News & Notes: SummerSlam, Sasha, Paige and Alberto, Mauro Ranallo

SummerSlam

This year’s SummerSlam will be at least 4 hours again, as expected, since it’ll be a two-brand PPV. WWE.com lists the start time as 6:30 PM ET, while regular PPVs are usually listed with 7:30 start times. I was at least year’s SummerSlam live and it felt like about 8 hours long with all the pre-show matches and stuff.

Sasha Banks

Sasha Banks was interviewed by news.com.au and mentioned that her husband, former wrestler Kid Mikaze, designs all her costumes, as well as the costumes for other WWE wrestlers.

Had to give @realellsworth that custom bomber jacket pic.twitter.com/H5mNYyFtje

— Mikaze (@IamMikaze) May 26, 2017

Paige and Alberto

Paige and Alberto were apparently back together as of Wednesday after the whole airport incident, according to Dave Meltzer in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. It was also reported that they broke up and got back together a couple of weeks ago, and have also apparently broken up a couple of other times recently.

Mauro Ranallo

According to Dave Meltzer, at the recent NXT tapings, the crowd was mostly quiet, and some fans apparently were telling other fans to be quiet if they started making noise because the building is so small and Mauro Ranallo talks so loud that if there’s no crowd noise, they can hear the commentary…