Interviews with Flairs/Ivelisse, NXT notes, live event correction, Smackdown audience, Lesnar update, WWE tries to get comment from Beck, and Questions on WWE in India, the media's perception of wrestling, keeping kayfabe, and Mania

Ric Flair and Charlotte were profiled in Florida. I hope Charlotte does good things. How cool will it be if/when we have the offspring of Flair, Dusty Rhodes, and Ricky Steamboat all on the main roster?

Speaking of that NXT live event, Derrick Bateman and Mason Ryan worked there. It's good that they're getting some ring time. I hope both figure into WWE's plans at some point. Experience wouldn't hurt either.

In a correction from a previous story, football coach Kevin Sumlin was given a replica of the World Championship, not the WWE Championship.

Tough Enough's Ivelisse Velez was interviewed. Interesting thoughts on her time in NXT. She has the right attitude about wanting to prove WWE wrong.

Everything else from yesterday is after the break.
Smackdown hit 2.89 million viewers on Friday. Not bad.

The Raw crew was unsurprisingly pretty worn out after their tour in the Middle East. Cena and Punk deserve tons of credit for still putting on an amazing match.

Brock Lesnar was legitimately busted open during the opening segment on Raw. He said he was completely fine after receiving 12 stitches. Serious badass.

Here's footage from WWE going to Glenn Beck's studios and a press release. Pretty well done. I hope they bait Beck into making more uneducated comments they can play off of.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. Khali's had his chance in the spotlight as a former World Heavyweight Champion. Guys with more talent have gotten less far. I don't think it's any kind of diss to India. They just don't see either as a big deal. It wouldn't shock me if they do better by India as it becomes a bigger market, though.

2. There are definitely people who still think pro wrestling is "real", but I don't think that includes members of the media. And I definitely see the hypocrisy of them taking offense to what WWE does. Wrestling's an easy target with few defenders.

Nothing to add to 3.

4. It makes sense in things like press junkets, but generally I think performers should stay in-character.

5. As much as I'd love to see Ziggler get the rub of working with HHH, he hasn't been booked to be in his league. Rock vs. Cena vs. Punk and Taker vs. Lesnar would be solid matches, but I don't have any issues with the direction they're going in now.

More wrestling tomorrow, and a podcast at Blue Echo is coming up.