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Originally Posted by Observer
Sean Waltman reported that WWE tried to get Shawn Michaels out of retirement for tomorrow's show. He said Michaels said he had a prior commitment with his family.
For the show there will be a less than 15 minute prayer break, not one hour as is the usual custom. The break will not impact the television audience.
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X-Pac: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C02WMgrg0Fc
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Originally Posted by Observer
Kenny Omega is helping put together a New Japan branded show on 6/29 in Daytona Beach, FL as part of the CEO gaming convention. The show takes place at the Ocean Center. There will be members of the Golden Lovers, LIJ, New Japan, Taguchi Japan and Roppongi 3K involved but a the ROH talent has a show that night and Suzuki-Gun, Kazuchika Okada and Tomohiro Ishii are booked in the U.K. that night. They are looking at five matches plus a dark match in a two plus hour show and will be trying to give the show a New Japan feel as well as a Fighting Games community feel with the idea of people at the convention being a key part of the audience. Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa and Chase Owens are scheduled. The ring will be in the area of the weekend tournament and there will be a fighting games commentary team and not a pro wrestling commentary team. It will be an esports filming crew.
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More details: https://www.f4wonline.com/japan/ceo-...xt-week-256571
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Originally Posted by Observer
Aerostar was injured last night at the Impact tapings but he's okay. We were told he had the wind knocked out of himself bad, but it was a very scary situation until they realized it wasn't serious.
MLW announced it had signed a multi-year announcing contract with Tony Schiavone.
MCW on 5/12 in Joppa, MD features Mick Foley and 5/19 in Hampstead, MD at North Carroll High School with Adam Rose.
Evolve on 5/20 in Livonia, MI has Matt Riddle vs. Keith Lee in a no rope break match for the Evolve title, Tracy Williams vs. Odinson, Austin Theory vs. Trey Miguel, DJZ vs Zachary Wentz, AR Fox vs. Myron Reed plus Chris Dickinson, Jaka, Shane Strickland and more.
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MLW: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...h-mlw.html?p=1
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Originally Posted by Observer
Ronda Rousey is announced for the 6/24 Raw house show in Anaheim, CA at the Honda Center.
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Originally Posted by PWI
Here are the updated main event matches announced thus far for Ring of Honor's 2018 War of the Worlds tour next month, featuring a number of New Japan Pro Wrestling stars:
Wednesday 5/9 in Lowell, MA at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium:
*ROH champion Dalton Castle vs. Matt Taven.
*The Young Bucks vs. BUSHI & Hiromu Takahashi
Friday 5/11 in Toronto, Ontario at the Ted Reeve Arena:
*IWGP United States champion Jay White vs. Punishment Martinez.
Sunday 5/13 in Villa Park, IL at the Odeum:
LIJ's Tetsuya Naito & BUSHI & SANADA & EVIL & Hiromu Takahashi vs. Bullet Club's Young Bucks & Cody & Marty Scurll & Adam Page.
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Originally Posted by PWI
Braxton Sutter announced this evening that he was done with Impact Wrestling, tweeting:
My time at @IMPACTWRESTLING is up and I would to extend a HUGE thank you to them. They gave me my first official contract/job as a wrestler at 35yrs old and hired my wife at the same time. I’ll never forget that. It was a great chapter in my life, now onto the next one!! pic.twitter.com/5tB2CZKdBg
— Pepper Parks (@BraxtonSutter) April 26, 2018
The word that made its way at the Impact TV tapings this week in Orlando is that Sutter had finally received an official release from the company after asking for it after the last round of tapings. It was obvious looking at the booking from this week's tapings that the company was finishing him up.
Sutter had done a great job in promoting the company whenever he was utilized in a promotional sense, so in that regard, while he wasn't pushed as a top talent, I would regard the depature as a loss.
Sutter's real-life wife Allie is remaining with Impact Wrestling, PWInsider.com has been told.
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Originally Posted by Observer
There was a breakup with Cena and Nikki Bella already taped for the coming season of “Total Bellas,” but that breakup storyline saw them get back together three days later. Art imitates life and all. So either they can use that without the making up, or have that and tape a second breakup. But they are promoting the new season around the breakup.
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Originally Posted by Post Wrestling
The WWE will hold the Greatest Royal Rumble card Friday from the King Abdullah Sports City Stadium and the first event of a ten-year deal the WWE has entered with the Saudi General Sports Authority. This is a show that is impossible to eliminate the politics. The wrestling is merely the item in the display window with the real story being the partnership and political message the WWE is attached to. Personally, I feel there has been a lot of great analysis and coverage throughout professional media going behind the politics and understanding this show for what it is. The lack of female performers is the lightning rod, but the politics go so much deeper and forces one to render what their line is and how far this crosses it. Some people will be able to divorce a professional wrestling company from the politics and actions that a Government participates in, citing many examples of big companies that do business in countries such as Saudi Arabia. In that sense, the WWE is being complicit where money is exchanged, and they can privately tell themselves they don’t condone this Government’s actions and the lack of rights enjoyed by a portion of its citizens. The next level is what the WWE is acting upon and that includes entering an agreement where their female talent is excluded, they are inherently stating that despite their public stance of “female empowerment”, that notion has its limits, and sadly, a price. The broadcast and presentation will be a big story coming out of Friday with how far the WWE is going to present the host country in a favorable light and serve as a commercial for the country. Again, these are actionable examples where the WWE is not just turning a blind eye but actively engaging as window dressing for a country with a terrible record with regard to civil rights.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Paul Levesque, who was in the country early to help promote and put together the event, said to The Independent, “I understand that people are questioning it, but you have to understand that every culture is different and just because you don’t agree with a certain aspect of it, it doesn’t mean it’s not a relevant culture. You can’t dictate to a country or a religion about how they handle things, but, having said that, WWE is at the forefront of a women’s evolution in the world and what you can’t do is affect change anywhere by staying away from it.”
WWE simply didn’t have the power to allow anyone to attend and sit anywhere in the stadium, nor to allow their female performers to work, or even attend the show. If they had been able to negotiate changes into the ten-year deal, they, in fact, would have been affecting change. Instead, they are promoting the country worldwide on its television in a manner they have never done before, and for the obvious economic reasons. This isn’t even bringing up being a propaganda arm for the country in a war in Yemen that is often considered the worst humanitarian crisis currently in the world.
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Originally Posted by WrestleInc
Alfred Konuwa's latest blog at Forbes looks at some of the criticism WWE is facing with holding "The Greatest Royal Rumble" in Saudi Arabia, despite women not being allowed to wrestle a the event.
"WWE will surely brandish countless shots of women in the crowd enjoying the Greatest Royal Rumble on Friday. That's not progressive. It's propaganda," Konuwa wrote. "For all the intense backlash that influenced sponsors to encourage a name-change of the Fabulous Moolah Battle Royal, which may or may not have unfairly villainized the polarizing former women's champion, backlash against WWE for its lucrative partnership with an oppressive kingdom has been relatively muted."
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If WWE was expecting to get a lot of positive mainstream coverage for holding an event in Saudi Arabia, the opposite pretty much happened instead.
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Originally Posted by Post Wrestling
MLW has added a singles match between Chelsea Green and Santana Garrett for next Thursday’s television taping in Orlando at the Gilt Nightclub. The following matches have been announced for the show: Shane Strickland vs. Pentagon Jr. for the MLW heavyweight title, Rey Fenix vs. ACH, MVP vs. Maxwell Jacob Freidman, Jeff Cobb vs. Jake Hager (Jack Swagger), Brian Cage vs. Joey Janela, Fred Yehi vs. Tom Lawlor, Green vs. Garrett.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Regarding Katsuya Kitamura, the company has still not said anything about him publicly and the official word is that he is simply out of action due to a serious concussion
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Originally Posted by Observer
Terry Funk, 73, is still having trouble from his hernia surgery from September 2016, where he had the surgery and then right after the surgery flew to the East Coast with the idea of not missing a booking because it was a weekend Tommy Dreamer booked him. He was planning on going to the Cauliflower Alley Club in Las Vegas next week because Brickhouse Brown asked him to give his induction speech, but he’s in a lot of pain in his stomach and won’t be able to travel. He wasn’t able to attend last year either.
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Originally Posted by Observer
The ten most watched shows of the past week on the WWE Network were: 1. WrestleMania; 2. Something Else to Wrestle With episode one; 3. NXT from 4/18; 4. NXT Takeover New Orleans; 5. 2018 Royal Rumble; 6. Ride Along with New Day Gable & Benjamin; 7. WWE 24 on Raw 25; 8. Bruno special (given all the hype on Raw, this is surprisingly low in a sense, but the reality is that there is not a lot of viewing of pre-Attitude Era stuff on the network, let alone when it comes to something where it was on someone who dates back a generation before that); 9. 205 Live from 4/17; 10. NXT from 4/11.
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Originally Posted by Pro Wrestling Sheet
For those unaware, Low Ki was scheduled to wrestle Matt Riddle at his Bloodsport event in New Orleans during WrestleMania weekend. However, Ki was replaced by Minoru Suzuki due to injury.
The event was run by Game Changer Wrestling and promoter Brett Lauderdale tweeted this week saying, “And so I ask you [Low-Ki] with all due respect: Because you were not able to compete, can you please refund our deposit? We have not “buried” you or questioned your motivations. $800 is gymnastics lessons and 2 weeks of summer camp for my daughter. Please?”
Lauderdale’s tweet prompted a six-minute video response from Ki in which the former WWE/Impact wrestler attempts to explain that he got injured while training for the match, but still flew out to New Orleans hoping they’d be able to come up with another way to use him on the show.
Low-Ki claims that a previously agreed upon room was no longer available for him once he arrived though, because it was assumed he was no longer coming, so the wrestler paid for it himself.
Due to all of this, as well as not receiving MORE MONEY for a show he wasn’t able to compete on, the wrestler believes his professional obligations have been met and the money is his.
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Link: http://www.prowrestlingsheet.com/low...sport-deposit/
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Originally Posted by WrestleInc
WWE has a new poll asking fans which return they are most looking forward to in the 50-man Greatest Royal Rumble match on Friday. As of this writing, 42% voted for Rey Mysterio while 39% voted for Chris Jericho, 13% for The Great Khali and 6% for 2018 WWE Hall of Famer Mark Henry.
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Originally Posted by WrestleInc
WWE Home Video will be releasing "The Shield: Justice For All" on July 10th, according to WrestlingDVDNetwork.com. The three-disc DVD set was previously named "The Shield: Rise & Fall" but that was a working title. You can pre-order the DVD at a sale price via this Amazon link. The DVD will be a match compilation that features Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose as a team and in singles action. There will also be newly-filmed interview segments with all three members of the group and it's rumored that never-before-released matches will be included. WDN reports that each of the discs will focus on one member of the group.
Below is the synopsis for the set:
They were a united front against injustice… The Shield was the most dominant group WWE has ever seen, and launched the careers of three of WWE's most successful superstars. As dominant as they were as a trio, Dean Ambrose, Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins took WWE by storm, and each achieved incredible individual success. All three would go on to achieve the ultimate goal of being WWE Champion, and compete in some of the biggest matches in WWE history.
This set follows the journeys of Seth, Dean, and Roman as they compete with Legends like The Undertaker, Brock Lesnar, John Cena, and Triple H. Hear from the stars themselves, as they discuss the impact The Shield days had on their careers, and how it helped drive and mold them into what they are today. Even when apart, their brotherhood remains strong… and you never know when the Hounds of Justice might reunite again to help fight for a common goal.
This is the legacy of Rollins, Ambrose, and Reigns… The Shield. See their greatest matches in this new collection from WWE Home Video.
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Above is new video of Triple H appearing on the "Tafaolkum" show in Saudi Arabia to promote Friday's WWE Greatest Royal Rumble event. He talks about the amazing fanbase in Saudi Arabia and how welcoming everyone is there.
"I'm always amazed when I come here, that the fanbase is so deep and their love for WWE is so intense. It's such a welcoming place. To be honest, I think it's misunderstood in a lot of the world when you come here to Saudi Arabia," he said. "It's just a wonderful place and the people are so friendly here, and they're excited to see you. Especially when it comes to WWE. We are like superheroes come to life and they can see you walking down the street in front of them, they kind of look in awe. It's a wonderful feeling. I know the WWE Superstars that are arriving today and tomorrow to come here for this event are really looking forward to being here and putting on a show for the fans."
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Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrSt80uWwQQ
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