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Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Interviews with Cena/Kofi/Rusev, more on Maff signing, filmmaker discusses wrestling, Raw audience, Lynn health update, WCW content coming to the Network, WM36 investment note, RetroMania ties in with previous game, and Questions on top influential cruiserweights, ROH TV in New York, AEW PPV price, and the Vince-Saudi rumor

John Cena spoke to Sports Illustrated about combating veteran suicides. That's an important issue.

Dan Maff was signed by ROH after support from the locker room following his match with PCO. That's cool as hell.

Filmmaker Warner Herzog mentioned watching WrestleMania. We're in some interesting territory here.

Kofi Kingston discussed social media's effect on WWE with Muscle & Fitness.

Raw drew 2.04 million viewers Monday night. That's the third-lowest audience in the show's history, behind Christmas Eve 2018 and New Year's Eve 2018. Rough, rough week for Raw.

Jerry Lynn needs surgery for a bulging disc in his back. Man, that sucks.

Rusev discussed his current angle. I didn't expect him to bury it, and, yes, people are watching the segments on YouTube.

WWE Network will add WCW Thunder's remaining episodes on Monday.

WrestleMania 36's potential investment was profiled.

RetroMania has been announced as WrestleFest's official sequel.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I might swap Pillman for Rey Mysterio, but those are some really great picks.

2. ROH is not a top priority for Sinclair. If it does expand somewhere, it will be because something else fell into place for Sinclair rather than them suddenly getting behind ROH in a big way. They're a media company that happens to own a wrestling company as part of its portfolio.

3. They absolutely keep track of who watches what on the Network, and use that to determine what to invest in next.

4. $50 for one show is absolutely steep given how much content is out there. We'll see if AEW makes changes in that department if Full Gear didn't draw as well as they had hoped. As for their business model, they're not in a position to make a lot of money from TV right now. They were an unknown property when TNT took a chance on them at a low price. The hope is when this deal ends, they'll be able to get a better-paying deal from them or someone else. That's obviously a long game to play, but the Khans have deep pockets and Tony has shown he'll pretty much do anything he's asked to raise the company's profile.

5. Vince was always scheduled to leave before the talent, as he does for every show because he's a busy, busy man. That aspect was played up in the anti-WWE, anti-Saudi stories that circulated to paint the whole situation in a bad light. Some sites wanted a story that got a lot of clicks, and others wanted to sell certain viewpoints about the Saudi deal. Thankfully not everyone went that route or otherwise tried to justify a false story.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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