WWE to earn $150 million for WrestleMania in Saudi Arabia

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Lead Rumor: No heat in scary Bron Breakker spot There was one hell of a scare for WWE this past weekend during the company’s run through Hawaii for a pair of shows. Bron Breakker did a Frankensteiner on LA Knight and it went wrong, with Bron taking a bad fall to the mat. When I say bad fall, you need to see it to believe it. It certainly looked like he came entirely too close to breaking his neck. The good news is he worked Monday Night Raw this week and even looked like his usual, awesome self. The word from WrestleVotes is WWE wanted to downplay the entire incident. What’s more, there was no heat on anybody for the spot. Things happen in a business like this. On we go. Other rumors floating around Bryan Alvarez noted on his X that Damian Priest did indeed make the call to end the match with R-Truth early once he saw Truth was injured. He’s received praise for doing so well staying in character in the situation. Per WrestleVotes, the internal reaction at WWE to Ilja Dragunov signing with AEW and debuting at WrestleDream was largely positive all around. Everyone, including management, wish him well. More from Votes: They say they haven’t heard anything about WWE running another Evolution event, and “it won’t become an annual thing that people thought coming off last year’s show.” They also said they don’t think it’s coming anytime soon, if at all. Fightful Select clarified the Kairi Sane situation, saying she needs to reach a deal with a US based promotion to even start the process of getting her visa worked out. She has not signed and still has multiple offers in Japan. PW Insider threw some water on the TNA meeting with talent about new deals rumor, saying they do talent meetings before shows and it was simply one remark among many that they are going to get deals done. It was not “a major focus during the meeting.” You heard anything? Share it. Or just talk about all this. That works too.

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Lead Rumor: TNA talent deals TNA just held its biggest show of the year, Bound for Glory, and the event got relatively positive reviews from critics and fans alike. Then the Hardy Boyz were given creative control, and all seems to be going well for Carlos Silva and co. Unfortunately, however, Fightful Select brings word that there are a number of talent contracts that are coming up over the next couple of months. During a recent meeting at a television taping, Silva spoke to the roster and made clear they hope to get “a lot of these deals done in the coming weeks.” Silva wants to plan ahead from a creative perspective, so they want to start nailing down new contracts sooner rather than later. Per the report, many of the contracts come due in December, so there’s time for the company to get this all sorted. Other rumors floating around During Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer said WWE is getting $150 million for doing WrestleMania next year in Saudi Arabia. Apparently they usually get $55 million for the other PLEs. Meanwhile, Meltzer is continuing to caution everyone on AEW and its television future, saying no one knows anything right now and likely won’t for another few months at the very least. According to Bryan Alvarez, R-Truth “appears to be all right and will be evaluated next week” for his injury on SmackDown last week. There aren’t any details beyond that. Per the Daily Update, “the belief is Kairi Sane is waiting for her visa to come in regarding AEW.” So until that is resolved, she won’t be coming in, even if she is doing Jericho’s Cruise. The Observer notes that Ilja Dragunov was kept off WWE TV because he wasn’t going to sign a new deal, and now obviously he’s in AEW. You heard anything? Share it. Or just talk about all this. That works too.