– This week’s RAW ratings are delayed a day due to the Christmas holiday.
– WWE Champion CM Punk was denied access to New York City’s Madison Square Garden, the site of tonight’s WWE live event and the venue where he captured the title at November’s Survivor Series pay-per-view. Punk tweeted on Tuesday evening:
“Sellout the Horizon on a Monday, refused entry to the Garden on Tuesday. My life is awesome. Some serious Larry David shit.”
– Former ROH World champion Seth Rollins (formerly Tyler Black) made his WWE debut in a dark match prior to tonight’s SmackDown TV tapings from Indianapolis. Rollins wrestled as a heel against Skip Sheffield, who won the match.
– Friday’s 12/23 edition of Smackdown did a 1.97 rating with 2,742,000 viewers.
