WWE: Naomi, John Cena, & Jacob Fatu Appearances Set for 6/13 WWE SmackDown Show, Ron Killings on Wanting People to Put Respect on His Name and Won’t Be Taken Advantage No More, More News

Jun 13, 2025

Naomi, John Cena, & Jacob Fatu Appearances Announced for Friday’s WWE SmackDown Show

WWE SmackDown General Nick Aldis announced three new segments for the card of Friday’s WWE SmackDown show at the Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky.

These new segments were announced to be Undisputed WWE Champion John Cena, WWE United States Champion Jacob Fatu, and Women’s Money in the Bank winner Naomi to make appearances on the show.

HUGE #SmackDown tomorrow night following the events of #MITB…

Don’t miss the Undisputed WWE Champion @JohnCena, Ms. #MITB @TheTrinity_Fatu and SO MUCH MORE! 👀🔥

📺 FRIDAY 8ET/7CT on @USANetwork pic.twitter.com/ftIK8CsPdD
— WWE (@WWE) June 12, 2025

Current card for June 13th WWE SmackDown show:

Undisputed WWE Champion John Cena to appear
WWE United States Champion Jacob Fatu to appear
Women’s Money in the Bank winner Naomi to appear
King and Queen of the Ring Tournament First Round Fatal Four-way matches

Ron Killings Comments on His New Persona & Wanting People to Put Respect on His Name and Won’t Be Taken Advantage No More

A recent episode of the Busted Open Radio podcast featured Ron Killings as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Killings’ thoughts about comments made by co-host Bully Ray criticizing him for continuing to use the word “Truth” after cutting his braids for his gimmick change.

“Who the fuck he talking to? Who is he telling me who I am? I know who I am. I’m protecting him. Everybody has somebody trying to tell them who the fuck they are. I know who I am. I not the nice (guy). I’m driving now! Don’t let nobody tell you who you are. You know you better than anybody. I know me better than anybody. They better put some respect on my name. I am the truth. How are you gonna tell me why I cut my hair? I do what I want to do. It ain’t that nice time no more. I won’t be taken advantage of no more. Things are going to change around here. I’m driving now.
I don’t think people really understand. You’re gonna have a lot of people give their input and think they are the maestro of your life, emotions, and thoughts. Ain’t nobody the maestro of me or for me. I do me. I wish you would. I feel different. I feel more alive than I have ever felt. I’m driving now. Y’all can tell everybody that.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

WWE News & Notes

BodySlam.net’s Cory Hays reported that his sources stated that WWE is currently working with a “mainstream artist” to create a new entrance theme song for Seth Rollins. Hays reported that the identity of this musical artist is currently not known. Hays also reported that the name of Rollins’ group featuring him, Bron Breakker, Bronson Reed, and Paul Heyman is currently expected to be revealed soon.

Deadline reported that Jade Cargill recently joined the cast of the upcoming action thriller film True Heat. It was reported that Cargill will be portraying the role of Meeka and this film was described to be “True Threat follows Special Forces operative Vernon Threat, played by Majors, as he returns home to avenge his son’s murder by the Apollo Kids gang. He infiltrates The Carter, a 20-story building controlled by the gang, battling floor by floor to confront his former mentor, Shallow.”

As noted before, R-Truth departed from WWE earlier this month due to his contract not being renewed and made his surprise return at this past Saturday’s WWE Money in the Bank 2025 event. R-Truth recently confirmed that WWE President Nick Khan had helped put together a new deal for his return. Dave Meltzer reported in a recent episode of the Wrestling Observer Radio that his sources stated that WWE officials currently fears that fans will try to “hijack” more shows to make their feelings known following Ron “The Truth” Killings’ recent return

Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that WWE officials have been very pleased with Lucha Libre AAA talent Mr. Iguana’s enthusiasm and full commitment to participating in the company’s promotional efforts.

Cody Rhodes, Tiffany Stratton, and The Street Profits were among those who had attended a U.S. military event this past Tuesday at Fort Bragg, Texas celebrating the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States Army that was also a President Trump rally event.

This past Wednesday’s WWE Speed show featured Berto defeating Noam Dar in the Finals of WWE’s newest #1 Contender’s tournament for the WWE Speed Championship. Berto will be facing off against El Grande Americano for the WWE Speed Championship at next week’s show on June 18th.

This past Monday’s WWE RAW show in Phoenix, Arizona featured WWE Hall of Famer Nikki Bella making a return appearance and being involved in a promo segment with Liv Morgan. This promo segment was notable for Morgan referencing Bella’s real life divorce from Artem Chigvintsev. In a recent interview with PEOPLE, Bella gave her thoughts about Morgan bringing up her divorce in her promo. Bella stated “The beauty of how us women are and how empowering we are with each other is it’s done in a certain way, and that’s what I appreciate. And WWE has said that to me from the beginning. They’ve been so incredible of respecting my boundaries and my son, which is amazing.“

In a recent response to a fan on Twitter, Natalya gave her thoughts about fans claiming online that she was demoted to WWE’s EVOLVE brand. This fan stated “@NatbyNature Got Demoted To @WWNEVOLVE 👀.” Natalya responded stating “I very specifically asked to compete on this show for many reasons. I want to wrestle against women from every corner of our industry. When you’ve been hungry, you can never be full. #EVOLVE 💜“

In a recent interview with WWE Die Woche, current NXT Women’s Champion Jacy Jayne gave her thoughts about her getting the opportunity to compete at WWE’s upcoming all-women’s Evolution 2 event and being the first talent announced for the event. Jayne stated “Oh, it’s super cool. I’m really excited about that. I remember watching the first Evolution pay-per-view, and I was like, ‘This is groundbreaking. An all-women’s show? WWE’s never done that before.’ It’s been years since we’ve done that and you know, we always say, ‘NXT has the best women’s division in the entire world’ so, I’m so happy that they’re having NXT be a part of this so we can show what our division is all about to an audience that maybe hasn’t seen us yet, and the fact that I get to represent us on that show, that’s huge for me, and I’m really excited and I’m not taking it lightly. Yeah, for sure (being the first name announced for Evolution lights a fire inside me). Definitely. Because I think everybody for a while was thinking, like, there were rumors about the Evolution pay-per-view but it didn’t get confirmed yet and then when it did get confirmed, there was rumors that NXT wasn’t even gonna be a part of it. Like, it was just gonna be a main roster show. So then, when they announced this this past Tuesday, everybody in the locker room is super happy about it. Just to have NXT be a part of that, that’s a huge win for us.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

In a recent episode of the What Do You Want To Talk About podcast, host Cody Rhodes gave his thoughts about how him and Seth Rollins had stepped up and produced an event for WWE when the regular producers were unable to make it to the show. Rhodes stated “We had a situation where we needed to get to Omaha or get out of Omaha, and I thought I would be a big baller and save the day. There were no commercial flights going. I got the crew a jet and we were heading to El Paso. That was the trouble. We needed to get to El Paso from Nebraska in the middle of a snowstorm, and the only way we could do it was flying private. Ultimately, WWE stepped in and covered it for me … We had a show to do. No producers. Me and Seth, we were producers and it was a show that had a commission, so we actually had to do work. It wasn’t, ‘Hey, you’re good, we know your match. Hey, 12 minutes.’ None of that.” In response to guest Damian Priest praising Rhodes and Rollins work and how everyone took them seriously backstage, Rhodes stated “The best is I didn’t put the producers on the flight. I put the boys on the flight. We have to do the show. Love (the producers), but we had to do the show. Seth is doing it and doing an incredible job. Obviously, that’s in his future. I’m sure the world can figure that out.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)