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Originally Posted by TMZ John Cena is on Ford's $#&% list for allegedly flipping his new $500k '17 Ford GT -- violating a contract with the company -- and they're takin' him to court. According to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Michigan, Cena was "selected from thousands of applicants for the opportunity to purchase the Ford GT." Ford says Cena signed a deal in which he agreed to hold onto the car for at least 2 years ... prior to unloading it. However, Ford claims, soon after receiving the car, Cena flipped it for a big profit. "Mr. Cena has unfairly made a large profit from the unauthorized resale flip of the vehicle, and Ford has suffered additional damages and losses, including, but not limited to, loss of brand value, ambassador activity, and customer goodwill due to the improper sale."

Link: http://www.tmz.com/2017/11/30/john-c...wsuit-ford-gt/

Originally Posted by Observer The Young Bucks & Hangman Page will be defending their Ring of Honor World Six-Man Tag Team Championship against Flip Gordon, Dragon Lee & Titan at next month's Final Battle pay-per-view. ROH announced the match yesterday after it was the only thing for the card not revealed at their two most recent sets of television tapings. Dave Meltzer previously reported that Gordon would be teaming with two wrestlers from CMLL in the match, though it hadn't yet been confirmed who they would be at that point.

Link: http://www.rohwrestling.com/news/int...s-final-battle

With Impact giving up its IP property claim on the Broken gimmick, Matt Hardy has opened a Vanguard 1 twitter account.

Hardy link: https://twitter.com/Vanguard1AAR/sta...22454653407234

Originally Posted by Observer NJPW's King of Pro Wrestling show from 10/9 at Sumo Hall in Tokyo airs as a three-hour special on AXS TV tomorrow night from 8-11 p.m. The key matches are Kazuchika Okada vs. Evil for the IWGP title, Tetsuya Naito vs. Tomohiro Ishii, Kushida vs Will Ospreay for the IWGP jr title, Kota Ibushi & Juice Robinson vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi & Togi Makabe, Kenny Omega & Cody & Marty Scurll vs. Yoshi-Hashi & Baretta & Jado and more. Bad Luck Fale's pro wrestling school in New Zealand is open with Fale and Dempsey Walker, a boxer and Muay Thai champion, as trainers, teaching both pro wrestling as well as striking and conditioning.

Bad Luke Fale link: http://www.faledojo.com/

Originally Posted by PWI Following tonight's WWE NXT taping at Full Sail University, official for WWE NXT Takeover: Philadelphia is Johnny Gargano challenging NXT champion Andrade "Cien" Almas.

Originally Posted by PWI New Japan Pro Wrestling English Youtube Channel debuts December 1, 2017 As reported earlier this week on PWInsider.com, New Japan Pro Wrestling has launched an English language YouTube channel. NJPW issued the following today: The New Japan Pro Wrestling team is working hard on global branding and this is the next step. The official New Japan Pro Wrestling English language Youtube channel will feature exclusive content, interviews, pre and post match comments from all New Japan Pro Wrestling stars including subtitles.

Originally Posted by PWI The 500th episode of CBS Radio's The Taz Show will stream and broadcast live tomorrow at www.TazShow.com with Chris Jericho, John Hennigan, Jim Ross and Today Show's Katie Lindenoll all appearing as guests. The show will air from 12 PM noon to 3 PM. Congratulations to Taz and his entire team.

Originally Posted by PWI WWE filed a trademark on the term "Kidz4Kidz" on 10/31. The name is going to be used as part of the company's community outreach programs as the description with the following noted, "Community outreach services in the fields of bullying, diversity, inclusion and pediatric cancer; organizing and conducting volunteer programs in the fields of bullying, diversity, inclusion and pediatric cancer; charitable services, namely, organizing and conducting volunteer programs and community service projects aimed at increasing awareness of bullying, diversity, inclusion and pediatric cancer; administration of a program to promote community service; charitable services, namely, organizing and conducting volunteer programs and community service projects; charitable services, namely, organizing and conducting volunteer programs and community service projects for children."

Future Stars Of Wrestling has reached an agreement to join the Global Wrestling Network. FSW will provide GWN with thousands of hours from its extensive library, featuring Impact Champion Eli Drake, Matt Hardy, John Morrison, Kenny King, Reno Scum, Willie Mack, Lance Hoyt, Kevin Kross, Sami Callihan, Brian Cage along with the many superstars FSW has had come thru its doors including Ricochet, Rich Swann, AR Fox, Tony Nese, Chris Sabin, Austin Aries, Keith Lee, Kevin Nash, Chris Masters, Paul London, Brian Kendrick, Davey Boy Smith Jr, Roderick Strong, ACH, Young Bucks, Trevor Lee, Shane Strickland, Jeff Cobb, and more. To see more FSW footage go to www.youtube.com/futurestarswrestling. Defy Wrestling announced that not only will a match between Randy Myers and Sami Callihan from DEFY9 be shown on this week's Impact Wrestling but the Washington state-based promotion will be a part of the Global Wrestling Network.

Originally Posted by WrestleInc After running the last set of Impact Wrestling tapings in Canada, the next set of tapings will take place from Universal Studios in Orlando, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. The tapings are currently scheduled for January 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th. This will tape Impact Wrestling through March 2018. There are plans for the March tapings to take place somewhere in Canada but not in Ottawa as it was hard to draw a crowd there. The Observer notes that it's believed Impact will hold more tapings in Canada because they are less expensive to hold there and the company is trying to do everything they can right now to trim the budget and not lose money.

Originally Posted by Observer Over Thanksgiving week, The Young Bucks merchandise surpassed Rick & Morty for the first time to become the best sellers at Hot Topic. The two major items, which were instant sellouts, was a new headband with the Bullet Club logo in neon orange and green, which sold completely out on 11/18, the first day it was available, and then more was put in stock on 11/22, and it sold out by the next morning. Hot Topic sold out of three new pro wrestling shirts during its Thanksgiving week sale, the best seller being the “Cease and Desist” T-shirt, the current seller overall at the chain, as well as a Bullet Club USA shirt and the most popular of the Kenny Omega shirts.

Originally Posted by Observer Matt Hardy, and likely Jeff when he returns, will be doing the broken character, although I believe it will be termed Woken instead of Broken. Anthem has changed its policy regarding intellectual property, some of which is surprising as they stated to Sports Illustrated that “Our new talent agreements all incorporate language that allow talent to continue to use their Impact personas after they leave the company. We are working with our legal team to amend our existing agreements to extend this to all of our current and former talent.” That’s almost unheard of in television. In particular, the agreement with the Hardys is that the Hardys will now retain ownership and all rights to the personas they used in TNA. The story behind it is that the Hardys were able to show financial and contractual digressions which left Anthem in a bad way, and this may be a public saving face for the company of just saying that they are being good guys and will be letting talent keep their gimmicks because of the feeling that it would end up that way based on a precedent that would be set in the Hardys case.

Some more details regarding Anthem dropping their fight for the Broken gimmick.

Originally Posted by Observer Even though it went head-to-head with Starrcade, the WrestleCade show in Winston-Slam was said to be the biggest to date and ran as an iPPV. The biggest news was the Cornette retirement speech. The bad news is that the cash box was stolen after the 11/24 show, which drew about 800 fans. Supposedly they had surveillance cameras and there is video.

Originally Posted by Observer Based on the schedule, it looks like the 1,000th episode of Smackdown would be on October 16, 2018. So they are likely to make that one a major show. What’s notable is that’s five days before a Raw PPV and if they are doing a show that’s expected to be big ratings, it would also be smart to promote the Raw feuds on it. So they’ll have both the Raw 25th anniversary and the Smackdown milestone show next year

Originally Posted by Observer Regarding all the women that were called up and given the timing, the natural inclination is to think women’s Royal Rumble. Right now nobody has been talking about a women’s Rumble as if it’s been green-lit, and there are obvious pro and con debates on the issue. My thought is that it should happen, a 20 women Rumble would be about right, but the question is would you be burning out the concept before the men’s match by doing an identical women’s match that would have to last a minimum of 30 plus minutes? Still, with the emphasis on women’s wrestling, my thought is a women’s Royal Rumble, like women’s Money in the Bank, should be an annual event. The reason for all the women call-ups is just that the feeling was with the same seven or eight women on each brand being featured, you’ve pretty much burned through most of the match-ups and there had become a sameness to the women’s divisions, and this would shake things up. Really, on the Raw side, they still hadn’t gotten to the Bliss vs. Jax program that was being built up and has subsided, and you’ve still got Asuka’s run and Paige was coming back either way (although originally earmarked for Smackdown). Smackdown was always building to Charlotte’s title win and there was still the Charlotte vs. Tamina feud they were building toward, but that side did need more new names ... The book on Logan is that she’s a good worker but she hadn’t gotten any push in NXT and really was in developmental for a short period of time. It’s not a negative on her, but it does say that those in charge are looking more heavily at working ability for the women than ever before with that decision, unless there is some gimmick or idea that we don’t know about that is why that decision was made. But she was just brought up as part of a group, and maybe the idea is that she can be the workhorse of a team with Liv Morgan. I guess the next few weeks will give a better idea

Originally Posted by Observer The ten most watched shows on the WWE Network this past week were: 1. Survivor Series; 2. NXT on 11/22; 3. NXT Takeover Houston; 4. Table for 3 for Flair, Sting and Steamboat; 5. WWE 365 Kevin Owens; 6. WWE 24 Bill Goldberg; 7. Table for 3 with The Shield; 8. 205 Live on 11/21; 9. WrestleMania; 10. Table for 3 with Sean Waltman, Scott Hall and DDP

Sources within IMPACT Wrestling have told us that current IMPACT Wrestling Knockout Laurel Van Ness aka Chelsea Green recently asked for her release from the company after the most recent set of tapings. While IMPACT has yet to grant her a release we are told it should be coming shortly ... If her release is granted she will join MJ Jenkins, Madison Rayne, and Taryn Terrell as Knockouts who have left the company recently.

Some other sheet news includes:

• Beyond Wrestling announced they have signed a multi-year streaming deal with Powerbomb.tv to carry Beyond programming. https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...ombtv.html?p=1
• Uproxx held a recent interview with Carmella talking about fan backlash to her winning the MitB case, being separated from Enzo and Cass, and the mixed gender match between Becky and Ellsworth. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...irst-mitb-win/
• Figure Four Films recently released a trailer for the Jack Gallagher documentary currently available to rent ($5.99) or buy ($10.99) on Vimeo. https://vimeo.com/ondemand/anextraor...eman/244059333
• According to ProWrestlingTees, over 417k Bullet Club shirts have been sold at Hot Topic stores in the past 4 months. https://twitter.com/OneHourTees/stat...76386569957376
• WWE's longtime composer Jim Johnston is currently rumored to have been recently released by the company. WWE's also rumored to be canceling their Uncaged album series on iTunes due to Johnston no longer working for the company.
• According to the Observer, Lucha Underground is currently scouting for new female wrestlers for Season 4.
• Also according to the Observer, Impact Wrestling currently has no plans to hold their annual Genesis PPV live next year. They do have plans to hold a special event during the first week of next year but as a taped event.

Some stuff from TPWW Frontpage:

• WWE: 365 With AJ, Sgt. Slaughter, Singh Bros Update, Stephanie McMahon
• Rumor / Possible Rumor Killer on Lio Rush’s Status With WWE