Select Portions: Talent meeting, injuries, Smackdown creative
Added 2023-01-13 19:21:30 +0000 UTC- There is an all-talent meeting before WWE Smackdown tonight for those at the show.
- Uncle Howdy was planned for Smackdown as of Thursday.
- For those asking, Johnny Gargano's injury is a legit one, and he's hoping to be back in time for the Royal Rumble.
- We're told Don Callis was also at the PWG show where Jericho Appreciation Society wrestled
- AEW wrestlers were at the Clippers game Tuesday night.
- WWE had extras brought in to serve as officials for a women's segment set for the locker room area.
- The tarot card element with Rey Mysterio was listed again this week.
- Creative was tentatively set for Smackdown as of late Thursday evening
- Fightful Awards were delayed until January 19 at 8 PM EST, there are several winners who will also pop up on the show.
- Fightful has an interview with Crowbar set for Sunday.
Comments
It’s probably a “here’s what’s happening, it isn’t a big concern for you guys as of now” meeting
Jon Blain
2023-01-13 21:21:00 +0000 UTCI'm reading into that Fightful Awards delay that you had to push it back to accommodate a Mercedes Mone appearance. ;-)
Michael Adams
2023-01-13 20:19:39 +0000 UTCy would he
DeQuan
2023-01-13 20:05:20 +0000 UTCThat's not true. Not saying it will today, but WWE had one last year to let talent know they were reinstating select third party deals
Fightful Select
2023-01-13 19:50:11 +0000 UTCMy bad I didn’t know
John
2023-01-13 19:43:51 +0000 UTCSD creative has been done on Thursday for weeks now
ARose Lab
2023-01-13 19:37:06 +0000 UTCI think with Smackdown Creative done with Thursday and a talent meeting it ain’t looking to good imo
John
2023-01-13 19:29:17 +0000 UTCRumour control most likely
Stew Sizer
2023-01-13 19:27:17 +0000 UTCLet’s hope it’s that and not VKM taking over creative.
Ryan Turner
2023-01-13 19:27:16 +0000 UTCHopefully to calm talent down and inform them about the craziness of this week regarding rumors and such......
Juan Ortiz
2023-01-13 19:26:39 +0000 UTCAny idea what the all talent meeting is for?
Ryan Turner
2023-01-13 19:25:20 +0000 UTCNothing good comes from a talent meeting.
Bryan
2023-01-13 19:22:40 +0000 UTC
