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According to this week’s episode of the WOOOOO! Nation podcast, Ric Flair stated that Bray Wyatt is currently dealing with a shoulder injury. Wyatt’s in ring time has been limited as of late, but he did work a dark match at Tuesday’s SmackDown tapings. WWE has not commented on Wyatt’s status.
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Originally Posted by WrestleInc
I noted last week that 4-6 new talents were expected to start at the WWE Performance Center this month or next month. Two of those talents were waiting to pass physicals and have been talked about a lot online lately - Biff Busick and Rich Swann. Word now is that they are indeed signed to the company and expected to start in October. The whole "waiting for physicals" story may have just been a ruse put out.
WWE is also looking for Latino referees and New Jersey indie talent Bandido Jr. has either signed already or is very close to signing with the company. He will be working as a referee.
Regarding the other indie talents expected to start with WWE soon, I was told that top stars Johnny Gargano, Drew Gulak and Chuck Taylor are about to sign deals.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Apparently there was a push within WWE at one point for Roman Reigns to be on the cover of the upcoming WWE 2K16 video game. However, there was a feeling that Steve Austin would mean more for the game when it came to promoting it, so they went with him.
2K Sports sources noted to The Wrestling Observer Newsletter that John Cena is the best out of any other WWE talent when they have them do the unscripted old-school style interviews with bullet points. They also said the Superstar who can hang with Cena on the old-school promos is Xavier Woods.
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The Monday, August 31 edition of WWE Raw did the best numbers for the show since June 15 of this year -- likely due a boost coming from the buzz created by the show the previous Monday.
The show did 3.89 million viewers, up 170,000 from the show the day after SummerSlam. The audience stayed relatively steady throughout the show.
The three hours were:
* 8 p.m. 3.87 million viewers
* 9 p.m. 3.99 million viewers
* 10 p.m. 3.83 million viewers
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Probably the last good rating and viewership show for the rest of the year now that football season starts next week.
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Originally Posted by Observer
For the first time in American history, a company sold out an NBA arena three straight nights when WWE was at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn last week. They announced 15,589 fans for NXT "Takeover: Brooklyn", 15,702 fans for SummerSlam and 15,597 fans for RAW. It should be noted that the arena was set up for just 13,438 fans. There could have been more seats released at the last minute but not more than a few hundred. WWE usually adds around 2,000 to their public attendance announcements and word is that there were actually a little over 13,000 fans in attendance each night.
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Probably the one time the WWE didn't need to actually fib the numbers since they had already legit broke a record.
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