DEBUNKATHON And News Update: Sol Ruca Spot, Rumble, Vaquer Music, Brock/Ilja No Sell (Patreon)

Welcome to the Friday Fightful tradition, the DEBUNKATHON! We have a huge news update

Ilja/Brock

Stephanie Vaquer

AEW Dynamite

Royal Rumble

Nick Hogan

AEW talent at Dynamite

Much more!!

Nick Hogan has popped up at the WWE Performance Center, according to PWInsider. As of last year, WWE sources told Fightful they did not expect Nick Hogan to a pursue a wrestling career. We’ll let you know if that changes. 

Regarding the attendance of WWE Royal Rumble, talent said that they didn’t know the discourse regarding the “empty seats” visual until they got online and saw it. 

Fightful was told that Sol Ruca did question the booking of having her do a Sol Snatcher on the outside at the end of the Royal Rumble, but producers pushed it through anyway.

Izzy Moreno was backstage doing extra work at AEW in Orlando recently. You can see our full interview with her at this link.

We’d reported that Tatevik was signed by AEW in the fall of 2025. She was at this week’s episode of AEW Dynamite.

To be clear, we've never reported a date that Danhausen's AEW deal would be up, just that it was slated for February with injury time added. We've not heard an update when we ask.

Stephanie Vaquer got a new theme song on this past week's WWE Raw. She told Fightful in September she fought to keep her original theme, and preferred it even to a possibly licensed theme.

Multiple wrestlers sent us some eye rolling reactions at fans that were "happy" that Brock Lesnar no sold Ilja Dragunov's offense in the Royal Rumble.

Bron Breakker had been discussed as a possible Royal Rumble winner in the months leading up to the show

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There are no reports about Johnny Gargano's contract.

We didn't report whether or not AEW had made an offer to AJ Styles. We said we hadn't heard of such.

The "cinema" term we use in wrestling now didn't come from the Bloodline, it came from a Martin Scorcese meme as used today.

Sportskeeda doesn't report shit, much less AEW contract rumors.

PWInsider didn't report that WWE was definitely moving away from the lights on top of the seats like at Royal Rumble. They reported that many people there didn't expect it to be used again.

There were people claiming that the Saudi stadium for Royal Rumble stadium was put together in 20 days. It actually started December 24, so they had about 36 days before the shows.

WrestleLamia has outsourced their facebook output to an international team -- this Hall of Fame graphic is fake.

Izzy Moreno

Fightful spoke to Izzy Moreno at Wrestlecade.

We spoke about the path she took to being a wrestler, which included online criticism at a much earlier age than many are subjected to. She said that she had pretty much heard it all by the time she was a child, so it definitely helped prepare her for being a wrestler. When she worked a match at 11 years old and people claimed it wasn't safe, she decided to learn grappling and competed in that instead. Izzy would also love to do Bloodsport one day to show off that side of her training.

She would have loved to have been the mystery opponent in Florida for Mercedes Mone that ended up being someone else, but it wasn't meant to be. She said that it was nice that people still tweeted and posted asking about her possibly being the opponent, she hopes that it happens one day.

You can see our full interview at this link.