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Originally Posted by Observer
At least for this week, whether it was people needing entertainment or a combination of airing the Royal Rumble and having Steve Austin, Undertaker, and Edge on the show, a Raw almost devoid of first-run wrestling did 2.34 million viewers.
It was the best number for the show since February 17, and up eight percent from last week.
Raw still took the top three spots in 18-49 with a 0.76 average, with no cable news show beating 0.55.
Raw continued its daylight savings time pattern of the second hour being the highest rated, perhaps because of the re-airing of this year's men's Royal Rumble match. Austin was saved for last, and there was a very significant second to third hour drop of 15 percent ...
Raw was down 13 percent from the same week last year.
The three hours were:
8 p.m. 2.41 million viewers
9 p.m. 2.49 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.11 million viewers
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Originally Posted by PWI
Georgia Smith, the daughter of WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2020 member Davey Boy Smith noted on her Twitter account that she had spoken with WWE and that the company is hoping to hold the postponed Hall of Fame ceremony, originally slated for Thursday 4/2 in Tampa over Summerslam weekend this August. Summerslam is slated for 8/23 in Boston, MA at the TDBank Garden Arena.
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Originally Posted by PWI
The Tampa Bay Local Organizing Committee issued the following statement:
"Our community has waited 36 years to host WrestleMania and while we are saddened that this unforeseen situation has led us to today's announcement, this is totally the right call for the security and safety of everyone involved. A huge thank you to all our local leaders and our friends at WWE, as we collectively worked through the unprecedented fluidity of the last few weeks. The Tampa Bay-WWE partnership has never been stronger."
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Originally Posted by Post Wrestling
Raymond James Stadium’s Twitter account has information up about ticket refunds for WrestleMania 36. Refunds for WrestleMania week events are available at the point of purchase and those who purchased their tickets through Ticketmaster will be refunded in 30 days.
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Link: https://twitter.com/RJStadium/status...688802825?s=20
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Originally Posted by PWI
As noted, the current State of Emergency the City of New York is under makes it impossible for WWE to run their scheduled event at Madison Square Garden on Sunday 3/22.
We are told that as of two weeks ago, WWE had locked in a Saturday 6/27 return to the Garden, so it may be that date is announced as the replacement with ticketholders being able to use their tickets on that date.
The 6/27 date was put on hold prior to the current coronavirus outbreak.
Given the vortex the world is in right now however, anything is possible and subject to change, as recent days have shown. WWE and MSG have yet to officially announce the 3/22 postponement, but it will 100% not be taking place on that date.
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Originally Posted by PWI
Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide announced today that they are postponing all of their events until further notice due to the virus pandemic.
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Originally Posted by PWI
Last night was the first time a Royal Rumble match has aired on the USA Network since the very first Rumble, which aired as a USA Network special in January 1988.
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Originally Posted by Post Wrestling
Ryan Satin of Pro Wrestling Sheet noted on Twitter that in order to enter the WWE Performance Center, WWE talent, crew and those alike have to pass a screening conducted by a team of physicians.
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Originally Posted by Post Wrestling
Post Stock News has information up about a lawsuit that WWE is involved in with Tilray, Inc. and Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and both claimed that WWE has made misleading statements about their respective companies. Inovio is involved because they’re claiming WWE made misleading statements about the company’s development of a vaccine for the coronavirus which led to them losing a number of shareholders.
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Link: https://potstocknews.com/class-actio...f-shareholders
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Originally Posted by Post Wrestling
With the news making the rounds that WrestleMania is taking place from the Performance Center, former multi-time WWE Champion and WWE Backstage contributor CM Punk tweeted the following about the news:
“Well that’s one way to make sure Roman finally gets not booed and nobody chants for meeeeeeee.”
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Originally Posted by Post Wrestling
Per PWInsider, the truck that Becky Lynch drove to the Performance Center on RAW was supposed to be a part of WrestleMania AXXESS and incorporated into her WrestleMania 36 entrance.
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Originally Posted by Post Wrestling
To promote their ‘KAYfABE’ wrestling show, Lita and Gail Kim spoke with Cultaholic for an interview. Gail and Lita opened up about their time in WWE, specifically having to do Bra & Panties matches. They were not too fond of the matches and Gail shared that her first house show match in WWE was a Bra & Panties match and she was terrified of what was to come.
Gail Kim: “I was mortified, because I never had to do that on the independents and it was my very first house show match with WWE, and it wasn’t televised, thank goodness. But, it was… I just didn’t even know how to go about it. I had to be told how to do it and it wasn’t my comfort zone. We’ll just say that and so when you’re not comfortable, you’re not gonna perform your best.”
Lita: “I feel like the girls would really bond over that because no one was stoked on it and so when they would go out there, it’s like we would all kind of just run to the back, we’d cover ourselves up and roll our eyes and be like, ‘Moving on!’”
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Originally Posted by Post Wrestling
Chavo Guerrero joined The Wrestling INC Daily podcast and he was asked about the Latino representation on Monday Night RAW with Rey Mysterio, Angel Garza, Humberto Carrillo, Zelina Vega and Andrade all being intertwined in a storyline and spotlighted. Chavo thinks highly of all the aforementioned individuals and thinks it’s good that they are able to put money in their pockets as well as bring in money for WWE.
“You know, those guys are all super, uber talented and there’s no hiding that a lot of great talent has come out of Mexico before and not only Eddie, but so many like a Mil Mascaras and all of these people that are box office stars. Not just great wrestlers but drew a lot of money, and that’s kind of what it comes down to really. A lot of people can put on good matches but if no one’s really paying to see it, WWE will not get behind it in a sense because it’s a business. That’s what wrestling is. To see these guys and see Rey [Mysterio] come out and kind of, to me, elevate a lot of these guys and now these guys are just starting to draw money, it’s great to see. It’s great to see that these guys have the opportunity to go out there and not only put on incredible matches, but some money in their pockets and make some money for the organization. I love that. I love to see that. You look at Alberto Del Rio, he was a pretty big draw then. He did alright for himself.”
During his appearance on the show, Chavo also revealed that the filming for Netflix’s GLOW series has been postponed due to the Coronavirus outbreak.
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Originally Posted by Fightful
After briefly tumbling to just under $30 per share, WWE stock recovered and closed at $32.75 per share when the market closed.
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Originally Posted by Fightful
Fightful has learned that AEW Dynamite will take place at Daily's Place in Jacksonville as originally planned. This past week, the City of Jacksonville twitter indicated that all city-owned venues would be closed, including Daily's Place. However, we've heard from the AEW side that the city's twitter account apparently thought a public event was being referred to.
AEW Dynamite will proceed at Daily's Place as a closed door event with no fans, and the city of Jacksonville has not had an issue with that.
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Originally Posted by Fightful
The official WWE twitter account got social media talking on Tuesday afternoon by tweeting an upside-down message that read "The Truth Will Be Heard." The account also changed the Twitter header to a blank white image and the profile picture to a blank black image. The bio was also changed to say "Expose. W a t c h i n g. //"
The tweet was quickly deleted and the profile has returned to normal.
wtf??? pic.twitter.com/PERETZfLTo
— sarah ٭ (@flairsnia) March 17, 2020
This is what happened for those who missed it. @WWE posted this and their bio looked like this & a minute later it was back to normal.
hacked or we're being worked pic.twitter.com/uR1VgFr0NZ
— The BLHW (@StephanieHypes) March 17, 2020
It's unknown if the account was hacked or if WWE is running some sort of angle.
IMPACT Wrestling is currently running a hacker gimmick where Reality Is Lost took over the IMPACT account at the end of last Tuesday's episode. WWE is also doing a hacker gimmick with Malcolm Bivens trying to hack into The Bump every week.
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Link: https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/w...-will-be-heard
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Originally Posted by Post Wrestling
Chris Jericho chatted with Justin Barrasso of Sports Illustrated to promote VICE’s Dark Side Of The Ring episode about Chris Benoit that premieres on March 24th. Jericho shared that a great portion of the documentary focuses in on how much Eddie Guerrero’s passing impacted Chris Benoit.
“There was a huge connection between Chris’ life and Eddie Guerrero’s life, and his death, so half the story is the story of Eddie and the other half is of Chris. I think we did the right way of portraying this, reminding everyone there were people behind this, not just sensational murder coverage. There is a story to tell of a friendship and a family, and a guy that was not a monster. This was someone you could trust and that was very respected in the wrestling community amongst his peers.”
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Originally Posted by Post Wrestling
Dark Side Of The Ring uploaded a teaser for the Chris Benoit episode of their series that premieres on March 24th.
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