– Wade Barrett tweeted the following, teasing his return to WWE television on tonight’s SmackDown:
“Today’s episode of @WWE #Smackdown is the best in six months. Read into that what you will.”
– WWE producer Finlay will be appearing at the upcoming Tajiri’s Wrestling New Classic show on September 20th from Japan.
– WWE has reportedly run into difficulty acquiring the tape library of Bill Watts library of wrestling footage, which includes footage of Mid-South Wrestling, Mid-South’s Power Pro Wrestling TV and the original Universal Wrestling Federation. This is the larges tape library not owned by WWE.
There had been talks of using the footage for the WWE Network as well as DVD sets on “Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase, Junkyard Dog and Hacksaw Jim Duggan, however there was some sort of difficulty in WWE finalizing the purchase.
– WWE Champion CM Punk noted on Twitter that the public screening of his upcoming WWE DVD set in Chicago might be moved to a different day. The screening was previously advertised for October 7th (1-3pm) from Chicago’s Portage Theatre and Punk said an update should be available soon.