Here are some backstage notes and spoilers from tonight’s Impact Wrestling tapings in Orlando, Florida at Universal Studios:

* Lucha Undergrounds’ Brian Cage is backstage at tonight’s tapings and will be debuting this week. He was also at last night’s tapings but not used.

* Anthem has attempted to bring in Pat Kennedy in as a producer for this week’s tapings but he was too busy with his real estate business.

* It was speculated that Moose had suffered an injury at Wednesday night tapings. The belief is that all signs are positive for his knee.

You can read our spoiler results coverage here.

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Everyone’s favorite Demon King isn’t doing a whole lot on Raw right now. After an amazing performance against AJ Styles at TLC, Finn Balor was chokeslammed into oblivion by the real Demon, the Demon Kane. Prior to that, he was stuck in a seemingly endless feud against Bray Wyatt, and it did nothing for either man  (except maybe reveal that Finn should not wear gray trunks). Just last Survivor Series, he was cannon fodder for Team Smackdown. Yowch.

Let’s face it, Balor’s not doing much. He could use a change in scenery. He could move to Smackdown.

Raw Doesn’t Need Him

At times, it seems like Raw is really just hogging all the big names. Sure, Smackdown has AJ Styles and Randy Orton, but Raw has all three members of the Shield, Samoa Joe, Brock Lesnar, Braun Strowman, and Finn Balor. To put things into perspective, Balor is billed at 5 ft 11. The average height of the rest of the name on there (excluding Finn) is around 6 ft 3. It seems almost everybody else literally stands head and shoulders above him. He is going to get lost in the land of giants.

Strowman just seemingly turned face and is unleashing all hell on anybody who dares to trifle with him. WWE clearly sees potential in him, so he’s at the forefront of Raw almost every Monday night. The Shield are WWE’s golden boys, so they get their fair share of time as well. Those guys are pretty much untouchable right now, so it’s Balor who is led to the slaughter most of the time, be it against Kane, Samoa Joe, or even Elias.

It almost seems that The Extraordinary Man Who Can Do Extraordinary Things  is expendable. This would be sort of okay if he was a midcarder who puts on competitive showings against top talents but ultimately loses. That’s not who Finn is. He’s the inaugural Universal Champion.

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While speaking with Hannibal TV, Kevin Sullivan discussed whether he believes Hulk Hogan will ever be invited back to WWE. Sullivan says the real reason Hogan won’t be back with the company is because of Linda McMahon’s position as the Administrator of the Small Business Administration under the Trump Administration and the concerns over public image.

“I think if there’s one tape out there, there may be another. But the main thing is, because Linda McMahon is in the cabinet, she’s the head of the Small Business Administration, I don’t think they need any more heat. All you need today is for one person to say it, take something out of context. And they’re very, very concerned about their public image now, and rightfully so.”

You can listen to his remarks below:

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While appearing on Lilian Garcia’s Podcast, Alicia Fox revealed that she didn’t like the way she came off as a “drunken nut” to the viewers that watched Total Divas.

“I was on it and I didn’t like the way I came off,” she said. “Not because of their editing, but because of myself. I didn’t like seeing where I was at that point. I thought I looked like a crazy young drunken nut. Trust me, I have those moments still, but I didn’t like everyone else seeing that.”

She continued, “That made me feel very uncomfortable. It’s still kind of uncomfortable because you think there were more wrestling fans because it’s my real job, but there’s more Diva fans in some cases and all they want to say is, ‘Oh my gosh, you and Paige are so nuts!’ Or if I’m at a bar or restaurants, they’ll send shots. I don’t like that. I think it relates to where I was in that state of mind and I couldn’t help but to blame my environment.”

You can listen to the full interview here.

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On the latest edition of his podcast, Something to Wrestle With, Bruce Prichard revealed the real reason behind Big Show’s inclusion in the abomination that was the WWE’s nWo.

According to Prichard, the decision was made because Nash was injured and the company needed someone to work matches.
Prichard said: (quotes credit 411mania)

“It was so bad, [WWE thought], ‘Hey. We lost one seven-foot [giant], let’s put another seven-foot [giant] in there. And you replace one with another. And people won’t notice.’ You’re just trying to save something, and you’re trying to complete that vision. Sometimes, it just doesn’t work.”

Prichard also admitted that the idea wasn’t executed well and had “scotch tape booking” where in everything changed drastically in five months of that stable’s existence.

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While speaking to Josh Barnett of USA Today, Austin Aries addressed reports that he was taking time off from WWE soon. He explained that the quote from the interview he was featured in was taken out of context.

“If you look at the full quote and what I said was, Everyone is dealing with various stuff,” Aries said. “I don’t think there is anyone in the locker room is 100%. We’re all nicked and banged up to various degrees. Like anything else, you pick and choose the times you need address when it needs to be addressed and some times are better than others. I figure no matter what interview I do, the real good ‘journalists’ are going to find the completely irrelevant quotes that will drum up some controversy and stick it on their page to get some clicks and completely miss the real context of what the interview is about. That’s what we do nowadays and call it ‘journalism.’”

You can check out the full interview here.

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