ESPN just posted a video form their “My Wish” series. The video featured Stephanie McMahon and it aired on SportsCenter. Make-A-Wish Foundation were the associates of that program. Stephanie was with a 17 year old girl named Kid Rhianna Sammut. She is from the UK and she suffers from systemic mastocytosis. Sammut claims that Stephanie McMahon is her role model. She flew to the US from the UK with her family to meet WWE’s Chief Branding Officer. She spent two days in the US and spent a lot of time with Stephanie McMahon.
Many wrestling journalists believed that this week, Eric Bischoff would be running Smackdown. It appears as though that was not the case, as reported by Dave Meltzer from F4Wonline.com. Bischoff did not assume his backstage role as he was not present for the episode. Meltzer reported that Bischoff had absolutely nothing to do with this week’s episode and none of the scripts were written by him. He was also not part of any creative meeting that took place this week. Bischoff moved closer with his family to the WWE HQ that is in Connecticut.
Bayley is apparently looking for a new challenger. She was successful in retaining her title in a 2 on 1 handicap match at WWE Extreme Rules. She wrestled Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross. She was open to wrestling, Zelina Vega, Liv Morgan, Ember Moon, Carmella, Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville.