As noted earlier, Vince McMahon attended his maiden WWE NXT live event in San Jose on Friday night. A match between Charlotte and Sash Banks(c) for the NXT Women’s Championship was a part of the show. Vince was said to be very favourable towards Charlotte after seeing the match. There has been a lot of talk about bringing Charlotte to the WWE main roster and that talk got amplified, once Vince saw her work. Vince also requested that Charlotte be featured more in the new Tapout Commercials. It was also reported that Vince loved the work Banks did on Friday.
Hideo Itami, getting a spot in the ‘Andre the Giant’ memorial battle at WM 31 was a late decision as Balor or Neville were scheduled to be in the match. After the battle royal was moved to the Kick-off Pre-show and as there were a lot of Japanese media in the town, the decision was made to use Hideo as a way to tie into Tatsumi Fujinami’s Hall of Fame induction.