{"id":98989,"date":"2025-07-28T09:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T09:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/98989\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T09:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T09:18:11","slug":"rumor-roundup-drew-mcintyre-issues-smackdown-changes-onlyfans-strategy-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/98989\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumor Roundup: Drew McIntyre issues, SmackDown changes, OnlyFans strategy, more!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"PsQIFh\">Speculating on the rumors surrounding pro wrestling is a favored pastime of many fans, perhaps second only to actually watching the matches. In this daily column, we take a look at the latest rumors being churned out by the pro wrestling rumor mill.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"mLVYRH\">Important reminder: Rumors are just that \u2014 rumors. None of this has been confirmed as fact, it\u2019s just circulating around the pro wrestling rumor mill. We track rumor accuracy in a weekly feature called Rumor Look Back you can find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cagesideseats.com\/rumor-look-back\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Remember, take it all with a grain of salt.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Rumors for the Day:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li id=\"CHYFMf\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/fightfulselect.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fightful Select<\/a> notes that WWE believes Drew McIntyre\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cagesideseats.com\/wwe\/2025\/7\/27\/24475617\/drew-mcintyre-stuck-uk-us-passport-issue-wwe-summerslam-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">passport issues<\/a> will be resolved in time for him to make SummerSlam.<\/li>\n<li id=\"3RGrZx\">They also said there were major changes made to SmackDown this past week, due to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cagesideseats.com\/wwe\/2025\/7\/24\/24473720\/hulk-hogan-is-dead-71-years-old-tmz-reports-death-cardiac-arrest-health-rumors-neck-fusion-surgery\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">death<\/a> of Hulk Hogan and WWE trying to bring many talent in for it. Some who wanted to be there weren\u2019t able to make it in time.<\/li>\n<li id=\"1h3Roe\">For what it\u2019s worth, Dave Meltzer said in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f4wonline.com\/category\/wrestling-observer-newsletter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wrestling Observer Newsletter<\/a> that there are women in pro wrestling already planning their exits from the company to start up an OnlyFans after seeing the success of the likes of Mandy Rose and Cora Jade.<\/li>\n<li id=\"SAFzMZ\">Apollo Crews is still recovering from his torn pec and <a href=\"http:\/\/fightful.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fightful<\/a> says he\u2019s still listed as injured on WWE\u2019s internal list.<\/li>\n<li id=\"ViVqFi\">They also say there is no change to Alberto Del Rio\u2019s status with WWE after his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cagesideseats.com\/2025\/7\/26\/24474747\/alberto-del-rio-el-patron-fired-aaa-wwe-issues-latin-lover-dorian-roldan-possible-triplemania-angle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AAA exit storyline<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"zbltEc\">If you have heard of any interesting rumors that you\u2019d like to add, feel free to post them in the comments section below. Just remember they are rumors and not confirmed as fact, so please take them as such. And check our weekly Rumor Look Back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cagesideseats.com\/rumor-look-back\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> to keep track of how often rumors turn out to be correct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speculating on the rumors surrounding pro wrestling is a favored pastime of many fans, perhaps second only to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":98990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[201,64805,41616,61781,204,51,5376,64807,64803,13831,50,6585,1696,37910,64806,202,21960,27331,52,188,64804,2202],"class_list":{"0":"post-98989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-cageside","9":"tag-cageside-seats-features","10":"tag-changes","11":"tag-drew","12":"tag-front-page","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-issues","15":"tag-lucha-libre-aaa-cmll","16":"tag-mcintyre","17":"tag-more","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-onlyfans","20":"tag-roundup","21":"tag-rumor","22":"tag-rumor-round-up","23":"tag-seats","24":"tag-smackdown","25":"tag-strategy","26":"tag-top-stories","27":"tag-wwe","28":"tag-wwe-nxt","29":"tag-wwe-smackdown"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114930117060974137","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}