If you’ve been a fan of WWE for a while, you’ll know that the company has a little tendency to stretch the truth and rewrite history. After all, history is only ever written by the winners, and when the person with the pen in their hand is someone like Vince McMahon who literally bought his biggest competition at the start of the 21st century and ruled over wrestling like some deranged overlord, the past is always going to look favorable on WWE.

WrestleMania 30 is a prime example of this, because WWE has made it very clear that Daniel Bryan walking out of New Orleans with the WWE World Heavyweight Championship was the culmination of a two year story… except it wasn’t, not even close.

The tale WWE likes to tell is that Bryan lost the World Heavyweight Championship to Sheamus in 18 seconds at WrestleMania 28, and started his redemption arc almost overnight. The “NO!” chants that were lobbied at him were a response to the “YES!” chants that Bryan had been doing, but they organically became positive chants over time that resulted in a movement which took Bryan to the pinnacle of professional wrestling. What actually happened is very different. Bryan was always seen as a solid hand, but never a main event star. He was seen as a “internet darling,” a term WWE liked to use for anyone the fans cheered for because they worked in Ring of Honor or in Japan, rather than the fans cheering for them because they liked the wrestler’s work.

Because of this, Bryan was always positioned in and around the title picture, but was never actually going to be given the ball. It got to the point where Bryan’s “YES!” chants were what WWE thought was over and not the man himself, so the company tried to give the chants to someone they wanted in the main event scene, The Big Show. The whole “B+ Player” mantra was the one thing that was actually true about the whole thing, and let’s be honest with ourselves; had it not been for CM Punk walking out of the company, Bryan would have never won the big one at WrestleMania 30. If you need evidence for this, Punk still has the original rundown of what WrestleMania was going to look like, and he was going to face Triple H while the main event was going to be Orton vs. Batista. Where was Bryan? Wrestling Sheamus of course!

WWE has toned down on the rewriting of history somewhat in recent years as they realized that people could probably just do their own research and find out what the past actually looked like. With that said, it’s still frustrating that this is one of those situations where they bend over backwards to tell you that the company “listens to its fans,” when in reality, WWE would have bent over backwards to keep Bryan as far away from the WrestleMania 30 main event as humanly possible.

WWE Women’s Champion Jade Cargill has claimed she knows technical wrestling, which she learned from AEW’s Bryan Danielson, but insists fans don’t want to see her wrestle that way.

Cargill has had a quick rise to the top in pro wrestling, having only wrestled her first match in 2021. The former AEW star recently discussed on “Complex” that Danielson was one of her mentors in the business and that he taught her technical wrestling, which she used in AEW matches. However, the fans’ reaction led her to drop that style of wrestling and transition to her current style.

“Daniel Bryan has taught me so much technical wrestling — and I tried it. I tried to do some technical wrestling. And I think it’s funny because when I tried technical wrestling and I have tried it, if you go back at my old stuff, if you can pull it up at my previous company, I tried it. [But] I had no reaction out of fans and I learned so much,” she said. “I was training with him [Bryan] every week. You know what fans want to see? Me picking somebody else up, me throwing somebody around, me talking my smack. They don’t want to see me on the ground grappling. I know how to grapple. I know how to do [it]. They [fans] don’t want to see that. They get up out their seats, they boo, they do what they need to do when I’m picking somebody up and I’m pounding them to the ground. That’s what they like.”

The WWE star added that she follows the advice that WWE Hall of Famers Booker T and Billy Gunn have given her, particularly how they have used their size to their advantage, which she feels is the case with her, too. Cargill is eager to do more in the ring, with her recently revealing that she wants to defend her title more often and have physical matches.

Comparing herself to the likes of NBA megastars and legends LeBron James and Michael Jordan, Jade Cargill doesn’t need anyone in the industry to tell her that she’s that “b***h.” She knows it, and owns it. Embodying all the characteristics that make for a globally recognized champion, followed by a notorious heel, the WWE Women’s Champion loves that she’s hated by you.

“At the end of the day, I don’t care about anybody. Why come back and say, ‘well, I don’t care if you this, this, and this…’ All I want to do is wrestle,” the champion said in an interview with “Complex Graps.”

Seeing the tensions boiling over between her and her upcoming opponent at WrestleMania 42 in “The Eradicator” Rhea Ripley, Cargill knows that the spotlight will always follow her, so long as she makes a scene, good or bad: “Y’all have seen me grow on TV organically, and it’s, like, no appreciation for that…I still have so much room to grow…I know that good or bad…my name starts a trend…People always talk about me. Always. I’m always in the topic of conversation.”

Despite having the championship gold wrapped around her waist now, she doesn’t need it, the ring, or the fans, as indicated in her recent in-ring promo on “WWE SmackDown.” Nonetheless, smug and poised to retain her championship, Cargill is focused on leaving “Mami” in the dust after WrestleMania  in April, and heading towards another arch-rival in the making, Charlotte Flair. Her goal would be to face the “Queen” on one of the two nights at SummerSlam in August.

If you use any of the quotes in this article, please credit “Complex Graps” with a h/t to Wrestling Inc. for the transcription.

UFC Featherweight Champion Alexander Volkanovski reacted Movsar Evloev’s win over Lerone Murphy on Saturday, with Evloev surely now to become his next challenger.

Evloev was 19-0 and ranked No. 1 behind Volkanovski as champion heading into Fight Night in London, facing a hostile crowd with home national Murphy stood opposite him in what was essentially a title eliminator. 

Evloev had to ride through some stiff shots and kicks but he managed to get a Majority Decision after five rounds. And after the match, said the UFC had no excuse now not to book him against the featherweight champion.

Volkanovski himself reacted to the fight and his next challenger during the UFC Post-Show, noting that Evloev appeared to be making a point of standing and fighting Murphy rather than leaning into his wrestling ability.

“Yeah, it was an interesting one. I don’t think we all expected Movsar to just want to stand with Lerone. Whether that was something he felt he had to do just so he could guarantee himself a title shot, I’m not too sure. But you could see that he was a lot stronger when he wanted to take it down, and then was able to outdo him on the feet. So for me, it’s quite impressive. Fair play to him, he’s 20-0 now and he’s next,” he said.

Alexander Volkanovski reacts to Movsar Evloev’s win over Lerone Murphy at #UFCLondon:

“He’s 20-0 now and he’s next.”

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— UFC on Paramount+ (@UFConParamount) March 21, 2026

Volkanovski is in his second reign as Featherweight Champion having first dethroned Max Holloway in December 2019. 

He moved up to challenge Islam Makhachev for the Lightweight title in February 2023, failing in that attempt before coming back to featherweight and defending his title later that year, unifying it with the Interim title held by Yair Rodriguez. He ended the year with another loss to Makhachev after stepping in at the last minute to challenge for the Lightweight title again, and in February 2024 was dethroned by Ilia Topuria.

Topuria moved up to lightweight and reigns as the current Lightweight Champion, with Makhachev having gone further up to become Welterweight Champion. And Volkanovski won the vacant title over Diego Lopes last year before cementing his first defense over Lopes in January.