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Dirtsheets sponsored by HBK-Ric Flair 10th Anniversary:
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Originally Posted by Observer
Bein Sports and Major League Wrestling sent out their official press release today regarding the new weekly one hour MLW Fusion show that starts on the station on 4/20 in the Friday night at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. Eastern time slot.
John "Bad Bones" Klinger, who has been one of the top stars of the German-based wXw promotion, is no longer with the group, and the reasons are being kept quiet. wXw issued a release yesterday saying, "It is with great regret that we have to inform you about the immediate suspension of Bad Bones John Klinger from all future wXw events. The wXw World Tag Team Championship, currently held by Da Mack and John Klinger, has been vacated effective today. It will be contested at the next marquee event, wXw True Colors on April 14 in Dresden."
ROH announced a main event for a 4/28 show called Bound By Honor at the RP Funding Center in Lakeland, FL. It will be four members of the Bullet Club against four champions, Dalton Castle & Kenny King & Mark & Jay Briscoe.
Fred Yehi vs. Maxwell Jacob Feinstein was announced for the 4/12 MLW show in Orlando, FL at Gilt Nightclub. This will be Yehi's debut with the promotion.
Sabotage Wrestling announced that Ricardo Rodriguez would debut as their figurehead General Manager, most likely on their 4/28 show in Austin,TX.
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MLW: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...oster.html?p=1
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Originally Posted by Observer
Jeff Jarrett will be filming a Table for 3 Segment next week. WWE is filming tons of shows and documentaries with so many people in New Orleans next week.
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Link: https://twitter.com/RealJeffJarrett/...43666834214912
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Originally Posted by Observer
Impact Wrestling's positive ratings trend continued this week as the company posted its highest viewership since The Hardys' Final Deletion match.
Last night's episode averaged 399,000 viewers on Pop TV, up from the 362,000 that Impact did the previous week. That's Impact's highest number of 2018 and tops all of their shows from last year. The Final Deletion, which had Matt Hardy facing Jeff Hardy in the first match of its kind from the Hardy Compound, drew 410,000 viewers on July 5th, 2016.
The company thanked its fans after this week's ratings came out: "The BIGGEST THANK YOU possible to each and every one of you who helped make last night's IMPACT the most watched episode in 20 months and our 2nd most watched episode on Pop!"
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Besides the 50 man Royal Rumble, also announced for the 4/27 "Greatest Royal Rumble," at the 62,000 seat King Abdullah Sports City Stadium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, is Cena vs. HHH, a ladder match for the IC title with Miz vs. Rollins vs. Balor vs. Joe, and a tag title match with Sheamus & Cesaro vs. The Hardys. There will be no women allowed to wrestle on the show. There are those critical of WWE pushing how much they are behind women wrestling and female empowerment and then doing business with a country where women are treated as second-class and where their women roster members wouldn't be allowed to perform. But in the end, this is a gigantic money deal over ten years and that trumps just about everything. You can't expect high morals from a major corporation, and doubly so from a wrestling promoter. Granted, the key to this argument is about how WWE promotes itself as being on the cusp of revolutionary for women in sports, even when they were a half-century behind tennis and years behind even the UFC, which at one point was being run by people closed-minded that needed their eyes opened. If WWE is even pretending to be revolutionary, or even somewhere nearly up to date, on treatment of women and that's one of their calling cards, and their biggest mainstream star is female, I don't expect them to stand up for that because they are wrestling people, but at that point they have no right to claim anything legitimately when it comes to backing women. Like I said, I don't expect anything, but if you're legit on a cause, sometimes you have to make unpleasant decisions to back that cause. In this case, they failed to do so.
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Meltzer on WWE's image problem hosting the Saudi Rumble while juggling their spin on the Women's Revolution/Evolution historic impact on the company.
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There is a lot of talk that UFC television negotiations are not going well. The company had hoped to have the deal done by the end of last year, and now we're almost in April with no sign of a deal being done and the target looks like the summer for an announcement. There have been some stories along with the word on the street that UFC and FOX would likely be done. FOX made UFC an offer but now it looks like FOX is more interested in WWE, as they could get WWE for similar money and WWE would deliver higher ratings. Still, FS 1 and FS 2 have relied on UFC for a live percentage of their programming for years.
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I was wondering if you knew why ROH's women's matches are always you tube exclusives ,dvd extras,or just pre show matches?Pretty much every promotion that has women wrestlers feature therm on the regular card>Even WWE when they had "divas" matches that lasted all of three minutes were part of the main show.Is it because the owners or booker(s) don't like women's wrestling or do they don't think the women can draw? also if they're not featuring women wrestlers as part of the main show,why bother having a partnership with the Stardom promotion as the women from that promotion that come over heee to work for RPH willl just getbused the same way
They only have 60 minutes a week of their TV, plus they have seen the YouTube videos be extremely successful so they have continued to push the matches via that forum. I also think the company is taking a very slow walk before they run strategy. That's just the way ROH works. They take a very measure, slow approach.
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From PWI's weekly Q&A artciles on why ROH has their Women of Honor tournament matches only on Youtube.
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Originally Posted by Post Wrestling
David Bixenspan has done a lot of research into the attendance figure from WrestleMania 3 at the Pontiac Silverdome in 1987. The 93,173 figure is the most attendance figure in professional wrestling history, initially because of the legend of the event that signified the peak the promotion’s national expansion boom but has grown in legend because of the debate for over 15 years regarding its legitimacy. As the story goes, WWF event promoter Zane Bresloff, years after the show, spoke to Dave Meltzer and provided documentation of the actual number that was reported to be 78,500 and this was backed up years later when Meltzer was provided internal attendance figures by the company that also listed that figure. The WWE’s internal numbers when Meltzer was provided them listed the WrestleMania 3 total attendance at “about 78,000” and paid attendance listed at 75,700.
In Bixenspan’s research, Meltzer had reported an advance of 78,500 two weeks before the show and added that was 9,500 short of capacity for the venue, bringing the total capacity to 88,000. The Pontiac Silverdome website later listed the total capacity of the building at 88,000 and cited a visit by The Pope in 1987 attracting that sized audience.
Many of the documents to back up the various sides were unable to be recovered and there probably isn’t going to be a definitive conclusion, although it makes no sense for the WWE to have internal documents that would underreport the attendance. Bixenspan did seek to obtain these records from the WWE and didn`t receive a response.
The agreement most have is that the venue was truly full and there were no unoccupied seats. The other factor is whether the Pontiac Silverdome provided an accurate number of seats as their total capacity or inflated the true number and that presents the discrepancy.
If the 78,500 figure is accurate, there are two WWE events that have surpassed that total with SummerSlam 1992 at Wembley Stadium in London and WrestleMania 32 from AT&T Stadium in Texas in 2016.
It’s funny because if the aerial shot of the stadium was never taken, I don’t feel this debate would have raged on for so many years. While there was a lot of dispute when the WWE announced the 101,763 figure for the AT&T Stadium, there was nothing close the emotion of the WrestleMania 3 figure, possibly because it’s so much easier to verify a present attendance figure than one from 31 years ago. The WWE also stepped back from the figure and explained it wasn’t a paid number and they counted many people that you wouldn’t typically account for to reflect the attendance of a show.
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Impact Wrestling ended the month of March with their highest number on POP TV since July 2016. Thursday’s episode averaged 399,000 viewers, which is their highest Thursday night average on POP and second-highest number overall since the Final Deletion episode in July 2016 (when Impact was airing on Tuesday nights on POP). For the year, Impact is averaging 322,000 viewers on POP, which has been bolstered by their performance throughout the month of March where viewership has increased.
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ESPN has a piece on the L.A. Memorial Coliseum’s attempting to attract the WWE to run WrestleMania with a look back at the Coliseum nearly hosting the show in 1991. The Coliseum put together a video to persuade the WWE (then World Wrestling Federation) to book the Coliseum and it’s stated in the article by Joe Furin, the Coliseum’s General Manager, that Vince McMahon loved the video. The company scheduled WrestleMania 7 for the Coliseum in March 1991 and announced the site during the broadcast of WrestleMania 6 the year prior. The promotional campaign centered around attracting “over 100,000 fans” to the Coliseum and breaking the previous record of 1987 (see story above). In February 1991, amidst lackluster ticket sales, they moved the show indoors to the L.A. Sports Arena and transferred the tickets. In the article, Furin stated it would be great to try and get WrestleMania into the Coliseum in 2020 or 2021. Los Angeles will also have a new stadium for the L.A. Rams opening in August 2020 with Hollywood Park, which is scheduled to host the Super Bowl in 2021.
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Link: http://www.espn.com/wwe/story/_/id/2...estlemania-vii
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Rey Mysterio appeared on Below The Belt this week, which is hosted by former UFC Heavyweight Brendan Schaub. The former WWE Champion addressed rumors that he would be appearing at WrestleMania this year.
There had recently been reports that Mysterio would be working with John Cena at WrestleMania. Sports Illustrated reported this week that Mysterio is expected to work WrestleMania if he's healthy, and that Vince McMahon is considering having Mysterio as Braun Strowman's tag team partner against Cesaro and Sheamus. Mysterio noted that he's not going to be able to wrestle at the event due to the tear of his left biceps that he suffered earlier this month at a Northeast Wrestling show.
"Unfortunately I just suffered a torn bicep three weeks ago," Mysterio said. "I opted not to get surgery. It's a full tear, but I'm just going to sit back, do some therapy for it and hopefully I'll be back next month."
Mysterio said that while he won't be wrestling at the show, he's looking forward to it.
"This one's going to be off the hook," Mysterio noted. "There's going to be a lot of good matches."
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Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWk4b3RO4EA
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Vince McMahon and other people in WWE were said to be blown away by the social media success of The Ultimate Deletion match that aired earlier this month, according to Sports Illustrated. The hashtag for the match was trending worldwide at number one for three hours.
This could mean that there is a future for Matt Hardy and his Woken Warriors in the WWE Universe. SI also noted that the match was seen as a big success within the WWE office.
There's been speculation that Michael Cole's negative comments about the match were being fed to him by Vince and Vince being surprised at the success may add to that theory.
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Cody Rhodes tweeted out the classic Bullet Club logo is being retired and he would be revealing a new logo next week. Rhodes will be facing Kenny Omega next Saturday at ROH Supercard of Card XII.
THE CLASSIC BULLET CLUB LOGO IS BEING RETIRED...
I will be unveiling the new logo next week! pic.twitter.com/U4Z1F3nriT
— Cody Rhodes (@CodyRhodes) March 30, 2018
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Link: https://twitter.com/CodyRhodes/statu...70387443859456
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