— WWE will tape this week’s SmackDown! and the premiere of NXT season 2 tonight from the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa Bay, Florida. No matches have been announced for either show yet but it will be interesting to see what happens at WWE’s tapings this week after last night’s NXT invasion on RAW.
— Actress Yeardley Smith, most famous for her role on The Simpsons as Lisa, wrote the following on Twitter about working with Triple H on WWE’s The Chaperone in New Orleans: “He’s the sweetest, most delightful wall-of-man I’ve ever had the pleasure to meet. Sure, not his persona on the WWE, but He. Is. Wonderful. Today the “heat index” in New Orleans put us at 105%. I almost died. Haha! It warranted white wine & pretzels for dinner. I’d probably lose weight, if not for the wine. Btw, I LOVE Triple H! He is a dream pie!!”
— The weekly WWE Universe RAW chat on their website last night hit a record number of viewers with 82,000 fans chatting.
— “NXT Rookies” was a worldwide trending topic on Twitter last night.
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