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Roman Reigns injured at Smackdown tapings, a bunch of face/heel turn rumors, WWE reaching out to NFLPA, and more!

In the latest sign that WWE are taking the concussion issue extremely seriously, the company have donated a whopping $1.2 million to Chris Nowinski's Sports Legacy Institute in order to help fund research into Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE).

On April 2, 1995, World Wrestling Federation stayed close to home for 'WrestleMania XI', featuring WWF wrestler Bam Bam Bigelow vs NFL linebacker extraordinaire Lawrence Taylor.

Major shift in WWE programming on the way? Plus, new TNA X-Division rules, WWE injury update, a major note on the "PG Era," and more!

In a discussion about NFL teams asking players about their sexuality, former WWE announcer Jonathan Coachman claimed that being openly gay in pro wrestling was "never an issue". The cases of Kanyon and Orlando Jordan make that difficult to believe.

On Triple H's recent statement that "WrestleMania" now outdraws the "Super Bowl", Poltifact.com rated it "Mostly Correct" based on the attendance figures published on WWE's corporate website. Here at CagesideSeats.com we rate it "Mostly False".

WWE amazingly thinks that 57 million homes would be open to subscribing to the WWE network, despite only getting 9-10 million viewers a week for all their free TV shows combined.

On Thursday, TNA Impact's audience slumped to their lowest level in two years, which suggests that the Aces and 8s kidnapping angle last week was so bad it drove away 20% of their viewers, for the time being at least.

Complete results and a running live blog for the Sept. 24, 2012, episode of WWE 'Monday Night Raw', featuring an angry CM Punk responding to poor reffing during last week's edition of 'Raw'.

The ratings are in for this past Monday night's (Sept. 3, 2012) Labor Day episode of WWE Raw and they were down, as expected, but there was a troubling bit of information contained within the numbers as well.