WWE: B-Fab Reportedly Receiving Backstage Praise, WWE Reportedly Considering WrestleMania 41 Plans for Mike Tyson & Logan Paul, Gable Steveson on WWE Departure

This past Friday’s WWE SmackDown show in Milwaukee, Wisconsin featured Bayley defeating B-Fab and Candice LeRae in a WWE Women’s United States Championship Tournament First Round Triple Threat match.

Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that B-Fab received significant praise within WWE for her ring performance at last week’s show.

It was reported that multiple WWE staff and talents watched B-Fab’s match in the Gorilla position and backstage areas. Those spoken to reportedly stated that B-Fab has a reputation within the company for working hard to improve in and outside of the ring. B-Fab reportedly has been training at the New Hart Dungeon with Natayla and Tyson Kidd and has been one of the camp’s most frequent visitors.

One WWE producer spoken to reportedly praised B-Fab for her initiative and strong attitude. This same person reportedly stated “Her initiative goes a long way. She’s been called up, released, brought back, put with a different group. She’s going above and beyond to make herself as available, useful and versatile as she can and always has a good attitude.”

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WWE Reportedly Considering Potential WrestleMania 41 Plans for Mike Tyson & Logan Paul

WrestleVotes Radio reported that their sources stated that WWE officials is currently considering potential plans for Mike Tyson and Logan Paul to be involved in a high-profile encounter at next year’s WrestleMania 41 event.

It was reported that WWE officials are currently considering the idea of Tyson and Paul to either be involved in a high-stakes segment or a potential match at the event.

It was also reported that following Tyson’s recent high profile boxing match against Paul’s brother Jake Paul, talks within WWE over this idea had intensified about wanting to leverage this high-profile encounter for entertainment value for their benefit.

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Gable Steveson Comments on His Departure from WWE & Issues Between Him and WWE Over His Non-WWE Wrestling Career

A recent episode of The Ariel Helwani Show featured former WWE talent Gable Steveson as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Steveson’s thoughts about his departure from WWE and issues between him and WWE over him wanting to continue his collegiate and Olympic wrestling career.

“When I got to WWE, everything was great, and everything went great the whole time. It just wasn’t the right time. After I signed with WWE, I tried to go back to wrestle, and you can’t do consistently the one foot in, one foot out of everything, and as time went on, it just wasn’t the right thing. I wanted to keep wrestling and keep going in that direction, and WWE had a different direction. Obviously, it’s no hard feelings. It’s never bad blood. I did see Paul Levesque, Triple H, at the UFC event, and we had a brief convo, and everything was very civil and very nice. It was great to see him and Stephanie backstage. Everything is good. There’s no hard feelings on my end. They knew at the time that I wanted to keep being competitive, and it was just a little bump in the road, and it happens.”

Steveson also gave his thoughts about when he started to feel that WWE was not the best fit for him.

“I’m not sure. We’ll just leave it as everything’s all good. There’s no tensions, there’s no animosity against anything. If the opportunity definitely came around in the future and I would love to put both feet back in and take off and go run with it, and I would love that. But business is always gonna be business. You gotta take risks in your life, and some of the risks don’t work, and that one didn’t work, and there’s no problems with me, I’m hands-off, and time will always come back around hopefully.”

Steveson also gave his thoughts about his release being something he saw coming but it still came out of left field for him and his decision for staying quiet following his departure from WWE.

“I stayed quiet just because there was no hard feelings when I did get let go, and there’s still no hard feelings now. I have nothing to say about the business because when I sat down with Vince [McMahon] and Nick Khan and Triple H, it was all love, that’s when I first met them in 2021. From then on, there was no problems. I took it as a hit on the chin, a humbling experience, and you guys keep moving forward. If you are bitter about something, then there must have been a problem, and there was no problems with me.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com