— As noted yesterday here on the website,
WWE Hall Of Famer “Stone Cold” Steve Austin recently revealed that he recorded a
new “Steve Austin Show” interview with former WWE
Superstar Big Van Vader. Vader noted that their discussion, which was recorded
on Friday for the podcast that will air next Tuesday, lasted almost six
hours.
— According to one source, there was said to be
strong interest from at least one sports channel in signing WWE before the
company announced their new deal with NBCUniversal last week.
As the story goes, when the channel heard what WWE
wanted in return, they immediately lost interest. It’s being said that WWE
greatly overplayed their hand in negotiations from the word “go,” resulting in a
lack of legitimate bids from other networks as we noted earlier.
The perception within the television industry is that
WWE is basically cheap programming that will help a station with
ratings.
— Friday’s episode of WWE SmackDown saw a huge drop
in social media activity from the previous week. SmackDown had 416,000 Twitter
users tweeting about the show (down 50%) and 1.273 million social impressions
(down 45%). Despite the drop, it still ranked #2 for the night Twitter activity.
— Next Saturday night’s Beyond The Ring special on
the WWE Network will feature Chris Jericho.
— John Cena and Cesaro celebrated the end
of WWE’s European tour Saturday night
in Berlin by drinking beers together in the ring. The WWE crew has now traveled back to
the United States for tomorrow’s RAW from Knoxville, Tennessee.
