Thursday night’s Florida Championship Wrestling television taping (airing 9/25) was quite eventful – with the FCW Heavyweight champion being forced to surrender his title due to injury.

• John Cena Reveals Which FCW Stars He Thinks Will Make It In WWE

FCW Champion Bo Rotundo will be out of action for a few months and the second generation star must give up the belt.

An 8-man tournament to crown a new FCW champion was held – and the matches will air on the 9/25 , 10/2 and 10/9 episodes of FCW television. The matches that took place were –

• Damien Sandow beat Leakee
• Husky Harris beat Big E Langsto
• Leo Kruger beat Percy Watson
• Dean Ambrose beat Seth Rollins

The final four – Kruger, Ambrose, Sandow & Harris – wrestled in a four-way match, which will air on the 10/9 show. Kruger made Sandow submit to a sleeper to become the new FCW Heavyweight Champion.

Also at the tapings, Audrey Marie defeated Aksana to become the new FCW Divas Champion.

(Source: PWInider.com)

— WWE.com is advertising a match between World Heavyweight Champion Randy Orton and “The World’s Strongest Man” Mark Henry for tonight’s episode of SmackDown on Syfy. Other matches taped Tuesday night in Corpus Christi, Texas for tonight’s show include:

* Christian vs. Sheamus

* Trent Barreta vs. Ted DiBiase

* Big Show, Kane and Ezekiel Jackson vs. Heath Slater, Justin Gabriel and Wade Barrett

* Natalya vs. Brie Bella

* Daniel Bryan vs. Chavo Guerrero

— SmackDown Superstar Trent Barretta worked last night’s Florida Championship Wrestling television tapings in Tampa as Mr. Florida, a masked wrestler. Meanwhile, NXT Season 3 contestant appeared as Ms. Florida, also under a mask.

— Jon Moxley, who recently signed a developmental contract with WWE, was on hand for last night’s Florida Championship Wrestling television tapings but not used.

source: PWInsider.com

— New Florida Tag Team Champions were crowned last Thursday in Tampa, Florida as Big E Langston and Calvin Raines (a/k/a Patrick Brink) defeated Richie Steamboat and Seth Rollins.

Steamboat and Rollins had reigned since March 25.

— WWE developmental wrestler AJ Lee beat Rosa Mendes in a dark match prior to Tuesday’s SmackDown taping in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Lee worked this past weekend’s SmackDown live events, teaming with Natalya against Alicia Fox and Rosa Mendes. The babyfaces won both matches.

— Mason Ryan has been announced for autograph signings at the June 3 Florida Championship Wrestling live event at Largo Minnreg Hall in Largo, Florida and the June 4 show at the Charlotte County Fairgrounds in Port Charlotte, Florida.

— Bo Rotundo beat Lucky Cannon to win the Florida Heavyweight Championship at tonight’s Florida Championship Wrestling television taping in Tampa, Florida. WWE Hall of Famer Dusty Rhodes and Mike Rotunda participated in a post-match celebration with Rotundo.

— Dick Ebersol, a long-time television partner of WWE and Vince McMahon, has resigned from his position as chief of NBC Sports, according to multiple news outlets.

Ebersol was the producer of Saturday Night’s Main Event, not to mention a key component of the XFL ten years ago. More recently, he inducted Bob Uecker into the WWE Hall of Fame at last year’s ceremony.

— Former WWE star Balls Mahoney headlines a Bodyslam Wrestling Organization event this Saturday in Elmwood Park, New Jersey at The American Legion located on 1 Legion Place. He faces Damien Darling in a “Tap Out or Knockout Match.”

source: PWInsider.com

Four new WWE developmental talents have been added to the Florida Championship Wrestling roster page on FCWWrestling.info; Alexander Rusev, Audrey Marie, Eden Stiles and Ethan Levin.

Rusev formerly competed as Miroslav “The Bulgarian” for Knokx Pro Entertainment in California. He was signed to a developmental contract last year.

Marie, a brunette, introduced herself as Ashley Miller at a FCW live event last month and indicated she is from Houston, Texas.

Stiles is Tampa based model Brandi Reed, who signed a developmental contract with WWE in March. She debuted last month in FCW as a valet for Lucky Cannon and has conducted ring announcer duties the past two weeks on WWE Superstars.

Levin is a 6’6″, 270 pound wrestler billed from Tel-Aviv, Israel. He is the first male wrestler to earn a WWE developmental contract directly from Florida Championship Wrestling beginner’s class.

-John Morrison graces the cover of the latest Muscle & Fitness magazine, which has a feature on his daily training routine. Right now on WWE.com, there is a video from the magazine shoot where former WWE champion The Rock makes a brief cameo. To watch the video, click here.

-NXT Season 2 rookies Kaval and Michael McGillicutty captured the FCW Tag Team Titles at the group’s show last night. They defeated Los Aviadores, the team of Tito Colon and Hunico. This is Kaval’s first title run since signing his WWE developmental deal and the former Joe Hennig’s fourth run with the tag belts.

-Regarding rumors of TNA having an interest in JBL, he is definitely not going there.  He and Dixie Carter are friendly, and they had previously courted the former WWE champion prior to their Monday night debut earlier this year, but Layfield has been happily retired since losing to Rey Mysterio at WrestleMania 25 in 2009.

Thanks to reader Rick Ingram for sending this in:

Four names have been added to the FCWwrestling.com online talent roster this week:

G-Rilla – George Murdoch. The 6’3” 350 pound son of wrestling legend Dick Murdoch returns to FCW.

Jules Uso – Joseph Fatu. Twin brother of FCW roster mate Jimmy Uso, and son of WWE legend Rikishi Fatu.

Mason Ryan – Barri Griffiths. Welsh born European wrestling star and actor also known as Goliath. He stands 6’6” and weighs a little under 300 pounds with a very similar build to Batista.

Richie Steamboat – Richard Blood Jr. The son WWE Hall Of Famer, Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat. Young Richie has trained with Harley Race and and the NOAH Dojo in Japan. Great things are expected in his future.

Those not yet added to the online roster, but who have been actively competing in FCW events include Cliff Compton (former tag champ “Domino”), South African star Ray Leppan (Dameon Duke), and former World Tag Champ Curt Hawkins.