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08-26-2015 09:59 PM |
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The idea of doing Sting vs. Seth Rollins for the WWE World Heavyweight Title at Night of Champions next month reportedly came up about a week ago and was decided on just a few days before Sunday's SummerSlam pay-per-view.
Regarding Sting's appearance on RAW last night in the segment with Triple H, Stephanie McMahon and Rollins, PWInsider notes that the covered platform in the ring started out backstage and Sting was in there the whole time. Crew members brought the box out on a forklift, raised some of the lighting boards at ringside to make way, and put the box into the ring with Sting inside.
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Regarding the story that came out this week about Charlotte going to get the Divas title right away but Cena put a nix to it, I can't say for sure it isn't true, but it sounds like a couple of stories being conflated. There was a time apparently early in Nikki Bella's title reign where there was a movement for her to drop the title and Cena stepped in. There was also a point that Paige was going to get the title fairly recently as a climax to the "change" angle, well before SummerSlam, but that also didn't happen because those kind of plans change weekly anyway. Charlotte getting the title shortly after being brought in was all something talked about as well. When they started pushing Nikki as chasing A.J. Lee's record, at that point the idea was that she wasn't going to get the record even though that line would have teased that she was. Internally, Nikki is a lock to remain in a top position for as long as her relationship with Cena is solid. Now, who knows, but it does appear she's getting the record, and I'd also expect them to take the title off her to push the Divas revolution idea fairly soon. But Diva plans are never etched in stone.
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So still a possibility the real goal behind #GiveDivasAChance and Divas Revolution won't actually happen even after Nikki drops the belt.
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Liger debuted on the NXT show, and is expected to be working more dates with WWE, which explains his beating Tyler Breeze on the show, although the Brooklyn show's main card had nothing but babyface wins. One promoter we are friends with had tried to book Liger for a few dates and was told WWE had him on those dates, so it looks like Liger has a deal with WWE. It appears his role will be similar to the Samoa Joe/Rhyno deal for NXT, although probably not as extensively because he's got New Japan. But it does open some doors in the sense WWE will now use a guy under contract to New Japan and work through the office on getting dates as opposed to the old doctrine of not using guys under contract to other companies. Neither Joe nor Rhyno was under contract to anyone and Joe was not allowed to work on ROH television in his final date with the company, while there's no way Liger won't be working on New Japan television, which airs in this country, although Liger is likely to rarely appear on World Pro Wrestling Returns on AXS.
New Japan officials were at both the NXT and SummerSlam events this past weekend. Kazuchika Okada was said to be very popular backstage with the WWE crew when he came to SummerSlam.
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Regarding reports of Rey Mysterio possibly returning to WWE, The Wrestling Observer Newsletter notes that there has been "casual insignificant" talk between the two sides. Mysterio was expected to sign a nice deal with Lucha Underground and still be able to work indies but with Lucha Underground's future up in the air, his whole situation has changed.
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Raw after Summerslam Viewership History:
August 24th, 2015 = 3.721 Million
August 18th, 2014 = 4.19 Million
August 19th, 2013 = 4.3 Million
August 20th, 2012 = 4.47 Million
August 15th, 2011 = 5.05 Million
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Some comparisons to this week's RAW episode and past post-Summerslam RAW episodes. Pretty much following the overall 200k-500k yearly drop pattern that's been going on for RAW ever since the end of the Invasion.
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Cena will be hosting the Today show on 8/20 for the 9-10 a.m. hour., after doing the same thing on 8/17. This is part of the NBC Universal strategy to soften the image of wrestling and wrestlers so it doesn’t have such a negative stigma among advertisers. Since USA will be broadcasting five hours of wrestling in prime time, and while high rated, they have to charge low ad rates, and WWE doesn’t share in ad money, changing the perception of advertisers about wrestling is important when it comes to both the USA Network bottom line and justifying the rights fees, which escalate over the next two years
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Some sheet news from last week but part of a larger plan USA Network and NBC has for the WWE. Like other networks, they are also struggling at getting good ad money with wrestling shows.
Some other sheet news includes: - Conflicting reports regarding the MGS Network special event with some saying Lesnar vs Bo Dallas got added and others saying its not or Lesnar's match hasn't been decided yet.
- New Day were the recent guest for WWE's weekly online Micheal Cole interview segment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9aoTLldUIc
- WWE currently considering the idea of debuting an actual person as Sister Abigail for the Wyatt Family.
- Besides Kana, WWE also currently rumored to have hired indie female wrestler Athena.
- In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, Brock Lesnar's amateur wrestling record is 106-5. When put into a ratio, it ends up being the same as Undertaker's streak when it was broken (21-1). Courtesy of r/SquaredCircle.
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