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Originally Posted by Observer Full details aren't available at this time regarding the WWE's ratings from Monday night, but as expected, Raw increased significantly with the day after the Royal Rumble show. The episode did about 3.61 million viewers, up ten percent from last week. Last week's go-home edition of Raw averaged 3.29 million viewers, which was up slightly from the 3.26 million the show did the week before. The promotion of Triple H's return during the show didn't stop the third hour from being the least watched, but it did manage to minimize the decline. The three hours were: 8 p.m. 3.63 million viewers 9 p.m. 3.64 million viewers 10 p.m. 3.57 million viewers For a comparison, last year's day after Rumble show did 4.09 million viewers, so it was a 12 percent year-to-year decline. That show was up 18 percent from the week before, and was bolstered by an appearance by Dwayne Johnson.

Likely will be RAW's peak range for this year's Road to Mania based on historical stuff. Also continuing the trend of recent Road to Manias being lower on average than the year before.

Originally Posted by Observer Those who were disappointed that Samoa Joe didn't appear at the Royal Rumble didn't have to wait very long for him to make his main roster debut. While appearing on Raw for the first time, Joe attacked Seth Rollins in the main event segment of Monday night's show. The face-to-face confrontation between Rollins and Stephanie McMahon that had been advertised going into the night led to a promised collision between Rollins and Triple H later, but Joe blindsided Rollins before he could join Triple H in the ring. The segment ended with Rollins passing out to the Coquina Clutch. Joe's debut had been speculated about for weeks as he's been in a holding pattern in NXT since dropping the brand's title to Shinsuke Nakamura for the second time last December. His only appearance at NXT TakeOver: San Antonio was when he was shown on camera sitting in the audience.

Originally Posted by Observer With the Elimination Chamber less than two weeks away, WWE didn't waste time building to SmackDown's next pay-per-view on Tuesday night's show. Shane McMahon announced in the opening segment of SmackDown that AJ Styles, Bray Wyatt, Baron Corbin, The Miz, and Dean Ambrose would challenge John Cena for the WWE Championship in an Elimination Chamber match on February 12th.

Originally Posted by Observer NJPW World has made the Kazuchika Okada vs. Kenny Omega match from the Tokyo Dome available to watch for free for a week.

Link to the match: https://twitter.com/njpwworld/status/826399687879954432

Originally Posted by Observer King Jerry Lawler's Memphis BBQ Company opened in Cordova, Tennessee on Monday night. Lawler is an owner of the restaurant.

Originally Posted by Observer Revolution Pro Wrestling announced that Omega would be appearing at their Epic Encounter show on April 13th at York Hall in London. The Young Bucks were previously announced for the show as well.

Originally Posted by Observer EVOLVE posted the full video of Chris Hero's farewell speech from last Saturday for free on YouTube.

Link to the speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDKXctBW_rg

In an interview with Fox Sports during the NHL's All Star weekend, CM Punk said that he's working hard on getting his next fight and is throwing names for opponents at Dana White. Punk said that he'll continue fighting even if his next fight isn't in the UFC.

Originally Posted by Observer There were also complaints regarding people getting their seats moved and problems with seating which we've gotten a few of and were making their way around social media. The complaints included the usual disabled parking lot being shut down by the building as WWE made it exclusive for talent, so disabled veterans and handicapped people who are used to parking there and were directed there by unknowing people working at the entrance had to park elsewhere. The WWE said they were not aware of that issue.

WWE also had a couple other crowd related problems at the Rumble and all seemed to be WWE's fault. Also forgot to tell arena staff about the problems going on so they were just as unhelpful to those affected.

Originally Posted by Observer There was a plan to make a bigger deal of John Cena tying Ric Flair's record but it was rewritten out of the show. I think so many people know it's not a real number (16) for Flair's titles, plus from a history perspective, as great as last night's match was, a short title reign is kind of weak for the record setter which may be why it's being downplayed. That also could be an argument not to have done it, but that was the long-term plan when it was supposed to be a big deal.

Originally Posted by Observer Chris Jericho suffered a minor ankle injury last night when he and everyone else was being thrown around by Brock Lesnar.

Ghost of Papa Shango ended up making a small appearance during the Rumble.

Originally Posted by Observer Pete Dunne, Trent Seven and Mark Andrews both ended up working for Progress on Sunday in London. Andrews won a multiple person match over Marty Scurll, Trent Seven, Jack Sexsmith, Sebastian, Dave Mastiff and Nathan Cruz to get a title shot. Dunne retained his Progress title losing via DQ to Jimmy Havoc in the main event. So the only guys brought over were Wolfgang and Tyler Bate, who both worked on Saturday night's show in San Antonio in matches taped for NXT this week.

Originally Posted by Observer Also on the pre-show, WWE revealed this year's NXT Awards. Shinsuke Nakamura won both Overall and Male Competitor of the Year. Asuka won Female Competitor of the Year. The Revival won Tag Team of the Year, and their match against DIY from TakeOver: Toronto won Match of the Year.

Originally Posted by PWI The Senate Small Business Committee approved President Donald Trump's nomination of Linda McMahon as administrator of the Small Business Administration, a cabinet level position earlier today. She will now go before a United States Senate vote to confirm the position. Update: The initial news about the approval listed McMahon as being unanimously approved. As it turns out, there was one person who voted against her in United States Senator Cory Booker, the same Democrat who recognized that Triple H and Stephanie McMahon were at the approval hearing earlier this month and cracked that Stephanie was more intimidating looking.

Originally Posted by PWI Impact Wrestling tweeted the following about a new digital Series 'A Day in the Life' beginning February 1st. New Digital Original! Coming 2.1 #ADayInTheLife 2.1: @RobbieEImpact 2.8: @MooseNation69 2.15: @AllieImpact 2.22: @TheEddieEdwards pic.twitter.com/OtiOAUWhux — IMPACT WRESTLING (@IMPACTWRESTLING) January 30, 2017 They also announced the 'My First Day' digital series will be concluding on February 25th, as well as announcing who will be featured on the final four episodes. Hopefully, talent still associated with the company. #MyFirstDay wraps 2.25, don't miss final 4 episodes! 2.4: @RealMikeBennett 2.11: @realjoshmathews 2.18: @babyhebner 2.25: @CodyRhodes pic.twitter.com/wPMDdTvQIu — IMPACT WRESTLING (@IMPACTWRESTLING) January 30, 2017

Originally Posted by PWI WWE will run the new, renovated Nassau Coliseum for the first time on 4/10 with a live Monday Night Raw taping. Prior to the venue shutting down in May 2015 for a complete renovation that saw capacity lowered, WWE had been running there for decades, dating back to the early 1970s when the Coliseum first opened. The first episode of Saturday Night's Main Event was taped in the venue and the second Wrestlemania had it's New York portion featuring Mr. T boxing Roddy Piper hosted there. The venue also hosted a number of PPVs over the years, including Summerslam 2002 which saw Shawn Michaels return to the ring against HHH, Brock Lesnar win his first WWE championship and was one of the best top to bottom WWE shows ever.

Some other sheet news includes:

• According to the Observer, the reason why Taker looked uncomfortable or a bit sloppy during the Rumble was due to Vince rushing Taker's recovery time from a recent surgery because he needed him at the Rumble for storyline reasons. Also according to the Observer, Taker was in serious pain backstage based on people around him after the event. https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc...e_was_hurting/
• According to reports, Sami Zayn will not be affected by the recent immigration ban which was passed quickly by President Trump and put on hold by Federal courts. Sami is of Syrian descent and one of the countries banned but won't have issues with his passport for traveling in and out of the US.
• Kevin Owens was revealed to be tomorrow's guest for the Talk Is Jericho podcast show. https://twitter.com/TalkIsJericho/st...76547599167491
• According to MLW Radio, Lucha Underground and Netflix recently agreed to a deal where Season 1 and Season 2 will be available on Netflix starting on February 15th. https://twitter.com/luchablog/status/826596523341398018