WWE: Tiffany Stratton & Charlotte Flair Promo Segment Incident on 4/4 SmackDown Show Update, Jordynne Grace “Pay Cut” Rumors Update, Kevin Owens on Fan Footage of His Cody Rhodes Attack at Bad Blood 2024 Being Triple H’s Idea

Backstage Update on Tiffany Stratton & Charlotte Flair Promo Segment Incident on 4/4 WWE SmackDown Show

As noted before, Charlotte Flair and current WWE Women’s Champion Tiffany Stratton were involved in an incident at last Friday’s WWE SmackDown show in Chicago, Illinois. This incident revolved around their promo segment going very off script over Stratton bringing up Flair’s personal life issues including her history of failed marriages and Flair responding back implying Ludwig Kaiser was cheating on Stratton.

Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that one source spoken to stated that they believe that Flair has been purposely trying to rattle Stratton.

This source stated “Charlotte has been trying to rattle Tiffany. Standard stuff. Cena does it. Randy does it. Young talent coming up, you put a little heat on them as a test to get them to either sink or swim.”

This same source also stated that Flair had “f**ked this whole program by not adjusting (to being a heel, because she was originally planned to be the babyface in the feud).” and “she got stuck. That Chicago crowd ate her up because they can see she’s doing more than business, she’s trying to embarrass Tiffany.”

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Update on Pay Cut Rumors for Jordynne Grace’s Signing with WWE Update

As noted before, Jordynne Grace’s contract with TNA Wrestling expired this past January and had signed a new contract with WWE. Grace has been rumored to have taken a “major” pay cut in order to sign with WWE compared to what she had been making before between her TNA deal and outside income sources.

Fightful Select reported that their sources provided an update stating that Grace’s current contract with WWE is for main roster level type money and is more than what she was making in TNA.

It was reported that Grace was already making well over seven figures before joining WWE through her additional incomes, including her OnlyFans account. It was also reported that the reason why Grace had shut down her OnlyFans account prior to signing with WWE was due to her wanting to make wrestling her main priority and also wanted to avoid any potential conflict with WWE ahead of her finalizing a new contract with them.

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Kevin Owens Comments on Fan Footage of His Attack on Cody Rhodes Following WWE Bad Blood 2024 Being Triple H’s Idea

A recent episode of the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast featured Kevin Owens as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Owens’ thoughts about his parking lot confrontation and brawl with Cody Rhodes being captured on a fan camera following this past October’s Bad Blood 2024 event being WWE CCO Paul “Triple H” Levesque’s idea.

“It wasn’t me. That was Triple H, that was his idea (to rely on fans to film my attack on Cody Rhodes after WWE Bad Blood). He felt confident in doing it that way. I was not sure. I’m like, ‘I don’t know, man. Is there even going to be enough people there?’ It turns out he was completely right, there was and yeah, it was just a different way of telling the stories and he’s got a different mentality than Vince (McMahon) had, and it’s really interesting and people really responded to it and the same thing with Randy (Orton). The way I ended up ultimately turning on Randy, it was on TV but it was done differently. It was something that was released later as well and you just kind of caught the tail end of it on TV but then, they did the security footage after. He wants to tell stories differently and he’s willing to try stuff out and see what sticks and I think that makes the show way more interesting. It doesn’t mean it’s always gonna work. There might be sometimes it doesn’t land. But, we’re trying different things and new things and I think that’s so important in wrestling. When it gets monotonous and repetitive, no matter how good the matches are and the promos are, if you feel like you’ve seen it before — and it’s okay to have seen it before once. If you see a rematch once or twice, great. But man, there were times over — I’d say in 2008, 2009 — and I was an avid fan. I would never miss any WWE shows, even when I was an independent wrestler traveling the world. But I started paying a lot less attention in ‘08, ‘09 because I felt like this is literally the same thing every single week, and there were times where, you know, even when I was here, like 2016, 2017, I felt like we just did this two weeks ago and now we’re doing it again, and to me, when it gets like that, it’s just not the way we need to do things. I think we need different things. There’s new things. We need to try stuff and it has to feel unpredictable and exciting.”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com