While WWE announced on Monday’s RAW that Bad News Barrett will make an appearance on the WWE Survivor Series kickoff show, the former WWE Intercontinental Champion is still about 4-6 weeks away from returning to WWE television, as he has started lifting weight, but has not returned to his normal size of weight lifting yet, despite hoping to be cleared to return in 2-3 weeks so that he can get the ring rust off at the WWE Perfomance Center.

According to a report from The Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Barrett was looking at getting back into the WWE Intercontinental Championship storyline with Dolph Ziggler before he lost the title to Luke Harper, feeling that it was a natural storyline since he had the Intercontinental Championship before he went down with an injury.