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Originally Posted by Observer The "New Era" ended up not being a positive factor in the ratings, as last night's Raw did 3.23 million viewers, down six percent from last week. It was the second lowest for a show outside of football season since 1997. The combination of coming the day after a PPV and the first Stephanie & Shane McMahon show last week did 3.43 million viewers. The modern era low for a show outside of football season or a major holiday was 3.12 million viewers set two weeks ago ... The three hours were: 8 p.m. 3.35 million viewers 9 p.m. 3.36 million viewers 10 p.m. 3.01 million viewers

Good/Bad News regarding the numbers. The good being another week in a row where the 3rd hour drop isn't really bad and the bad being the other two hours being weaker which caused the actual drop this week. Currently averaging around half a million less viewers than Seth was averaging when he was the top champion for comparisons.

Originally Posted by Observer Stone Village will be producing an Andre The Giant film with the involvement of Andre’s daughter, Robin Christensen-Roussimoff. The film will be based on the 2015 graphic novel, Andre The Giant: Closer To Heaven.

During tonight’s Raw, a commercial aired locally in Honolulu, Hawaii announcing that John Cena will face Shinsuke Nakamura at the live event taking place on June 29th at the Neal Blaisdell Arena. The commercial also included the announcement of Brock Lesnar vs. Kevin Owens.

http://www.wrestlezone.com/news/7071...awaii-opponent

Originally Posted by Observer Vince McMahon and George Barrios were on the conference call today where WWE announced that profits were up, though that may be misleading. Today, WWE announced a profit increase up to 13.9 million in 2016 compared to 9.8 million in 2015. However, revenue actually decreased. In 2016 for quarter 1, WWE revenue was 171 million down from the 176.2 million from quarter 1 in 2015. The difference maker? You guessed it: WrestleMania. Wrestlemania 32 fell in quarter 2 this year, and landed in quarter 1 last year. No mention of the current network subscription number since they covered that on the call after WrestleMania. There was also no mention as to how good WrestleMania did this year.

Reports of Mania doing between 900k to 1.2 million buys this year got debunked by the Observer who stated the WWE only said numbers Mania used to do and not the atcual range for this year. Since the WWE didn't want to reveal actual Mania numbers, could be another year where the event itself actually lost money.

Originally Posted by Observer John Cena was on Good Morning America today plugging his return on the 5/30 Raw. He said that most people go through rehab three times a week after surgery, but he went three times a day. He was up to bench pressing 375 this past week.

Originally Posted by Observer Kevin Owens and Tyler Breeze already reached their goal of $30,000 Fort McMurray, Alberta. They were at $35,709 the last we checked. The new goal is to reach $100,000 over the next 19 days.

Link to their fundraiser for those who might be willing to donate: https://www.gofundme.com/22vqm7w

Originally Posted by Observer Regarding Kenneth Crawford, who fell off the top ropes and was knocked out at the Friday night NXT show in Citrus Springs, FL, he is believed to be okay as all his tests came back negative, so that's good news.

Originally Posted by PWI In asking around about the status of Bray Wyatt after Vince McMahon noted he would return within the next 30 days, we are told it will be at least a few more weeks before he is expected to wrestle. All of the Wyatt Family members, including Luke Harper, began releasing Tweets that teased "The Return" yesterday.

Originally Posted by PWI Vince McMahon noted on today's earnings call that Seth Rollins would be among the injured WWE talents who would return to the active roster within the next 30 days. We are told Rollins is currently scheduled to return in early June once he has completed filming WWE Studios' "Temple."

Originally Posted by PWI The former Damien Sandow is booked to appear for the first time since departing WWE at the 6/11 WrestlePro event in Keyport, NJ.

New WWE paperwork filed with the SEC reveals that Triple H signed a new three-year wrestler's deal on May 9th. This indicates that he is planning on wrestling through WrestleMania 35 in 2019. Triple H's previous performer's deal expired at the end of March and this new deal will automatically renew unless they terminate it for any reason.

The next day, December 4, Heyman and McMahon among those flying to Charleston, South Carolina, Heyman pitched opening the December 5 ECW show with Ariel and Kelly in a match, telling viewers interviews with Lashley, Van Dam, and Punk were going on right then and would be seen later in the show. McMahon didn’t like the idea, fearing fans in the arena would chant for Punk. Heyman asked why that was a bad thing, as it showed the fans cared about someone on the flagging ECW show. McMahon reportedly threw his glasses on the floor and shouted, “Get this through your thick fucking head—my focus is on Bobby Lashley and only Bobby Lashley! That man is the brand's icon, the brand's superhero. He is ECW and he will be, at the expense of Rob Van Dam, CM Punk, Test, and everyone else, and you can hit the door if don't like it!”

Random Vince story from back in the day and relate-able to the stuff Vince/WWE is doing with Reigns (and Cena prior).


Some other sheet news includes:

• WWE released their recent fiscal report with some highlights including PPV and DVD/Blu-Ray sales declining while merch sales rose, WWE expecting at least 13 wrestlers to be added to the roster soon not counting those returning from injury, and the bulk of WWE's social media numbers are from overseas and not domestic. WWE Network is currently rumored to be at 1.5 million paid subscribers based on estimates from WWE's report. http://www.f4wonline.com/wwe-news/ww...on-more-212531
• Jushin Liger got pulled from at least one ROH-NJPW ppv show due to a recent head injury. Status for the rest of the tour is "day to day."
• Recent rumors of Tyler Breeze being among those set to be released as part of this year's WWE roster cleaning were quickly debunked. Source of the rumor started on Squared Circle but got quickly outed as fake when people who actually heard the paid Observer Radio episode in question said the rumor was never mentioned.
• According to the Observer, main reacon Zeb Coulter was cut was due to Creative no longer having any plans to use him. Also plans to release Alex Riley and Damien Sandow were made prior to Mania. Cameroon wasn't planned to be among those released until she publicly supported Ryback online. https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc...t_coming_back/