WWE: Lil Yachty on He Could Quit Music Career For Full-Time WWE Career, Backstage Update on Stephanie Vaquer’s WWE Abscense Over Illness Issue, SiriusXM CEO Touts WWE Radio Audience Growth

Lil Yachty on He Could Quit Music Career For Full-Time WWE Career

Complex held a recent interview with Grammy nominated rapper and producer and WWE manager Lil Yachty. One of the topics discussed included Yachty’s thoughts about his current time in WWE as the manager of Trick Williams and how he loves working in WWE so much that he could potentialy quit his music career for a full-time WWE career.

“Nah, no correlation. It’s so much different; it’s so much more militant you gotta be in WWE. This is my show. I call the shots, I make the rules, I do what I want. WWE, it’s time, it’s cameras… producers. It’s so different. It’s like militant, and you gotta be on your sh*t… I always talk to wrestlers about this: You just don’t have the leeway you have. I can go up there, talk sh*t, f*ck up. You got X amount of time and you gotta make everything count and you gotta captivate that audience. You don’t see them again till next Friday, and you got a real small time in your segment to get your point across, your message across and be remembered for six more days until next Friday, and hope that you captivated so good that Friday, that, in them six days, you back on TV again. If you f*ck up or you do some bullsh*t, you might not be on TV that next week. It’s a lot more militant and disciplined, and I love it, man. I’d like to go full-time; I’m trying to go full-time. I won’t ever put an album out ever again. If I climb the ranks in WWE and get the checks that I want, this music sh*t can kiss me goodbye. I swear to God. I will be back flipping, getting thrown through tables and whatever else until my body give out on me.”

Yachty has been with WWE since this past March and made his official in-ring debut at the September 6th WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event show in Atlanta, Georgia.

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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Backstage Update on Stephanie Vaquer’s WWE Abscense Over Illness Issue

As noted before, Stephanie Vaquer was pulled from her scheduled match against Becky Lynch and officially announced to not being medically cleared to compete again at this past Monday’s WWE RAW show in Fresno, California. Vaquer’s latest abscense was recently revealed to be due to her dealing with an undisclosed illness issue.

Dave Meltzer reported in a recent episode of the Wrestling Observer Radio that his sources stated that Vaquer’s illness is “nothing terribly serious.”

Meltzer reported that there is currently no timeline set for when Vaquer is expected to return.

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SiriusXM CEO Touts WWE Radio Audience Growth

SiriusXM held their 2026 fiscal third quarter investor’s meeting on Thursday. One of the topics discussed included SiriusXM CEO Jennifer Witz praising the growth of the WWE Radio’s listenership since the launch of the new channel this past July on their service.

“Sports is another powerful driver of fandom. Uniting passionate communities around live programming and hometown teams. Listening to WWE Radio has grown nearly 20% since its July launch and rebrand. While monthly active sports listeners increased 4% year over year across our connected car and streaming platforms. Among 360L subscribers, average time spent listening to sports grew 7% year over year, demonstrating deeper engagement.”