WWE: Booker T on His Reason for His Over-The-Top Reactions for Stephanie Vaquer’s The Devil’s Kiss Move During Matches, WWE Reportedly Currently Planning to Hold New Major Event in Mexico City, More News

Booker T Comments on His Reason for His Over-The-Top Reactions for Stephanie Vaquer’s The Devil’s Kiss Move During Matches

Instinct Culture’s Denise Salcedo held a recent interview with WWE Hall of Famer and WWE NXT commentator Booker T. One of the topics discussed included Booker T’s thoughts about his reason for his over-the-topic reactions on commentary whenever Stephanie Vaquer performs her The Devil’s Kiss, headscissors head smash, move during her matches in NXT.

“It’s not for me. It’s not for me, it’s for Stephanie. It’s to shine some light on her because she is so friggin awesome. She’s such a great talent and doing such a great job in NXT. I didn’t see her being the one. I thought it was going to be Giulia or Zaria. Stephanie Vaquer came in there and has done such a great job as far as her in-ring performance as well as her entertainment value as well. We did the Bad Bunny thing together. She is such a cool person.”

Booker T also gave his thoughts about Vaquer’s reaction to his commentary antics whenever she does the move.

“I think she liked it because when she started doing it, she would point at me like, ‘Let’s get ready to have some fun.’ A lot of people look at it and go, ‘Booker T is trying to steal the shine.’ When I was a young wrestler coming up, the spinaroonie would not be the spinaroonie if it wasn’t for Mark Madden going crazy when I did it. Then, it became a household name. For me, I’m trying to do the same thing for these young guys and girls coming up.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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WWE Reportedly Currently Planning to Hold New Major Show in Mexico City

WWE reportedly is currently working on plans to hold a new major event in Mexico within the near future, according to the Wrestling Observer.

Dave Meltzer reported that his sources stated that WWE officials currently have plans to run a major show in Mexico City and for it to be headlined by Cody Rhodes.

No other details were given regarding a potential date nor other plans for this upcoming event.

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WWE News & Notes

Monday’s WWE RAW show in Greenville, South Caroline featured Kairi Sane making her official in-ring return to the RAW brand. Sane competed in a Women’s Money in the Bank Ladder Qualifying Triple Threat match against Rhea Ripley and Zoey Stark, which was won by Ripley. This was Sane’s first match since this past December due to a torn thumb ligament injury.

WWE and 2K Games announced that Indiana Pacers player Tyrese Haliburton will be arriving as a playable character as part of the upcoming “Dunk & Destruction” DLC pack for their WWE 2K25 video game.

Post Wrestling’s John Pollock reported that a recent audit from Pollstar revealed that WWE had generated over $13 million in live gates revenues for six shows over a period of two weeks from March 22nd to April 4th. Pollock reported that five of these shows were from WWE’s recent tour of Europe and the remaining show was from their tour return to the United States. These shows were the March 22nd live event in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the March 23rd live event in Nottingham, England, the March 24th WWE RAW show in Glasgow, Scotland, the March 28th WWE SmackDown show in London, England, and the April 4th WWE SmackDown show in Rosemont, Illinois.

Wrestlelamia reported that a recent fan expo featured John Cena signing the memorable “If Cena Wins, We Riot” sign that was shown in the crowd at WWE’s ECW One Night Stand 2026 event at the Hammerstein Ballroom. It was stated that besides his signature, Cena also wrote “I lost so we’re good” on the sign in reference to his loss to Rob Van Dam for the WWE Championship at the event.

As noted before, WWE held a new set of talent tryouts this past March in London, England. Fightful Select’s Corey Brennan reported that his sources stated that WWE officials had reached out to several participants in the weeks after WrestleMania 41 and into early May. Those spoken to reportedly stated that talent who were not offered contracts had received constructive feedback from the company aimed at helping them improve. Brennan reported that WWE officials are particularly interested in Spanish indies wrestler Zozaya and are actively working to bring him into the company after being impressed with his performance at the tryout. Those close to Zozaya reportedly stated that he is currently expected to finish his university studies this June. Brennan also reported that the current belief is that any talent signed from these recent tryouts would likely begin training at the Performance Center and start making appearances in WWE for their NXT brand by around this September.

WWE recently released two new videos to their WWE Vault channel on YouTube. The first new video was a “Awesome Andre the Giant footage found in the WWE Vault.” The second new video was a singles match of The Undertaker vs. The Great Khali from WWE Judgement Day 2006.

WWE also recently released one new video to their NXT Vault channel on YouTube. This new video was the full May 27, 2015 episode of WWE NXT.

In a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight, John Cena gave his thoughts about him not currently thinking about what the toughest part of his retirement might be. Cena stated “There is a long way to December. I’ll tell you when I get there.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

In a recent interview with News4Jax’s Going Ringside podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels gave his thoughts about who would be his choices for his Mount Rushmore of Pro Wrestling. Michaels stated “Yeah, I guess. I mean, I don’t know. To me, I’ve always felt like there’s, I don’t know, they’re just your personal favorites, I think. But yeah, I’ve got a few, I guess, but mine date back to usually the… The mid-80s or late 70s. I always put Terry Funk in there. I usually put Harley Race in there, Ric Flair and then that fourth one’s always a little tough for me. It goes to Tully Blanchard because that’s who I grew up with or Wahoo McDaniel.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

In a recent interview with Unlikely’s Adrian Hernandez, Kofi Kingston gave his thoughts about his list of “Don’t” advice for fans when it comes to them seeing him in public especially when he is spending time with his family. Kingston stated “Don’t talk to me. Don’t think that because you bought a ticket that you have the right to shake my hand. Don’t come up to me and say, well, I bought a ticket to the show, so I should be able to get a picture, and you are obligated to come over to me. That is not true. I don’t have to do that. Do not come over and try to shake my hand and try to take a picture with me early in the morning when I’m trying to go to work. If I’m sitting in first class, when you are on your way to last class, don’t sit there with your camera and do a thumbs down so you can get a little viral show and go tweet that stuff out. Then don’t like people, don’t like the pictures and posts, when people post disrespectful pics like that, don’t like them because you perpetuate that. You perpetuate the negativity. If I am in my everyday life, going to work, doing what I want to do, if I’m hanging out with my family, I don’t need you to tell me how much I suck. Because look here. (gestures to championship) Look here. You see this? You see it? you see that? You see that? That means that I don’t suck. So don’t come across as a liar when you tell me that I do. When I’m on the top of the mountain with my boy, Xavier Woods, one half of the WWE World Tag Team Champions. We are your boys, The New Day.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)