WWE: Current Major Plans for Alexa Bliss’ Absence Return, Bayley on Running Many of Her Ideas for Her Character Past Michael Cole & Learned A Lot From Him, More News

Current Major Plans for Alexa Bliss’ Absence Return

As noted before, The Wyatts Sicks have been absent from WWE since this past December due to Bo Dallas/Uncle Howdy had been dealing with an undisclosed injury but was medically cleared this past March. Besides the Wyatts Sicks, Alexa Bliss has also been absent from WWE since this past March due to lack of creative plans reasons.

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that WWE officials currently have plans in place for Bliss to return as the new leader of the Wyatt Sicks faction.

Johnson reported that those spoken to confirmed that Bliss has been healthy during her abscence and she was in attendance at this past weekend’s WrestleMania 41 event in Las Vegas.

Johnson also reported that Bliss has simply been waiting for the green light from WWE creative for her return and is expected to do so at Friday’s SmackDown show in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Bayley Comments on Running Many of Her Ideas for Her Character Past Michael Cole & Learned A Lot From Him for Her Wrestling Career

A recent episode of the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast featured Bayley as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Bayley’s thoughts about how she runs many of her ideas for her character past Michael Cole and how she has learned a lot from him for her wrestling career.

“Oh God, what an idiot (Bayley jokingly said about Michael Cole). We’ll be putting stuff together before the show and he’ll be like, ‘Hey, Bayley! Hey, Bayley! So I guess I gotta cheer for you tonight because you’re wrestling Liv’ and I’m like, ‘You don’t have to cheer for me, Michael. I don’t care what you do’ and, ‘Oh, well, screw you then’ and he just flips me off from the chair and I’m in the ring trying to do my work. He’s just so funny dude. He’s, for real, like a mentor to me. He’s somebody that I can go to that he’s been here for so long and he’s always available. You can’t always get in Hunter’s ear, Michael Hayes is always available and he has a very different mindset but Cole is there watching everything, watching every girl’s match, watching all the guys’ matches and he’s been doing it and calling matches forever so getting his mindset on things is always super helpful and he’s just always rooting for us and he has a different insight on stuff so, as much as I give him crap on TV, he’s somebody that even just up until just Monday… I went on Pat’s bus with him. As I was getting ready, I was texting him like, ‘Hey, where you at? I just have some notes.’ I was wrestling Liv (Morgan) and, ‘I just have some notes to give you’ and he’s like, ‘Hey, I’m on Pat’s bus. Come on over.’ I’m like, ‘Okay,’ so, went and sat with him and Pat (McAfee) and just kind of give him some notes but, he also asks, so, ‘What’s going on with this?’ And, ‘What’s going on with that? How can we make this better?’ Because he kind of has an idea of the direction I want to go as a character so, he really is the best and he really wants the best for everybody. But, not everyone uses him as an outlet. But he’s so knowledgeable and I’ve learned a lot from him.”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com

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WWE News & Notes

Sports journalist Andrew Baydala reported that his sources stated that WWE officials are currently considering plans for Las Vegas, Nevada to host another WrestleMania event within the next three to five years. Baydala reported that WWE officials was extremely pleased with how the entire weekend went in the city and felt that Las Vegas was an ideal location for their most significant event of the year.

This past Sunday’s Roast Of WrestleMania event in Las Vegas was notable for the controversial racist jokes that were made and verbal attacks towards several people who were not at the event. Audio of this roast was recently leaked online despite WWE’s efforts to prevent it. Covalent TV reported that WWE has been actively pursing the removal of all recordings of this roast event including issuing numerous DMCA takedown notices to social media and YouTube accounts.

The Nevada Current reported that WWE had recently filed and was approved by the Governor’s Office for Economic Development and the Nevada Film Office to recieve $4.2 million in transferable film tax credits for WrestleMania 41 and related events in the state. It was reported that the tax credits recieved represents around 12% of the $33.7 million total production budge WWE had estimated for their two nights events of WrestleMania 41 at the Allegiant Stadium and three nights of wrestling events at the T-Mobile Arena. It was also reported that this tax credit is “more than half of what the company estimated it would spend on local labor and at local businesses.”

WWE recently released a new behind-the-scenes video focusing on this past weekend’s WrestleMania 41 events at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada.

WWE also recently released two new videos to their WWE Vault channel on YouTube. The first new video was a “Rey Mysterio: The Life of a Masked Man” full documentary. The second new video was a WWE Intercontinental Championship Hardcore match of Cactus Jack vs. Randy Orton (c) from WWE Backlash 2004.

In a recent interview with CBS Sports, Dominik Mysterio gave his thoughts about the crowd loudly cheering when he won the WWE Intercontinental Championship at this past Sunday’s WrestleMania 41 Night 2 event. Mysterio stated “Whatever the company wants, I’m here for them. I’m a team player and they know that. At the end of the day, whatever is best for business is going to happen.“