— Road Warrior Animal returned to WWE television on Friday’s SmackkDown as the latest legend to defeat Heath Slater. In an interview with WWE.com, Animal stated that Slater had the beating coming and can’t wait for Monday’s RAW.
— Friday’s WWE SmackDown episode scored the highest social media score of the year for a SmackDown episode. The show scored 96,496, which was up 20,000 from last week’s episode. Trendrr.TV is tracking more sources for social media activity, which may explain the significant jump from Smackdown’s usual average of 50,000 to 52,000 on a Friday night.
— Mark Henry is currently in Dublin, Ireland doing promotional work for WWE. He continues to lose weight and recently posted a new picture of himself.