A source who was at Monday's WWE Raw show in Portland, Ore. noted that the production team was keeping an eye on the TNA Impact television show. The source estimates that one of every five cameras in the production area inside the arena was tuned to TNA Impact.

Powell's POV: WWE will publicly downplay the TNA Impact competition on Monday nights, which they should do given their position as the top company. However, I'm not surprised to hear that the production crew was keeping an eye on the competition.

Although multiple WWE sources dispute it, I still question whether WWE booked Vince McMahon vs. John Cena to counter the tag team main event on Impact last week. For that matter, I found it interesting that WWE revealed online that Undertaker would open the show, as it seemed like they were countering TNA's "first five minutes" viral video campaign.

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