Looks at WM30 and Brock/Taker, WM30 injury, Interview with Bo, Sting update, Network subscribers, Jarrett's announcement, Superstar leaves WWE, Taker note, NXT cameos, Smackdown audience, new member of TNA Creative and Questions on betting on Mania, the Hall of Fame, PPV prices, ROH on WWE PPV and Bryan's music

PWInsider had live notes from WrestleMania. I'm glad they put the Divas' Title match where they did and had it be such a largely uneventful bout - the fans needed time to process the ending of Brock/Taker. A lot of us are still processing it!

Update: more thoughts on the Brock/Taker situation. Obviously Raw didn't really tell us much about Taker's situation. They might hold off a little while before announcing much of anything given Taker going to the hospital after the match.

Billy Gunn was coughing up blood after WrestleMania. He's believed to have ruptured a small blood vessel. I'm going on the assumption we won't be seeing NAO in the ring for a while.

DGUSA's Gabe Sapolsky and Larry Zbyszkzo were at WrestleMania. That had to be an awesome moment for Sapolsky.

Everything else from yesterday is after the break.

Add Mick Foley to those reacting to Taker vs. Brock. End of an era indeed!


Here's a piece on Hogan and WM30. Nothing really groundbreaking.

Everyone's favorite former NXT Champion Bo Dallas talked about Bray Wyatt and more.

John Cena and AJ Lee talked ahead of Mania. AJ's success story is pretty awesome.

Daniel Bryan's WrestleMania win was profiled. YES! YES! YES!

TNA has removed Sting from the roster section of their website, their official way of severing ties with him.

WWE announced subscriber numbers for the Network. The goal's 1 million by the end of the year and they're already 2/3 of the way there? That's pretty good momentum. Obviously there could be people who drop after six months, but it's a heck of a big start. I hope they hit their goal.

Jeff and Karen Jarrett announced their new wrestling promotion. Not a ton of info so far. I didn't expect them to announce C.M. Punk, AJ Styles, Sting, Goldberg and Andre the Giant going head-to-head with Raw and Impact from the moon, but I did expect something a little more than this. This was a good start, though. More news will come next week.

Ezekiel Jackson's WWE contract has expired. Honestly, it was time. He had only had one match since July 2012. I hope he has a great life post-WWE. I don't see TNA picking him up. I was never a huge fan of his. I thought he did well as Kendrick's muscle and when working with the right people in the right angles (Regal managing him, The Corre breakup), I was interested in what he was doing. But all in all, not a huge loss.

More pre-Mania stuff: Natalya, Cesaro, Paul Heyman, Seth Rollins, Goldust, Christian, New Age Outlaws, Bad News Barrett. It's really funny to see Goldust with the face paint in a dress shirt.

Damien Sandow talked ahead of next week's Smackdown. Pretty diplomatic stuff.

To knock down a rumor going around, Brock vs. Taker ended as planned. There was no audible called. Still shocking, right?

Randy Orton was hurt with the monitor on the announce table during the big Batista Bomb/RKO spot. Batista had to stall for a while for Orton to recover. OUCH.

The mood backstage after WM30 was said to be really great. It was a big success for sure.

NXT's Charlotte, Sasha Banks and Alexa Bliss accompanied Triple H at WrestleMania. I loved that entrance!

The Undertaker was legitimately severely concussed at WrestleMania. It's kind of sad to see what could have been his last match involve an injury. He's earned a life after wrestling. If he wants to hang up the outfit, he should be supported in that decision.

Smackdown dropped to 2.71 million. The show was a lot of hype rather than matches and story points, so that's fine for WWE.

Christy Hemme has joined the TNA Creative team. Presumably that doesn't bode well for Samuel Shaw... I hope she does well and really adds to things there.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. Some people really have a predisposition to do a lot of gambling, so I can't say I'm surprised. There are almost always curve balls thrown and anything TOO obvious generally doesn't work in your favor.

2. Some of it was just how awesome it was to see Warrior back in the WWE fold after all the bad blood between himself and Vince.

3. All that entitlement in one post. The WWE Network requires a six-month commitment at $10 a month, so it's more expensive than Mania was by itself in the UK. The Network will come there in due time.

4. Unless by ROH match, you mean WWE match featuring ROH alums, I don't see most of the audience caring. They're at a WWE show or watching a WWE PPV for a reason.

5. It never ceases to shock me how few people get WWE's audience is much bigger than the IWC and those who know or care about the indies. I don't see any reason to shell out for that music just to pop Bryan's pre-WWE fans. A LLOOOOTTTT more people care about him as the bearded guy who says "Yes!" than the guy who wrestled in ROH.

More wrestling tomorrow.