Last Monday's low RAW rating (which was a 3.4 and tied a nine-and-a-half year low for summer edition of the show) was a bigger cause of stress for Vince McMahon on Tuesday than Benoit's toxicology report. He's very much on edge, particularly since sources say USA Network executive Bonnie Hammer is putting a tremendous amount of pressure on him to get the ratings up.

There is strong talk that USA wants RAW to move to three hours permanently in the fall. WWE is very much against it, citing the burnout factor, but it's unlikely they'd be able (or willing) to turn it down.

Vince, despite being the main guy in charge of every storyline, is blaming everyone but himself, and the feeling is that if things don't turn around soon there will be a major shake-up and the only ones safe will be Stephanie, Kevin Dunn and perhaps John Lauranitis, since he's a schmoozer and a good talker and is the only one they have faith in to do the Director of Talent Relations job, even though he's often largely incompetent.

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So guys, what do you make of all of this.

Once again vince blames everyone but himself. I hope wwe ratings continue to flop.

Hey guys, listen to this:

The reason that Cody Runnels has been given a quick push onto the main WWE roster is directly related to the Benoit tragedy. As weird as that may sound, Vince McMahon told the creative team that they must come up with an idea to get people to focus on new angles and not dwell on tragedy. One best ways Vince sees fit to do that is to bring in fresh faces. Runnels was hands down the top choice due to his remarkable work in the developmental territories.

Several people backstage in WWE have said that the stress on Vince McMahon has really started to show over the past three weeks.

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I just hope that USA does not try to fix the problem by extending Raw to three hours.

Vince needs to realise that he is in charge and that he needs to do something and why put it 3 hours when it strugles for two hours.