- With RAW live tonight at the Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida with Ronda Rousey's TV in-ring debut against Alicia Fox, the SmackDown Live crew will be running a house show at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center in Gainesville, Florida this evening. Advertised for tonight's blue brand live event is A.J. Styles vs. Shinsuke Nakamura in a No Disqualification Match for the WWE Championship, Jeff Hardy vs. Rusev for the WWE United States Championship and Daniel Bryan vs. Samoa Joe. This will be the first WWE event in Gainesville in 12 years.
- The advertised dark match main event for tonight's RAW show is Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins, Finn Balor & Braun Strowman vs. Dolph Ziggler, Drew McIntyre, Kevin Owens & Baron Corbin in eight-man tag-team action. It's worth noting that WWE doesn't always deliver on their dark match advertisements.
- Tony Nese celebrates his 33rd birthday today. Over the weekend, Dean Malenko turned 58 on Saturday, Frankie Kazarian turned 41 on Saturday, Stan Lane of the Midnight Express and Fabulous Ones tag-teams turned 65 on Sunday and Pat Tanaka turned 55 on Sunday.
