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Originally Posted by Observer MLW has announced the latest addition to their behind-the-scenes staff. It was announced today that Dr. Tom Prichard has joined MLW as a senior agent. MLW noted that Prichard "will work as a coach and coordinator as some of his many duties" for the promotion.

Originally Posted by PWI Former Memphis Wrestling star and promoter Eddie Marlin passed away this morning at the age of 89, former Memphis wrestling personality Randy Hales (who had been helping to care for Marlin) announced

Originally Posted by Observer A GoFundMe campaign was quietly launched several days ago to assist independent wrestler Jeremy Ganger, who was bouncing at Dayton, Ohio establishment Ned Pepper's during last week's shooting in Dayton, Ohio where the person responsible murdered ten people and injured 27 others despite being confronted and killed by authorities within a minute of opening fire. Ganger exited Ned Peppers, brought several people into the restaurant and barred the door, preventing the shooter from entering. After the shooter was killed by authorities, Ganger returned outside to assist in disarming him. Ganger suffered injuries after being hit with shrapnel, which he has yet to undergo surgery to remove.

Link for those interested in donating: https://www.gofundme.com/f/jeremy-ga...other-expenses

Originally Posted by PWI The WWE Network's Hidden Gems section has finally returned to the revamped version of the streaming platform. The section is now featured in the In Ring section on the Featured tab of the category. When you click on the section, It is now broken down into four carousels under five sections: *Recently Added *WWE Hall of Famers *Before They Were Superstars *Classic Title Matches *Memorable Interviews. After the reboot of the WWE Netwotk, this content was available via search or in different sections, but now it is housed under one umbrella again. However, It is no longer listed by year. The Recently Added section shows that they've uploaded a lot of the content that was on the previous system already, but not in chronological order.

Originally Posted by PWI Squared Circle Sirens is reporting that WWE has signed hip-hop artist, boxing trainer and extreme CrossFit athlete Briana Brandy to a developmental deal. Brandy took part in a 2017 WWE tryout. Yesterday the site reported that WWE has also signed Santana Garrett to NXT.

Originally Posted by Pro Wrestling Guerilla Apologies for the delay in match announcements. Unfortunately, there was a scheduling conflict with Bárbaro Cavernario, and he will not be able to wrestle in the tournament. Aramis has now entered the 2019 Battle of Los Angeles!

Originally Posted by Observer Toni Storm is reportedly injured which explains her missing at least one date last week with wXw.

Originally Posted by Observer Newsletter SummerSlam had a different issue, with Endeavor’s Neulion taking over as the host server from Bam Tech, which WWE had used since its inception, the show was filled with widespread problems. Many people gave up on watching. Many reported multiple buffering. There were some problems with Takeover the night before, which was the new hosts first major live event ... The show drew a legitimate sellout of more than 13,500, with an announced figure of 16,904. With the wrestling war going on, they brought back heaps of pyro. Preliminary numbers indicate 19,600 buys on PPV, which is down from 29,900 last year, a 34 percent decline even with the network issues and even with network subscribers being down probably around eight to nine percent from one year ago.

Originally Posted by Observer Newsletter WWE quietly announced the cancellation of five house shows in August, all on the Raw side. This coincides with the report we had last week of doing more dual branded “Supershows” going forward. The shows canceled are the entire Raw house show tour in two weeks, with shows on 8/23 in Bossier City, LA, 8/24 in Lafayette, LA and 8/25 in Mobile, AL, as well as two of the three shows the following week, on 8/30 in Bangor, ME and 8/31 in Portland, ME. What’s notable is that out of nowhere, Kane was booked to work the Bossier City and Lafayette house shows. In the case of the first weekend, this is simply canceling shows likely due to bad advances. Even with the high ticket prices, it’s no longer the case that almost all house shows are profitable ... There are two keys to the cancellations. The first is to save money as obviously the company saw that they would be money losing tours. The second is to kind of hide the house show decline to investors. As noted with the last quarter, the average attendance (and this includes TV tapings and PPV shows) fell from 5,000 to 4,700 in North America. It’s a drop, but not an alarming drop. It’s six percent, notable but nothing to panic over. But the key is that they ran eight less shows due to Monday cancellations for the most part. If you figure those shows would have averaged 2,000 paid, that would take the average down to 4,100, which now is an 18 percent drop that investors would start questioning. It’s the right move for the company, as last quarter the house shows were profitable which hasn’t been the case every quarter. But it was also the WrestleMania quarter so Mania and Mania week live event profits are going to make the quarter better than other quarters.

Originally Posted by Observer Newsletter The update regarding Madison Square Garden on 9/15 and The Forum in Los Angeles on 10/13 is that as of right now, both shows are on, a press release is said to be forthcoming regarding MSG and New York, but there will be a show on that day at this point, and Cain Velasquez is being talked with about doing the show. There will be no AEW talent on that show. About 2,000 tickets have been sold thus far for MSG and the only match we know of it Tessa Blanchard vs. Taya for the Reina de Reinas title. On the weekend television, once again, the announcers never once mentioned anything about either show. No card has been announced and one would think you’d want the MSG card out by now. A big issue with the complete card is the visa issue. It’s been hard for Japan, but because of Donald's presidency, it’s ten times worse for those from Mexico. We were told that visas used to take maybe a month, but there are some visas that have taken eight months and they still haven’t been approved. With the show one month off, that’s made things very difficult. Plus, regarding the television production team they would be bringing, so many of them also don’t have visas so that gets in the way of other people familiar with how they shoot big shows. They weren’t promoting the shows on social media for a few weeks but then this past week did start promoting the idea that there are shows with no hints as to what is on those shows

Originally Posted by Observer Newsletter Regarding Hiromu Takahashi, the only thing we’ve heard is that he’s almost ready to return and they want to do is right and there’s no rush. It seems it’s more about how Gedo can weave a storyline around his return for impact and having the return coincide with something big

Originally Posted by Observer Newsletter The idea of piggybacking off SummerSlam in Toronto, the first time this has really been tried, after being a successful formula for years at WrestleMania, was pretty much a flop. There were a number of reasons. First, SummerSlam isn’t a traveling show. Second, with four WWE shows in the market over the week, for those local, the last thing they were going to want to do was go to another show. In addition, there were far too many shows. OWE on 8/7 and 8/10 drew about 150 fans each show, Smash vs. Progress that same day did about 225 and wXw with Walter vs Daisuke Sekimoto, which was said to be a blow away match, did about 225. The biggest of the indies was the 8/10 show called The Summit, featuring women from Shimmer, Rise, Femmes Fatales (a Quebec women’s group) and Smash. That show did 353 with 343 paid. Smash on 8/10 did about 250 fans. IWS from Quebec did about 160.

Originally Posted by Observer Newsletter Jim Cornette said that he just came back from Oklahoma helping things out because his father-in-law had died. He said that after a few more obligations he’s made this year that he will no longer be doing conventions for at least a year and would no longer be driving long distances to shows, nor flying. He said he may announce at some MLW and NWA shows but only if the events are within reasonable driving distance. He said he’s hit a wall from working so hard in he past year. He said he would remain doing his podcasts because he can make money from doing them while staying home

Originally Posted by Observer Newsletter Aja Kong, Yuki Sakazaki, Shoko Nakajima and Bea Priestley are all booked in Japan on dates that would coincide with All Out, so it would appear they wouldn’t be available for the Casino Battle Royale or a Kong vs. Kong confrontation unless something changes.

Observer issued a correction later in today's Daily Update article mentioning Priestley isn't booked for any Stardom shows around All Out's date.

Originally Posted by Observer Newsletter Goldberg and Riddle actually had a confrontation of sorts before SummerSlam. Riddle had been mocking Goldberg and Lesnar on social media for some time. Keep in mind this stuff is all approved, if not encouraged by WWE management because if it wasn’t, he wouldn’t be doing it. It’s just a way for him to get attention. I guess he never did see Lesnar. But he was backstage and Goldberg threw a shoulder at him and Riddle, whose stuff on Goldberg dating back months to the build for Saudi Arabia was that Goldberg wasn’t any good, because when he was a kid watching, he could see through him. So, according to Riddle’s description of their meeting, Goldberg looked at him, evidently knew what he had been writing and said, “We’ve got some talking to do.” And Riddle said, “We can talk any time.” Riddle called him bro, and he said, “I’m not your bro.” And Riddle said, “Alright Bro, take it easy” Goldberg said, “I’ll see you later, and it was a pleasure meeting you (Bill has the attitude generally if people are dicks to him to in his words, “kill them with kindness”), and Riddle said, “The pleasure was all mine, bro.” And Goldberg said, “I’m not your bro.

Link to Riddle's story: https://twitter.com/WRESTLEZONEcom/s...92763593236481

Originally Posted by Observer Newsletter With Sofia Alonso taking over control of CMLL after Paco Alonso passed away, WWE has had talks with the promotion.

Originally Posted by Observer Newsletter WWE has opened up talks about bringing a number of people in that they’ve never had any interest in, with the obvious reason that there is a belief they could be of value to the opposition

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