News On Hideo Itami's WWE NXT In-Ring Debut, JoJo's NXT Role, Referees Directing Segments

- Hideo Itami, the former Kenta, will have his first match on next Thursdays episode. He will wrestle Justin Gabriel. Itami was used on every episode that was taped this week. It appears he will be using the diving double foot stomp as one of his finishers.

- JoJo Offerman of Total Divas season 1 fame did the ring announcing for all of the NXT TV tapings on Friday night and Thursday's Takeover event. She also sang the National Anthem before both events began.

- It was interesting to see how the NXT referees "directed" the post-match segments and tapes. While a wrestler was making his exit up the ramp after the match, the referee would be standing behind the camera man and instructing the talent with hand signals on how long to keep playing to the crowd and when to wrap it up and head to the back.