News Roundup

Instead of doing separate articles on each news story and expanding the smallest detail to reach the word count that I want for the articles the biggest stories will share a place right here. 

According to Monthly Puroresu, former IWGP World Heavyweight Champion the "Rainmaker" Kazuchika Okada could be heading to WWE following the expiration of his contract at months end. Both AEW and WWE have a vested interest in signing the now former New Japan superstar and have made pushes to bring in the now legend of pro wrestling. 

It was reported by various news outlets last week that current WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins had sustained injury. Confirmed by Rollins during his promo to open Raw tonight it is unclear what the future holds but a severe knee injury to the World Champion could see the end of his title reign. 

Announced earlier today in January 2025 the flagship of WWE moves to Netflix!! Monday Night Raw is moving to Netflix in 2025 as the last episodic program from WWE has landed a media rights deal. It is unclear how much money WWE is making from this deal with the streaming platform, but it seems to be around or in excess of the deal the company signed with Fox for Smackdown back in 2019.