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– Monday’s RAW got a 3.6 cable rating for the Labor Day broadcast, with a 5 share and hours of 3.4 and 3.7. The show’s highest quarter hours were a 3.9 for the 10 o’clock hour and the overrun, with the show opening with a low 3.1 quarter.

– Pro wrestling was referenced on Katie Couric’s debut newscast for CBS yesterday, with a video clip here.

– Bruno Sammartino, Captain Lou Albano, Jimmy Hart, Rocky Johnson, The Wild Samoans, The Iron Sheik, and Larry Zbyszko have been announced as wrestling talent scheduled for the September 16-17 Big Apple Con in NYC.

– Matt Cappotelli was on In Your Head Wrestling Radio tonight. If anyone can send in a report from the show, found here, please do.

– People in the locker room are wondering “if Joey Styles’ lap dance was booked on last night’s show as a way to ‘humble’ him” because he comes across as cocky backstage, and is a religious and monogamous person, according to PWInsider. Vince apparently has liked Styles’ work lately, but doesn’t like him being cocky.

– WWE.com has a story about HHH, where he talks about his match with Vince McMahon scheduled for Monday’s RAW at MSG. PWInsider is reporting that “there was a lot of talk at the last two days of TV” about how Vince has been pushing himself on TV.

– Matt Striker’s on-air comment about Steve Irwin rubbed a lot of people in WWE the wrong way.

– Bobby Eaton was released from Holston Valley Medical Center in Tennessee yesterday after having a stent implanted after his heart attack.

– There’s an interesting interview with AJ Styles on IGN.com where he talks about Batista, TNA’s in-ring style, the future and more.

– Some excerpts from an interview with Trish Stratus on WWE.com:

“I’ve worked hard, and when you combine WWE and my prior fitness modeling, the last decade of my life has been lived on the road…traveling, being away from home and just working … I’ve done all of my growing up”¦I’ve become a woman on the road. I just felt that it was time to step back and enjoy the fruit of my labor, take time to stop and smell the roses so to speak.”

“It kind of just occurred to me when my contract came due; I had to stop and say wait, let me think about the rest of my life and what I want to do tomorrow … I just decided that right now I need a little me time.”

“My decision to leave was purely to take care of me time … Those other things are fun and I enjoy the challenge, but I’m really looking forward to just getting up in the morning, having breakfast at home, enjoying a family barbecue or going to my nephew’s hockey games.”

“I would’ve never imagined the success or the encounters I’ve had over the years. I always knew that I was athletic and capable; it just took someone to bring it out of me. Working with women like Jazz, Molly Holly, Victoria, Ivory and Jacquelyn”¦we brought something out in each other that allowed us to really redefine what a Diva is today.”

“Coming in as part of T&A was the perfect place for me to get in, and then working with Vince, I learned so much”¦having to prove to my boss literally standing right by his side in the middle of the ring that I was good enough to be in that spot…I’ve worked with The Rock, Kurt Angle, Bubba (Ray Dudley), and those are incomparable scenarios that made me who I am today. So when the day finally came to take those experiences and grow into Trish Stratus”¦every day when I go out there I still think about those people.”

“My career has been buoyed by the support of the fans”¦so whenever the fans feel like they need some more Stratusfaction, all they have to do is let me know. It’s just like the Bat signal”¦let me know, and I’ll be there.”

– Divas respond to Trish’s retirement on WWE.com here.

– Matt Hardy answers more mail in this latest feature on WWE.com, including questions about teaming again with Jeff, how he would look with a Honkey Tonk Man-style haircut, being managed by Michael P.S. Hayes and more.

Credit: PWInsider, WWE.com & Other Sources

Matthew Michaels is editor emeritus of Pulse Wrestling, and has been since the site launched.