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It was previously reported that WWE World Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar may return for a quick feud with Big Show but apparently that's not happening. Lesnar is not scheduled to return until January to begin promoting his Royal Rumble title defense, likely against John Cena. We noted before that Cena may face Rusev at WrestleMania 31 and this would be a good set-up for Rusev to cost Cena the match

Originally Posted by Observer For whatever this is worth, TNA, through an intermediary who is friends with C.M. Punk, made a play for him just like they did for Alberto Del Rio several weeks back. The idea pitched was a huge deal to be the top star of the company and money similar to Hogan, with the idea he could be their flagship guy and if he signed now, could help them broker a stronger television deal.

Originally Posted by Observer For last month, the best sellers when it came to arena merchandise were, in order: Cena (greatly outdistancing everyone else), Reigns, Usos, Wyatt Family, Lesnar, Sting, Sheamus, Bryan, Ambrose and Hogan. The feeling is the house show merchandise better reflects who to push because they are purchases made by more general fans, and more merchandise is sold at venues than on the Internet. The key notes were the strength of the Usos, Lesnar doing so well as a heel, Bryan’s numbers falling greatly now that he’s not on TV and the success of Sting. The key is Sting merchandise, which never sold all that well in WCW or TNA, is doing great in WWE even though he’s never appeared live on a WWE television show. It definitely increases the perception of his value for WrestleMania. On the web site, the top ten are Cena (again by a wide margin), Ambrose, Reigns, Lesnar, Austin, A.J. Lee, Bryan, Brie Bella, Hogan and Warrior. No Dwayne Johnson, Orton or Undertaker on either list.

Originally Posted by Observer One thing as far as the TV negotiations noted to us is that in the TV world, stations are leery on the product not just because it’s pro wrestling, but because it has the stigma of something Spike dropped when ratings aren’t that bad. It was above Spike’s average almost every week, and they signed a new deal with Glory that has nowhere near the interest level. It was described that people are wondering what’s the catch and why would Spike drop something that was doing 1 million to 1.4 million viewers each week (at the time the decision was made and before the move to Wednesday). The TV business word is that Spike dropped it because they didn’t have confidence in the leadership being people who would get it to grow, and the numbers were on the decline, plus the Vince Russo issue came up again as a reason this week, in the sense Spike denies it publicly and privately it’s not a secret that mess was a big part of finalizing the decision.

We noted before that WWE will be taking SummerSlam from Los Angeles to the New York market in 2015. It's expected that WWE will announce a major pay-per-view for a future date in Los Angeles during the December 30th live event at the Staples Center.

A fan on Twitter posted a photo of an 8x10 signed Lana photo that he received in the mail from UK-based merchandise site Retrowrestling.com. Lana replied and said that she did not sign the 8x10. She then tweeted the following about the photo, which was deleted by the fan: "This is why I do not sign autographs. So they can fake it & sell it online & make a profit it off of my labor.NO!I only sign @WWE meet&greet"

Figured that one would be interesting for anyone who might have bought autographed stuff from that place before since those might be fake as well.

WWE is set to do another major promotional push for the WWE Network starting after the Thanksgiving holiday. They will be pushing the Network as the best Christmas gift possible for the wrestling fan in your home.

Some other sheet news includes WWE's recent appeasement of Orton also includes less house show work and the ratings breakdown for last RAW had the Rock-Rusev segment as #1 and Reigns interview being near the bottom.