{"id":104840,"date":"2022-10-22T14:43:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T14:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/rumor-roundup-aew-is-anti-punk-triple-h-covid-wyatt-plan-more\/"},"modified":"2022-10-22T14:43:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T14:43:26","slug":"rumor-roundup-aew-is-anti-punk-triple-h-covid-wyatt-plan-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/rumor-roundup-aew-is-anti-punk-triple-h-covid-wyatt-plan-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumor Roundup: AEW is anti-Punk, Triple H COVID, Wyatt plan, more!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"PsQIFh\">Speculating on the rumors surrounding pro wrestling is a favored pastime of many fans, perhaps second only to actually watching the matches.  In this daily column, we take a look at the latest rumors being churned out by the pro wrestling rumor mill.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"mLVYRH\">Important reminder: Rumors are just that \u2014 rumors.  None of this has been confirmed as fact, it&#8217;s just circulating around the pro wrestling rumor mill.  We track rumor accuracy in a weekly feature called Rumor Look Back you can find here.  Remember, take it all with a grain of salt.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"SKdpQT\">Rumors for the Day:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li id=\"3ByBKf\">The Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports WWE&#8217;s planned changes to their premium live event lineup for 2023 include adding an annual UK event, and having fewer shows centered around a gimmick.<\/li>\n<li id=\"B6r7qO\">\n<p>PW Insider said Triple H wasn&#8217;t at last night&#8217;s <em>SmackDown<\/em> taping because he&#8217;s still in WWE&#8217;s COVID-19 protocol.  He&#8217;s feeling fine and is expected back at next week&#8217;s TV tapings, pending test results.<\/li>\n<li id=\"cRW9MT\">CM Punk is not popular backstage at AEW, per the Observer Newsletter.  Most of the talent are \u201cdecidedly anti-Punk\u201d because of how he went after the \u201cvery popular\u201d Hangman Page, made AEW look bush league by saying Page had done nothing in his career, and how everything Punk was involved in after <em>All Out<\/em> made the company look bad overall.<\/li>\n<li id=\"gfYesL\">\n<p>F4WOnline&#8217;s Dave Meltzer indicated that Ace Steel was surprised AEW released him.<\/li>\n<li id=\"MBffOF\">Despite reportedly being present for the post-<em>All Out<\/em> brawl, Meltzer notes that Ace Steel&#8217;s wife was never spoken to during the investigation into the matter. <\/li>\n<li id=\"GAKbrv\">According to Fightful, WWE prepared travel arrangements for Billy Gunn to appear at the 25th anniversary celebration of D-Generation X on <em>Raw<\/em>.  One of the ideas for mentioning that he works for AEW on air included a \u201clower third graphic with an AEW logo.\u201d  WWE ultimately decided not to do it.<\/li>\n<li id=\"Nukkux\">The WON also says WWE is considering Vincent &#038; Dutch, the former ROH tag team known as The Righteous, for Bray Wyatt&#8217;s faction.<\/li>\n<li id=\"7f663Y\">It seems indie promotion GCW has \u201csomething going on with WWE,\u201d as the Observer says \u201cJoey Janela not only was <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JANELABABY\/status\/1583645035584634882\" target=\"_blank\">plugging<\/a> for people to watch <em>Raw<\/em> and also <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JANELABABY\/status\/1582142317276041217\" target=\"_blank\">told everyone<\/a> on the roster to do the same and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JANELABABY\/status\/1582162444180672512\" target=\"_blank\">promote <em>Raw<\/em><\/a>  this week.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"ul5Fdz\"><em>If you have heard of any interesting rumors that you&#8217;d like to add, feel free to post them in the comments section below.  Just remember they are rumors and not confirmed as fact, so please take them as such.  And check our weekly Rumor Look Back <\/em><em>here<\/em><em>  to keep track of how often rumors turn out to be correct.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speculating on the rumors surrounding pro wrestling is a favored pastime of many fans, perhaps second only to actually watching the matches. In this daily column, we take a look at the latest rumors being churned out by the pro wrestling rumor mill. Important reminder: Rumors are just that \u2014 rumors. None of this has &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/rumor-roundup-aew-is-anti-punk-triple-h-covid-wyatt-plan-more\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rumor Roundup: AEW is anti-Punk, Triple H COVID, Wyatt plan, more!<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":113523,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/rumor-roundup-wwe-returns-former-cm-punk-plans-mike-tyson-more\/","url_meta":{"origin":104840,"position":0},"title":"Rumor Roundup: WWE returns, former CM Punk plans, Mike Tyson, more!","date":"October 31, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Speculating on the rumors surrounding pro wrestling is a favored pastime of many fans, perhaps second only to actually watching the matches. 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