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Originally Posted by Observer
A change in the card led to new champions last night at the first ROH War of the Worlds event in Lowell, Massachusetts.
During the show Castle came out and said that due to accumulating injuries, he would be unable to defend the ROH championship tonight. He reiterated that he was not relinquishing the title, but would instead take time off to heal injuries. It was reported in the newest edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that Castle has back and hand injuries, including a possible break in the hand.
An angle was set up during the Coast 2 Coast/Marseglia and O’Ryan bout where SoCal Uncensored came out from the back and took the ROH six man tag team titles from The Kingdom, who in storyline had recently stolen them. This set up a new match for later that night, where The Kingdom regained the six man titles from SoCal Uncensored, ending their two month reign with the titles.
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Originally Posted by PWI
ROH Champion Dalton Castle was held off of this week's events due to a broken hand as well as ongoing issues with his back. The hope is that he will return to the ring by next month's PPV. He's been dealing with the back issues for months and the timing of the injury has to be extremely frustrating for him. I wasn't a fan of the company not announcing the main event change until we were well into the show, but they did it very well as a way to build up to the Kingdom getting a nice pop winning the Six Man Tag Team Championship in their backyard.
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Originally Posted by Observer
The belief in the U.K. is that Toni Storm has signed with WWE. Apparently there was a video montage for the King of the Ring two-day event at Royal Albert Hall in London on 6/18 and 6/19 and her photo was shown. Storm was scheduled for June with Stardom and told the promotion that she needed to leave after the 6/17 show because she had a date she need to make on 6/18 in England. She could be working it without a contract, similar to when she was in the Mae Young Classic. WWE is also attempting to sign a lot of talent in the U.K. right now for both their own television show, and more, to keep them away from ITV, which started taping television today. But it is not confirmed she signed and if she did, she and WWE would be keeping it secret anyway.
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Originally Posted by Observer
We're waiting for more on this, but it appeared Charlotte Flair had a dental issue during her match today in Oberhausen.
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Indies Roundup:
Atlantis, Guerrero Maya Jr., and Stuka Jr. will be on the ROH shows on 6/15 in San Antonio and 6/16 in Dallas. This will be the debut of the Hall of Famer Atlantis in ROH.
The All In press conference will take place on Sunday at Pro Wrestling Tees in Chicago at 2 p.m. Eastern live on Twitch and Facebook. Tickets for the show go on sale that today and some names and announcements of matches are expected.
MLW announced a three-way match to determine its first tag team champions on the 6/7 show at Gilt Nightclub in Orlando with Pentagon Jr. & Rey Fenix vs. Jason Cade & Jimmy Yuta vs. Dirty Blondes.
World Series Wrestling announced Marty Scurll vs. Robbie Eagles on 6/22 in Melbourne, as well as Jimmy Havoc vs Abyss plus Joey Ryan appears. On 6/23 in Melbourne they have Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Jonah Rock and Brian Cage vs. John Morrison. 6/25 in Sydney has Rock vs. Cage.
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Originally Posted by PWI
We've had a few questions of late asking about the status of the planned Vince McMahion biopic Pandemonium. There has been no real change in the project. A new, updated draft of the screenplay was written (this would be a third draft) and we are told, was submitted to Bradley Cooper for his interest in playing McMahon. Sources tell us there's been no final word on a yay or nay from Cooper, as of this week.
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Originally Posted by PWI
It looks like being advertised on the WWE Network really paid off for IMPACT Wrestling. The Global Wrestling Network app went from the 669th position for the top free sports app of iOS to 101st tonight and growing. This is more than the night after Redemption when they peaked at position 130 and higher than any other day of 2018 and the same repeats in every country where the app is available. In Canadian charts they went from 1239th to 97th in a single day and in Great Britain they went from 1029th to 143rd.
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Originally Posted by PWI
New Japan Pro Wrestling's three US Trademark applications (Strong Style, King of Sports, Strong Style Evolved) were given initial refusals due to the applications being submitted unsigned, resulting in them being not properly verified.
Major League Wrestling's two trademark applications for 'War Games' have been initially refused due to likely hood of confusion with MGM's trademarks of 'Wargames'. In addition to sounding similar in name, they were also refused due to the likely confusion with the use of services provided by both companies for their trademarks. MLW's use of service focused on providing wrestling and sports entertainment through various means while MGM's focused on production and distribution of DVDs featuring entertainment which was enough for the USPTO to claim confusion with consumers. They provided screenshots of WWE's, ROH's and Highspots' websites as examples of places that produces and distributes DVDs featuring wrestling and entertainment.
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Originally Posted by 411Mania
On WWE not having women compete at the Greatest Royal Rumble: “I understand that they are a business, a global business and they are always looking to expand their global presence. However, I do feel this was a direct conflict of interest with them maintaining any integrity or truth to the fact that they say they would like to push forward women, their roles and their reputations in this business as anything resembling equal to a male. Make the money, that’s fine, but don’t try to cover it up. Don’t say, “No, we are doing this because in the future we would like to help progress their culture forward!” No, you want the money, you’re a business and businesses make money. That’s okay. From my perspective over here, I don’t own your business so that’s your call. From a PR perspective don’t say you are doing it because, “We want to help progress that culture forward.” Uh no, it’s a direct conflict of interest, in my opinion.”
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From a recent interview WrestleZone Radio had with Lita: https://411mania.com/wrestling/lita-...-royal-rumble/
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Originally Posted by Observer
Auleaga “Neff” Maiava, who is generally credited as the first Polynesian and Samoan pro wrestling star, passed away on 4/21 at the age of 93. Maiava was believed to have been the second oldest wrestler still living before his death (the oldest is believed to be U.K. wrestler/referee Joe D’Orazio, who is 95).
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Originally Posted by Observer
We still haven’t been able to confirm anything regarding the proposed show at 100,000 seat MCG Stadium in Melbourne, Australia on 10/6. It was mentioned on television and reported about in the Australian media. WWE was supposed to make the official announcement in early April and that came and. Obviously there are snags but nobody has confirmed what they are. WWE has not responded to any questions regarding the show. What we do know is that something that was part of the deal hit a snag, but don’t know if it was something repairable or not.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Ray Rowe, 33, of War Machine, and Sarah Logan (real name Sarah Brides), 24, have set a 12/21 wedding date. The two have been engaged for some time and were together as a couple before either was in WWE.
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A funny story on the Undertaker vs. Rusev casket match at the Greatest Royal Rumble show. If you recall, it was originally Undertaker vs. Rusev and then changed to Undertaker vs. Jericho and then changed back to Rusev. Jericho, as a courtesy, told McMahon that he was going to Fukuoka to shoot another angle with New Japan for his match with Naito at Dominion. Just a couple of hours later he was told that the Prince of Saudi Arabia asked for Rusev in he mach instead of him so they were taking him out. Given that the Prince clearly was wanting talent from years back (Hogan, Undertaker, Yokozuna, Ultimate Warrior) on the card and requested them, it is hard to believe he would have specifically on that day asked for Rusev for that match and not Jericho, particularly since the match had been changed to not be Rusev just a few days earlier. That probably also explains how the story got out that Jericho was going to Japan since in telling Vince the secret, it was no longer a secret.
Bryan also talked about how much he hated being General Manager because he had to be around wrestling every week but wasn’t allowed to wrestle. He said had he not been cleared, he was 100 percent going to ROH, CMLL and New Japan starting in September. He said he was looking at working a program where he would feud with Bullet Club.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Lawler had a CAT scan after his recent stroke, and noted on his podcast that he has brain damage in a number of cells in his brain. He said he’s felling no ill effects whatsoever and the doctor told him he was phone even with the damaged cells, but was very lucky as it could have been far worse.
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Originally Posted by Observer
The top ten most-watched shows on the WWE Network for the past week were: 1. Backlash; 2. Table for 3 with Styles, Angle and Shane McMahon; 3. Greatest Royal Rumble; 4. Camp WWE episode one; 5. Greatest Royal Rumble pregame show; 6. NXT from 5/2; 7. Ride Along with O’Neil, Crews, Bliss and Strowman; 8. Backlash post-game show; 9. Something Else to Wrestle With with Bruce Prichard & Conrad Thompson on Shawn Michaels on 5/2; 10. 205 Live on 5/1.
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According to PW Insider, Big E is being considered for a singles push and the men’s Money in the Bank ladder match may be the start of that.
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