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Dirtsheets sponsored by Hawkins reaction to the sheet news:
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Originally Posted by Observer
Though he was injured when a fan threw a water bottle at him on 205 Live last Tuesday, Kalisto didn't miss any time because of it.
Kalisto was back in the ring before Raw went on the air last night and got a win against Tony Nese on Main Event. Abigail Rodriguez, Kalisto's wife, had posted on her social media accounts last week that Kalisto needed stitches and had an MRI done due to the water bottle being thrown at him. The bottle, which wasn't empty, bounced off the ground and hit him in the mouth.
According to a tweet from a WWE employee, the person who threw the bottle was caught by security.
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Originally Posted by Observer
“WWE Photo Shoot” with The Miz will debut after Raw next Monday. The concept of the series is wrestlers being shown pictures from throughout their career and telling stories about them. WWE has already uploaded the episode online.
Johnny Gargano surprised his parents by giving them his first action figure before it’s released in stores.
Last night's show wasn't commercial-free in the first hour for at least some international markets. The same will likely be true for SmackDown tonight.
Jack Gallagher picked his top 10 video games of the year for Giant Bomb.
Chris Harrington found that Jimmy Uso is the new iron man of WWE (someone who is wrestling the most without taking a break of 40 days) after Dean Ambrose’s injury.
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New show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeO4C8e4pjw , Gargano: https://twitter.com/JohnnyGargano/st...58293392191488 , Reigns: http://www.wwe.com/shows/raw/2017-12...n-reigns-fined , Gallagher: https://www.giantbomb.com/articles/j...017/1100-5662/ , Uso: https://twitter.com/mookieghana/stat...19997774655489
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NJPW will be making a video game-related announcement at their fan festival on January 3rd.
NJPW has a hype video for Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Jay White at the Tokyo Dome with English subtitles. There’s also a video for the four-way Junior Heavyweight title match.
wXw uploaded WALTER vs. Ilja Dragunov from the 2017 16 Carat Gold Finals for free for 24 hours. It got some praise as one of the best matches of the year.
Matt Riddle & Jeff Cobb will be part of Fight Club: PRO’s 2018 Dream Tag Team Invitational.
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NJPW game: https://www.njpw1972.com/19643 , Tanahashi-White: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHQ33nl_CQM , 4-Way Jr title: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7kh6kyjans , wXw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoWyWAo4Ci4 , Fight Club PRO: https://twitter.com/Fightclubpro/sta...83476873846786
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Originally Posted by Observer
The first major match between Brock Lesnar and Kane is now being advertised for the January 27th house show in Baltimore, which is the night before the Royal Rumble.
Lesnar has been added to the card as a replacement since the main selling point locally, The Shield in a six-man tag, is off due to the injury to Dean Ambrose.
Local advertising is billing it as the first-ever meeting between the two in a Universal Championship match.
The original main event, as was the case with most house shows in January, was The Shield vs, Sheamus, Cesaro & Samoa Joe. It's now being broken up as Roman Reigns defending the Intercontinental title against Joe, and Seth Rollins & Jason Jordan defending the Tag Team titles against Sheamus & Cesaro.
Lesnar's next appearance on WWE television will be on the New Year's Day episode of Raw. He'll be on the show to further the build to his triple threat title defense against Kane and Braun Strowman at the Royal Rumble pay-per-view.
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NXT wrestlers Alexander Wolfe (formerly Axel Tischer) and Marcel Barthel (formerly Axel Dieter Jr.) returned for a surprise one-time appearance at wXw's 17th anniversary show in Oberhausen, Germany today. They made the save for their former Ringkampf stablemates WALTER and Timothy Thatcher against the RISE stable.
After Alexander Wolfe and Marcel Barthel appeared for wXw yesterday, Kairi Sane returned to Stardom for an appearance today to say goodbye to Yoko Bito as Bito is retiring.
Kassius Ohno is also in Japan (since Rachael Ellering is wrestling for Stardom) and was spotted at the most recent DDT show.
Finn Balor tweeted about Raw being live on Christmas: “Its always hard leaving home, even harder on Xmas eve. I told my mum ‘I’m sorry that we have RAW on Xmas day & I have to go wrestle’ She replied ‘Well isn’t it better than you NOT being able to go wrestle on raw on Xmas day!’ Perspective”
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Sane: https://twitter.com/we_are_stardom/s...04603455258624 , Ohno: https://twitter.com/narukiroy/status/944778963838226433 , Balor: https://twitter.com/FinnBalor/status/944978227038244864
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NJPW released the official promo video for Wrestle Kingdom 12.
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NJPW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnhujUGb6j4
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With Money in the Bank scheduled to be a dual-brand show in 2018, it appears that there will be an NXT TakeOver special in conjunction with the weekend.
Dave Meltzer reported in the most recent edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that an NXT TakeOver show is currently planned for June 16th, 2018 in Chicago, which is one day before Money in the Bank will take place at the Allstate Arena. With the already announced "big four" weekend specials, the addition of another show means that there are five TakeOvers scheduled for next year.
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Originally Posted by PWI
Any word lately about Neville? Is he simply waiting for his WWE contract to expire??
There was a little movement a month or two ago, but nothing since. Generally WWE can suspend contracts with talents that are hurt or not working so if that is the case, he could be waiting a long time. If he wants out he should talk to management about getting a release.
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From PWI's weekly Q&A articles about the status of Neville. Seems WWE is just going to wait till Neville's contract expires before letting him go.
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The territory system was massive before Vince McMahon decided to take New York to a global entity. We always hear about Jim Crockett Promotions, Mid-South Wrestling, Championship Wrestling from Florida, AWA, & WCCW and the impact they all had on the wrestling business. Which other territories, in your opinion, doesn't get the credit they deserve? Which are overlooked and underappreciated?
The UWF under Bill Watts comes to mind. That was a company that could have gone national as a wrestling product but the oil recession in their territory hurt their business. I always loved Memphis Wrestling. It was a highlight of my week, always fun to watch. Portland Wrestling was really good too, as were Georgia and Calgary.
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Also from PWI's weekly Q&A articles about underappreciated wrestling promotions.
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What is the status of ITV's World of Sport? There was so much hype that it would be brought back in the UK. What happened?
They cancelled their tapings in April and nothing has been announced since. Their twitter account hasn’t posted in over six months. At this point is seems as if it’s on hiatus, at best. If/when WWE starts their UK territory my guess is it will stay on hiatus.
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Final tidbit from PWI's recent weekly Q&A articles this time about ITV's World of Sport
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SpikeTV, which was the home for Monday Night Raw when WWE partnered with Viacom and then later became the home for TNA/Impact Wrestling, will end on 1/18/18, replaced by The Paramount Network. It would have been a completely different world for Impact had Dixie Carter accepted a lower rate for the company in 2014 instead of pushing for a raise, which led to SpikeTV moving on, setting the stage for Impact to go Destination America, PopTV and eventually being sold to Anthem Media.
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WWE has a new poll asking fans which victorious Superstar had the merriest Christmas on last night's RAW. As of this writing, 60% voted for new RAW Tag Team Champions Seth Rollins & Jason Jordan while 14% voted for John Cena, 9% for Braun Strowman, 8% for Absolution, 4% for Finn Balor, 2% for Samoa Joe, 1% for Hideo Itami, 1% for Kane and 1% for the team of Akira Tozawa, Cedric Alexander & Mustafa Ali.
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Some other sheet news includes: - Ratings and viewership for RAW has been delayed by a day due to this week's Christmas holiday.
- In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, today is the 34th anniversary of The Iron Sheik defeating then champion Bob Backlund for the WWF title at MSG in New York City.
- In another "WWE Did You Know" type fact, Rusev celebrated his 32nd birthday yesterday.
- Based on early betting odds, John Cena is currently favored to win next year's Royal Rumble followed by Roman Reigns. In terms of Smackdown, Shinsuke Nakamura currently has the best odds at winning for the brand and is #3 overall.
- The next episode of WWE Network's newest show called "WWE Photo Shoot" will air at 11:36PM next Monday and feature Ceasro as the guest.
- Recent episode of School of Morton podcast show had Tommy Dreamer as the guest talking about forgiving Paul Heyman and ECW's demise, working for Vince McMahon, and favorite part about working backstage for the WWE. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...vince-mcmahon/
- NewsHub held a recent interview with Charlotte talking about NXT, her wrestling debut, NXT's Four Horsewomen, first ever Women's Rumble, and possibly facing Ronda Rousey at Mania 34. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...ng-the-rumble/
Some stuff from TPWW Frontpage:
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