WWE: WWE’s Current Return Plans for Becky Lynch, R-Truth on Possibility of Him Turning Heel Again in Future in WWE, More News

Jan 3, 2025

Becky Lynch Wrestling Break & WWE Return Plans Update

As noted before, Becky Lynch’s contract with WWE expired this past June and has been on a break from wrestling but is expected to be returning to WWE in the future. A recent advertisement by Netflix hyping up WWE RAW’s premiere show on their service featured Lynch among the WWE Superstars shown.

WrestleVotes reported that their sources stated that WWE officials currently have heavily factored Lynch’s upcoming return into their high-level plans for this year’s Road to WrestleMania and WrestleMania 41 event.

R-Truth Comments on Possibility of Turning Heel Again in the Future in WWE

A recent episode of the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast featured R-Truth as the guest. One of the topics discussed included R-Truth’s thoughts about the possibility of him turning heel again in the future in WWE and him currently feeling mixed over the idea.

“There’s a part of me that does want to turn heel again. I think it’s a selfish part so that people can see me as a heel, just because a couple of generations have just known me as R-Truth the fun guy, the comedic guy. A lot of people have not seen that side of me that can still be brought out. The only time I went to talk about turning heel [they said] ‘I don’t think people want to see you as a heel, you to make people feel good.’ There’s a part of me that wants to turn heel, selfishly, because I can be a good heel, I can be an asshole. But there’s so many bad guys, you gotta be one of the good ones. Everybody’s a bad guy. It’s easy to be a bad guy. The selfish part of me would love to turn heel and be a heel, but the majority of me is like I could never be a heel. People would think it’s cool if I did something bad, if I did something heelish they would think it’s cool. I smoked a cigarette and they thought that was the coolest thing on TV. To be a heel you have to get that real, genuine hatred heel heat. Mine would be more of like, they will want me to bash somebody’s head in. Selfishly, I would love to see it one time, but I don’t have to.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

WWE News & Notes

As noted before, John Cena will be holding a retirement tour for his in-ring wrestling career in 2025. Cena’s Farewell Tour was recently announced to officially start on the WWE RAW Premiere show on Netflix on January 6th. Fightful Select reported that their sources denied recent rumors about Cena’s upcoming retirement being a plan from WWE so he could turn heel and swerve fans. It was reported that WWE officials currently have planned “very heavily” to factor John Cena into “major plans” during his retirement tour in the company.

This past Wednesday’s WWE Speed show on Twitter featured Natalya defeating Michin in the Finals of WWE’s newest #1 Contender’s tournament for the WWE Women’s Speed Championship. Natalya will be facing off against Candice LeRae for the WWE Women’s Speed title on the next episode of WWE Speed.

This past Tuesday’s Heavy Lies The Crown event for Beyond Wrestling featured WWE ID talent Marcus Mathers defeating Krule to become the new IWTV Independent Wrestling World Champion.

WWE recently released three new videos to their WWE Vault channel on YouTube. The first new video was a “Kevin Owens ruins Chris Jericho’s Festival of Friendship” from the February 13, 2017 episode of WWE RAW. The second new video was a “Cena, Truth, Big E and more relive their greatest Raw moments: WWE Retrospective.” The third new video was a “Story of The Undertaker – The Giant Slayer Years (1992-94).”

WWE also recently released a new video featuring several WWE Superstars giving their goals for 2025. One of those asked was CM Punk who stated “Win the Royal Rumble, beat everybody, win all the titles, continue to make the New Day dress in the janitor’s closet, and shave Dominik Mysterio’s mustache.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

Pro Wrestling NOAH talent and Japanese wrestling legend Naomichi Marufuji revealed on Twitter that he recently received a message from WWE SVP of NXT & Talent Relations Shawn Michaels. Marufuji stated “Through a certain person I received a message from Shawn Michaels. The contents are… I’m happy.“

This past Tuesday’s WWE NXT show featured WWE announcing that the NXT North American Championship Triple Threat match of Josh Briggs vs. Dijak vs. Oba Femi (c) from NXT Stand & Deliver 2024 won the NXT Match of the Year award for the 2024 NXT Year End Awards. Former WWE talent Donovan Dijak recently reflected on Twitter about his match with Briggs and Femi winning the NXT Match of the Year award. Dijak stated “I really can’t put into words how much this means to me. Thank you to Oba, Josh, Matt, Shawn, and Hornet for helping me create something special. Stay tuned because we are just getting started.“

In a recent interview with the No Name Wrestling Podcast, TNA talent Santino Marella gave his thoughts about a pitch he recently made for a potential appearance at next month’s Royal Rumble 2025 event. Marella stated “Well, they haven’t called yet. My daughter [Arianna], she had a little shoulder surgery, she’s back in the ring from it, but she hasn’t re-debuted yet. So I was pitching, I’m like, I don’t think it’s ever been done, father-daughter at the same Rumble. So it’d be really good for her to return to the programming. I’m down to show up and get that experience. Royal Rumble is my favorite pay-per-view of the year.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

In a recent interview with Screen Rant, former WWE and current AEW talent Adam Copeland gave his thoughts about John Cena’s upcoming retirement tour in WWE and his belief that Cena’s retirement will be a harder thing for fans to accept than Cena. Copeland stated “We had talked briefly when he came back and I was with WWE. He said, ‘How are you doing this stuff, man? You’re having half an hour matches and stuff,’ but we haven’t talked about retiring or anything like that. John’s thought this through, and he’s thought of every scenario and every conceivable direction and all of those things. He’s an intelligent man, so, I’m sure he’s already come to terms, and I think he’s been coming to terms with it for a long time. I think it’ll be harder for the fan base to come to terms, which usually ends up being the case.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)