Goldust Denies Reports That His In-Ring Career Is Ending, WWE SmackDown Ratings, Daniel Bryan

-- The Monday Night War debate between Eric Bischoff and Bruce Prichard, which will be moderated by Chris Jericho, takes place on Sunday at Dave & Buster's on Columbus Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For more information, visit  RFVideo.com.

-- The Thursday, January 22nd, WWE Royal Rumble "go-home" edition of SmackDown averaged 2.814 million viewers. The number was up from the previous week's show, which drew 2.675 million viewers. SmackDown was the number one rated show on cable for Thursday night.

-- WWE's upcoming Daniel Bryan autobiography will be released on Friday, April 3rd to coincide with WrestleMania.

-- Goldust is denying reports that he's planning to retire after WrestleMania:

I am not retiring lol

— GOLDUST (@Goldust) January 23, 2015

2 More Off-Air Reports From Last Night's WWE RAW

Partial Source: Pwinsider

-- Stewart Flavell sent in this report: From a live perspective, I probably popped less and remained seated more so than the last few shows I've been too. But my average toilet breaks went down from about 10 to 2 because the in ring was so solid (I get through a lot of pints throughout the day so I need to make room for more normally!) ... The post Raw stuff was great. Wade Barrett was very much over as you would expect. Hunter was a great sport. Luke Harper was bloody brilliant by the way

Also read: Eric Bischoff Discusses His Rise To Power In WCW

-- James Tyler sent in this report: I've seen a few comments on the identities of previous rosebuds and thought I'd pass along some info on last nights in London. Three of last nights were from the Source Wrestling School in Scotland including Zero1 Scotland Champion Joe Coffey, SWA Laird of the Ring Champion Joe Hendry, ICW Zero-G Champion Mark Coffey. All three are graduates of the Source Wrestling School in Glasgow and regularly appear for SWA (scottishwrestling.co.uk), Pride (pridewrestling.co.uk), ICW (insanewrestling.co.uk) & W3LWrestling.com. Ayesha Rae was also in attendance who's available on the Fierce Females Glasgow calendar (fiercefemales.co.uk).

Sheamus Responds To Reports Of Fight With Sin Cara

Sheamus tweeted the following regarding reports that there was some sort of altercation between the two at this week's TV tapings:

Must be getting punchy. Don't remember being beaten up by Sin Cara backstage... It's just how Mexicans & we Irishmen hug it out fella ;)

— Sheamus (@WWESheamus) May 7, 2014

ORIGINAL: A new report says that a scuffle went down backstage between Sheamus and Sin Cara.

Few details are available as to the cause or whether it was at the RAW or SmackDown tapings, but one source noted that Sin Cara got the better of Sheamus in the altercation.

We'll keep you posted as we hear more.

WWE Reports 2013 Fourth Quarter Results – Vin...

The WWE announced financial results for its fourth quarter of 2013 today. Here are some key notes from the financials…

Revenues totaled $118.4 million as compared to $115.1 million in the prior year quarter.
Operating loss was $12.2 million as compared to income of $2.6 million in the prior year quarter.
Net loss was $7.9 million, or $0.10 per share, as compared to income of $0.6 million, or $0.01 per share, in the prior year quarter.
OIBDA in the fourth quarter 2013 decreased to a $5.6 million loss from income of $8.5 million in the prior year quarter.
The decline in OIBDA and Operating was due to increased investment in staffing, talent and marketing to support our strategic content initiatives, including the launch of WWE Network.
Lower sales of new DVD releases and a corresponding shift in product mix to lower priced catalog titles.

Vince McMahon offered the following comments on the financials…

"During the past year, we laid the foundation for future growth and enhanced our brand strength. We have now announced the renewal of our television distribution agreement in the U.K., are continuing the negotiations regarding our domestic content, and are poised to launch our global WWE Network in the next few days. With preparations for WrestleMania 30 fully underway, we look forward to celebrating our enduring legacy and ushering in a new era as we blaze new trails in the media industry."