FightfulSelect.com reported the following WWE Raw spoilers:
– Kevin Owens promo leading to a match
– Alexa Bliss promo
– Michin vs. Bayley
– Austin Theory and Seth Rollins promo
– Candice LeRae vs. Rhea Ripley
– Cody Rhodes vignette
– Solo Sikoa vs. Dolph Ziggler
– Miz TV featuring Dolph Ziggler
– Top Contender Tag Team Turmoil: The OC, Judgment Day, Street Profits, Cedric Alexander and Shelton Benjamin, Alpha Academy
SPOILERS
– Kevin Owens vs. Baron Corbin will happen tonight.
– Von Wagner and Oddysey Jones are both in town for Main Event matches.
– As of today, Judgment Day was supposed to get a heavy push in the main event.
– Akira Tozawa was supposed to continue with Street Profits.
– Fightful has been told by several within the industry that Bo Dallas is expected to be around more than just tonight within WWE
Vince McMahon was the CEO of WWE before he had to step down following allegations of sexual misconduct and allegedly having paid $12 million in hush money in a huge scandal. He appeared on SmackDown last night in a John Cena video. He eventually retired from WWE for good and was replaced by his daughter Stephanie McMahon as the CEO of WWE. His son-in-law Triple H is now the Executive Vice President of Talent and Relations as well. Vince McMahon also lied about quitting WWE recently but ended up being real in the end.
Vince McMahon is planning to return to WWE with two former co-Presidents of the country, and he’ll be adding them to the board. McMahon intends to sell WWE.
On the latest “What Happened When” podcast with Tony Schiavone, Conrad Thompson explained how he knew at the time Nick Khan was hired by WWE that it was to help sell the WWE:
“I’ve been saying on this program for a while that WWE was going to sell. Do you know why I said that? Because I knew. You know how I knew? Remember when Nick Khan first joined WWE? Well he joined, and he was, of course, an agent. You’ve heard of like UTA and CAA and WME, all these big Hollywood agencies. He was a guy who was helping to negotiate contracts and make deals and things like that. I happened to have some friends who needed representation like that. We’ll say that.”
Thompson continued, “My friend was represented by the same company that Nick Khan was sort of running, and when my friend sees that the guy who runs this big agency is now going to WWE, he thought, ‘What the f**k? This doesn’t make any sense.’ So he called his contact and said, ‘Dude, what’s up with Nick going, blah, blah, blah.’ He said, and this is years ago now, ‘Yea. He’s got a deal with Vince where in his contract, he gets a big payday when he helps facilitate the sale.’ He told me the number, and I won’t say the number because that’s talking about somebody’s money and that’s not cool, but let’s just say this, it’s more than AEW’s TV contract is for a year. It’s a lot. It’s a lot, a lot. So when you hear it’s a lot, a lot, you think, ‘Well why would this guy go here?’, Ah ha, and now, Ta Da. I’ve heard backchanneling before Mean Gene passed away, he said, ‘Well, I heard from’, and I won’t say who he heard it from, ‘When the stock gets to so and so,’ This has been brewing for a while. I know a lot of wrestling fans have been thinking, ‘Well this is just a brand new development.’ It’s years old.”
h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription.
