10 Articles You Won't Believe WWE.com Once Posted!
Posting TNA results!? Some eyebrow raising moments from the official home of WWE.
WWE.com has for the longest time been WWE’s official source of news, results and events, using it to predominantly promote upcoming shows, sell merch and keep kayfabe storylines going when the cameras stop rolling on TV. Shane McMahon and Joey Styles have been just some of the prominent names that have worked behind the scenes in making it the media juggernaut it is today that attracts millions of views daily.
Ever since it launched in 1997 with the most basic of graphics, it rarely breaks kayfabe or speaks negatively of the company. But every so often it posts an article or titbit, that ranges from strange to absurd to outright idiotic, that quickly garners the attention of fans and wrestling culture news outlets.
There have been the small eye-catching moments, like once posting ‘The New Day to face Kenny Omega & The Young Bucks in Street Fighter V at E3 2018’ to oddly letting the world know for real ‘Dean Ambrose (Jonathan Good) will not be renewing his contract with WWE when it expires’ before he debuted for AEW.
And then there have been the massive eye-catching moments, where a story slips through the cracks and WWE amazingly posts it for the world to see.
Let’s look at 10 of those eye-catching moments right now:
10. Announcing The Bullet Club Were Coming To WWE
In 2016 the Bullet Club were the biggest stable in all of professional wrestling. “Too Sweet” and their skull and bones t-shirts dominated the wrestling landscape. They ran roughshod in New Japan Pro-Wrestling, which is why it was surprising to suddenly see WWE.com on the 5th January 2016 post an article on their main feed that read ‘Are AJ Styles, Shinsuke Nakamura, Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows coming to WWE?’.
They genuinely reported that Bullet Club members AJ Styles, Karl Anderson and Luke “Doc” Gallows along with Shinsuke Nakamura were in serious negotiations with the company, even speculating they had already signed. They wrote ‘Reports began circulating late Sunday that all four had reportedly given their notices to New Japan management.’ That of course turned out to be true.
WWE didn’t use these tactics for indie sensation Adam Cole or megastars Sting and Ronda Rousey when they debuted for WWE so it was peculiar they would for the Bullet Club. It was a trial and error for WWE to generate buzz for when these four NJPW wrestlers finally made their debut. Looking back this is one of the reasons why fans were abuzz at the Royal Rumble 2016 with faint rumours that AJ Styles could possibly appear in the Rumble, which drew one of the biggest reactions in company history when he walked out in the number 3 spot.