07-09-2015, 10:56 PM
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Former TPWW Royalty
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John Laurinaitis worked as the producer and head agent for WWE's recent tour of Tokyo, including the "Beast In The East" WWE Network special.
Laurinaitis is the one who came up with the idea to use streamers before the NXT Title Match with Finn Balor and Kevin Owens with the idea it would give the show a unique Japanese flavor. Laurinaitis also booked the pre-match ceremony where the women in kimonos presented flowers to both Balor and Owens.
WWE did send a production crew to Tokyo to air the show but they saved on costs by not using the normal setup and production that they use for pay-per-view events.
The live WWE Network special was considered to be a major success. WWE officials are already looking at doing more Network-exclusive specials, likely in better timeslots as this show began at 5:30am EST.
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Originally Posted by Observer
The GFW - TNA invasion angle is expected to kick off at the July 22nd TNA Impact Wrestling episode, which will air on a slight tape delay, and continue through that week's tapings and the July 24th Global Force Wrestling TV tapings from Las Vegas, where the first GFW Champion and Women's Champion will be crowned with tournaments.
Eric Young, Bobby Roode and other TNA stars are being sent to the GFW TV tapings for the angle. Young will also be working this weekend's GFW live events to confront Jeff Jarrett. Jarrett wanted Matt Hardy to be one of the TNA stars sent for the angle but at last word the deal wasn't confirmed yet. GFW stars confirmed for the GFW tapings include PJ Black (Justin Gabriel), Nick Aldis (Magnus), Chris Mordetzky (Chris Masters), IWGP Jr. Champion Kushida, Chris Sabin, Sonjay Dutt, Sanada, Mickie James and Lei'D Tapa. It's possible some of these GFW stars will work the TNA tapings that week.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Regarding rumors of Jarrett working with country music star Toby Keith, who was rumored to be buying into TNA at one point, The Wrestling Observer Newsletter notes that Keith has told Jarrett he will help with financing GFW only if Jarrett can accomplish a certain thing. We don't know exactly what that term is but it's likely a TV deal.
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Originally Posted by Observer
William Regal was in Japan for the two WWE live events in Tokyo last weekend because he was overseeing the tryouts. WWE brought in six men and two women to work the session. Notable names included Leona Fujinami, son of WWE Hall of Famer Tatsumi Fujinami and former TNA X Division Champion Sanada, who still lives in the US but flew to Japan to get the tryout. Other names included indie wrestler Yohei and popular women's wrestler Hikaru Shida. Apparently Leona and Yohei worked a match.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Only about five percent of people survive the injury that Tyson Kidd suffered. Kidd's injury was far worse than originally believed. Kidd was apparently being legitimate in saying only five percent of people survive the injury he suffered, as that is what doctors told him. Immediately after suffering the injury, while in the hospital in Texas, doctors told him he was lucky to be alive. After surgery, he was told by doctors that because the injury he suffered was so high in the neck, in most cases, such an injury would be fatal. The only reason Kidd survived is because he is an athlete with a very muscular neck. As reported, Kidd's surgery resulted in him having 16 staples, four screws and a rod put into his neck.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Stardust was backstage at Monday's RAW tapings, however WWE decided not to use him. The belief is that WWE isn't ready to turn Stardust babyface at the moment, and due to the fact that his father just passed away and people probably won't want to "boo" him, they are waiting to bring him back to television.
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The North American Wrestling Rankings blog reported the following on Sheamus reaching a new milestone:
"When Sheamus defeated Roman Reigns by countout on the 7/6/15 episode of Raw it was his 200th televised singles victory! The Celtic Warrior is the first wrestler to win 200 tv matches!!! [He was just the 4th wrestler to win 100 matches back on 8/3/12]. Others nearing this milestone [as of 7/8/15] are Randy Orton with 197 wins and John Cena with 188."
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Small catch to the record since according to r/SquaredCircle, its only counting wins since 2006 either because the blog was lazy or some other reason. Also helping is that he's one of the few big name guys who wrestles on both Smackdown and RAW almost every week which pads his numbers. http://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircl..._a_new_record/
Some other sheet news includes: - During WWE's NXT panel at Comic Con, Regal revealed the main event for the next NXT special in Brooklyn, NY will be Balor vs Owens for the NXT Title.
- GFW announced their first official show will be called GFW Amped. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf8faMrfn78
- GFW might have also ditched the 6-sided ring from now on in favor of a traditional ring based on recent show photos. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJgw5lRUwAAHwXW.jpg
- For those in the UK, Revolution Pro Wrestling announced their October 3rd show will feature Will Ospreay vs Kazuchika Okada.
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