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Originally Posted by Observer
Going against both Monday Night Football and the baseball playoffs, Raw was up one percent from last week, averaging 2.39 million viewers.
It would be the fourth lowest of the modern era, but at the same time, the best number in a month ...
It was a usual ratings pattern with a third-hour drop, but not more significant than usual. The drop was more with both under 18 and over 50 viewers in hour three, rather than the teenagers usually holding up strong. Every demo group dropped in hour three.
The three hours were:
8 p.m. 2.49 million viewers
9 p.m. 2.48 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.22 million viewers
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Originally Posted by Observer
A multi-promotional event featuring a number of high profile Japanese promotions will take place next February.
Tokyo Sports announced this morning that Wrestling All-Star Battle will go down on February 19 at Sumo Hall. It will feature wrestlers from All Japan Pro Wrestling, Pro Wrestling NOAH, New Japan Pro Wrestling, Big Japan Pro Wrestling and Wrestle-1. Broadcasting information for the event isn’t currently known, nor were any matches announced.
The event is in commemoration of two events: the 20th anniversary of Giant Baba’s death (which took place on January 31, 1999) as well as the 60th anniversary of Tokyo Sports itself.
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Link: https://www.tokyo-sports.co.jp/prore...rores/1157539/
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Originally Posted by Observer
ROH has announced the next three wrestlers for this year's Global Wars tour.
After announcing Tetsuya Naito for the tour yesterday, ROH has confirmed that Los Ingobernables de Japon members EVIL and SANADA will be in action on the Global Wars shows. Former IWGP United States Heavyweight Champion Juice Robinson is also set for the tour ...
The Global Wars tour will begin in Lewiston, Maine on November 7. There are also stops in Lowell, Massachusetts on November 8, Buffalo, New York on November 9, and Toronto, Ontario, Canada on November 11.
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Link: https://www.rohwrestling.com/news/ju...obal-wars-tour
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Originally Posted by Observer
According to TMZ Sports WWE, Charlotte and Ric Flair are being sued by Charlotte’s ex-husband Riki Paul Johnson for defamation. The lawsuit centers around the book Second Nature, which she and her father co-wrote and released last year. He alleges in the lawsuit that they wrote multiple false allegations regarding physical and psychological abuse and was intentionally painted as a villain. The suit also mentions WWE, saying that they should be held liable due to their marketing of the book. WWE issued a response to TMZ Sports, saying “We recently received what appears to be a meritless lawsuit and we will vigorously defend ourselves.”
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Link: http://www.tmz.com/2018/10/16/ric-fl...-and-wwe-sued/
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Originally Posted by Observer
WWE issued a statement to the New York Post regarding Sports Illustrated’s report that multiple members of the WWE roster (speaking on the condition of anonymity) have expressed discomfort with the idea of performing in Saudi Arabia: “As always, we maintain an open line of communication with our performers as we continue to monitor the situation.”
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Link: https://nypost.com/2018/10/15/wwe-su...-saudi-arabia/
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Originally Posted by Observer
DDP is helping out at the Performance Center again this week. He posted a picture that includes Punishment Martinez, who we reported was headed to WWE after he departed ROH.
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Link: https://twitter.com/RealDDP/status/1052273647770054656
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Originally Posted by Observer
The Rock tweeted about SmackDown 1000: “Huge #SD1000 congrats to my @WWE family! Fun fact, in 1998, I said to @VinceMcMahon ‘I’m gonna use the word ‘Smackdown’ tonight in my promo’. He said what’s that mean? I said it means I’m gonna whup some ass. He belly laughed and said say it! The rest was history! #IfYaSmell”
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Link: https://twitter.com/TheRock/status/1052323753307332608
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Originally Posted by Observer/PWI/Post Wrestling
Indies Roundup:
Jericho also wasn’t happy hearing that Don Callis wasn’t used after classic New Japan matches were uploaded with new commentary: “Not using @CyrusOverHuge over huge for ANY AND ALL commentary is a big mistake and just plain stupid.”
ROH announced that P.J. Black and Colin Delaney would debut for the promotion as part of the Survival of the Fittest show on 11/4 in Columbus, OH.
Hangman Page has been added to the lineup for ROH’s Survival of the Fittest tournament in Columbus, Ohio on November 4. Tracy Williams, Marty Scurll, Andrew Everett, Jonathan Gresham, Flip Gordon, PJ Black, and Colin Delaney are also set for the tournament.
Laredo Kid vs. Barrett Brown in a special attraction match has been added to the NWA 70th anniversary show.
Cody vs. Brian Cage has been announced for World Series Wrestling in November in Sydney.
Jordynne Grace, one of the most popular and well liked independent female stars, will make her Impact Wrestling debut tonight during tonight's TV taping in New York City at the Melrose Ballroom.
Lanny Poffo has stated on his podcast that he will be receiving a tryout with New Japan Pro Wrestling on the English broadcast team. He is being flown to Japan on October 23rd and will be there through November 4th, so presumably, he will be calling Power Struggle in Osaka with the some of the Super Tag League shows.
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Jericho: https://twitter.com/IAmJericho/statu...55316071428096 , ROH: https://www.rohwrestling.com/news/wi...d-championship
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Originally Posted by Observer
Due to a rib injury, Will Ospreay is off New Japan Pro Wrestling's Road to Power Struggle tour.
NJPW announced the news overnight, with them noting that Ospreay will miss the tour to "focus on the NEVER Openweight Championship match" that he's having against Taichi at Power Struggle in Osaka on November 3. Taichi also won't be wrestling on the Road to Power Struggle tour because of Ospreay's absence.
The matches that Ospreay and Taichi are missing are from October 19 to November 1.
Ospreay's injury happened when he landed badly during his match against Chris Ridgeway for Revolution Pro Wrestling on Sunday.
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Link: https://www.njpw1972.com/37182
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Originally Posted by PWI
WWE have registered to trademark 'Lightning Fist' for clothing purposes, likely in conjunction with John Cena's new finishing move.
In addition to Lightning Fist, WWE have applied to trademark "Shandian Quantou" for clothing purposes. They have also applied to trademark the Chinese characters for Lightning Fist.
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Originally Posted by PWI
Former ECW World Champion Taz, who now hosts a morning drive sports show for CBS Sports Radio, posted the following video message wishing WWE a happy Smackdown 1000:
Message to #SD1000 #SDLive - @VinceMcMahon @StephMcMahon @TripleH @MichaelCole pic.twitter.com/5NNrzizq1B
— TAZ (@OfficialTAZ) October 16, 2018
Of course, Taz and Michael Cole were the voices of the series for many, many years.
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Link: https://twitter.com/OfficialTAZ/stat...39189038149632
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Originally Posted by PWI
In regard to a story making the rounds over the last 24 hours that Impact Wrestling is in negotiations with Alberto el Patron to return to the company, we have been told by several that is incorrect and there have been zero discussion of his return after he no-showed an event for the company over Wrestlemania 34 weekend in New Orleans and was terminated.
There has been no sign of Austin Aries at today's TV taping, so we will see. The word making the rounds was that he flew home yesterday to Las Vegas, which was not the original plan. There were some re-writes to this week's TV tapings one source stated.
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Originally Posted by Post Wrestling
The 1,000th episode of SmackDown takes place tonight from the Capital One Center in Washington, D.C. Beyond teaching a generation of wrestling fans yet another word with a capitalized letter in the middle, SmackDown has a big impact on the WWE’s television presentation since premiering in 1999 ...
It’s funny that the WWE is promoting the first all women’s pay-per-view because the original idea was that SmackDown was going to be an all women’s show. The presentation of the female performers in 1999 was a stark contrast to today as the division was built around Sable and Debra and there were no illusions over what was being sold. The concept would have been nearly impossible to pull off, especially in a two-hour format and the outcome would have probably been a change to include everyone on the roster to save the show or would have died like Super Astros.
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Part of a long article on the history of Smackdown leading to its 100th episode: https://www.postwrestling.com/2018/1...-episode-1000/
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Originally Posted by Post Wrestling
John Layfield was on Varney & Co. on Fox Business on Tuesday and defended the WWE’s decision to hold the Crown Jewel event in Saudi Arabia. Layfield cited past examples of the WWE going overseas to hold shows for the troops, the post 9/11 edition of SmackDown and that you don’t change a region of the world by isolating it.
The difference is that change is not the objective of this deal and it’s not the reason the WWE is doing this show. As complex a story as we can make this, it’s very black and white and if there wasn’t a lucrative deal in place this would be a non-issue. The WWE is not addressing this story on their broadcasts or even presented a public statement to defend their decision to run this show.
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Link: https://twitter.com/Varneyco/status/1052211574939770881
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Originally Posted by WrestlingInc
The indie wrestler who played The Conquistador on last night's RAW in Philadelphia was Bill Bain. He lost to The Authors of Pain in a Handicap Match, which was supposed to be WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle under the mask. One of the security guards that The Bella Twins sent to face off with RAW Women's Champion Ronda Rousey was Icarus of CHIKARA fame.
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