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TOUGH ENOUGH UPDATE, SMACKDOWN IN BATON ROUGE TOMORROW, OTUNGA, NXT AND MORE WWE NEWS

By Mike Johnson on 2015-01-12 09:29:58
After tonight's Raw taping in New Orleans, WWE tape Smackdown and Main Event tomorrow in Baton Rogue, LA. Smackdown debuts in it's new timeslot of Thursday on Syfy this week with Daniel Bryan returning to the ring.

The WWE Network has uploaded the entire first season of WWF Tough Enough, the 2001 season of the company's first-ever reality series. Originally airing on MTV, the series follows Al Snow, Jacqueline and Taz training potential talents including the future Maven, Josh Mathews, Taylor Matheny, Chris Nowinsky and Nidia, among others. All 13 episodes were uploaded this morning.

WWE NXT will tape this Thursday 1/15 at Full Sail University in Winter Park, FL.

As noted over the weekend, David Otunga made his first appearances for WWE since Wrestlemania at the weekend house show loop. We are told he is not booked for this week's TV and flew home this morning.

Paul Jordan sent the following....Stephen Amell, the actor who plays Oliver Queen on CW's hit show Arrow, posted an image on his Facebook depicting the show's cast as The Four Horsemen celebrating the show's fourth season pickup announced earlier this week while simultaneously continuing to push for a guest star role on Monday Night Raw. From the looks of it, he is definitely an old school fan. There's is also a post from earlier in the day showing his fandom getting a Winged Eagle WWE championship for winning his fantasy football league.

Scheduled for this week's NXT:

*WWE NXT champion Sami Zayn vs. Adrian Neville.
*Finn Balor vs. Tyson Kidd.
*Bull Dempsey vs. Baron Corbin.
*Sasha Banks and Becky Lynch vs. Charlotte and Natalya.

The 2014 WWE TLC DVD will be released tomorrow 1/13.

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