Source: L-O-P & other places.
1. Kurt Angle's fiancé, actress Giovanna Yannotti, announced on her Twitter account that she and Kurt are expecting a child.
2. Mick Foley donated his entire book advance for Countdown to Lockdown of $100,000 to charity. The two main charities donated to were RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) and ChildFund International. Foley is also working once a week for RAINN as a hotline volunteer.
3. Hulk Hogan has reached a settlement in his lawsuit against Post Foods. Hogan claimed in May of this year that Post was using his likeness in a commercial for Cocoa Pebbles Cereal. Hogan claimed a character named Hulk Boulder used his likeness. The terms of the settlement are confidential.
4. WWE's latest key performance indicators packet confirms yet another disappointing buyrate for the leading wrestling promotion.
According to the WWE document, August's Summerslam pay-per-view garnered approximately 350,000 buys, which represents a decline from last year's already-disappointing performance.
As with Money in the Bank, Summerslam represented a pay-per-view that many insiders thought would "buck the trend" of dismal WWE buyrate performance. As with MITB, that optimism again proved invalid.
In addition to again confirming the troublesome decline of interest in WWE pay-per-views, the poor buyrate also provides another statistical condemnation of the Nexus angle. While the Nexus faction had been around for previous pay-per-views, Summerslam featured the group in a marquee "WWE vs. Nexus" main-event; its performance is thus the best available figure for determining how the angle translated into pay-per-view dollars. That determination is not favorable.
Between poor merchandise sales, weak television ratings and consistently weak buyrates, analysts will have a near impossible time declaring the angle commercially successful. (RD: In otherwords...The Nexus is a financial disaster.)
