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Originally Posted by Observer As of one week ago, there were no plans in the direction of Undertaker vs. Strowman in a singles match at Mania. There have been reports that it is under consideration but we’re told that as of press time it is not close to being finalized, nor as of TV was it the prime direction, although we don’t know what is. Nothing has been locked in for Undertaker. If Cena can recover in time that will likely be the match. If not, when you look at the roster, it would appear Strowman, Owens, Rusev or Sheamus to be the most likely foes. Owens and Rusev losing on Raw, while not a big deal depending on where they’re going, does make both seem not in the plans as of right now, because if Undertaker at Mania was the planned direction today for either of them, they would be booked stronger right now. Strowman is the one most protected

Originally Posted by Observer "Regarding rumors that WWE purchased “Subconscious,” those in WWE state that is not correct and Nakamura is expected to be given new music"

Might also be getting a name change and depends on how much they think he needs to be changed with his brief NXT run.

Originally Posted by Observer Raw had to be changed at the last minute because Robert Windham (Blackjack Mulligan), 73, the grandfather of Wyatt and Dallas, as well as father-in-law of their father, Mike Rotunda (who works as a producer), got very seriously ill and was hospitalized on 2/1 ... On Raw, they mentioned Bret Hart fighting cancer prominently as well as gave an update on Nikki Bella after her neck operation, which went very well, but said nothing about Windham/Mulligan. The company has a lawsuit out against Windham, essentially a pre-emptive lawsuit against him first that resulted in his not filing a lawsuit against the company as part of the Billy Jack Haynes and company series of suits on the concussion issue

Pat Patterson's autobiography, called "Pat Patterson: Accepted, How the First Gay Superstar Changed WWE will be released in August by ECW Press. Bertand Hebert, who did the great Montreal history book, will be the ghost-writer.

Update to Patterson's upcoming book.

Originally Posted by Observer The reason there has been no major DVD release or mass market merchandising for Lucha Underground is that the company was holding out for deals that would give them larger advances with the idea they could use that to fund the upcoming season. When they didn’t make any deals, they went back to the original investors and got the money for seasons two and three. Obviously the investors see potential in the product, but it has been a huge money loser to date. Ultimately it needs an increase in revenue from television and an increase exposure levels to get the characters over enough to where they can be merchandised. While there was talk a few months ago about doing a house show tour after season two, there has been no significant movement in that direction.

Originally Posted by Observer The Rey Mysterio contract deal is that Lucha Underground had the exclusive on him for U.S. cable television, and they didn’t want him appearing on Combate Americas on NBC Universo, even though Combate Americas had agreed to plug the promotion on its MMA shows. It turned into a pretty nasty thing between the two promotions since Combate Americas had already announced Mysterio as their brand ambassador

Originally Posted by Observer ROH announced this week that Jay Lethal, Bobby Fish and Kyle O’Reilly had signed new deals. All three were one-year deals with a significant raise from their prior deals. In the case of Fish & O’Reilly, when you combine ROH with their New Japan money, it would have been well above what they could have gotten from anyone else as it’s way more than usual NXT money and ahead of what similar level guys are getting even with TNA’s new higher scale. All three are exclusive deals for North America, in that they can only work for ROH and PWG in North America, but are allowed to book themselves outside North America except Japan, where they would only be able to work for New Japan.

Originally Posted by Observer This probably isn’t setting too well with Vince McMahon, but Styles and Gallows had both signed deals with Figures Inc. for action figures. The action figures are both scheduled to be released soon. McMahon was furious when the same company beat WWE to the marketplace with Kevin Steen action figures, and even worse, Styles will be marketed with the figures under his WWE name

Originally Posted by Observer Davey Richards had his knee examined, he suffured an injury on Sunday in Birmingham, England. There are no details other than the injury was worse than was hoped and he will be out of action for a while.

Originally Posted by Observer Lex Luger has been announced as the recipient of the 2016 Frank Gotch Award at the National Wrestling Hall of Fame Dan Gable Museum inductions on 7/21 to 7/23 in Waterloo, IA. Luger joins myself, Chael Sonnen, J.J. Dillon and Joe Blanchard in being honored that weekend.

Hart had retired as an active wrestler around 1963, but Stomper kept goading him to come out of retirement. Eventually they had a series of three matches in early 1969, culminating with the fight to the finish on February 7 in Calgary. Stomper not only went over, but broke Stu’s arm. Since the stories of Stu in the dungeon were well known around the city and throughout Eastern Canada, the idea that he injured the toughest man in Western Canada made people see Stomper as an almost unstoppable force. The memories of this program were so strong that 14 years later, when Bret had become a popular singles star, the storyline of his breaking Stu’s arm was used for a strong drawing program with Stomper. Bret Hart, who was 11 at the time of the Stomper vs. Stu program, had vivid memories of watching his father get his arm broken. He said he had nightmares about The Stomper, remembering in particular an interview where he said he was going to come down to their house, and tear it apart, brick-by-brick, tear his father limb from limb, and even threatened to drag his mother out of the house, bring her onto the interstate and give her a piledriver. Stu wore the cast at home, although Bret noted that when his father thought no one was around, or when he needed to cook, he took it off. Then one Saturday afternoon, coming out of a Corvette, in front of the house, was The Stomper. Bret didn’t know if he was going to make good on his promise. But his mom greeted him, hugged him, and handed him a check. “I still wasn’t sure what was going on, but I never viewed wrestling in quite the same way after that.”

Random Bret Hart story from back in the day.


Some other sheet news includes:

• TNA recently sent an offer to Lucha Underground about doing a joint show during Mania week but it was rejected by LU.
• According to the Observer, Lucha Underground's management is furious at Jim Cornette after his recent rant against the company. Instead of just ignoring him, they took what he said a bit too personally which caused some distraction problems with recent tapings.
• WWE rumored to be considering a new Network series revolving around non-WWE/NXT wrestlers that could lead to future WWE deals for those involved. Would be focused more towards cruiserweight type wrestlers.
• Observer recently teased its going to be very hard for the WWE to get The Rock to show up on RAW prior to Mania or help promote the event due to his current filming schedule.
• WWE currently rumored to be planning the next NXT UK tour to happen during this June.
• John Cena was revealed to be among the voice actor cast for the upcoming Marvel Avengers Acdemy mobile game. He will be The Hulk's voice actor for the game. http://uproxx.com/sports/john-cena-m...ngers-academy/
• According to the Observer, Kenny Omega will be taking over AJ Styles' schedule for ROH. Was assumed earlier Omega's appearance at the upcoming ROH ppv was just a one-time thing but instead will be pulling double duty with NJPW and ROH for ppvs this year.
• According to sources, Nakamura signed a 3 year deal with the WWE. https://twitter.com/enuhito_eng/stat...783305216?s=09

Some TPWW news includes:
Recent episode of TPWW's TLP podcast was recently released: http://tablesladderspodcast.podbean....st-141-020316/