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Originally Posted by Observer Reigns is clearly being positioned as the hottest babyface, and as the guy to replace Cena, whose body is starting to break down. This bypasses Bryan, who had been the most popular wrestler in the company until going down with neck surgery.

Originally Posted by PWI TNA just announced at their press conference in New York City that Bound For Glory will be held Sunday October 12 in Tokyo, Japan at Korakuen Hall.

Originally Posted by Observer The WrestleMania payoffs should be coming in the next two weeks, which will be the first PPV show since the network launch. Most talent doesn’t know how the pay is going to be structured, whether they will be paid just on PPV buys, in which case pay will be way down from recent years, or if their pay takes network reenue into account, in which case pay would still be down, but not as much. There is already unhappiness since even though houses are slightly up from last year with higher ticket prices and pretty much the same attendance, house show pay is significantly down. The wrestlers are mostly talking about it being a function of network losses, and there may be something to it, but another factor is that the house show expenses are up so the profit end, which the wrestlers are really paid out of, is down about 20 percent.

Originally Posted by Observer Months ago, Jonathan Coachman hinted that he was going to come back and work in a limited role on the network. We’d heard about the deal shortly before the network launched and Coachman had teased that he would have an announcement coming soon regarding wrestling. Coachman was going to stay with ESPN, just do some network projects. Evidently it fell through since when Coachman was asked on Twitter by someone who said that everyone wanted to see him back, and he responded by writing, “Except WWE.”

Originally Posted by Observer Corey Graves of NXT is out of action with a concussion. This is the second concussion he’s received over a short period of time.

Originally Posted by Observer the Stephanie McMahon/Vickie Guerrero segment at the top of the third hour with all the women rolling around in mud, or whatever it was supposed to be, spiked big and led to a big third hour increase.