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Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Main Event Reax - 9/30/14, WWE Network-UK correction, WWE reacts to Punk fans in Chicago, more NXT names in WWE 2K15, another BFG match, charity notes, JR update, Interviews with Neville/Zayn/Wyatt/Cesaro, Raw audience, Questions on putting people with Cena, Reigns compared to Ambrose, The Bellas feuding, Ryder's YouTube show, and Kane

Main Event:
Not a bad opening set of promos from Cesaro and Swagger. If Ziggler didn't just win the title back, I'd probably be OK with Cesaro holding the belt.

I liked the match between Cesaro and Swagger. Great action from two talented athletes.

I liked the Tyson angle OK. He has been doing great stuff in NXT.

Yes! Solid match with Tyson and Kofi. It looks like the alliance with Big E and Xavier will take a little longer to be back on-screen, but I enjoyed this match and hope we see more of Tyson.

I like the dynamic between Tyson and Natalya. He makes for a great jerk husband.

I'm hyped for Mark Henry's match. He's been made more human by these losses. This is what people want to see with Cena's booking.

I liked the action of the handicap match. Layla and Summer Rae make a nice team.

I see why WWE apologized, but it fit in with the story they were doing. Show was intending to disrespect Rusev, not the Russian WWE fans. They should probably make that clear in this angle.

Based Bo. I hope he does win tonight.

BAH GAWD BO DID IT! HE BEAT MARK HENRY AGAIN!! That was a pretty good story to tell of Dallas getting the win without hurting Henry. This could be a fun angle.

Mark Henry gives no quarter to anyone. I enjoyed him dishing out punishment to Dallas.

Everything else from yesterday is after the break.
WWE is potentially bringing their Network to the UK as a broadcasted channel. The announce date for the Network launch there will be known by November 1. I hope it's successful, whatever form it takes.

WWE confiscated C.M. Punk-related signs during the Chicago Raw taping. I can't say I'm really surprised. WWE and Punk are on totally different wavelengths these days.

In addition to Sami Zayn and Adrian Neville, NXT's Rusev, Bo Dallas, and Corey Graves will be part of WWE 2K15. That will be cool. It's a shame we might never see Graves on the main roster for real. He had a lot going for him as a talent. I just don't think he had really found his groove.

A Wrestle-1 match pitting Andy Wu and El Hijo Del Pantera against Jiro Kuroshio and Yusuke Kodama has been added to Bound For Glory. This show might as well be co-branded with the Japanese promotion.

Randy Orton granted a Make-A-Wish wish on 9/28. That's great!

Jim Ross talked about potentially providing English commentary for NJPW. If he still has "it" as a commentator, that might be the right move for them.

The McMahons have funded a center for families in recovery. I hope that does good things for the people it services.

NXT Champion Adrian Neville was interviewed about working on Raw and more. It'd be cool to see Neville vs. Mysterio, but I don't think we'll end up getting it. I do think we'll see more NXT stuff on the main roster in the time to come.

Sami Zayn also talked about working on Raw. Zayn consistently delivers. His live special matches are definitely worth going out of your way to see.

Bray Wyatt talked about good guys vs. bad guys and more. If Harper's been set free, can we see some new followers?

Cesaro talked about the WWE Performance Center and more. A pretty entertaining guy. It's a shame we never got Kassius Ohno on the main roster to work with or against him.

Raw jumped to 4.04 million Monday night. WWE hadn't topped four million for a number of weeks. I'm glad they improved, although I didn't like a number of segments on the show.

As mentioned during Main Event, WWE apologized to Russian fans for the Raw angle between Rusev and Show. Why show a video of something you're apologizing for?

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I really doubt WWE is intentionally killing wrestlers' momentum by involving them with the top act in the company. It's more like they're always going to have a big Cena angle, and as they run out of other stories for those wrestlers, those wrestlers end up with Cena. They always have plans for Cena after these angles. The other people? Not so much.

2. Ambrose is amazing. I'd love for him to be a top star for years to come. Roman has his strengths, too, though, and I think Management might be more inclined to push him. I can easily see there being a big fan backlash if WWE tries to emulate Batista's return with Reigns being pushed going into WrestleMania.

3. WWE sees Total Divas as a big asset, and I think they'll keep pushing that soap opera stuff for as long as they think they can milk it. Unless fans really turn the channel in droves and that kind of thing, WWE will keep going with the direction of non-wrestling stuff being important.

4. The popular interpretation is the higher-ups didn't want Ryder getting over because he wasn't someone WWE Creative got over, and he wasn't "supposed" to be that big of a deal. WWE Management can be really picky and petty, to the detriment of the product and what the fans really want.

5. I think WWE tried to bring something of that Kane back with the times they put the mask back on him. I've enjoyed the character in the incarnations of monster heel. I just don't know if they'd be willing to give him yet another reboot and if they did, how effective it would be. Plus, Kane's 47, and could very well be winding things down, so replacing Undertaker would be temporary. A big push at the expense of younger talent is short-sighted, too, at his age and mileage.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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