TNA-Maple Leaf Pro, Rollins-Punk, Daga, Danielson, More News In Our Rumor Roundup

Our Friday Rumor and News roundup!

• Bryan Danielson spoke to Phid McAwesome of DownUnderTheRing. Check out the full interview at this link, and their show at this link.

• Our Freddy Got Fingered review ended up being the longest in history

You can see our exclusive news, as well as Rumor Roundup on the paid portion below.

Rumor Roundup for Friday September 12!

• In this week's weird stuff that goes viral on Facebook, there's an unusual post going around claiming Seth Rollins and CM Punk are "close friends" and that multiple outlets reported it. That hasn't been reported.

• Despite rumors on Facebook, no American outlets have reported that Daga has signed with WWE as of yet.

• There were reports that TNA is not allowing their talent to work Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling shows. Moose also did an interview indicating this is because of MLPW using AEW talent. Fightful reached out to Carlos Silva, who denied this. He says TNA talent can and have appeared on MLPW. We asked Scott D'Amore who also denied it, saying "In fact not only has TNA talent appeared on MLP with the blessing of TNA but when TNA needed help when last in Canada In connected them to a production house I have a 30 year relationship with, I got my printer to print materials for them AND even through I haven’t rented a ring out in 20 plus years I rented them ring, guardrails, etc when they were in a jam."

• We will have more today, but we're told that WWE has not begun to discuss outside stars for the Saudi Arabia WrestleMania as of yet.

News

• The 3 PM ET announcement from WWE is expected to be Saudi Arabia WrestleMania. We're told it is not open to the press.

• Fightful has learned that Brock Lesnar is arriving today for Smackdown, as opposed to Thursday like last week.

• A number of staff and much of the talent was already in Vegas yesterday for the announcement. The actual announcement was kept pretty quiet during the week.

Bryan Danielson

Danielson spoke with Phid McAwesome about his AEW run and much more.

• Danielson said he was really enjoying working with Bruce Prichard in WWE.

• He said he saw Cody Rhodes doing a reverse frankensteiner off the top rope in AEW and it highlighted how different it was than WWE. He also cited schedule as a reason for going to AEW, and wrestling how he wanted. Which he said was wrestling hard and "sometimes stupid."

• He admitted that he tried to get fired by saying wild things on Talking Smack, because he just wanted to wrestle again.

• He talked about pandemic wrestling and finding out what works and doesn't work. He said that working to the audience during that was very weird.

• Bryan Danielson wanted Damian Priest to debut against Roman Reigns in the pandemic era. He also said Vince McMahon would turn down crowd audio for people during the pandemic.

• He's very confident in AEW's ability to put on the best live wrestling show, and speaks highly of WWE's ability to put on spectacle.

• He's very proud of both his Hangman Page and his hour-long MJF match.

• There are a lot of other stories in the full interview at this link.