New Day gets USA special, promoter passes away, Interviews with Becky/DDP, NXT UK names working indie show, WWE stars on USA talk show, Final Battle extended, new Final Battle match, Raw audience, HoFer at SDL, and Questions on coming back early from concussions, Heyman working backstage, why WWE angles aren't as compelling, Ronda beating up men, and Russo feuding with dirtsheets

New Day is getting a USA Network special. "New Day's 2018 Pancake Powered Year End Super Spectacular" is airing at 10 p.m. December 19. It's worth noting instead of airing NXT in that spot as they did last year, USA got an original special made. Make of that what you will as far as NXT's perceived viability as a TV show.

- New Day's special will look back at 2018 in WWE.

Santana Garrett's father passed away. Keny G founded High Voltage Wrestling in Florida. That's unfortunate news.

Becky Lynch talked WrestleMania 35. She also teased learning a new finisher. I love how she's connecting outside the WWE bubble.

NXT UK's Wolfgang, James Drake, and Zack Gibson are working Futureshock's December 27 event, so that promotion's currently on the allowed list.

Diamond Dallas Page is on Stone Cold's latest podcast, promoting his new book.

WWE stars will appear on USA Network's Talk Stoop next week to promote "WWE Week" content. Ronda Rousey, The Bella Twins, The Miz, Nia Jax, Natalya, Maryse, and Lana are all advertised.

Final Battle has been extended to four hours, likely to give some of the top matches more time. This show could have the last ROH matches for Cody, the Young Bucks, and Christopher Daniels, so
it's good they'll all get a chance to have a fitting finale.

- Kenny King vs. Eli Isom will open the show.

Raw drew 2.19 million viewers, a further drop from consistently low audience levels. WWE is obviously aware of the problem given Seth Rollins' promo Monday, but I don't know what they're going to do to address it.

Jeff Jarrett was backstage at Smackdown Live.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. Concussions are much harder to gauge than something like a broken bone or torn ligament. Alexa appeared to have fully recovered, only to learn she wasn't. They're definitely being more cautious this time.

2. Generally it's a case of him working with people his client, Brock Lesnar, might end up facing, in order to prepare them for that feud. I'm under the impression it's just special cases he takes interest in, rather than WWE assigning him to anyone.

3. The feedback for a long time was that WWE needed to cut down on talking segments and just let the wrestlers wrestle. That said, I think at this point the decision-makers are so burned out cranking out so much content each week they can't deliver what they used to be able to. They're just getting through each week with the same formula as every other week.

4. I hope Ronda beats up at least one man for every time this person sends in a question about how women are presented in wrestling.

5. It's really sad Russo is this far removed from his days in the wrestling business and he's still feuding with people. As I've said, I think it'd be best for him to put wrestling behind him and work on something new. He would almost definitely be happier.

More wrestling tomorrow.