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Originally Posted by WrestleInc WWE RAW Women's Champion Sasha Banks has been training hard to put on more muscle, according to The Wrestling Observer Newsletter, with the idea that it will make her more resilient. The Observer adds that this is related to Sasha's match with Charlotte inside Hell In a Cell later this month because the female Superstars feel they have to do something to make the match memorable, which likely means bigger spots than usual. We've noted how Vince McMahon reportedly feels that The Boss is too injury prone, once comparing her to Daniel Bryan. Vince has said on multiple occasions that he believes Sasha knows only one speed - all out.

Originally Posted by Observer Paige underwent neck surgery, having three screws put in her neck yesterday in Florida. The surgeon was the same one who did Nikki Bella's recent neck surgery.

Originally Posted by Observer Lucha Underground finally announced some matches for Sunday's show in Phoenix at the Arizona State Fair. Johnny Mundo faces Brian Cage in a falls count anywhere match to headline the Noon show. A 3 p.m. show will be headlined by Pentagon Dark vs. Mil Muertes with Vampiro at ringside. Others announced for the shows are Drago, Jack Evans, Ivelisse, Taya, Mariposa, Son of Havoc and Aerostar.

Originally Posted by Observer A documentary on Eric Bischoff will air after Raw on Monday night on the WWE Network.

Originally Posted by PWI The WWE Studios film "Resurrection of Gavin Stone" featuring Shawn Michaels will be released in theatres 1/20/17.

Originally Posted by Sports Illustrated AJ Styles has the Royal Rumble circled on his calendar. The Rumble returns to the Alamodome in Texas, and Styles wants to defend the WWE championship against the “Heartbreak Kid”— Texas native Shawn Michaels. “I would love the opportunity to wrestle him,” said Styles. “I’d love to learn from him, but who’s to say if that’s going to happen. Right now, it’s all speculation and rumors that I’m finding out like everyone else is, but man, what a match that would be.”

From a recent interview Sports Illustrated had with AJ Styles: http://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2016...s-royal-rumble

Originally Posted by PWI AJ Styles just Tweeted the following: Interesting photo..... is it not? pic.twitter.com/MKgF4XoAF1 — AJStyles.Org (@AJStylesOrg) October 20, 2016 While that match would be amazing, especially in San Antonio (Michaels' hometown the site of the 2017 Royal Rumble), there's no word that a match between AJ Styles and Shawn Michaels is actually being planned by WWE, Styles tweeting the artwork (which we are told was made by a fan) certainly is newsworthy.

Originally Posted by PWI The 10/20 Total Bellas episode on E! garnered 625,000 viewers, down from the series premiere's 756,000 viewers. It was the lowest rated episode of the series thus far.

Originally Posted by PWI Havok then recounted her TNA run, noting that she was brought in and was "d**ked around about a contract for about 9 months before they decided awesome kongs return was a bigger deal than they anticipated, and signed her instead." She said that from that point, the company wrote her out, booking her to lose a series of bouts, that a number of women there didn't want to work with her for fear she would legitimately hurt her and that she had to deal with contradictory instructions. She noted, "I’m leaving out a lot of the sh***y things that would make them look 100 times more unprofessional if I repeated it. I won’t be that guy. I also don’t care who gets mad about it. " Havok noted that WWE's Sarah Del Rey learned she was never signed to a TNA deal and invited her to a WWE Performance Center tryout. Havok recounted the tryout, writing that she was killing it the first several days, but on the third day, once word of her involvement in the tryout was reported, online fans dug up old social media comments that she made when she was younger.

Part of a longer article about Jessicka Havok's problems while in TNA and why the WWE cut her early in tryouts. http://www.pwinsider.com/article/105...izing.html?p=1

Originally Posted by PWI After announcing he was going to take a break from Twitter, Mick Foley returned, noting he didn't think it was fair to ignore his 1.6 million followers just because of the actions of one of them.

Foley didn't like how the leaked DMs made it seem like he nor the WWE didn't care about Summer Rae. Also didn't like how proud the other person was with his ridicule and trolling to himself and others online about the issue.

Originally Posted by WrestleInc James Ellsworth's new t-shirt is currently the top selling item at WWEShop.com, outranking the new Goldberg, Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins merchandise.

He's dropped in rankings since the original announcement although mainly because his stuff sold out and won't be restocked till mid-November. Also the stat only covered new arrivals to WWE's online store and not just shirt merchandise in general.

Originally Posted by Observer Both La Parka and El Hijo del Tirantes (the heel referee) were critical of the comments made by Jack Evans (that were reported last week). Parka is mad that Evans called him a terrible wrestler. The funny part is that it was a compliment in that Evans said Parka was a terrible wrestler but you could learn a lot from him because he’s so over. Evans got a lot of office heat for talking about how things were better than Konnan was around. Evans was pulled from the Japan show likely due to the comments he made and was also pulled from the recent TV’s, and hasn’t worked anywhere since he returned from Europe where he did the interview that got him in trouble. Angelico is slated to return this week ... Vampiro is the new Head of Talent Relations and is also working as an agent at the TV tapings ... They were trying to get Brian Cage and Rey Mysterio Jr. to work exclusively here (and Lucha Underground), with the caveat of not working any shows anywhere that have CMLL talent, that involve Konnan, L.A. Park or El Hijo del Santo. Mysterio didn’t agree to it

Some recent Mexican wrestling related news in regards to AAA.

Originally Posted by Observer Goldberg and Lesnar are both currently booked for the 11/14 Raw show in Buffalo, which makes sense since you do the all hands on deck on the go-home show so they an do a confrontation. Lesnar is also booked for the 10/24 Raw in Minneapolis, while Goldberg is scheduled also for the 10/31 Raw in Hartford. Heyman is booked for the same shows as Lesnar. Heyman wasn’t booked for this week’s show until the last minute, although it made sense to have him on the show.

Originally Posted by Observer The appearances of Kenn Doane & Mike Brendli (the Spirit Squad) are on a per-show basis and neither is under contract, at least as of late last week. They are expected to be used more going forward.

Originally Posted by Observer Josh Bredl, the winner of Tough Enough, hasn’t been around because he’s been suffering from a severe concussion for several months

Some other sheet news includes:

• According to PWI, ROH and CHIKARA star RD Evans is among the former wrestlers who are currently writers for the WWE.
• In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, Scott Hall celebrates his 58th birthday today.
• In another "WWE Did You Know" type fact, tomorrow will mark the date Bret Hart's original 20 year contract with the WWE would have ended.
• According to reports and speculation, Dixie Carter personally owes money to Fight Network after managing to convince them recently to cover her debt with Corgan and help fund another set of tv tapings.
• According to the Observer, Lucha Underground recently reworked the contracts for all their talent to now cover house shows for dates and pay.