Barrett note, Interview with DDP, WWE job openings, Raw audience, another live event for Brock, and Questions on introducing a new title, beating HHH, Lawler wrestling, live feeds on the TitanTron, and elimination matches at Survivor Series

WWE got press overseas for the angle with King Barrett and Wayne Rooney in the UK. That's what they were going for! WWE wants to reach people who aren't already watching wrestling. Crossing over with other popular faces can help with that.

DDP talked about his yoga performance center. His reinvention as the motivational speaker and becoming active with yoga has been a solid story. Glad he's not still taking bumps in the ring to pay the bills.

WWE is hiring for positions related to live events for the main roster and for NXT. That's a sign of how much NXT is growing. It needs its own staff to cover how much they're going to be touring in 2016.

Everything else from yesterday is after the break.
Monday's taped Raw did 3.17 million viewers, dangerously close to the lowest showing of the three-hour era. They need to set up the Raw after Survivor Series as one that will change their way of operating in a significant way. A new WWE Champion is a fairly minor difference. Time to move things into 2015 on a larger scale.

Brock Lesnar is advertised for a live event on Jan. 7, so that could end up being a WWE Network special. I wonder how much they can do before they're overexposing him and the other people who compete regularly on live events.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. Unless there's a special gimmick to it like the Hardcore Title, I don't see it changing things. They'd have to consistently get behind whatever concept they introduce to where it means something to the people on-screen and off. I think they need to make bigger changes than just introducing a new title; but as part of a larger plan, it could help.

2. People have already forgotten WM30 and the months after it? HHH lost to Bryan and Evolution took a beating from The Shield twice. Generally that's fairly true, though. He beat Brock and Sting. Hopefully Rollins beats him upon the Architect's return. That had been boiling for some time and could have really paid off.

3. Vince and Lawler go WAY back. Lawler would probably still wrestle regularly for WWE if Vince would let him.

4. Sometimes it's easier to tell what's going on when the screen's active, though. The people who are close will still watch the action there, but others will have a bad time if they can't view things via TitanTron.

5. I think that might have been worth a try. I also think it can feel gimmicky in 2015 to do elimination matches if it's not planned out a while in advance.

More wrestling tomorrow.