Speculating on the rumors surrounding pro wrestling is a favored pastime of many fans, perhaps second only to actually watching the matches. In this daily column, we take a look at the latest rumors being churned out by the pro wrestling rumor mill.

Important reminder: Rumors are just that — rumors. None of this has been confirmed as fact, it’s just circulating around the pro wrestling rumor mill. We track rumor accuracy in a weekly feature called Rumor Look Back you can find here. Remember, take it all with a grain of salt.

Rumors for the Day:

• WWE replacing Bayley with Becky Lynch at WrestleMania “has been in the works for awhile” and “was not a last minute thing”, per Wrestling Observer Radio’s Bryan Alvarez.
• A PW Insider Elite report said there was sympathy in the WWE locker room for Bayley this weekend after word got around about her losing her WrestleMania spot despite being healthy.
• Per Wrestling Observer Radio, the injury that led to Rey Mysterio having to be pulled from WrestleMania 41 was a torn groin. He initially thought he could power through but the damage was worse than he thought.
• WWE’s acquisition of AAA has apparently been in the works for a while. Dave Meltzer said on Observer Radio that it’s “something that’s been brewing for well over a year”. Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp talked to AAA talent who said they’d “kind of heard stuff for a while” but didn’t put much stock into it until “stuff really started to pick up” after the TKO merger.
• Some that Sapp talked to were “even skeptical of the announcement” and “would be shocked” if the Roldan family sold WWE “total control” of AAA.
• Regarding current AAA champ Alberto El Patron, Fightful says that for years WWE was a “hard no” on bringing back the former Alberto Del Rio. But sources close to El Patron claim there have been talks, and that things are no longer “contentious” between the two sides.
• F4WOnline’s Dave Meltzer says WWE’s original plan was for Charlotte Flair to be a babyface when she returned at Royal Rumble earlier this year.
• Eric Bischoff and CJ “Lana” Perry became the latest wrestling figure to sign with Paradigm Talent Agency. They join CM Punk, Drew McIntyre, Tiffany Stratton, Damian Priest, Liv Morgan, Alexa Bliss, and Sheamus as Paradigm clients.

If you have heard of any interesting rumors that you’d like to add, feel free to post them in the comments section below. Just remember they are rumors and not confirmed as fact, so please take them as such. And check our weekly Rumor Look Back here to keep track of how often rumors turn out to be correct.