03-04-2016, 10:04 PM
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Former TPWW Royalty
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Dirtsheets sponsored by Evil Emma:
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Originally Posted by Observer
It does appear WWE is getting the message across regarding fans not purchasing PPVs, at least in North America, as the Royal Rumble was down significantly from the prior year even though WWE had topped the 1 million mark for the network by that time. The Rumble is currently estimated at 32,000 domestic buys, a number less than SummerSlam and Night of Champions, as well as another 59,000 buys outside of North America. The 32,000 buys represent a 47 percent drop from the prior year’s 61,000 in North America. The international drop was 49 percent, going from 115,000 buys for the 2015 Rumble to 59,000 this year.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Shane McMahon has been training with a number of different coaches to get in shape for his match, including strength and conditioning and Muay Thai. One of his coaches is Phil Nurse, a boxer and kickboxer from the U.K. best known as Georges St-Pierre’s striking coach. Nurse was the guy who rubbed all the Vaseline on GSP causing all the controversy in his second fight with B.J. Penn. Maybe they can copy that spot so Shane can escape from Undertaker’s gogoplata. Or maybe not
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Originally Posted by Observer
The WWE received the Diamond Play Button from YouTube for surpassing 10 million subscribers to its YouTube channel, only the fourth company to reach that number after Taylor Swift, The Ellen Show and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. They pushed this on Raw and said they were the leading sports programming on YouTube. That’s notable because they try to claim they aren’t sports when it comes to television, because the longest running show doesn’t work compared to sports that have been on television for decades, or in other comparisons like when they have pushed Raw as the leading entertainment show on cable some Mondays when it had far less viewers than football. But now when it’s behind entertainment properties, it’s sport
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Originally Posted by Observer
After about 20 months, Ric Flair settled his issues in North Carolina. Flair had been ordered by the court to pay $32,000 in support and legal fees to his fourth wife, Jacqueline Beems Fliehr in June 2014. He had refused to pay. He had claimed in newspapers interviews that he would, but when he hadn’t by July, an arrest warrant was put out against him in Mecklenburg County (Charlotte is in Mecklenburg Country, where he lived for decades) where he was to be arrested if he came to the state. He’s avoided going to North Carolina since that time, but the arrest warrant was rescinded last week on 2/25, which was his 67th birthday, so evidently he paid the fee. He had vowed at one point not to pay it because he had refused to pay any more money to Beems
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Might explain Ric's recent run in the WWE
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Thursday’s WWE Smackdown averaged 2.491 million viewers for USA Network, according to Showbuzzdaily.com. The number was up from the 2.395 million count from last week.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Terry "Rhino" Gerin will be running for public office for the state house of representatives for his district in Dearborn, MI. He said that he told Vince McMahon about it and Vince said if there's anything they could do to help they would. He's pushing to improve salaries for teachers, upgrade road construction in the area and for more governmental accountability with tax dollars. We believes the public schools are greatly under funded. Alex Marvez has a story here. |
Update to Rhino running for public office.
Some other sheet news includes:
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