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WWE will be broadcasting Main Event and taping Smackdown in Boston, MA tonight at the TD Garden. Main Event will be headlined by Intercontinental champion Big E. vs. Christian. Announced for Smackdown is Big Show vs. Bray Wyatt. This will be the final Smackdown taping before Wrestlemania as next Monday’s Raw taping in Washington, DC will feature segments taped for Smackdown as well.

Hulk Hogan will be appearing on The Arsenio Hall Show this Friday to promote Wrestlemania. A Hogan appearance on the show in the early 1990s where he (as he admitted in one of his autobiographies) lied about his personal steroid use opened a floodgate of bad publicity for WWF at the time. I'm assuming it will go a lot better this time around.

Hogan’s appearance on Crowd Goes Wild on FOX Sports 1 was rescheduled for today.

Mick Foley noted on Twitter that his Wrestlemania Dream Raffle raised over $100,000 for the RAINN charity. That is great news.

Last night’s Raw was so sold out that signs were posted backstage warning people not to ask for comps as there were none available. WWE will return for a Raw taping at the Barclays Center on 10/6. There is already a pre-sale going on with password WWERAW.

Sam Roberts interviewed The Bellas yesterday to promote Raw, Total Divas and Wrestlemania. It’s a good interview. Roberts asked them about CM Punk’s exit and the effect it had on their significant others. They each said that both Daniel Bryan and John Cena were in top spots. That might be true, but Bryan was in, at best, the #4 match against Sheamus on Wrestlemania 30 before Punk exited. They each said they didn’t know what the deal with Punk was. They also talked about how happy they are that fans are starting to see them as workers in the ring and not just models who were in the business. I think they’ve both worked hard at that in the last year and in fact, the entire Divas division has really worked to step it up in recent months, as I’ve noted before. Here’s the interview:

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