Select Answers: Rumble participants, Rey Mysterio retirement, Oba and Je'Von

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With a month and some change away, if you could bring back one legend for each Rumble, along with one talent from NXT for each, who would be the names you have in them? I’m curious who would truly mesh well with the current main roster from those two avenues!

Oba Femi and Wendy Choo from NXT. I think that Wendy Choo would fit in on the main roster, can work, can play characters, and is versatile. She's also been in NXT or Evolve forever, and it's time to make a move to the main roster. Oba Femi is pretty self explanatory. He should immediately be a top guy.

For legends, selfishly, I'd love to see Hakushi aka Jinsei Shinzaki show up. He was only in WWF for about 15 months, but was a workhorse and a bright spot of my childhood. On the women's side of things, Paige/Saraya is one that I would like for them to see what the reaction is like. A Royal Rumble match is pretty low risk.

There’s a lot of retirements or talks about retirement going on in WWE, like Cena currently. But also wrestlers like AJ Styles and Jericho in 2026. Is there any news on Rey Mysterio? I know he resigned with the WWE on a 3yr deal back in 2023 so I’m wondering if there’s any discussion on when he will retire. Maybe a Dom v Rey retirement match at mania since I don’t see him resigning at 50+.

The discussion of Rey Mysterio retiring seems to be more fan driven than anything else. I've never heard any real indication, hint or plan that a Rey Mysterio retirement is imminent. They've been very happy with him from a wrestler and ambassador standpoint and he still has quite a lot of time left on his deal including possible injury time.

If you could take Oba Femi, Trick Williams & JeVon Evans and put them individually in any era of wrestling that isn’t the current one, which one would you put them in and why

If we're throwing all stupid ass politics aside (like Evans being "too skinny") I'd have loved Evans being in either the mid 90s or mid 2000s. Those eras would have really benefited from having him in a major promotion getting a push because then things wouldn't be so boring.

Trick Williams, attitude era. He would have done some great stuff with DX, The Rock, Stone Cold, Mick Foley, and people like that. He would have fit right in with everyone.

Oba Femi I think is in the perfect period, but if I had to, probably early 90s so he could work Undertaker, Yokozuna, Vader. There were guys bigger than him that he could pose a threat to.