– 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

– The following matches will take place on tonight’s WWE SmackDown:

• Dean Ambrose vs. Randy Orton
• Big Show and Mark Henry vs. Ryback and Curtis Axel
• Seth Rollins vs. Dolph Ziggler
• Paige vs. Natalya
• Rusev vs. Big E
• Sin Cara vs. Sandow

– WWE has posted the following behind-the-scenes video of NXT Diva Sasha Banks’ summer photo shoot:

Sasha Banks heats things up during her summer photo shoot.

– Some of Santino Marella’s students from his Battle Arts Academy school were used as “Rosebuds” for Adam Rose on last week’s WWE SmackDown and WWE Superstars shows. Additionally, Randy Reign and Hornet received tryouts prior to the SmackDown television taping last Tuesday and could potentially become the first Battle Arts Academy students to get WWE deals.

– NXT Diva Sasha Banks confirmed that she will be at RAW and SmackDown this week. As noted previously, additional NXT talents, such as Adrian Neville, Sami Zayn and Charlotte are also expected at this week’s WWE TV.

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 were taped on May 29th at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida for tonight’s edition of NXT television:

– Alexa Bliss vs. Sasha Banks

– Garrett Dylan vs. Mojo Rawley

– The Vaudevillians (Aiden English & Simon Gotch) vs. Angelo Dawkins & Travis Tyler

– Tyler Breeze vs. Kalisto

Following Thursday’s edition of WWE NXT TV, the following matches are confirmed for the upcoming NXT Takeover live special, which airs on the WWE Network on May 29th:

WWE NXT Championship
– Adrian Neville (c) vs. Tyson Kidd

WWE NXT Championships
– The Ascension vs. Kalisto & El Local

Vacant NXT Women’s Championship
– Charlotte vs. Natalya or Sasha Banks

The following matches are confirmed for tonight’s edition of WWE NXT, which was taped on April 24th at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida.

– JBL announces a tournament to determine a new NXT Women’s Champion
– Tyson Kidd vs. Bo Dallas
– Bailey vs. Sasha Banks [NXT Women’s Title Tournament Match]
– Adam Rose vs. Danny Burch
– Natalya vs. Layla [NXT Women’s Title Tournament Match]
– Adrian Neville (c) vs. Brodus Clay [NXT Championship — No-DQ Match]

For those interested, you can check out complete NXT spoilers for tonight by clicking here.

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 …

– The three women who were involved in Triple H’s elaborate entrance for his match against Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania XXX last Sunday were Alexis, Charlotte and Sasha Banks, all of whom currently work as NXT Divas.

– As it appeared when watching the show live on Sunday, The Shield vs. New Age Outlaws and Kane match was rushed. Both the ring entrances and the match itself were cut to make time for the rest of the show.

The following are some tweets related to the announcement that former WWE Superstar “The Animal” Batista will be officially returning to the company on the January 20th edition of RAW:

HE'S BACK!! #TheAnimal @DaveBautista returns to @WWE this January! http://t.co/P1N1thTJC9 … More of #TheAnimal: http://t.co/TuvPDjI9pl

— WWE (@WWE) December 24, 2013

OH DADA Batista #RAWChristmas

— WWE Sasha Banks (@SashaBanksWWE) December 24, 2013

BATISTA IS BACK!!! YEEESSSSS!!! It's on!!! @WWE just got taken to the next level!!! #RAW

— Mojo Rawley (@MojoRawleyWWE) December 24, 2013

– WWE has been negotiating with Puerto Rican Olympic wrestler Jaime Espinal, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Espinal won a silver medal at the 2012 summer games (185 pound division) and has also expressed interest in Mixed Martial Arts.

– WWE has invested approximately $5 million in the social networking site Tout, which represents a 5.2% stake in the company.

– Actor Kris Kristofferson was backstage at last night’s WWE NXT live event from Orlando, Florida. His son is NXT star Garrett Dylan. NXT Diva Sasha Banks posted the following picture of herself with Kristofferson on her Facebook page:

Got to meet kris kristofferson today after my match. He’s so sweet

* 9 Pictures of EL GENERICO’s Debut At NXT From Last Night

– Following Kaitlyn’s Divas championship win on Monday’s RAW, there are plans for her to defend the title at the Royal Rumble.

Royal Rumble 2013: Updated Card (New Matches, Entrant)

Originally, Eve Torres was scheduled to defend the against Kaitlyn at the Royal Rumble in a Lumberjills match, but the decision was made last week for Eve to drop the title to Kaitlyn on RAW in her final match before leaving WWE. No word yet on who Kaitlyn’s challenger will be.

Backstage News On Eve Torres Leaving WWE

– WWE officials are said to be impressed with the recent work of NXT Diva Sasha Banks, formerly known Mercedes KV. The 20 year old diva made her NXT debut back in November.

* Pictures of the Beautiful SASHA BANKS

– The roster page of WWE’s official NXT website, FCWWrestling.info, no longer lists Chase Donovan or Nick Rogers. This is generally an indication that WWE has released talent.

Donovan is 27-year-old New England based wrestler the company signed earlier this year after moving to Florida to become a bodybuilder. He previously competed on the independent circuit from 2004 to 2009 as Bryce Andrews. He largely put over talent during his few appearances for NXT.

Rogers is a Canadian wrestler the company signed last year. Albeit undersized by WWE standards, he billed himself as a physical specimen. He had not been used in a high-profile manner as of late.

Chad Baxter and Louis Fontaine were also released from their developmental contracts with WWE this week.

– This morning’s episode of WWE Saturday Morning Slam will feature WWE Intercontinental Champion Kofi Kingston vs. Zack Ryder. Kofi remarked of the encounter on Twitter: “Tomorrow on #SaturdayMorningSlam: a friendly sparring session between me and Long Island Iced-Z @ZackRyder. Tune in! 10am on the CW #Vortexx.”

– WWE developmental wrestlers Anya, Audrey Rae, Charlotte, Paige, Sasha Banks and Summer Rae paid a visit to Dunbar Elementary School in Florida on Friday. The future Divas shared their success stories and answered questions.

– There is still a chance WWE will add another Team Elimination match to Sunday’s Survivor Series pay-per-view. Prior to WWE changing the pre-show tag match to Tyson Kidd & Justin Gabriel vs. 3MB, there was talk of adding Rey Mysterio, Sin Cara, Tyson Kidd & Justin Gabriel vs. Primo, Epico, Darren Young and Titus O’Neal.

Since Gabriel & Kidd replaced Santino & Zack Ryder in the pre-show match, it’s possible that Team CoBro could replace them in the rumored elimination match.

– WWE NXT Diva Sasha Banks made her TV debut at last night’s tapings from Full Sail University, wrestling Paige. The former Mercedes KV tweeted:

Made my #NXT TV debut against @RealPaigeWWE! So thankful! Dreams do come true. #WWENXT

— Mercedes Moné Varnado (@MercedesVarnado) November 16, 2012

Pictures Of NXT Diva Sasha Banks (Mercedes KV)

– Speaking of Paige, WWE diva Layla was asked on Twitter what she thinks of the 21 year old British “Anti-Diva.” She replied:

“@Chris7BNArmy: @mslayel what do you think of @RealPaigeWWE? u 2 would make a great tag team some day”
She's Great! Gonna be a great Diva ?

— Layla El (@mslayel) November 16, 2012

* New Pictures Of NXT Diva Paige – WWE’s “ANTI-DIVA”

– It was reported Wednesday that WWE officials were considering promoting developmental female talent to rectify roster depth issues. According to PWInsider.com, there has been talk of promoting some Superstars as well.

– WWE developmental wrestler Sasha Banks made her NXT television debut at Thursday’s tapings at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida, competing against Paige. The wrestler formerly known as Mercedes KV wrote on Twitter, “Made my #NXT TV debut against @RealPaigeWWE! So thankful! Dreams do come true. #WWENXT”

– The Miz is participating in a media blitz of Indianapolis, Indiana today to promote Sunday’s Survivor Series pay-per-view event at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.

– Jim Ross tweeted on WWE’s NXT tapings at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida: “Really fun nite @ NXT. Done in 3 hrs! Great effort. Some of these kids REALLY want it! #WWE..Bravo.”

(source: PWInsider.com)

– With Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson securing the lead role for the Brett Ratner-directed action film Hercules, and production kicking off in “early 2013,” it has been speculated that his WWE involvement in the weeks leading up to WrestleMania 29 may be affected. However, the word among WWE circles is that organization officials are not expecting his filming commitments to impact his dates.

– The official website of NXT Wrestling has added Sasha Banks to its Divas roster.

Banks, formerly known as Mercedes KV, is a 20-year-old New England-based women’s wrestler. She recently debuted in WWE’s developmental program after impressing company officials at a talent evaluation session in June—resulting in a contract.

– Bill Apter recently spoke to former WWE Superstar Michael Tarver, who addressed his current endeavors, hopes for the future, time with the Nexus, and more.

(source: F4WOnline.com)

– WWE Superstar Ryback (real name Ryan Reeves) is celebrating his 31st birthday today.

– WWE Champion CM Punk tweeted the following on Saturday about his longtime friends Antonio Cesaro and Daniel Bryan:

At the gym with @AntonioCesaro and @wwedanielbryan. Really proud of how far we've come. The secret to success? Hard work. No substitute.

— player/coach (@CMPunk) November 10, 2012

– WWE NXT Diva Mercedes KV is now known as Sasha Banks. Since arriving at developmental Banks has been training in the ring and doing some ring announcing at NXT live events.

* Pictures of Developmental Diva SASHA BANKS (Formerly Mercedes KV)