Issues Between Mysterio & WWE, Creative Team Scrambling, SmackDown Demos

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— As announced last night on Friday Night SmackDown, CM Punk will defend his World Heavyweight Championship against Edge and Jeff Hardy in a three-way bout. As it turns out, the match was originally scheduled to take place at The Bash pay-per-view later this month, but due to next Monday’s three-hour Raw, it’s being moved up. As of Thursday, the creative team were still scrambling on how to figure things out for Monday’s show, not to mention how it would all lead to matches for the pay-per-view in two weeks.

— For the first time in several months, the 5/29 episode of Friday Night SmackDown was the first show to hit the top ten chart in English language viewership among Hispanics, at No. 6. It’s actually not as good as it sounds because it was 520,000 Hispanic viewers, which is about half of what they used to do before Mysterio was drafted to Raw last year, and no more than they’ve been doing most of the past year. With most regular programming in re-runs and SmackDown being first-run, it looks better in comparison, but it’s only doing a 2.4 in Hispanic homes when it used to do high 5’s.

— In a follow-up on an earlier report, Rey Mysterio did not hand in his notice to WWE officials as he still remains in the company. However, there are some issues between both sides which need to be worked out.

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