The Joey Radd Report: RAW rating drops, Chris Benoit DVD error + additional Brock Les

[Dave Youell]

- The 7/26 edition of WWE RAW drew a 3.6 cable rating, down from last week's 3.7 rating. Although official quarter hour numbers are not available yet, the Iron Man Match between Chris Benoit and Triple H did not draw well between the 10-50 minute mark. The match did pick up in the final minutes however.

We should have more detailed notes about the RAW rating later today along with weekend rating numbers.

Credit: Dave Meltzer @ WrestlingObserver.com

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WV's own Jay Matthews sent in the following...

Hard Knocks: The Chris Benoit Story, which was released today, has an error in it.

WWE have had a reputation of manipulating DVDs, such as scrambling old school WWF logos and Rey Mysterios' post-mask WCW matches. And they can alternate audio, most specifically Victoria's entrance at Wrestlemania XX. And of course they can edit footage, such as Ultimate Dragon's entrance at Wrestlemania XX.

I also found out that they can edit names of cities and states. Located on the second disc of Benoit's DVD, there was a match with Eddie Guerrero on October of 1995. However, according to WWE, whom wasn't in the freaking building at the time, the match was in Albany, New York. It was in fact Albany, Georgia. By the way, if you look about five minutes of said match, you will see a kid get up from his chair with a Hogan shirt. If you see him, do his trivia section here at Wrestleview.com.

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Brett Armstrong sent in the following...

Hey, im just adding to the news with him, I heard this straight off the Dan Patrick show on ESPN radio today…

Brock signed for a base salary of $230,000.

They proceeded to then joke around about wrestling and actually it was a little bit funny Dan was playing the part of Brock.

“Hey coach, when do we get the script for today’s game? Are we gonna win this one or lose…”.

“Okay, when I sack you, you then get up and grab a chair….”

They also debated shortly about if he would be more scrutinized for steroid testing and drug testing because of his WWE past.

They batted the issue around for maybe a minute more and moved on.

Just thought I’d pass that along for those of you who didn’t/couldn’t hear the program.