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Former TPWW Royalty
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Dirtsheets sponsored by ... Gallagher would kindly like to announce he is interfering with today's sponsor announcement:
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After a series of good ratings by modern standards, Raw fell back to its lowest mark since Halloween night last night, averaging 2.75 million viewers, down seven percent from last week.
The show-long New Day title record storyline didn't resonate that strongly with viewers, as there was a major second hour turn off, which partially was due to the football game ...
The three hours were:
8 p.m. 2.93 million viewers
9 p.m. 2.71 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.63 million viewers
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205 Live was taped before Raw last night.
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Smackdown also ended up getting the not live treatment this week because of Tribute to the Troops show messing up the normal taping schedule.
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Bray Wyatt tweeted to Matt Hardy about the invitation he sent to the Wyatt Family to appear on Total Nonstop Deletion. Of course, no one from WWE was involved in the show.
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Link to the tweet: https://twitter.com/WWEBrayWyatt/sta...47751424303104
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Good news, all you fans of Ric Flair and chicken wings -- Flair is headed to the wing bowl in Philadelphia.
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Same event that I think Mick Foley got banned from due to cheating multiple times.
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ROH: Holiday shopping has never been so affordable for members of Honor Nation: ALL merchandise, including hats, t-shirts, DVDs, and more will be 10% off for all customers and 25% for RINGSIDE MEMBERS! The sale ends Friday December 16 at 11:59 PM and all orders come with FREE US SHIPPING!
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Matt Sydal is starting to take independent bookings again. he can be booked via Bill Behrens at SHOWBIS@aol.com. Sydal is done with New Japan Pro Wrestling. There is no official word on where he stands with Ring of Honor going forward. |
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The complete lineup for Wrestle Kingdom 11, which is the biggest non-WWE pro wrestling event in the world each year, was announced at a New Japan press conference on Monday ...
The matches will go on, in this order: - New Japan Rumble -- This is a Royal Rumble match basically for all the talent on the roster not on the card, as well as surprise legends and outsiders. It's more played up for surprising old-timers and that type of pop.
- Tiger Mask W (who was Kota Ibushi the first time) vs. Tiger the Dark -- This is based on the Tiger Mask anime that airs on TV-Asahi.
- Young Bucks vs. Rocky Romero & Baretta for the IWGP Jr. tag titles
- A Trios title gauntlet match featuring these teams:
- SANADA, EVIL & BUSHI
- Bad Luck Fale, Yujiro Takahashi & Hangman Page
- Tomohiro Ishii, YOSHI-HASHI & Will Ospreay
- Champions Satoshi Kojima, Ricochet & David Finlay
- Cody vs. Juice Robinson
- Kyle O'Reilly vs. Adam Cole for the ROH title
- Tama Tonga & Tanga Roa vs. Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma for the IWGP tag team titles
- KUSHIDA vs. Hiromu Takahashi for IWGP Jr. title
- Katsuyori Shibata vs. Hirooki Goto for NEVER Openweight title
- Tetsuya Naito vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for IC title
- Kazuchika Okada vs. Kenny Omega for IWGP heavyweight title
The show will air live exclusively on New Japan World with Kevin Kelly and Steve Corino as announcers in English as well as a Japanese language feed. There will be no U.S. television PPV of this show. |
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On Tuesday's edition of Wrestling Observer Live, Jim Ross broke the news that New Japan's Wrestle Kingdom 11 will begin to air on AXS TV just one week after it happens, broken up into four weeks.
Additionally, Ross announced that the weekly show has been renewed for 50+ episodes in 2017 and will move to 8 PM EST on Fridays. He will continue to work alongside Josh Barnett.
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ROH announced that Nigel McGuinness was no longer the figurehead authority person with the promotion as he's another one expected to be WWE bound for a coaching position.
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The Nevada Athletic Commission will have a hearing on Brock Lesnar's drug test failure on Thursday, as well as Nate Diaz's hearing for the bottle throwing incident back in August. Jon Jones' drug test failure is on the agenda but it's already been reported they've come to an agreement on that case where Jones will get the same suspension he already got from USADA, a one year suspension, and no fine.
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In a note from yesterday's update, even though Booker T announced he would be running for Mayor of Houston in 2020, that would be impossible and if he's doing so, it'll have to be 2019 because that's when the next election is.
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Mick Foley announced today that he's down to 236.7 pounds, which is the lightest he's been in probably decades. Congratulations to him. The number is key because when he decided to start losing weight, he was 337 pounds, so this makes 100 pounds plus lost.
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A fight broke out Sunday night backstage at a show at Arena Naucalpan involving Combate Americas figurehead president Alberto Rodriguez (the former Alberto del Rio0 and a wrestler best known as Alan Extreme, who was wrestling as Tortuga Rafy.
Rodriguez and Paige were at the show to see Rodriguez's brother Guillermo (El Hijo de Dos Caras) wrestle. They went backstage where there was a very narrow passageway and Rodriguez got hot at Extreme, believed to be because he thought he was touching Paige inappropriately.
An argument ensued. According to an eyewitness report, Rodriguez started yelling at Extreme, who blew him off. Rodriguez got hot at that and the much smaller Extreme tried to push him away, leading to punches being thrown. It was said to be very one-sided and spilled out to where fans saw it happening. Extreme was bleeding pretty badly but said this morning on Facebook that he was okay.
Oficial AK-47, one of the wrestlers in charge of the show, Oficial AK-47 made multiple Facebook posts where he threatened legal action and pretty much warned Rodriguez not to come back to the building.
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Jerry Lawler was on Sports56 in Memphis yesterday and said Kevin Dunn called him and said that his salary was too large for the pre-game show and they were also getting rid of the pre-game show. Lawler said he's under contract until January and said they will talk about a new deal, and talked that he may sign a talent contract and that Vince McMahon called him and told him he's not done and told him the pre-game show was dropped as a cost-cutting measure and that he would remain the MC at the Hall of Fame ceremony. We'd been told Lawler would get a legends deal and would continue to MC the Hall of Fame and work some events for the company.
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Regarding stories about Harley Race in a nursing home, he has been there because Leland Race, who takes care of him at home, was in Japan for the New Japan tag team tournament. Race is wheelchair bound.
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As we reported a few weeks ago, former WCW World champion Big Van Vader noted that he was advised by doctors he only had several years to live due to congestive heart failure. Vader posted the following hopeful news today on Twitter:
I got good news this week ,seen a 4th Dr he suggest the the gloom and doom the previous3 Drs have diagnosed may not be the case
Well
— Big Van Vader (@itsvadertime) December 13, 2016
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WWE Raw Tag Team champions The New Day will be releasing their own take on a self-help style book next year, titled "The Book of Booty: Shake It. Love It. Never Be It."
The book will feature all three members of New Day as authors and will be released as a hardcover in April 2017, timed for Wrestlemania 33 ...
"Fans will learn:
* The New Day’s official definition of “booty,” and the telltale signs that you or a loved one might be booty
* The proper attire and headwear for the new you
* How to twerk like a man
* What your spirit animal says about you
* How to project positivity
By the time you finish this book, you'll be a rainbow-gazing, trombone-playing, unicorn-loving soldier of positivity, ready to take on nefarious WWE tag teams with a smile on your face. Pro tip: Eat your Booty O’s every morning for added strength!"
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Former WWE champion turned UFC fighter CM Punk is back training for a sophomore appearance in The Ultimate Fighting Champonship.
Punk's trainer Duke Roufus acknowledged that Punk was back training during an appearance on the "MMA Hour" with Ariel Helwani yesterday.
Punk had previously disclosed that he and UFC's Dana White had a conversation where Punk made it clear he intended to keep pursuing MMA after his loss to Mickey Gall this past September at UFC 203.
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Some other sheet news includes:
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