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From today's Wrestling Observer

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Impact Wrestling - Impact Wrestling announced its move from Pop TV to Pursuit TV, a move that is both a negative as far as exposure and time slot. Pursuit TV is in 30.3 million homes, a downgrade from the 67.5 million homes that Pop TV was in. What’s even scarier is that they are moving to Friday nights, a worse night, at 10 p.m. The fact they ended up on Pursuit, after talking with and not getting picked up by a number of stations, the biggest being Syfy, Tru TV and WGN America, could be a bad sign for pro wrestling in the U.S. outside of WWE. Pursuit TV, based in Glenwood, AL, is a hunting/outdoors channel. Dave later notes the most recent IMPACT Twitch stream topped out at about 800 viewers.


Dave News - There will not be a Wrestling Observer issue next week as Dave will be in Japan for the Tokyo Dome Show. Dave anticipates some five and six star matches will happen.


RevPro - RevPro will no longer be airing on TV in the UK, as episodes tended to draw less than 7,000 viewers. Dave states that it seems like there is no casual fan base in the UK, he speculates this could happen in the U.S. but would take longer, as Dave notes "since the U.S. still has millions of viewers of WWE".


WrestleMania 35 - The original plan for Ronda at WM35 was Natalya, but that was scrapped after Jim Neidhart passed away. Charlotte then became the plan but that has changed due to Becky Lynch's rise in popularity. As of this week the plan for WM35 is Rousey vs. Lynch, but Dave speculates as to if it will close the show or Charlotte won't be added before it's all said and done. Dave notes that Roman Reigns vs. Dean Ambrose was likely the planned main-event of WM35 prior to Roman's medical situation.


SmackDownLIVE on FOX - Dave says a decision has not been made if SD will air live on the West Coast or via delay. If FOX airs the show live on the West Coast it will air Friday at 5-7pm. Dave questions how well SDLive will do on FOX and states "WWE is a declining property and we’ve got ten plus months of possible more slow declines" before it debuts. Dave notes that moving to FOX will gain some viewers, lose others and that Friday is known for being a bad night for TV ratings.


Mandy Rose - Vince is very high right now on the idea of making Mandy Rose a star. It’s the similar mindset they earlier had with Lana, with the big introduction, before she faded into becoming another woman on the roster and then was put back with Rusev.


John Cena - Cena said last week he was only coming back for house shows, yet his dates include a few TV tapings. I thought that sounded weird but it’s not like there’s any reason to make up that one, so it’s probably the usual miscommunications or plans changed situation. Cena is expected to take time off from WWE at the end of January to film a movie.
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