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Dirtsheets (All from Observer):

Cena has never had a singular cover and was more than due. For this year’s game, for 2015, it will be on four platforms instead of two and with new consoles this year, the feeling is it’s a big opportunity for increased numbers in 2015 (as well as 2016) so the idea was, since Rock is retired and not available, it was imperative this year to play the biggest hand for the most people, and the belief is that is Cena, not Bryan, in the sense he’s more known, and the people who are Bryan fans who hate Cena are going to buy the game anyway. The idea of 15th time and 2015 are not coincidence in the sense there was a plan for him to have another title run at some point when the game came out. Obviously, it was not this soon in planning, since Bryan was going to keep it at the very least through SummerSlam if he wasn’t injured. The decision for Cena ahead of Bryan on the cover was made long before Bryan was hurt and long before the decision was made for Bryan to even get the title at Mania.

Vince McMahon has reportedly ordered more major cuts for WWE. Apparently the cutbacks are working as WWE's losses for this year won't be nearly as large as they were expecting just a month ago. The latest number going around is into eight figures. There continues to be a lot of fear within WWE that there are major cuts coming besides the talent cuts and some production cuts that have already been done. As noted, the cuts are a result of WWE's new TV deal being announced and the increase in fees coming in much lower than WWE officials expected. At about the same time, the shows Lomberger hosted were changed in a budget cutting measure. The pre-and-post-game shows before and after Raw were changed from being done at the arena to a studio setting. The shows before and after Smackdown were canceled. They also didn’t have a post-show or press conference for Money in the Bank, as they went from the end of the PPV, and started airing a replay of the PPV at 11 p.m. Renee Young is now hosting the shows they are still doing.

Going from there, most talk seems to be that Lesnar will take the title from Cena and build to a Lesnar vs. Reigns match at WrestleMania, which would be the coronation of Reigns as the new top babyface in the company.

While this could change, there is talk of the Monday Night Wars show to air on Thursdays as a lead-in for NXT after the end of the weekly run of the first season of Total Divas. That would be a behind the scenes TV series talking about that period, from a WWE point of view of course. The actual episodes of Raw and Nitro from the Monday Night Wars era are expected to be put up in a few months, roughly around the time the first six-month cycle ends.

At this point, the big four SummerSlam matches are new WWE champion John Cena vs. Brock Lesnar, Roman Reigns vs. Randy Orton, Stephanie McMahon vs. Brie Bella (presumably with Brie Bella having to win to get her job back) and Chris Jericho vs. Bray Wyatt

The decision was made to put the IC title that Barrett held up in a Battle Royal on the 7/20 Battleground PPV from Tampa.....At this point Cesaro appears to be the favorite since he’s the one regularly losing....Cesaro is still, along with Wyatt and Reigns, one of the three people the company is earmarking for top spots by WrestleMania, so the losses here aren’t supposed to move him down

Given that nothing has been mentioned and it would have started at this weeks’ television, it appears they [TNA] aren’t doing the Bound for Glory series this year to determine who gets the TNA title shot. Last year’s series where they essentially ran out of time long before everyone worked with everyone with the way it was set up, ended up a complete fiasco.

There were lots of people within WWE surprised about the firing of Emma, in comparison to other talents that didn't get released when their offenses were far worse. Regarding WWE bringing her back quickly, apparently the legal troubles of Jack Swagger and Cameron were brought up and how neither were fired. WWE faced a lot of criticism among fans for the release and that could have influenced their decision also.

There has already been talk of reuniting Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose as The Shield in late 2015 or 2016. The idea is that they could bring them back together every few years like DX.