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Originally Posted by Observer For just the second time since SmackDown went live in July 2016, the show has beaten Monday Night Raw in the "ratings war." SmackDown 1000 on Tuesday averaged 2.545 million viewers, the show's best number since April 24. Unlike when Raw does these sorts of shows and brings in an audience that is almost always the best number of the year, this audience total is just above the year-to-date average and actually below what SmackDown was doing on a regular basis in the lead-up to WrestleMania ... This was also the first week since June 12 that SmackDown's ratings increased year-over-year.

Originally Posted by Observer TMZ interviewed Randy Orton and asked how he feels about WWE going to Saudi Arabia for Crown Jewel. His defense was similar to the one JBL gave on Fox Business. "I think we should go. I think the only way to help with change over there is to go and not to cancel the trip,” Orton said. "That's the goal is to make things better everywhere and I think us not going doesn't help. Going helps." Like JBL, Orton brought up WWE having a women’s match in Abu Dhabi. Orton said "100 percent" when he was asked if he thinks they’ll be able to have a women’s match in Saudi Arabia at some point.

Link: http://www.tmz.com/2018/10/17/wwe-ra...mal-khashoggi/

Originally Posted by Observer Rey Mysterio challenging for Shinsuke Nakamura’s United States Championship is now listed for the Starrcade house show in Cincinnati, Ohio on November 24. Rusev was originally advertised as Nakamura’s opponent.

Link: http://usbankarena.com/event/2018/11/wwe-starrcade

Originally Posted by Observer Indies Roundup: Beer City Bruiser, Silas Young, and Luchasaurus have been announced for ROH’s Survival of the Fittest tournament. The other wrestlers who have been confirmed thus far are: Tracy Williams, Marty Scurll, Andrew Everett, Jonathan Gresham, Flip Gordon, Colin Delaney, PJ Black, and Hangman Page. Ilja Dragunov will be wrestling at PROGRESS’ show in Manchester, England on November 11. The final episode of Ten Pounds of Gold before the NWA’s 70th Anniversary Show finished building to Cody Rhodes and Nick Aldis’ rematch. MLW issued the following: MLW AND BEIN SPORTS TEAM-UP FOR HALLOWEEN SPECIAL NEXT FRIDAY NIGHT WITH MLW FRIGHT NIGHT. Next Friday night terror will rule the ring as Major League Wrestling (“MLW”) and beIN SPORTS presents their first Halloween special on October 26th at 8pm ET entitled MLW FRIGHT NIGHT.

Impact: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/12...pdate.html?p=1 , ROH: https://www.rohwrestling.com/news/si...ival-fittest-0 , PROGRESS: https://twitter.com/ThisIs_Progress/...05231048138752 , NWA: https://youtu.be/spx0D1x80Mc , MLW: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/12...ports.html?p=1

Originally Posted by PWI We noted last night that Dave Bautista arrived late at Smackdown 1000. One source noted that he actually arrived around 6:00 PM Eastern for a show that went on the air at 8 PM. 6:43 PM Update: Our original report listed 7:40 PM but two additional sources have since reached out to state it was actually earlier than that and that Bautista arrived around 6 PM. The original plan was for the show to open with Rey Mysterio vs. Shinsuke Nakamura, but there was a lot of shuffling of segments in the last few hours prior to the show. The Undertaker promo was always set in stone to close the broadcast, although it was planned to be much longer, but time was cut as the show ran long. WWE also cut time for the Mysterio vs. Nakamura match, as well as Mysterio's entrance. The Miz match was always scheduled to go three seconds. Several backstage segments were cut from the show, including one with James Ellsworth, who instead shot a segment for WWE's YouTube segment. The R-Truth segment was originally slated for later in the show. At one point, there was talk of bringing in Christian but we have not heard he was there. Kane was supposed to be at the taping but was not there. Obviously, he has lots of duties elsewhere these days. Zack Ryder was backstage but not used.

Originally Posted by PWI The National Wrestling Alliance 70th Anniversary event will air live on Fite.tv this Sunday 10/21 from The Nashville Fairground Arena in Nashville, TN featuring: *NWA Champion Cody vs. Nick Aldis - Best of Three Falls. *NWA Women's Champion Jazz vs. Penelope Ford. *Willie Mack vs. Jay Bradley vs. Mike Parrow vs. Ricky Starks - NWA National Title Match A. *Sam Shaw vs. Colt Cabana, Scorpio Sky vs. Sammy Guevara - NWA National Title Match B. *Match A and B Winners face to crown new NWA National Champion. *Tim Storm vs. Pretty Peter Avalon. *Crimson & Jax Dane (with Road Warrior Animal) open challenge. *Laredo Kid vs. Barrett Brown. *Former NWA Champions Jeff Jarrett, Blue Demon Jr., Tim Storm and Dory Funk Jr, will all be in attendance at the event as well. The announcing team for the event, which will air live on iPPV (priced at $24.99) on Fite.TV, will be Joe Galli of Championship Wrestling from Hollywood and Jim Cornette, while Tony Schiavone will be calling the NWA title bout via a deal reached with MLW, where Schiavone is under contract.

Originally Posted by PWI WWE Network News is reporting that more classic episodes of WWE Main Event from 2013 will be added to the streaming service this Monday, October 22. According to their post as of right now it is only 10 episodes much like the last two weeks. But given that there 40 episodes unavailable on WWE Network it could be more.

Link: https://www.wwenetworknews.com/2018/...still-missing/

Originally Posted by PWI Vince McMahon tweeted: Getting to 1,000 episodes is only possible if you have an entire universe behind you. Thank you, #WWE Universe, for celebrating #SD1000 with us. Here’s to 1,000 more. pic.twitter.com/fVI5B0jTWn — Vince McMahon (@VinceMcMahon) October 17, 2018

Link: https://twitter.com/VinceMcMahon/sta...93435364302849

Originally Posted by WrestlingInc Mauro Ranallo is not at tonight's WWE NXT TV tapings from Full Sail University. Vic Joseph replaced Mauro, joining Nigel McGuinness and Percy Watson at the announce table. These are the final tapings before "Takeover: War Games II" during WWE Survivor Series weekend next month. No word yet on why Mauro missed the tapings but we will keep you updated. Mauro recently tweeted at MMA promoters to let them know he's taking MMA bookings for 2019 but he noted in a later tweet that he is still with WWE.

Originally Posted by WrestlingInc With the major emphasis on pushing WWE in the United Kingdom, Triple H has developed an extension of the company that focuses on exclusively appealing to the UK crowd ... As a result of this success, the NXT UK brand will debut weekly today on the WWE Network, with Johnny Saint as the General Manager. However, as reported by The Mirror, Triple H is still hesitant to host a WrestleMania in the UK, primarily because of the misconception that the 1992 SummerSlam was a success. "The time zones are the big kicker - we have to go where the most people can watch," said Triple H. "I always hear about Wembley, I always hear it was such a massive success: It was not. From a business standpoint, it was not. That's why we didn't come back and that's why we're still trying to figure it out."

Link: https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other...ple-h-13406996

Originally Posted by WrestlingInc With their big win at SmackDown 1000 last night, new SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Bar joined The Usos as teams that have defeated The New Day multiple times for tag team titles in WWE. On a related note, Cesaro and Sheamus became the 9th & 10th Superstars in WWE history to reign as both RAW Tag Team Champions and SmackDown Tag Team Champions in their careers.

Originally Posted by WrestlingInc Week 5 of WWE's Mixed Match Challenge Season 2 saw two teams pick up wins - Bobby Lashley and Mickie James, The Miz and Asuka. Country Dominance defeated Bobby Roode and Natalya while Team Awe-ska defeated Rusev and Lana. Live Facebook Watch viewership for this week's episode peaked at 74,400 viewers. This is up from last week's 72,000 viewers, week 3's 42,800 viewers and week 1's 52,400 live viewers.

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