Can we just stop posting sports illustrated stuff now? Or at least stuff from that Borasso jackass or whatever his name is (I think he's the only one who writes wrestling stuff for SI anyways). I've been guilty of it before in the past, but with Johnson and Meltzer shutting him down and pretty much saying he's full of ****, why even bother posting his stuff here? Same way we stopped posting stuff from sportskeeda until that dude lost his mind and pretty much faded off on his own.
Anyways...
- Sasha Banks talked about how she's no longer scared to talk to Vince and how he's very easy to talk to and you get the RIGHT answer from him immediately as opposed to asking a creative writer.
Alternatively, Christian once told a story about how creative wanted him to do something and said that's how Vince wanted it even though it was out of character for Christian's character, so Christian went to Vince who said it was stupid and told Christian to do it his way, so Christian re-wrote it himself, handed it to creative who were pretty much "wtf" and Christian told them that was how Vince wanted it.
- Darren Young told a story of how CM Punk reacted when Darren Young came out. After Punk's match with Lesnar, he was iced from head to toe and told Darren to stand up in catering and gave him a hug and told him he was proud of him and if anyone gave him any problems over it, Punk would deal with it. He did that in front of the entire roster in catering. Orton and Show were very supportive of Darren too.
- FOX is making a MAJOR push to acquire WWE TV rights. Raw would air on the main network and Smackdown on FS1, in case you had any hope of Smackdown being better than Raw again if FOX acquired the rights. Raw's potential audience boost would be big as it'd be the first time in their history they'd be on one of the four major networks in prime time. Both, UFC and WWE are seeking $400-million for TV rights, and a source says FOX would give that money to WWE and let UFC walk.
- Braun Strowman appears to be WWE's backup plan to face Brock Lesnar at Wrestlemania in case the steroid ring scandal blows up and there is damning evidence implicating Roman Reigns, which, the distributor says is coming soon. Jon Bravo, the filmmaker on this, says his case on WWE is complete and implicates former and current WWE superstars. Roman Reigns has publicly said he has no idea who Richard Rodriguez (the distributor in jail) is.