The Ascension Works WWE Live Event, Upcoming WWE Tour Changes, SmackDown - Twitter

- The WWE Australia Facebook page announced this past week that John Cena has been removed from some events on WWE's upcoming tour of Australia and will only be appearing on the events in Sydney and Perth. They've also added Sheamus, Cesaro, Fandango, The Miz, Kofi Kingston, The Usos and Nikki Bella to the tour. Other names on the tour include Roman Reigns (excluding Sydney and Perth), The Wyatt Family, Kane, Rob Van Dam and Emma. Reigns will be appearing on a WWE live event in Abbotsford, BC, Canada instead of Perth that weekend.

- NXT Tag Team Champions The Ascension are back on the road with WWE's main roster this weekend. They lost to Dolph Ziggler and Sin Cara at last night's live event in Portland, Maine.

- Friday night's WWE SmackDown ranked #2 overall for the night in Nielsen's new Twitter TV ratings, behind the premiere of Girl Meets World. SmackDown had a unique audience of 416,000, which represents the number of Twitter accounts that commented on the show. This is up from last week's 374,000. SmackDown had total impressions of 1,386,000, which represents the number of times the show was tweeted about. This is barely up from last week's 1,376,000.