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Wednesday, March 4, 2015

What happened after Raw, Interview with WCCW announcer/Stevie Ray/HBK, TNA audience, new battle royal participant, WWE HoF updates, Edge working with WWE again, serious allegations against NXT head trainer, Raw audience, and Questions on TNA pay vs. the indies, podcasts, giving Reigns a manager, moving Summerslam, and keeping Orton heel

After Raw, the team of Cena, Reigns, Ziggler, and Ambrose beat the team of Big Show, Kane, Rollins, and Wyatt. Interesting Orton wasn't involved. Maybe they didn't want to give any hints of which direction his character's going?

Bill Mercer talked about WCCW and the Von Erichs. The story of that family remains tragic.

The most recent episode of Impact Wrestling dropped to 366,000 viewers in the 8 p.m. timeslot. That's not a good direction for them. I can see why people question if they're still the top promotion behind WWE.

Zack Ryder is now part of the Andre the Giant battle royal. I don't see him winning, but there's still hope, right?

Everything else from yesterday is after the break.

WWE.com caught up with Stevie Ray. Booker recently booked a Harlem Heat reunion in his Texas promotion, which fans had been calling for for a while.

USA Network will air a Hall of Fame special the night after WM31. I'm sure the "director's cut" long-form version will be worth checking out.

Vince McMahon dropping off the Forbes list of billionaires was covered. It's not like he's not still loaded from a financial standpoint.

Shawn Michaels talked about his new book. Good insight from him.

EW.com covered this year's WWE Hall of Fame class. Awesome lineup this year.

Edge and Lana will be part of a new WWE film. I hope they both do good things there.

Former WWE developmental talent Judas Devlin put out a long letter detailing allegations against Bill DeMott. PWInsider.com has more on the story, including WWE's official response. Given the nature of these and other allegations, I'd like to see an independent investigation launched.

Raw dropped to 3.83 million viewers this week. Hopefully it grows next week with Brock's scheduled return. I wonder how the Jon Stewart segment did.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. The Young Bucks almost definitely get more bookings, and high-profile ones at that. That probably plays a big part in things.

2. They all have strengths. It depends on what you're looking for.

3. I think they gave a very thoughtful answer here. WWE can't just keeping relying on someone like Heyman to mask someone's weaknesses. Nor should they just turn everyone heel who isn't beloved universally. It's sink or swim time.

4. Not much to add here. It's rarely as simple as it seems from the outside!

5. The only reason I can think for them going the direction they're going is they needed another top-level heel for a few weeks as a roadblock to Reigns and Bryan before they do set up Rollins vs. Orton. I agree with the sentiment, though!

More wrestling tomorrow.

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