WWE: Current Plans for More Travis Scott Appearances on Shows & Potential In-Ring Matches, TJ Wilson on His Talks with Chris Bey After Bey’s Neck Injury, More News

Mar 19, 2025

Update on WWE’s Current Plans for More Travis Scott’s Appearances on Shows & Potential In-Ring Matches

As noted before, Cody Rhodes suffered a black eye and ruptured eardrum injury due to a hard slap spot by rapper Travis Scott during John Cena’s heel turn and attack on Rhodes segment at WWE’s Elimination Chamber 2025 event earlier this month.

Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp reported in a recent Q&A article that his sources stated that WWE officials currently have “tentative plans” for Scott to be utilized on WWE programming “here and there” moving forward.

Sapp reported that Scott has already done some wrestling training and there are plans for him to do more.

TJ Wilson Comments on Being in Contract Negotiations with WWE Prior to Neck Injury & His Talks with Chris Bey After Bey’s Neck Injury

A recent episode of the Developmentally Speaking podcast featured TJ Wilson, also known as Tyson Kidd in WWE, as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Wilson’s thoughts about how he was in negotiations with WWE for a new contract prior to him suffering a in-ring career ending neck injury in 2015.

“I love wrestling. It’s given me everything. Everything I got, wrestling. No, I had no clue what I was gonna do (after my career-ending neck injury). When you’re — sh*t — that first night when I got hurt, I’m not even in a hospital room. I’m in the basement of this hospital. It’s cold, freezing cold. I had no service. Like one bar in and out on my phone. I think that same day, maybe (Paul) Heyman is on (Steve) Austin’s podcast. I’m trying to watch it and I can’t. I’m just sitting there with this neck brace on with no real answers. The surgeon comes in the morning to kind of give me the news but, I’m very in tune with my body and in the moment, I knew my neck was broken, I knew I was never wrestling again. I knew that in that moment. Absolutely, in that moment, I did not know what was next. I had no clue. I didn’t know anything. I just knew that this dream that I’d seen through… this version of it was over. I didn’t know what was next. Prior to that, I did think I had a long-term plan and I was 34. I remember they were talking to me about signing a new deal. In my mind, I was gonna sign — this is just in my mind — in my mind, I was gonna sign like a five-year deal. That would take me to 40. At 40, I will have been wrestling at that point for 25 years. I’m 40. Everything seemed like a nice, perfect round number and then I kind of wanted to get out and that was my mind. I’m sure when I got there, that wouldn’t have happened. I mean, especially when you start adding A.J. Styles and those types of guys to the roster. If I had been afforded the opportunity to stay as a talent, I promise I wouldn’t have left but, in my mind at this time, 40 was gonna be perfect and then I would start a wrestling school in Tampa.”

Wilson also gave his thoughts about his conversations with TNA talent Chris Bey following Bey’s neck injury this past October and how Bey’s recovery process has been inspiring him.

“A Chris Bey for example, I’ve been in contact with him this whole time. DMing him and just, I told him this whole time, ‘You’re gonna make a full recovery and I truly believe that.’ Some of it’s from experience, but I was never truly in the same situation he was in and I was in a different version but a similar one and so I tell him, ‘Some days are gonna be really hard and these will just sound like words but just know you can’t give up. The second you give up, it’s over.’ It’s absolutely over, in anything. If you give up podcasting right now, it’s over. But if you keep going, you don’t know what’s on that other side. You don’t know. So, and Chris Bey, he’s been so… I was at my ring. He sent me a video of him standing up by himself. I was emotional. I was like, ‘Man, you inspired the hell out of me.’ Like I said, I’ve been in this business for 30 years. I have seen a lot and I’m inspired all the time by people and I’ve never even met Chris Bey. I’ve never even physically met this man yet. Nattie’s ultimate plan is to bring him to The Dungeon. We really wanna do that when the time is right. But, look at his progress. It’s because he just keeps pushing. He doesn’t give up. In that situation, put myself in a similar situation, you can’t, you can’t give up. Getting hurt was brutal but, and the paralysis was the scariest thing ever. But, fast-forward a few weeks when I had the surgery, when I woke up from the surgery was the worst, outside of the paralysis. The waking up from the surgery was the worst I felt because they had to cut through my head so now my head was throbbing on top of my neck. It was awful. I just remember waking up and being like, ‘Ah, I wish I didn’t get this surgery.’ It was a process. I couldn’t give up.”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com

WWE News & Notes

This past Monday’s WWE RAW show in Brussels, Belgium featured Jey Uso defeating Austin Theory in a quick squash match. This match was notable for Uso botching a dive to the outside that drew comparisons and ridicule to a similar botch by Top Dolla on the December 16, 2022 episode of WWE SmackDown. Wrestle Features stated on Twitter that WWE’s video of Uso’s match against Theory generated over 18,000 dislikes as of Tuesday’s afternoon.

This past Monday’s WWE RAW show in Brussels also featured the announcement of a tag team match between A-Town Down Under (Austin Theory & Grayson) and Jey Uso & a mystery partner for the card of next week’s show on March 24th in Glasgow, Scotland. TNA World Champion Joe Hendry recently teased on Twitter about him making a potential appearance and being Uso’s mystery partner at next week’s WWE RAW show. Following Hendry’s post, Waller responded on Twitter posting a gif with the text “dies from cringe.”

Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp also reported in a recent Q&A article that his sources stated that talents from WWE’s NXT brand and TNA Wrestling are given bonuses or extra pay for their appearances in the other company’s shows. Sapp reported that the specific amounts for the extra pay is currently not known. Sapp also reported that counting those appearances toward on the “guarantee” of contracted dates for talents from both brands “wouldn’t bode well for the independent contractor argument.”

The March 10th WWE RAW show at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York featured NXT ring announcer Mike Rome filling in for Alicia Taylor. Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that the reason for Taylor’s absence was due to her dealing with an illness at the time. It was reported that the decision to bring in Rome for the show was a last minute decision by WWE officials.

WWE recently revealed the next match in their on-going countdown of their Top 50 matches in WrestleMania history. The 30th spot was the Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn vs. The Usos (Jimmy & Jey Uso) (c) for the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship at WrestleMania 39.

WWE also recently released one new video to their WWE Vault on YouTube. This new video was a tag team match of Hulk Hogan & The Rock vs. Kevin Nash & Scott Hall from the March 18, 2002 episode of WWE RAW.

WWE also recently released one new video to their NXT Vault channel on YouTube. This new video was the full February 5, 2014 episode of WWE NXT.

In response to a recent fan question, Fanatics confirmed on Twitter that Alexa Bliss had been pulled from her scheduled appearance at WWE’s upcoming WWE World fan event during WrestleMania 41 week in Las Vegas, Nevada. This fan stated “@fanatics_events Hey Fanatics Events I can’t find Alexa on your page? Where is she?” Fanatics Events responded stating “Hi, Roger! Regrettably, Alexa Bliss is no longer attending. Please send me a DM if you have any questions! -Marissa“

In a recent interview with the 1 Of A Kind with RVD podcast, ECW legend and former WWE wrestler The Sandman gave his thoughts about his exit from WWE in 2007. The Sandman stated “I assume this is right after SummerSlam, because right before SummerSlam, Johnny [Ace] calls me into his office and goes, ‘You can’t drink the beer anymore.’ I’m pissed. I’m like, ‘Johnny, how about you give me my release.’ I got at least one raise out of him for asking for my release. It was up from $125,000 to $150,000. Then, I find out, I have to stop drinking. Next thing I know, Austin is in the main event for SummerSlam. They’re taking the beer from me so I can’t do it on my entrance. I was pissed.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)