WWE Backstage has been "cut back"

[The Rainmaker]

FOX held a meeting several hours ago to inform everyone working on WWE Backstage that the series was done in its current format for now.

There will not be a new episode tomorrow. They had announced Bayley for the episode. A rerun of an older episode is most likely.

Among those who worked on the series, the belief is the show is completely done beyond the outside chance that it could be used for special programming down the line. There is no gameplan for such a thing currently, but things are being left open with the idea that FS1 could do more if they choose to do so.

CM Punk is under contract to FOX, not WWE, so the end of WWE Backstage does not mean he's going to migrate over to other WWE programming. WWE and Punk would have to make a deal and as we've seen, that doesn't seem likely. WWE had dropped even plugging Punk was part of the FOX series.

 

[Da King]

 

[Uncle Phil 36]

So much for Punk's return.

 

[BlackAchilles]

That's hard times

 

[Hey_zeus]

I liked the Punk interview with GOATMan GOAT. Haven't seen much of that show but caught that recently and it was kinda dope hearing them chop it up on SS 96, Austin, and Bret influence on Punk.

 

[MenacingMonk]

In other words, “we’re canceling you but not until a later date when we’ll officially announce it.”

 

[CM_Burns]

Cm Punk confirmed non-draw

 

[Reality Check]

 

[MushroomX]

Doesn't make sense to have a show like WWE Backstage when the product itself isn't really in high demand.

 

[Rell84shots]

Russo big mad because he knows how superior black folks are. Also there were tons of black folks in the crowds during the Attitude Era when the nWo was hot, he's just mad because we weren't going to spend money to see his goofy shyt over in WCW. As for Backstage they fukked up not having Shannon Sharpe & Booker T go at each other, which would've been cool since Sharpe knows wrestling.

 

[MushroomX]

Official I guess.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Its not over yet...this is just the thin slice of the turkey until the shyt explodes

Like I said in the beginning of 2020, wrestling is going to finally fukking die

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

RusGOAT ran a multi million dollar promotion into the fukking creamy center of the earth.

Maybe it's not the time for this meme

 

[DanielAlfredsson]

CM Punk's "return" to the wrestling world has to be one of the most underwhelming stories of the year. Literally didn't mean a thing past the first week.

 

[DanielAlfredsson]

Its not over yet...this is just the thin slice of the turkey until the shyt explodes

Like I said in the beginning of 2020, wrestling is going to finally fukking die

The fukk? You want it to?