Lana update, Vince's car found, Interviews with Rhyno/Bret/Bryan/Henry/Zbyszko/Alberto, NXT lineup, notes on upcoming TNA developments, NXT live event note, WWE tag team member injured, celebrities involved in lower-card feud?, TNA audience, top NXT name under the knife, Raw guest host, WM31 guest, what happened after Raw, and Questions on the build to WM31, the Kliq hand symbol, the IC Title ladder match, the cruiserweight title, and PPV revenue

Lana has been off live events and TV to be part of an upcoming movie with Edge. She's got to still be at Mania, right?

Vince McMahon's stolen Bentley has been recovered. You know he plays his theme song on that big sound system. I'm glad he got it back.

Rhyno talked about coming back to WWE and more. I'm glad he's back in the fold helping NXT get to that next level.

Set for this week's NXT from the Arnold Classic:
- Sasha Banks vs. Alexa Bliss
- Tyler Breeze vs. Kalisto
- Charlotte (with Ric Flair) vs. Bayley
- Kevin Owens vs. Alex Riley

I'm hyped to see what they all bring to the table.

Everything else from yesterday is after the break.

TNA is expected to tape an Ultimate X match as part of this week's TV tapings. That match is fun here and there.


Some new Knockouts will be coming to TNA on a Knockouts-themed episode of Impact in April. I'm glad. They could use some more talented female wrestlers.

TNA will tape more episodes of Impact from May 8 through the 11th. I'm guessing those will set up Slammiversary, but nothing has been announced on that front.

NXT's live event WrestleMania weekend has sold out. It's a hot property right now, for good reason.

Update: More seats have been released. WWE brass has definitely taken note of this success. Hopefully they don't try to do too much, too quickly with the brand. I do think it should get a push, though.

Bret Hart gave an interview about WM31 and more. I definitely wish Bryan was in the main event of WM31 after all the good work he's done. That said, I'm willing to give Reigns a chance.

Daniel Bryan talked about this year's Mania and more. Pretty good read about the lay of the land of WWE right now.

Jey Uso was injured in a recent tag match, putting his WM31 status in jeopardy. I imagine WWE would have wanted the Usos to be champions alongside Reigns to close the show.

Mark Henry talked about potentially retiring:
- I love how, to Sam, the retirement angle is at the same level with Henry ending up with a transvestite. 

- I'm glad we got that big angle with Cena.

- He's right about it being a consistent theme that Henry, alongside guys like Kane, Show, Taker, or Sting, "has got to be done soon", "is near retirement", that kind of thing. I'm obviously pretty guilty of it, too. It has to happen at some point, but it hasn't been true yet for a lot of guys past 40.

- Henry's got a good mindset about when it's just about him and when it isn't. Summerslam 2013 was the start of Daniel Bryan vs. The Authority. With Cena going out, they needed to set up something big with a new top name. I think it made sense in retrospect.

- Will Henry keep wrestling past 2016? He signed a three-year deal around the time of the Cena feud. He's hinted in the past he'll hang it up right after WM32 in his home state of Texas, but who's to say he won't move into a more part-time role as something like a GM, following what Kane has done?

William Shatner and "Mr. Belding" got involved in the Twitter war between Zack Ryder and Adam Rose. I don't know if that will really amount to anything given where those two are on the card, but it'd be cool to see.

WWE's latest Hall of Famer, Larry Zbyszko, was interviewed by Rolling Stone. It's a little surprising to see the WWE Hall of Fame become more of an overall wrestling Hall of Fame, but they do have to keep filling slots every year. It's not like a lot of those non-WWE wrestlers aren't deserving, anyway.

Alberto El Patron will be on the always entertaining and enlightening YouShoot. That definitely looks like one worth checking out. WWE lost one hell of a talent with him.

The latest edition of Impact Wrestling got 338,000 viewers. Combined with the replay, that's just under 500,000 and the lowest audience they've done since the FSN days. It's possible TNA's being adversely affected by all the focus being on WWE for WrestleMania season. Either way, it really sucks given how great the product has been lately. As for any changes coming in order to boost the audience, I don't know of Destination America pushing for any. If they don't pop a number for Lashley vs. Angle next week, there's something seriously wrong.

NXT Champion Kevin Owens underwent surgery on a partially torn meniscus. It doesn't sound like he'll miss much time, which is good. He's been incredible just a few months into his time there.

Snoop Dogg will be guest hosting Raw on the "go-home" show for WM31. That should be interesting.

Update: here's the official press release. I wonder if he'll endorse Roman Reigns in some fashion.

LL Cool J will be part of the opening of WM31. I wonder if he'll bring out some other hip hop names to recreate the opening to WM30?

Michael Cole briefly interviewed Randy Orton and Sting on the WWE Network after Raw. If Sting came in about ten years ago, he would have gotten an RKO from the Legend Killer.

After that segment, John Cena and Roman Reigns defeated Seth Rollins and Rusev in the post-show dark match. The pecking order really goes down once you take out the occasional wrestlers (HHH, Sting, Brock, Taker).

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I disagree. Other than part-timers not being there, I think the build has been fine. To me, the main issue is them already having so much wrestling in a week, it's tough to sell more of it for Mania.

2. I wonder how many people who were fans in the Kliq/nWo/DX days side with The Bullet Club on this one. I'm fine with WWE trademarking something made famous in their company/companies they own. Doing the signal in homage is one thing. Profiting on something made famous by someone else is different. Ask Rob Thicke.

3. I'm fine with it being a crazy clash in the vein of previous years' MITB matches. This isn't a blood feud as much as it is a big angle about a lot of people wanting the title.

4. If they bring the belt back, they might as well put a giant shovel on it to symbolize anyone holding it as buried in the lower/midcard tier. They should keep the cruiserweight title in the WWE vault alongside the Piledriver album and The Barber Shop set.

5. Hopefully WWE works out a formula to fairly compensate people. I don't see how it hasn't a year later.

More wrestling tomorrow.