Below are a couple of top WWE news stories of the day, featuring Gunther, Goldberg and Solo Sikoa.
• During an appearance on La Previa de WWE: Crown Jewel, World Heavyweight Champion Gunther discussed his encounter with Bill Goldberg at Bad Blood.
Here’s what The Ring General said about the WCW Legend:
“I was invited out there to speak about the Crown Jewel Championship and we had a lot of legends in the house, and I met a lot of them backstage and one of the very few that I didn’t meet that I just saw was there before was Goldberg so when our eyes crossed, basically, I was like, why not break some balls a little bit?
He doesn’t seem able to take things lightly. I tried to lighten up the mood a little bit.
If push comes to shove and he thinks he wants to get back into the business and wrestle again, then, I’m happy to teach him a lesson.”
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• Solo Sikoa has been frequently featured on TV but kept out of in-ring action recently. At today’s Crown Jewel PLE, WWE has arranged a 6-man tag match where Roman Reigns, Jey Uso, and Jimmy Uso will face the new Bloodline (Solo Sikoa, Jacob Fatu and Tama Tonga).
Sikoa’s last match was on October 18th, where he lost to Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes in an untelevised street fight. Before that, he wrestled Rhodes during a house show tour in the UK. His most recent TV match took place on October 11th, defeating Jimmy Uso on SmackDown.
The Wrestling Observer reported that Sikoa’s absence was a “precautionary measure”:
“It should be noted that Sikoa has not wrestled since a 10/18 street fight with Rhodes in Columbia, SC, and was kept out of the firing line in some of the recent brawls. He was pulled from a few scheduled matches with Rhodes since then. We were told it was more precautionary than serious.”
