WWE: Marina Shafir on Why MMA Horsewomen vs. WWE Horsewomen Didn’t Happen, The Rock on Original Plans for WrestleMania 42 Announcement, Our Lady Peace Performs “Whatever” for First Time in Many Years

Marina Shafir Comments on Why MMA Horsewomen vs. WWE Horsewomen Didn’t Happen

A recent episode of the Talk Is Jericho podcast featured former WWE and current AEW talent Marina Shafir. One of the topics discussed included Shafir’s thoughts about why a MMA Horsewomen vs. WWE Horsewomen feud didn’t take place in WWE during her, Ronda Rousey, and Jessamyn Duke’s time in the company.

“Not very far. We really wanted to do the Four Horsewomen of MMA vs. the Four Horsewomen of wrestling. I’d be very interested in hearing what their perspective is on this. I know what mine was. I just came in to do my job and thinking that was the goal. Me, Shayna, and Jessamyn were a unit on NXT for a while, but we weren’t hitting a mark, me and Jessamyn weren’t hitting a mark as a tag team, and I knew that. I feel like we needed a specific direction or maybe we just didn’t understand the job. It just kind of fizzled out and Shayna was the top one because she rightfully should have been the top one. She had been doing indies and Josh [Barnett] had been mentoring her and preparing her for all of these situations. It just didn’t happen like I feel Hunter would have liked it to happen. Things that haven’t happened yet are still a possibility. In retrospect, reflecting on that, if all of us could have just gotten out of our own assholes.

Just figuring out how to be a team. We were doing a lot of trios stuff in NXT. Me, Shayna, and Jessamyn were doing road loops against Candice [LeRae], IYO [SKY], and Kairi [Sane]. I don’t know what else we needed to do in order to really get the shit rolling. I feel like we’re all still very insecure and green, and we didn’t want to give up things we knew to learn new things. I may be wrong. I could be wrong. [Ronda] was the golden goose, and rightfully so. It just didn’t pan out. I really would like to know Becky’s, Charlotte’s, Bayley’s, and Sasha’s perspectives on it. Maybe it’ll make some sense for me. I know we really wanted it.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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The Rock Comments on WWE’s Original Plans for WrestleMania 42 Announcement

As noted before, this past Friday’s WWE SmackDown show in New Orleans, Louisiana featured Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson officially announcing that next year’s WrestleMania 42 event will be taking place at the Superdome in New Orleans.

During a post-show press conference held this past Friday, Johnson stated that WWE originally had planned to make the announcement at the NFL’s Superbowl LIX game in New Orleans.

“We were going to be part of the Super Bowl and make the announcement at the Super Bowl. We had a couple of hiccups that we couldn’t make that happen.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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Our Lady Peace Performs “Whatever” for First Time in Many Years

Rock Band Our Lady Peace held a concert this past Wednesday in Calbary, Alberta, Canada as part of their 30th Anniversary tour. This concert was notable for the band performing “Whatever” for the first time in almost two decades.

This song was the entrance song used by the late Chris Benoit and was something the band had stated they would never play again following Benoit’s infamous double murder-suicide crime against his family in 2007.

During the concert, the band announced that while the song had some ties to the Benoit tragedy, it meant to be about mental health and they were reclaiming it. Following the performance of the song, the band promoted mental health awareness and gave information for suicide help.

For the first time in 22 years Our Lady Peace played Whatever. Tonight in Calgary! pic.twitter.com/2SNOBBeI04

— Eric Wilhite (@eric_wilhite) February 20, 2025