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Welcome to the daily WWE Rumor Roundup where we try and bring you the biggest news and rumours from the day to keep you up to date. On today's edition, we will talk about the reason behind Sasha Banks' absence from matches, the real reason behind 5-time Tag Team Champions splitting up and veteran responding to The Big Dog's comments.
With the Royal Rumble right around the corner, excitement is high among the WWE fans so let us take a look at the 5 top stories of the day:
#5 Reason for Sasha Banks being pulled from matches
The Boss Sasha Banks has not been featured prominently on SmackDown for the past few weeks. While the 4-time RAW Women's Champion has essentially become Bayley's shadow on SmackDown, her fans are worried that it might be a case of being 'buried'.
However certain reports have stated that there are plans for a Bayley vs Sasha Banks feud in the coming time. But before that feud can happen, Bayley is currently involved in a program with The Lady of WWE - Lacey Evans.
Cagesideseats has revealed the reason why Sasha Banks was taken out of matches with Lacey Evans:
The word is that Sasha Banks is not injured and she’s just been getting taken out of planned matches with Lacey Evans to build to Evans’ title shot against Bayley.
Sasha Banks is one of the favorites to win the Women's Royal Rumble as per the rumor mill, and SportsKeeda's Tom Colohue has stated that Bayley vs Sasha Banks is a match that the management is very keen on making happen.
There is a disappointment among WWE management that they haven't managed to make that match happen yet. This is something they really want to see happen. This is something both women really want to see happen... and it could be sort of be a crowning achievement for Bayley, who has been up and down on the roster so far.
(H/T: SportsKeeda)
#4 Real reason behind The Bar's split
Sheamus and Cesaro have been two of the best powerhouse performers in WWE in the recent decade. After the two had an enthralling best of 7 series of matches against each other, then GM Mick Foley decided to pair them together.
Calling themselves The Bar, the two managed to win tag-team gold on 5 occasions. However, the team split up last year with Sheamus taking time off for injury while Cesaro pursued a singles career.
Although Cesaro was not able to achieve much in his singles run, he is again part of a stable on SmackDown along with Shinsuke Nakamura and Sami Zayn. While speaking to Cultaholic, Sheamus revealed that the two had split up to focus on their singles careers.
Well me and Cesaro have achieved everything there is to do, we’re five-time tag champs. I think The Bar is something where we have cemented our legacies as The Bar, like we can always go back to that and anything we do will be massive, but we’re both on a bit of a singles journey at the moment and there’s still a lot I want to achieve as a singles guy. Obviously the Intercontinental title is the one I still haven’t won, so that’s all I really care about right now.”
#3 Goldberg responds to Roman Reigns' jibe
The Big Dog Roman Reigns recently took a subtle shot at WWE Hall of Famer Goldberg on Twitter. When a fan asked Reigns why he uses a crash mat for his entrance, the former WWE Champion stated that he does it so he doesn't break his hand as he has to perform 48 weeks a year.
Roman Reigns then took a slight jab at Goldberg saying that not using a crash mat would be as stupid as headbutting a door before a match - something that Goldberg has ritualistically done in the past and continues to do to this day.
Even though Reigns didn't mention the Hall of Famer by name, it didn't take long for Goldberg to notice and respond to the tweet:
While this seems like friendly banter at this point, it wouldn't be surprising if we see these two behemoths clash inside the ring sometime in the future. Would you like to see a match between Goldberg and Roman Reigns? Let us know in the comments!
#2 Details on cancelled WrestleMania 35 plans
WrestleMania 35 is remembered as one of the best 'Manias in recent time. One of the biggest moments on the show was Kofi Kingston finally winning the WWE Championship for the first time in his career by defeating Daniel Bryan.
On the recent edition of The New Day's podcast, Kofi Kingston spoke about the original plans for his entrance at the Grandest Stage of them All. He revealed that they wanted to go a more serious route for the entrance and pay tribute to all the people who had paved the way.
Here is what the original plans would have been as per Kingston:
Going into what we wanted to do for the theme, we were going to dress up in African Warrior-inspired entrance gear and we would come out. And we wanted to have African dancers surround us, doing traditional African dance and we come through the dancers and start vibing with them and we start walking forward. And behind all of us, we would have people of all different ethnicities, body types, shapes, and sizes, old, young, come out behind us. I'm talking like 50 deep. All wearing old Kofi Kingston shirts all the way up until New Day shirts and all the different kinds of shirts we had. We would have them all rep that because it was all of us that came together for this moment. And then, the song, on top of that - you would have the tribal drums, which were a sped-up version of The New Day claps.
(H/T SportsKeeda)
#1 Kurt Angle believes Drew McIntyre will become WWE Champion
Former WWE Champion Kurt Angle recently spoke to SportsKeeda's own Gary Cassidy. Kurt Angle spoke about a variety of topics including what the future possibly holds for former Tag Team Champion Drew McIntyre.
Praising the Scottish Psychopath, Angle predicted that McIntyre will become the WWE Champion in 2020. Angle said that he believed McIntyre has improved a lot over the years, and while he can not guarantee anything, Drew McIntyre may end up becoming WWE Champion in 2020.
Here is why Kurt Angle thinks Drew McIntyre will become WWE Champion:
I think it's a possibility. Drew has had an incredible run, started off at such a young age, and he's still so young now and he's kind of just coming into his own now as a performer, really. I told him that the sky is the limit for him. He left for a while, he had to go clear himself out and realize what he wanted, and step away and come back even better.
(H/T: Sportskeeda)
Do you think Drew McIntyre has what it takes to become the WWE Champion? Tell us below!
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