WWE: Stephanie Vaquer on Almost Dropping Her Devil’s Kiss Move in WWE Before Booker T Kept It Alive, Cody Rhodes on Him Having A Plan To Deal with Pat McAfee at WrestleMania 42, Class Action Lawsuit Against WWE Over Misleading Claims About PLE Access on ESPN Update

Stephanie Vaquer on Almost Dropping Her Devil’s Kiss Move in WWE Before Booker T Kept It Alive

A recent episode of the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast featured WWE Women’s World Champion Stephanie Vaquer as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Vaquer’s thoughts about how she initially had planed to stop doing her Devil’s Kiss signature move for matches when she joined WWE in July of 2024.

“Before WWE, I did that move for a long time. And at one point, when I did that move before WWE, was a little different than now. When I signed with WWE, I think, ‘Okay, I want to stop doing that move for many reasons. I think sometimes people take that move different ways, and I don’t like that.’

In NXT one day, we were training, and I showed that move, and the coach is saying, ‘No, that’s good, people know that move and people like that move.’

I’m thinking, ‘Yeah, but I don’t know why I don’t like it anymore. I don’t want to do that move because I hate what people say, ‘It’s just because of that move,’ and people can’t sometimes understand that move.”

Vaquer also gave her thoughts about how Booker T hyping up the move on NXT commentary to spark fan’s interest made her reconsider her decision to drop the move.

“I started to do it again, and I feel good because Booker T made that move that people love this move, so I’m starting to love this move again, because Booker T made me feel like that.

You know what? When I still go to NXT sometimes and watch the show, every Tuesday, when Booker T’s entrance people still say like ‘Booker T and Stephanie come back’. It’s amazing ‘cause people say my name and people say ‘ah, ah’ every time and after one year, I moved on from NXT after a year and people still remember that move, and this is for Booker T.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com

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Cody Rhodes Comments on Him Having A Plan To Deal with Pat McAfee at WrestleMania 42

A recent episode of ESPN’s First Take show featured Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Rhodes’ thoughts about if he has a plan to deal with Pat McAfee for his match against Randy Orton at WrestleMania 42.

“There’s something in these sleeves, too. You can’t just keep getting kicked in the balls by an NFL punter and not have a plan of your own. I got a plan here. I got a plan.”

In a separate recent interview with ESPN’s Get Up show, Rhodes gave his thoughts about his and Orton’s history with each other ahead of their match at WrestleMania 42.

“His dad and my dad came up on the roads together, Cowboy Bob, Dusty Rhodes. Randy brought me into WWE. My first match at WWE was against Randy Orton. His faction, the only faction he ever led, Legacy. I was one of the guys in Legacy. I learned everything it will take to beat Randy Orton from Randy Orton.”

Rhodes also gave his thoughts about if he had any other message for Randy ahead of their match.

“Get ready to look up at the lights, pal. Yeah, no, at this point, there’s no hugs, there’s no handshakes. All that love that exists between us got thrown away for this Pat McAfee element, and great. Get ready to look up at the lights.

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com 1 & 2

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Class Action Lawsuit Against WWE Over Misleading Claims About PLE Access on ESPN Streaming Service Update

As noted before, a class action lawsuit was filed this past January against WWE and ESPN alleging that the two companies had committed deceptive marketing practices regarding WWE moving their Premium Live Events (PLEs) to ESPN’s new ESPN+ streaming service. These claims revolved around marketing from both WWE and ESPN telling all existing ESPN subscribers that they would have access to WWE PLEs for free when that was not the case for those with certain cable or streaming providers.

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that WWE had filed a motion on April 13th before the U.S. District Court in Connecticut seeking to force the class action lawsuit into private arbitration.

In the filing, WWE and ESPN argued that since the plantiffs subscribed to ESPN Unlimited, their claims should be governed under Disney/ESPN’s arbitration clause in the legalese included when they subscribed to the service for WWE events.

“Diesa’s and Toback’s claims against WWE are independently subject to mandatory arbitration under the doctrine of equitable estoppel. Although WWE is not a party to the Subscriber Agreement, non-signatories who have a commercial relationship with a signatory can compel arbitration under the doctrine of equitable estoppel where “the issues the nonsignatory is seeking to resolve in arbitration are intertwined with the agreement that the estopped party has signed.” Ragone v. Atl. Video at Manhattan Ctr.   Diesa’s and Toback’s claims against WWE raise issues that arise directly out of WWE’s commercial relationship with ESPN and are inextricably intertwined with the Subscriber Agreement.”

Johnson reported that the plaintiffs are currently seeking a jury trial.