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Originally Posted by Pro Wrestling Sheet I was told that when they were coming up with different pitches for the match that Finn was gonna have as a replacement for him versus Sister Abigail, one of the things that was brought up was a 4 on 4 match where he would team with Karl Anderson, Luke Gallows and AJ Styles to basically have a Bullet Club reunion of sorts.

Link to the podcast episode: http://www.prowrestlingsheet.com/epi...g-sheet-radio/

Originally Posted by WrestleInc AJ Styles was apparently not the first choice to fill in for Bray Wyatt against Finn Balor at WWE TLC last Sunday. Dave Meltzer reported in the latest issue of The Wrestling Observer Newsletter that Chris Jericho was contacted to face Balor, but he is on tour right now with Fozzy. It's not known if WWE contacted anyone else before asking Styles, who was overseas for the SmackDown tour in Chile.

Originally Posted by WrestleInc We noted before that WWE Hall of Famer Booker T would be appearing at the WWE NXT "Takeover: WarGames" event in his hometown of Houston, likely for the pre-show panel. WWE posted this video of Booker talking about the WarGames match and how excited he is. Booker says a match like WarGames is a history making match and he still has bumps & bruises from the WarGames match he and brother Stevie Ray worked at WCW Fall Brawl 1993. That match saw Sting, Dustin Rhodes, The British Bulldog and The Shockmaster defeat Harlem Heat, Vader and Sid Vicious. Booker says you only have so much time in this business to make history and while WarGames is one thing, the moment is everything. Booker says the competitors will be able to look back in 50 years and say they were a part of the biggest events & greatest spectacles in the business.

Link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lLPjp6KzVo

Originally Posted by Observer AXS is airing the Kenny Omega vs. Tetsuya Naito G-1 finals tonight. There are reasons, because of the danger involved, that it was not my favorite match this year, but it got voted best match of G-1, and when you consider the competition, that's an incredible honor. Tickets for ROH Final Battle on 12/15 at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York are now sold out. Tickets have been put on sale for the final TV taping of the year on 12/16 at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia. New Japan has announced that they are making more tickets available for U.S. fans for the 1/4 Tokyo Dome starting at midnight tonight Eastern time and 9 p.m. Pacific time. The original allotment of U.S. tickets sold out the first day. There was a lot of talk last night about Cow Palace Wrestling coming up in new material released on the 1963 Kennedy assassination. Some have taken it as an implication that Roy Shire, the promoter, was an FBI informant.

Link to NJPW tickets news: http://eplus.jp/ib-njpw/ , Cow Palace links: https://deadspin.com/the-pro-wrestli...ing-1819912282 , https://www.archives.gov/files/resea...d-32113668.pdf

Originally Posted by Observer Jeff Hardy will be launching an art gallery for his online web store on Tuesday featuring works he's been painting with his left hand only (due to his shoulder surgery). For more info you can go to JeffHardyBrand.com

Originally Posted by Observer Jake Hager (Jack Swagger) vs. Eli Drake vs. Johnny Impact will headline the 11/25 WrestleCade show in Winston-Salem, NC which goes head-to-head with WWE's Starrcade show.

Originally Posted by WrestleInc WWE has a new poll asking fans who they want to see RAW General Manager Kurt Angle face if he were to wrestle another match following his return at WWE TLC last Sunday - AJ Styles, Bray Wyatt, WWE Universal Champion Brock Lesnar, Braun Strowman, Cesaro, RAW Tag Team Champion Dean Ambrose, Finn Bálor, SmackDown Commissioner Shane McMahon, John Cena, Kevin Owens, WWE Champion Jinder Mahal, Randy Orton, Roman Reigns, Sami Zayn, RAW Tag Team Champion Seth Rollins, Samoa Joe, Shinsuke Nakamura or WWE Intercontinental Champion The Miz. As of this writing, 33% voted for Styles, 11% went with Cesaro, 8% for Shane, 7% for Nakamura, 6% for Joe, 4% for Rollins and 4% for Miz. The rest received 3% or less. Wyatt received 0%.

Originally Posted by PWI In playing off the main event of the original Starrcade, featuring Ric Flair vs. Harley Race in a steel cage, the Smackdown brand event will be headlined by two steel cage matches: WWE champion Jinder Mahal vs. Shinsuke Nakamura and WWE Smackdown Women's champion Natalya vs. Charlotte Flair, Ric Flair's daughter. Additional matches currently planned for the event feature: *WWE United States champion AJ Styles vs. Baron Corbin vs. Rusev. *WWE Tag Team champions The New Day vs. The Usos: Tornado Tag Match *Bobby Roode vs. Dolph Ziggler. *Breezango vs. Aiden English & Mike Kanellis. *The Rock N' Roll Express vs. Gallows & Anderson. *WWE Hall of Famer Ricky Steamboat, Jeff and Matt Hardy, Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn to appear

Originally Posted by PWI Reno Scum, the West Coast tag team brought in to Impact Wrestling at the onset of the Anthem regime, announced they have departed the company. Adam Thornstowe tweeted the following: Parted ways with @IMPACTWRESTLING Thankful for the opportunity and support they gave me through injury. Let’s do it again down the road. Oi! — Reno Scum Thornstowe (@Thornstowe_Scum) October 27, 2017 The team had been brought in by Jeff Jarrett but had to take time off when Thornstowe tore his bicep. The team returned to action earlier this month and have been working for a number of promotions on the West Coast including APW and Championship Wrestling from Hollywood. The team's exit follows the recent departures of Robbie E, Low Ki, Eddie Kingston and Davey Richards.

Originally Posted by PWI House of Hardcore's 4/7/18 debut in New Orleans, LA on Wrestlemania eve are now on sale at www.Wrestlecon.com. This will be the first undertaking for the Tommy Dreamer promotion over the course of a Wrestlemania weekend. HOH will present the final live event at The Sugar Mill that weekend for Wrestlecon, with bell time scheduled for one hour after WWE NXT's Takeover event has ended.

Originally Posted by PWI LOS ANGELES, CA – This week's episode of Chasing Glory with Lilian Garcia on PodcastOne features second-generation WWE star Charlotte Flair discussing her rise in the WWE, the health of her father, Ric Flair, becoming an author, being compared to her father, overcoming abusive relationships, her brother Reid Flair's tragic death, adapting to the wrestling business, her fight for a SmackDown Title, working with Natalia, and more. Below are highlights from the interview. On Ric Flair’s Health Flair: “Oh, he’s doing really well... On Her Brother Reid’s Drug Overdose Flair: “I got so frustrated towards the end. He was in Japan doing well before he passed. He asked me to promote something for him, and I didn’t want to because I was just angry at him for making mistakes, and I have a lot of guilt - if I had done things differently. But that’s my thing about the book. I was getting to write my letter to him, letting him know that what he wanted to do and become, I’m making sure happens. And I still haven’t really accepted that he’s gone…And I know it’s hard on my mom, for sure, hard on my mom that the only thing the world sees is her son dying of an overdose, instead of what a beautiful soul he was… So I think getting to write about him and what he meant to me in the book, meant a lot.” On Getting Out of an Abusive Relationship Flair: “At that time, we were young, and he had family issues as well, and I was constantly trying to make up for those - but when, in reality, we were both in unhealthy situations. And I kept thinking, 'Well maybe if I looked a certain way or acted a certain way, or if I did this better he wouldn’t do xyz.' But it really had nothing to do with me, so I was continuing to make excuses. And when you’re in a codependent relationship like that, you’re listening to what the person says, but even though they do something else and say, ‘Oh, I’m sorry. It will never happen again,’ but that’s not really how it is if the behavior never changes.”

link to the episode: https://www.podcastone.com/episode/Charlotte-Flair

Originally Posted by PWI Tickets for the 25th Anniversary episode of Monday Night Raw on 1/22/18 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY will go on sale officially on 11/3 with an online pre-sale a few days prior. We are told that the plan for that show is to bring in legends from the past to make an appearance. We have also learned there are plans to release an official book commemorating the anniversary. WWE RAW: The First 25 Years by Dean Miller and Jake Black is scheduled to be released in May 2018. The book will be a hardcover coffee table style book we are told. As we noted, there will also be a 25th Anniversary of Raw DVD set.

Originally Posted by WrestleInc In a Los Angeles Times article, it looks like ROH's parent company, Sinclair Broadcast Group, is a bit closer to taking over Tribune Media. A vote was cast by Tribune's shareholders and more than 99% were in favor of the deal to bring Sinclair into the fold. What this would mean for Ring of Honor is being in 108 total TV markets - 39 of the top 50 - and it would cover about 72% of U.S. homes. The deal would still need to be reviewed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), but if it does happen, ROH will be available to an even wider audience on weekly basis.

Some more details about ROH's market expansion within the near future. Link to AL Times article: http://www.latimes.com/business/holl...019-story.html


Some other sheet news includes:

• Mick Foley revealed the list of locations for his upcoming tour for his new Christmas themed book. https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...-cell.html?p=1
• Recent episode of The Herd with Colin Cowherd radio show had Jim Ross as the guest talking about the Cena-Reigns promo war, Cena on the road to being the next Rock in terms of non-wrestling success, and issues with WWE's traveling schedule. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...ting-personal/
• Vice recently had an article lambasting the WWE's attempts to whitewash the Ultimate Warrior's hateful past in order to make their charity using his name more marketable.
• Update to recent news regarding the former general manager of WCPW as Adam Blampied was recently fired from his new job with Cultaholic due to the fallout from his recent allegations involving him manipulating women for explicit photos. https://twitter.com/Cultaholic/statu...29669858136065

Some stuff from the TPWW Frontpage:

• R-Truth Undergoes Surgery
• Videos: Enzo/TMZ, Full WCW vs. nWo WarGames Match, Undertaker, More
• Triple H to Wrestle on Five Shows of Upcoming WWE UK Tour