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Originally Posted by Observer Shelton Benjamin announced on Twitter Thursday that he has been cleared to return to the ring following a torn rotator cuff injury. After 9 of the hardest months of my life, I'm happy to announce I have been OFFICIALLY CLEARED to return to action. Effective Immediately! — Shelton J. Benjamin (@Sheltyb803) March 30, 2017

May or may not still be going to Smackdown like originally planned prior to his injury.

Originally Posted by Observer The SmackDown Women's Championship match is no longer listed as being on the WrestleMania 33 pre-show on WWE's website and as of now is grouped with the rest of the main card matches.

Originally Posted by Observer SAnitY (Eric Young, Alexander Wolfe, Killian Dain & Nikki Cross) vs. Tye Dillinger, Roderick Strong, No Way Jose & Ruby Riot was officially added to the NXT TakeOver: Orlando card last night. There are five matches scheduled for the show, with Bobby Roode defending the NXT Championship against Shinsuke Nakamura, Asuka defending the NXT Women's Championship against Ember Moon, The Authors of Pain putting their tag titles on the line against DIY and The Revival in a triple threat elimination match, and Aleister Black vs. Andrade "Cien" Almas in addition to the eight-person tag.

Originally Posted by Observer Goldberg tweeted a message clarifying comments that he made about being "miserable" during his current WWE run on the Edge & Christian podcast. Goldberg had said that he was miserable due to the training that's required in his role but reiterated that his time in WWE since returning has been an awesome experience.

Originally Posted by PWI WWE officially unveiled a WWE Hall of Fame statue for Ric Flair at the opening session of Wrestlemania AXXESS this evening. Appearing at the ceremony were Sting, Triple H, Stephanie McMahon, Arn Anderson, The Rock N' Roll Express, Ricky Steamboat, Shawn Michaels, Flair's girlfriend Wendi aka former WCW star Fifi The Maid and all of Flair's children.

Picture of the statue: http://imgur.com/Udzxpro

Originally Posted by PWI For those who have asked about these two talents, we are told Kane is slated to be in Orlando Wrestlemania weekend while Eva Marie is not. Marie not coming in says a lot about her standing with the company going forward.

Originally Posted by Observer Another name has been added to the list of entrants for the 2017 Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal. WWE announced on Thursday that Tian Bing would be making an appearance at WrestleMania 33 as part of the battle royal. Bing previously made a brief cameo on NXT TV alongside HoHo Lun in the first round of last year's Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic and has been wrestling on NXT house shows. Bing signed with WWE last summer as part of the company's ongoing plans to enter the Chinese market. He later made his debut at a house show in Shanghai, China in September against Bo Dallas. As Dave Meltzer noted in this week's edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, this will be the first year that WrestleMania is available to watch live in China. It will be offered as an iPPV by PPTV since there is no WWE Network availability in the country

Originally Posted by Observer In addition to Tian Bing, WWE announced Mark Henry for the 2017 Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal today.

Originally Posted by Observer FloSlam officially announced that OTT's ScrapperMania 3 show at National Stadium in Dublin, with Kenny Omega & The Young Bucks vs. Will Ospreay, Ricochet & Ryan Smile in the main event, will air live on the service on April 15th.

Originally Posted by WrestleInc It was noted in this week's Wrestling Observer Newsletter that Matt Hardy and Jeff Hardy are returning to WWE soon. No word yet on exactly, but it was noted that the only question is regarding the legal issues over the gimmick and where it stands. There's been a lot of speculation on The Hardys appearing at WrestleMania 33 on Sunday, perhaps to challenge SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Usos as they do not have a match. We do know that they will be in Orlando on Sunday as they are hosting a tailgate party near Camping World Stadium earlier in the day. The Observer adds that Matt and Jeff can legally debut whenever WWE wants them to.

Originally Posted by WrestleInc WWE Hall of Famers Ric Flair, Sting and Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat will be filming a "Table For Three" episode during WrestleMania 33 Week in Orlando. WWE Network content is expected to be filmed all week long. As noted, another "Table For Three" filmed this week will feature Eve Torres, Maryse and Kelly Kelly.

Originally Posted by Observer There is nothing really new from the lead story last week on ROH sale talks. It should be noted that there were reports that Flo Sports at one point had attempted to buy ROH, and also had attempted to make a big money deal to stream all of the ROH events on Flo Slam (the latter is very much true), which were turned down. It’s also notable that even though WWE was attempting to buy the company as well, that ROH had gotten WWE to back off on deals with a number of wrestlers, names we know of being Donovan Dijak, Ray Rowe, Kyle O’Reilly and Bobby Fish, threatening WWE with tampering charges

Some other sheet news includes:

• Papa Shango's Curse struck 3 wrestlers during the past week with Nikki Bella injuring her neck again, Rollins dealing with a cold and fever, and Noam Dar with an unspecified injury.
• CBS Sports had a recent interview with Shinsuke Nakamura involving his entrance and him wanting to be on Smackdown when he gets called up because the better dream matchups there. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...-his-entrance/
• According to PWI, security had been tossing out and arresting fans trying to enter the hotel being used by the WWE for its wrestlers. WWE officials reportedly do not want any uninvited guests to be at the hotel likely due to security reasons.
• Hulk Hogan currently denying rumors of him being at Mania 33 but will be in the area due to his new Hogan's Beach Shop holding an autograph session in the afternoon. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...is-beach-shop/
• Jim Ross currently dealing with another death in the family with this time being his wife's cat. https://twitter.com/JRsBBQ/status/847513744532025344