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05-20-2016 10:07 PM |
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A.J. Styles is off the weekend house shows to rest for Extreme Rules. He has a bad ankle. Styles hasn't wrestled since 5/9. He was to work in Utica and Reading.
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Terms of Turner's new NBA deal kick in, setting up a new night of pro hoops for TNT. Monday nights, once the NFL season wraps.
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Being teased, WWE might have around just 2-3 weeks of no NFL or NBA competition for Mondays starting next year.
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The 5/19 episode of Smackdown did 2,295,000 viewers, up a bit from last week's 2,262,000 viewers.
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New Japan’s Best of the Super Juniors tournament, which started in 1988 and has become an annual spring tradition since 1991, opens up with a 5/21 show at Korakuen Hall. The company announced this week that every tournament match will be airing on New Japan World, with seven shows live, including the last four. The other seven shows will air shortly after completion on a short delay.
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Smith Hart, 67, the oldest son of Stu Hart, will be undergoing chemotherapy in his battle with cancer. Even though Bret’s cancer got more publicity, those in the family have said that Smith’s situation was far more serious as they didn’t catch his prostate cancer early as they did with Bret, and it had spread.
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Cedric Alexander, who was not under an ROH contact, finished up with the company at the New York show on 5/14. He had a recent WWE tryout and was expected to be in the cruiserweight tournament, so this would make that more likely. His name popping up on Evolve future shows pretty well confirmed he was finishing here because it’s been made clear that even if you aren’t under contract to ROH, they don’t want you working Evolve. Lio Rush, who did both, was a temporary thing and once his Evolve dates advertised are completed he won’t be working there.
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A note on Enzo Amore. There are different beliefs regarding his injury, both the idea that he was first knocked silly by a knee a spot before his head whiplashed on the middle rope, and that he was knocked out twice, or that it was the head whiplashing that knocked him out, and led to his head hitting the apron. The impression we have is Amore believes it was the latter.
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Dixie Carter, Eric Sherman and John Gaburick are doing a business meeting in India this week. Topics will include the tour of India that their contract with Sony Six stipulates plus TNA's attempt to sell a percentage of the company.
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Small update to TNA's management trip to India.
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Starting tonight, Syfy will be airing a two-hour edited version of the Raw from Monday, airing from 8-10 p.m. The idea would be to boost the Syfy ratings. It's interesting because for years USA has had the belief of not airing a Raw replay for fear it would hurt the original numbers. Syfy was out of the top 25 cable stations in prime time ratings last week. USA was No. 6, although without wrestling they would fall to No. 11.
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In a bit of irony, main reason SyFy wanted Smackdown off the network was due to low ad rates and them wanting to go in a new direction for the channel. Smackdown drew some of their highest audiences but very little carried over to their other shows.
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Paul London on his time in WWE from the Pancakes and Powerslams show: When you work there, you eat so much crap. It's like middle school all over again when you work there, on any level that you're at. I don't care if you're the megastar or the opening guy, corporate office guy, whatever. At some point in your tenure there, you're gonna be treated like garbage, absolute garbage. And like less of a human being, like the stuff you wipe off of your shoe that you stepped in by accident. And you're gonna be treated like that constantly. It's a constant mental hazing. It's disgusting. It's a horrible, horrible place to work, absolutely awful place to work. So, it's not good for human beings of any nature. It was just things that would numb you to life working there.
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Some other sheet news includes: - According to the Observer, The Club vs Reigns feud is rumored to be continuing after Extreme Rules based on upcoming house show plans.
The Club vs Reigns/Cena/Ambrose is planned to occur at several house shows after Extreme Rules. Usos not included in those plans. May or may not end up replacing rumored plans for Sheamus vs Reigns title feud to be next.
- In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, Marvel and WCW had plans to work on a cross-over comic series somewhere between 1998-2000 before those plans were dropped. The source of the story stated WCW ended up backing out of talks due to unexplained reasons. http://www.wcwworldwide.com/2016/05/...wcw-comic-art/
- In another "WWE Did You Know" type fact, today is the 5th anniversary of Macho Man's passing.
- Correction to yesterday's "WWE Did You Know" type fact involving Kevin Owens as Undertaker was not the first guy in WWE history to be on the main card for every ppv during his debut year. Kurt Angle or Chris Jericho might have been the first depending on the stipulations used. Charlotte is currently on track to join the list next month baring a sudden injury or Creative issue.
- PWI had an article about recent updates to the Jimmy Snuka trial with Snuka himself on the stand for today's stuff. http://www.pwinsider.com/article/102...aring.html?p=1
- WWE recently released a new trailer for the upcoming Scott Hall blu-ray/dvd set: http://www.wrestlingdvdnetwork.com/t...entary/116008/
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