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Originally Posted by LA Times
Chyna’s manager said he knows how the wrestling star died last week.
Chyna, whose real name was Joan Marie Laurer, died of a combination of the sleeping pill Ambien and a form of the tranquilizer Valium, her manager, Anthony Anzaldo, said Wednesday.
Chyna had been taking the legally prescribed pills over the course of three weeks, but wasn’t using them properly, he said. Her death was the result of an accidental overdose, Anzaldo insisted, not suicide.
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Update to recent Chyna passing news. Official results from the coroner won't arrive until a few more weeks at the earliest. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...427-story.html
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Originally Posted by TMZ
4:28 PM PT -- A rep for the Mass. State Police tells TMZ Sports ... Flair's injury was NOT to his hand, but rather his head.
Cops did not say how Flair sustained the injury.
Witnesses at the airport tell us Flair was bleeding from his forehead ... with one person saying, "It was dripping down from his head to his neck. A significant amount of blood."
We reached back out to Flair's rep -- so far, no word back.
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Ric Flair was treated for a cut on his hand at Logan International Airport in Boston Wednesday morning ... but witnesses say it was the culmination of a very bizarre morning involving the WWE legend.
Here's what we know ... Flair hit up Lucky's Lounge in the airport before his flight -- and multiple witnesses say Flair was acting like a drunk person.
One witness says Flair was loud and obnoxious. Another witness says he was "having a tough time" and "shambling about."
But we spoke with Airport Police Sgt. Donlon who tells us Flair was NOT intoxicated.
Sgt. Donlon says airport officials got a call for a "man with a cut on his hand" -- and police and medical personnel responded. Flair was treated -- deemed not drunk -- and was allowed to get on his flight.
We spoke with Flair's rep who told us Ric is fine -- and made his flight.
As for how Flair injured his hand -- we're working on it.
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9:43 AM PT -- Ric's agent, Melinda Morris Zanoni, tells us she has spoken with Flair and issued the following statement:
"Ric has been working every day around the clock, including internationally, for a month straight and has injuries on his hand that were being looked into this morning."
"While it is true Ric Flair and his buddies have been keeping airport bars in business since the 70s that was not the case at all in Boston. I just hung up with Ric, he is already on the flight and all is good."
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TMZ report on a recent Ric Flair incident at the airport
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Ring of Honor COO Joe Koff recently appeared on "The Ross Report" with Jim Ross to answer Twitter questions.
Koff, who confirmed numerous internal discussions about ROH possibly going to two hours, said he's always been very open to talking with any other wrestling promoters and he'd like to have a relationship with WWE. Koff said, "If they think that we're strong enough to be considered to be part of their plan, I would certainly be open to it. I'm not sure how that would work and I'm not sure that that's something they're open to."
When asked about ROH programming possibly airing on the WWE Network, Koff said it would be up to WWE, if they established a relationship. He said WWE certainly needs as much content as possible and if they would be interested in licensing ROH content for the WWE Network, he would be happy to work out an agreement.
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Originally Posted by PWTorch
Earlier this year, Sinclair Broadcasting was rumored to be interested in investing in TNA, especially after acquiring the Tennis Channel and lining up a potential re-branding for the network. ROH and TNA programming were tied at the hip on Destination America in 2015 and now on Fight Network in 2016.
However, at this stage, it seems unlikely that Sinclair has actual interest in investing in TNA’s operations, despite the connection to former employee Johnson and rumors of kicking the tires on a potential investment.
UPDATE: Since the report on Tuesday morning, PWTorch has learned that Sinclair has renewed interest in investing in TNA. The company was not impressed by the initial offer earlier this year. However, a second set of talks has made Sinclair interested again after TNA submitted a better offer. The recent development makes them a key player in the mix along with SSI.
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http://www.pwtorch.com/site/2016/04/...ompany-afloat/
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Originally Posted by Observer
There is nothing new regarding the future ownership of TNA. There are said to be a few different companies they are in talks with regarding selling a percentage or a majority ownership to with one new company now emerging as the favorite. This would end up as a face saving sale and they are offering a significant amount of money for the company, but it’s based on things happening within the company buying that haven’t happened yet and would have to make sense. It’s said that a key is the value and size of the tape library, so it would be a broadcaster looking for time filling programming if things work out. There could also be the value of the international television deals. This would in theory be a better option than Aroluxe, but everything depends on who gets put in charge. At the tapings, the talent was told nothing about anything and it was just business as usual.
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May or may not be related to the rumored Sinclair-TNA news above.
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List of collection sets the WWE is currently considering for future DVD/Blu-Ray releases based on a recent survey. Details descriptions for each in the source itself: https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc...bluray_titles/
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Originally Posted by ProWrestlingSheet
WWE announcer Rich Brennan has been released … this according to sources with direct knowledge.
Our sources say the company informed Brennan of their decision Wednesday afternoon, but at this point it’s unclear what caused WWE to sour on the announcer.
Brennan made his debut in 2014 working for NXT as the play-by-play man alongside Corey Graves and was eventually promoted to lead announcer on SmackDown. Things changed though, and it wasn’t long before he was shuffled to backstage interviewer.
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Possible sign of the start of WWE's long rumored Spring Cleaning for this year.
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Originally Posted by Observer
The Fight Network announced a weekly one hour CMLL show airing every Thursday night at 9 p.m. The belief is this will air the same show as on Azteca America in the U.S., which is the top two matches from the weekly Friday night shows at Arena Mexico. The deal is notable because AAA sources indicate The Fight Network never informed them about the CMLL talks. The Fight Network wanted to do a block of programming with CMLL and AAA, but the problem is the politics of wrestling make that difficult.
It’s not a lock that AAA will be off The Fight Network but those with AAA felt they should have been told about the CMLL deal before it went public. AAA had aired some weekly shows in English with Chris Cruise and Hugo Savinovich as announcers in March and April, but the upgrades and new footage and a regular weekly time slot on Thursdays was scheduled to start shortly.
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Originally Posted by Observer
There is no start date for the Dr. Christopher Amann trial in the lawsuit against Phil Brooks (C.M. Punk) and Scott Colton (Colt Cabana). The 6/27 date reported was based on incorrect info.
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Update on the recent WWE-Punk medical lawsuit news.
Some other sheet news includes:
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