WWE: Drew McIntyre WWE Absence Update, Alexa Bliss WWE Absence & Return Plans Update, Paul Heyman on Not Being Big Fan Of Too Many Titles Unless You Can Them All Enough Time

Drew McIntyre WWE Absence Status Update

Drew McIntyre has been absent from WWE since this past October due to him suffering a head wound following his Hell in a Cell match against CM Punk at Bad Blood 2024 and taking some time off for family-related reasons.

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that WWE officials recently started internal talks for potential creative plans for McIntyre’s return.

Johnson reported that nothing has been set in stone for plans but there has been some pitches and conversation as to what his direction will be for his return.

A potential date for McIntyre’s return is currently not known but Johnson speculated that he likely will be returning soon.

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Alexa Bliss WWE Absence & Return Plans Status Update

As noted before, Alexa Bliss has been out of action for WWE since January of 2023 due to skin cancer treatment-related issues and maternity reasons over the birth of her first child.

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that there has been a lot of internal creative talk of late within WWE regarding Bliss’ potential return to the company.

Johnson reported that WWE officials had believed several months ago that Bliss would return after this holiday season and that belief remains the case as of this week. WWE officials reportedly are currently working on plans for when and how Bliss would return.

Those spoken to reportedly stated that Bliss likely will return by WrestleMania 41 season, which could be as early as by next year’s Royal Rumble event.

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Paul Heyman Comments on “I’m Not A Big Fan Of A Multitude Of Titles Unless You Can Give Them Enough Time”

SHAK Wrestling held a recent interview with Paul Heyman. One of the topics discussed included Heyman’s thoughts about if there was any truth about him not wanting a midcard title on SmackDown so that he could keep the focus on the cruiserweight and tag team divisions during his time as the lead writer for WWE’s SmackDown brand from 2002 to 2003.

“Yeah. I’m not a big fan of a multitude of titles unless you can give them enough time. We had proper focus at that time on the championships that we had and didn’t feel that we needed more championships to tell better stories, and felt that the introduction of more championships only watered down the championships that we already had the spotlight on at the moment.”

Heyman also gave his thoughts about his philosophy on the usage and amount of championship titles in a wrestling company.

“What works, works, and what doesn’t, doesn’t. If you can make it relevant, all pun intended to the island of relevancy, then it will work. If you can’t make it relevant, then it won’t. If there were 14 titles and they all mean something, then you should look at doing number 15. If you have seven titles and you’re struggling to put relevancy on all seven, then you need to cut down the number that you have. What’s working? If it’s working, let’s do more of that. If it’s not working, change it.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com