WWE ejects Raw fan, Interview with Joe, Smackdown airing action during breaks, AWA name passes, Raw audience, ROH visitor at Raw, Backlash Kickoff match set, and Questions on Stephanie letting Miz run Raw, why Harper's stuck where he is, Breezango's push, the Teddy Long booking crutch, and Mojo's place on the card

WWE ejected a fan at Raw for blowing up a beach ball and bouncing it. Good. WWE needs to stop encouraging the "smart" fans who make the show about themselves.

Samoa Joe discussed his journey to WWE and more. I can't say I expected him to have success there when he was working Impact a decade or so ago. WWE has changed a lot since then.

Smackdown will feature action during the commercial breaks while ads play in a picture-in-picture display. That's great news for advertisers and fans. NBCU put over WWE's performance on their networks, which goes against the popular theory WWE and NBCU are "at odds" with their relationship falling apart and other such clickbait. WWE offers something a lot of other shows don't with being able to show live action that doesn't need the audio as much as other shows do. Heck, a lot of fans want to turn commentary off anyway!

Former AWA tag team champion Doug Somers passed away at the age of 65. PWInsider did a rundown of his career.

Raw drew 2.75 million viewers Monday. I don't know how USA's other shows are doing, but it might be worth planning to drop back to two hours when the current contract expires.

Former ROH owner Cary Silkin was visiting at Raw. Nothing else to read into that right now. He's not involved with getting ROH on the Network or anything; that's all Sinclair.

Tye Dillinger vs. Aiden English is official for Kickoff before Backlash. So there are ten reasons to watch the show right there.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. Maybe Stephanie also texted someone in Gorilla or an announcer to let them know it was legit? Just because they don't spell every little detail out doesn't mean they're not telling a story well.

2. That happens a lot when someone's part of a faction and splits off. Harper has been associated with Bray for so long that it's going to be hard for him to be significant as a character on his own.

3. I wouldn't be surprised if those two pitched the characters themselves. It's fine to have a fun gimmick amid more serious ones. I'm glad to see them get to do something fresh and some new names being featured. As we see, some people are going to complain when they are pushed and others are going to complain when they aren't pushed.

4. There are only so many ways to set matches up, and WWE has a LOT of matches to set up on so much TV content every week.

5. He got lost in the shuffle with all the Superstar Shakeup stuff, but he might turn out OK. They definitely haven't forgotten him on TV; he's just not a big, important player.

More wrestling tomorrow.