Embedded in the video below is footage of Austin Aries’ return to WWE and victory over Eli Drake in an impromptu match to become the new World Champion.

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Dave Meltzer of The Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports that the following matches will probably take place at NXT Takeover: New Orleans:

* Andrade Almas vs. Aleister Black
* Johny Gargano vs. Tommaso Ciampa
* Sanity (Young, Dain, & Wolfe) vs. Undisputed Era (Cole, Fish, & O’Reilly)
* Ember Moon vs. Shayna Baszler

NXT Takeover: New Orleans takes place at the Smoothie King Center on Saturday, April 7th, 2018.

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Russo is joined on today’s show by his co-host, Jeff Lane, and former WWE Superstars, Stevie Richards and Bin Hamin.

Richards says he couldn’t understand Ronda Rousey’s debut at the Royal Rumble this past Sunday. Rousey shook Stephanie McMahon’s hand at ringside, but the last time they saw each other on WWE programming Rousey put McMahon in an arm bar. He mentions that some people are saying Rousey’s ready to be a full-time talent, but he thought she looked lost in the ring on Sunday, looking like she didn’t have a clue what to do.

Russo has a hard time believing that Asuka and Nakamura are the two performers that WWE wants to push as their top stars right now. He points out that neither of them can cut a promo, and he agrees with Lane in the sense that adding subtitles for their promos would be an improvement. He also suggests that a hot female translator would be a nice addition to Nakamura’s presentation, to accompany his rockstar gimmick.

Russo says he’d rather see Braun Strowman destroying things for 20 minutes to start RAW instead of a 20-minute match, but he’s also starting to get tired of Strowman flipping stuff over. He points out that turning over a desk is somewhat anticlimactic after Strowman flipped over an 18-wheeler just a couple of weeks ago.

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Daniel Bryan announced in the opening segment of tonight’s WWE 205 Live that the new General Manager for the cruiserweight brand is former Impact Wrestling talent Rockstar Spud. Spud will be going by the name Drake Maverick moving forward.

Maverick announced a sixteen man tournament for the vacant WWE Cruiserweight title will kick off tonight. The finals of the terminate will take place at WrestleMania 34, where a new champion will be crowned.

Please give it up for the NEW #205Live General Manager, #DrakeMaverick!!!!! @WWE205Live @WWEDanielBryan @WWENetwork pic.twitter.com/jJ5TakBgyb

— WWE (@WWE) January 31, 2018

A 16-MAN tournament to crown a brand new @WWE #Cruiserweight Champion begins TONIGHT on #205Live, and it will all culminate at @WrestleMania! pic.twitter.com/zyf2oj8MxS

— WWE (@WWE) January 31, 2018

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It was revealed that Alicia Fox, who is currently out with an injury, will be replaced by Mandy Rose in the Mixed Match Challenge series. She will tag with Goldust to face Jay Uso & Naomi on next week’s show.

NEXT WEEK on @WWE Mixed Match Challenge, @Goldust teams with his NEW partner @WWE_MandyRose to take on the husband-and-wife duo of #JimmyUso and @NaomiWWE! #WWEMMC pic.twitter.com/WmdeNhxtqN

— WWE (@WWE) January 31, 2018

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Rey Mysterio’s return footage on YouTube has garnered a ton of views and everyone seems more interested in watching that over Ronda Rousey’s debut at The Royal Rumble. Mysterio’s return has well over six million views, while Ronda’s debut footage only has 2 million views.

Speaking of Mysterio, he commented on his return on Instagram with the following post:

Not gonna lie this felt & still feels pretty damn good! Thank you @wwe Universe #TiltAHead-Scissors

A post shared by Rey Mysterio (@619iamlucha) on Jan 29, 2018 at 2:10pm PST

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Several readers have notified us that WWE has changed their logo for tonight’s RAW. You can check it out below:

It also appears that they may be unveiling a new theme song as well. Papa Roach, whose song “To Be Loved” was the RAW theme from 2006 – 2009, tweeted the following:

You should tune in to @WWE Monday Night Raw tonight!

— Papa Roach (@paparoach) January 29, 2018

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Garcia welcomes Trish Stratus to the show.

Stratus opens the show by talking about her illustrious WWE career. She says that her main goal during the early 2000s was to lay the groundwork which would lead to women being looked at differently in terms of what they can accomplish in the ring. She can remember saying multiple times back then, “I just want to do what the men do”.

Stratus informs that she got a call from WWE on December 26th, inviting her to take part in the inaugural Women’s Royal Rumble match. She couldn’t believe it when she got the call, and while she was honoured to be asked, she was also hesitant to accept the invitation because she hadn’t wrestled in years.

She decided to set up a ring in her friend’s gym, so she could get back in the ring and test herself. After getting in there and working out for a while, she realized wrestling was like riding a bike. She was able to execute all the old moves that fans love, and she felt very comfortable. She then confidently called WWE back and accepted the invitation.

Stratus notes that she had to make sure that she could still perform in the ring, because she didn’t want to return and be a shell of her former self. She wanted to be able to perform like she did 15 years ago, so she had make sure she still had that ability by getting back in the ring before accepting WWE’s invitation.

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WWE announced earlier today that The Dudley Boys would be inducted into the 2018 Hall of Fame class during WrestleMania weekend.

PWInsider reports that the word going around backstage at Sunday’s Royal Rumble event that Mark Henry and Lisa “Ivory” Moretti were also going to be inducted into this year’s class.

Already announced is Bill Goldberg, who will headline the 2018 class. Inductions will be held at the Smoothie King center on Friday, April 6th, 2018.

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Christian opens today’s show by speaking about his experience at RAW25 last Monday. He informs that he hadn’t been backstage at RAW in a long time, but after arriving there and talking with everyone he felt like he never left. It was nice to get out in front of the crowd and get some closure on that side of his career.

He really enjoyed his segment, even though he knew going in that it was going to be short. He loves that Jason Jordan is developing a character, and the audience is eating it up right now. Edge informs that he wasn’t sure about the Jordan/Seth Rollins tag team initially, but they’ve been proving him wrong over the last couple of weeks.

Edge and Christian welcome Corey Graves to the show.

Edge asks Graves how he deals with his hefty WWE schedule. Graves says he doesn’t mind the busy schedule because he’s always preferred to be busy his entire life. Even nowadays when he’s home for 3 or 4 days on an odd week he nearly goes crazy. Edge points out that when you’re gone your family has a way of doing things, so when you get home you become a huge “fleshy wrench” that’s been thrown into their plans.

Graves informs that he had an awesome experience calling RAW 25 last Monday. He admits that he became a kid again during the Steve Austin/Vince McMahon segment. Graves was sitting ringside when Austin’s music hit, and he says that was probably the loudest he’s ever heard an arena.

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