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Originally Posted by Observer Tuesday night's SmackDown averaged 2.319 million viewers on the USA Network, down one percent from last week and five percent from the post-SummerSlam show two weeks ago ... SmackDown was down 10 percent in the year-over-year ratings, which has been the recent trend. This was the 12th straight week the show has had a decline from the same week in the previous year. With network first-run shows set to debut in a few weeks, it's likely SmackDown's ratings will drop 5-10 percent from the current levels as it has done in previous years.

Originally Posted by PWI Two "Hiden Gems" focusing on Mae Young Classic competitors will be added today to WWE Network: Heat 06/12/2006 – The Climb Long before making a name for herself in the Mae Young Classic, Mercedes Martinez goes one-on-one with Victoria in this match from Heat. Mae Young Classic competitor Meiko Satomura teams with WWE Hall of Famer Madusa against Japanese legend Akira Hokuto and Kaoru. Below is the synopsis for the WCW Worldwide match: WCW Worldwide 02/09/1997 – Legends in the Making

Originally Posted by Observer Indies Roundup: Former Ring of Honor broadcaster Mike Hogewood died Wednesday at 63 years old. Best known for his work as a college sports announcer for the Atlantic Coast Conference and for various on-air roles at local broadcast stations, Hogewood became the ROH play-by-play man when the promotion had a run on HDNet in 2009, now AXS TV, despite having no wrestling experience. Ring of Honor paid tribute to Mike Hogewood on their website. He did announcing for their ROH on HDNet show from 2009-2011. Ohio Valley Wrestling will tape its 1,000th episode on 10/10. It will feature appearances from Hurricane Helms, Billy Gunn, Tommy Dreamer and Abyss. New Japan has released the first part of a Katsuyori Shibata documentary called “California Dreamin’”, where he talks about his move to California. Tickets for Wrestle Kingdom go on sale to New Japan Fan Club members on 9/10. An interesting note is that they are putting more tickets on sale, standing room tickets in the upper deck because with whatever they have planned and their business increases this year, they expect to have the first Tokyo Dome real sellout in 17 years. Bein Sports has dropped DirecTV so that’s another blow for the reach of MLW

ROH: https://www.rohwrestling.com/news/ro...-mike-hogewood , NJPW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25jrxw-E4yI

Originally Posted by PWI The NJPW Destruction Tour kicks off tomorrow in Korakuen Hall for the first of three consecutive Road to Destruction shows. This show will be live on NJPWWorld.com at 5.30AM EST/10.30AM UK. Ran Narita & Shota Umino vs Chase Owens & Yujiro Takahashi Juice Robinson, Michael Elgin, David Finlay & Aoya Yoshida vs Bad Luck Fale, Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa & Taiji Ishimori Toa Henare vs Beretta Hirooki Goto & Gedo vs Taichi & TAKA Michinoku Tetsuya Naito, SANADA, EVIL & BUSHI vs Minoru Suzuki, Takashi Iizuka, El Desperado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru Hiroshi Tanahashi, Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma vs Kazuchika Okada, YOSHI-HASHI & Toru Yano Tomohiro Ishii & Will Ospreay vs Kenny Omega & Kota Ibushi

Originally Posted by PWI Matt Hardy tweeted the following regarding the possibility of a new WWE Network show featuring House Hardy as mentioned in the recent WWE survey: A possible @WWENetwork show starring #HouseHardy that emanates from The Hardy Compound? With the original team behind the helm? This sounds positively MAGICAL! --> https://t.co/XQtC8XIKd9 pic.twitter.com/2lrVdQ2Yee — MATTHEW MOORE HARDY (@MATTHARDYBRAND) September 5, 2018

Link: https://twitter.com/MATTHARDYBRAND/s...10701634138113

Originally Posted by Observer The total attendance at All In was 11,263 (and a few days after the show they had already released an 11,263 T-shirt), which was, with the set up, was the fire department maximum they could put in ... The live gate was $458,525. We don’t have final merchandise numbers but every item they had sold out, and the key event shirt, the All In shirt, sold out at 3:30 p.m., 90 minutes before the show started and 30 minutes after the doors opened ... FITE TV grossed more than $1 million between iPPV sales and Starrcast iPPV sales. That would probably indicate in excess of 20,000 iPPV orders, which was well above expectations if you figure 80 percent of the revenue came from the show and 20 percent came from the convention. The Starrcast convention sold 11,000 tickets, but that doesn’t mean 11,000 people because people bought tickets for multiple events ... Pro Wrestling Tees did just under $500,000 worth of T-shirt business over the weekend through all channels, and most of the merchandise in the venue would be part of that total. Highspots reportedly had its biggest merchandise day ever at the convention as well as its biggest weekend ever, which is huge because they are a key part of every WrestleMania weekend. The first hour, airing from 6-7 p.m. Eastern, did 196,000 viewers on WGN. It was the best number on the station for the day and is in line with what most of the station’s top rated prime time original shows do, even on the worst night of the week for television and being out of prime time ... PPV numbers aren’t available at this point, and with no prior reference point it was impossible to predict. Illegal streaming numbers were about the same as for a non-major WWE PPV event, which these days don’t do more than 20,000 to 30,000 buys. Google trends, historically an excellent predictor, showed that the show did not crack the top 20 for the day, so this had its cult interest but it didn’t have the mainstream interest of a major UFC and WWE event. But nothing in pro wrestling that isn’t WWE or the death of a major star has ever cracked the top 20 in recent memory.

Originally Posted by Observer A lot of people were upset by the Joey Ryan angle, which was a spoof of Undertaker’s druids. For those who watched BTE, they knew Ryan had to confront Hangman Page. The fans live expected it, but people who didn’t watch BTE and were watching with the idea of seeing a loaded PPV and thinking it would be like a New Japan match, weren’t thrilled. They showed a video of the “dead” Ryan on his back, and suddenly his penis got hard and erect and came to back life, and announcer Don Callis made reference to his being resurrected. Some were offended on religious grounds. Others didn’t like the fact that the druids were dressed up as white dicks. Ryan then did his routine, confronting Page and putting Page’s hand on Ryan’s dick and Ryan doing the dick flip. This was definitely a moment that was the one that separated the live audience, which reacted well to it and with the build, saw it as something that had to happen for storyline reasons and others who thought the white dicks were just like a bad WWE idea.

Originally Posted by Observer There were attempts to get both Tony Schiavone and Mike Tenay to announce the Cody vs Nick Aldis match. Schiavone had a college football commitment. Aldis had asked for Tenay to announce it with the idea it would give it more of an authentic feel. Tenay never spoke to Cody directly, only Conrad Thompson, and they never made a deal.

Originally Posted by Observer The 10/28 Evolution PPV show at this point has sold 7,000 tickets to the Nassau Coliseum. It will end up close to full as a full house is scaled at 10,900. Of those 7,000 tickets, about 2,400 went to ticket brokers and the price to get in is $41

Originally Posted by Observer The key players in the ring, Cody, Omega, Young Bucks and Page (Scurll was not in the ring for the finish and he’s the only one whose contract doesn’t expire by the end of January) vowed to stick together in their upcoming negotiations and certainly left one with the impression they aren’t going to WWE. The best we can say right now is this. The vow to stick together among the five is legit. The decision of what that means hasn’t been made and WWE, which has made strong overtures, is an option. It’s not going to be an easy decision. There are many different things to weigh, some obvious and others not so obvious. The belief is that WWE is not blind to the obvious angle and has the same basic idea that would be obvious regarding how to use them at first.

Originally Posted by Observer While New Japan has had at least informal feeler talks with a number of WWE stars whose deals are coming due, you don't see people, even those whose fortunes are going nowhere, leaving to try and do what Juice Robinson has done.

Some other sheet news includes:

• Based on estimates from a recent episode of the RBR Weekly Wrestling podcast show, WWE will be making roughly $1.1 million per segment/match shown on Smackdown once their new deal with FOX begins. The estimates assume Smackdown does not get an extra hour and is around 8 segments per week.

Some stuff from TPWW Frontpage:

• WWE: WWE “Tell-All” Book Planned, WWE Yearbook Video
• Various: Pentagon & Fenix NXT Tease, NWA Title Match, Ballers Renewed
• Daniel Bryan Signs New WWE Contract
• Rumor: Shawn Michaels May Return to the Ring