2016 WWE Payback Date & Location, WWE RAW Rating Back Up, Longtime WWE Fan Attends NXT (Photo)

– WWE announced at Tuesday night’s TV tapings in Newark, New Jersey that the 2016 Payback pay-per-view will take place from the Prudential Center on Sunday, May 22nd. The pre-sale begins tonight with the promo code “PAYBACK.”

– As PWMania.com reported earlier, Monday’s post-TLC WWE RAW episode drew 3.884 million viewers, up from last week’s 3.054 million viewers. The final rating for the show was a 2.66, up from last week’s record-low 2.15 rating.

– 86 year old WWE NXT fan Esme Pritchard got some media attention this week as she attended Tuesday night’s NXT live event in Cardiff, Wales and met some of the NXT Superstars and Divas. Esme has been a WWE fan for more than 45 years and was a special guest at tonight’s show, thanks to the Motorpoint Arena. Here she is with Alexa Bliss and NXT Women’s Champion Bayley: