WWE: Backstage Update on WWE’s Current Plans for Seth Rollins’ New Stable, Drew McIntyre Reportedly Set For Major Hollywood Film Role, A&E WWE Ratings, More News

Apr 30, 2025

Backstage Update on WWE’s Current Plans for Seth Rollins’ New Stable

As noted before, Paul Heyman turned heel on CM Punk and Roman Reigns and aligned himself with Seth Rollins at WWE’s WrestleMania 41 Night 1 event earlier this month. Bron Breakker was revealed as the newest member of Rollins’ group at last week’s RAW After Mania show.

Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that while people have been comparing Rollins’ new group to Evolution and The Dangerous Alliance, this is not meant to be the intended comparison based on WWE’s plans for the group. One source spoken to reportedly stated that this new stable is intended to be one that future factions would get compared to and not one to draw comparisons itself.

In regards to the current plans for the group, this same source reportedly stated that WWE officials’ plans as of WrestleMania 41 weekend does not include any additional members being added to the group. It was reported that this plan could always change but the internal working plan was for this new stable to only consist of Rollins, Heyman, and Breakker.

Drew McIntyre Reportedly Set For Major Hollywood Film Role

Drew McIntyre reportedly is currently set to be lined up for a “major” film role in Hollywood, according to PWInsider.

Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that McIntyre’s role has been a talking point within WWE for months. Those spoken to reportedly stated that the current belief is that McIntyre could be the next WWE talent to break out into large-scale film or television work.

A&E WWE Programming Ratings – April 27, 2025

This past Sunday’s WWE LFG doubleheader first episode drew 128,000 viewers on A&E. This episode also drew a 0.02 rating in the 18-49 demographic. This was up compared to the April 13th show’s 127,000 viewers but equal to its 18-49 demographic rating.

This past Sunday’s WWE LFG doubleheader second episode drew 99,000 viewers on A&E. This episode also drew a 0.01 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

Source: Programming Insider

WWE News & Notes

WWE CCO Paul “Triple H” Levesque recently released the official poster for WWE’s next Saturday Night’s Main Event show on May 24th in Tampa, Florida. This poster featured current Undisputed WWE Champion John Cena as the sole Superstar shown.

A new trailer was recently released for the upcoming new short film titled The Killer which stars Karrion Kross.

The debut trailer for the upcoming The Smashing Machine film was recently released. This upcoming film featured Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson portraying the leading role of former MMA fighter Mark Kerr.

WWE filed a new trademark for “Jamar Hampton” on April 27th for wrestling and entertainment-related purposes to the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

This past Monday’s WWE RAW show in Kansas City, Missouri featured Seth Rollins coming out wearing a fancy peacock design long coat. This coat is from Pakistani label Rastah and currently lists for a price of $13,500 on their official website.

This past Friday’s WWE SmackDown show in Fort Worth, Texas featured the Street Profits defeating DIY and Motor City Machine Guns in a TLC match to retain their WWE Tag Team Championship. Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that the match got incredible reviews internally. Those spoken to within WWE reportedly stated that before the show, they felt the participants being left off of WrestleMania 41 would be a big talking point. It was reported that Jamie Noble and Kenny Dykstra were the producers for the match. It was also reported that everyone involved in the match emerged relatively healthy afterwards.

WWE recently released two new videos to their WCW Vault channel on YouTube. The first new video was a WCW World Heavyweight Championship Falls Count Anywhere match of Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Diamond Dallas Page (c) from the April 29, 1999 episode of WCW Thunder. The second new video was a WCW World Heavyweight Championship match of The Giant vs. Ric Flair (c) from the March 25, 1996 episode of WCW Nitro.

WWE also recently released five new videos to their WWE Vault channel on YouTube. The first new video was a “The Best of Meiko Satomura in WWE: From the WWE Vault.” The second new video was a tag team match of “Stone Cold” Steve Austin & The Rock vs. The Corporate Ministry (Undertaker & Triple H) from the April 29, 1999 episode of WWE SmackDown. The third new video was a singles match of Samoa Joe vs. Roman Reigns from WWE Backlash 2018. The fourth new video was the full “WWE World Tour|Hogan vs. Savage, Warrior vs. DiBiase and MORE!” home video. The fifth new video was a “Shawn Michaels and Kevin Nash watch classic In Your House brawl: From the WWE Vault.”

WWE also recently released two new videos to their NXT Vault channel on YouTube. The first new video was the full December 18, 2014 episode of WWE NXT. The second new video was the full December 25, 2014 episode of WWE NXT.

In a recent interview with Deadline, CM Punk gave his thoughts about him balancing his wrestling and acting careers and him being hopeful that a third season of Heels gets made by Netflix. Punk stated “It’s a lot easier now. It was harder back in the day because wrestling was the lion’s share of what I did, and I wasn’t allowed to do other stuff. I have pre-existing relationships and projects I work on that are grandfathered into my contract. I typically do Monday Night Raw live on Netflix every week. But if I need to dip out for two weeks to shoot an independent film, I can always do that. We’re trying to petition Netflix to do a third season of Heels. I have two projects coming down the line that I’m very excited about. One is the TV show Revival that will air on Syfy, and a really, really fun movie called Night Patrol, written and directed by Ryan Prows. I don’t want to give away too much but it’s night patrol, LAPD, Bloods, Crips, vampires.”