WWE News & Rumor Roundup: Backstage reason why top superstar switched brands, Fake Asuka rumor idea, Details on Vince McMahon "screaming" out of concern (October 3, 2021)

#3 How Vince McMahon reacted to Kurt Angle and Shane McMahon's street fight

At WWE King of the Ring 2001, Shane McMahon and Kurt Angle wrestled in a street fight.

Senior referee Mike Chioda, who had been with the company for over three decades, recently highlighted that Vince McMahon was concerned about his son's well-being in the match.

Speaking on It's My Wrestling Podcast, Chioda recalled how the WWE Chairman wasn't in favor of Kurt Angle performing a specific sequence during the fight.

"Kurt Angle and Shane McMahon man. Putting Shane through that glass man several times, and he couldn't. He could execute it the first, second time and Vince is screaming and everybody's screaming, 'Don't do it. Don't do it again!' I'm telling him don't do it again. Don't do it, and I'm in his ear. And then he does it again I'm like holy sh*t, and I check on Kurt after the match like, 'Didn't you hear me? Don't fu**ing throw him through the thing,' and he goes, 'No I'm sorry I'm deaf in that ear!' Like oh that's great! So then the other ear didn't hear it either? I was screaming!" said Mike Chioda.

Angle emerged victoriously from this battle that lasted almost 26 minutes.

#2 Dutch Mantell thinks Paul Heyman could betray WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns

Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar will collide for the WWE Universal Championship at the Crown Jewel pay-per-view on October 21. The latest SmackDown episode featured another confrontation between the two superstars.

On Sportskeeda Wrestling's Smack Talk, Dutch Mantell spoke about the recent crowd reaction to Reigns. Based on that, the former WWE manager predicted a significant twist for the said feud.

"I think Paul Heyman, and we predicted this, is the central theme to Roman and Lesnar. This is what I felt tonight: those people like Roman. Now, he's starting to get over. He's a heel who is starting to get over as a babyface. I can see Paul Heyman putting the knife in the back of Roman and aligning himself with Brock Lesnar and then they can come out and tell a hell of a story that this has been planned for six months, eight months or whatever. And it will be believable. I see that coming. That's what I see coming and that would be a great great angle. The people like Roman," Dutch Mantell stated.