WWE: Konnan Reportedly to Induct Rey Mysterio, Ronda Rousey Injury Update, Edge

Konnan Reportedly to Induct Rey Mysterio into WWE Hall of Fame

As noted before, WWE recently announced that Rey Mysterio will be inducted into their Hall of Fame as part of this year’s ceremony on April 31st in Los Angeles, California.

The Los Angeles Times reported that their sources stated that Konnan is currently scheduled to be inducting Mysterio at WWE’s upcoming Hall of Fame 2023 ceremony later this month.

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Ronda Rousey Injury Status Update

As noted before, Ronda Rousey recently suffered an arm injury but is currently not expected to be out of action for next month’s WrestleMania 39 event.

Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that his sources stated that Rousey is currently believed to have suffered a hairline fracture in her arm. Meltzer reported that Rousey had suffered the injury during a recent training session and WWE officials made the decision to pull her out of action in order for her injury to heal up in time for WrestleMania 39.

Meltzer reported that WWE officials still currently have plans for Rousey and Shayna Baszler to be the official challengers for the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship at WrestleMania 39.

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Edge Comments on Judgement Day’s Success as a Group in WWE

A recent episode of the WWE After The Bell with Corey Graves podcast featured Edge as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Edge’s thoughts about the evolution of Judgement Day since WrestleMania 38.

“It really started at WrestleMania the night that Priest and I first joined together and that became the initial nucleus of what this thing was but then it turned into something entirely different and better, honestly.”

Edge also gave his thoughts about the original plans for the group involved a “supernatural element”.

“Where it’s at now was the goal that I had in mind. I really thought the concept of The Judgment Day, the idea behind it was here’s these really talented individuals who I truly felt weren’t getting the opportunity that they deserved, and if they got that opportunity that they could fly with it, they could run with it. Thankfully, they were given the reigns to take this in a different direction, an entirely different direction than it would have with Edge at the helm. Again, with Edge at the helm, it’s swimming upstream because we are trying to get the audience to turn on a character but they know the backstory to this character, they know the real-life story behind this character, they know Adam’s story. So it’s like, we don’t really want to hate this character because he fought back for something that he wanted to get back and he’s also doing something that nobody has ever done before, he’s wrestling with a triple fusion in his neck, no one has ever done that. It can be hard to hate that.”

Edge also gave his thoughts about Dominik Mysterio’s addition to the group being the “missing ingredient” for its success.

“Let’s face it, Finn Balor, Damian Priest, Rhea Ripley can all go, all animals in the ring, all have a great look, talented, can do it all. [I’m] not saying Dom can’t but in a lot of people’s eyes, they go ‘Well, Dom’s there because of Rey.’ So, there’s always that floating above him too.

But this turns it on its head and it’s like, ‘Well, actually Dom’s going to be just fine on his own and you’re going to hate it because of all the layers going into it. That’s been, I think, one of the happiest surprises out of the whole thing is just to see where that has gone and what it adds to the show. It adds to the group but it also adds to the totality of the show and I’m strangely so proud that the Judgment Day has become such an important cog in the machine or Raw and SmackDown, for that matter.”

Transcript h/t: F4wOnline.com