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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Thursday’s episode of Impact Wrestling did it’s lowest viewership of 2017.

The show did 161,000 viewers, which is down from the Thanksgiving episode, which did 169,000 viewers. The episode brought in a 0.02 rating in the 18 – 49 demographic and 161,000 viewers, steady with and down 29% from last week’s 0.02 and 226,000 viewers.

In comparison to last year, the episode (Total Nonstop Deletion) did 329,000 viewers.

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As previously noted, WWE announced that they would be bringing back the “Starrcade” name for their upcoming SmackDown event during Thanksgiving weekend on Saturday, November 25th in Greensboro, N.C.

Bryan Alvarez discussed WWE’s decision to bring the event back on today’s installment of Wrestling Observer Live and mentioned that the show will only be a live event that will not be broadcasting live on the WWE Network. Alvarez indicated that the company brought the event back to help counter ticket sales from a legends event that is being held in the area that weekended.

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