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In today's roundup, we take a look at the Superstar who could be moving from SmackDown to RAW soon, a legendary tag-team's idea to crush The Rock's throat and more!
But as always, let's first get to the two headline-makers of the day.
Big update on possible Royal Rumble winners
It's January and that means it is Royal Rumble season! The first pay-per-view of the year will set the ball rolling for WrestleMania as the winner of the Rumble gets to main event the show of all shows!
Sportskeeda's Tom Colohue has an interesting take on things and revealed the favorites to win the Men's and Women's Royal Rumble this season. Roman Reigns and Shayna Baszler are currently the favorites but things could change. He said:
The current betting favourites, previously these were just favourites from management, to win the Royal Rumble, I mentioned it was Shayna Baszler and Roman Reigns, they are now the betting favourites on a lot of betting sites, and a lot of betting companies are taking less and less odds of the chance for Roman and Shayna winning.
It’s worth remembering, I believe the time was 2016 when Randy Orton won, the betting averages narrowed day by day to get closer and closer to Randy Orton, at that time you had Goldberg, Lesnar and The Undertaker in the Royal Rumble, so they were favourites the day before but Randy Orton was the betting favourite on the day. So it’s very telling when the betting favourites start to move.
Rusev almost gets fired
Rusev has been over with the WWE Universe for some time now and he will be missed by the fans if he were to leave the company now. Rusev has now revealed that he was once told to get better in 60 days or he would be fired, back in 2013!
The Bulgarian did get better and has gone on to hold various titles in WWE! He is now involved in a weird storyline with Lana, Lashley and Liv Morgan and things are going to get interesting.
Legendary tag-team wanted to crush The Rock's throat
Bubba Ray Dudley and D-Von once pitched a storyline to Vince McMahon about potentially crushing The Rock's throat and the WWE Chairman reportedly loved it. The Hall of Famer was on SiriusXM's Busted Open Radio when he revealed the stunning idea that never came to fruition.
He claimed that the idea was to take the voice away from The People's Champ. It was like taking the voice away from the people but despite the WWE Chairman liking the idea, it did not become a storyline.
"A long time ago, I pitched an idea to Vince McMahon about me and D-Von crushing The Rock's throat. So, The Rock couldn't talk anymore. I wanted to take away The People's voice from The People. Obviously, it never happened, but Vince told me that he really liked the idea."
It was an interesting idea and it is a shock that it did not see the light of day.
The Miz to move from SmackDown to RAW soon
The Miz has snapped and is now a heel on SmackDown. The Awesome One has been in a mood ever since he lost the opportunity to face The Fiend last week. The Miz wants to get his hands on the WWE Universal Champion after having his house invaded ahead of TLC.
Now, Sportskeeda's very own Tom Colohue has gotten an inside scoop! He reports that The Miz will be moving to RAW in the shake up in April as the USA Network that broadcasts Monday Night RAW also runs Miz and Mrs. He said:
There are some early whispers of moves coming for the planned Shake-up in April. Now, there are a few people that have been constantly moved back and forth and Miz is one I’m hearing mentioned a lot, but he’s always mentioned. He’s someone who they are considering someone of a role talent and it’s someone they can use on USA because Miz and Mrs is on USA and there is a preference for that.
Rusev reveals all he knows about Lana and Liv Morgan's relationship
Liv Morgan dropped a bomb on the WWE Universe by revealing that she and Lana were in a relationship on the final Monday Night RAW of 2019. The segment stunned the WWE Universe and has been the talking point among the fans for the past week.
Rusev was on The Jerry Lawler Show where he was quizzed by the Hall of Famer about the relationship between his 'ex-wife' and Liv Morgan. The 3-time United States champion revealed that he did not know much about things that happened inside the bedroom but they did celebrate a couple of New Year's together. He said:
“I knew Liv. We celebrated a couple of New Year’s together. We went to Disneyland together. I’ve seen them but I don’t know when they go to the bathroom together. I don’t know what’s going on. I’m not saying anything happened but I’m not saying anything didn’t. I don’t know. At this point, I don’t know my wife.”
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