— Rob Van Dam will be part of Kayfabe Commentaries’ Timeline: The History of ECW – 1999, which hits on January 8th.
— Shane “Hurricane” Helms had knee surgery this morning.
— As reported earlier this week, the Tuesday episode of SmackDown brought in 2.02 million viewers, down 20% from last Friday’s episode. PW.net reports that The show did a 1.51 (1.5) household/cable rating, down 13% from the previous week’s 1.74.
The household rating is the lowest since the July 4th episode of SmackDown, though the more important 18 – 49 demographic rating was a 0.6 as previously reported. That was down just a tenth from last week and even with two weeks ago.