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If WWE was hoping the buzz from the Night of Champions PPV was going to help them in the recent audience drain vs. Monday Night Football, they had their faith misplaced. The 9/21 edition of Raw, coming off the PPV, garnered just 3,349,000 viewers which is not only down from last week's 3,397,000 viewers, but is the lowest audience for the series (beyond a Christmas holiday episode) since it expanded to a three hour version in July 2012. The audience dropped over the course of the three hours, showing that WWE's audience was not hooked by John Cena vs. Seth Rollins as the main event, nor the return of Kane to television. The 8 PM hour brought in 3,420,000 viewers for the first hour, then dropped to 3,368,000 viewers before bottoming out in the final hour at just 3,260,000 viewers. The third hour would be the lowest audience for the 10-11 PM hour of Raw since the series expanded to three hours. Unless there was an error in how the audience was calculated last night, WWE has a lot of hard decisions to make in strategizing how they rebound from the onslaught of Monday Night Football. Monday Night Football, by the way, brought in 12,479,000 viewers opposite Raw, winning the night.

Outside of maybe the NoC go-home show, past several weeks have been breaking records for lowest ever in the 3 hour era. Down by 530,000 viewers compared to the same week last year.

As seen at Sunday’s Night of Champions event, a fan jumped the barricade and entered the ring and stood next to Roman Reigns moments before Chris Jericho came out as the mystery partner of Dean Ambrose and Reigns in their match against The Wyatt Family. WWE security quickly tackled him and took him out. The following day, WWE issued a statement saying they will be prosecuting fans who get involved in WWE programming moving forward, while in the past they only got a lifetime ban from WWE events. Bryan Alvarez mentioned on today’s installment of Wrestling Observer Live that the fan at Night of Champions is now serving ten days in jail for the incident.

Supposedly WWE has begun beefing up security starting with Smackdown this week. Fan report from the show had security yelling at people if they were standing too close to the railings or trying to move down the aisles.

Originally Posted by PWI While the company has indeed pursued prosecution in the past when it came to fans crossing a line or physically hopping the rail in the past, after the last several weeks of incidents (most recently last night at the WWE Night of Champions PPV), the word is that WWE intends to pursue the most stringent prosecution possible if and when another incident occurs. There will be no apologies afterwards from fans at this point, as sometimes has happened, just an immediate arrest followed by WWE's legal team pushing for prosecution and jail time for all offenders. So, while someone might think they are going to get a momentary laugh or thrill out of getting involved in a WWE event, the reality is that because so many fans have "poked the bear" so to speak of late, anyone that attempts this going forward is looking at not just a lifetime ban from WWE events as well as the venue where the incident takes place, but being charged with criminal offenses That means that person is going to have to deal with the financial hardship of hiring a lawyer to defend them as well as dealing with all the stress of going to court as well as the potential of going to jail, being fined, etc ... As I noted a few weeks ago on Elite audio, if I am WWE, I am giving Ronnie Lang and Atlas Security a call. Lang's team dealt with far more dangerous situations in the old days of ECW and always masterfully squashed the situations without harm to any wrestlers. While obviously WWE is a different company and publicly traded, there is obviously something breaking down when it comes to security (and I have no idea if that's in-house or security provided by the venues WWE run) and Lang might be a good outside eye for them to bring on as a consultant to help them fix whatever they might be doing wrong and improve upon what they are doing right. Speaking of security, Dolph Ziggler noted on his Twitter that WWE Security professional Muriel Howell left the company this weekend. From the wrestlers I've spoken to since it was announced, to a person, she was described as having done an amazing job in her role of protecting talents and will be missed.

On the subject of the Superman Punch, Reigns stated that he started doing the move because no one else was doing it and it is just something that ended up working out well. According to Reigns, he did not develop the theatrics of punching the ground at first. Backstage, this setup for the Superman Punch is called ThunderCat. "I didn't really develop the whole theatrics, the setup for it, when I ThunderCat down on the ground [in developmental]. That's what we call it, actually, so you all know. I don't know why we call it ThunderCat, but that's what we call it". When asked whether the name, Superman Punch, would be better suited for John Cena, Reigns stated that he did not name the move himself. "I'm not one of those nerds that names his moves. It was called a Spear before I did it, so I'm going to continue to call it a Spear. It was called a Superman Punch before I did it, so I call it a Superman Punch."

WrestlingDVDNetwork.com has exclusively learned that penciled into WWE’s 2016 Home Video schedule right now is a potential Eric Bischoff DVD and Blu-ray set – complete with a documentary portion on the former President of World Championship Wrestling. The news comes during a special “Nitro Week” on the WWE Network which features more than 2 hours of Bischoff-themed programming and a countdown of Monday Nitro’s top 10 moments. Going off a recent WWE DVD Survey issued by the company to select fans in order to gauge interest in future Home Video projects, we know that this Eric Bischoff DVD and a “Greatest Rivalries: Eric Bischoff vs. Vince McMahon” DVD have both been under consideration. It appears that the Bischoff documentary is the more likely to be produced given today’s update, however as of now the title is still “pending talent involvement”, presumably by the man himself.

Originally Posted by cagesideseats Remember when Rusev used to beat up on the likes of Kofi Kingston, Xavier Woods, and Big E while he was coming up through WWE? Well, the four teamed up for a match against Dolph Ziggler and the Dudley Boyz on Raw last night and no one made any mention of it on commentary. But don't worry, in the age of social media we can get the word straight from the source. First, Kingston brought up the elephant in the room: All that time we spent beefing, who would've thought we'd make such a great team?! New Day + @RusevBul = Supreme Dream Team! #AllisForgiven — Kofi Kingston (@TrueKofi) September 22, 2015 Then, Woods actually told us what happened: .@RusevBUL actually had us over for dinner to apologize for the way he used to treat us. Now we are friends. #6ManTag pic.twitter.com/bJPzWbSHI0 — Xavier Woods (@XavierWoodsPhD) September 22, 2015 Rusev expanded on it: And to make fun of the @LanaWWE hahahahahaahaahaha. Just 4 man whole chickens and yogurt. Laughing at a woman https://t.co/as9xfPwnsQ — Rusev (@RusevBUL) September 22, 2015 Big E got in on it: "I suggested she clap...but she can't! Hehehehehe. Her wrist is as useful as a floppy disk!...Pass the baklava!" https://t.co/XxWHHErsfO — Epsilon (@WWEBigE) September 22, 2015

Found the whole thing to be a bit funny. Rusev still making fun of Lana, New Day still being goofy, and them settling past differences over a meal of chicken and yogurt.