WWE Extreme Rules: 8 Last-Minute Rumours You Need To Know

1. It’s The Most Brutal WWE PPV In Years

In the weeks since Paul Heyman and Eric Bischoff were announced as taking the reigns of Raw and SmackDown respectively, there has been noticeable change. At first drastic, more recently subtle, but there is already a feeling that their ideas are starting to filter through months before they're expected to take total creative control of the shows.

As far as Heyman's influence on Raw goes, things have gotten a bit more... well, I don't want to say "ECW" because there was considerably more to it than one commentator saying "holy sh*t", but, also, I don't not want to say that. The swearing, the exploding LED board, actually starting the show with a good wrestling match rather than a 20 minute authority figure segment, this wasn't the WWE we'd become accustomed to.

Reports obviously vary on precisely how much credit for this you're supposed to lay at Heyman's door, but at the very least it's "some". Conveniently the company's next PPV - one which contains a number of matches he's had a hand in shaping - is the one where things are expected to get a little bit extreme.

Weirdly though, one 3 of the booked matches are currently advertised as "anything goes", implying that the usual inclusion of violence will have to be considerably more considered, considerably more creative and, hopefully, considerably more considerable. The chatter at present, is that parts of the show could be eye-watering.