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New rumor going around the net for Mania teases at a potential multi-women's match with the twist being a New Gen vs Old Gen tag match. Would likely involve Mickie James, Kelly Kelly, and whoever else the WWE can get to show at Mania for the Old Gen team.

Spoiler tag used since its related to rumored Mania plans.

Originally Posted by Observer Raw started lower than last week, but declined far less during the show, and ended up at 3.07 million viewers, down one percent from last week. It was the least-watched Monday Raw that didn't go up against a major sports event or fall on a major holiday, dating back to 1997. Unlike the Charlotte vs. Sasha Banks title match, which was a huge ratings hit as the main event, the lone ratings positive out of Charlotte vs. Bayley is that the third hour number didn't fall at the same pace as it usually does ... The three hours were: 8 p.m. 3.20 million viewers 9 p.m. 3.15 million viewers 10 p.m. 2.91 million viewers For a comparison, last week's three hours were 3.34 million, 3.17 million, and 2.84 million.

Drop itself was really small compared to last week but still a horrible number considering its Road to Mania season.

Originally Posted by Observer Continuing the WrestleMania season tradition of announcing Hall of Fame inductees before Raw on Mondays, WWE added Teddy Long to the 2017 Hall of Fame class this week. WWE chose Fox Sports to break the news, with an article also appearing on their own website. Long joins Kurt Angle and The Rock 'n' Roll Express as the already announced members of this year's class.

Originally Posted by Observer Vince Vaughn has been tapped for a role in "Fighting with my Family," the film that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's production company is producing about Paige and her family. Vaughn will play an "80's wrestling star who squandered his money and opportunities because he didn't have the capacity to handle his fame."

Originally Posted by Observer Kelly Kelly was backstage at Raw, with WWE posting a video on their YouTube channel teasing her making an appearance at WrestleMania.

Link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RSOBndb580

Originally Posted by Observer Ring of Honor has announced Jay Lethal vs. Cody Rhodes in a Texas bullrope match and The Kingdom defending their trios titles against Silas Young, Beer City Bruiser, and a mystery partner for the promotion's WrestleMania weekend show in Lakeland, Florida on April 1st. Marty Scurll defending the TV title against Lio Rush is also set for ROH's 15th Anniversary PPV on March 10th in Las Vegas. In addition to the Honor Rising cards that were released, NJPW announced a Togi Makabe 20th anniversary show for February 21st at Korakuen Hall. Makabe will team with Tomoaki Honma against Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano in the show's main event.

Originally Posted by Observer Kazuchika Okada is scheduled to face Tiger Mask W in a non-title match for NJPW on March 6th.

Originally Posted by PWI According to MMAFighting, Brock Lesnar has notified UFC about his retirement from MMA. Lesnar has not made an official announcement but a UFC spokesperson has confirmed that they were notified. Lesnar has also been removed from USADA's drug testing pool, as he is no longer officially a member of the UFC. He was suspended till July 15, 2017 but his suspension is frozen now since he is no longer in the testing pool. If he chooses to return to UFC at a later date, he will have to serve the remaining five months of his suspension before he can fight again.

Originally Posted by Observer In what was a formality given how the process had gone up until this point, Linda McMahon was confirmed as administrator of President Donald Trump's Small Business Administration on Tuesday morning. The United States Senate voted on McMahon's nomination and confirmed her by a vote of 81-19. She was previously approved out of the Senate's Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee by an 18-1 vote.

Originally Posted by Observer Melina Roucka (Rosa Mendes) announced her retirement today[Feb. 13]. She hadn't wrestled since April 2015, when she was written out of storylines after finding out she was pregnant. She made the announcement on her daughter's first birthday.

Originally Posted by Observer Contenders Clothing, a men's active lifestyle apparel company, has partnered with WWE to co-brand WWE boxer briefs called the WWE Contenders Collection. There will be adult and youth boxer briefs of John Cena, Roman Reigns, A.J. Styles, Dean Ambrose, Randy Savage, Ric Flair and Steve Austin. They will be available for order on 2/21.

Originally Posted by Observer Dorian Roldan on Twitter confirmed for the first time the Lucha Underground deal on Netflix. He only said it would be available in the spring. The target date was this week and it will be available in both the U.S. and Mexico.

Originally Posted by PWI When TNA tapes Impact Wrestling from 3/2-3/5, they will back in the original Impact Zone, soundstage 21. They had not taped in that soundstage for years due to it not being available as it was booked by other productions on days TNA wanted to use it. This is the same soundstage that the company had a full-time lease for years ago.

Originally Posted by PWI New Japan World added their own tribute to the late Chavo Guerrero Sr. The streaming service has added two WWF Light Heavyweight Title matches between Guerrero and WWE Hall of Famer Tatsumi Fujinami from 1980 - the first from 5/9/80 from the Fukuoka Sports Arena and the second from 8/9/80 at Shea Stadium in Queens, NY. You can watch free at http://njpwworld.com/search/tag/man_45

Originally Posted by ProWrestlingSheet Pro Wrestling Sheet has learned there were big plans for the Emmalina character … but after multiple rehearsals, producers realized she couldn’t pull off what they were looking to accomplish. Sources tell us Emmalina was intended to be a throwback to characters like Sable and The Kat — however, delays were caused after officials felt like she wasn’t committing enough to the role and ultimately they decided to just let Emma be evil again. We’re told producers are still big fans of the character’s concept though — which is why they held hope it would work out — so it’s always possible that they’ll hold onto it for another female in the future.

Gotta get rid of this thing..

Just in case. #FestivalOfFriendship pic.twitter.com/khGCIoFVCP

— Johnny Gargano (@JohnnyGargano) February 14, 2017

Some other sheet news includes:

• WWE was recently involved in a robbery incident with Heath Slater and The Ascension having their rental car broken into and stuff stolen during a house show yesterday.
• Recent episode of the Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling podcast had Observer's Dave Meltzer as the guest. https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/t...21_00_00-08_00
• In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, yesterday was the 20th anniversary of the "HBK loses his smile" promo and vacating the WWF title.
• WWE announced yesterday they recent agreed to work with Bill Simmons on an Andre the Giant documentary. Simmons had been trying for years to get the project made but for unknown reasons the WWE kept refusing to help.
• Tonight is the series finale of "Legends with JBL" show on the Network. Jimmy Hart will be the final guest.
• British promotion PCW recent responded to growing backlash in regards to holding a memorial show for a former wrestler and refusing to donate the money to Kris Travis' family or cancer related charities. They are still keeping the money but will be holding another special event later in the year for charity. https://twitter.com/PCW_UK/status/830104861005971457
• Rumor going around the net is Kelly Kelly recently agreed to a 3 year deal to return to the WWE.