– NXT’s Shoot Nation stable is now simply a tag team with Sawyer Fulton and Angelo Dawkins. They will continue using the Shoot Nation name, while the former leader Chad Gable is going solo.

– Below, in order, are the top five most-watched shows on the WWE Network for the past week:

1. WWE 24: Roman Reigns
2. Chris Jericho interviews Stephanie McMahon
3. WWE NXT, May 6th episode
4. Jerry Springer Too Hot for TV: Love Hurts
5. Extreme Rules

– Other shows that drew well on the WWE Network include the special on Floyd Mayweather vs. Big Show, the previous week’s NXT show, the Culture Shock show with Corey Graves, Unfiltered with Renee Young, Mick Foley’s “Cheap Pops” special, the sneak peek at ECW Uncensored Volume 3 and Jerry Springer’s new show.

– On the other side of the coin, two shows that aren’t getting a lot of views at all are the Cinco de Mayo special with Los Matadores, and pretty much any episode of WWE Superstars.

• Ronda Rousey The Latest Victim Of Celebrity Nude Photos Leaking Online?!

(Credit: Wrestling Observer Newsletter)

With all the things you can criticize WWE for these days, the company should be commended on doing an excellent job in elevating their secondary championships.

If you flashback to around this time last year, the WWE World Heavyweight Championship was virtually ‘on ice,’ only being defended on major pay-per-view events due to the champion at the time — Brock Lesnar — working under a special, limited-date contract.

Now, at the time, you could make sense of it, and even Vince McMahon himself did when asked about the topic during his interview on the short-lived “Steve Austin Show” live WWE Network podcast, as he pointed to the fact that having Lesnar defend the biggest title in the company on an infrequent basis made World Title matches feel that much more important.

Fast forward to the present day, and when it comes to championships in WWE — all systems are “go.”

First and foremost, we finally have a fighting WWE World Heavyweight Champion. Sure, the storyline surrounding Seth Rollins, the current world champion, is that he chickens away from ‘the big fight.’ At the end of the day, however, the bell eventually rings, the referee raises the golden belt up high, and two or more competitors end up vying for the richest prize in all of sports entertainment.

Now, move down one level to the two secondary championships. For the longest time, the WWE United States Championship and the WWE Intercontinental Championship, for all intents and purposes, were viewed as a total joke by the WWE Universe — and rightfully so.

Not anymore.

WWE came up with a great idea heading into WrestleMania 31 this year — put more significance behind their secondary titles. First, slap the U.S. title belt around John Cena’s waist. In a bit of irony, it was Cena who really launched his career off of his first U.S. title run, so in a story-telling fashion, his story comes full circle.

So, basically, WWE decided that now that they want to elevate some new blood into the top spots in the company, they decided to put one of their secondary titles — in this case the U.S. title — on arguably the biggest star in the company today.

On the flip side of the coin, when it comes to the WWE Intercontinental Championship, WWE decided to put that belt on the most popular wrestler in terms of the fans — the leader of the “Yes! Movement,” Daniel Bryan.

And that brings us to Monday’s WWE Payback ‘go-home’ edition of RAW.

After being unable to defend his WWE Intercontinental Championship against Bad News Barrett at the recent WWE Extreme Rules pay-per-view as originally scheduled, WWE played the waiting game to find out how the latest round of the Daniel Bryan injury-bug would work out. As it turns out, whatever Bryan is going through is serious enough that WWE felt they had no choice but to have him surrender the Intercontinental Title on live television, much like they had him do shortly after he won the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania XXX last year.

The idea behind his forefitting of the title last night was where the plan regarding secondary titles in WWE remains in tact. The reason given by Bryan, delivered in a passionate way I should add, was that the WWE Universe deserves a fighting champion. A top contender who deserves the right to bust his ass day-in and day-out, city-to-city, state-to-state, country-to-country and even continent-to-continent, all for the right to try and earn what is now once again slowly being viewed as a title of importance. One of value. One worth fighting to obtain.

Where WWE goes next with the Intercontinental Championship in particular remains to be seen in terms of how far they are willing to go to try and elevate the perceived importance of the title.

Basically put, the company can go one of two ways, as I see it. You can follow the mandate that they have been following since this year’s WrestleMania, which is find the most over performer with the fans, give him the I-C title, and try and get the belt over that way, so that in the future, the belt can make the man, as opposed to the current formula, where the man makes the belt.

Their second option is to try and do the opposite. Put the title on an up-and-comer who has the goods to deliver, but just needs something to put him over the edge so he is viewed as a bigger deal than he already is. Names like Neville and Sami Zayn come to mind.

Zayn, depending on his injury, would make a great impact on the main roster by giving U.S. Champion John Cena all he could handle — with an injury no-less, in his first high-profile match on RAW since having his run as NXT Champion in WWE’s developmental system, and then go on to win the next high-profile match he is in and become the brand new WWE Intercontinental Champion.

Keep reading on Page 2 …

Chris Jericho had Lance Storm as a guest on his latest Talk is Jericho podcast, with the former tag team partners discussing last weekend’s WWE Extreme Rules pay-per-view.

Both of them thought the best match on the card was the New Day vs. Kidd & Cesaro tag title match, followed by Big Show vs. Roman Reigns’ Last Man Standing Match.

Storm said the WWE World Heavyweight Title Match was a joke, since the stipulations didn’t deliver and nobody (including the referee) followed the rules of the RKO being banned.

Jericho said that he thinks WWE’s approach to pay-per-view main events is changing, since the WWE Network doesn’t require them to sell fans on a $60 show each month.

– WWE United States Champion John Cena and “The Viper” Randy Orton are both off of this weekend’s WWE live events. With Cena and Orton off the shows, one tour will be headlined by Ryback, Dean Ambrose and Rusev while the other will be headlined by Roman Reigns vs. WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins. WWE Intercontinental Champion Daniel Bryan, who has been pulled from all live events, was originally scheduled to headline one tour with Ryback.

– It was originally announced by WWE that 14,197 fans were in attendance for their Extreme Rules pay-per-view this past Sunday night. The actual attendance was 11,000, however it was still a sold out show. Monday’s RAW in Green Bay, Wisconsin had 5,800 fans in attendance.

• CM PUNK’S UFC Debut, Ronda Rousey/WWE Update + HOT Ring Girl Pics!

(Credit: Wrestling Observer Newsletter)

Monday’s post-Extreme Rules edition of WWE RAW, which featured the first round of the King Of The Ring tournament matches, averaged 3.76 million viewers.

This week’s viewership was down compared to last week’s Extreme Rules “go-home” show, which drew 4.04 million viewers.

The hourly viewership breakdown for this week’s RAW, which was the number two show on cable television on Monday night (behind only the NBA Playoffs), is as follows:

Hour One: 3.823 million viewers
Hour Two: 3.855 million viewers
Hour Three: 3.590 million viewers

• HUGE Update On Ronda Rousey vs Stephanie McMahon At WrestleMania 32

As reported last night, WWE provided a health update on Daniel Bryan during RAW. Now, we have some more information.

It was reported over the weekend that Bryan was pulled from his scheduled match at Extreme Rules, as well as the advertising for Monday’s post-pay-per-view edition of RAW and Tuesday’s SmackDown television tapings, however he remained listed for this weekend’s WWE non-televised live events.

We can now officially confirm that Bryan has been pulled from any and all advertising for all of WWE’s live events and pay-per-views.

While we don’t have a lot of specific information regarding Bryan’s condition, the fact that he is being pulled from so many dates is not an encouraging sign.

• HUGE Update On Ronda Rousey vs Stephanie McMahon At WrestleMania 32

WWE taped two matches for this week’s Superstars prior to Monday’s post-Extreme Rules edition of RAW in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Below are quick results of the two matches.

– The Prime Time Players def. Los Matadores in tag-team action. El Torito was at ringside with the Matadores. In the end, Titus O’Neil and Darren Young were too much for the bull fighting duo.

– Lucha Dragons def. The Ascension in another tag-team contest. The Dragons, particularly Kalisto, were flying all over the place en route to a quick victory.

• HUGE Update On Ronda Rousey vs Stephanie McMahon At WrestleMania 32

WWE Hall Of Famer Jim Ross has updated his official blog with lots of thoughts on Sunday’s WWE Extreme Rules pay-per-view. Below are some highlights:

On Samoa Joe: “Next week on the Ross Report I will have a provocative conversation with @SamoaJoe who some feel is headed to WWE sooner than later. It would take me about 10 minutes to sign Joe if I were still in my old, talent relations role in WWE.”

On Roman Reigns: “Roman Reigns is on track to become what WWE wants him to be. I believe in this athlete and feel that he simply needs time and not to be force fed the audience and he will end up being the star that WWE wants/needs. Reigns match with Big Show was a pleasant surprise and arguably the best match on the show.”

On the Extreme Rules main event: “I’m not a fan of escaping the cage as a way of winning a cage match but that’s not the talent’s issue. Orton and Rollins worked hard but it was too predictable that multiple outside parties were going to get involved in the conclusion of the match. Some fans and apparently many in the decision making business of the overall wrestling biz feel that a loss is damning for a talent a takes them down too many notches. Obviously, I don’t share totally in that philosophy.”

On Sheamus: “Sheamus is on track to become a hit as a villain if he continues to perfect the nuances necessary to do so. He’s a big, bully of a man who seems to enjoy his bad guy positioning. His match with Ziggler provided me with a surprising outcome. Thought the ass kissing phase went a little long but in the end, no pun intended, Ziggler got a win and has an issue while Sheamus left with heat. Good for both.”

Check out the complete blog at JRsBarBQ.com. You can also order JR’s Bar-B-Q products online at WWEShop.com.

• HUGE Update On Ronda Rousey vs Stephanie McMahon At WrestleMania 32

After last night’s post-Extreme Rules edition of WWE RAW went off of the air, Jamie Noble and Joey Mercury got on the microphone and dressed down the fans in Green Bay, Wisconsin for not showing enough respect to WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins.

They brought up the “Justin Bieber” chants from earlier in the night, which of course prompted the fans to chant it again. Rollins gets upset at the chant and takes the mic. He says he would never come back to Green Bay. He starts trashing the Packers and Aaron Rodgers, saying the Chicago Bears will win the division.

Rollins would continue to talk trash to the fans a bit more until he eventually stormed off and headed backstage to officially end the show and the night.

• HUGE Update On Ronda Rousey vs Stephanie McMahon At WrestleMania 32

On Monday’s post-Extreme Rules edition of WWE RAW in Green Bay, Wisconsin, the main event for the upcoming WWE Payback pay-per-view was revealed.

Seth Rollins will be defending his WWE World Heavyweight Championship in a triple-threat match against Randy Orton and Roman Reigns. The decision was made by the fans via a WWE App poll during RAW.

WWE Payback takes place on Sunday, May 17, 2015 at the Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore, Maryland.

• HUGE Update On Ronda Rousey vs Stephanie McMahon At WrestleMania 32

– Former WWE Tag Team Champions Cesaro and Tyson Kidd tweeted the following after dropping the gold to The New Day at Extreme Rules:

Chicago was great, every dog has their day apparently. The BTE is focused #ExtremeRules https://t.co/aVPfMsW2PZ

— TJ Wilson (@TJWilson) April 27, 2015

https://twitter.com/WWECesaro/status/592519288197492736

– Sheamus tweeted the following after refusing to kiss Dolph Ziggler’s arse after losing to him on the show:

Ha! @HEELZiggler's pretty boy face will forever smell of Celtic swamp ass. Still love him girls? #KissMeArse #ExtremeRules

— Sheamus (@WWESheamus) April 27, 2015

– Here are several backstage reactions from Extreme Rules:

– Dean Ambrose’s win over Luke Harper in the Chicago Street Fight at Extreme Rules was Ambrose’s first PPV win since The Shield broke up last year. This was Ambrose’s first singles victory on PPV since defending the United States Title against Dolph Ziggler at Night of Champions 2013.

– Last night’s ring announcing duties at Extreme Rules were handled by Eden and JoJo, since Lilian Garcia is still out recovering form surgery. This was JoJo’s pay-per-view debut. Lilian spent the night live-tweeting the show from home.

– The Rock was in attendance for last night’s Boston Celtics vs. Cleveland Cavaliers NBA playoff game from Boston’s TD Garden. Here he is with a Bronze Star Marine who the Celtics honored as their “Hero Among Us” for the night:

An honor meeting you and your family. Thank you, sir for all you've done. Stay strong.. #Salute #BostonStrong pic.twitter.com/jSOYi2B6zG

— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) April 27, 2015

– WWE announced during the Extreme Rules pay-per-view on Sunday that at the upcoming Payback pay-per-view on May 17th there will be an “I Quit” match between WWE United States Champion John Cena and Rusev. Lana noted that this will be the final chapter in the Cena-Rusev feud.

– WWE announced an attendance of 14,197 for last night’s Extreme Rules pay-per-view, which took place at the Allstate Arena in Chicago, Illinois.

– Kofi Kingston posted the following photo of The New Day celebrating with their new WWE Tag-Team Championships backstage at the Extreme Rules pay-per-view last night.

Hate to say I told you so, but… now you feel the Power of Positivity! #POP #HoldItDown pic.twitter.com/NK59DC5dfG

— Kofi Kingston (@TrueKofi) April 27, 2015

• WWE Creative Team “Stunned” To Hear Dana White Say Ronda Rousey Can’t Do A Match

WWE Extreme Rules 2015

The 2015 WWE Extreme Rules pay-per-view opens up with Lilian Garcia informing us that the Chicago Street Fight will open the show. We shoot to the announcers, who welcome us to the show.

Chicago Street Fight
– Dean Ambrose vs. Luke Harper

Dean Ambrose makes his way out. Luke Harper comes out next and within seconds, Ambrose attacks him. The referee tries to restore order enough, and does, long enough to ring the bell.

Within a minute, we’ve got chairs, chair shots, kendo sticks, kendo stick shots and plenty of hardcore action going on in the early goings.

Ambrose goes for a tornado DDT, but Harper pushes him off and shoves him face-first into a steel chair wedged between the bottom and middle ropes. The Chicago fans break out into a loud “let’s go Ambrose” chant.

The brawl continues, spilling all of the way back into the backstage area, with each guy using every weapon in sight — too many to even list. Finally, the guys fight and brawl their way off the screen as the two get into a car and leave, and it looks like this match is going to continue later on tonight.

Backstage: Triple H, Kane & Seth Rollins

As the un-seen Ambrose-Harper action continues off-screen, the fans chant “CM Punk” loud as hell as we shoot to a backstage segment with Kane and Seth Rollins. Someone told Kane he did good on Monday, because he’s now doing his best “Days Of Our Lives” impression in this short, two-minute backstage pro wrestling segment. HHH tells both guys that Rollins is making his first defense tonight, he wants to make sure Kane doesn’t screw that up. He asks both guys to put aside their differences. The fans start chanting “Boring! Boring!” louder than you can imagine. Kane assures both HHH and Rollins that tonight, he will do what’s best for business. I’m pretty sure you can predict where that’s going (he’s going to come out and “shock” everyone by helping Rollins).

Kiss My Arse Match
– Dolph Ziggler vs. Sheamus

After the backstage segment, Dolph Ziggler makes his way out to the ring. It’s time for the “Kiss My Arse” match. The announcers acknowledge all of Ziggler’s controversial tweets about this match. So, you can pretty much forget about any “Montreal Screwjob” stuff happening in this one.

Sheamus comes out next to a chorus of boos. The bell rings and here we go. It doesn’t take long before Sheamus starts dominating the action. Sheamus gets outside of the ring and with Ziggler dominated, tells him he’s gonna kiss his “arse” tonight. Back in the ring, “The Celtic Warrior” continues the punishment.

Sheamus has literally dominated this entire match. We’re several minutes into this match and Ziggler has been either selling or on the defensive the entire time.

Ziggler gets a hope series of offense, teasing a comeback, but after a few seconds, Sheamus takes right back over of the offense. He plays to the Chicago fans, who are boo’ing the hell out of him as he does it.

Sheamus calls for the Brogue Kick, however Ziggler avoids it. He tries to roll Sheamus up for a pin, but Sheamus kicks out at two and goes back to kicking his ass. Literally seconds later — literally — he rolls him up again, and without any offense, somehow scores the three count. Sheamus looks shocked.

Winner: Dolph Ziggler

After The Match

To keep it simple, Sheamus tries to run away, plays around almost forever looking like he’s dreading what he’s about to do, only to never do it. He takes Ziggler out with a low blow and then Brogue Kicks him. While Ziggler is unconscious, Sheamus grabs him and puts his face in his “arse” — trunks up — no lips — but it happened. Nice double-swerve, which JBL — Vince’s mouth piece — is strongly selling as we go to a commercial.

WWE has confirmed that Intercontinental Champion Daniel Bryan is off of tonight’s Extreme Rules pay-per-view event in Chicago, Illinois.

WWE announced via their official website today that Bryan is out and Neville is in against Bad News Barrett on tonight’s show.

WWE.com wrote the following:

“WWE.com has learned that Daniel Bryan is medically unable to compete tonight at WWE Extreme Rules. Therefore, there will be no Intercontinental Championship defense.

How will this breaking news affect the Intercontinental Championship picture? Stay with WWE.com all night long for updates as this story develops.

Meanwhile, WWE.com has also learned that Bad News Barrett, Daniel Bryan’s original opponent, will now face Neville in the WWE Extreme Rules Kickoff at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, available for free on WWE.com, the WWE App, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, Pheed and the award-winning WWE Network.”

• WWE “Stunned” To Hear Dana White Say Ronda Rousey Can’t Wrestle A Match

WWE Hall Of Famer Jim Ross recently updated the blog section of his official website, sharing his predictions for tonight’s WWE Extreme Rules pay-per-view and talking about some other subjects. Below are some highlights:

On Friday’s “Cheap Pops” taping: “Had a great week down in Orlando observing the NXT TV tapings and doing some RINGSIDE w/ Jim Ross Show business before Mick Foley’s ‘Cheap Pops’ WWE Network TV special was taped that will air this Wednesday night. My 30 minute set will not be a part of Mick’s special which will be a great, one hour TV special that I encourage everyone to check out.”

On the WWE Extreme Rules main event: “WWE Title Bout to be held inside a Steel Cage with Randy Orton’s RKO ‘Banned’…Rollins has to retain and one can expect a “cast of thousands” so to speak to be involved but hopefully the integrity of the cage will not be overly compromised in the process. Seth Rollins is still evolving as the WWE Champion and he’s a great choice for that role as, like many of his successful predecessors, Seth is a “beatable” champion but not tonight. Rollins and Orton should have a great match before all the shenanigans commence one would hope.”

On the Russian chain match: “US Title Bout is a ‘Russian Chain Match’ which will, I think, be the first for both men which is always an iffy proposition. Having a run through in a live event would’ve been ideal but be that as it may I am not a fan of beating the villain in allegedly his type of match but I also find it challenging to see WWE beat John Cena who is doing a grat job of making the US Title mean something since he won it. Unique booking to say the least which isn’t a bad thing but I’d have Cena lose the Title, chase Rusev and thus continue to add equity and attention to the championship. That’s what I’d do but that’s not likely to happen as I could see a Cena-Rusev blowoff match for the Title at Summer Slam if Rusev wins tonight.”

On Daniel Bryan’s status for tonight: “IC Title bout between Daniel Bryan and Wade Barrett isn’t likely to happen due to DB’s health status that well could be related to concussion type symptoms but that’s merely my speculation. Nothing is more important than a wrestler’s health so this bout not occurring doesn’t bother me.”

Check out the complete blog at JRsBarBQ.com.

• WWE “Stunned” To Hear Dana White Say Ronda Rousey Can’t Wrestle A Match

– Goldust is campaigning on social media for his brother Stardust to get a shot at the WWE Intercontinental Championship if Daniel Bryan is unable to compete at WWE Extreme Rules tonight. Goldust tweeted the following on Saturday:

https://twitter.com/Goldust/status/592084508360441857

– WWE re-tweeted the following Tough Enough audition videos:

• WWE “Stunned” To Hear Dana White Say Ronda Rousey Can’t Wrestle A Match

WWE Extreme Rules takes place tonight from Chicago, Illinois. Below is the final lineup for tonight’s show.

WWE World Heavyweight Title
Steel Cage Match
Guardian of the Gate: Kane / The RKO is banned.
– Randy Orton vs. Seth Rollins

WWE United States Title
Russian Chain Match
– Rusev vs. John Cena

WWE Intercontinental Title Match
– Bad News Barrett vs. Daniel Bryan

WWE Divas Title Match
– Naomi vs. Nikki Bella

Kiss Me Arse Match
– Sheamus vs. Dolph Ziggler

Last Man Standing Match
– Big Show vs. Roman Reigns

Chicago Street Fight
– Luke Harper vs. Dean Ambrose

Kickoff Pre-show:

WWE Tag Team Title Match
– The New Day vs. Cesaro and Tyson Kidd

• Ric Flair Talks About His Daughter Charlotte FIGHTING Ronda Rousey!

Here are the updated betting odds for Sunday’s WWE Extreme Rules pay-per-view, which are usually a good indicator of who will be walking out victorious. It’s interesting to note that all champions are expected to retain.

– WWE World Heavyweight Campion Seth Rollins is a -900 favorite over Randy Orton.

– United States Champion John Cena is also -900 against Rusev.

– Roman Reigns is -420 against Big Show.

– Sheamus is -225 against Dolph Ziggler.

– Dean Ambrose is -215 against Luke Harper.

– Intercontinental Champion Daniel Bryan is a slight -195 favorite against Bad News Barrett.

– WWE Tag-Team Champions Tyson Kidd & Cesaro are also -195 against New Day on the pre-show.

– Divas Champion Nikki Bella is -150 over Naomi.

Join us here this Sunday night for Live Coverage of WWE Extreme Rules.

WWE United States Champion John Cena will debut a new gray “throwback” t-shirt this Sunday at Extreme Rules.

The is already available for sale at WWEShop.com.

Here’s the description:

“Fans love him or hate him. There’s no middle ground, and that’s the power of John Cena. Whatever you think of The Champ, there’s no denying his actions impact everything and everyone around him. Sure, he has his detractors, and they’re vocal, but Cena is still easily the most admired competitor in WWE, as evidenced by his nine million–plus Facebook followers. Cenation is strong. And its message is spreading. Whether competing in the squared circle, performing in front of the camera or donating time to charitable organizations like Make-A-Wish, The Champ is there.”

Dolph Ziggler posted a lengthy message on Twitter earlier today directed at Sheamus ahead of their “Kiss My Arse” match this Sunday at Extreme Rules. Ziggler vents about being a smaller guy in WWE and the “system” in place, cryptically stating that, “You’ve got 5 months to prove that ‘I’ need ‘YOU'”

https://twitter.com/HEELZiggler/status/591275817075806208

Sheamus responded:

Glad you got that off your waxed sparrow chest @HEELZiggler.

Wear chapstick on Sunday when you kiss me #ArseHawk…#ExtremeRules.

— Sheamus (@WWESheamus) April 23, 2015

WWE United States Champion John Cena recently spoke with Rob Leigh from talkSPORT.com about his title defense against Rusev this Sunday at Extreme Rules, his US Championship Open Challenges and advice for Roman Reigns on dealing with negative crowd reactions. (more…)

As noted earlier this week, WWE Intercontinental Champion Daniel Bryan suffered an injury of some kind during his match on the April 9th live event in Dublin, Ireland. According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Bryan was hurt in his March 31st SmackDown match with Sheamus, and was already “banged up” heading into the WWE European tour. The injury that occurred during his 4/9 match likely just made matters worse and resulted in WWE sending Bryan home early.

According to one WWE source, Bryan is expected to be out of action for five weeks, so regardless of how serious his condition is, it is expected that he will be missing the WWE Payback pay-per-view on May 17th. WWE hasn’t confirmed whether or not he will be defending his title against Bad News Barrett at Extreme Rules this Sunday as originally advertised, but it doesn’t appear that he will.

• PHOTOS: Ronda Rousey Bikini Photo Shoot!

This week’s WWE.com sitdown interview features Sheamus talking to Michael Cole about his new attitude, his “Kiss My Arse” match against Dolph Ziggler this Sunday at Extreme Rules and more. Here’s a recap:

– Sheamus says he’s having the time of his life with his new look and attitude. The past few weeks have been a breath of fresh air for him and he feels reborn. He’s not worried about fan feedback on his new look and says the only voice that matters is his.

– Cole asks why Sheamus has an issue with underdogs like Neville, Dolph Ziggler and Daniel Bryan. Sheamus says underdogs make a romantic story, but it’s fantasy. All he sees are pretenders who look just like the fans in the audience. All of these “so-called Superstars” seem to be multiplying, but he’s a true Superstar of WWE. He’s going to restore order in WWE and show the fans what a real WWE Superstar is.

– Sheamus took a look at himself when he was out of action with an injury and didn’t like he saw. He realized to be liked is to be yourself and that’s what he’s doing.

– Sheamus previewed his Kiss My Arse match against Dolph Ziggler this Sunday at Extreme Rules. Beating a man is one thing, but taking his soul is another. Sheamus says he’s going to embarrass Ziggler in Chicago – and will send a message to the entire WWE Universe that they can all kiss his arse.

WWE confirmed last week that Daniel Bryan was sidelined from the European tour, but was not suffering from post-concussion symptoms. While the nature of Bryan’s injury still remains unclear, we’ve got more information regarding when he was hurt and how long he could be out of action.

The injury took place at the April 9th live event from Dublin, Ireland, when Brya teamed with Dolph Ziggler and Erick Rowan in a 6-man tag match against Sheamus, Bray Wyatt and Bad News Barrett.

Bryan was sent home from the tour to get checked out by doctors in the United States. WWE’s preliminary estimate was that Bryan would be out of action for about a month. The short timeframe is a good indcation that it wasn’t an issue with his neck, which many people were fearing.

It remains to be seen how much ring time he will actually miss. Earlier today, WWE teased that Bryan might be unable to defend his Intercontinental Championship against Bad News Barrett this Sunday at Extreme Rules.