WCW Nitro Note, CW/SD! Split, WWE Stock, Lots More News & Notes

On WWE 24/7, they're airing the October 6, 1997 edition of WCW Monday Nitro, which took place at the Target Center in Minneapolis on that night. If you look closely, you can see Jeremy Borash in the front row of the crowd. At time time, Borash was hosting a wrestling radio show in Minneapolis.

The Washington Post made this interesting statement last week regarding The CW dropping SmackDown because it didn't fit in the demo they were looking for: "CW says it dumped WWE Smackdown because it did not work with the netlet's target young-chick crowd. Last Friday, CW launched in its place 'Everybody Hates Chris,' 'The Game' and those 'America's Top Model' reruns, for a nightly average of 1.7 million viewers. Last year, Smackdown opened its season with 4.6 million. This year's line-up attracted 366,000 women aged 18 to 34. Last year's Smackdown posted 351,000 18-to-34 year old chicks. That's a net gain of 15,000."

WWE sent out this statement today: WWE? Top 200 STAMFORD, Conn., October 13, 2008- World Wrestling Entertainment?, the company who outperforms the S&P 500 by 30%* and has a high yielding dividend (9.7%)*, continues to be a leader among entertainment stocks. In this week's Forbes magazine, WWE was named one of the top 200 Best Small Companies. Qualifications for this category require that a company have sales up to $750 million and a stock price of at least $5 as of Sept. 29. *as of today's close.

In addition to Johnny Knoxville & Chris Pontius of Jackass, and Access Hollywood host Nancy O'Dell (who was shown on camera during Raw), a number of other celebrities were at last night's Raw in Anaheim. Actors Michael Rapaport, Kyle Massey, Kaycee Stroh, Omar Miller and Brian White, were at last night's Raw. There is an article and photos on the celebs on WWE.com.