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The WWE Network began uploading 1983 TV episodes of Mid-South Wrestling over the last few hours.
PWInsider.com previously reported that WWE planned to add 76 new episodes of the series to the Vault section of the streaming service.
Created in 1979 by Bill Watts, Mid-South ran the Gulf Coast territory through the mid-1980s when it was purchased by Jim Crockett Promotions. The 1983 episodes will feature Hacksaw Duggan, Steve Williams, Kamala, Ted DiBiase, Matt Borne, Mr. Wrestling II, Gino Hernandez, The Great Kabuki, Andre the Giant, Junkyard Dog, a rookie Marty Lunde (who would go on to become Arn Anderson) and more.
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Indies Roundup:
Ring of Honor has added the "Kevin Steen: Ascension to the Top" compilation to the HonorClub streaming service. The nearly 7 hour presentation showcasing the early days of Kevin Steen (now Kevin Owens in WWE) in ROH, includes the following matches.
The Global Wrestling Network now features every PPV from the Asylum era of the company.
Evolve is running iPPVs on Saturday night from Summit, IL and Sunday from Livonia, MI. They also announced Darby Allin vs. Walter on 6/23 in Queens, NY and Allin vs. Jarek 1:20 on 6/24 in Melrose, MA.
Jake Hager vs. Tom Lawlor for the MLW title and Brody King vs. Shane Strickland has been announced for the 6/7 MLW Fusion TV tapings in Orlando at Gilt Nightclub.
AAW on 5/25 in Chicago at the Logan Square Arena with Jessicka Havok vs. Kimber Lee for the women's title, Darby Allin vs. Brody King, Penta 0M & Rey Fenix vs. AR Fox & Myron Reed, Eddie Kingston vs. Fred Yehi, Sami Callihan & Jake & Dave Crist vs. Shane Strickland & Dezmond Xavier & Zachary Wentz plus Besties in the World, Zema Ion, Juice Robinson, Jake Something and Colt Cabana.
Jay Lethal pulled out of the AWF tour in Australia this week due to his concussion. He was supposed to face Ryback earlier today. There were said to be less than 100 fans at the show which included Christopher Daniels, Ryback and Cima, as well as Lethal being advertised.
Regarding the 6/29 show in Daytona Beach that Kenny Omega is promoting, they are in the same boat as the Cow Palace in the sense they can’t announce any matches until after Dominion, because things scheduled for Dominion affect this show
Due to his duties with Impact, Don Callis won’t be back until Dominion. Kevin Kelly will be doing the 6/3 and 6/4 Korakuen Hall shows live, which are the final day of the Best of the Juniors round-robin and the finals the next day
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ROH: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...mpilation.htmL
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How is it that WWF was able to sign Lex Luger while he was the WCW Champion in 1992. There's no way WCW had him holding the title while not under contract?
WWF didn't sign Luger to come over as a wrestling talent. He was signed to WCW, but the WWF signed Luger as a bodybuilder to come to the World Bodybuilding Federation as a performer for that brand, which technically didn't violate Luger's WCW contract. He finished up at WCW Superbrawl II, losing the WCW World title to Sting and moved on to the WBF. Luger even appeared on a Wrestlemania show, being interviewed "via satellite" while representing the WBF. As it turned out, Luger was injured in a motorcycle accident and wasn't able to do any posedowns for the lone WBF PPV broadcast. Luger was eventually shifted over to the WWF, debuting at that year's Royal Rumble as The Narcissist persona, likely after his original WCW deal would have expired. It was a case of WWF figuring a way to work around WCW's deals, to WCW's detriment.
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From PWI's weekly Q&A articles about how Luger was able to work for the WWF while under contract with WCW.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Ahead of a possible title defense against Cody Rhodes at All In, Nick Aldis will be facing The Young Bucks on ROH's Honor United tour.
ROH has announced that Aldis, the current NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion, will be in action at Honor United: Edinburgh on May 24th. The storyline for the match is related to Aldis appearing at All In, with him making it one of the stipulations of him agreeing to defend the title against Cody. Aldis will be teaming with a "partner of ROH's choosing" ...
This will be Aldis' in-ring debut for ROH, though he was shown in the crowd during Dalton Castle vs. Marty Scurll at Supercard of Honor XII last month.
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More details & cards for ROH's UK tour: https://www.f4wonline.com/ring-honor...inburgh-257956
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Originally Posted by Observer
Variety said that the leading candidates for landing Smackdown are Fox, Facebook and Amazon. WWE stock had a giant day off yesterday's news of how high bidding for Raw had gotten, closing at $50.31 per share, its all-time record.
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Link: http://variety.com/2018/digital/news...ve-1202814297/
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Originally Posted by Fightful.com
Below is an ongoing resource list featuring confirmed contract expirations, reported by respected news outlets or the talent themselves. You can also find Fightful's constantly updated injury report at this link.
WWE:
Brock Lesnar: August 2018
Mauro Ranallo: June 2019
Daniel Bryan: September 1, 2018
Kevin Owens: April 2023 (minimum; signed 5-year deal in 2018)
Paige: 2019
Big Show: Spring 2021
Mandy Rose: Late 2020
The Miz: 2022
Stephanie McMahon - October 7, 2019 (as on-screen talent)
Mojo Rawley- 2020
NJPW/ROH:
Young Bucks: Through 2018
Kenny Omega: January 2019
Jim Ross: January 2019 (with AXS)
Josh Barnett: January 2019 (with AXS)
Jay Lethal: Through 2018
Michael Elgin- January 2020
Kota Ibushi- Working as freelancer
Impact Wrestling:
Moose- July 2020
Eli Drake- July 2018
Kiera Hogan- June 2018
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The Hot Topic web site listing of top ten T-shirts on sale had Chris Jericho’s Ingobernables T-shirt (Lista Ingobernables de Jericho) that he wore in the attack of Tetsuya Naito on 5/4 in Fukuoka as not only the best selling shirt, but more than double No. 2 which was Steven U Pink Diamond. Jericho’s Alpha Club shirt was No. 5. No other pro wrestling shirt cracked the top ten on that list
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Revolution Pro is no longer allowed to use any wrestler signed to a WWE U.K. deal. I presume that would also mean a lot of other promotions have found the same thing out. Defiant Pro is out as are all promotions that have a decent distribution or a streaming service, other than Progress and ICW, which have financial ties to WWE. It was a clear eventuality that anyone who understood the game would have known was coming, no matter how many times it was denied at first
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The ROH War of the Worlds tour did well, but with less of the top stars from New Japan (only Tetsuya Naito as far as top stars went), it wasn’t the usual four sellouts. The 5/9 show in Lowell, MA, drew 1,900, which was close to full and their best showing in that market to date, particularly good for a Wednesday. 5/11 in Toronto did a sellout, but that was 1,400 paid. 5/12 in Royal Oak, MI sold out with 900 paid. The 5/13 TV tapings in Chicago did 1,800, which is the company’s second best number ever in the market. Kenny Omega drew 2,500 pretty much by himself (all that was announced for that show was Omega’s name and it sold out in three days with no matches announced), the last time they ran a major event in the Odeum in Chicago
The next ROH PPV show is Best in the World on 6/29 in Baltimore at the 5,000-seat UMBC Center. That’s going to be interesting to see how it does. They are also doing TV tapings at the Eaglebank Arena in Fairfax, VA the next day, which is a 10,000-seat building. Obviously that will be scaled way down because ROH usually doesn’t draw much over 1,000 for TV tapings. The Best in the World main event is Dalton Castle vs. Cody vs. Marty Scurll for the4 ROH title, so they are teasing issues with Cody and Scurll
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Right now, unless either side asks for a delay, the slander trial for the lawsuit filed by Dr. Christopher Amann against Phil Brooks (C.M. Punk) is scheduled to go to a jury trial on 5/21 in Chicago. I’m amazed it’s going this far because this is a case where either Punk was telling the truth or he wasn’t. If he wasn’t, he would want to settle because he could and probably would get hammered by the jury. If he’s telling the truth, there’s no case against him to begin with and with all the depositions and such, both sides should be able to figure out which way the wind is blowing. I’m sure there is more to it than that but I would think that one side, if not both, wouldn’t want it going to trial because of what would come out
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Craig Hutchinson, one of the major sports media figures in Melbourne, said that the WWE show on 10/6 at MCG Stadium was confirmed. WWE has continued not answering any questions on this subject
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Since people have asked about talent pay from the show, as of a few days ago, it hadn’t come in yet so nobody knew (well, those who made outside one-shot deals knew what they were getting paid). As of the last word I had, none of the women were paid bonuses based on the weekend nor were they expecting to be. It’s possible it could happen, because when I checked, the regular guys hadn’t gotten paid yet, but if it does happen, it will be a surprise to them. From a P.R. standpoint, I’d be surprised if they don’t, even though that would go against usual WWE protocol
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Orton had the European tour off since he now works a more limited touring schedule
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The top ten most-watched shows on the WWE Network this past week were: 1. Backlash; 2. Story Time episode 2; 3. NXT from 5/9; 4. WWE The Music WrestleMania 2018; 5. Something Else to Wrestle With episode on Ted DiBiase; 6. Story Time episode 1; 7. Greatest Royal Rumble; 8. Table for three with A.J. Styles, Kurt Angle and Shane McMahon; 9. NXT from 5/2; 10. Greatest Royal Rumble pre-show. Notable is that 205 Live was only ranked No. 13 this past week and actually trailed the NXT show from the week earlier as well as the Prichard show, let alone trailing the pre-show from Greatest Royal Rumble and barely beat out the Prichard show from the prior week
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If that is accurate, that would mean a number in the range of a $240 million price tag for Raw alone. That would be far beyond what most analysts were expecting, which was $240 million to $300 million combined for the U.S. rights to both Raw and Smackdown. If Raw is really getting a number at that level, it would mean the combined number for both shows would end up closer to $400 million, a figure USA Network wasn't interested in spending.
This continues the trend where the numbers are so high, that things like reaching the largest number of viewers, creating new stars, creating interesting matchups and storylines all really become a tiny factor in business, and business is all about producing as much overall product as possible and selling it to outlets looking for content, whether they be television or digital.
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Meltzer on rumors of WWE's next tv deal value. Other rumors have the range between between $300 million to $500 million for RAW although the latter likely also includes Smackdown.
Some other sheet news includes:
Some stuff from TPWW Frontpage:
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