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Originally Posted by Observer The Paige situation is interesting. She did that big promo on Raw and Smackdown, and instead of being the third person in the title match as was first planned, she’s not announced for the match and losing everywhere. There was an incident that came out on video where she used the F word to answer a fan question, and Scott Armstrong was there listening and made it clear that language was not about to be used. But the video got out anyway. However, we’ve been told she is not being punished for that and there are still plans with her stemming from the promo.

Originally Posted by Observer The promotions department has been told that Dwayne Johnson and the company are having serious talks about doing something before the end of the year. That’s why the WWE switched Johnson’s listing from alumni to current roster last week.

Originally Posted by Observer WWE officials are looking at putting more focus on NXT's Jason Jordan and Chad Gable.

Regarding James Storm possibly being at NXT Takeover tonight, PWInsider confirmed he was indeed backstage. As noted, Storm has had talks with WWE officials about a player-coach type of role in NXT.

Originally Posted by Observer WWE Live from Madison Square Garden: The show was legitimately sold out. They announced 19,224, which is clearly a fake number. The WWE internal numbers listed capacity with the set up at 12,709, but they ended up using a much smaller stage than would be normally used for a big show. It looked closer to 16,000, and WWE’s usual exaggeration for arena numbers is 3,000, and may end up being the biggest pro wrestling crowd in North American crowd this year outside of WrestleMania.

Originally Posted by Observer Below are updated TNA attendance figures: * October 2nd in Beckley, West Virginia drew around 250 people * October 3rd in Salem, Virginia drew 450 fans * October 4th in Charlotte for Bound For Glory drew 1,800 fans but was heavily papered - Regarding the October 3rd TNA live event in Salem, Virginia, Trevor Lee turned down that show to work a CWF indie event in Gibsonville, North Carolina. This is where Lee got his start and apparently the reason he turned down the TNA show was because he figured he would have more fun at CWF. The Salem event featured Kurt Angle's return to the ring and Earl Hebner's TNA Hall of Fame induction. - Regarding the upcoming TNA tour of India where they will be taping Impact Wrestling, Sony SIX is financing the tour as part of a deal to push Mahabali Shera.

Originally Posted by Observer The other was the Bound for Glory secret third announcer. This was mostly Pope’s doing, saying there would be a secret third announcer on the show who had never done a broadcast before. There ended up not being a third announcer. The payoff is supposed to be that it was a Pope action figure that he brought to the desk.

Originally Posted by Observer Regarding Cesaro, they appear to have broken his fan base. While “Cesaro section” signs were in Boston, there were very few of them. He still gets good reactions, but it’s definitely way down from a month ago.

Originally Posted by Observer For Superstars, Cesaro pinned Rose with a 36 rep giant swing and the sharpshooter. Rose came out and said that this must be the lowest point of Cesaro’s career, because he’s wrestling Adam Rose on Superstars. Unreal he actually said that. Prime Time Players beat The Ascension when O’Neil got the pin.

For anyone doubting the status of Ceasro in the WWE right now.

Mark Henry recently spoke to Philly.com about his near 20 years with the WWE and gave an indication that his retirement in coming up, and plans to call it a career shortly after next year’s WrestleMania: I don’t know how I let Vince convince me into signing another contract back in 2013. He did a bit of magic. He’s got that magic where you just go in the office and he’ll talk you into it. I won’t be signing any more contracts. I’m an elder statesman. This is a young guy business and I’m 100 percent for it. I love the marketing process. I love the international marketing. I love the talent development, but those are all things I’ll work with the company on to make sure that our business continues to thrive, but there’s a bunch of other stuff that I plan on doing.

Originally Posted by Observer AAA Heroes Inmortales: The show was broadcast on iPPV and had minimal problems live, but several attempts to watch it on delay had plenty of issues with the stream dying. To show the difference in how badly that first show hurt, just from our own standpoint, we got 100 responses to TripleMania which was helped by airing on regular PPV. We received 50 responses to the CMLL Anniversary show on iPPV (which, scary enough, is more than TNA’s biggest show of the year on regular PPV), but we only got eight responses to this (all thumbs up), even with a feud built off American TV as the main event. Granted, iPPV is a tougher sell, but that really shows how much damage was done by the first show among the most hardcore fan base.

AAA still struggling with ippv issues that plagued TripleMania and a big reason why they cut back on the amount of ppvs the US will get.

Originally Posted by Observer Jeff Jarrett has expressed interest in promoting Wrestle Kingdom this year but there is no deal in place and the slowdown in talks is more on the New Japan side. The slowdown may be due to wanting to work with ROH and do more events as there has been at least some interest from the ROH side in promoting New Japan PPV events. All things being equal, the advantage of the Jarrett side is that they did an incredible job with social media in promoting the show and made it a success, beating all reasonable expectations. The ROH side has the advantage of having the television vehicle to promote the show.

Some other sheet news includes:

• According to Triple H from the recent NXT conference call, WWE is looking at purchasing or making deals to get more wrestling libraries added to the current bunch on the WWE Network. Mostly looking at Japan and Mexico for the next batch of libraries.
• NJPW announced Kevin Kelly and Matt Striker will be the English announcers for the upcoming King of Pro Wrestling show. The idea is to see if they can boost the number of NJPWWorld subs with this show while ROH has no ties for this show and just let Kelly do this on his own free time.
• Undertaker hinted to the WWE that he is open to working more dates than usual leading up to Mania 32. Main reason is due to him being a lot healthier than in recent years. Will be on the Mexico tour but currently expected to skip the European tour.
• Season 2 of Lucha Underground is currently expected to start taping on November 14th and air on January 2016.
• WWE.com's newest "Where Are They Now" article was about "The Juice" Juventud Guerrera http://www.wwe.com/classics/whereare...rrera-27992107
• This week's episode of TPWW TLP podcast was released recently: http://tablesladderspodcast.podbean....st-124-071015/