– The official WWE website is currently running a poll asking fans who they feel will be the next WWE Divas Champion. The options are Alexa Bliss, Becky Lynch, Sasha Banks, Bayley, Tamina Snuka, Summer Rae, Rosa Mendes, Eva Marie, Naomi, Emma, Charlotte and Cameron. With over 10,000 votes cast, Naomi is leading the pack with over 30 percent of the vote. Trailing Naomi are Charlotte, Eva Marie, Summer Rae, Emma and Tamina Snuka, respectively. You can vote on the poll at WWE.com.

– As noted earlier today, The Rock’s ex-wife and manager, Dany Garcia, won at the IFBB Championships this past weekend. The Rock congratulated her on Twitter, tweeting the following on Sunday:

Congratulations to my manager @_DanyGarcia_ New 2014 IFBB NORTH AMERICAN PHYSIQUE CHAMPION. #HardWorkPays #ProCard pic.twitter.com/L7lWVPoIBu

— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) August 31, 2014

– WWE and Rogers Communications in Canada decided to include a small archive of content on the WWE Network due to the fact that the launch was rushed so that the company could improve their subscription numbers between now and the end of the year.

– There is talk of having Bayley defeat Charlotte for the NXT Women’s Championship at the upcoming NXT Takeover 2 special. The idea behind this is to get the belt off of Charlotte so that she can be called up to the main roster, which would also give Ric Flair a regular role on WWE television.

Nikki Bella recently spoke with Digital Spy to promote Total Divas appearing on E! UK later this month. Here are some highlights of what she said about:

If Divas Will Ever Main Event WWE Pay-Per-Views: “I hope and pray for that. There’s nothing I would want more. Brie and I work so hard in that ring and outside that ring, and a lot of the Divas do. That’s something that we would love. Do I understand that I’m in a man’s industry? 100%. When I see all those little boys, I see them look at the guys and that’s their Superman, that’s their Batman. I think it’ll be very tough for us to main event, but I think it can definitely happen. To tell you the truth, I think Steph and Brie are two women that could definitely make that happen. I think there’s a few of us in the division that definitely in the future could make that happen, and I truly hope one day it will. I think the day that we do it, they’ll see the success of it and realize we can do it a lot.”

If She Feels Threatened By NXT Divas Emma, Charlotte, Bayley and Sasha Banks: “I actually have to say I’m really, really excited. When you have such a love and passion for wrestling and you love to work, you want to get in with good workers. I want those girls to come up, I want to get in the ring with them. I want challenges, I want to compete. I don’t want it to always be easy. I don’t want it to always just be a few of us girls. I want there to be competition. I’ve been an athlete and competitor my whole life, and there’s nothing more that I get off on than competition. I was saying earlier that I want to wrestle Brie. Brie’s gotten so good in the ring and [Daniel] Bryan [Danielson] and her have worked so hard in that ring before live events. I want to get in there and wrestle my sister! That’s the fun part, when you get in there with someone who has the same passion for wrestling and that can work well and you can put on a good match where you can really just get at each other.”

“There’s a few matches in the past few months that I’ve had with Natalya, my goodness, we’re actually going at it really hard. We were loving it! The harder we were hitting each other, the better it was. It was just fun to do certain takedown moves. That’s the stuff that makes it fun, so I’m happy ‘cos these girls down there have been training hard and I’ve been hearing a lot of great things about them and I’m like, ‘Get up here, I’m excited!’.”

“I was excited when Paige came up. If she goes heel one day, I’m like, please! I’m hoping for it because I’m a babyface and there’s nothing more that I’d love than to work a program with Paige. I think it’d be awesome. So I’m excited for these girls to come up. I never look at people as threats, because I’m always like, ‘What makes our product better?’ Having great female wrestlers makes our product better.”

If She Will Get Back In The Divas Championship Picture:  “I hope soon! I want that Divas Championship. When I train in the gym and when I go to the ring early and train, all I think about is getting that Divas Championship. How can I be impressive? How can I have the crowd be behind me and connect with me and want me to be the Divas Champion? I think about that all the time, all the time! That’s what’s on my vision board. I truly hope to get that Championship back. I had it for a week, and I want a longer reign than that. I want to make that Championship mean something. I want to get great storylines.

“And if anything I hope Paige takes it off of AJ and Paige and I go into a story. I would love to take it off Paige. That would be awesome. Hopefully Paige and I can do something after her and AJ are done, but we’ll see. It’s live TV and it changes every week, but I want to get in it, I want to get in it bad. I have stuff up my sleeve that I want to show the crowd, that I’m waiting and saving it for, but I just can’t wait – I hope it’s soon.”

If She Feels Protective Of John Cena:  “John loves this business, he truly lives and dies for this business. It’s what he breathes. I’m with him all the time and when he’s not at work, he’s doing whatever he can to make work better. I’m very protective of him, I’ve always referred to myself as a lioness. That’s my king and I’m the queen! But when I hear those chants it actually makes me laugh because if they didn’t like him they wouldn’t even say his name. I think it’s become more fun. When you hear it you hear all the little kids say ‘Let’s go, Cena!’ and then you hear the men say ‘Cena sucks’.

“I think deep down they truly like him and they’ in awe of him, like, ‘Gosh, his body!’ He’s a cool guy. But I think it’s just become a fun thing to do. If they truly hated him… like when people wanted to say we hate Dave Batista, they weren’t giving him that much attention. Then they started to [give him attention] because they were like, ‘He’s back to work, we respect that’. With John I think it’s become more a fun thing to do. That’s the chant you do! They do it before the shows start. Before the show’s even started, that’s the chant that you’ll always hear!”

The following matches were taped at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida for tonight’s edition of WWE NXT on the WWE Network:

– Colin Cassady vs. Sylvester Lefort

– Charlotte & Sasha Banks vs. Bayley & Becky Lynch

– CJ Parker vs. an enhancement wrestler

– Sami Zayn vs. Justin Gabriel

The following matches are confirmed for tonight’s WWE NXT television show, which was taped on May 30th at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida:

NXT Championship
– Adrian Neville (c) vs. Justin Gabriel

NXT Women’s Championship
– Charlotte (c) vs. Bayley

– Aiden English vs. Mojo Rawley

– Jason Jordan & Tye Dillinger vs. an enhancement tag-team

The following are results for the WWE NXT episodes that will air on May 1st, May 8th, May 15th and May 22nd. All four episodes were taped on Thursday night at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida.

Dark Match

– Alexander Rusev def. an unknown wrestler in a dark match to open up the tapings.

Spoiler Results for May 1, 2014

– Tyson Kidd def. Bo Dallas in the first television match of the evening.

– Sasha Banks (with Charlotte) def. Bayley in an opening round match of the NXT Women’s Championship tournament.

– Adam Rose def. Danny Burch. After the match, Camacho appeared during Rose’s big after-match party.

– Natalya def. Layla in an opening round match of the NXT Women’s Championship tournament.

– Mojo Rawley def. Oliver Grey. After the match, Aiden English came out and cut a promo on Rawley.

– Adrian Neville def. Brodus Clay in a no-disqualification match to retain the NXT Championship in a what that served as the main event for this episode.

Spoiler Results for May 8, 2014

– This show kicks off with Triple H in the ring for a promo. He talks about how NXT is the future and is taking over wrestling. He pushes the NXT Takeover special, which will take place live on the WWE Network on May 29th. Additionally, he announces a battle royal to determine the new number one contender to the NXT Championship.

– Charlotte def. Emma in a second round match in the NXT Women’s Championship tournament.

– Kalisto & El Locale (Ricardo Rodriguez under a mask) def. The Legionnaires (Sylvester Lefort & Marcus Louise).

– Camacho def. Captain Comic from Adam Rose’s party group. After the match, Camacho came out and had a confrontation with Rose.

– Alexa Bliss def. Alicia Fox in another match in the NXT Women’s Championship tournament.

– Next up was the battle royal announced by Triple H earlier in the show to crown the new number one contender to the NXT Championship. The participants were Xavier Woods, Brodus Clay, Baron Corbin, Curt Hawkins, Aiden English, Jason Jordan, Danny Burch, Oliver Grey, Marcus Louise, Sylvester Lefort, Big Cass, Camacho, Mason Ryan, Kalisto, El Local, Mojo Rawley, Sami Zayn, Yoshi Tatsu, Tyler Breeze, Bo Dallas and Tyson Kidd. In the end, Breeze, Zayn and Kidd were the final three and all were eliminated at the same time. This leads to Triple H coming back out and announcing that the three will compete in a triple-threat match to determine the official number one contender to the title.

– The Ascension def. Buddy Murphy and an unknown wrestler in the main event of this episode.

For results of the May 15, 2014 edition of WWE NXT TV, as well as the May 22, 2014 edition of the show, click ahead to page two …

– It was reported on Thursday that Major League Baseball was giving Cy Young Award winners Clayton Kershaw and Max Scherzer WWE-style replica belts in honor of their respective achievements. MLB shared photos of the new Cy Young Award championship belts on Twitter, which appear as WWE Championship belts re-designed with a baseball theme.

WWE head Vince McMahon caught wind of the news and subsequently issued a message on Twitter stating that his company would send both men “the real thing.”

.@WWE will send the real thing to @MLB Cy Young Awards winners @Max_Scherzer and @ClaytonKersh22 pic.twitter.com/TAoa50rk0v

— Vince McMahon (@VinceMcMahon) November 14, 2013

– Former WWE Women’s and Divas Champion Mickie James, who is training WWE’s developmental female talent at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida this week, attended Thursday’s WWE NXT live event in Tampa, Florida.

“The show was great! Proud of my girls this week. See you at 8:30am sharp miss ma’am!” James remarked on Twitter to Lana.

Bayley said of James’ involvement this week, “It’s been schweet training w/ @MickieJames this week! I think I’m winning her over. ?? #HUGLIFE.”

– Best friends and former WWE Women’s and Divas Champions Melina and Jillian Hall released this video on YouTube capturing their wild road trip escapades—”COOKIES & CREAM The Adventures of Jillo & Marley.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3vcCEWqohg

Since parting ways with WWE in 2010, Hall has continued to wrestle on the independent circuit. Meanwhile, Melina recently indicated on Twitter that she currently has no interest in resuming her in-ring career (she last wrestled in September 2012).

– NXT Diva Bayley is the profiled in the latest edition of the NXT 10-Count on WWE.com, where the California native answers 10 questions submitted by fans.

Bayley’s wrestling fandom inspired her to become a wrestler herself. She says of her path to WWE, “I’ve been wrestling for a little more than five years now. I went to my first live wrestling show when I was 12 years old for this independent promotion called Big Time Wrestling in Northern California. Since that night, I never missed a show of theirs. I knew once I was of age and my mom allowed it, I wanted to begin training with them. Once I did, I was wrestling there twice a week for more than four years before I got to come to NXT.”

The article features a picture of a young Bayley wearing a Team Xtreme T-Shirt. She says The Hardy Boyz and Lita, as well as “Macho Man” Randy Savage, The Rock, Lita, Eddie Guerrero, Ivory, Victoria and Triple H, are her wrestling inspirations.

Bayley says she would like to face former WWE Women’s Champion Ivory (when asked which past or present Diva she would like to face). “She was amazing in the ring,” said Bayley. “She would be a huge challenge and I could learn a lot from her. She was also one of the nicest people I’ve ever met – very happy and energetic.”

Bayley also talks hobbies, headbands and whether she would attempt to hug The Undertaker. To read the full interview, click here.

-WWE has signed Morkeith Brown to a developmental contract. Brown, 28, was a college football player at Temple University in Philadelphia. Apparently Brown had an offer to go to the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers training camp, but opted instead to take the WWE deal. In addition to Brown’s decorated football career, he served in the Army for 14 months in Afghanistan.

-WWE has added the following wrestlers to the official WWE NXT roster section on the company website: Bayley, Sami Zayn, Conor O’Brian, Lexi Kaufman and Luther Ward.

-Speaking of NXT, this week’s edition of the show features a “Best Of Three Falls” match between Antonio Cesaro and Sami Zayn. Based on feedback, the match is said to be one of the best television matches from WWE this year.

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– NXT Diva Davina Rose is now known as Bayley. Her NXT website bio and her Twitter handle have been updated to reflect the new ring name. From her new Twitter handle @itsBayleyWWE, she wrote:

“I am happy to announce I’m now known as Bayley (pronounced Bayleeee!). I’ll miss you, Davina Rose.”

* PICTURES of NXT Diva BAYLEY (Formerly Davina Rose)

– WWE Champion The Rock noted on Twitter that he is in Panama to begin shooting his reality show The Hero for TNT. Rock’s next advertised WWE RAW appearance will be on March 4th from from Buffalo, New York. He tweeted this week:

“Wrapped @WWE RAW (Lafayette). Hour away from landin’ – Panama. Our adventure begins.. Lets shoot! #TheHero”