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For what it's worth, Bryan Alvarez noted on Wrestling Observer Live today that Vince McMahon is apparently "freaking out" about the decline in WWE TV ratings, something that usually happens every year around this time. WWE usually makes some kind of big change when Vince is "freaking out" about the ratings.

This week's RAW episode not getting the usual post-ppv bump and hitting a new low ended up being the WWE's breaking point for the problem.

@LAWradio WWE announces that Brock Lesnar, The Undertaker, Steve Austin, Ric Flair and Shawn Michaels will be on the 10/19 episode of Raw in Dallas

Originally Posted by Observer Expect some interesting changes in January when it comes to Smackdown. As one would expect, they are looking for a new look to the show once they debut on USA and some new ideas for the show. I expect it’ll be like whenever they have a new change, that they load the show up with main events for the first two months. The usual is that once it stops becoming that new toy, it then gradually becomes a show at the level of what it has been.

Originally Posted by Observer This week’s NXT call in the women’s division is to slow down on Eva Marie and build Asuka and Dana Brooke for Bayley after they stop bringing back people from the main roster for the big shows like with Banks on the next Takeover show. They’ve built a rep of having the great women’s title matches in the brand, and are hopeful Bayley vs. Asuka can continue that, and also hope Eva, Brooke and Alexa Bliss, who they want to be the stars of the division, can improve to where they can also have good matches with Bayley

Originally Posted by Observer On the hunt for a Latino star front, WWE made an approach to Carlito, but apparently the money offer was low so he didn’t take it, although they were under the impression he would take it with a better money offer. They wanted him back as part of whatever repackaging they are going to do with Los Matadores that has been talked about but not finalized

Originally Posted by Observer Regarding the Jeff Jarrett TNA ownership, before the deal that was concluded, he owned 29 percent of the company. At least some talent was told for the first time this past week about the proposed India tour, and given the dates of 11/29 to 12/5 and told to keep them free. This would be TV tapings that would take care of much of December and January, up either to the U.K. tour or pretty close to it. The final actual new full episode of Impact that was taped as a show is on 9/30, and then they’ll have to put together makeshift shows from there.

Basically while TNA got a bit of a break from Destination America, they actually have nothing planned post-September for Impact/booking.

Originally Posted by Observer Bruce Tharpe, who runs the NWA and is a heel manager in New Japan, had a meeting with Spike TV in New York about getting on the station. Spike officials have told us there is interest in bringing back pro wrestling but nothing is on the table right now. They told Tharpe basically the same thing, that right now they aren’t making the move. We’re told they are trying to run new shows that have more appeal to women than pro wrestling. Tharpe said he’s looking at other options for television.

Originally Posted by Observer The lawyer for Thomas Latimer (Bram) attempted to get the no contact rule against him changed to no harmful contact, which would allow him to move back to the apartment he was living in with girlfriend Ashley Allen, but it was turned down. However, the court did allow him to travel overseas between 10/6 and 11/5 for work.

Before Sting suffered an injury in his match against Seth Rollins at the Night of Champions event on Sunday, the plan was for him to face Bray Wyatt at WrestleMania 32. As of this writing, there is no indication yet on Sting's future as an in-ring competitor. Normally when someone over the age of 50 steps into a WWE ring and gets injured, the company is against the idea of bringing them back.

Three names in mind for possible opponents for The Undertaker at WrestleMania 32 include Seth Rollins, Braun Strowman or John Cena. From a booking standpoint, Rollins is the top heel of the company and it would make a lot more sense to put this match togeher. As for Cena, officials feel that a match between the two would be good because it's never been done on a big stage since Cena established himself as the top star of the company.

Four names are being considered as possible opponents for Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 32. Those names are Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins, The Rock and "Stone Cold" Steve Austin. Reigns is said to be a viable option because the two have history, however WWE may also be grooming Reigns for the title picture around that time. As for Rollins, the idea would be for the match against Lesnar to be for the WWE Championship, but that would only take place if Rollins still has the title around that time. WWE had plans for The Rock to face Lesnar back in 2014, however those plans were scrapped after The Rock suffered injuries in his match at WrestleMania 29. As for Austin, he has ruled out the match multiple times after it was teased on his WWE Network special with Paul Heyman, but his name continues to still be brought up.

Originally Posted by Rolling Stones Since you like working in front of American crowds, could you see yourself leaving Japan and working in America, whether it's for ROH, WWE, or someone else? I like doing the shows with Ring of Honor, but I don't want to leave Japan. I'm not interested in WWE at all. Many people ask me about WWE, and if I'd go to WWE in the future. They ask me if I'm going now. I will not go. I want to make New Japan Pro-Wrestling bigger. That's my future. New Japan is getting more popular in the United States. Could you ever seeing it having a live weekly show here, like Raw? Yes, that's why I'm in New Japan. I'm the one that can bring that.

Part of a longer interview Okada had with the Rolling Stones. http://www.rollingstone.com/sports/f...-next-20150923


Some other sheet news includes:

• Recent survey sent by the WWE involved a question gauging fan interest for wrestling news which some dirtsheet sites (ex. Wrestle Inc) and sites that cover wrestling (ex. Bleacher Report) listed. Paid dirtsheet websites (ex. Observer) were not included in the list. http://boards.420chan.org/wooo/src/1443070786197.png
• This week's TPWW TLP podcast episode was released yesterday: http://tablesladderspodcast.podbean....st-122-230915/
• Older brother of Kurt Angle was recently arrested for murdering his wife.