestleMania. I just love doing it. It’s definitely different.”

Hogan also gave his thoughts about WWE’s new leadership regime and WWE President Nick Khan’s handling of the company compared to Vince McMahon.

“What I feel with the leadership is working with Nick Khan now. He’s more, for me, business cut and dry. He doesn’t overthink the creative. Nick Khan is strictly business. I said, ‘Hey brother, this art work that hasn’t been used for 35 years. I need it for my Real American Beer.’ Nick Khan says, ‘Let me get back to you in a couple of days.’ ‘No rush.’ He calls me back, we talked, I don’t want to give numbers, ‘You can use the artwork. I need X amount of percentage out of every million bucks you make.’ Instead of me paying you guys hundreds and thousands of dollars, and potentially millions of dollars, I can go out for $300 bucks and have someone do this artwork that is reasonably similar, maybe reasonably confusing. Nick goes, ‘Let me just give it to you.’ Good, we’re on same team, brother. Nick was really cool. He made it really easy on me. Vince was great, too, but I don’t know if Vince would make that quick of a decision. Nick has been very easy, supportive, and helpful

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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WWE News & Notes

Wednesday’s WWE Speed show on Twitter featured IYO SKY defeating Lyra Valkyria in a Quarterfinals round match for the inaugural WWE Speed Women’s Championship tournament. SKY will be facing off against the winner of Naomi/Blair Davenport in the Semifinal round.

WWE filed a trademark for “Giulia” on September 3rd for wrestling and entertainment-related purposes to the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that WWE recently filed a request to the USPTO asking for a 90-day extension to oppose the “Undertaker” trademark filed by Russell Brands LLC. This trademark was filed this past February for merchandise-related purposes for “softball bats.”

CT Insider reported that WWE is currently looking to sell their former headquarters Titan Towers in Stanford, Connecticut due to the building no longer factors in the long-term plans for the company. It was reported that the price listed for the building is “subject to offers.”

This past Tuesday’s WWE NXT show featured Giulia challenging Roxanne Perez for her NXT Women’s Championship at NXT’s premiere show on The CW on the October 1st in Chicago, Illinois.

WWE recently released three new videos for their WWE Vault channel on YouTube. The first new video was never-before-seen motion capture footage of the 1996 WWF In Your House video game. The second new video was the first ever Ladder match in WWE history between Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels from the July 21, 1992 episode of Prime Time Wrestling. The third new video was The Shield getting arrested from the September 3, 2018 WWE RAW show.

WWE recently announced one new segment for the card of this Friday’s WWE SmackDown show in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. This new segment was a promo segment featuring Cody Rhodes to respond to Solo Sikoa’s challenge for his Undisputed WWE Championship.

As noted before, the upcoming Mr. McMahon docuseries based on former WWE Executive Chairman Vince McMahon will be premiering on Netflix on September 25th. Wrestlenomics’ Brandon Thurston reported that a spokesperson for Janel Grant stated that the series producers did reach out to Grant for an interview but nothing came out of it. This spokesperson stated “Netflix’s documentary group made initial outreach to Janel’s representation for an interview for this projec. Despite this, no such interview came to fruition.” Thurston reported that a source close to the situation confirmed that Grant was approached to participate in the series and had been asked multiple times but she ultimately decided against it.

In a recent interview with the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast, Damian Priest stated that the rumors of him being originally among the cast for Marvel’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever film were true but his role was later taken away by someone. Priest stated “It’s a long story, but basically it got taken away from me, but not from Marvel.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

In a recent interview with ComicBook.com, Lyra Valkyria gave her thoughts about if WWE’s new WWE Speed Women’s Championship could fill the women’s midcard title gap on the main roster. Valkyria stated “I think so. It’s definitely going to provide an opportunity for a lot of women in the locker room that are looking to step up. Even if you look at the first round matches, you just don’t know [who could win]. Maybe some women are more suited to trying to get the job done in three minutes and we could see people getting that chance to show what they can do that wouldn’t normally be in the spotlight.“