Becky Lynch Comments on Her Current Break from Wrestling & Career Future
As noted before, Becky Lynch’s contract with WWE expired on June 1st and she is currently a free agent. Lynch is currently on a break from wrestling but is believed to be returning to WWE in the future. Lynch recently reflected about her time as “The Man” and her career in WWE leading to online speculation of Lynch was retiring from wrestling.
A recent episode of the Games With Names with Julian Edelman podcast featured Lynch as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Lynch’s thoughts about her current break from wrestling and the future of her wrestling career.
“Oh, it’s great. It’s great. Everything is great. I’ve got my wonderful little family. I have many options on the table. And I get to — for the first time in a long time — take a bit of a breath to appreciate everything. Because when you’re on the road 52 weeks a year, non-stop, going from town to town. And then in the last three years, I added to the chaos by having a daughter who I would bring everywhere with me. And then on top of that, I decided it would be good to write my biography. So it was really — for especially the last year [or] two years — pure chaos. Now I’m taking a little bit more time. I’m taking a breath. I’m getting to look around the world. Getting to look at what I created and evaluate everything. And it’s been wonderful.”
Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com
Chad Gable WWE Contract Status Update – Gable Reveals New Contract is for Three Years
As noted before, Chad Gable signed a new contract with WWE this past June to remain in the company for the foreseeable future.
A recent episode of the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast featured Gable as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Gable revealing that his new contract with WWE is for three years in length.
“I just re-signed with the company for three more years. To extend my relationship with the company that has done so much for me, afford me things that I never thought I would be able to do, travel around the world and back 100 times it feels like. See things I never would have saw. meet people I never would have met, and just live a childhood dream, which so many people never get to do. How could I not be grateful for that? To continue that relationship, I’m so excited. To end my career, if you ask me, I have ten years left in me. I feel physically as good as I ever have. To be hitting a peak, I feel, of my career at this point is awesome. I’m excited for the future.
We both wanted it. I wanted to stay here, and I think, hopefully, they wanted me to stay here, too. We’ve been mutually beneficial for each other. I love everything the company does.”
Transcript h/t: Fightful.com
WWE News & Notes
Wednesday’s WWE Speed show on Twitter featured Austin Theory’s match with Montez Ford ending in a time limit draw. As a result of the draw, both Theory and Ford were eliminated from WWE’s newest #1 Contender’s tournament for the WWE Speed Championship and Je’Von Evans automatically advanced to the Semifinal Round.
Fightful’s Corey Brennan reported that Stephanie Vaquer, Giulia, and DELTA are all currently in the process of relocating or about to be relocating to the United States for their upcoming WWE careers. All three are currently scheduled to be reporting to WWE’s Performance Center in Orlando, Florida.
WrestleVotes reported that their sources stated that WWE officials are currently working on plans to “rebrand” the Judgement Day with one of the new names being considered for the group being “Street Trash.”
WWE recently released a new video on their WWE Vault YouTube channel featuring the tag team match of John Cena & Umaga vs. Randy Orton & Carlito from the August 13, 2007 episode of WWE RAW.
WWE filed a trademark for “Wyatt Sicks” on August 9th for wrestling and entertainment-related purposes to the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
WWE also filed a trademark for “Pure Fusion” and “The Pure Fusion Collective” on August 12th for wrestling and entertainment-related purposes to the USPTO.
WWE also filed a trademark for “Fatal Influence” on August 13th for wrestling and entertainment-related purposes to the USPTO.
Tuesday’s NXT show featured Oba Femi defeating Otis in an Open Challenge match to retain his NXT North American Championship. Following the match, WWE held a digital exclusive backstage interview with Femi discussing his victory and issued another open challenge to anyone in NXT and WWE’s main roster. Femi stated “Another successful title defense. With all due respect to Otis, he couldn’t get the job done tonight. I challenge anyone from NXT and anyone from the main roster to come here and give me a challenge. Because if Otis couldn’t do it, I don’t think anyone can.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)
A recent episode of the Impaulsive podcast featured Dominik Mysterio as the guest. During the show, the topic of WWE’s recent tour of Japan was discussed leading to Mysterio asking if Paul has ever been to Japan in reference to Paul being absent from the tour and his past controversy in the country. Paul responded back stating “Bro, Dom. What do you think? Yes, I can go to Japan. I can go to Japan.” Mysterio responded stating “I’m just making sure. I didn’t know if you were shadow banned or excommunicado” and Paul responding back stating “No, I’m not excommunicado.” This led to Mysterio responding stating ” I didn’t know if you were put on a list or something. WWE can pull some strings for you” and Paul responding back stating “I’ve never said this before, but my rule was, if I went back, I would like to be invited back. I haven’t gotten the invite yet.” In response to co-host Mike Majlak’s question about who he is waiting to invite him, Paul stated WWE and him acting as a heel which led to Mysterio responding stating that Paul can wear the hat in reference to the controversial 2017 video of Paul filming himself wearing an Alien beanie hat in the Aokigahara forest next to a suicide victim. (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)
In a recent interview with the Unlikely with Adrian Hernandez show, Big E gave his thoughts about what a meaty man is and what a meaty man match is like in wrestling. Big E stated “A meaty man to me is just a burly man, and honestly, sometimes, it’s really a state of mind too. It’s not just about your physical vessel, and of course, that is important. I’m looking for people with big chests put together. You could be brolic, you could be all muscle, you could have a little heft to you. You could have a little blubber to you, that’s cool too. But if you come with the mindset of a man who is hefty, a man who shall not be moved, but instead I’m gonna move you, a mover of other men, yeah. also, I think it can extend to women as well. But anyways, it’s just about that. It’s about being stout. You can be ground-based. You can be a bit of a high-flier, too. We got some big, meaty men who like to jump off ropes and jump off things as well. That’s fine. But it’s about a mind state of stoutness, like I’m gonna get in the gym, Imma put on some weight, and Imma make sure that the earth, when I move, the earth feels me, that gravity knows who I am, gravity knows your name. That’s a meaty man. A meaty man match is just at least two of those people colliding, [claps his hands]. That’s what I want to hear. That’s the collision, when they slap, [claps again], that’s the meat slapping. That’s what it sounds like.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)