**Buddy Murphy/Rhea Ripley have announced their engagement on Rhea’s Instagram
**RAW — Bobby Rude has retired from in-ring wrestling, he has become a producer.
*Ronda Rousey has departed from WWE
*Kofi Kingston returned to join Xavier Woods in a tag team match, defeating The Viking Raiders. (Doctors have advised Big E that he should retire from in-ring performing.
*The handshake/hug from Brock to Cody post-match was a break of character. In Brock’s career in MMA/WWE, Brock has never offered any kind of acknowledgement to any opponent he has faced. (Hubby Phil and I both teared up, what a show of respect)
*It is being reported that Roman was injured at SummerSlam. No report of what the injury is. The Jimmy/Jey storyline is to extend things to get to Wrestlemania (saw in an interview with the Uso Twins, that it is a dream to have a storyline facing each other). (You know the movie, Never Ending Story, well this feels like the never-ending storyline. Someone please end it, the sooner the better. 3 years is too long in my book. (WWE had a rule that all titles were defended once every 30 days, what happened to that?) Look for the first match with the Twins to possibly be at Payback.
Shinsuke has done a heal turn. Looks like he may be coming after Seth if by the events the end of the tag team match with Cody is anything.
**NXT
Lyra Valkyria called Rhea Ripley out for continuing to interfere with Dirty Dom. At the conclusion of the match as Rhea had once again interfered, Rhea had gotten in Rey’s face, poking his chest, screaming something. Lyra grabbed Rhea, laying her out. Rhea had no clue what hit her. Never seen Lyra that aggressive. (Been reading that a possible twist is that Finn leaves Judgement Day, and brings Lyra in with him to counter Rhea)
**Smackdown
Kevin Patrick has joined Corey Graves/Michael Cole at the announce table. They have paired Kevin with Michael to help him with his skills.
Austin Theory did everything he could to take out Santos Escobar, so Theory could keep the belt. Just as he thought he was safe, Rey Mysterio stepped into the match. beating Theory. (I had read that the United States belt was going to be taken off him, it was getting too old)( I am actually glad the belt has changed hands. It’s time for some respect to be restored to it)
The never-ending bloodline story continues, with Roman along with Solo/Paul coming to the ring. Once again, Roman pits Jey against Jimmy. (building the storyline for a battle between Jimmy and Jey) Jey takes out the Bloodline, announcing that he is out.
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