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Dirtsheets sponsored by WWE's Greatest Moment of 2018:
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Originally Posted by Observer
Raw did its lowest numbers since June last night, but that wasn't unexpected going against a big football game and the Emmy Awards.
Raw averaged 2.66 million viewers, down three percent from the prior week. Normally Raw would get a bump coming off a pay-per-view -- but with the Seattle Seahawks vs. Chicago Bears doing 11.72 million viewers and the Emmys on NBC doing 10.21 million viewers, that made the difference ...
Raw ended up in eighth place for the night on cable, trailing news shows and ESPN programming related to the NFL ...
The three hours were:
8 p.m. 2.84 million viewers
9 p.m. 2.75 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.43 million viewers
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Originally Posted by PWI
Stephanie Bell aka Mia Yim was at the WWE Performance Center today and was featured on a video from the PC released by WWE. The former Impact Wrestling star was a competitor in the Mae Young Classic. She has lived in Orlando for some time, so she is local, but it's also quite possible she has signed a WWE NXT deal. If so, that puts her back in the same company with Adam Cole, who she partnered with in CZW and other independent promotions years ago. We've reached out to WWE for confirmation, but most likely that won't confirm until it's time for the official announcement of the next set of talents coming into the PC..
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Link: https://twitter.com/WWENXT/status/1042098121378029568
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Originally Posted by Observer
In support of Glenn Jacobs, WWE is donating $100,000 to the Knoxville Public Safety Foundation (a charity that supports first responders after they “suffer injuries, illness, death or other life-changing events).
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Link: https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/...rs/1350491002/
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Originally Posted by Observer/PWI
Indies Roundup:
Jay Lethal & Jonathan Gresham will face KUSHIDA & Jushin Thunder Liger at ROH’s TV tapings in Las Vegas on September 29. Coast 2 Coast (Shaheem Ali & LSG) will also challenge for the ROH Tag Team titles at the tapings. The Briscoes hold the titles and will defend them against Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian at Death Before Dishonor on September 28.
Tetsuya Naito, EVIL & SANADA vs. Shane Strickland, Bandido & Flamita has been made official for OTT’s Fourth Year Anniversary show at National Stadium in Dublin on October 13.
MLW announced that they’ll be taping TV in the Chicago area on November 8. The tapings will be held at Cicero Stadium in Cicero, Illinois, and tickets go on sale this Saturday.
Paul Richard, who has been the General Manager of New England Championship Wrestling for nine years, is retiring from the wrestling business and will be working with Christopher Nowinski in educating athletes on CTE. Richard himself said he was diagnosed with CTE and had nine concussions while wrestling.
David Arquette will be part of the Rise 10 show on 10/19 in Berwyn, IL at the Eagles Club. He will be attending a seminar put on by Mercedes Martinez, Rain, Cheerleader Melissa and Lexie Fyfe. It sounds like an angle where Arquette tries to join the all-women's promotion.
Marko Stunt will debut on the 10/4 MLW show in New York at the Melrose Ballroom teaming with Rich Swann & ACH against the New Hart Foundation of Brian Pillman Jr. & Davey Boy Smith Jr. & Teddy Hart. The main event on the show is L.A. Park vs. PCO.
IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kenny Omega will make his debut for Northeast Wrestling on Friday 11/9 in Poughkeepsie, NY, the promotion announced tonight:
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ROH: https://www.rohwrestling.com/news/ep...egas-tv-taping , OTT: https://twitter.com/OTT_wrestling/st...11821034229760 , MLW: https://mlw.com/2018/09/18/mlw-debut...this-saturday/ , NEW: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/12...ember.html?p=1
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Originally Posted by Observer
Judge Vanessa Bryant in U.S. District Court in Connecticut threw out all of the Konstantine Kyros led-concussion lawsuits against WWE earlier today. The two key ones were the remaining counts in the Vito LoGrasso and Evan Singleton cases, as well as the case with 53 different wrestlers including Joe Laurinaitis, Paul Orndorff, Jimmy Snuka and many others. Bryant strongly admonished Kyros for his complaints being too long, having irrelevant or non-factual arguments and said she has told him over and over to rewrite the complaints, only to have them come back with similar problems. She stated that having him rewrite the complaints would seem to lead to the same thing. She also ruled that the complaints were time barred in that such a lawsuit would have to come within five years of suffering the injuries in question and almost all the wrestlers involved were long since retired when the complaint was filed.
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More details: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/12...suits.html?p=1
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Originally Posted by PWI
Early this morning, attorney Konstantine Kyros issued a statement to PWInsider.com, announcing he intended to appeal Bryant's dismissal order, which included ruling that Kyros would be responsible for reimbursing some of WWE's legal fees.
PWInsider.com contacted WWE's lead counsel Jerry McDevitt for comment on Kyros' plans to appeal. Below is the complete response from McDevitt:
"This is the same kind of drivel Kyros pawned off on former wrestlers when soliciting them to sue WWE by false statements that he had obtained a billion dollar settlement for NFL players and would do the same for wrestlers, when in fact he had absolutely nothing to do with getting that settlement. He was caught repeatedly making false allegations; has been admonished repeatedly by federal judges about his dishonest behavior; and has now been subjected to two different sanction orders of the kind that would make most lawyers embarrassed and ashamed. The rant he sent you now insults the federal judge who issued the decision, and he still fails to address the basis of her opinion. He may well have been able to mislead those he solicited to join his lawsuits, but he will never succeed in misleading us or federal judges. Frankly, he should be disbarred."
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Originally Posted by Observer
While there was a U.K. news story claiming WWE was confiscating pro-Becky Lynch signs at last night's show, the WWE has stated that they did not do so, but said it is possible if a fan was holding a sign in front of the hard camera, it may have been removed to prevent blocking camera shots.
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Originally Posted by PWI
Netflix's GLOW, based on the 1980s Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling troupe and TV series, ended up with two Emmy wins.
GLOW's Stunt Coordinator Shauna Duggins won the Emmy for Outstanding Stunt Coordination for a Comedy Series or Variety Program, becoming the first woman in history to score the accolade since it was instituted in 2002. The series also captured the Emmy for Outstanding Production Design For A Narrative Program (Half-Hour or Less).
In response to the wins, GLOW's Twitter account commented:
Thank you to the @TelevisionAcad and congratulations to team GLOW on winning 2 #Emmys! Special shout out to our awesome Production Design team and Stunt Coordinator Shauna Duggins on a history making win.???? pic.twitter.com/K09jcOxUQ4
— GLOW (@GlowNetflix) September 18, 2018
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Link: https://twitter.com/GlowNetflix/stat...68885988679680
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Originally Posted by PWI
Wrestling historian Tim Hornbaker, who has written several excellent books on the business, officially released his latest, Death of the Territories: Expansion, Betrayal and the War that Changed Pro Wrestling Forever on 9/18. The book provides an excellent, well researched account of the pro wrestling's world's reaction to Vince McMahon's push to take the WWF national and how Vince's moves and their reactions led, one by one, to the end of the promotions that had long carved out their own fiefdom in professional wrestling.
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More details: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/12...ories.html?p=1
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Originally Posted by Post Wrestling
I spoke with someone regarding Becky Lynch and the direction she is going. At SummerSlam, it was designed to turn Becky into a heel, however after the reaction that week in Brooklyn they decided to adjust and make it more about Becky and Charlotte’s issues with one another rather than making Becky a strong heel. The directive at the time was that Becky was a ‘Stone Cold’ type of character knowing she would be cheered, however, we are told that has somewhat changed. Internally, Becky is technically considered a heel, although she isn’t generally being received as one by the public. There are no plans to make Charlotte Flair a heel coming out of this.
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Originally Posted by WrestlingInc
It's no secret that Becky's popularity has been on the rise since turning on Flair at SummerSlam. Dave Meltzer noted on Wrestling Observer Radio that the idea of last night's match was to slowly turn Flair babyface.
Despite Becky pinning Flair in the middle of the ring clean, the idea was to end the match with Flair as a babyface after Becky "screwed" her to win the title. Apparently Becky's big heel move was the post-match handshake blow-off. There was supposed to be a few significant heel moves by Becky during the match but both of them worked most of the match as a babyface. WWE officials knew going into the match that Becky would be cheered.
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Originally Posted by WrestlingInc
Above is the intro for the new Curt Hawkins "Nothing To Lose" WWE Network Collection, featuring Hawkins as the host. The Collection is now live on the Network and features more than 20 videos with a look at major losses in WWE history.
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Link: https://youtu.be/Hhr6MArhS5c
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Originally Posted by WrestlingInc
WWE has a new poll asking fans who they would rather have in their corner at WWE Super Show-Down - Kane or WWE Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels. As of this writing, 54% voted for Kane. As noted, Kane will be in The Undertaker's corner while Michaels will be in Triple H's corner for the big match on October 6 in Australia. It's believed this will lead to Michaels coming out of retirement for a big tag team match at WWE Crown Jewel in Saudi Arabia on November 2.
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Originally Posted by WrestlingInc
Regarding WWE using a red Cell structure at this year's Hell In a Cell pay-per-view, @WrestleVotes reports that Vince McMahon made the call as a way to do something new, similar to when they dropped the Roman numerals from WrestleMania. It was also noted that they did a visibility test and everything was OK for the broadcast.
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