WWE: WWE Reportedly Interested in Kamille, Plans for Hulkamania 40th Anniversary Celebrations This Month, More News

Jan 5, 2024

WWE Reportedly Interested in Signing Kamille

As noted before, Kamille will be leaving the National Wrestling Alliance following the expiration of her contract at the end of 2023.

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that Kamille is currently a free agent as of January 1, 2024.

Johnson reported that those spoken to within WWE stated that Kamille is 100% on their radar in terms of their level of interest towards her. WWE officials reportedly held internal talks this past December about signing her to a potential NXT developmental deal and having her work for their NXT brand.

WWE Reportedly Planning 40th Anniversary Hulkamania Celebrations for This Month

WWE reportedly currently has plans to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the debut of Hulkamania this month, according to WrestleVotes.

It was reported that their sources stated that WWE officials currently have plans to release various new merchandise items and collectable for Hulk Hogan celebrating this upcoming anniversary, which WWE officially recognizes January 23, 1984 as the start date when Hogan defeated The Iron Sheik for his first WWE Championship victory.

In regards to Hogan, it was reported that WWE officials currently do not have any plans for Hogan making an appearance on WWE television as part of the celebrations.

WWE plans to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Hulkamania this month with various new merchandise items & collectibles for Hulk Hogan. I’m told an appearance by Hogan is not out of the question but also not planned as of now. The recognized start of Hulkamania has generally been…
— WrestleVotes (@WrestleVotes) January 3, 2024

WWE News & Notes

Thursday’s WWE 2024 Preview Special show on Peacock featured Becky Lynch and Shinsuke Nakamura officially declaring themselves for their respective Women’s and Men’s Royal Rumble matches at this month’s Royal Rumble 2024 event in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Bianca Belair recently revealed on Twitter the official poster for her upcoming new Love & WWE: Bianca & Montez reality series on Hulu.

UFC recently announced that they will be holding an UFC Fight Night event on April 6th in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is notable for taking place on the same day as WWE’s NXT Stand & Deliver 2024 event and WrestleMania 40 Night 1 event in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This means that at least one of WWE’s events will go head-to-head against UFC’s event that day.

The Wrestling Club from KIPP AMP Middle School in Brooklyn, New York recently released a fundraiser video on Twitter with the goal to raise $2,500 so that they all would be able to attend WWE’s WrestleMania 40 event. Following the release of the video, Cody Rhodes responded on Twitter that he will be covering all of their costs for tickets and hotels so that they can attend the event.

As noted before, this past Monday’s WWE RAW Day 1 show in San Jose, California featured Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson making a surprise appearance. Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that Adam Pearce was the producer of The Rock’s segment with Jinder Mahal on the show. It was also reported that The Rock’s segment went around seven minutes over the time that it had been allocated for the show.

As noted before, WWE announced on Thursday that this year’s Money in the Bank event will be taking place on July 6th at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that the announcement for this year’s Money in the Bank event was originally planned to be the “major announcement” WWE CCO Paul “Triple H” Levesque was advertised to be making during Thursday’s WWE 2024 Preview Special on Peacock. Johnson reported that it is currently not known what caused WWE’s plans to be changed resulting in Levesque’s announcement being made on Thursday morning instead.

Natayla recently announced on Twitter that Thursday was the 17th year anniversary of her official signing with WWE. Natayla stated “Today is 17 years since I signed with @WWE , and my love for this business has only grown. I have never taken a single day for granted, because I learned early, that the amazing position I have is leased, never owned. So wherever the next 17 takes us, just know I’ll be calling someone B*tch! (IYKYK!) and locking them in Sharpshooter. Because this isn’t a career for me. It’s my life. 🖤“

In a recent interview with the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast, former WWE talent Rick Boogs, real name Eric Bugenhagen, gave his thoughts about his past comments claiming that Vince McMahon’s removal from WWE in 2022 “killed” his career in the company. Boogs stated “Well, I mean, if you look at it objectively, look at my NXT run and then look at when I was seen by Vince and look at that run. Then, when management and the whole regime changed again, look at that run. A lot of people say, ‘Oh, he was injured.’ I was supposed to be brought back early when I wasn’t cleared, a month or two after rehab. I was really pumped. ‘Yeah, let’s get back out there,’ and it was kiboshed.” Boogs also gave his thoughts about his past comments claiming that someone held a grudge against him in WWE. Boogs stated “Grudge isn’t the right word. In development, I was told, ‘You have an awesome personality, and people like you, and the crowd is with you. Just keep getting better in the ring.’ Basically, with that regime, that’s all I ever heard. Dude, this is scripted television. We can make this whatever. It’s frustrating, but at the same time, I get where both sides are coming from.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

In a recent interview with the Notsam Wrestling podcast, Adam Copeland, former Edge in WWE, gave his thoughts about several of the dropped ideas WWE officials had for Judgement Day during his time in the group. Copeland stated “At one point it was talked about a cauldron with bubbling black fluid and I’m holding a pitchfork. I was like, ‘Woahh..I don’t want to do that because that’s not going to work.’ There was one week, they wanted us to float to the ring. ‘What?’ ‘No, we’ll put it on a dolly.’ Then, I’m sitting on a throne and Priest is full core engaged because he’s basically surfing holding onto this thing, and all I felt going as we’re going down was ‘This is Spinal Tap. This is Spinal Tap.’ We got to the back and I was like, ‘I don’t think that entrance works, guys.’ But, it was, ‘I’ll give it a shot.’ It ain’t my sandbox. I don’t cut the checks. This is what you want, I’ll try and make it work, but I’ll also be the first one to tell you, ‘That didn’t work. We probably shouldn’t do that anymore, right?” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)