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Welcome to another edition of the daily WWE Rumor Roundup, where we try and bring the biggest rumors and stories of the day. There has been a lot of buzz surrounding WWE lately with SummerSlam approaches.
The biggest party of the summer is set to be something special this year and Vince McMahon has some big plans for the upcoming PPV. In today's edition, we will talk about what the future holds for a top name who is set to be written off WWE television.
We will also take a look at WWE legend taking a jibe at Roman Reigns among other stories. So, without further ado, let us jump in:
#5 Zelina Vega attacked inside her house
Zelina Vega recently spoke to Kayla Braxton on her Twitch channel. While speaking to Braxton, Vega was brutally attacked by Bianca Belair inside her house.
The attack came out of the blue as the perplexed Zelina Vega had no idea how her on-screen rival invaded her house. The 'EST of WWE' continued to assault Zelina Vega as Kayla Braxton had no choice but to look on in disbelief.
Vega and Belair have developed their own rivalry as of late after their associates Andrade & Garza and The Street Profits embroiled in a rivalry for the Tag Team Championships on RAW.
Last week on RAW, Bianca Belair's husband Montez Ford was apparently poisoned by someone. While there was no conclusive proof of who did it, Belair has accused Zelina Vega of being the one behind the dastardly action.
The Street Profits and Andrade & Garza will be taking on each other at SummerSlam. Belair and Vega will be at ring-side and it will be interesting to see how the two refrain themselves from beating each other up while the RAW Tag Team Championship match is going on.
#4 Ric Flair done with his run in WWE
Ric Flair had been brought back as a manager of sorts for Randy Orton a few months back. The Nature Boy has been at The Viper's side as he continues to destroy careers of multiple Superstars including Edge and Christian.
WrestlingNews.co have reported that Ric Flair's run with WWE is over now and he will not be seen on the red brand after this week's RAW.
WrestlingNews.co was told that Flair would be written off during the weeks leading up to Orton vs. Drew McIntyre at SummerSlam because the feeling is that it’s better to solely focus on Orton and McIntyre and there would be no need to use Flair in this feud.
Ric Flair has done a phenomenal job since he returned and has portrayed his role with poise. It will be interesting to see how WWE decide to write off the former multi-time World Champion on RAW.
Even Dave Meltzer of WON has stated that with this week's angle for RAW already taped, Ric Flair will not be continuing his run with WWE.
#3 More details on Sasha Banks having 'ego' problems in WWE
WWE commentator Byron Saxton recently spoke to Corey Graves on his 'After The Bell' podcast. The RAW announcer spoke about multiple topics including what he truly thinks of the RAW Women's Champion Sasha Banks. Saxton talked about his early days in developmental when he trained with Sasha Banks.
Byron Saxton revealed that Banks was extremely shy when he was new in WWE and wouldn't talk to anybody much. He said they all could see the potential in her from the early days.
"I know we spent a lot of time working with Sasha trying to get her outside of her comfort zone, because when she came in - you know, super talented. You knew there was potential there but she was extremely shy."
He also talked about the perceived ego problems of Sasha Banks in WWE:
"It's funny to think about that. The person that she is now versus when we all met her. I mean, a complete 180. She was like a shy little child to the point where a lot of us thought she had this ego problem, and meanwhile, she was just, like, uncomfortably shy." (H/T WrestlingInc)
#2 Goldberg calls former WWE Champion Roman Reigns a joke
Former WWE Universal Champion Goldberg has taken a dig at Roman Reigns while talking on the American Monster Productions YouTube channel. Roman Reigns had taken a jibe at Goldberg's habit of banging his head on a door ahead of matches.
Goldberg has now responded saying that he did it for his character to look violent. He also called Roman Reigns a joke.
''Roman… you’re a joke, first of all. Second of all, when he ragged on me about headbutting the doors and stuff, you know… I never really explained my whole thought process on that.'' (H/T: Sportskeeda)
WWE Superstar Goldberg further talked about his character and what he had to do to make it popular with the fans.
“For you guys to get the character that you got, I had to do certain things. Well, one of them was headbutt the door. Right? And that may, on the outside, look like a stupid move, but as I mentioned, we all weigh the positives and negatives, so it’s very positive to make it as violent as humanly possible, and as real as humanly possible, and all the negative is you lose a little blood and hey, man, you get another concussion and cut a week off your life.”
#1 Reason why WWE keep their matches short
WWE veteran and current AEW employee Arn Anderson recently talked about WWE having short matches on television and what kind of a negative impact that has on the product. Anderson revealed the reason why WWE likes to keep TV matches short and limited to 6 minutes.
Arn Anderson said that by allotted just 6 minutes to Superstars, they are left with only three minutes of actual in-ring action.
“Well, that that six minute thing? Well that looks good, until you take entrances out of that six minutes. And then you take exit time, aftermath, posing in the ring…that’s another minute. So if I did my math right that six minutes now became what? Three minutes, right? We’re back to that time, that three minute deal.” (H/T SEScoops)
He stated that while more Superstars may get a chance to get featured because of short matches, it has a negative effect as the matches start seeming uniform.
“And the thing about it is, when you give every match six minutes because that’s the brilliant thing that you came up through all your research? When you have every match go six minutes? Then it starts to look pretty uniform, and it’s a bunch of matches that don’t have enough time, except ding ding ding hurry hurry hurry. Then run through a couple spots and get your finish. There’s no story there.”
