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Originally Posted by F4W As noted, Titus O'Neil was suspended for 90 days due to unprofessional conduct this week. The suspension happened because Titus grabbed Vince McMahon at the end of the Daniel Bryan retirement celebration on the WWE Network after Monday's RAW went off the air. Bryan Alvarez noted on Wrestling Observer Live today that Vince suspended Titus to send a message to the locker room, that they need to stop "messing around" and be professionals. Word is that there have been several talents who have "been riding the line" in terms of following the company rules lately. Vince wants WWE to be a professional organization and it was explained to Alvarez by a source that while Titus was just messing around with Vince, it was "one messing around too many" and Titus was used to make an example, and was the fall-guy. WWE officials do like Titus and with John Cena out, he is their number one guy for work in the community. They broke The Prime Time Players up so Titus could be pushed as a singles star. While it wasn't acknowledged on TV, Titus went undefeated for almost three months until the loss to Adam Rose on Monday. No word yet on how the suspension will hurt any future push.

Some details regarding the sudden Tidus suspension. Also it appears the suspension got reduced to 60 days which means it ends the week after Mania.

There’s significant concern within WWE over top Superstars John Cena and Roman Reigns, and their merchandise sales. Cena’s merch sales are said to be way down from one year ago and WWE is worried about that because Roman Reigns isn’t connecting with fans like they want. Reigns’ merchandise numbers are coming nowhere near where they need to be to make up for the loss with Cena. WWE officials are worried that Cena’s audience is growing older and becoming less interested in his merchandise, and he’s not doing as well with kids as he has in recent years. WWE has always kept Cena as a babyface, mainly because of his strong merchandise numbers, and this wasn’t reported by a source, but it was speculated that maybe this could lead to Cena finally turning heel. The drop in Cena’s merchandise sales has caused WWE Shop to be overstocked on his designs, which is why they’ve had more sales as of late. With all that said, Cena is still WWE’s biggest merchandise mover but officials are really hoping the WrestleMania 32 push for Reigns works because the feeling is that there’s no one else on the roster that can help fill the Cena void, at least in terms of merchandise.

Assuming the whole thing is true, WWE is finally starting to feel the real negative effect from years of revolving the whole company around just Cena. http://www.dailywrestlingnews.com/jo...igns-and-cena/

Originally Posted by Observer WWE has hired a high powered PR firm to promote Stephanie McMahon in her role as Chief Brand Officer as the nice public face of the company. The “Good Morning America” appearance was the first thing they got for her, but they are pitching her hard for mainstream media everywhere. They basically see Charlotte Jones Anderson (the Executive Vice President and Chief Brand Officer of the Dallas Cowboys) and her notoriety and public face of philanthropic efforts as how they want the public to view Stephanie

Originally Posted by Observer Going into this week, Reigns had been in the main event segment of 14 of the last 16 weeks of Raw, including 11 weeks in a row. The last Raw without Reigns in the headline spot was 10/12

"WWE Did You Know" type fact.

Originally Posted by Observer Any talk of Undertaker vs. Strowman now is 99 percent dead. Right now the plan is for Strowman to win the Andre the Giant Battle Royal and get a major push from that point on as a monster, to build him for an eventual title program with Reigns as well as a potential PPV match with Lesnar, which right now is on the books for SummerSlam. So at this point there doesn’t appear to be an idea what the situation is with Undertaker unless Cena is going to make it back by then. Owens pitched real hard backstage for the Undertaker match but that also isn’t happening

Update to Taker's Mania plans which now has both Strowman and Owens out as possible matchups. WWE still hoping Cena might return in time for a possible match against Taker but other than that, WWE still undecided on what to do for Taker's match (if it even happens now).

Originally Posted by Observer Davey Richards suffered a serious ACL injury. It wasn’t made clear to me it was a tear although hinted, and it was said he will be out of action for a significant length of time. The good thing is that he legitimately had just signed his guaranteed contract because if he hadn’t, it would have meant a significant loss of income. But this pretty much forces them to use Eddie Edwards as a single, or get a new tag team partner, and the long-term plans for the Wolves vs. Beer Money have to be put on hold

Update to the recent Richards injury news for TNA. Turns out it was a lot worse than expected.

Originally Posted by 411Mania John Cena will have competition that he may not have anticipated for eyeballs on his new reality series: WWE. FOX announced new details for their midseason schedule today and it included the Cena-fronted reality competition series American Grit, which will run ten episodes and feature people with military backgrounds competing in challenges. American Grit will premiere on April 14th, running Thursdays at 9 PM ET/PT. That will of course put it up against Smackdown, which airs Thursdays from 8 PM to 10 PM on the USA Network. American Grit will have the spring run of Bones as a lead-in

Originally Posted by Observer Bob Backlund was named as the latest inductee into the Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame this July, joining WO founder Dave Meltzer, Chael Sonnen, JJ Dillon, Lex Luger, and Joe Blanchard.

Some other sheet news includes:

• According to Daniel Bryan during yesterday's SportsCenter interview, the recent medical test was able to document 10 concussions Bryan suffered during his career. Bryan hinted the real number is way higher and testing wouldn't be able to catch due to baselines missing. Also admitting he's been suffering seizures because of his concussions and purposely hid it so nobody could find out. Video links of the interview: http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:14750304 , http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:14750322 , http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:14750339
• Someone posted a video syncing Mankind's historic title victory with Austin's commentary from a recent Stone Cold podcast episode. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3r...k-1-4-1999_fun
• According to the recent issue of the Lucha Underground comic, the kayfabe reason Mil Muertes throne exists is because the Disciples of Death murdered a lot of people to build it including a random Roddy Piper fan and the musicians from Season 1. https://imgur.com/gallery/DSsb5
• Observer announced their year ending Best Technical Wrestler will be officially renamed the Bryan Danielson Award starting with this year's voting. Bryan has the most wins with 9 since the award's debut in 1980.
• According to the Observer, ROH recently fired one of their refs (Kevin Keenan) due to a sexual harassment incident involving a female wrestler.
• Nakamura revealed during a recent interview with Tokyo Sports that he feels sadness over Daniel Bryan's retirement since Bryan was one of the big reasons why he wanted to go to the WWE. https://twitter.com/STRIGGA/status/697318346170175488
• Kurt Angle recently gave his opinion on Daniel Bryan's retirement and said personally he ranks up there with HBK and Benoit in terms of all-time greats. https://twitter.com/RealKurtAngle/st...26335257268225
• Live episode of the Stone Cold podcast with Big Show as the guest will occur after next week's RAW ends. http://www.wwe.com/wwenetwork/stone-...-show-28578055
• For those interested, ESPN had a recent article by the Masked Man (David Shoemaker) in regards to Daniel Bryan's career, retirement, and legacy: http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/1...lasting-legacy
• In a more somber note, today is the 13th anniversary of Mr Perfect/Curt Hennig's passing.