While discussing the RAW 25th Anniversary show on the latest installment of Wrestling Observer Live, Bryan Alvarez revealed that this Monday’s event is supposed to be bigger than the RAW after WrestleMania.

“I’ve been told that at least in terms of production and individuals being brought in and ideas and pitches RAW 25 will be bigger than the traditional night after WrestleMania RAW,” Alvarez explained.

“Will you like it better? I don’t know, that’s up to you. But the way they’re putting it together it is a bigger event and higher priority than the post-Mania RAW.”

Check back here on Monday at 8PM ET for our live play-by-play coverage of the RAW 25th Anniversary show.

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As previously reported, Nia Jax has been given a leave of absence from WWE for personal reasons. It’s unknown exactly what those reasons are or when she is expected back. PWInsider originally reported that her Total Diva obligations would not be affected moving forward, but that doesn’t appear to be the case anymore.

In an update, Jax was scheduled to film new material for the upcoming season of Total Divas in New York City this Thursday and Friday. According to a source in the production crew, those plans were scrapped and she’s no longer doing any filming this week.

Jax remains off the road for future dates she was scheduled to work for WWE. Attempts have been made to WWE for an comment, but no word has been sent back.

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Bradley Cooper has been offered to portray the role of Vince McMahon in the upcoming “Pandemonium” biopic.

PWInsider reports that the offer was made just a few weeks back but there is no indication yet if Cooper is actually interested in accepting the role. The belief is if a big name excepts the role early on, it could push the film production along at a much faster pace.

The script to Pandemonium was written by Craig A and is being put together by TriStar and WWE Studios. Once WWE Studios became involved with the project, the existing script was expected to undergo heavy rewrites to remove some of aspects of the film that the McMahon family would not be happy with.

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Taz opens today’s show by saying he enjoyed last night’s episode of Smackdown Live, however, there’s one thing in particular that he would have changed about the show. Taz thought the show should have opened without the normal opening and theme music, and instead it should have opened with Kevin Owens giving orders in the television production truck.

Taz thinks this would have been a very unique way to open a show, and it would have given the creative team a number of entertaining, different options in terms of how to present Owens in this new setting. Owens could have been threatening to fire the production staff and even the cameramen in the truck, and this would have fit in nicely with the rest of the show.

Given the ‘Kevin Owens takeover’ theme that ran throughout the rest of the show, Taz thought it was lazy to simply open the show with their regular ‘Smackdown Live’ cold open. Nonetheless, he loved this episode of Smackdown Live. He simply thinks his idea to open the show would have made a great show even better.

He thought the final segment of the show between Vince McMahon and Kevin Owens was a fantastic piece of business. He says McMahon put Owens over ‘Steve Austin style’, and he’s sure that Owens thanked McMahon after the show went off air last night. Taz gives all the credit in the world to McMahon for going out to the ring and getting bumped around like that at his age, because he certainly doesn’t have to do that.

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