• 6 NXT Stars Are Being Advertised For Royal Rumble 2026
A new billboard for WWE Royal Rumble 2026 in Saudi Arabia shows the following 6 NXT stars being advertised for the January 31st PLE:
– Oba Femi
– Ethan Page (current NXT North American Champion and AAA Mixed Tag Team Champion with Chelsea Green)
– Joe Hendry
– Tatum Paxley
– Lola Vice
– Thea Hail
Out of the above names, only Oba Femi is scheduled to join the main roster soon. He relinquished the NXT Championship recently at New Year’s Evil.
• WWE & AEW Titles Got Defended On The Same Show (Photo)
At Limitless Wrestling’s Limitless Rumble event on January 16, 2026, a WWE title and an AEW title got defended on the same show. Laynie Luck defeated B3CCA to retain her WWE ID Women’s Championship. For those who don’t know, WWE ID is WWE’s Independent Development program. MJF defeated “The Prize” Alec Price to retain his AEW World Championship.
MJF tweeted the following about this indy appearance:
“Not since Ric Flair has the world champion defended his title on the territory’s/independent’s.
I’m not saying I’m Flair.
I’m saying I’m Friedman.
And that makes me BETTER!”
Also at this event, MJF announced that Alec Price and Jordan Oliver have been offered AEW contracts by Tony Khan. MJF revealed that the match against Price served as a final test to see if the young wrestler was ready for the big stage. MJF capped off the announcement by saying that they’re All Elite.
• WWE Shows Dominik Mysterio With AEW Title (Photo)
WWE-owned AAA debuted on FOX Sports Mexico on January 17 (where an absent SmackDown star returned after 6 months). In the main event of the premiere episode, El Hijo del Vikingo (with Omos and Dorian Roldan) defeated El Grande Americano to become the #1 contender for Dominik Mysterio’s AAA Mega Championship.
During the show, a video package aired for Dirty Dom, where a graphic of Dominik was shown with an AEW Championship instead of the AAA Mega Championship. Below is a screenshot from that video package:
This video package is still up on WWE’s YouTube channel and they haven’t edited it yet. You can watch it below:
Here’s how fans reacted to this botch on social media:
“WWE making AI slop and not even taking care about the product, the AEW logo on the title bruhhh”
“Finally Forbidden door confirmed AEW vs WWE Thank you Undertaker for your work in AAA you made this possible”
“lol it says ‘AEW’ in the mega championship 😂😂😂😂”
“nice ai aew title bro😭✌️”
“The name of AEW is visible on the belt that Dominik is wearing around his waist.😂😂😂😂😂😂”
“gotta love the ai machine just using the aew belt.”
“WWE, please don’t use AI in video packages. You have extremely talented artists, editors, and creatives. Be better!”
“So Dominik is All Elite? Bruh, stop using AI 💀🤣”
“I wonder how much water was wasted making this AI garbage”
“Nice AI image of him wearing a generic belt with the AEW logo on it, losers. God, this company sucks so bad. lmao”
“AI WWE slop in 2026 is crazy”
“Billionaire company and still can’t not use AI”
“AEW Champ???? Hahahahaha stupid AI, stupid WWE 😂😂😂”
“That hurt my eyes. Stop with the AI slop”
“Nice job AI having Dom as AEW World Champion”
“aew x aaa XD That AI is crazy”
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