Russo is joined on today’s show by his co-host Jeff Lane and Glenn Gilbertti (Disco Inferno).

Russo and Gilbertti open today’s show by discussing WWE’s decision to run RAW live on Christmas Day. Russo is still angry over the fact that WWE made their employees leave their families at Christmas in order to work a wrestling show, but Gilbertti doesn’t have a problem with it at all. Russo points out that if Gilbertti had a wife and kids he might think differently.

Lane points out that the live attendance for the show was great and ratings for the show were roughly the same as the week prior, with around 2.7 Million people tuning in. This doesn’t surprise Russo because he mentions that those 2.7 million people are the marks who watch every single week, whether it’s Christmas, Hanukkah, Thanksgiving, or Halloween.

Gilbertti speaks about Hideo Itami kneeing Brin Kendrick in the face this past week, resulting in severe injuries. He doesn’t think it’s necessary to utilize moves like this in the business anymore, and he thinks the wrestling world is turning a bling eye to how reckless the in-ring action has become. He adds that a move like Itami’s ‘GTS’ has to be executed perfectly every single time or it can have disastrous results.

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As seen on Tuesday’s episode of SmackDown Live, AJ Styles defeated Jinder Mahal for the WWE Championship in the main event of the show.

Dave Meltzer discussed the victory on the latest installment of Wrestling Observer Radio and mentioned that lower viewership from the Halloween episode of SmackDown and low interest in the Survivor Series pay-per-view match attributed to Vince McMahon changing the plans for Brock Lesnar’s next opponent.

Meltzer also speculated that there is a chance that Mahal could actually win back the WWE Championship Title sometime after Survivor Series. If the company does plan on putting the title back on Mahal, it would probably take place before the company heads to India in December.

Bryan Alvarez presented a scenario on Wrestling Observer Live that would see Mahal challenge Styles when the company heads to India and wins back the title there. It wouldn’t be the first time a title changed hands at a WWE Live Event.

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During the latest installment of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer discussed AJ Styles Championship win over Jinder Mahal on Tuesday’s episode of SmackDown Live and the affects it will have at Survivor Series & WrestleMania moving forward.

Meltzer explained that there is no reason now to have John Cena special guest referee Lesnar vs. Styles at next week’s Survivor Series event. Cena inclusion into the match was only to set up a future match against Mahal but those plans now could have been scraped. Meltzer says he doesn’t believe they will set up Lesnar vs. Cena for next year’s WrestleMania, so unless they switch the title back on next week’s show, Styles will face Lesnar without Cena as the special guest referee.

In regards to why the company decided to change course, Meltzer speculates it could have had to do with people “crapping all over it” and the bad rating from the Halloween edition last week.

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Puff Daddy announced on Twitter that he plans to change his name again because he claims he’s not who he was before. Puff Daddy announced that he is changing his name to “Brother Love”, which was Bruce Prichard’s televangelist gimmick in WWE during the late 80s. Interestingly enough, Kofi Kingston actually dressed up like Brother Love on last week’s episode of SmackDown Live for Halloween.

You can see the announcement below:

I decided to change my name again!

My new name is LOVE aka Brother Love. #TakeDat pic.twitter.com/gArAXusygG

— Sean Diddy Combs (@diddy) November 4, 2017

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