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Originally Posted by Observer NEW JAPAN G-1 CLIMAX TOURNAMENT LIVE AT 5:30 A.M. EASTERN SATURDAY MORNING FROM KORAKUEN HALL ON NEW JAPAN WORLD Michael Elgin & Ren Narita vs. Yoshi-Hashi & Sho Evil & Bushi vs. Bad Luck Fale & Tanga Loa Jay White & Yoh vs. Minoru Suzuki & Desperado Hiroshi Tanahashi & David Finlay vs. Hangman Page & Chase Owens Kazuchika Okada & Gedo vs. Togi Makabe & Toa Henare Toru Yano vs. Kota Ibushi Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Seiya Sanada Tetsuya Naito vs. Juice Robinson Kenny Omega vs. Tama Tonga Tomohiro Ishii vs. Hirooki Goto

Originally Posted by Observer ROH has had interest in C.M. Punk returning, presumably for the MSG show, but we're told that is a long shot. But feelers have been sent.

Originally Posted by Observer Titus O'Neil as a follow-up to what he wrote earlier in the week, wrote: "I'm nowhere near perfect, make mistakes as well as I have had to ask for forgiveness and give it as well. We can all grow in various areas of our lives. Accept full responsibility when you're wrong and in due season through actions, forgiveness and respect comes."

Originally Posted by Observer Indies Roundup: Impact announced Scarlett Bordeaux debuting with the promotion soon. Destiny Wrestling on 8/25 at the Battlarts Academy in Mississauga, ONT with Sami Callihan vs. Josh Alexander in a cage match and Michael Elgin vs. Petey Williams. Kagetsu vs. Viper for the World of Stardom title headlines Sunday's Stardom show in Osaka. Chelsea Green pulled out of U.K. shows this month due to a working visa issue she has to get taken care of.

Originally Posted by PWI Impact released the opening video for Sunday's Slammiversary PPV: Slammiversary is the night where passionate fans from around the world come together. To believe. To celebrate. And to dream. Here's a #FirstLook at the Cold Open from this Sunday's Slammiversary LIVE on PPV and @FiteTV. This one is going to be for you. #SlamXVI pic.twitter.com/csxaZ38Tze — IMPACT (@IMPACTWRESTLING) July 20, 2018

Link: https://twitter.com/IMPACTWRESTLING/...28660584652800

Originally Posted by PWI According to the USADA website, Brock Lesnar has been tested once ince re-entering the testing pool in advance of a planned UFC return in 2019. Lesnar's test was done sometime after July 11th.

Originally Posted by PWI The 7/19 edition of Impact did 275,000 overnight viewers, down from last week's 284,000 overnight viewers.

Originally Posted by PWI In regard to the teased WWE announcement this Monday, there’s been talk in the last several weeks of a women’s PPV featuring talents from the main roster coming out of a report from ProWrestlingSheet.com. Several female performers in the company have confirmed to PWInsider.com that they were told recently it was something the company has been working on developing. PWInsider.com has been told by one source the show would take place in September at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, Long Island. There are a number of Sundays open at the venue. WWE does not have any events currently listed for Sunday 9/30, so that could be the date. That said, WWE does not have any TV tapings scheduled for the Northeast and Monday 10/1, they are in Seattle for Raw, all of which obviously would make staging such an event a lot harder than usual. Attempts to get WWE to confirm thus far have been unsuccessful. Stay tuned.

Originally Posted by Observer ROH and MSG reached an agreement to drop legal action in exchange for getting their date back. The description was that MSG had no intentions of taking a lawsuit bullet for WWE. When asked by the New York Post how things changed, Koff said that MSG were the people to ask. Essentially after the legal situation got started, MSG called and offered them back the date.

Originally Posted by Observer WWE is looking at promoting Hogan’s redemption by doing charitable things

Meltzer stated Hogan's recent Boys & Girls Club award was mainly due to WWE's efforts behind the scenes and less of Hogan being sincere on doing charity for non-PR reasons.

Originally Posted by Observer While not shown on television, at the arena, they aired a video on the late Bruno Sammartino, all-time wrestling hero in Pittsburgh. The crowd cheered this video loudly, as one current wrestler after another sang the praises of the man who was the childhood hero to some, and their parents childhood hero to many others. Except when Reigns was shown. It didn’t matter what he said. The dye has been cast with Reigns. Daniel Bryan can endorse him and the fans will boo the guy they’d never boo. The Rock can endorse him and the same thing not only would happen, but already did happen.

Originally Posted by Observer In the dressing room after the Cow Palace show, after both Juice Robinson and Jay White apologized to Jim Ross, apparently Josh Barnett spoke to both of them, White in particular about why he was so upset about what happened. Ross, who had Barnett on his podcast, didn’t say anything negative about Robinson and White and blamed it on the crew that set up the ringside area for not hooking the barricades together so that they wouldn’t tumble over on impact. New Japan’s timekeeper in another whip into the barricades during that match ended up with the barricades smashing his knee. Ross is doing better, but was in pain all week to the point he couldn’t sleep laying down in his bed and had to sleep in a chair for a few days

Originally Posted by Observer Robinson had his broken left hand examined this past week and he hoped it would have healed. When he broke it, they said he’d need a cast for six weeks. That would be in a few weeks. He was told it was healing well, but slower than expected and he would probably need the hand in the cast until late September

Originally Posted by Observer Jeff Cobb debuts for ROH on the 7/21 tapings in Atlanta. He’s got four dates, which would be Atlanta, the 8/25 tapings in Philadelphia and 9/28 and 9/29 in Las Vegas. The impression we have is that he’s chosen ROH over Impact because he loves working for New Japan and with ROH he can get off if New Japan wants him for a tour while if he signs with Impact, they won’t stop him from working with anyone, but Impact tapings would have to be his first priority

Originally Posted by Observer According to those at Impact, the story that PCO was offered a contract and turned it down aren’t true. They claim PCO was just asked to come in for a taping to put Brian Cage over and that was all that was offered to start with

Originally Posted by Observer Regarding a potential sale of WWE to FOX down the line, the bidding for much of FOX’s assets, such as cable stations like the regional sports networks and FX and its movie studios, looks to have been bid up to a $71 billion sale to Disney. Comcast had offered $65 billion but Disney came back with a higher bid and Comcast dropped out of the bidding, but Comcast is interested in purchasing Sky in the U.K. The point of this is the price got so high than FOX has far more cash then they expected to get out of the sale

Originally Posted by Observer While not confirmed, there is a lot of talk about Undertaker wrestling at SummerSlam

Originally Posted by Observer Charlotte is scheduled to start back on the road on 7/31. She explained her problems with her implants. She first got implants at the age of 21 and they were saline implants that leaked. She got them redone with silicon, and they also leaked, actually both of them. She didn’t know but she had started getting a lot of pain in her back and in different parts of her body. She didn’t know what was wrong because she couldn’t remember an injury. So she finally got checked and they included a mammogram which found that her pain came from her silicon leaking to other parts of her body, so she her breasts redone to prevent further leakage. Because of WrestleMania and being booked on Backlash, and shooting for the ESPN Body issue, she made the call to just work through it, get the surgery after Backlash, so she’d be back before SummerSlam

Originally Posted by Observer Regarding Ellsworth, he is not under contract and just being used on a per date basis. Since this comeback, he has only been working TV dates and no house shows. This run has helped his indie bookings as there are very few guys featured on WWE television these days that indie promoters can use. But that also means they have no long-term plans for his role since if they had a long-term idea, he’d be signed

Originally Posted by Observer Barbara Blank, 30, who was with WWE as Kelly Kelly from 2006 to 2012, is open for a return. She is currently working on a movie and a new clothing line. She left wrestling and married former NHL player Sheldon Souray, but the couple separated this past October. She was a regular castmate on the TV show “WAGS,” a realty show on E! about wives and girlfriends of sports stars (Brandi Runnels is on another version of that show currently) from 2015 to 2017, with her run with the show ending when she got separated. She is also working on a clothing line

Came from a recent interview Kelly Kelly had with website WrestlingNews.co: http://wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/2018...in-wwe-return/

Originally Posted by Observer Matt Riddle pulled out of 8/18 and 8/19 dates with Over the Top Wrestling in Ireland and will be replaced by Juice Robinson. Interesting that coincides with SummerSlam weekend given the talk that WWE has reconsidered its position on Riddle after four months ago not even allowing him to work at Axxess. Time will tell.

Originally Posted by Observer The ten most-watched shows of the past week on the WWE Network were: 1. Extreme Rules; 2. Table for 3 with Eric Bischoff, John Layfield and Bruce Prichard; 3. Extreme Rules postshow; 4. Something Else to Wrestle with on C.M. Punk; 5. Extreme Rules preshow; 6. NXT on 7/11; 8. Table for 3 with Trish Stratus, Lita and Bliss; 9. 205 Live on 7/10; 10. 2018 Money in the Bank

Originally Posted by WrestleInc Above is a preview for the "Elias: Live from Bourbon Street" special that will air on the WWE Network this coming Monday after Table For 3 goes off the air. This was filmed at Razzoo Bar during WrestleMania 34 Week in New Orleans and will air for thirty minutes. WWE also announced that a "Walk With Elias: The Documentary" special will air on the WWE Network after RAW goes off the air on July 30th. Next week is a big week for Elias as his debut album is supposed to be released on Tuesday.

Link: https://youtu.be/qZfdfKpIZqg

Originally Posted by WrestleInc WWE has a new poll asking fans which milestone they are most looking forward to for Elias. As of this writing, 76% voted for his first title run while the rest voted for his debut album, which is supposed to be released on Tuesday.

Some other sheet news includes:

• Recent episode of the Talk Is Jericho podcast show had the Observer's Dave Meltzer as the guest talking about Bruiser Brody and the 30th anniversary of his death. https://omny.fm/shows/talk-is-jerich...brody-fullshow
• According to the Observer, official reason why Vince wasn't backstage at last week's Extreme Rules event is due to his annual mid-July vacation break.
• Early designs of WWE's rumored Women's Tag Team Championship belts were recently leaked online. https://twitter.com/ifyouseekcasey/s...53228297760768 , https://twitter.com/BeltFanDan/statu...56782114836481

Some stuff from TPWW Frontpage:

• Rich Swann Injured, Slammiversary Match in Jeopardy
• Various: Mae Young Competitor Removed, WWN Streaming Service
• Five More Wrestlers Announced for the Mae Young Classic
• Stephanie to Make “Historic Announcement” on Raw – All Women PPV?