Lita joins WWE full-time backstage, Austin shoots down another rumour, Banks - Bayley promo
- WWE Hall of famer and pioneer Diva Lita has reportedly joined WWE full-time in a backstage capacity. She seemingly has been hired in more of a liaison role facilitating efficiency between the WWE creative team and the producers.
While the specific details of her role within the WWE is unclear, she has been recently seen at all TV and PPV events, wherein she was a part of different meetings and discussions in the back.
- The next WWE NXT live special NXT TakeOver: Respect on October 7th will see Sasha Banks vs Bayley battle it out for the WWE NXT Divas championship in a 30-minute Ironman match. This is the first time that WWE will have a Divas’ main-event on a live special, and the first time that Divas are to be involved in an Ironman match.
The Ironman match rules deem the participant with the most falls at the end of the stipulated time frame, to be the winner. Sasha Banks and Bayley have a huge task ahead of them and both look to put out their best possible performance come Friday night. Below is the promo for the highly anticipated match-up:
- In a recent podcast with Ric Flair, Stone Cold Steve Austin, a self-confessed Freebirds fan, jokingly mentioned how he would boycott Wrestlemania 32 if the iconic tag-team didn’t go into the Hall of fame.
It seems that many media outlets reported on the story as legit and ran with it, to which Steve Austin has put out a tweet refuting the whole story. Below is the tweet from the ‘Texas Rattlesnake’: