That 15th anniversary episode of Monday Night Raw was one of the more entertaining episodes in recent memory.

In one night, you had Stone Cold Steve Austin, Mick Foley, and the Undertaker all taking turns beating up on Vince McMahon. We also saw plenty of reunions (Evolution, Degeneration X, and Rated RKO). Plus, there were a handful of stars from the past (Trish Stratus, Lita, Sunny, Marty Jannetty, Scotty 2 Hotty, Jim “the Anvil” Neidhart, “The Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase, Sgt Slaughter, and more) that showed up as well.

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WrestlingRevealed.com has learned that ratings for Monday Night Raw this week have gone down more than a half a point.

The 15th anniversary show last week generated a 4.08 in the ratings. This week’s episode of Monday Night Raw received a 3.5 in the ratings.

WWE had expected a drop in the ratings this week because they knew that extra people tuned in last week because of the special guests. Plus, WWE was heavily promoting last week’s show.

The 3.5 ratings this week can also be attributed to the fact that it was the Monday Night Raw after a pay per view. Those episodes generally do better in the ratings than the other episodes.

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WrestlingRevealed.com has learned that the original plan for Monday Night Raw’s 15th anniversary show was to have ended with Bret Hart putting Vince McMahon in the Sharpshooter.

The attacks would have occurred as planned. The only difference would have been Bret Hart would have finished things off with the Sharpshooter on Vince McMahon as he cameras went off the air. Had that happened, then the final beer celebration would not have happened.

WWE tried very hard to get Bret Hart to make an appearance, but in the end, there wasn’t an offer on the table that was good enough to get him to change his mind.

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WrestlingReveealed.com has learned that ratings skyrocketed for the 15th anniversary episode of Monday Night Raw.

WWE received a 4.1 rating this week for the three hour special. That equates to roughly 5.8 million viewers. For the past few weeks, Monday Night Raw has been in the 3s.

This is a great sign for WWE as they spent quite a bit of effort in promoting the special edition of the show. Aside from the constant commercials on TV, WWE also spent money on advertising on websites. With the success of the show, there’s now a chance that WWE will start promoting their pay per views in this manner as well.

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WrestlingRevealed.com has learned that the USA Network has signed a new deal with WWE to extend Monday Night Raw.

The original contract for Monday Night Raw was set to expire in 2008. Despite slumping ratings, the USA Network was interested in bringing back the show for an additional two years. That means that we’ll be seeing Monday Night Raw on the USA Network until 2010.

USA Network executive Bonnie Hammer should be pleased with next week’s show as she has been pushing Vince McMahon hard to bring back wrestlers from the Attitude Era.

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Here’s the quick results from the November 26, 2007 edition of Monday Night Raw. We’ll have the full detailed Raw results on WrestlingRevealed.com in a bit.

• Triple H & Jeff Hardy beat Umaga & Snitsky
• Hardcore Holly, Cody Rhodes, Super Crazy & Jim Duggan beat Lance Cade, Trevor Murdoch & the Highlanders
• Chris Jericho beat Santino Marella
• Mr Kennedy beat Brian Kendrick
• Mickie James beat Melina
• Ric Flair beat Randy Orton

Monday Night Raw did a 3.5 in the ratings this week, which means that approximately 5 million viewers tuned in.

Pretty good news for WWE considering how the USA Network has been pressuring them to improve the product. The ratings for the last few shows have been better than recent shows.

The rise in the ratings can probably be attributed to the guest appearances from ECW and Smackdown stars. That should provide plenty of fuel to all those who want the three brands to be merged.

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Carlito’s demotion is getting more and more obvious.

First, he loses a couple of matches while he was a special attraction for WWE as they toured his home country of Puerto Rico. Then, he gets demolished by Snitsky on Heat.

Things are looking bad for him. He’s still expected to be release within the next few days (he asked for his release recently).

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Jesus returns!

Well, not that Jesus. We’re talking about the wrestler who once went by the name of Jesus. You might remember him as Carlito’s bodyguard back when Carlito made his debut on Smackdown a few years back. His real name is Aaron Aguilera.

Anyways, he worked a match on Sunday Night Heat when WWE was in Los Angeles on November 5, 2007.

It is believed that it was a tryout match for Aaron Aguilera.

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