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- Thanks to Ian Hamilton of www.theringsidelive.com for passing these along:

Impact from August 20 (airing Saturday August 23) – drew 45,000 viewers

Hard Justice (airing on a three day tape delay) drew 65,000 viewers on
Bravo 2; airing Wednesday August 19.

Raw from August 17
drew 32,000 viewers in the live timeslot (-30,000 viewers from last
week’s show)
drew 50,000 viewers in Thursday August 20th’s replay (+13,000 viewers)

SmackDown from August 21
drew 85,000 viewers in its first airing (+33,000 viewers on last week’s show)

Smackdown wins out this time.

- From Eric:
Just thought I would pass along a mistake that Michael Cole made during the MVP vs Y2J match on RAW. He said MVP was ballin in the home of the Pistons, however the Pistons do not play at Joe Louis arena they play at the Palace of Auburn Hills. The Red Wings play at the Joe. He might’ve meant Detroit in general, but still!

- Thanks to Nick Noel:
Today on The Howard Stern Show on SIRIUS-XM Satelitte radio, TNA Wrestling star Kurt Angle was the subject of some ridicule.

The gang played some clips of Angle doing a local TV news interview where he details what happened with Rhaka Khan and breaks down and cries.

Of course the group brought back up the history between he and Robin Quivers, long-time Stern-show sidekick whom Angle attempted to go on a date with. Quivers told the story of him sending her three text messages in a row immediately after leaving the studio during his last Stern show appearance. Quivers noted she could tell that Angle was a bit “out there.”

- In an update to Kevin Thorn being backstage at the Impact tapings, he did in fact wrestle a dark match against Kip James, going by the name of Serpent. No word on if he impressed management or not.