{"id":22902,"date":"2017-04-18T14:33:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T19:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/?p=22902"},"modified":"2017-04-18T14:33:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T19:33:35","slug":"mike-bennett-maria-reportedly-wwe-smackdown-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/2017\/04\/18\/mike-bennett-maria-reportedly-wwe-smackdown-bound\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Bennett and Maria are reportedly WWE Smackdown bound"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"prowr-2735970049\" class=\"prowr-apple-podcast-button-link prowr-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/pro-wrestling-boom-podcast\/id1365989370\" aria-label=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?fit=320%2C78&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?w=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?resize=300%2C73&ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" width=\"320\" height=\"78\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p>Mike Bennett and Maria Kanellis-Bennett are WWE bound, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/04\/18\/mike-bennett-maria-formerly-tna-roh-headed-wwes-main-roster\/\" target=\"_blank\">PWTorch.com<\/a>. The report indicates that they are likely going to appear on the Smackdown brand.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Powell&#8217;s POV:<\/strong><\/span> Bennett and Maria have been expected to make the jump to WWE ever since they opted against re-signing with Impact Wrestling. The move to have them debut on the main roster rather than at NXT is not a major surprise given that Maria has WWE history and the real life husband and wife could easily be slotted into the Total Divas reality series. Bennett benefitted from more exposure during his one year with TNA, and Maria quickly\u00a0proved that she was one of the best talkers in the company.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prowr-3320455229\" class=\"prowr-after-content prowr-entity-placement\"><a class=\"spreaker-player\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/show\/pwboom\" data-resource=\"show_id=3275525\" data-theme=\"light\" data-playlist=\"show\" data-width=\"100%\" data-height=\"340px\">Listen to \"Pro Wrestling Boom Podcast\" on Spreaker.<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Bennett and Maria Kanellis-Bennett&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,2,4],"tags":[86,142,293,101,31],"class_list":["post-22902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mustreadarticles","category-newsticker","category-wwe_news","tag-impact-wrestling","tag-maria","tag-mike-bennett","tag-wwe","tag-wwe-smackdown"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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