WWE Rumor Roundup: Vince McMahon was completely against current Superstar joining the company, Major confusion erupts backstage - 25 September 2019

Welcome to today's edition of the WWE Rumor Roundup. After exciting episodes of RAW and SmackDown, WWE is strongly marching towards the upcoming Hell in a Cell PPV.

Let us take a look at the 5 biggest stories of today - from the difficulties faced by Samoa Joe to former multi-time WWE Champion finally making a return.

#5 Vince McMahon 'vehemently opposed' to Samoe Joe joining WWE

Samoa Joe is arguably one of the most talented Superstars on the roster right now. The Samoan Submission Machine made his name in promotions like ROH and TNA (Impact Wrestling) before finally becoming part of the WWE roster.

Recently, Joe was part of an interview with Fightful.com, and on being asked about other Superstars going to bat for him when it came to a possible WWE run, here is what he said:

Oh, there were tons here for years. Years. Vince vehemently opposed me being in WWE. He didn’t know me, wasn’t familiar with me. And now we have a great relationship, everything’s working fine. I think he just realized he already bought it, so he might as well use it. No, like I said, with every partner I’ve ever worked with it’s about time and understanding. And we’ve had some time and we’ve had some understanding. It’s working out pretty well.

The in-ring veteran also revealed that he felt that most of the other promotions he had worked for also did not show any confidence in him initially:

Everywhere that I’ve gone—ROH I remember walking into and Gabe Sapolsky telling me, ‘listen, we can’t afford to fly you in from California, you’ll never work here again, but thanks for coming tonight,’ and shortly afterwards ‘hey, you’re working every show from here until forever.

TNA was very much the same thing, ‘Hey you’re an internet guy. We don’t have television. We’re gonna bring you in and I don’t know what we’ll use for you afterwards.’ Then obviously that went well. And it was the same thing here.

(H/T: NODQ)

#4 Major backstage confusion because of the draft

With a fresh draft set to take place on October 11th on SmackDown and October 14th on RAW, the creative teams have reportedly been left clueless about the future of the Superstars which has resulted in them not being able to decide upon storylines for the stars.

As per a report from Sportskeeda's Tom Colohue:

The Raw and SmackDown Creative teams have not been informed ahead of time what the results of the incoming draft will be, forcing a number of re-writes, the writing of multiple potential options and confusion over what long term storylines may have to be abandoned.This is according to internal WWE sources.

Colohue also stated that he has been informed that the creative teams have been working very hard backstage even though they have little idea about which Superstars will end up on RAW and who will head to SmackDown. This has led to major concern regarding the fate of ongoing stories, especially the program between Rowan and Roman Reigns.

He also revealed that some of the talent are worried that they may be taken out of the spotlight after the draft.

It will be interesting to see how the Executive directors of RAW and SmackDown - Paul Heyman and Eric Bischoff - handle this situation.

#3 Braun Strowman sends a warning to The Fiend

The Monster Among Men suffered humiliation at the hands of his former mentor this week on RAW, when The Fiend put Braun Strowman in the mandible claw, not once but twice.

After the episode, however, Wyatt took to Twitter to issue an 'apology' to the former Tag Team Champion. As could be expected, Strowman was not happy with what had gone down on RAW and sent a serious warning to Wyatt in response to his Tweet.

Neither am I. Stay away. Please

— Bray Wyatt (@WWEBrayWyatt) September 24, 2019

As can be seen, Wyatt is not one to let someone else have the last word and promptly hit back at the former Wyatt Family member.

There have been some reports hinting that WWE may be planning a long term program between the two former stablemates, however, that is mere speculation at this point. Wyatt is all set to face Seth Rollins at Hell in a Cell and will almost certainly come out as the new Universal Champion after the PPV.

#2 Update on Drew McIntyre's return

Drew McIntyre has been out of action ever since he had to take time off to address his injury-related issues. We had reported that the WWE management may be unhappy with McIntyre for not informing them about his injuries in time which led to them having to make a lot of last-minute changes.

As per PWInsider, Drew McIntyre has not yet been cleared to compete as of now, contrary to reports stating that he is cleared and ready to be called back. From the looks of it, McIntyre is likely to return after the upcoming Draft.

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#1 The Rock to return for SmackDown on FOX?

With SmackDown's historic move to FOX and the 20th-anniversary special coming up, AdAge has hinted at The Rock making an appearance for the monumental event:

Among the WWE veterans who’ll come out to help Fox make some new memories next week are Mick Foley, Hulk Hogan, Goldberg, Jerry Lawler and Ric Flair. While many other opening night appearances are being kept under wraps, keep an eye peeled for the trash-talking Goliath who is now the WWE’s most storied alum, as Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson may very well look to pop in on the 20th anniversary of “SmackDown” and promote his upcoming Disney flick, “Jungle Cruise.”

(H/T: NoDq)

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