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WWE Network will be adding Saturday Morning Slam episodes some time after October and episodes of Rock n' Wrestling before the year is over. There are around 38 episodes of Saturday Morning Slam and around 25 episodes of Rock 'n Wrestling.

Two new episodes of Beyond The Ring will premiere on the WWE Network this Saturday and will look at Matt Hardy and Jeff Hardy. They are the documentary portions of the Twist of Fate DVD from 2008.

NXT star Sami Zayn has reportedly played The Bunny three times in the last two weeks on WWE TV. Zayn has been on the road with the main roster and apparently was the one who frog-splashed Titus O'Neil on last week's RAW. The Bunny was wearing the same wrist tape that Zayn wears that night. The Bunny also did an impressive move at last night's SmackDown tapings. Zayn worked those tapings in a dark match with other NXT stars. This does not mean that Zayn will be revealed as The Bunny in the end.

The idea behind WWE's ongoing storyline between AJ Lee and Paige has definitely been to tease sexual tension between the two. There was a creative decision made last weekend that they want to go further with the angle. No word yet on what they may have planned but nothing risky was done on this week's RAW and it appears the same goes for last night's SmackDown tapings. With the AJ vs. Paige storyline and a few other incidents like more adult language being used and Rosa Mendes being exposed on Main Event, it would appear that WWE may want to do more risqué angles because they need buzz to push the product. However, WWE is still working with Mattel and have promised sponsors they won't ever go back to how they were. It was speculated in a recent issue of The Wrestling Observer Newsletter that we'll likely see more slip-ups and minor adult language on WWE TV but not enough that it will attract attention past the wrestling audience.

The belief regarding the Mark Henry/Rusev segment closing out Raw last night was that it was less about Mark Henry and more about Rusev likely entering into a program with John Cena soon.

TNA is giving the wrestlers who have contracts expiring per-day agreements. They don't want to commit to any long-term contracts until a new TV deal is finished. They don't want to deal with the guaranteed money of a contract when they aren't signed for a TV deal yet.

Jim Ross has posted a new article on FOX Sports about Brock Lesnar's WWE career. Ross noted in the report that Lesnar told WWE he wouldn't sign a deal until the company offered Shelton Benjamin, his roommate at the time, a deal. Ross wrote, "The only catch was that we needed to also recruit and offer Brock's Minnesota teammate, Shelton Benjamin, as well. Benjamin was an amazing athlete, and signing the South Carolina native was a blessing as he had a solid WWE career, arguably underutilized in the opinion of some. Plus, he made Brock's transition from the amateurs to the pros much easier. Robinson [Lesnar's wrestling coach] knew Brock could be a challenging athlete to manage, so having Benjamin in the same training camp was a major positive in the development of Lesnar."

As we noted earlier tonight, the reason why the card seemed a bit strange was that WWE was trying to draw viewers during halftime of the NFL Monday Night Football game. A segment between Brock Lesnar and John Cena was promoted heavily throughout the night, and the producers actually filled between 15 and 20 minutes with commercials, backstage segments and promotional spots waiting for the Indianapolis Colts and Philadelphia Eagles game to go to halftime.