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DEBUNKATHON Update: John Cena, Okada, Sarah Stock, Jordynne Grace, Fightful Speaks to Sol Ruca, More!
🕑 Added 2025-12-12 18:43:01 +0000 UTCWelcome to the Friday Fightful tradition, the DEBUNKATHON. In addition to debunking (and shaming) internet lies, we also provide a robust news update, including:
Okada
Sarah Stock tweets
Cena's dates
Cena album
Andersons
Jordynne Grace
Je'Von Evans & Leon Slater
Jack Perry
Joe Alonzo
Sol Ruca
Jon Moxley
Kazuchika Okada was seen at a New York Knicks game this week. He actually lives in New York City now.
The Sarah Stock tweets were a significant point of conversation at AEW over the last week or so. There were some elements of her tweets that were claimed to be true. As far as talent getting picked up from airports and the like, some talent have that worked into their deal, and all of the travel is supposed to be reimbursed regardless. We'd rather not get into the more personal posts, but the posts were a subject of behind the scenes conversation.
WWE sources that we spoke to said they aren't sure where John Cena's 220 dates idea came from. One also followed up after we spoke about it on our post show and said he could have been referring to travel dates, in addition to every Raw, Smackdown and PLE.
There was an influx of fans asking for John Cena to put out the unreleased "You Can't See Me" tracks. We're told that was also brought up in years past.
MLW actually expected to use Brock Anderson and CW Anderson moving forward until they appeared at TNA, which MLW didn't know was happening until the day of.
No, the Je'Von Evans & Leon Slater vs. AJ Styles & Dragon Lee match was not planned back at Bound For Glory when their match got ruined.
CM Punk, among others, are planned to be in the house at Saturday Night's Main Event.
AEW sources claimed that Jack Perry did think he was hurt on AEW Dynamite, but worked through it and felt better after. Bryan Alvarez also mentioned this on Wrestling Observer Live.
While Austin Theory was under the mask at Survivor Series, it was confirmed to us that it wasn't on Monday Night Raw, which many suspected.
It was claimed that LA Knight battled through an unspecified sickness on WWE Raw. He ended up performing, so he was not put down with the sickness.
Nattie Neidhart and Kevin Owens will be mentors/coaches on season 3 of WWE LFG
Nobody that we've spoken to has been briefed for a Vince McMahon appearance this weekend.
Elsewhere
Wrestling Observer Live reported that they'd heard Montez Ford was not under the mask on Monday.
Wrestling Observer reported that Penta was touch and go for next week's Mexico live event.
Joe Alonzo
Fightful's Sean Ross Sapp spoke to Joe Alonzo for a new interview.
SRS revealed that he didn't actually film the BDE/Alonzo confrontation, and Alonzo said that he actually doesn't mind BDE as a person, but wants people to earn their spots in pro wrestling.
Alonzo said that he got heat from the NWA because of his last interview with SRS, but doesn't particularly care about that. He once got heat in AEW, but was able to overcome it and was booked as recently as this year.
Matt Cardona showed up and claimed Joe Alonzo didn't take his social media advice.
See the full interview at this link.
Sol Ruca
Sean Ross Sapp spoke to Sol Ruca ahead of her match with Bayley at Saturday Night's Main Event.
She said that she found out that she was needed for the backstage segment with Bayley not long before it happened, and found out that she would be facing Bayley the day that it was announced. She said that she was hoping to have an interaction with John Cena at Saturday Night's Main Event, but noted she had met him before because he comes by the WWE Performance Center quite often.
She told us that she wanted to use her gymnastics background when developing the Sol Snatcher and wanted something that not everyone could do. She said that the Lola Vice Sol Snatcher was her favorite, even though it hurt. Sol said that sometimes Shawn Michaels will pitch her things and they have to make sure it's even plausible from a physical standpoint.
Sol Ruca was the Cinnemoji at WrestleMania 39. She happened to be in town, and fit the requirements that WWE was looking for. She said that she was embarrassed because she was blocking people's views and they were tapping on the back of the suit.
She's gained good feedback from her main roster appearances so far.
You can see the full interview at this link.
Debunkathon
BETTING ODDS
Right now, Gunther, Cody Rhodes, Sol Ruca, AJ Styles & Dragon Lee are favorites at My Bookie. We can not name Gunther as a personal favorite, the result of tonight's match with John Cena and Gunther is too close to call.
There are also prop bets -- Cena the over under for Attitude Adjustments is 3.5.
Gunther is favored to get the first near fall.
The method of victory between John Cena and Gunther is favored to be a submission.
Gunther's Gojira Clutch is favored to be the first finisher hit in the match compared to Cena's STFU.
"Any other competitor to enter the ring during the match" is favored at yes. We would hammer this bet, as we don't expect that to happen.
"Referee to be Knocked Down/Taken out During the Match" is favored as yes. We would lean no on this one.
Comments
Josh Spicer
Okay but is LA Knight drowning deep in a sea of loathing?
erce
Yo I think Alex is right, if masked man isn’t Rollins, it’s gonna be Jericho
