[Emperor Smeat]

From the dirtsheets:

Total revenue from corporate sponsorships was $7.4 million in 2008. Now, after five years of pushing PG publicly, and promising all sponsors that there would be no more risque TV, the number is expected to hit $20 million this year.

The reason Barrett has disappeared is because he’s been back in England due to visa issues.

HHH has sent the directive to refocus on tag teams. The plan as he laid it out was to first get some teams ready in NXT to bring to the main roster, as well as take some talented guys on the main roster who they recognize are underutilized (for example, Tyson Kidd & Justin Gabriel was an example put out of guys they’d maybe try and use as a tag team because they are talented and underutilized and they won’t do anything with them as singles) and try and get them going as a tag team.

The company is apparently disappointed and puzzled that Brie Bella isn’t more over as a face. She had been a heel who made fun of the faces and called them losers since she came back. She never did a turn. She’s likeable on Total Divas but the audience that watches that show is mostly women who don’t attend Raw. They’ve never played any personality clips of her on Raw that would have you like her. Orton always bad mouths her boyfriend to her face and she never once comes to his defense. And she’s more a whipped dog for the top heels to make feel bad without ever sticking up for herself. And thus, they can’t understand why there wasn’t more sympathy for her when Snuka was beating her up this week.