WWE News & Notes: Raw Segment Writers, Rhea Ripley Update, House Shows

-- WWE wrapped up a successful string of house shows in and around Christmas hitting several major cities. The last show was on Monday in Detroit and the company's next house show isn't until March when they are in Europe. As noted before, WWE has considerably scaled back on house shows since being acquired by Endeavor and restructured under the TKO umbrella and WWE talent are generally happy about the reduction since they aren't on the road nearly as much as in the past.

-- Fightfulselect.com reports that Ben Saccocio was the writer on Jey Uso's Raw promo, while Alexandra Williams continues to serve as the writer for CM Punk's segments. Lead writer Jon Baeckstrom was the writer for Ludwig Kaiser's segment. Other writers included Ioannis Filippides for the Chelsea Green segment and Cristian Scovell on the Kevin Owens - Cody Rhodes segment.

-- Chelsea Green's segment generated positive reviews backstage.

-- Rhea Ripley, while on Raw, was featured on the Smackdown brand holiday tour house shows as she had family in Florida visiting which is where all the blue brand shows were.