— According to sources, there are mixed feelings on Elias Samson backstage. Apparently, officials are “absolutely enamored” with his physique and appearance, suggesting that he has the look to be a major star with some comparisons to Randy Savage. However, the general feeling is that he is a little rough around the edges in the ring and will need to “polish up” in order to take the next big jump.

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— There are also backstage rumblings that WWE is slowly building towards an AJ Styles vs. Shinsuke Nakamura match later this year, possibly as early as SummerSlam. The faceoff that occurred at Money in the Bank was to not tease the program and also to gauge audience reaction as both are fan favorites.

On the new WWE 24: Kurt Angle – Homecoming documentary special that premiered on the WWE Network after Monday night’s post-Great Balls Of Fire episode of WWE RAW, Shane McMahon was shown meeting up with Angle for the first time in years at a WWE SmackDown Live taping prior to his induction into the WWE Hall Of Fame earlier this year.

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Featured above is a WWE Network Extra clip, which shows Angle and Shane meeting up at the SmackDown Live taping earlier this year.

“It’s like you call one of your best friends and you haven’t spoken to them in several years and you pick right back up where you left off,” Shane said of their reunion. “That’s a good foundation that you’ve built and that’s a solid friendship. If you do that, you know you’ve got a good friend there.”

The new WWE 24: Kurt Angle – Homecoming special is available now on the WWE Network, which you can subscribe to today via WWE.com.

On a recent conference call to promote Saturday’s NXT Takeover: Brooklyn III event, Triple H discussed Jinder Mahal’s success story. Triple H says that they always thought Mahal had the potential to be the WWE Champion.

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“He was one of the last two guys in the finals for me at the first, to determine the first NXT Champion,” Triple H recalled. “People forget that. I thought he had that ability. He came right up to main roster, things didn’t pan out the way we wanted them to pan out. You can talk to him about that, he’ll kind of give you his take on it too as well. Part of that’s him, part of that’s us, part of that being not ready for it.”

Triple H says that Jinder’s time away from the company helped him grow as a performer, and he feels that sometimes talent leaving to work other places ends up helping them for future runs in WWE. As for wrestlers currently on the roster who need freshening up, he says NXT or the WWE Network’s UK shows may be options for them to “rebuild.”

“Rather than them not being here, it’s like, okay, we’re gonna bring you over to UK for a little while or we’re gonna bring you down to NXT and you’re gonna do a little run there, freshen you up a little bit, bring you back,” Triple H explained.

“I think those opportunities are there in some way, for everybody on the roster, to be able to move around and be able to do the things that are meaningful,” he continued. “Whether main roster, whether NXT, whether localized some place else where they can go teach other people, learn themselves and sometimes taking a step back out of it makes you realize things that you had forgotten or that make you think, ‘I don’t do that anymore at all. I gotta get myself back in gear.’ It’s real easy in this industry where you do things every single day over and over — sometimes stepping out of it is the best way to realize you need to reinvigorate your passion and get back in there and dig in.”

NXT Takeover: Brooklyn III takes place on Saturday, August 19th at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY, with live play-by-play coverage and discussion all night on Rajah.com.

Rhea Ripley is the third member of Team Shotzi for NXT TakeOver: WarGames.

WWE posted a video today confirming that Ripley is joining Shotzi Blackheart and Ember Moon on Team Shotzi for this year’s women’s WarGames match. There’s still one more member of Team Shotzi to be announced.

It will be Team Shotzi vs. Team Candice (Candice LeRae, Dakota Kai, Raquel Gonzalez & Toni Storm) in WarGames at NXT TakeOver: WarGames on Sunday (December 6).

After losing to NXT Women’s Champion Io Shirai the previous week, there was a segment on last Wednesday’s NXT where Ripley addressed the audience. Ripley said people have speculated about what’s next for her, but she’s in NXT to stay and is focused on the NXT Women’s Championship. Team Candice then interrupted Ripley and revealed that they had laid out Shirai. Ripley tried to fight off Team Candice, but the numbers advantage was eventually too much and they beat Ripley down.

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It appears that Shirai will be the final member of Team Shotzi for WarGames.

Blackheart is facing Gonzalez on this Wednesday’s NXT to determine which team will get the entrance order advantage in WarGames.

Here’s the updated card for NXT TakeOver: WarGames:

WarGames match: Undisputed Era (Adam Cole, Kyle O’Reilly, Roderick Strong & Bobby Fish) vs. Team McAfee (Pat McAfee, Pete Dunne, Oney Lorcan & Danny Burch)
WarGames match: Team Shotzi (Shotzi Blackheart, Ember Moon, Rhea Ripley, and one partner to be announced) vs. Team Candice (Candice LeRae; Dakota Kai, Raquel Gonzalez & Toni Storm)
NXT North American Champion Leon Ruff defends his title against Johnny Gargano and Damian Priest in a triple threat match
Strap match: Dexter Lumis vs. Cameron Grimes