Fox News out dirties the dirt sheets with some fake Usos news

Wrestling’s ratings may not be sky high, but business is good in other areas.

So it doesn’t shock us when mainstream sites dip their toes into the wrestling waters for some of those sweet, sweet clicks. But usually they stick to interview quotes or straight news. Every once in a while a site like Forbes will run an opinion piece about WWE. But that’s the extent of it.

We shouldn’t be surprised that someone has tried to expand their scope to include rumors, though. Believe me as someone who sees the numbers on our Rumor Roundup post every day - there’s a healthy market for wrestling rumors.

But if you’re gonna crossover into the dirt sheet/screen market, get some better sources than whoever Fox News talked to about Jimmy Uso’s recent arrest. Or at least apply a small amount of common sense to what you’re being fed.

Fox News’ report on Jimmy’s run in with the law earlier this week pretty much sticks to the same TMZ story everyone, including Cageside, ran with on Thursday as the news broke. But then WWE Hall of Famer & United States President Donald Trump’s favorite outlet dropped this into their post:

“A source closely connected to the WWE told Fox News on Thursday, ‘Uso and his wife want to get fired by the WWE, so this arrest just might be the shoe that drops.’

According to the source, a new wrestling entity called All Elite Wrestling has drawn much interest from a number of wrestlers currently under contract with the WWE.”

Setting aside the image of AEW as an ancient god calling to sports entertainers like Cthulu, this is some nonsense. Not that Jonathan & Trinity Fatu might be interested in what Cody Rhodes might have planned for All Elite, or how big a check Tony Khan might cut them for wrestling in his “new entity”. But that they would plan to get arrested in order to secure their release? A scheme which could easily have resulted in their spending serious time in jail, or tased, or shot?

Why would WWE fire them for this? When they didn’t fire Jey Uso or Jeff Hardy for DUI/DWI in the recent past, and have long responded to issues like this with a “what they do on their own time is their responsibility” statement?

And if this did get Vince McMahon to “fire” them, who’s to say WWE wouldn’t freeze their contracts? Jimmy’s missed a few dates due to injury and based on every other more logical rumor we’ve heard lately, WWE isn’t interested in letting anyone go quietly to AEW or anywhere else right now.

It doesn’t make any sense, and if Fox News knew anything about the wrestling business or had more than one actual source anywhere near WWE, the Fatus or AEW, they’d know that.

Leave the dirt to the dirt screens, is what we’re saying.