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Former TPWW Royalty
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Dirtsheets sponsored by tonight's Ric Flair Woooomentary:
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Originally Posted by Observer
Being on tape doesn't seem to have even made the slightest difference in the audience for Raw last night from Manchester, England, as the show averaged 2.83 million viewers, identical to last week.
The show didn't start out quite as strong, and in a surprise during football season, it was the second hour that was the highest rated. There was a third hour drop, but not at the level of the previous two
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The three hours were:
8 p.m. 2.94 million viewers
9 p.m. 2.96 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.63 million viewers
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Originally Posted by WWE
If you want to bear witness to WWE United Kingdom Champion Pete Dunne’s next colossal title defense live, there’s only one way to do so: By scoring a ticket to NXT’s debut at the Toyota Center in Houston on Saturday, Nov. 18.
Fresh off making his unforgettable debut on WWE Monday Night Raw, The BruiserWeight will put his WWE U.K. Title on the line against former NXT Tag Team Champion Johnny Gargano.
The match will not air as part of that night’s TakeOver: WarGames live special on WWE Network, meaning those lucky NXT fans in attendance in the Toyota Center will have an exclusive opportunity to watch the title bout unfold before their eyes.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Prior to wrestling at Survivor Series later this month, Kurt Angle will be in action in Birmingham, England today.
Though he was previously announced as just making an appearance at the event, Angle confirmed in a tweet today that he would be wrestling in Birmingham. He wrote: "Birmingham UK!!! WWE Raw is here! My first 'WWE live event' in 11 years, in which I will be wrestling. #itstrue"
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Originally Posted by Observer
For the first time since he was pulled from WWE's TLC pay-per-view due to a viral infection, Roman Reigns will return to television on next week's episode of Raw.
That news was announced towards the end of last night's show before Seth Rollins & Dean Ambrose lost their tag titles to Cesaro & Sheamus. What Reigns will be doing next week or if he'll be wrestling at Survivor Series wasn't made clear, with Jason Jordan having been announced as the final member of Raw's men's division team.
Reigns was supposed to return on Raw in Atlanta, Georgia next week and be announced as the fifth member of the team. An angle could be shot to have Reigns replace Jordan, though another possibility for Survivor Series was opened up with The New Day costing Reigns' Shield stablemates their tag title match last night.
Brock Lesnar will also be on Raw next Monday, which will be the Survivor Series go-home show. Raw still needs to confirm the final participant for their women's team, with the storyline being that Alicia Fox wouldn't pick Bayley for it last night.
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Rumor right now leans towards a Shield vs New Day match at Survivor Series with Reigns on team Shield to make it 3v3.
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Originally Posted by Observer
For as wild of a year as 2017 has been for pro wrestling, next year already appears to be following suit.
In a shocker, Chris Jericho will be wrestling Kenny Omega at the Tokyo Dome for New Japan Pro Wrestling on January 4th, 2018. Omega retained his IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship against Trent Barreta at today's Power Struggle show and called out his next challenger after. It was teased that no one was left to challenge him, but Jericho then appeared in a video ...
After Power Struggle, the other matches that appear to be set for Wrestle Kingdom 12 at the Tokyo Dome are Kazuchika Okada vs. Tetsuya Naito for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Jay White (who returned to NJPW as Switchblade today) for the IWGP Intercontinental title, Marty Scurll vs. Will Ospreay vs. KUSHIDA vs. Hiromu Takahashi for the Junior title, and Sho & Yoh vs. The Young Bucks for the Junior tag titles.
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Pro Wrestling Sheet reported talks between Jericho and NJPW had been on-going since August and Jericho's upcoming boat cruise likely played a role in why he signed a deal with NJPW. Supposedly he asked WWE first to partner and lend NXT talent for his cruise but they said no. Then asked ROH and NJPW with both saying yes.
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Originally Posted by Observer
“Nature Boy,” the 30 for 30 on Ric Flair’s life and career, airs on ESPN at 10 p.m. Eastern time tonight. Flair has been all over ESPN promoting it and Twitter has a Flair emoji for their “NatureBoy” hashtag. The special will also stream on ESPN3.
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Dunne & Mark Andrews vs. Trent Seven & Tyler Bate is also set for WWE’s house show in San Antonio on the night before TakeOver.
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Link to announcement: http://www.wwe.com/shows/wwenxt/arti...?sf152376572=1
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Bram is no longer with Impact Wrestling, with him announcing in a tweet today that he’s been granted his release: “I've been granted my release from @IMPACTWRESTLING. Thank you to everyone from top to bottom and to you the fans for your support”
ROH announced that Kenny Omega’s match for their Survival of the Fittest show in San Antonio on November 17th (which is going against an NXT house show in the same city) will be Omega teaming with Cody Rhodes against Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian. The Young Bucks vs. Flip Gordon & Scorpio Sky is also set for the show.
Stephen Amell, who is the star of “Arrow,” is friends with Cody, and previously wrestled him in WWE, will be a special guest at Survival of the Fittest in San Antonio.
ROH’s TV tapings in Nashville have been rescheduled to January 20th.
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Bram link: https://twitter.com/Thomas_Latimer_/...79660239081472 , Omega link: http://www.rohwrestling.com/news/cod...st-san-antonio , Amell link: https://twitter.com/ringofhonor/stat...49730298503168 , TV tapings link: http://www.rohwrestling.com/news/bre...onal-tv-taping
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Originally Posted by Observer
The NWA released episode four of their “Ten Pounds of Gold” series, focusing on the different roads Tim Storm and Nick Aldis have taken to their title match.
The first show of NJPW’s World Tag League tour will air for free on NJPW World on November 18th.
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Link to new NWA episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeMjSMbJISk , NJPW link: https://twitter.com/reasonjp/status/927438947424153600
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Originally Posted by PWI
Josh Bredl, who won a WWE contract in the most recent season of Tough Enough, was released by the company at the end of last week, PWInsider.com has confirmed.
Bredl had been rechrisitened Bronson Mathews after winning his WWE deal and moving to Florida to join the WWE Performance Center at the end of 2015. He had not been used in a long time and had not even been training at the PC after what was said to have been concussion-related issues.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Here's what the partial card for the Dome show looks like as of now:
IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada defending against Tetsuya Naito
IWGP Intercontinental Champion Hiroshi Tanahashi defending against Jay White
IWGP United States Heavyweight Champion Kenny Omega vs. Chris Jericho (NJPW has yet to officially confirm whether the title will be on the line)
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Marty Scurll defending against Will Ospreay, KUSHIDA, and Hiromu Takahashi in a four-way match
ROH World Champion Cody defending against Kota Ibushi
IWGP Junior Tag Team Champions Sho & Yoh defending against The Young Bucks
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Originally Posted by PWI
For those of you in Canada, TSN will air the ESPN 30For30 documentary Nature Boy on TSN5 this Friday 11/10 at 7 PM.
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Originally Posted by PWI
UK talent Jonny Moss has now moved to United States and is working full-time as a trainer for the WWE Performance Center.
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Some other sheet news includes:
Some stuff from the TPWW Frontpage:
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