Fans can expect to see Charlotte Flair back on WWE television soon, based on a new report.
Flair hasn’t wrestled since she lost the WWE SmackDown Women’s Championship to Ronda Rousey at WrestleMania: Backlash in May. She then took time off for her wedding with AEW’s Andrade El Idolo.
Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson, known together as the Good Brothers, made their return to the WWE last night.
A lot of familiar faces have been finding their way back to the WWE within the last few months. Some of these names include Johnny Gargano, Sarah Logan, Dexter Lumis, Candice LeRae, and, most recently, Bray Wyatt.
Finn Balor’s Judgment Day stable stood in the ring to cut a promo. Balor called out AJ Styles and told him to come to the ring; for the past few weeks, Balor had been recruiting Styles to Judgment Day with no success. Styles came to the ring and pretended to accept Finn’s offer. In reality, though, he was reintroducing his good friends and teammates, Gallows and Anderson.
They were among the crowd released due to “budget cuts” in 2020.
During their time away from WWE, Gallows and Anderson competed in AEW, IMPACT, and New Japan Pro Wrestling. They won the IMPACT Tag Team Championships. In NJPW, Karl Anderson won the NEVER Openweight Championship and is technically still billed as champion. He was supposed to defend at Battle Autumn on November 5.
NJPW updated the Battle Autumn card following The Good Brothers’ WWE re-debut, but not because Anderson needed to be removed from it. The Never Openweight title defense against Hikuleo remains, and according to Wrestling Observer, it will go ahead as planned. The show takes place in Osaka, Japan on the same day as WWE’s Crown Jewel, so don’t expect to see The Good Brothers on the first Saudi show without Vince McMahon in charge.
This clearly wasn’t a case of Gallows and Anderson showing up in WWE without permission, nor the pair finding a loophole or keeping a title in their possession after their contracts lapsed. NJPW has retweeted WWE’s clip showing the pair as they rushed to the ring to flank Styles. A deal must have been struck, but the finer details of that deal currently remain unclear.
Gallows and Anderson returning and confirming WWE has some sort of working relationship comes just days after Tony Khan revealed details about a conversation he had with CEO Nick Khan. The AEW owner spoke with Nick in 2021 following reports WWE had spoken to NJPW about working together. Tony called Nick a con man live on Dynamite after being assured by NJPW that no such deal was in place.
Newly returned Bray Wyatt soon won’t be the only Rotunda family member in WWE.
In a new report from Bryan Alvarez of F4Wonline, Wyatt’s younger brother, Bo Dallas is expected to return to WWE “very soon.”
WWE released Dallas on April 15, 2021, after being with the promotion since 2008. Samoa Joe, Mickie James, Chelsea Green, Tucker, Kalisto, Cassie Lee (FKA Peyton Royce), and Jessie McKay (FKA Billie Kay) were also released on April 15.
During his career, he was the tag team partner to Curtis Axel and they were known as “The B-Team.” He and Axel held the “Raw” Tag Team Titles. Dallas is also a former “NXT” Champion and a WWE 24/7 Champion. Before his release, his last WWE match was at the 2019 WWE Crown Jewel event on October 31. The match was a World Cup Tag Team Turmoil match and Dallas teamed with Axel.
Dallas is currently in a relationship with former “SmackDown” Women’s Champion Liv Morgan. Dallas and Morgan currently run a farm together and Dallas was also working in the real estate business.
As noted, Wyatt made his WWE return on Saturday night at Extreme Rules after the main event match between Seth Rollins and Matt Riddle. For weeks, WWE teased his return with QR codes and Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit.”
Dallas and Wyatt’s father is “IRS” Mike Rotunda and their grandfather is WWE Hall of Famer Blackjack Mulligan.
Tonight’s season premiere of WWE RAW live from Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY.
The fallout from WWE Extreme Rules will also be felt. The event saw Bray Wyatt make his shocking return to the company, revealing himself to be the man behind the “White Rabbit” clues seen on WWE programming in recent weeks.
The lights went out and Michael Cole was asking if they’re still on the air. All the fireflies light up their phones as “He’s got the whole world in his hands” starts playing. A few people in the crowd are given a spotlight, dressed up as Huskus the Pig Boy, Mercy the Buzzard, Rambling Rabbit, and Abbey the Witch are shown. The Fiend is shown, too. All the Firefly Fun House puppets are shown covered in cobwebs and such. A masked person pops up on the screen and mumbles something. Finally, Bray Wyatt appeared in a new mask with a lantern in his hands. Before the show ended, Wyatt took the mask off, blew out the lantern, and said, “I’m here.” A new logo pops up on the screen resembling the Silence of the Lambs iconography.
Following the pay-per-view event, Wyatt continued his return, and hyped up the live audience in Philadelphia, PA.
After walking up to fans on both sides of the entrance stage, the former Universal Champion made his way backstage.
Another QR code aired on this week’s episode of WWE SmackDown, with this one strongly hinting at the return of “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt.
During the opening segment of the show, Triple H cut a brief promo to welcome everyone to the season premiere of SmackDown. There was a QR code on his microphone, which leads to a video that you can view below.
In the video, the same pig cartoon from previous videos is featured, this time with “Let Me In” playing repeatedly. Of course, “Let Me In” is the catchphrase Bray Wyatt often used during his time in WWE as “The Fiend.”
The Wyatt teases didn’t end with just a QR code on this week’s show held in Worcester, Massachusetts. For the first time ever, a white rabbit teaser video actually played on television, as a white rabbit was shown running through a forest until a giant portal in the ground opened up, causing him to fall into the rabbit hole. This was followed by a few riddles and the text “Tomorrow Night” and “10.8.22” flashing through the screen, confirming earlier reports that the big white rabbit unveil will take place this Saturday at the Extreme Rules event in Philadelphia. The video ended with the text “Feed Your Head.”
That’s not all. According to fans at the DCU Center, a person in a white rabbit costume was seen randomly walking around the arena during Friday’s show. Plus the person in the white rabbit costume was seen sitting behind the announce table.
If Wyatt does indeed show up Saturday, it remains to be seen he returns as “The Fiend” or introduces the wrestling world to a brand new character.
WWE Extreme Rules, Saturday Oct. 8 from the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at 8 ET/ 5 PT, steaming live on Peacock in the United States and WWE Network everywhere else.
Extreme Rules match for the WWE SmackDown Women’s Championship: Liv Morgan (c) vs. Ronda Rousey
Fight Pit match: Matt Riddle vs. Seth Rollins (Daniel Cormier will serve as the special guest referee)
Strap match: Drew McIntyre vs. Karrion Kross (with Scarlett)
Ladder match for the WWE Raw Women’s Championship: Bianca Belair (c) vs. Bayley
“I Quit” match: Edge vs. Finn Bálor
Six-man tag team Good Old Fashioned Donnybrook match: The Brawling Brutes (Sheamus, Ridge Holland, and Butch) vs. Imperium (Gunther, Ludwig Kaiser, and Giovanni Vinci)
Tonight’s season premiere of WWE SmackDown live from DCU Center in Worcester, MA at 8/7C on FOX. Final show before Saturday night’s Extreme Rules premium live event
Gable Steveson is training at the WWE Performance Center full-time, after a recent heart surgery.
Steveson signed with WWE in 2021, after winning Gold at the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games in freestyle wrestling.
ESPN reports that Steveson underwent an ablation last month to treat Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome.
WPW is a disorder due to a specific type of problem with the electrical system of the heart that causes the heart to beat abnormally for periods of time.
In 2007, MVP was discovered to have WPW syndrome during a routine medical, in what was called a life-saving discovery.
ESPN’s report adds that Steveson is now training at the Performance Center in Orlando, Florida full-time after previously working at a private center set up on campus at the University of Minnesota.
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