Backstage heat on Lana?, WWE Legend hospitalized, WWE Network in India, Former Diva gets scholarship

Backstage heat?

- The unexpected news of Lana’s real-life engagement breaking out in the mainstream media, a couple of weeks ago, forced WWE to drop the ongoing angle involving Lana, Rusev, Dolph Ziggler & Summer Rae on television.

Reports indicated WWE Chairman Vince McMahon being upset over the news leak, and resulting backstage heat on Rusev & Lana. However, The Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports of more heat being on Lana than Rusev.

- Tom Billington, better known as ‘The Dynamite Kid’, is one of the true wrestling pioneers, credited for bringing the fast-paced technical wrestling style to America. However, he faded away into obscurity, in the early 1990s’ after the falling apart of the tag team involving his cousin Davey Boy Smith, and a spinal injury left him paralysed and in a wheelchair.

Reports say that Billington has been hospitalised following a recent health scare. He also suffered a stroke in 2013.

- In the latest ‘Where are they Now?’ feature on the WWE website, former WWE Diva Kristal Marshall has been featured. Marshal left the WWE in 2009 following her becoming a mother, following which she started competing as a professional bodybuilder.

However, her relationship with former WWE star and current TNA star Bobby Lashley hasn’t been mentioned.

After winning the 2009 NPC USA Bodybuilding & Figure Championships, she became the first-ever African-American IFBB Bikini Pro in 2010, taking fourth place. She last competed in 2013, then spent seven months working as an in-game host for her Los Anglees Dodgers.

She also had her first daughter and has owned Beauty Trendz LLC, a bridal and fashion hair & make-up salon, since 2012. Kristal, who still watches WWE and Total Divas some, got her Communications degree at Colorado State University and it was revealed that she’s been awarded WWE’s Talent Scholarship, which WWE offers to former talents to help get a college degree or complete a certificate program.

- In what is major news for all the WWE fans in the Indian subcontinent, the WWE Network is set to be launched in India on Monday, November 2^nd. Along with india, the network will also be available in adjoining countries including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal.