Triple H On SmackDown, WWE Under Scrutiny For WrestleMania 39 B-Roll, John Cena Set For New WWE Series
As announced by WWE, Triple H will appear live on SmackDown!
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AEW President Tony Khan has turned "major announcements" into something of an arms race in professional wrestling and WWE has entered the fracas.
Fresh off of opening this week's "WWE Raw" to assure fans that nothing will change in the wake of WWE's sale to Endeavor, WWE Chief Content Officer Paul "Triple H" Levesque will appear on this week's episode of "WWE SmackDown" at the Moda Center in Portland, Oregon, with another announcement, according to the company's official Twitter. There is no word on what Triple H's announcement will be.
Upon purchase of the WWE Endeavor merged WWE with the MMA promotion UFC to create a company worth a combined $21 billion and Endeavor a 51 percent ownership of WWE. Endeavor asked specifically for Chairman Vince McMahon to run WWE in its current capacity, which saw McMahon back in Gorilla Position and contributing to the creative process at WWE television recently. This past Monday, Triple H opened the show by saying that "the same WWE that you know and love is going nowhere" on the same day that Endeavor finalized the deal.
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Wrestling wasn’t the only thing John Cena did over the WrestleMania 39 weekend as Cena also filmed for a new WWE ROKU docuseries. "Millions around the world watch and dream of it, but only a handful of extraordinary individuals can become a WWE Superstar," Cena said in a press release. "I am so excited to bring 'WWE: Recruits' to The Roku Channel and look forward to giving viewers an exclusive all-access perspective on how the WWE turns the dreams of talented young people into a reality."
WWE is under scrutiny after b-roll footage for Dominik Mysterio featured a picture of an Auschwitz concentration camp this past weekend. The Auschwitz Memorial released a statement on the matter early Wednesday morning, tweeting "The fact that Auschwitz image was used to promote a WWE match is hard to call 'an editing mistake.' Exploiting the site that became a symbol of enormous human tragedy is shameless and insults the memory of all victims of Auschwitz."
It was a back-and-forth answer as to what the main event of WrestleMania 39 night one would be. The answer was the tag team championship match and while many were happy, Ric Flair wasn’t one of them. "There's no way that Sami and KO and the Usos [should] go on after [Charlotte] and Rhea," Flair said with clear frustration. "Only in the WWE." The WWE Hall of Famer made sure to preface his comments by saying that he respects every single performer who steps into the ring, and his opinion is by no means a reflection on them as a person but is instead centered around the promotion's booking.
Damian Priest did appear at ringside during WrestleMania, but he was the one member who did not actually have a match on the show. Priest seems okay with this as long as he gets a match at Backlash. "That definitely would make up for it," he declared on Out Of Character. "Wherever you're from, whether it's a different country or just your town, you get to do something special there in front of your family, your friends, and people who are proud to say that they're from the same place you are, it's extra special. So going back to Puerto Rico, and having a premium live event, it's wild to think that this is happening."
They're quick to jump on anything about a camp. Chill. It was just a mistake. Nobody's coming for you. Yet.