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There were reports surfacing online this week regarding Shelton Benjamin possibly returning to WWE, however that doesn’t appear to be the case.
The Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports that Shelton Benjamin has not re-signed with WWE as of earlier this week. If his status changes, we will keep you updated.
Johnny Saint finished up his gig as a WWE Performance Center Coach this week.
PWInsider reports that the company held a big farewell party for Saint this week at the Center to bid him a proper farewell after he completed a scheduled six month run as a Coach to WWE NXT talents.
Saint began coaching for WWE earlier this year after making an appearance as a guest coach in March 2016.
As previously noted, WWE will head to Full Sail University on July 13th and 14th to tape the Mae Young Classic. Here are some notes regarding the show, courtesy of PWInsider:
WWE has already locked in a number of talents for the tournament. There is expected to be around 32-women total.
The WWE Network will feature a preview special for the tournament on August 20th.
The first round of the tournament will be released on VOD the following week.
The second round of the tournament will release the week after that, which is the first week of September.
The finals of the live special are expected to air on Tuesday September 12th. SmackDown runs that night in Las Vegas and it’s being speculated that they could hold the finals there, instead of Orlando.
Many of you may have noticed the absent of The Hardy Boyz on this week’s episode of RAW. For those wondering, Matt and Jeff Hardy had the day off and that’s the reason they were not on RAW. Matt’s wife Reby Sky is due to give birth very soon, so that’s why Matt is home.
Prior to tonight’s episode of RAW, WWE taped Drew Gulak vs. Lince Dorado for this week’s episode of WWE Main Event. Our correspondent in attendance sent word that Dorado landed badly on his knee after a tilt-a-whirl maneuver and could be legitimately hurt.
Very little details are known, but we will keep you updated on his status.
The Spike TV network in the UK aired the wrong episode of Impact Wrestling last week. This isn’t the first time that the wrong episode has been aired. It was noted a while back that The Fight Network aired the wrong week as well due to the copy of the episode getting corrupted just before the initial broadcast. They ended up airing the previous week’s show.
Spike TV issued the following statement on Twitter regarding the wrong episode being aired:
Russo is joined on today’s show by his co-host Jeff Lane.
Russo says that he switched brands this week, and he’s going to review Smackdown Live instead of RAW. He points out that it’s probably a good thing that he didn’t watch RAW this week because it hit a new low rating. Unfortunately, after watching Smackdown Live, he assumes that Smackdown Live’s rating this week is going to be poor as well.
If Russo was writing this week’s episode of Smackdown Live, it would have been Jinder Mahal’s show. From the beginning to the end, this entire show would have been based around the new WWE Champion. He feels that WWE dropped the ball in this area.
In the opening segment of the show we saw a prime example of WWE’s lack of roster depth. This comes as a result of the brand split, and WWE has no other choice but to use the same 5 or 6 performers for every big match such as Money in the Bank. Dolph Ziggler, A.J. Styles and Baron Corbin all lost at Backlash, but now they’re rewarded with an opportunity for some reason.
Steve is the Founder of RingsideNews, AllWrestlingNews, and Wrestling dot News. He has been writing about professional wrestling since 1996. He first got into website development at the time and has been focusing on bringing his readers the best professional wrestling news at it’s highest quality.
PWInsider reports Cedric Alexander is scheduled for RAW and SmackDown television events this week.
Alexander has been out of action since suffering a knee injury back in February. Original prognostics called for Alexander to be out of action for 3-5 months, which is par with PWInsider’s story.
Prior to his injury he was involved in the storyline with Alicia Fox before breaking up with her after she cost him a match on RAW.