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Former TPWW Royalty
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Dirtsheets sponsored by The Legend of Ambrose:
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It seems as WWE is heating up in WrestleMania season, Vince McMahon and Triple H, the chairman and the COO, are having more arguments over the event. This time the issue in question is which match should close the show, according to Daily Wrestling News. Vince feels Lesnar should be main eventing WrestleMania due to all the money WWE is paying him, but there’s concern a non-title match with Dean Ambrose isn’t big enough for a main event. This isn’t an indictment as to how Vince feels about Ambrose, but Vince wanted more star power for a Lesnar match and remains disappointed they couldn’t get The Rock to wrestle.
Triple H wants his title match against Reigns to main event (shocker!), but there’s speculation Vince may actually be souring on Reigns.
There’s also a feeling that The Undertaker against Shane McMahon should be the main event given the stakes of the match and the fact ‘Taker is a Texan native.
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Another big clash between the two recently involved when to debut Finn Balor and WWE's version of the Bullet Club. Vince wanted it to happen on the March 7th episode of RAW in Chicago while Triple H wanted it to happen as a post-Mania surprise debut. It likely wouldn't have involved Finn being placed in a high profile match for Mania and it also seems Vince no longer holds a favorable view of NXT based on recent dirtsheet rumors and reports.
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This week's first airing of Lucha Underground on the El Rey Network drew 100,000 viewers. This is up from last week's 95,000 viewers but down from the previous week's 124,000 viewers.
The replay drew 57,000 viewers, up from last week's 41,000 viewers, making the total for this week's show 157,000 viewers. This is up from last week's total of 136,000.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Impact on Tuesday night did 307,000 viewers for the 8 p.m. show and 123,000 for the 9 p.m. replay. It was the largest total in seven weeks for the show and the replay ws teh biggest number since moving to Pop TV. It shows that at this stage, being almost live does help TNA's numbers. In the past it has made no difference.
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The advance gate for WrestleMania as of one week ago with 84,000 seats also broke the all-time pro wrestling record as expected. That number includes standing room (Party Pass) tickets that have been sold, which are sold out. We were mistaken as the 84,000 number we had last week does include the standing room so the final number is going to end up slightly above this. Who knows what will be announced. The gate was at $12.8 million as of 3/9, breaking the $12.6 million all-time pro wrestling gate set last year, although not by nearly as much as you’d think given the huge difference in actual attendance.
With the larger stadium, more tickets were being sold at lower prices. The number also beat any UFC gate in history. Obviously a ton of boxing gates beat that number. There are boxing matches that did more than 85,000 fans, with the all-time record for a paying event being the Julio Cesar Chavez vs. Greg Haugen fight in 1993 at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City with 132,274. While largely forgotten, there was a 1941 fight in the U.S. with Tony Zale vs. Billy Pryor in Milwaukee that was a free show that did a reported 135,172. The record for a paying U.S. show is 63,350 for a 1979 fight with Muhammad Ali vs. Leon Spinks at the Superdome in New Orleans
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In terms of ppv buys and revenues, UFC's big shows still make a lot more than Mania with only Mania 28 coming close.
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On Raw, there was a commercial for the WWE Network plugging all the shows over Mania week, pushing seven hours of Mania coverage (two hour pregame show, one hour postgame show, four hour main show), the Hall of Fame, an Austin podcast with Foley and other special events. Very conspicuous by its absence was the 4/1 NXT special, which with the Nakamura debut and ridiculous secondary market prices, is clearly the most anticipated NXT show in history. The next day, a lot of people were openly not happy about that
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For TV this week Raw will be in Philadelphia on 3/21 and Smackdown in Boston on 3/22. Shane McMahon, Undertaker and Lesnar are not advertised for Philadelphia. Lesnar and Heyman are scheduled for Boston. The final TV will be 3/28 at the Barclays Center with all hands on deck. They will do Raw live as well as tape Smackdown for 3/31
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King Cuerno/El Hijo del Fantasma has been doing some cryptic tweets of late
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Between the recent rumors of him being unhappy with AAA and Season 2 spoilers, he's basically done with AAA and Lucha Underground.
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Question: Other than the money, what did you enjoy most about your time at WCW?
BH: I really didn’t enjoy anything. If I had to sum up what one thing I did like I would probably say wrestling Sting. Sting was a class guy, just a first rate guy. Great guy to work with. Great guy to talk to. Great guy to hang out with. A real friend. No ego. Never saw any ounce of ego. Just a team player all the way and I always had a lot of respect for him. He really made coming to work fun. When I look back today I just have mounds of respect for Sting. When I watch some of our matches back they were actually pretty good. Considering we had absolutely no direction. Absolutely no storyline. Nothing made any sense. He was always able to make sense of the most stupid stuff that Bischoff could come up with. I just have so much respect for the fact he was there as long was and he just was a guy… you never forget guys like Sting. He was just there every day. Showed up for work and did the best he could every night. He made a real difference to guys like me in the dressing room that almost lost hope working there.
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From a recent episode of Bret Hart's podcast show. http://www.wrestlezone.com/news/6861...ng-to-work-fun
Some other sheet news includes: - According to reports, Bret Hart's recovery from prostate cancer surgery is moving along a lot faster than expected.
- In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, tomorrow Kofi Kingston will end up breaking the record for most days combined as a WWE tag team champion at 542 days. Currently tied with John Morrison at 541 combined days although the current record only dates back to 2002.
- Recent prank Kofi Kingston pulled on Twitter making fun of the League of Nation ended up having another prank attached to it. Kofi's supposed cell phone number ends up being the phone number to a restaurant called El Patron Mexica (Del Rio's indie name) instead. https://twitter.com/TrueKofi/status/709463286547357696
- Besides Mick Foley, Jeff Hardy also announced he will be donating his brain for CTE research after his death.https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc..._cte_research/
- Kurt Angle recently debunked rumors of having a meeting with Triple H at this year's Arnold Classic nor having plans to wrestling for the rest of 2016 after his upcoming match against Rey Mysterio.
- According to Superstar Billy Graham, he will be pulling out of this year's Wrestlemania Axxess festivities due to a recent injury becoming a life threatening issue for him. Doctors are very worried any potential infection from the injury will become deadly due to him being a diabetic and a bone piece moving too high up his hip. http://www.pwmania.com/wwe-hall-of-f...nt-to-triple-h
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