Wrestling Legend Rappels Building For Charity, WWE NXT Takeover Preview, WWE - UFC Growth

- Above is a promo for next Thursday's live WWE NXT Takeover: R Evolution event.

- Wrestling legend Dick "The Destroyer" Beyer recently became the oldest man to rappel over the side of the 26-story Seneca Niagara Casino in Niagara Falls at age 84. The stunt was done to raise money for the New York Special Olympics. Bayer was wearing his trademark mask and took 20 minutes to complete the rappel.

- This past week's issue of Sports Business Journal had media professionals voting on several topics. One of the questions was which will have the most growth in popularity over the next 5 years – UFC, pro boxing or WWE. WWE had 11%, boxing had 17% and UFC had 72% of the votes.

Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter

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