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Former TPWW Royalty
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Dirtsheets sponsored by Bray's butt "The Eater of Tables"
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Originally Posted by PWI
WWE sent out an email blast to its WWE Fan Council yesterday, asking them to take a survey concerning the state of Raw.
They asked questions such as when a viewer actually watches the show, when they change the channel, etc. The company was curious if the respondent would change the channel during talking segments, backstage bits, recaps, etc.
It’s no secret that Raw’s ratings have lost about 25% of their number since June. It’s nice that the company is asking the questions. Hopefully, they will get the right answers and listen to them.
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The 9 p.m. airing of Impact on 11/25 did 234,000 viewers, up from last week’s 202,000 viewers. The replay did 78,000 viewers, which is what they did last week. Overall they did 312,000 viewers. up from last week’s 280,000 viewers. ROH did 141,000 viewers, up from last week’s 114,000 viewers, for its last showing on the network. They are moving to Comet TV.
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Tommy Dreamer worked the dark match main event after Raw went off the air, teaming with Kane and The Dudley Boyz to defeat The Wyatt Family. Dreamer is also booked for tomorrow's Smackdown taping, seconding Bubba Ray Dudley vs. Bray Wyatt. For those who asked whether Dreamer has signed a WWE deal, I can't say 100% but my gut feeling is that he has not. Dreamer was slated to travel to India for the canceled TNA tour to work as a Producer so when that fell apart, it opened a window of opportunity for WWE to bring him in. Dreamer is not signed to a TNA deal so it's entirely possible WWE could sign him on full-time if that's what both sides want. Dreamer wore a House of Hardcore shirt on his WWE TV appearance, promoting his independent promotion. For those who asked, the polka dots on his pants are something he has been wearing since the passing of Dusty Rhodes as a tribute to the late WWE Hall of Famer, who was Dreamer's hero.
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Potential small controversy brewing with the WWE having no problems with Dreamer wrestling even though he has a bad history of concussions but not willing to let Bryan wrestle even though he's been cleared by non-WWE doctor(s). http://www.cagesideseats.com/wwe/201...y-daniel-bryan
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The WWE Network has started to add a number of TV episodes from Jim Cornette's Smoky Mountain Wrestling and Bill Watts' Mid-South Wrestling. Watts' Mid-South Wrestling, which later changed it's name to UWF, was founded in the late 1970s when Watts took over that territory. By the early 1980s, the gritty, realistic, hard-nosed style of the company became must see television for the region and took on a near legendary status among fans of that era, with Mr. Wrestling II, Magnum TA, Ted DiBiase, Hacksaw Duggan, The Midnight Express, The Rock N' Roll Express and The Junkyard Dog being just a few names who found stardom in the territory.
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As noted, Thursday's Thanksgiving edition of WWE SmackDown drew a record-low 1.652 million viewers, down from the 2.229 the week before. The final rating for the show was a 1.15, down from the previous week's 1.64 rating. This is close to the lowest-rated SmackDown in Syfy history, going back to a 1.14 in December 2010.
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WWE basically stopped caring a few months ago once the move to USA was made official. Have a chance to top that with Christmas Eve and New Years Eve since Smackdown also falls on those dates this year.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Tomoaki Honma's girlfriend went to a women's magazine and basically claimed that he beat her. It came out today, basically. And as far as a I know, New Japan hasn't reacted to it. It's not that big of a deal in Japan - it's in different in their country than our country. If it were our country, he'd be suspended immediately until he was cleared, then he'd be brought back and signed to a new contract. Over there, thus far they haven't done anything. He wasn't pulled from the show today or tomorrow or anything like that, but we'll see what happens. It's a story there.
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The alleged details regarding the story is really bad ranging from him beating the shit out of her multiple times to her being scared for their pet dog's well-being. She's splitting because his verbal abuse has been a lot worse than the physical abuse. Also being speculated he's probably getting tossed out of Wrestle Kingdom 10 plans and/or the company soon.
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It's well known that WWE has been suffering in the ratings department throughout 2015. Former WWE writer Vince Russo believes things may change due to the USA Network as a result.
"I've heard there's been some rumbling from USA Network saying 'You know what? We may have to start getting more edgy.' USA Network doesn't want to be politically correct. That's not their call. That's coming from WWE," Russo said on WrestlingINC's podcast.
Russo continued, "Look at the other shows that are on USA Network from 9-11 at night! They're not puppet shows. That's all mandate from WWE. If it continues this direction, I think we're headed for a showdown between WWE and USA Network, and that's where you're going to see some changes."
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Supposedly the head of USA Network wants the channel to go in a new direction to help with the struggling ratings which could force the WWE to also change if NBC gets involved as well. Only Mattel has as strong of an influence that NBC and USA has with the WWE.
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Luke Harper recently made his Talk Is Jericho debut, sitting down with the first-ever WWE Undisputed Champion, Chris Jericho, to talk about his WWE career thus far ...
Harper recalled that McMahon yelled at him on the November 17, 2014 edition of WWE Monday Night RAW. Harper won the Intercontinental Championship from Ziggler that night, but he failed to speak with a southern accent in his promo before the match.
"I won the Intercontinental title, I beat Ziggler for it. Yeah, I thought it was great. I thought everything was good. I came to the back and Vince yelled at me because I didn't speak in a southern accent, so [it] kind of put a damper on things for a little bit." Harper added, "I had to say, 'I'm a team player' [in the prematch promo], but I had to say it southern because that was his vision of me and it might still be. I hope not. Yes, and our vision of it is our people come from everywhere. [Bray Wyatt's] message is nationwide. He's from the bayou, but us, his followers, aren't necessarily. We kind of pick and choose where he got us."
According to Harper, his ladder match at WWE TLC: Tables, Ladders, Chairs... and Stairs for the Intercontinental Championship against Ziggler the following month was one of his favorite matches and neither competitor realized how violent the match was going to be. Harper said that he got word the night before that he was going to drop the championship to Ziggler at the pay-per-view. Harper's short stint with the title gave him more incentive to put on a great match with Ziggler.
"I was pissed because I thought I didn't get a fair run with [the title], really. I hadn't really done anything with it." Harper continued, "I thought 'this is bulls--t.' So I remember talking to Dolph and I said, 'hey man, I want to do something special here because I'm pissed.' It was in Cleveland [Ohio], his hometown, so it was, like, again, a perfect storm of stuff ...
Harper said that he thinks the Wyatt Family should continue to add new members and quickly agreed with Jericho's suggestion that the group add a "creepy" female to its ranks.
"New blood. I've always said that, I thought with a cult like that, we should always have kind of [new members joining] and [grow] bigger." Harper continued, "I think [adding a woman] gives us more diverse things and more ways to go instead of just saying, 'hey, we're going to beat you up.'"
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Probably not hard to put the pieces of this puzzle together. From Lana on her Twitter: "No human being will tell me who to [love]. It's my choice & my life & I am proud to live with my consequences." As noted on last night's Observer Radio, she was unaware that Ryback was going to claim on TV that he'd heard she had gone all the way with Dolph Ziggler.
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Some other sheet news includes:
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