Fightful RUMOR ROUNDUP AND DEBUNKATHON: Ospreay, Undertaker, Lesnar, Cena, Nikki Bella, Rock, TNA dates, Andrade, Omega

The first portion of this update is free for all subscribers, please subscribe at $5.99 to get our RUMOR ROUNDUP, and DEBUNKATHON in the second part of this article.

• A big reminder, in important wrestling news, Fightful's Alex and Kate will be reviewing Freddy Got Fingered on September 11 at this link. Sean Ross Sapp will be joining and serve as executive producer. If you'd like to hype yourself up for such, here's a 150 minute review of Hot Rod that inspired this situation.

• Our new interview with Frankie Kazarian is up on Fightful. We also dropped interviews with Powerhouse Hobbs, Evil Uno, Tom Pestock/Baron Corbin and Dijak.

• Upcoming guest hosts of The Hump with Sean Ross Sapp include Tom Campbell on September 10, Denise Salcedo September 17, Frank the Clown September 25, Luke Owen October 1, Ibou October 8, and Simon Miller October 15. We have more set but not announced. Andrew Baydala joined this week.

• The marquee boxing match Fightful was hinting at this week was in fact Mike Tyson vs. Floyd Mayweather.

• Fightful has a 45 minute interview coming from Down Under The Ring with Bryan Danielson soon. He did media in Australia this week to promote AEW's 2026 dates.

• WWE confirmed that John Cena's last WWE Boston appearance is November 10, and his last in NYC is November 17.

The first portion of this update is free for all subscribers, please subscribe at $5.99 to get our RUMOR ROUNDUP, and DEBUNKATHON in the second part of this article.

• A big reminder, in important wrestling news, Fightful's Alex and Kate will be reviewing Freddy Got Fingered on September 11 at this link. Sean Ross Sapp will be joining and serve as executive producer. If you'd like to hype yourself up for such, here's a 150 minute review of Hot Rod that inspired this situation.

• Our new interview with Frankie Kazarian is up on Fightful. We also dropped interviews with Powerhouse Hobbs, Evil Uno, Tom Pestock/Baron Corbin and Dijak.

• Upcoming guest hosts of The Hump with Sean Ross Sapp include Tom Campbell on September 10, Denise Salcedo September 17, Frank the Clown September 25, Luke Owen October 1, Ibou October 8, and Simon Miller October 15. We have more set but not announced. Andrew Baydala joined this week.

• The marquee boxing match Fightful was hinting at this week was in fact Mike Tyson vs. Floyd Mayweather.

• Fightful has a 45 minute interview coming from Down Under The Ring with Bryan Danielson soon. He did media in Australia this week to promote AEW's 2026 dates.

• WWE confirmed that John Cena's last WWE Boston appearance is November 10, and his last in NYC is November 17.

• WWE has fired to trademark Reckoning (a former Retribution name), WWE Films and Succession

• Tonight is in fact slated to be John Cena's final Smackdown, WrestleVotes has reported that his last match is in Washington, DC.

• Kenny Omega confirmed our Fightful Select report about his absence yesterday, while taking issues with aggregated headlines. He is...in fact scheduled for time off.

• Wrestling Observer reported that Brock Lesnar signed a new contract and had been a free agent. We're told that Brock Lesnar had never left the internal merch rosters.

• Brock Lesnar was in fact scheduled to fly in to Chicago yesterday. It would not be a surprise to see him on Smackdown.

• Wrestling Observer also noted that WWE is interested in starting lucha podcasts. We've heard that includes an English-language speaking edition.

• Arez had inquiries from WWE to join the AAA brand, however, he'd already decided to join AEW

• We can confirm that Will Ospreay is scheduled for neck surgery in the next two weeks. We wish him the best in his recovery.

• It has been noted that Paul Levesque is at the top of AAA's creative structure, supported by Jeremy Borash, Undertaker, Konnan and Dorian Roldan. Undertaker is expected to be at most of the major AAA dates.

• TNA Wrestling will be traveling to Orlando November 13-15 and El Paso December 5-7, Fightful Select has learned

• AJ Lee and Brock Lesnar are not listed on internal rundowns for Smackdown, but that isn't much of a surprise. They typically don't do that for big surprises.

• I've been on Facebook debunking news, which is aplenty. There were rumors that Rock indicated he retired. That isn't true.

• There was also a Facebook rumor that WWE took issue with Nikki Bella's attitude backstage. We were told by a WWE higher up that absolutely isn't true.

Bishop Dyer/Baron Corbin Notes

https://youtu.be/9NkrDVneYz4

Says he didn’t know John Cena would use End of Days at Clash in Paris, but thought it was cool that Cena gave him a nod. Says he still chats with Cena and praises him for always giving him advice and being helpful.

Reflects on the France crowd cheering for him in 2023 and effectively turning him babyface. Says the finish against Rick Boogs on WWE Main Event was changed in the middle of the match to Corbin going over.

Says he would ask for the Chiefs score in the middle of matches and the refs would never give him the actual score.

Says it was Vince’s idea to pour dog food on Roman. “This is not a pitching thing. This is what we’re doing.” Says it was legit dog food. Backstage, Vince wanted to see how the dog food came out of the can, so they took an extra and poured dog food on him to see what it looked like. Hopes the extra got paid more.

Reflects on Roman and the Usos getting their payback and says when they handcuffed him to the post, he couldn’t get his feet under him so he was hanging by the handcuffs and it felt like it was going to cut his thumbs off.

Says the portapotty at the 2020 Rumble was a real portapotty, but wasn’t filled with blue stuff. “It originally was, but because they didn’t want it spilling all over the floor in the arena, they took it out.' Says the original plan was for him to climb out of it covered in blue water, but the venue wouldn’t let them do it. He also wanted to bang on the trash can, refercing the Houston Astros scandal, but they said no.

Says he and Roman had fun in their Falls Count Anywhere match at Rumble 2020. “The match was awesome.” Says he had gotten a new contract just before the show so he was in a good mood and happy.

Thinks his match where he teamed with Lacey Evans against Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch is underrated. Said that was supposed to be a live event, but they switched it to a PPV.

Says he sent CM Punk a message after Becky slapped him on Monday just saying, “If you need me” with the GIF of him giving Becky the End of Days.

Sad Corbin was originally a two or three week thing but his promo with Kayla Braxton sparked it to the next level and allowed it to go on longer. Recalls people trying to give him money and having to go to private school and apologizing for how he looked. Says he and Kevin Owens had a pitch that would take them to WrestleMania, but Vince worried that he would have been a babyface and Vince didn’t want him babyface. “I wish we would have gotten another six months out of it. Imagine how shitty I would have looked.”

Didn’t believe his Happy Corbin music was his at first. “I felt like Mojo Rawley in Vegas. They had to talk me off a cliff.” Thinks Triple H pitched to him, “Do you think Shawn Michaels loved his music day one and now it’s one of the most iconic music intros.” I go, “Totally different.”

Says Vince wanted the fedora hat and a pencil thin mustache. Notes he liked wearing the fedoras. Pitched entering in an expensive car and they ordered a Rolls Royce. Vince said the Rolls Royce didn’t mean you were rich and wanted him to have a bright color Lambo. Thought the Lambo was too small so they scrapped the car entrance.

Thinks his team with Dijak as the Skyscrapers is a home run.

The interview also features plenty of talk about the Kansas City Chiefs, Fast & Furious, Below Deck, and various other non-wrestling topics

ANDRADE Update:

There is an update on Andrade, that isn't quite.....an update?

The standout in-ring performer hasn't been on WWE Smackdown of late, and hasn't wrestled in over a month. As a result, it's caused speculation and curiosity on his whereabouts, with some thinking that he's injured.

As of now, Andrade is not on internal injury lists in the company. So if he's injured, it hasn't made its way there.