– Kyle Edwards, who just parted ways with WWE, will be hosting the Canada-exclusive “Our Nation’s Pride: The Best of Canadian Superstars” DVD that hits stores next week.
– Darren Young tweeted the following on the controversial North Carolina House Billl 2, which has been dubbed The Bathroom Bill as critics say it discriminates against transgender people. Tonight’s Raw takes place in Greensboro, NC.
Hey @DarrenYoungWWE Youre disrespecting the gay population as a whole if you work the @wwe Greensboro NC Raw tonight. #housebill#2
– The Thanksgiving edition of “This Week In WWE History,” which you can check out above, features Corey Graves and Kyle Edwards looking at a “Turkey-On-A-Pole Match” featuring Team Sgt. Slaughter vs. Team Larry Zbyszko from the AWA.
– WWE’s official website has confirmed Apollo Crews vs. Baron Corbin for the NXT TakeOver: London show on December 16th. They are billing the match as a battle of two of NXT’s hottest prospects.
– WWE taped the following matches on Tuesday evening in Indianapolis, Indiana for tonight’s Thanksgiving edition of WWE SmackDown:
* The Dudley Boyz vs. Erick Rowan and Braun Strowman
* Paige vs. Becky Lynch
* The First Annual New Day Potluck Dinner
* Jack Swagger vs. WWE United States Champion Alberto Del Rio in a non-title match
* The Lucha Dragons vs. Big E and Kofi Kingston with The Gobbledy Gooker in a non-title match
* Dean Ambrose vs. Tyler Breeze vs. Dolph Ziggler in an Intercontinental Title #1 Contenders Triple Threat
– Featured above is the latest “This Week In WWE” video with Corey Graves and Kyle Edwards. In honor of “The Undertaker Week” on the WWE Network, Graves and Edwards look back at The Undertaker’s WWE debut at Survivor Series 1990.
– WWE taped the following matches on Tuesday night in Knoxville, Tennessee for tonight’s WWE Survivor Series “go-home” edition of SmackDown.
* Cesaro vs. The Miz
* Neville and The Dudley Boyz vs. Stardust and The Ascension
* Tyler Breeze vs. Zack Ryder
* Charlotte vs. Brie Bella
* Big E. vs. Kalisto
* Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose vs. Kevin Owens and Alberto Del Rio
– WWE Hall Of Famer “Stone Cold” Steve Austin interviews longtime WWE director Kerwin Silfies on the latest edition of his “Steve Austin Show – Unleashed!” podcast, which is available right now at PodcastOne.com. The official description for the episode reads as follows:
“Steve Austin is giving you a true behind-the-scenes look at WWE with longtime director Kerwin Silfies. Kerwin’s talking about what it takes to do three hours of live RAW every Monday night, what goes into Wrestlemania, why he sat with the audience at Wrestlemania 1 at MSG, and he’s got some great stories about working with Gorilla Monsoon, Bobby Heenan, Jesse Ventura, and Vince McMahon himself! He’s even got a couple of tales about Stone Cold!”
– Featured above is the latest edition of WWE’s “This Week In WWE History” YouTube show. This week, hosts Corey Graves and Kyle Edwards look back at the episode of WWE SmackDown in 1999 where Arnold Schwarzenegger and Triple H had their big altercation.
– At the WWE live event in Brighton, England on Wednesday, Hulk Hogan fans were reportedly handing out flyers outside of the arena for Hogan’s upcoming one-man show in Sheffield, England on November 14th.
– For the first time since his podcast debuted back in May, WWE Hall Of Famer Ric Flair has no guest on his latest show. Instead, the show is called “Ask Naitch!,” and like it suggests, the show features Flair answering questions submitted from fans. You can download Ric Flair’s latest “Woooo! Nation” podcast at Play.it.
– Part-time WWE performer Batista recently spoke with Yahoo! to promote his role in the new James Bond “007: Spectre” movie. Batista mentioned that he does miss the entertainment aspect of WWE at times and when talking about his success as an actor, “The Animal” remained humble. “I don’t want to be a movie star,” said Batista. “I want to play great characters.” Check out the complete article at Yahoo.com.
– WWE broadcast team member Tom Phillips will be replaced on the WWE Five Things web series by new WWE broadcast team member Kyle Edwards (Arda Ocal), who will be taking over the hosting gig beginning next week.
– WWE posted the following clip of Randy Orton in the new wWE Studios film, “The Condemned 2,” which is scheduled for a November 2nd release.
– The New Day reacted to what happened with The Dudley Boyz at Saturday night’s WWE Network special from Madison Square Garden in New York City. The New Day ended up making Kyle Edwards walk away from the interview with a box over his head. Video below:
– During a No Disqualification Match against Roman Reigns at last night’s WWE live event in Bangor, Maine, Bray Wyatt suffered bad cuts to his head and hand. It was reported that the hand injury came from a kendo stick shot where his trainers attempted to tape Wyatt up and continue the match. Ultimately, Bray lost the match. Below are tweets obtained from reporter Jon Alba:
Bray Wyatt's head busted open the hard way here at #WWEBangor. No DQ match with Reigns. Doctors out but he's good. #WWE
The newest member of the WWE broadcast team, Arda Ocal, who now goes by the name Kyle Edwards in WWE, was apparently named by the company after NASCAR drivers Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards.
On a related note, it’s said that the WWE tag-team Los Matadores (Diego and Fernando) were given their names after someone in the creative team discovered that Christopher Columbus had two sons named Diego and Fernando.