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Originally Posted by Observer
A combination of network season premieres and a strong NFL game led Raw to what will undoubtedly be the lowest rated episode in its history last night.
The Raw rating is not available, but the total audience was 2.35 million viewers. The previous modern-era low audience was 2.46 million viewers set on July 9. The September 26, 2016 Raw, which went up against the Clinton-Trump debate, also did 2.46 million viewers.
While excuses can be made, and those were the reason for the low number, there are season premieres every year and NFL big games every season. Last year's Raw during the same week did 2.91 million viewers, so that's a 19 percent year-to-year drop.
The show featured what will almost surely be the two lowest rated hours, hours two and three ...
The new Observer will go into more detail about where the audience was lost, but the big drop from hour one-to-two was viewers over the age of 50, which is Raw's usual largest audience demo. It was unusual in that the third hour was actually slightly up from the second hour by 6,000 total viewers.
The three hours were:
8 p.m. 2.49 million viewers
9 p.m. 2.28 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.28 million viewers
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Originally Posted by Observer
Liv Morgan has officially been diagnosed with a concussion from the two kicks that hit her in the head in the Yes Kick flurry by Brie Bella last night on Raw in Denver, Colorado.
Morgan appeared knocked out by likely the first kick, and in slumping, she fell into a second kick. She was out of the match quickly, but did return for a triple suplex spot.
Those backstage reported last night that she was okay, but WWE officials reported the concussion.
The company issued a statement today: "Liv Morgan has a concussion and is going through the proper protocol under WWE’s comprehensive wellness program."
She will be out of action until she passes Impact testing procedures and there is no way to estimate a time frame for that.
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Would be legit surprised if she gets cleared for Super Show-Down and depending on lingering effects, even Evolution could be in doubt. Two big pay checks at risk because Brie is horrendous as a wrestler.
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Originally Posted by PWI
After an errant Yes Kick rocked Liv Morgan and required her to leave the match during their six woman tag team bout on Monday Night Raw, Brie Bella issued the following comments on her Twitter account: “Every match on #Raw is an opportunity for us to entertain our fans. Our intentions as @WWE Superstars is to win the match, never injure our opponents. Thinking about @YaOnlyLivvOnce tonight.”
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Originally Posted by Post Wrestling
We were told by one person within the company that she was said to be okay and walking around backstage with Brie and Morgan both apologetic to each other in the back
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Originally Posted by Observer/Post Wrestling
Indies Roundup:
wXw and DDT will both be coming to the US during WrestleMania weekend. They will be a part of the WWNLive Experience, a group of collective shows that will take place at the La Boom nightclub in Queens, New York during WrestleMania weekend. Other promotions under the WWN banner will also run shows, including EVOLVE, SHIMMER, Kaiju Big Battel and their annual Supershow: Mercury Rising event. This is the first time DDT will run a show in the United States, while wXw previously ran shows in Philadelphia and New Jersey in 2010 and 2011.
Low Ki will defend his MLW World Championship against Daga at the promotion’s TV tapings in Queens, New York on October 4.
Kenny King vs. Chase Owens has been announced for ROH’s post-Death Before Dishonor TV tapings in Las Vegas on September 29.
Cody Rhodes will be donating 100 percent of his meet and greet proceeds for the NWA’s 70th Anniversary Show to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
Women of Wrestling has announced that Shaul Guerrero, the daughter of Eddie & Vickie and the wife of WWE wrestler Aiden English, has joined the promotion as their ring announcer. Guerrero was in Florida Championship Wrestling from 2010-2014 and wrestled as Raquel Diaz before leaving the company. WOW will be holding their next television tapings on October 10th and 11th from the Belasco Theatre in Los Angeles. The promotion will be premiering on AXS TV in 2019
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WNN: http://www.morethanmania.com/ , MLW: https://mlw.com/2018/09/25/low-ki-vs...ursday-in-nyc/ , ROH: https://www.rohwrestling.com/news/ki...club-home-turf , WOW: http://www.axs.tv/press_articles/sha...-of-wrestling/ , Cody: https://twitter.com/CodyRhodes/statu...53765887889419
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Originally Posted by Observer
Carmella spoke to TV Insider about teaming with R-Truth on Mixed Match Challenge: “I’m game to have a good time and play a character and know my role. Whether it was being a manager for Enzo and Big Cass in NXT and then with James Ellsworth and now with R-Truth. It’s cool to show different sides of myself and my character. I feel like not that many people get to do that. They sort of stay the same their entire career, but I totally am open to all aspects of Carmella.”
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Link: https://www.tvinsider.com/718264/wwe...k19-smackdown/
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Originally Posted by Observer
The full card has been released for this Sunday’s Fighting Spirit Unleashed.
The show will headline with Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi teaming up to take on Kazuchika Okada and Tomohiro Ishii ...
Here is the full card for this Sunday’s show, which will take place at the Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, California:
Tomohiro Ishii and Kazuchika Okada vs. Kota Ibushi and Kenny Omega
Juice Robinson vs. Cody for the IWGP United States title
The Young Bucks vs. Guerillas of Destiny for the IWGP tag team titles
Will Ospreay vs. Marty Scurll in a IWGP Jr. Heavyweight title tournament semi-final
Hiroshi Tanahashi and KUSHIDA vs. Jay White and Gedo
Tetsuya Naito, EVIL and SANADA vs. Zack Sabre Jr. and Killer Elite Squad
Flip Gordon, Chris Sabin and Jeff Cobb vs. Best Friends and Hirooki Goto
Frankie Kazarian and Christopher Daniels vs. Chase Owens and Hangman Page
ACH, Ryusuke Taguchi and Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Roppongi 3K
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Originally Posted by Observer
Rob Conway is a guest coach at the Performance Center this week. Conway is still competing these days in bodybuilding.
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Originally Posted by Post Wrestling
New Japan had a brief update on Yoshi-Hashi following Sunday’s closing angle in Kobe. The promotion stated he was hospitalized after suffering a head and shoulder injury after falling into the ring apron. He got up from the fall and was cut open on the forehead and was quickly sent to the floor after a quick interaction with Jay White.
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Originally Posted by PWI
The 8th annual Streamy Awards, which aim to recognize the best in web video, official nominations are out. WWE Mixed Match Challenge is nominated for a Sports Series Streamy Award "Lifeline" a YouTube Premium sci-fi series from Dwayne Johnson's Seven Bucks Productions is nominated for Overall Sci-Fi/Action Streamy Award.
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Originally Posted by PWI
WWE announced the following:
Big Show is ready to take on a new role: He’s set to star in a recurring role on the second season of Syfy’s hit show “Happy!” The World’s Largest Athlete has been cast as Big Pink, the cellmate of Ritchie Coaster’s diabolical character, Mr. Blue.
“Happy” stars Christopher Meloni as Nic Sax, a corrupt ex-detective-turned-hitman whose life is changed forever when an imaginary and extremely positive blue-winged horse named Happy appears.
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Originally Posted by PWI
I notice MLW has recently used a couple of ex-WCW concepts such as Wargames and Spin the Wheel, Make the Deal. They are no threat whatsoever to WWE but I’m surprised they’re allowed to use anything that would be trademarked by WWE (okay, STWMTD probably isn’t). How are they able to do that?
The names are not owned by WWE as they didn’t keep the trademarks active after acquiring WCW in 2001. In the case of Wargames, that allowed MLW to trademark them and use it.
What did you guys think of WWE’s version of ECW when it first started with One Night Stand in '05 (one of the best wrestling PPVs ever) and '06 along with the follow-up? Was it originally the plan to make an alternative to Raw & Smackdown or did you already realize from the start that it would eventually be just another WWE-formatted show? I consider that one of WWE’s biggest blunders and looking back, what was the purpose of bringing ECW back anyway?
The success of the first ONS led WWE to bring back the brand. The original plan was to book a show that was similar to the original ECW for the first few months then slowly turn it into a WWE style (Vince McMahon-like) product. Instead, they went to the WWE style almost immediately and the brand lost its fan base. ECW fans weren’t interested in a WWE-ized version of the product.
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From PWI's weekly Q&A articles.
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Originally Posted by PWI
The top three matches for the 12/26 WWE Smackdown live event at Madison Square Garden are:
*WWE Champion AJ Styles vs. Samoa Joe in a Steel Cage Match.
*WWE Smackdown Women's Champion Becky Lynch vs. Charlotte Flair.
*The Miz vs. Daniel Bryan.
The event goes on sale this Friday 9/28.
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Originally Posted by WrestlingInc
WWE recently filed to trademark the following names: Angelo Dawkins, Montez Ford, Otis Dozovic, Tucker Knight.
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Some other sheet news includes: - Recent episode of the Chasing Glory with Lilian Garcia podcast show had Stone Cold Becky as the guest. https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/cha...cia/e/56394374
- In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, last Sunday was the 17th anniversary of Kurt Angle's 2nd WWF Championship victory. Angle defeated Stone Cold Steve Austin for the belt at Unforgiven 2001.
- Recent episode of WWE Network's Photo Shoot series had Scott Hall as the guest.
Some stuff from TPWW Frontpage:
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