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Balls Mahoney, ECW Original, has reportedly passed away at the age of 44. Few details are available at this time, but many of his friends, including Johnny Candido (brother of the late Chris Candido), are reporting his death on Twitter.

http://www.topropepress.com/news/272...ses-away-at-44

Originally Posted by Observer TNA Wrestling, effective immediately, will no longer air a Tuesday night replay on Pop TV. The only airing of the show tomorrow will be at 9 p.m. Eastern and 6 p.m. Pacific time. Impact will have a second airing on Pop TV on Saturday mornings at 11:30 a.m. Eastern time.

Been rumored recently POP TV hasn't been happy where Impact is at the moment compared to the expectations they had for the show. Already removed one upcoming Saturday Impact replay show in favor of showing something else instead.

Originally Posted by Observer WWE Raw last night fell back to the expected normal numbers the week after WrestleMania with 3.52 million viewers. Last week's show did 4.08 million viewers, but the day after WrestleMania is usually very strong. The drop would be expected ... There was a different ratings pattern as the show started with a low first hour, but had a good second hour before dropping somewhat in the third hour ... The three hours of Raw were: 8 p.m. 3.47 million viewers 9 p.m. 3.69 million viewers 10 p.m. 3.43 million viewers

Even though the post-Mania ratings and viewership was lower than usual, this week's drop was a lot smaller than usual. For some historical comparisons, 2015 had around half a million more viewers and 2014 had around a million more for the average.

Yesterday when we reported TNA would be leaving it's Cummings Stations location to move it's headquarters to a warehouse elsewhere in Nashville, we noted it was a move that had been planned for some time. There have been reports, originated by Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer, that the company was being evicted from the space. It's quite possible there is some truth to that, but we are told that the company knew for some time they would be moving to the new location by May 1st. One person in the company described it to me over the weekend that they were moving due to "leases expiring" and that the move has been planned for several months. It's entirely possible the company was told they would not be getting a new lease but this was not a case of the company rushing out under the cover of night or anything that was a sudden move.

In terms of how dire TNA's financial situation is at the moment, they don't have enough spare cash around to fund their next set of tv tapings.

Originally Posted by Observer WWE officials have informed us that Undertaker will be doing two shows next week on the European tour. Undertaker is scheduled to appear on 4/19 in London, which are the Smackdown tapings, and will be doing a 4/20 house show in Newcastle. Yesterday we had been told that he would be off the tour, but it was explained that there was a misunderstanding and he is off most of the tour, with Kane replacing him in all the other cities that he was originally advertised.

Was originally planned to be at all the shows before the sudden pull and now is set for at least 3 shows for the tour. WWE likely realized they could afford to lose both headliners used to sell tickets with Daniel Bryan as the other one who got pulled off the tour.

Paige admitted she doesn't know what wwe is doing with her character and doesn't know what's direction she's going in. Doesn't know if she's a heel or face, etc. Then when she said she had to catch a flight to raw, she said how she doesn't know if they'll have her wrestle. Her favourite women to work with are Sasha, Emma, AJ and Nikki. Someone asked about an intergender match and she said definitely Seth, she loves him and can't wait for him to return. She also mentioned Dean. Then she mentioned the Wyatts as possible partners. Question - If there was anything you could change about the womens division what would it be? She said more storylines, which is when she said there were some coming. "There are storylines coming that you guys will see." She loves the new Women's belt.

Highlights from a recent Q&A session Paige had during Wizard World convention.

Originally Posted by Observer There were early reports that Kalisto's injury was real but the incident on last night's WWE RAW involving Kalisto and the Dudleys was storyline.

Part of the confusion was the doctor treating Kalisto was not from WWE's medical staff and instead a local hired for the show.

Originally Posted by Observer WWE superstar Sin Cara got into a weird twitter feud with a Texas Restaurant. Note to everyone: nothing good ever comes from a twitter feud.

http://www.rickey.org/wwe-star-sin-c...#ixzz45cxlzG5L

Originally Posted by Observer The lawsuit filed last week by Rene Goguen (Rene Dupree) over not getting royalties from the WWE Network is already dead. Goguen's lawyers pulled the suit today, likely after finding out from Jerry McDevitt last week of a contract that they were not aware of that Goguen signed in 2011 which addressed the issue in question. They sent a note of voluntarily dismissing the case to U.S. District Court in Connecticut, where they had filed the case last week.

Originally Posted by Observer Cody Hall was being held in the hospital in Japan for observation but can move and it was said that he dodged a bullet because there were some scary moments. Hall was largely unable to move after Nick Jackson came off the balcony with a flip dive and he was one of the people who caught him on yesterday's show at Sumo Hall. He was rushed to the hospital, where as noted, they found no bone breaks or signs of a concussion and diagnosed it as a severe stinger.

Some other sheet news includes:

• Ricochet/Prince Puma on Twitter recently denied rumors of him possibly getting involved with WWE's upcoming Cruiserweight tournament. Stated he will be in Japan during that time competing in the Super Jrs Tournament.
• Recent article on WWE's website revealed the newest class of wrestlers signed for their Performance Center. http://www.wwe.com/shows/wwenxt/arti...r-new-recruits
• According to reports, the WWE head doctor's lawsuit against CM Punk is expected to start on June 27th. He's suing both Punk and Colt Cabana after Punk's claims of medical malpractice during a Cabana podcast episode. https://w3.courtlink.lexisnexis.com/...BF0L0AABHFC0LD
• Observer recently speculated the WWE is likely going to do a wave of roster cuts soon if their past history with hiring a new Performance Center class after Mania is any indication.
• Shane McMahon is currently facing a lawsuit in regards to his prior job in China. https://twitter.com/mookieghana/stat...21007079112704
• Kurt Angle recently decided to have one more wrestling match for 2016 with a match against Matt Hardy set to occur at a Northeast Wrestling show this August. Same card also has a Jeff Hardy vs Jushin Liger match set. http://www.northeastwrestling.com/20160827.shtml
• For those interested, Wrestling Inc website had a recent article breaking down the ill fated Brawl For All 1998 tournament and its negative aftermath within the WWE. Its a 2 part series but includes interviews from people involved with the event at the time. https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc...r_all_in_1998/