Bonus DEBUNKATHON! Survivor Series, TitanTron, Paul Heyman, Jushin Liger, WrestleCade news

A reminder for free subscribers - WRESTLEVOTES joins the paid tier this week with a live Q&A show Monday at 3 PM ET, and a weekly show starting Thursdays!

WWE's Titan Tron Stuff

WWE had a lot of people excited as they played a number of growingly ridiculous Titan Trons at Petco Park throughout Survivor Series week.

From Jinder Mahal to Titus O'Neil to Stone Cold Steve Austin, several titan tron videos of performers who were never planned were used to test the video boards for Survivor Series. WWE knew that because of the open situation for the baseball stadium, a number of people would be able to see more of the setup than usual from the comfort of their hotel rooms. A number of the videos emerged on TikTok, but by then, WWE had already made plans for privacy.

There was a curtain set up over the ring to protect rehearsals, which took place Friday evening for Women's Wargames, and late Friday for Men's WarGames. There was also another ring set up backstage.

As the week went on, those in charge just started having fun with the tron videos and many were enjoying that they were getting out.

Additional notes

• There was no heat that we heard over Paul Heyman pushing a child out of his way after Survivor Series. There was heat on the security for allowing someone through.

• As reported last night, the man actively under the mask in the men's War Games is Austin Theory. It could always be changed for future instances, but that's who it was

• It was reiterated to us that a lot of the Survivor Series plans were adjusted over the last 6 weeks because of the Seth Rollins injury, which most assumed.

• A reminder, WRESTLEVOTES' live Q&A launches at 3 PM ET on Monday!!

• We have been asking and trying to contact anyone associated with PowerTown Wrestling toys

• The claim internally was that Bron Breakker initially seemed fine after his rough landing at Survivor Series

• Our Fightful Awards voting has kicked off and is open ended!

Jushin Liger

Jushin Thunder Liger came out of retirement for a shocking, quick match with Joey Janela. Janela tells us he did a show for AML (Wrestlecade's company) months ago, expecting to work against George South at WrestleCade. He says he was told back then he was working with Jushin Liger, and the promoters figured he would appreciate that

Janela says that he responded with "Should I blow you guys now or later?"

The day prior to the match, they weren't sure on what the finish would be and noted NJPW is strict on retirement, but Liger was easy to work with. Liger had chosen Janela from a few options. Janela wanted the shot done how it was, with his reaction and the classic NJPW fade to entrance.

WrestleCade

WrestleCade is in the books and had another loaded show Saturday night with a standing room only crowd. The show featured Jushin Liger, JBL, Brodido, Nic Nemeth, Hardy Boyz, Rascalz, Killer Kross, Bushwhacker Luke, Ricky Morton, Good Brothers, Cardona and Myers, Swoggle, and tons more.

Wrestlecade had a physical therapy spot set up where talent could come get advice or worked on. Michael Murray, PT, DPT, of Duke Health was present working on talent, everything is HIPAA compliant so we can't reveal details of who was there outside of Mr. Hughes, who publicly filmed for his social media. They were getting a lot of good feedback regarding the set up and the PT area was worked non stop, and was backstage for each of the shows this weekend.

If you're a wrestler interested, you can contact michael.murray@duke.edu

DEBUNKATHON!!!!

• No, Naomi has not already had her child.

• No, Brock Lesnar did not "break character to shake the had of a young girl battling brain cancer." It was the Khan family.

• A lot of people have been claiming that Randy Orton just simply "doesn't have creative plans." He is 45 years old and 2500 matches in. He's going to have time off.

• Justin Gaethje didn't announce his retirement, he has a huge fight coming up.

• Jon Moxley isn't the masked man, and is under AEW contract.

• One Stop Wrestling is garbage, their post about Anna Jay joining WWE isn't true and if it was, they wouldn't be the ones knowing about it.

• Jinder Mahal isn't coming back to WWE to dethrone Cody Rhodes.

• Roman Reigns was not named by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in global sports.

• AI for content like this is garbage, man.

• Lacey Lane doesn't have a severed hand and we don't use AI for graphics, I'm just not that good at Canva.

• Nyla Rose is not making $2 million a year. Sorry, Nyla.