Top WWE Stars Likely Missing Smackdown This Week, Cody Rhodes Disses Talents Who Choose to Sign with NXT

It appears as if WWE Champion AJ Styles will be missing WWE Smackdown Live this week, as Styles has been removed from advertisements for the show. As noted, Styles is currently in Australia doing promotional work for WWE and the upcoming WWE Super Show-Down event in October, and it appears as if Carmella might also miss Smackdown as she is with Styles:

The Phenomenal @AJStylesOrg and The Princess of Staten Island @CarmellaWWE are at the @MCG talking all things WWE Super Show-Down! #WWESSD #WWEAustralia pic.twitter.com/tgOoEMCBra

— WWE Australia (@WWEAustralia) June 24, 2018

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Cody Rhodes Disses Talents Who Choose to Sign with NXT

While responding to a comment from Dave Meltzer on Twitter, Cody Rhodes took a shot at talents who choose to sign with NXT as seen below:

@davemeltzerWON Do you expect WWE to do anything (outside of regular house shows) to Counter All In on September 1st?

— Zachary Ament (@zach13090) June 24, 2018

Nope and tickets are sold, all they can do it try and sign the talent on the show and pull them, and most are under contract elsewhere past that date. https://t.co/GCHT12AW2X

— Dave Meltzer (@davemeltzerWON) June 24, 2018

That’s a possibility. Everybody has different goals. If your goal is to take a meet/greet style handshake photo, and pretend to be excited about going back to wrestling school…that’s your prerogative ha. https://t.co/mDMQ6FQNfc

— Cody Rhodes (@CodyRhodes) June 24, 2018