WWE: Rey Fenix Expected to Join WWE Update, Steve Austin Provides Update on Knee Surgery Recovery & His Reaction to John Cena’s Heel Turn Moment at Elimination Chamber 2025, More News

Mar 7, 2025

Rey Fenix Expected to Join WWE Update

As noted before, Rey Fenix was released from AEW earlier this week and is currently a free agent. Fenix is currently expected to be joining WWE soon.

Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that Fenix is currently expected to undergo his medicals with WWE soon. This is part of WWE’s process when it comes to signing new talent to the company.

It was reported that WWE’s merchandise and creative teams are already putting together ideas for Fenix’s official arrival in the company.

It was also reported that if Fenix has not already signed with WWE, then it is expected to be “coming soon” barring any unforeseen circumstances.

Steve Austin Provides Update on Knee Surgery Recovery & His Reaction to John Cena’s Heel Turn Moment

As noted before, WWE Hall of Famer Stone Cole Steve Austin underwent total knee replacement surgery for his left knee in late 2024.

A recent episode of the Unlikely with Adrian Hernandez podcast featured Austin as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Austin providing an update on his current recovery from his knee surgery.

“Doing good, I’m about 13 weeks out. It really takes about a year for these things to fully heal up, so it’s still a little bit tender, but just got back in the car and started driving. We’re about to run the Mint 400. Zach’s run it a couple of times but he’s broke so he hadn’t finished it. It’s going to be a rough race, probably the roughest race I’ve ever driven. If I can just keep my knee together, that’s my break leg. I’m just going to do the best I can. The knee is feeling solid, I’m out of pain because it cut all of that arthritis out when they put that new joint in there. I’m in a good place, but I’ve got some work to do.”

In a separate recent interview with The Schmo, Austin gave his thoughts about John Cena’s surprise heel turn moment at WWE’s Elimination Chamber 2025 event.

“It had to happen sooner or later. Finally it happened. So it’ll be interesting to see, you know, whether the people accept him as a heel or has he turned himself more babyface. I think it remains to be seen as the story unfolds. Nonetheless, they’ve kicked off an epic build into WrestleMania. And that’s what they do every single year. And this year it’s here in Las Vegas, so it’s going to be pretty damn awesome.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com, F4WOnline.com

WWE News & Notes

WWE announced that Randy Orton will be making several appearances on their upcoming European tour. It was announced that Orton will be making an appearance at their March 14th WWE SmackDown show in Barcelona, Spain, their March 21st SmackDown show in Bologna, Italy, and March 28th SmackDown show in London, England.

As noted before, this past Saturday’s WWE Elimination Chamber 2025 event featured John Cena making a surprise heel turn after attacking Cody Rhodes and aligning himself with the “Final Boss” The Rock. Cena recently posted a video on TikTok featuring his “Basic Thuganomics” entrance theme song playing over footage of his heel turn.

Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp reported in a recent Q&A article that his sources stated that the general reaction from talent backstage at this past Saturday’s Elimination Chamber 2025 event was one of shock over John Cena’s heel turn moment. Sapp reported that many people within the locker room had thought that Cena’s heel turn was something that was possible for his farewell tour but didn’t think it would actually happen. Sapp also reported that there was a lot of exictement from talent afterwards due to them knowing it would lead to more eyes on the show.

WWE recently launched a new WCW Vault channel on YouTube.

WWE also recently revealed the next match in their on-going countdown of their Top 50 matches in WrestleMania history. The 42nd spot was the Hardcore match of Mick Foley vs. Edge from WrestleMania 22.

WWE also recently released one new video to their WWE Vault channel on YouTube. This new video was a “Road Warriors – The Life & Death of The Most Dominant Tag Team in Wrestling History” full documentary.

In a recent interview with Instinct Culture’s Denise Salcedo, NXT talent Stephanie Vaquer gave her thoughts about her making her in-ring debut for WWE at a live event in Mexico City this past July. Vaquer stated “My debut was very quick. I debuted in Mexico, which was incredible for me because I debuted with an audience I was accustomed to, an audience that made me feel at home.So for me, it was really great to debut there. But yes, people were very expectant about that debut, about being able to join NXT. People were excited and waiting. Obviously, it takes some time. All the paperwork, the visa, and everything that comes with it, right? But everything went well, and people were waiting for me with great anticipation.” Vaquer also gave her thoughts about her official debut appearance for WWE’s NXT brand this past September. Vaquer stated “So, happy not only to achieve success but also to reunite with my friend Giulia. Our experiences started almost at the same time, so having this experience with your best friend, well, what luck, right? Yes, honestly, that was one of the things that made me feel happiest, the fact that destiny brought us together again, this time here in WWE. We had faced each other before. We already knew each other. We always had a good friendship, good chemistry, and meeting again here was just like… great. Just great. And I think it was one of the things that made me happiest when I arrived. I didn’t feel so alone anymore. Right? Because it’s something, well, it’s a new world, right. everyone, you know a bit of English, but also the language.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

In a recent episode of Kinda Funny Games’ Gregawy series on YouTube, Greg Miller confirmed that he is no longer working for WWE. Miller stated “If you didn’t know, I hosted a show for WWE called ‘This is Awesome’ where we ran you through the most awesome moments in WWE history. We filmed three seasons of it and it was awesome and it was great, and it’s officially over. I’ve known for a while that we were (done). I was just hoping to skate by a little bit longer on wwe.com/superstars so that I could keep saying that I was a WWE superstar. I knew this day was coming. You might have noticed, season three’s outro was very much, ‘Thank you for everything.’ It could have been a season finale, but we thought it might be a series finale.” Miller also gave his thoughts about how WWE’s focus on Netflix seemed to play a role in his departure from the company. Miller stated “It was a Peaock show. Raw is on Netflix in America. Everywhere else, everything is on Netflix. Netflix is kind of the focus, not Peacock, in terms of what was going on. There were a few different things that happened. Then, it was the shocker for me, the people who make ‘This is Awesome’ were actually laid off in January. ‘That’s not good. Now there is no one there to make it happen.’ The other one, since jumping over to Netflix, you’ve seen the one and only Big E host a bunch of different show. I think, that more than anything, ‘this is why it doesn’t make sense for Greg Miller, video game dork, to host anything.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

WWE announced one new match for the card of their NXT house show event on March 8th in Tampa, Florida:

Last Man Standing match – “All Ego” Ethan Page vs. Je’Von Evans