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Originally Posted by Observer WWE announced that a seven-plus-hour livestream of the greatest modern-day WrestleMania matches will air on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube starting at noon Eastern time on Friday, March 29. The matches will range from WrestleMania XIX until today.

Originally Posted by Observer Before he closed out Thursday's NXT conference call, WWE COO Paul "HHH" Levesque confirmed NXT is returning to San Jose, CA, on Saturday, June 8th. Without explicitly saying it's a TakeOver event, WWE confirmed it will be. The event will be at the SJSU Event Center where the brand has previously held TV tapings and house shows.

Originally Posted by PWI World Wrestling Entertainment has locked in plans to return to Madison Square Garden, PWInsider.com can exclusively confirm. WWE, which last ran the venue in December 2018, will return to MSG on 9/9 and 9/10 for back to back Raw and Smackdown Live tapings, we have confirmed with multiple sources. The dates will be the first WWE TV tapings in the Garden since a Raw taping on 11/16/09.

Originally Posted by PWI AAA will be holding a press conference next Thursday 4/5 at Madison Square Garden. A press advisory issued regarding the conference noted AAA was coming to the United States in September 2019 and that the conference would include an opportunity for "AAA’s top executive share his vision for Lucha Libre’s next chapter."

Originally Posted by PWI I read in This Day in History that Hogan fought as the Hulk Machine in the mid 80's. Why was this? Wasnt he WWF Champion and Hulkamania running wild at the time? Yes, but he worked a few tag matches as "Hulk Machine" playing off the Machines tag team as a house show gimmick. They never hid it was Hogan and he would do a deal where he took the mask off to show the crowd it was him but pull it down in front of the referee. George Steele and Roddy Piper did some house shows as the "Piper Machine" and “The Animal Machine” as well. It was just a house show attraction, like “Juan Cena” a few years ago. Is it true pro wrestling was once almost banned in NYC? Not in NYC, but all of New York State. There was a riot on 11/19/57 following Argentina Rocca & Eduord Carpentier beating Dick the Bruiser and Dr. Jerry Graham in Madison Square Garden with fans damaging the building, storming the ring and even fighting with police. This led to $2,600 in fines (which was a lot of money back then), a November show being canceled and the State of New York actually coming close to banning pro wrestling. Oddly enough, the local press reported on the script going too far, so even back then, for all the talk of protecting the business, it was still being skewered for being a work by certain corners of the media.

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Originally Posted by PWI Sting has been announced as signing for Wrestlemania AXXESS on Sunday, which led to the vendor bringing in Sting at Wrestlecon canceling his appearance.. Fans who pre-paid for autographs and photo-ops at Wrestlecon have received refunds already. Wrestlecon is trying to step in and work out Sting appearing at another time next weekend but nothing has been locked in. It should be interesting to see if WWE requires any other talents who are scheduled for Wrestlecon to be pulled from the event. Wrestlecon is among a number of entities having issues locking in venue in the Tampa area as WWE already has agreements locked in via their partnership with the city preventing competing pro wrestling events in certain venues in that market over Wrestlemania 36 week. WWN will obviously be running and will have no issues due to their relationship with WWE. We are told that Game Changer Wrestling has locked in Tampa plans. Everyone else is still up in the air.

Originally Posted by Observer Newsletter WWE announced officially that the Ronda Rousey vs. Becky Lynch vs. Charlotte Flair women’s match would be the main event on this year’s WrestleMania. The decision officially makes it the first women’s main event in WrestleMania history, a subject that was brought up one year ago when the idea was for Rousey vs. Flair to headline the show.That match changed forms multiple times over the past year, and the day after the announcement and the media publicity, did once more as to promote it as the biggest women’s match in WWE history, they are pushing a “Winner Take All” theme, or perhaps an “All On The Line” theme with both the Raw and Smackdown women’s titles at stake. The decision was made on 3/26 according to multiple sources in creative, that McMahon had agreed to a major change, basically putting the Smackdown title on Flair, which happened later that night as she beat Asuka for that title at the Mohegan Sun Casino. The original plan for the show was to have Asuka defend the title against the winner of a match on the 3/26 Smackdown show with Naomi, Carmella, Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville. Rose was booked to win that match and have a rematch with Asuka, who had beaten her at Fastlane. The decision was made on a show already overloaded with matches to remove that match that really had little interest and instead make the main event stronger. There was no indication Rose was winning that match. The plan is also to come out of this match with a clear direction for next year’s WrestleMania, whether that means Rousey returns for a singles match with Lynch, or Flair vs. Lynch. Granted this 2019-20 Vince McMahon, meaning it’ll probably change five times or more during the year, especially since all of the top three matches this year were determined by fans and circumstances and were change of the long-term ideas. The women’s match changed multiple times, from the death of Jim Neidhart, to the huge rise in popularity of Lynch and different angles and scenarios with Flair. The only constant was that it was probably going to be the first women’s main event, and the only constant in the story was it being the climax of Rousey’s one-year run.

Originally Posted by Observer Newsletter What “Winner Take All,” the theme we’ve heard from a few people as the probable tag line entails is not clear, although will be finalized on Raw on 4/1 in Washington, DC. The plan is not to unify or merge the championships, at least long-term. As things stand, the idea seems to be that if Rousey or Flair lose, the person who beats them gets their title. It in theory is possible that Rousey or Flair end up with both belts, but the more likely scenario is Lynch can now win either the Raw or Smackdown belt. It is always possible that could change by Monday, but we’re told that is very unlikely as they do want each brand to have a separate champion. Obviously this decision comes down to whether this will be Rousey’s last match with the promotion for now. If Rousey finishes at Mania, the date that was the plan as her tentative final date for the last few months, then the scenario that makes the most sense would be Lynch over Rousey. If Rousey is staying longer, then Lynch can beat Flair and they could do Lynch vs. Rousey later, since it only makes sense for Rousey to lose once, in her final match for now, and for Lynch to be the one who beats her.

Originally Posted by Observer Newsletter As every WrestleMania shows, Vince McMahon often changes his mind, based on his thoughts on crowd reactions or even if he thinks too many people have the outcome pegged. If he believes the social media outrage on Flair is real heat, he could switch to her winning. If Rousey is convinced to stay a little while longer just because he thinks people think he’s leaving, we’ve seen enough Brock Lesnar finishes to know what could happen. Still, Lynch has to be the favorite to win. By making the announcement public, we’re now in a position that McMahon can’t change his mind as to what match to put on last.

Smart of WWE officials to push Vince into a corner for a decision so he couldn't screw things up again but also sad they couldn't keep it as a huge surprise for Mania. It would have generated a genuine monster pop once the crowd realized which match was last.

Originally Posted by Observer Newsletter Regarding the internal politics in New Japan regarding the Dallas and London dichotomy mentioned last week, the U.S. expansion to this point has been in the hands of Kaname Tezuka and Bushiroad U.S. Harold Meij’s team were hoping to promote the U.S. market. The Madison Square Garden show was more ROH but Dallas is pure New Japan promotion. Tezuka’s Bushiroad had been promoting the U.S. market and wanted to keep it, so it ended up as a territorial split where Meij’s team gets U.K. and Australia and Tezuka’s team gets the U.S. Basically from both sides is the Tezuka side has more experience promoting wrestling which the Meij side doesn’t, but Meij has done business all over the world and his team speaks English, with him having being educated in the U.S. and Michael Craven being from Canada

Originally Posted by Observer Newsletter The Labor Day weekend All In 2, as it’s being called, will be on 8/31 back at the Sears Center in Hoffman Estates, IL. That was hinted on BTE the last time The Young Bucks went to Chicago and they showed the plaque in front of that arena which talked about All In. It was known all along it would be in Chicago, just a question as to what building as they sold out the Sears Center instantly last year, and the Allstate Arena, the WWE’s main venue, is a little larger and the United Center is a lot larger. In theory it should be harder to draw for a traveling fan show when they’ve already done Las Vegas this year, although lots of theories about what draws ticket money have been blown out of the water already

Originally Posted by Observer Newsletter Sadie Gibbs suffered an injured back powerlifting and pulled out of matches this past weekend. She said the injury has left her short of breath and she doesn’t know the extent of the problem.

Originally Posted by Observer Newsletter FOX’s Friday night lineup this past week averaged 3,418,000 viewers and that’s going up against a ton of NCAA basketball games

Even without sports competition, that is around the usual range FOX has been doing for Friday nights and why SmackDown is going to need some drastic changes made if it wants to come close to hitting those numbers even for the honeymoon period.

Originally Posted by WrestlingInc WrestleMania 35 is just days away which also means NXT TakeOver: New York is also days away. NXT is Triple H's baby and The Game conducted an NXT media call ahead of the big event ... Sullivan was supposed to debut on Raw along with other main roster call-ups such as Tommaso Ciampa. Ciampa had a brief run with the main roster before recently undergoing neck surgery and Triple H talked about what was known about Ciampa's injury prior to his debut. "We knew about it. We knew it was going to be a necessity going forward," admitted Triple H. "The decision was still made to move him to the main roster and get him some exposure. Then he'll take the time off, get fixed up and be back better than ever. "Unfortunately with the type of injury he had, it went from one thing to another very rapidly. It changed from something being manageable to being a risk we're not willing to take."