Smackdown is being taped in New Orleans, LA tonight, so spoilers should be out soon. There are off air notes and Heat spoilers from last night's RAW. Ratings are delayed due to the Labor Day holiday.

WWE announced the hiring of Tom Barreca as its new Senior Vice President for WWE Enterprises, a new business unit focused on utilizing new technology to monetize WWE's vast wrestling library. 1wrestling notes that Kevin Nash wasn't at RAW due to movie shooting, and WWE is building towards a Brock Lesnar/Kurt Angle match in the next few weeks since their next PPV is in October. WWE released a card for the October 11 Birmingham, England Smackdown show, featuring Kurt Angle vs. The Big Show.

Hulk Hogan called in to Bubba the Love Sponge's show this morning and dismissed any heat between he and Foley (Foley's comments on Off the Record). J.J. Dillon shared his thoughts on the future of wrestling at the FAN SLAM convention, and in his opinion, things don't look good. Johnny Valiant was a guest on the Interactive Interview, and discussed his start in wrestling, WWWF, Bobby Heenan, Hulk Hogan and more.

TNA issued a preview for tomorrow night's PPV. The show will include a ten man "Wednesday Bloody Wednesday" cage match with Jeff Jarrett/Chris Harris/James Storm/D'Lo Brown/Raven vs. AJ Styles/Simon Diamond/Johnny Swinger/Christopher Daniels/Shane Douglas, Mad Mikey vs. Lazz, and an 8 man Super X Tournmanet starting with Nosawa vs. Juventud Guerrera, Johnny Storm vs. Teddy Hart, Chris Sabin vs. Jerry Lynn, and Michael Shane vs. Frankie Kazarian.

The Fourth District Court of Appeals in West Palm Beach, FL heard arguments regarding the sentencing of Lionel Tate, the 12 year old convicted in the 2001 death of a 6 year old that his lawyers claimed was inspired by wrestling.

That's it for today. Thanks for reading.