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[NJPW Update] New Japan announced publicly that 18,000 people have had their credit card information, name, address, telephone number, and email address have been leaked online by an anonymous source. President Tezuka, Chairman Sugabayashi, and Director Nishizawa all took part in a press conference to publicly issue an apology on the matter as they look to prevent any future recurrence. They aim to respond properly and in due time as they work to correct any and all issues that have/will come forward. This issue effects those who purchased a ticket online and or signed up to the fan club between August 28, 2013 to April 28, 2015. Side note: This does not seem to effect New Japan World. As the web application on their official website is said to have been vulnerable. The New Japan World website was built recently while the old website has been around for a while now.

Originally Posted by Observer From watching the first episode, it was not nearly as interesting as the Austin season. In the second week, as more personalities came forward, it grew more compelling. Still, the big negative is there is no Austin. Chris Jericho is more in the role of a game show host, not as a serious mentor and judge. Aside from ZZ, the alligator wrestler from Louisiana, who clearly was chosen based on personality, most were chosen based on looks and body ... Josh Bredl was said to be Vince McMahon's favorite, but as far as viewers go, he's shown nothing except he's a really big guy. We're told that most if not all of the women, if they seem mentally into wrestling, will have a good shot at developmental deals. Sara Lee was put in the final three, but I'm told from those involved that she seemed to be the most serious of the women about wanting to be a wrestler ... With the low ratings, the second week filming we're told consisted of excuses for bikini shots with the women, a shopping event at Victoria's Secret, and time in the hot tub, although only the bikini shots of the women swimming made air during the week but the other segments could be in upcoming weeks. They went with the idea that more female skin would be the way to boost the ratings.

*Nikki hopes to work with Stephanie in storylines again. *They're pushing for NXT divas to come up soon. They would rather each new diva come up individually so that each one gets to make an impression. *Cena is helping Nikki with her psychology and strength training. *Aside from Bryan and Cena, Brie's favorite superstar is Dean Ambrose and Nikki's favorite is Seth Rollins. *They would rather work in today's era than the Attitude Era because the company takes the women more seriously as wrestlers. *They think it will take Vince a few years before he can accept a divas match headlining a PPV. *The company won't let Nikki work with John Cena. She pitched the idea of working against John while she was part of the Authority back when Stephanie was working an angle with John but the idea was shot down. *They believe it will take divas working with superstars or women who Vince thinks are higher up than the divas like Stephanie for the divas to be able to headline a show. *#GiveDivasAChance was why Vince let them have more TV time; the second that disappeared from public memory, they were back to normal *Nikki wants to defend the title more and make it more meaningful when someone takes the belt. She wants to work with different divas but is frequently told no. (Asked to work with Summer; got 3 mins on Raw. Tweet to Emma intended to lead to match; went nowhere)

Some highlights from a Wizard World hosted panel the Bella Twins recently were involved with. https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc...ki_is_working/

Global Force Wrestling announced Wednesday night that TNA star Bobby Roode will be competing at the July 24 GFW TV tapings in Las Vegas. Roode is still under contract to TNA, so this is further evidence that the two companies will be working together moving forward.

Originally Posted by Observer As noted, Kurt Angle will be undergoing surgery to remove a benign tumor in his neck. The tumor was discovered in 2012 but there were no problems associated with it until now - the tumor was starting to block a nerve in Angle's arm and he was beginning to get some atrophy in the arm. The surgery to remove the tumor is not a major deal and Angle expects to be back in the ring in three weeks.

While WWE has been billing Brock Lesnar vs. Kofi Kingston and Finn Balor vs. NXT Champion Kevin Owens as the main events of Saturday's "The Beast In The East" WWE Network special from Tokyo, the tag match with John Cena and Dolph Ziggler vs. Kane and King Barrett may end up going on last as it's the advertised main event locally in Japan. The Lesnar vs. Kofi match likely won't go on last because it will be a squash and the NXT Title match has been heavily promoted but the tag match with Cena has been pushed as the main event in Tokyo. On a related note, it's possible that the commentary for Saturday's live show will be done at the WWE TV studios in Stamford, CT. Michael Cole and Byron Saxton will be handling commentary.

According to the WON, TNA’s discussions for a talent exchange with GFW is a move out of desperation to save their TV deal and garner interest in the product. The site reports that they’ve been talking about some talent sharing, of which Wednesday night’s Bobby Roode announcement is one. Jeff Jarrett wanted to get Matt Hardy but that doesn’t appear to be happening. The site adds that an invasion angle is still possible and that TNA would have gone to ROH, but ROH has denied them in the past at several times to run a similar deal so the company went with someone different this time. One of the “invasions” proposed in the past was a ROH/TNA One Night Only-style PPV. TNA also contacted ROH about a talent exchange last year, and then early this year about an invasion angle that would have involved The Kingdom and Maria Kanellis, among others. Obviously those didn’t come to pass.

Originally Posted by Observer Impact: 267k Replay: 51k Total: 318k ROH: 157k Replay: 81k Total: 238k

Viewership for this week's shows with both having big drops in the 100k+ range. Bulk of TNA's decline was with live viewers and ROH with replay viewers.

We open with a hilarious story where Big Show describes how he used to like to pull a rib on his boss by waiting until his office at each arena was vacant, then sneaking in and defecating in his private bathroom without flushing, leaving it floating there for Vince to find when he returned. Show figured he had gotten away with it, but meanwhile he was being booked in a pointless feud against The Great Khali. He says that Khali is a great guy, but if you’re working with him you pretty much have to do everything while he stands there, and after about a month he went to Vince and asked where the program was going. Vince responded with “I don’t know, are you going to stop sh*tting in my bathroom?” Show laughed and said he realized that Vince had figured it out all along – because “it looked like a rhino took a dump in his office” – and the matches with Khali were his way of getting back at him.