— WWE has replaced MVP with William Regal as one of the “Pros” on the first season of NXT. Regal will be paired with Skip Sheffield.

— WWE Monday Night Raw on April 26th, 2010 will be a 3-hour show, airing from 8 to 11 p.m. on the USA Network. (Thanks to Devin Cutting)

— Thursday’s episode of WWE Superstars on WGN America scored a 0.9 rating, with 859,000 viewers. The midnight replay did a 0.2 rating, with 172,000 viewers.

— Mere days before Sunday’s Elimination Chamber pay-per-view, Chris Jericho noted on his Twitter account yesterday that he was headed to the dentist for a painful root canal procedure.

— You can follow Skip Sheffield on Twitter at twitter.com/CornfedMeathead. The WWE NXT Rookie portrays a cowboy character.

— WWE Monday Night Raw on May 10, 2010 will be held at the Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Tickets go on sale March 6, 2010 at 10 a.m. (Thanks to Devin Cutting)

After numerous years in WWE’s developmental system, Ryan Reeves participated in his first dark match before last night’s Raw telecast. Going under the name Skip Sheffield, he defeated Chavo Guerrero. Reeves, who has undertaken a cowboy persona, cut a promo before his match about being from the South. He got the crowd to chant “yip yip yip” with him, which is something he does at Florida Championship Wrestling live events.

After being one of the eight finalists on WWE’s fourth installment of Tough Enough, Reeves was signed to a developmental contract. He spent time in Ohio Valley Wrestling and Deep South Wrestling from 2005 to 2007 before being released in January of the latter year. Reeves later returned to OVW and managed to score a second developmental contract with WWE following a September 2008 tryout.

He initially debuted in FCW with a Terminator-esque character he developed called Ryback, but adopted the Skip Sheffield persona this past fall.