Below are a couple of top WWE news stories of the day, involving Omos and The Shield.
• Despite being a prominent figure in recent years with multiple WrestleMania appearances, Omos has largely vanished from WWE programming over the past year. Following his loss to Seth Rollins at Backlash 2023, The Nigerian Giant has primarily appeared only at WWE live events and has not competed at all in recent months.
Speculation about Omos’ future intensified after reports indicated that his long-time manager MVP is expected to leave WWE, along with Bobby Lashley. This left Omos’ status unclear until a recent report provided a seemingly bleak update on his situation.
The Wrestling Observer noted that MVP has not been seen on programming since Omos’ absence began. He also suggested that Omos’ lack of participation in Live Events since April is a strong indication that the company has completely given up on him.
“MVP (Hassan Asad), 50, hadn’t been used on television ever since they decided to take Omos off television. He had been doing house shows as the manager of Omos, who had been working with Akira Tozawa and Odyssey Jones to get experience as they hadn’t fully decided to give up on him. But they haven’t been at the house shows since early April.”
After the report surfaced, Omos responded on social media. Posting on his X account, Omos criticized the report, comparing it to tabloid gossip like that found in The National Enquirer.
“Journalism has turned into National Inquirer.”
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• During an interview with ESPN SportsCenter, Seth Rollins was asked about The Shield breakup from 2014 and if he would’ve changed anything looking back.
Here’s what Rollins said:
“I’ve been asked about it a lot. Obviously, that’s the one thing if you’re a fan of Seth Rollins or The Shield or Jon Moxley or Roman Reigns. That’s the one thing that sits with you. Over the course of the last 10 years, essentially. And I get asked about it all the time, and I’ve thought about it.
‘Would you go back? Would you change it? Would you do something different?’ And my answer is unequivocally no, I wouldn’t because where we’re at now, the business as a whole is healthier than its ever been and that moment of time shifted everything.
That’s what put us all on our separate paths. And our goal in the beginning was to run the show. To run the business, to change it, to make it better. And here we are, a decade later, and I dare say that it was accomplished with the swing of that steel chair.”
