Backstage Update – WWE & ESPN Working Relationship?

UPDATE x 3: WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins was interviewed by Jonathan Coachman on ESPNews SportsCenter. Rollins spoke in-character about his feud with Kane and being pulled under the ring. Coachman noted that he was under the ring once “and there was a midget involved.”

Coachman set up footage of Rollins mocking Johnny Manziel by referring to him as “Johnny Idiot Face.” Coachman asked what Manziel had to say about the segment. Rollins said he heard nothing from Manziel and said he hoped he was a good sport about it.

Coachman asked Rollins what his favorite sport is. Rollins said football. Coachman brought up age restrictions in sports and asked whether there should be one in WWE. Rollins said it’s a free country and therefore there should not be. They also spoke about the controversial slide in Major League Baseball. Rollins said accidents happen and it’s healthy competition. He said he doesn’t think the slide was malicious.

Coachman started the segment by saying that viewers asked for it and now they got it, then he narrated his top moments from RAW. Those moments included John Cena beat Dolph Ziggler, Xavier Woods’ line about Derrick Rose, and Roman Reigns punching all three members of The Wyatt Family.

That was it. No announcement about WWE and ESPN working together or WWE Superstars appearing on SportsCenter in the future. (Credit: Pw.net)

UPDATE x 2: In a battle of conflicting reports, the Wrestling Observer reports that tonight’s ESPN/WWE announcement will be in regard to WrestleMania 32 and the network’s planned coverage of it.

Obviously this would seem to be different from PWInsider’s claim that ESPN will have a weekly “This Week in WWE” segment. It is entirely possible that both announcements will take place, however. We’ll know more at 9 PM ET.

UPDATE: ESPN will reportedly be doing a weekly segment on SportsCenter recapping the Week in WWE.

ORIGINAL: It was reported last night that Seth Rollins is set to appear live on SportsCenter tonight at 9 PM ET with Jonathan Coachman. The MLW Twitter account now reports that WWE and ESPN are discussing WWE stars regularly appearing on the network…

WWE & ESPN are discussing WWE talent being regularly featured on ESPN programming on a weekly basis in some capacity including #Sportscenter

— MLW (@MLW) October 13, 2015

The MLW account has broken news in the past, and Coachman previously teased a major ESPN/WWE announcement that would be coming this week. More on the story as it develops…

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