WWE Rumor Roundup: Huge match planned for Royal Rumble, Vince McMahon unhappy with RAW Superstar and more – 5th December 2019

In today's roundup, we take a look at Seth Rollins' unique idea for a faction and original plans for Kevin Owens in the 2019 Draft. But before you head into that, make sure you listen to Sportskeeda's brand new podcast, The Rosser Rewind:

Now, let's take a look at the top headline-makers of the day:

Huge match planned for Royal Rumble

WWE are planting the seeds for the Royal Rumble even though they have a pay-per-view later this month. They are keen on having Becky Lynch take on Asuka as per Sportskeeda's Tom Colohue. On the latest episode of Dropkick DiSKussions, he said:

"This is why we're not seeing much of Becky Lynch, so she gets a big pop this coming Monday where she runs out and saves Charlotte.”

"They've been building a feud with Asuka, on the foreground and background, sort of. I can see that being a singles rematch next year at the Royal Rumble. Last year we had the exact same match at the Rumble for the other brand's championship and Asuka tapped Becky Lynch out, so I could see that being a rematch".

Asuka and Kairi Sane have been fighting Charlotte for the last couple of weeks and were involved in a handicap match this week.

Vince McMahon unhappy with RAW Superstar

Dio Maddin was attacked by Brock Lesnar a month ago during commentary and he has been absent ever since. WWE announced this week that Dio was set to return as a wrestler and will not be in commentary anymore.

Wrestling Observer Live are now reporting that it was a decision made by Vince McMahon and not Dio had come up with. Bryan Alvarez said:

“I don’t know if Dio Maddin himself is gonna get mad but I’m sure we’ll hear that this is not accurate but this is what happened. Vince and Kevin Dunn didn’t like Dio Maddin on commentary and they took him off commentary and I think they were gonna try to re-train him or whatever to do commentary but now I guess he’s decided he wants to be a wrestler again.”

“I’m sure the official story is going to be that he just decided while doing commentary that he wanted to be a wrestler...”

Samoa Joe has replaced Dio Maddin on the RAW commentary table.

Seth Rollins' unique faction

Seth Rollins was asked to form a new faction by the WWE Universe after The Shield was dismantled. The former WWE Champion has revealed that he would never form a new Shield even though there is no chance of them getting back together.

Rollins went on to pick RAW Women's Champion Becky Lynch, and the current WWE Universal champion, The Fiend as the two Superstars he would love to form a faction with.

"I would never make a new Shield. If you're asking me if I would pick two wrestlers to form a new stable with, we could go there. I think my fiancee would beat me up if I didn't say her, so Becky could be in there for one.

"Maybe, I've had some run-ins with him, he's kinda unbeatable. So maybe The Fiend would be the other one."

This is not a faction WWE would ever approve of but it would be a dominant one for sure.

Original plans for Kevin Owens in the WWE Draft

Kevin Owens moved to Monday Night Raw in the WWE Draft this year and it surprised a lot of fans. He was doing well on SmackDown and was slowly getting to the top. However, things changed and he moved to the Red brand, where he is being pushed as well.

Talking about this sudden change in plans, Sportskeeda's Tom Colohue, on the latest episode of Dropkick DiSKussions, said:

"He [Owens] was a last-minute swap as well. The plan was very much to keep him on SmackDown based on the specific order they were reading things out and the leaked information that was in WWE.com."

"Paul Heyman probably saw what was happening and reacted to the list and said 'Ok we need to make a change. Give me Kevin Owens. I'll do very good things with him.'"

Owens is likely to be in a feud with the AOP who have been attacking him for the past 2 weeks.