Tessa Blanchard spoke with the Orlando Sentinel to promote the Mae Young Classic on the WWE Network. Here are the highlights:

Cedric Alexander being instrumental in helping her with training:

“If I ever needed anything, they would help me. After hours, I would train, train, train, six or seven days a week, until 2 or 3 in the morning sometimes. After a long day, Cedric [Alexander] would say, ‘Hey Tessa, let’s get in there and have a 45-minute match and call it on the fly.’ That’s helped turn me into the athlete I am today. I’m so grateful for all of those hardships.”

Advice from former WWE Superstar Carlito:

“I was going through this time where I thought, ‘Why don’t people like me? Why is it so tough right now? Why do people think I’m only here because of [my family ties]?’ Carlito looked at me and he was like, ‘Tessa, you don’t need to apologize for who your dad is, you don’t need to apologize for what family you’re in. You were born that way. But you do need to work hard and you do need to back it up.’ That stuck with me and that’s what I’ve been doing the last four years.”

You can read the full interview here.

– After last night’s WWE RAW went off the air, United States Champion Roman Reigns picked up another win over Universal Champion Kevin Owens. The two will square off in the main event of next month’s Roadblock pay-per-view. Update: We’ve received word from Twitter user @TherealWP that no such mach took place, so there’s conflicting information here. We apologize for the confusion.

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– Stephanie McMahon did not appear on last night’s RAW because she’s currently in China for the LeSports Connect forum.

Proud to represent @WWE as a keynote speaker at #LSC16 today. Thank you Branded and @LeSports_ for this great opportunity! pic.twitter.com/JOQqa4gK7o

— Stephanie McMahon (@StephMcMahon) November 29, 2016

– Tessa Blanchard, daughter of WWE Hall of Famer Tully Blanchard, appeared with several North Carolina indy wrestlers on last night’s RAW in the bar segment with Sheamus and Cesaro. Below is video from that segment:

Maybe that partnership between @WWESheamus & @WWECesaro wasn't a bad thing after all? #RAW #BarFight pic.twitter.com/EZbso38EV4

— WWE (@WWE) November 29, 2016

The format of the returning WWE Tough Enough reality show is going to be completely revamped compared to past seasons.

There will be training and in-house footage shot during the week, which will air on the Tuesday show. So when you watch an episode, the training and drama in the house we see will be from the previous week, very similar to The Ultimate Fighter season that they tried to do semi-live, as well as the UFC Primetime and “Embedded” specials which they try to keep up-to-date.

The television show will air each Tuesday, with footage shot during the week as well as a live show in front of a studio audience.

While Chris Jericho is scheduled to be the host of the show, it’s said that he will have somewhat of a “Ryan Seacrest role,” and won’t be hosting the show in the style that WWE had “Stone Cold” Steve Austin do several years ago.

As far as the rest of the cast, Hulk Hogan, Paige and Daniel Bryan will serve as panelists, mentors and judges, while Booker T, Billy Gunn and Lita will serve as the actual trainers for the contestants. Each week on the show there will be a judges vote and an audience vote to decide who goes home.

WWE has reportedly gone out of their way to recruit certain people to be cast members on the show, including Tessa Blanchard, daughter of WWE Hall Of Famer Tully Blanchard. It’s also said that they badly wanted Moose on the show.

Apparently WWE is telling people that they are recruiting to be on the program that they will be guaranteed a spot on the show, however the actual winner of the season will not be pre-determined and will be completely legitimate based on the fan voting.

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– Stephanie McMahon is scheduled to be at NXT Takeover: “Unstoppable” tonight.

– Ahead of tonight’s NXT special, WWE has released new t-shirts for Hideo Itami, Enzo Amore and Big Cass and Becky Lynch, which says “Lass Licker.”

– Real-life WWE couple Stardust (Cody Rhodes) and ring announcer Eden recently bought a house together in Texas and noted that they plan to move into the home this week.

– On social media, WWE Diva Paige praised third generation wrestler Tessa Blanchard, daughter of WWE Hall Of Famer Tully Blanchard. Paige tweeted the following:

https://twitter.com/RealPaigeWWE/status/600954592533344256

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– The new season of WWE Tough Enough on the USA Network will feature several NXT wrestlers who have not yet appeared on TV, according to verified WWE insider ‘MetsFan4Ever.

During a recent WWE tryout camp at the Performance Center, several executives from the USA Network were in attendance scouting potential Tough Enough cast members. It’s believed that third-generation wrestler Tessa Blanchard was one of the people the USA Network was interested in.

– Vince McMahon and several other top WWE officials flew out to Denver, Colorado (site of tonight’s RAW) on Sunday morning due to the snow storm that hit the Northeast last night and today. Many flights out of the Northeast were cancelled today, so this proved to be a smart move from Vince & company.

– The Authority has announced on Twitter that Triple H will kick off tonight’s RAW with his big announcement about the Royal Rumble controversy.

Per the Office of The Authority: @WWE COO @TripleH will make his announcement at the beginning of #Raw this evening.

— The Authority (@WWEsAuthority) February 2, 2015

As noted recently, WWE Hall Of Famer Tully Blanchard suffered an injury while executing a run-in during his daughter Tessa Blanchard’s match at a recent Pro Wrestling Syndicate event.

Blanchard reportedly injured himself while getting in the ring for a run-in, but went on to perform multiple dropkicks.

The Pro Wrestling Syndicate promotion has reported that Blanchard suffered what is being described as a partially torn tendon in his left biceps. Tully commented, “It hurts to exert the muscle, but I’ll live.”

– Darren Young made his WWE in-ring return at the live event in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on Saturday night. Young defeated Justin Gabriel in the opening match of the evening, but was then beaten down by Seth Rollins.

– WWE Hall Of Famer Tully Blanchard reportedly suffered a torn biceps at the Pro Wrestling Syndicate event on Saturday night. The injury took place when Blanchard did a run-in after his daughter, Tessa Blanchard’s match.

– Dean Ambrose will be Chris Jericho’s guest on the Talk is Jericho podcast this week at PodcastOne.com.

This week on @TalkIsJericho:
Wed- @TheDeanAmbrose & #Lennon/ #DimebagDarrell thoughts
Fri- @TheDeanAmbrose Pt 2 & @EgypttheJanitor returns!

— Chris Jericho (@IAmJericho) December 9, 2014

– Tessa Blanchard, daughter of WWE Hall of Famer Tully Blanchard, made her RAW debut last night as one of Adam Rose’s Rosebuds. Blanchard is a top indy prospect and was rumored to be getting a WWE tryout over the weekend.

Check out the lovely Tessa Blanchard @teamTblanchard daughter of Tully Blanchard @RealTullyB as a rosebud. #wwe #raw pic.twitter.com/p3tqilcwCy

— Turnbuckle Media (@TurnbuckleMag) December 9, 2014

– WWE Diva AJ Lee tweeted the following after winning the Diva of the Year Slammy on RAW:

Thanks for making me a 2x Diva of the Year. Hell of a week. pic.twitter.com/LoS78wiNY2

— AJ Mendez (@TheAJMendez) December 9, 2014

– Tessa Blanchard, daughter of WWE Hall Of Famer and original Four Horsemen member Tully Blanchard, is getting a tryout with WWE this weekend.

– The latest edition of “WWE Top 10,” which you can see below, takes a look at the ten kisses that “rocked” WWE the most.

Former WWE Diva Mickie James recently expressed her interest in returning to WWE. James has been re-tweeting several comments from fans about a possible WWE return and some about her still being able to record her music if and when she does return. James’ music interests outside of WWE were reportedly an issue when she parted ways the company back in 2010.

Mickie, who gave birth back in September, is scheduled to make her in-ring return at the Queens of Combat event in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on November 30th. She will be going one-on-one with Tessa Blanchard.