Musical Maestro gets Released.

Famed WWE music producer Jim Johnson has been released from his WWE Contract after 32 years of service. He had been working for WWE since 1985 and created the Hit entrance themes for most of the superstars, including that of Vince McMahon, the Undertaker, ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin, and The Rock to name a few.

Johnson’s role in WWE has been dwindling since CFO$ took the reigns as main music creators and pushed Johnson into more of a secondary role. It is believed that this release was not on mutual terms with Johnson wanting to renew his WWE contract and continue his work but WWE decided not to renew the contract and let him go instead.

NXT Up-Start Teams.

Last week I noted the 2 Female trios that took control of both Raw & SmackDown consisting of; Paige, Mandy Rose & Sonya Deville, and Ruby Riot, Liv Morgan & Sarah Logan.

This week on Raw Team Paige got the official name of “Absolution” and on SmackDown, Ruby Riot can a slight name adjustment by adding an additional T to the end, Now Known as “Ruby Riott”. Team Ruby Riott is now officially known as “The Riott Squad”.

The Broken Universe Shall Return??

This Week on Raw, After a loss to Bray Wyatt Matt Hardy started to play upon his “Broken” actions. The chanting of “DELETE” and the arm action to go along with it, ever since he has been acting very similar to his old Broken persona on social media, Does this mean that Matt & The WWE finally have the rights to use this gimmick?

The rumour is that “Broken Matt Hardy” will not be returning, but WWE plan on creating a character very similar, Possibly “Woken Matt Hardy”, He’ll keep all the attributes that are associated with the Broken Gimmick but will put their own spin on it.

Anthem President Ed Nordholm commented on Matt’s actions on Raw by saying;

“We have seen the character development and will be interested to see where they take the concept. Our new talent agreements all incorporate language that allows talent to continue to use their IMPACT persona after they leave the company. We are working with our legal team to amend our existing agreements to extend this to all of our current and former talents.”

They appear to have realised that it’s in their better interest to give their talent the freedom to be free to use the characters they create inside IMPACT outside of impact.

The Elite Show.

Per Pro Wrestling Sheet, Cody Rhodes And The Young Bucks are Planning a Self-Financed 10,000 Seat Event In 2018. They are still in talks with multiple venues in multiple cities to decide where the event will end up being held the current front-runners are Chicago, London, San Francisco and Ontario, California.

The rumour is that this is being done so Cody can prove to Dave Meltzer that he can draw a crowd of 10,000 After Meltzer stated that Ring Of Honour wouldn’t draw 10,000 “anytime soon”. Cody wants to put on this show in partnership with ROH and prove to Meltzer that they can draw 10,000 people to their show.

Sources are saying that Cody & The Young Bucks are looking to partner with ROH, where they all have exclusive contracts with, However it’s unclear if an official deal has been worked out yet.

TV Show Cameos.

Mr Bill Goldberg will be following in the steps of Adam Copeland (Edge) being Atom Smasher in The Flash Season 2, Episode 1, & Cody Rhodes portraying Derek Sampson in multiple episodes of Arrow Season 5.

Goldberg will be guest starring in 2 episodes of the Flash in it’s current Forth season, But there is no word yet on what episodes he will be appearing in or the character that he may be portraying.

In-Ring Return Updates.

Drew McIntyre has confirmed that he sustained an injury to his bicep at NXT Takeover: War Games in his Title match with Andrade “Cien” Almas and will be out until 2018, However he proclaimed that he will be coming back stronger than ever and whoever is NXT Champion when he returns better be ready for him.

Brie Bella revealed on Lillian Garcia’s Podcast that Daniel Bryan has been cleared to wrestle by doctors outside of WWE, but WWE doctors are still not budging on allowing Bryan to return to in-ring action in WWE. It is believed that if WWE doesn’t change their minds by the time Bryan’s contract runs out in September 2018, Then Bryan will return to wrestling on the Independent scene and he will be in high demand by all promotions. Cody Rhodes revealed that his dream main event opponent would be Daniel Bryan, and promotions will definitely see money in that match and want to capitalize on it.