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Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Raw notes, segment set for Smackdown, JBL apologizes, Network update, Raw visitors, Chyna on HoF, upcoming NXT special gets name, Impact rating clarification, Orton finally coming back?, WWE ending text service, Black Bart update, Raw audience, and Questions on WM31's main event, the longest running weekly episodic shows on television, Taker wrestling, why WWE doesn't release people, and Daniel Bryan

Here's a live report from Monday's Raw. Kind of funny Rollins' mic failed, but it's good it wasn't too much of a problem and they could cut to commercial then.

Daniel Bryan and Roman Reigns will be on MizTV for Smackdown. That could be fun.

JBL apologized for the Eddie Guerrero remark at Raw. I definitely believe JBL wouldn't insult the Guerreros intentionally. He was just trying to put over the talents of Harper.

Roman Reigns talked about football vs. WWE and more. It's funny seeing those high school pictures.

Everything else from yesterday is after the break.
WWE Network will do Throwback Thursdays going forward. That's pretty cool. I hope it's successful.

Kristal Marshall, Boogeyman, Charlotte, and Sasha Banks were all at Raw. I wouldn't mind seeing Charlotte vs. Sasha on a main show in order to promote NXT.

Chyna took to Twitter to thank fans for supporting her as a Hall of Fame candidate. I think it'd be OK to put her in alongside DX, but there are some valid concerns about her history.

Next week's NXT special will be called NXT Takeover: Rival. I like that, although "Rivals" would make more sense, I think.

The 8 p.m. airing of Impact Wrestling did 438,000 viewers, but the West Coast airing (11 p.m.) did 153,000 viewers. That's not bad at all for Destination America.

Randy Orton is advertised for the February 16 Raw. It's definitely about time for him to be back.

WWE will be ending their text blast service this Friday. The WWE App will have alerts instead. That's a good way to drive traffic to the app.

Black Bart is now out of quadruple bypass surgery, and is communicating with family. Good to hear.

Raw's audience Monday was 4.29 million. A pretty good number, even if that wasn't as high as the previous week. There's a lot going on in WWE as Mania season officially gets going.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I like it well enough, but they have some reasonable objections. I'm also not crazy about Rollins using his cash in to make a fatal four way. That's really goofy of him to do when he can easily cash in after the other three beat the hell out of each other.

2. They have had really impressive runs with Raw and Smackdown, and I can't blame them for promoting that. But I agree, it can be pretty self-indulgent.

3. I can see why people would want him to not work Mania again, but I'm fine with Taker working with a rising star in Bray. Bray's actually being booked pretty strongly lately, so I don't see the complaint there.

4. A number of things here:
- They can't book everyone strong. It's pretty much impossible at any rate.

- He can use a lot of those talents to get other talents over. There need to be some people on the roster who can work with the emerging names. Plus, releases hurt morale sometimes.

- WWE's the big time, and it might be better for them to working the other places. It's not as easy as it sounds to be a big deal outside WWE.

5. I also think it'd be too much of a step down. Fans want him as a top guy, not the secondary champion. Some of the questions here need to be thought through a little more...

More wrestling tomorrow.

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