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DEBUNKATHON: Mike Santana No Show, Cena, Braun Strowman, MLW, Wheeler Yuta Updates, And Much more!
🕑 Added 2025-11-14 21:07:49 +0000 UTCWelcome to the Fightful friday tradition -- the DEBUNKATHON. We have a loaded news update for you all as well
Westside Gunn
Bianca Belair
NWA/WWE
Mike Santana no-showing
Wheeler YUTA
Blood & Guts
Nattie
NWA Title changes
Creative
Lots of MLW news
DEBUNKATHON!
Consider subscribing to our paid tier to help support exclusive and original coverage of pro wrestling!
Welcome to the Fightful friday tradition -- the DEBUNKATHON. We have a loaded news update for you all as well
Westside Gunn
Bianca Belair
NWA/WWE
Mike Santana no-showing
Wheeler YUTA
Blood & Guts
Nattie
NWA Title changes
Creative
Lots of MLW news
DEBUNKATHON!
Consider subscribing to our paid tier to help support exclusive and original coverage of pro wrestling!Regarding Westside Gunn, Fightful was told at the time that he was kicked out of WWE Raw, and the word going around was that they weren't happy about him using their intellectual property. We have since been told WWE sent numerous cease and desists.
The surprise names for John Cena's tournament were being kept very close to the vest this week.
We asked for an update on Bianca Belair recently, and were told that she's still recovering from injury, and her knuckle on her broken finger hasn't returned to normal yet.
There is some confusion among fans regarding some NWA Title changes of late. The title changes you're seeing on social media were actually filmed back in August, but not acknowledged by the NWA until they aired nearly three months later. NWA actually did something that used to happen in many areas and had the champions who lost their title compete in matches on the indies defending those belts until it aired.
After Nattie Neidhart's interview with Cody Rhodes, we had a number of readers also asking about her NWA match. It didn't end up airing, and was heavily implied it was WWE that made that decision.
As indicated by the viewership, Braun Strowman's food show is doing big numbers with Smackdown lead ins on USA Network. The crew on the show were left with uncertainty regarding a second season.
After our Select Answers article ran today about how every creative team should have a dissenting opinion in the room to explain why something would suck, we heard from a major wrestling promoter that agreed with that notion.
Outside of the dental issues we mentioned, we weren't told of any injuries to Jamie Hayter after Blood & Guts.
There is a Tony Khan media call set for next week ahead of AEW Full Gear.
The Mike Santana news about him not answering calls is a work. The same official at TNA tried to feed that to us, and provided it elsewhere. Normally we wouldn't blast something like that, but this is the first time someone in an official capacity reached out and provided us a worked angle in an effort to specifically work our audience. We'll elaborate more on that this weekend on our Select shows.
WrestleVotes reported today that USA and WWE are moving Smackdown back to 3 hours starting in January. Wrestlevotes will be joining Fightful Select on December 1!
MLW
MLW has been approached to do a show in Las Vegas for WrestleMania but have chosen not to. Their strategy has been to avoid that weekend for ears.
MLW has been aiming to return to Orlando for quite some time and will do so for the first time in 6 years in January. They wanted to bring a big show to the area that helped launch them, and set the Battle Riot for there.
MLW is doing media events with Don Gato Tequila throughout the city of Charleston, SC next week. Court Bauer said the city has treated them better than any they've been to.
Shoko Nakajima is expected to defend the MLW Women's Title in Asia in the coming months. She defended against Viva Van in Japan this past week.
WHEELER YUTA
Fightful Select spoke to Wheeler Yuta after his Blood and Guts performance on Wednesday. He said that outside of some bumps and bruises, he emerged okay fortunately.
We spoke about his most viewed Youtube video -- him gaining the respect of the BCC. He said looking back that he was just trying to make the most of a special opportunity that he was given, and he couldn't ask for more than the mentors he's been given in All Elite Wrestling.
He said that during the pandemic he was working at The Vitamin Shoppe and had time to focus on what kind of wrestler he wanted to be and work on himself physically. He's very proud of his independent wrestling run, and said that the indies were in a weird place at that time because a lot of people were signed, and the pandemic just happened.
He said that most of his family gets what he does in wrestling, because he grew up a wrestling fan. However, his godmother gets fired up at the chants against him.
The full interview is up for tier 2 subscribers.
DEBUNKATHON
For some reason a twitter account claimed Paul Heyman refused to work with Carmelo Hayes. This isn't true whatsoever.
There are conspiracy theories that Tony Khan and AEW blocked Shinsuke Nakamura from wrestling Hiroshi Tanahashi at the Tokyo Dome. Nobody from WWE had even heard of that being broached, and NJPW always knew it was a pipe dream. Numerous NJPW sources confirmed there was no "AEW shutting down" that match. It was very clearly stated from a rep that there was no situation like that happening
Sportskeeda, in their efforts to continue sucking as much as possible, posted the World Heavyweight Title with a clickbait headline. The actual article was about the women's ID title. The World Heavyweight Title is not being vacated again.
The Scott Steiner twitter page isn't actually run by Scott Steiner, but it is run by his business rep. So not a lot different than Iron Sheik and Virgil. He has permission to. This is not like the fake Sid Vicious/Bob Holly twitter accounts or the MJF facebook account that aren't affiliated.
Comments
CSDX
Yuta's godmother is a good soul.
Insomnia Inc
At this point if you're believing anything sportskeeda says I just assume there's something very wrong with your brain, But it's also proof that people will believe anything if it supports whatever narrative is up in that upper story of theirs.
