WWE podcast moving, Punk shouts out Ospreay, WWE touring South Africa, assorted wrestling press, Amell-Backstage, Interviews with Rusev/Stone Cold/WWE+AWA jobber/Rhea/Flip, Raw audience, Raw taping in Canada, more on WWN weekend plans, Backstage audience, women's cage match in MSG, celebrity gets WWE tryout, AEW commercial references NXT, EVOLVE recruitment camp set, ROH return set, AEW signing official, AEW cameo, and Questions on Punk questions, Punk-WM36, WWE running Chicago, WWE dropping women's Rumbles, and Atout-AEW

"After The Bell" is moving to Thursdays starting next week.

C.M. Punk referenced Will Ospreay when John Morrison tweeted about his WWE return. Ospreay's getting some serious hype.

WWE has announced a South Africa tour from April 29 through May 2.

Sheamus, Rusev, and Titus O'Neil were at a Tennessee NHL game. Interesting enough.

Stephen Amell missed WWE Backstage due to a pinched nerve in his back, but he says he will be on the show in the future.

Rusev spoke to Comicbook.com.

Stone Cold is on Ron Funches' "Getting Better."

Matt Hardy and Reby Hardy have had their third child. That's great.

Former WWE/AWA wrestler Chris Curtis is on the latest "Wrestling with History" podcast. Here are highlights. Interesting stuff about the life of a jobber.

Raw drew 2.21 million viewers this week, a slight boost from the last episode.

"WWE Day" at NFL's New York Jets game this weekend will feature Mick Foley, Big Show, and Mandy Rose.

John Morrison will be on "The Bump" next week.

Raw will come from Manitoba on February 24. It's been a long time since WWE has taped TV there.

WWN's WrestleMania 36 schedule will include:
- April 2:
Two "Accelerate" events featuring NXT and NXT UK talents, a PROGRESS event, and the WWN Supershow

- April 3:
EVOLVE, SHIMMER, and Kaiju Big Battel

- April 4:
EVOLVE and wXw

-- The shows are being collectively referred to Wrestlexpo.

Backstage drew 138,000 viewers this week. Not bad.

Rhea Ripley spoke before NXT. She's a great fit for her role. As for why NXT is better at storytelling, there's a smaller cast and more freedom to let something play out rather than being focused on every segment's ratings.

Raw's Madison Square Garden event has added a steel cage match for the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship with The Kabuki Warriors facing Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair. It's interesting Becky isn't defending her own title. I'm fine with it, though.

"Growing Up Supermodel" star Arissa Le Brock, daughter of Steven Seagal, is receiving a WWE Performance Center. She has a Brazilian jiu-jitsu background as well, so she's not just getting a look because of her dad and her modeling, thank goodness.

AEW has debuted a commercial comparing Dynamite favorably to NXT. Wow, someone's gotten to!

EVOLVE has a recruitment camp set for January 3 through January 5. Terry Taylor, Norman Smiley, Steve Corino, Jeremy Borash, and other NXT staff will be on-hand.

ROH's December 15 taping has added Hallowicked returning against Mark Haskins for Hallowicked's first ROH match since 2012. Glad to see another fresh face in the mix.

Flip Gordon discussed AEW and more. He's not able to go anywhere in the near future, but I expect he'll have good offers when it's time.

AEW has signed Kris Statlander, as expected. Good to see.

Brandi Rhodes' "pledge" on Dynamite was Melanie Cruise.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. Not really. There's just not much to add at this time.

2. There's a chance for Punk to headline WrestleMania, but I don't think it's something he's angling for right now and it's definitely not something he's planned!

3. I expect they're happy with the venue they already run there and don't see a reason to change things. They've established connections with certain places, and it's easy to work with people they're used to working with.

4. I also expect they'll feel ripped off, as if something's missing from the show.

5. For whatever reason it never came together between the two sides, so she was free for MLW to pick her up.

More wrestling tomorrow.