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The 5 News Week: Rhea Ripley Wasn't A Heel All Along!?

Hello, my fellow wrestling fans and welcome to the 5 news week. The post where I report 5 major or minor pro wrestling news, rumours and spoilers of the week that I don't have time to do it separately.  Without further ado, here are the 5 news week.  

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Rhea Ripley Wasn't A Heel All Along!? 


On this past week's episode of Monday Night Raw, Rhea Ripley teamed up with the current women's tag team champions in Shayna Baszler and Nia Jax. 

Since the Baszler and Jax are a heel duo, you would think that Ripley has officially turned to the dark side, right? Bryan Alvarez doesn't think so. 

According to the most positive person in wrestling punditry, the Thunderdome fans were told to cheer for the Australian. 

If this is the case, it is an unusual thing for WWE to have a so called babyface team up with two heels against a team full of babyfaces. 

Will see if she stays on the good side. 

Former Member of The Nexus, Michael Traver On His Heat With John Cena.


Michael Traver or Shelton Benjamin if your name is Vincent Kennedy McMahon, spoke on the Talkin' Sass podcast and during the discussion, Traver talked about how hard big match John was to him (from Post Wrestling): 

"It [the backstage heat] was never direct, it was never direct. Yeah, so a lot of people would come up to me and would like tell me, ‘Hey, there’s big plans for you. 

Like there’s a lot of people very impressed with you. Just keep your head up’ because everyone saw that I had heat with one person in particular. Everyone saw it and it was just, it was obvious. 

Like backstage, it was relentless, relentless — I don’t wanna use the word ‘bullying’ because I’m not a victim but it was just relentless and you know, I stood up for myself. 

There was times where he would take liberties in the ring so I would give him some knuckles in the ring and I had to defend myself. 

You know how it is. Somebody takes liberties, you gotta — don’t let ‘em walk all over you."

Quick Thoughts On Smackdown Yesterday. 


This week's show was a lot of fun. The key obvious highlight was the main event encounter for the universal championship between Daniel Bryan and Roman Reigns 

(can I just say that Reigns' new theme song was awesome? It was in the works since his return in August according to the Dong Lord, Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful). 

Since he's out of the blue brand per the stipulation of the championship match, Is Daniel Bryan going to appear on Monday Night BORE, NXT or is this Bryan's final match and a way to ride off the sunset? 

Impact Rebellion Has One Of The Highest PPV Buys!? 

From Dave Meltzer on the latest Wrestling Observer Newsletter (F4WOnline), Impact Wrestling's Rebellion PPV did major numbers for the company. 

The number isn't exact but the PPV had 9 times the buys for Bound For Glory (their biggest PPV of the year) and twice the buys for Hard To Kill which took place this past January. 

It seems like the partnership with AEW has benefited Impact Wrestling (no sh*t, Omar). 

Adam Pearce Got A Promotion? 


On top of being one of the best authority figures in quite some time, Adam Pearce has a separate duty as the director of live events which was a position held by Michael "P.S" Hayes.

The story was reported by Mike Johnson of PWInsider. 

It looks like WWE is preparing to resume touring. The simple question is, when? 


What do you think about the news I just reported and follow me on the tweets @omartheplayaguy? Anyways, stay safe smarks.

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