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"I asked (Brock Lesnar) what the hardest thing for him to do was; he's a super freak athlete, but something had to be difficult for him. I find it's the exact same thing I'm having difficulty with, and that's learning to let go. Striking, sparring is completely different. Someone's trying to punch me in the face, I'm trying to punch them in the face. But often I'll find I'm too light on guys if I'm rolling, my hips aren't heavy enough, it's like I'm trying to work with them like the old pro wrestling kicking in, and he had the same problem, so it's interesting to know that."

From a recent interview Punk had with MMAFighting.com about trying to unlearn old wrestling habits.

Originally Posted by PWI As noted, WWE officials aren't planning on bringing Sheamus back to TV until the WrestleMania 31 pay-per-view, where he's rumored for the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal. Sheamus is also not scheduled for any WWE live events until after WrestleMania so he likely won't be popping up at any of this week's events.

Originally Posted by PWI WWE continues to work on plans to take NXT around the country as a full-fledged touring brand. Officials recently contacted former live event executive and ECW Original Lou D'Angeli to see if he would be interested in working for the company again. D'Angeli now works for Cirque du Soliel and was appreciative of the offer but told WWE he's happy with where he's at. There's also been talk of hiring former NWA, ECW and WCCW star Jack Victory to help work with live events. Victory worked with D'Angeli on live event promotion for the original ECW.

As noted earlier, WWE announced at last night's tapings that former Junior Heavyweight Champion Tatsumi Fujinami will be inducted into the Hall of Fame this year. WWE is still planning on announcing *********** this Monday. PWInsider has confirmed that Fujinami will be inducted by rival Ric Flair.

Censored out the name just in case people don't want to be spoiled before next week. For those that don't care:

SPOILER: show

Kevin Nash and is expected to be the "headliner" of the Hall in terms of speeches.

While Jey Uso's status for WrestleMania 31 won't be known until his shoulder is evaluated by doctors this week, the feeling at RAW was that it's not looking good for The Usos at the biggest show of the year. They still may put Naomi and Jimmy Uso on the show in some kind of role if Jey isn't able to compete.

Michael Cole botching the WrestleMania 31 start times early on WWE RAW was apparently a big deal backstage among Vince McMahon and likely Kevin Dunn. Apparently Vince gave Cole a "hard time" in his headset and it sounded like he told JBL to join in.

With WWE Main Event airing on Hulu Plus while on hiatus from WWE Network's programming schedule, episodes are being uploaded to the WWE Network on a two-week delay. As of late, a two-week-old episode has been added to the vault each Saturday—the Feb. 28 episode was most recently added.

Originally Posted by PWI While there are rumors that top Ring of Honor stars The Briscoes could be going to WWE soon, they are locked-in to ROH until mid-summer at least and the feeling going around is that they will not be going to NXT. One talent who is expected to go to WWE before the spring is over is Samoa Joe.

Originally Posted by PWI It was noted by WWE NXT talents on Twitter yesterday that the company sold 4,100 tickets in just a few hours for the NXT live event in California during WrestleMania weekend. Apparently the breakdown of tickets sold was between 2,200 and 2,400 sold at Friday's pre-sale and then the rest on Monday. With that said, over 4,000 tickets being sold that fast with nothing but social media advertising is impressive and will likely catch the attention of Vince McMahon

OXSports.com picked up on the group of WWE fans who were dressed like WWE Legends in the front row of Monday's RAW in Des Moines, Iowa. As noted, WWE security took the fans away from their seats a few minutes into the show and had them change their clothes. FOX Sports reached out for comment and a WWE spokesperson said the company apologized to the fans for being inconvenienced and offered them free tickets to an upcoming event. Apparently the group were told that their outfits were "too distracting" for the broadcast, which is rumored to be a Kevin Dunn pet peeve.

Originally Posted by Reditt After talking to a few people today at the SmackDown tapings word going around is that Brock Lesnar is very close to agreeing on a new contract with the WWE. With the lack of popularity that Roman Reigns has received as of late, Triple H is pushing Vince on the idea of keeping the WWE Championship on Brock. This would also have huge ramifications with two of the under card matches on the show. If Brock retains the title it would in all likelihood mean a continued "special attraction schedule" for him. Triple H as of late has been big on the idea that the I.C. Title and the U.S. Title should mean something again. The plan, if Brock retains is to put the U.S. Title on John Cena and the I.C. Title on Daniel Bryan. The theory would be that two legit Superstars would bring legitimacy to both titles. Also, while Brock is gone both men can main event Raw, Smackdown, PPVs and house shows with those titles on top of the card. Which again, would bring back the legitimacy of both belts. A lot can change between now and WrestleMania. But this is just one of the many ideas that are being discussed. I have not been told of any other ideas, but if I hear more, I will be sure to pass the information along to this great community.

Supposed Mania plans from the usual source on Reditt (MetsFan4Ever).


Some other sheet news include:

• Dr. Joseph Maroon, Pittsburgh Steelers team medical doctor and director of WWE Medical, recently spoke out against the idea of Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) being a widespread problem in sports and wrestling. http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/12...cal-consultant
• The widow of Viscera in her legal case against the WWE was revealed to have hired the same lawyer who managed to get the NFL to pay out a massive settlement from their recent concussion lawsuit.
• WWE recently signed a deal with fantasy sports company Draft Kings.