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Steve Austin Says WWE Killed Lana’s Gimmick

Steve Austin was vocal on a recent installment of his podcast regarding WWE booking Naomi to defend her SmackDown Women’s Championship against Lana at the Money in the Bank event. He made the following remarks:

“Naomi deserves better, the title deserves better. Lana wasn’t up for this task at hand, at this point in her career. I thought she had much more mystique as the valet, whatever the term is, with Rusev. Man, they kind of killed her gimmick off, and reinvented her, and I just liked her the way she was. So, if she wants to be in the ring, that’s more power to her, but a lot of the stuff I got on Twitter was, ‘Hey man. For a first match, she did a lot better than I expected.’ Ok. As I say that, good for her. But as a company who’s striving for excellence in sports entertainment/professional wrestling, the best of the best belong on a pay-per-view.”

You can listen to the podcast here.

Daniel Bryan Teases a Ring of Honor Return

Daniel Bryan took to Twitter to congratulate the new ROH Champion, Cody Rhodes. However, while doing so, Bryan also teased a possible future ROH return.

Here’s what Bryan said:

Bryan also tweeted this out immediately following the previous two tweets, indicating that it was indeed just a “tease”:

However, with recent rumours stating that Bryan has almost cleared all his tests and is good to wrestle by the end of next year, this tease holds a little relevance.

Would you like to see Bryan back in ROH? Give us your thoughts in the comments!

Matt Hardy Praises Kenny Omega

Matt Hardy recently held a Q&A session on Twitter where he answered many questions and talked about a lot of topics. On being asked about the “Cleaner” Kenny Omega by a fan, Hardy had some big words for him. Here are the tweets:

Pretty sure the Cleaner will find the comments extremely DELIGHTFUL!

Enzo Amore & Big Cass Out Ranking Peers In Merchandise Items

Big Cass and Enzo Amore out rank anyone on the roster in terms of number of merchandise items. At the time of their split, they apparently have 54 items available on the WWE website. This is more than anyone on the roster including John Cena, Roman Reigns, The New Day, AJ Styles, and Seth Rollins.

PopVinyls.com noted on Twitter that the new Enzo and Cass figures are scheduled to come out in August:

Enzo Amore Reacts to Big Cass Attacking Him on RAW

Enzo Amore took to Twitter for the first time since being attacked this past Monday’s on RAW and made mention of the attack and Conor McGregor:

Impact Wrestling Loses Three More Employees

Well, this was bound to happen but it looks like three more individuals are done with Impact Wrestling.

Shane Helms indicated on Twitter that he’s done with the company and moving on in life. He indicated in one of his tweets that he wasn’t going to “kiss ass” to anthem. This would suggest that there may have been differences between the two.

Helms had been working in a backstage capacity since joining the company in 2015. He also had a role on TV as the manager/mouthpiece for Trevor Lee and Andrew Everett.

In addition to Helms leaving the company, PWInsider reports that long-time producers/agents Al Snow and Pat Kenney are on their way out the door. The reason that they are leaving the company was a financial decision.

Carmella Reacts to Her Controversial Win at Money in the Bank

As seen at tonight’s Money in the Bank event, James Ellsworth injected himself into the first-ever Women’s Money in the Bank Ladder Match and captured the briefcase only to give it to Carmella. There was tons of backlash on social media regarding the finish to the match.

Carmella took to Twitter and responded to her victory with the following remarks:

Paige Reportedly Returning “Soon”

As previously noted, Paige mentioned on Instagram this week that she was going in for her last set of X-Rays and will hopefully be making a comeback soon. Later in that same day, she started posting photos of herself back at the gym training, indicating that the doctor possibly had some good news for her.

When asked about her return to Wrestling Observer’s Dave Meltzer on Twitter, he replied in short fashion, “soon.”

With rumors of a potential sixth spot open in the Women’s Money in the Bank Ladder match tonight, there is always the possibility that “soon” could be earlier than you think.

Possible Change to the Women’s Money in the Bank Ladder Match

There may be plans to add a six person into the Women’s Money in the Bank ladder match at Sunday’s Money in the Bank pay-per-view event.

The official Twitter account posted a tweet proclaiming that six women will be vying for the briefcase at Sunday’s event. This may have been a blunder made by the social media team for WWE but they’ve accidentally given away things in the past by mistake.

While all the females are already in action at Sunday’s event, there is the possibility that they could bring someone up from NXT. Dave Meltzer hinted the possibility of someone being called up on a previous installment of Wrestling Observer Live but that was prior to WWE’s official announcement of the match.

Guess we will find out on Sunday… Hit up the comment section below and sound off on who you would like to see injected into the match.