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Old 06-12-2018, 10:04 PM   #2003
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Originally Posted by Observer
Raw last night bounced back eight percent from the low marks the past few weeks, doing 2.72 million viewers.

The key to the rating was the third hour had less of a decline than usual with the four-way men's main event of Braun Strowman vs. Kevin Owens vs. Finn Balor vs. Bobby Roode.

The number was well below the 3.10 million viewers that the first show last year did after the conclusion of the NBA playoffs ...

The three hours were:

8 p.m. 2.75 million viewers
9 p.m. 2.81 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.63 million viewers
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Originally Posted by Observer
John Cena has booked a role alongside Jackie Chan in one of his next film projects.

Chan and Cena are slated to star in the action-thriller "Project X," which is a working title. Sylvester Stallone was originally scheduled for Cena's role before having to be replaced.

Cena is playing a former Marine who Chan, a private security contractor from China, teams up with to stop attackers who are trying to steal oil from a Chinese refinery in the Middle East.

The film is being directed by Scott Waugh, written by Arash Amel, and Chan is one of the producers. Waugh previously directed "Need for Speed" in 2014 and "Act of Valor" in 2012.

Cena hasn't appeared on WWE television since his matches against Triple H at the Greatest Royal Rumble and The Undertaker at WrestleMania 34 in April. He has a role in the Transformers spinoff "Bumblebee," which is set to be released this December.
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Originally Posted by Observer
It was 35 years ago today that the Road Warriors, Mike Hegstrand & Joe Laurinaitis, debuted on World Championship Wrestling as a team. There is a good article talking about the start of the career of a tag team that literally every promotion tried to copy.
Link: https://prowrestlingstories.com/pro-...-and-tv-debut/

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Originally Posted by Observer/PWI/Post Wrestling
Indies Roundup:
The new season of Lucha Underground debuts Wednesday night on El Rey at 8 p.m.

With Kevin Kelly doing commentary, NJPW’s Strong Style Evolved UK shows on June 30th and July 1st will be uploaded to Revolution Pro Wrestling’s streaming service within 48 hours of taking place. RevPro noted that they'll then be posted on New Japan World shortly after.

ROH confirmed that KUSHIDA will be facing Jay Lethal at their Best in the World pay-per-view in Baltimore on June 29th.

Matt Riddle vs. Tomohiro Ishii, KUSHIDA vs. Shane Strickland, and Timothy Thatcher vs. David Starr are set for OTT’s WrestleRama 2 at The Arena in Dublin on August 18th.

MLW announced Johnny Mundo, ACH, Davey Boy Smith Jr., and Kevin Sullivan as the first four wrestlers for their Battle Riot match, which will be taking place at their TV tapings in Queens, New York on July 19th. It’s a no DQ, 40-person match with someone entering every 60 seconds, with eliminations occurring via pinfall, submission, or being thrown over the top rope.

Stardom has sold over 1,200 tickets for Io Shirai’s farewell show at Korakuen Hall on June 17th.

EVOLVE announced that WALTER will challenge WWE NXT North American Champion Adam Cole at the 6/24 EVOLVE event in Melrose, MA. EVOLVE sent out a press release with the following glowing comments from Gabe Sapolsky, who of course also works for NXT. "This is a landmark announcement for EVOLVE. WWE has been growing this relationship with EVOLVE for a few years. We are ecstatic that the next step is this historic match on June 24th. This is all about giving the fans in the Boston area something special. Our deepest thanks to Mr. Levesque for making this happen."

Madison Rayne & MJF defeated Brandi Rhodes & Flip Gordon at Friday’s WrestlePro card to gain spots on the “All In” event on September 1st and continuing the story of Gordon not being booked. There was also a segment at Dominion where The Young Bucks invited Don Callis to call the event in September. This confirms that there will be some form of an outlet for the show to be viewed.
NJPW: https://twitter.com/RevProUK/status/1006577800759906304 , ROH: https://www.rohwrestling.com/news/le...ial-best-world , OTT: https://twitter.com/OTT_wrestling/st...66688995926017 , MLW: https://mlw.com/2018/06/12/first-bat...nts-announced/ , Stardom: https://twitter.com/we_are_stardom/s...74440623235072

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Originally Posted by Observer
So here's a weird one. If you go to the WWE Network Hidden Gems page, there is a Sgt. Slaughter vs. Kokina Maximus (who later became Yokozuna) match from the AWA library. After the match, there is significant time left in the video. It rolls right into Kokina's WWE tryout match video with no commentary. Howard Finkel announces him as Kokina and not as Yokozuna.
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Originally Posted by Observer
In a tweet yesterday, Rusev accused a hotel employee of stealing from him and Lana: “Thank you @sheratonhotels Memphis for ‘cleaning’ the room and stealing my wife camera and my money from my wallet”
Link: https://twitter.com/RusevBUL/status/1006248146396221442

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Originally Posted by Fightful.com
After Money in the Bank, WWE will premiere the new WWE 24 special about the Hardy Boyz on the WWE Network.

THIS SUNDAY immediately following @WWE #MITB, don't miss an ALL-NEW episode of #WWE24: The Hardys: WOKEN! @MATTHARDYBRAND @JEFFHARDYBRAND pic.twitter.com/QUhqdoi9Dq

— WWE (@WWE) June 12, 2018
Link: https://twitter.com/MATTHARDYBRAND/s...84866508800000

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Originally Posted by PWI
WWE is seeking to build a new, larger WWE Performance Center facility, according to former WWE United States and NXT Champion Bobby Roode. Roode mentioned WWE’s plans today during a promotional appearance on KARK-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas to promote tonight’s Raw taping at the Verizon Arena.

While discussing the NXT brand and the Performance Center Roode commented, ““From what I hear, it’s going to continue to grow. I heard that they’re looking to build a new facility — a larger facility.”

The existing WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida launched in July 2013. The 26,000 square foot Performance Center houses seven wrestling rings, a complete production studio, medical and physical rehab facilities, a complete gym and more. You can read my coverage from attending and touring the opening of the PC in 2013 by clicking here.

PWInsider.com has reached out to WWE seeking further clarification on Roode’s comments.
Link: http://www.kark.com/news/the-gloriou...806/1231436608

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Originally Posted by PWI
Wrestling DVD Network revealed the trailer and the hosts for the upcoming "30 Years of Summerslam" set:

WWE Hall of Famer "Mean" Gene Okerlund will host disc one. Jonathan Coachman will host the second disc. And Charly Caruso will host disc three.
Link: http://www.wrestlingdvdnetwork.com/f...am-dvd/155599/

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Originally Posted by Post Wrestling
After CM Punk’s loss to Mike Jackson, WWE commentator Corey Graves took to Twitter and released details of their friendship falling apart and indicating that Punk ended their friendship over his association with the WWE ...

Sean Ross Sapp at Fightful.com reached out to Graves for clarification on the tweets. Graves told Sapp that he had texted with Punk prior to his fight with Mickey Gall. Punk would not have dinner with Graves and didn’t want to associate with anyone from the WWE. Graves added that others at WWE lost their friendship with Punk over where they work.
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Originally Posted by Post Wrestling
New Japan Pro Wrestling has announced the top matches for the G-1 special event on Saturday, July 7th at the Cow Palace in San Francisco with the following matches announced at the press conference:
*Kenny Omega vs. Cody for the IWGP heavyweight title
*The Young Bucks vs. EVIL & Sanada for the IWGP tag titles
*Kazuchika Okada & Will Ospreay vs. Tetsuya Naito & Bushi
*Jay White vs. Juice Robinson for the United States title

There will also be three Kizuna Road cards on June 17th, 18th, and 19th and they will be announcing the G1 participants, blocks, and main events over the course of those three events.

The June 17th card will be headlined by Michael Elgin vs. Hirooki Goto for the NEVER Openweight title and the June 18th card will feature Hiromu Takahashi taking on El Desperado for the IWGP junior heavyweight title.
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Originally Posted by Fightful.com
During a recent interview with Ring Rust Radio, Lucha Underground Producer Chris DeJoseph discussed the challenges of replacing Prince Puma on their show.

Obviously, there’s challenges to replace your main character of a show. The first three seasons were based around Prince Puma in his mythology, in his place in the world of Lucha Underground. It was tough, it was tough to lose Trevor, Ricochet, Prince Puma for those who don’t know. He was kind of the heart and soul of Lucha Underground but I’m glad he had the opportunity to go somewhere else and had the chance to show the rest of the world what he can do. As far as replacing him, I think we set ourselves up pretty well with a bunch of characters that are over and people care about. I wasn’t too concerned about that. We have guys like Johnny Mundo, Phoenix, Mil Muertes, those are characters that we’ve invested a lot of time in and not to mention we have Pentagon Dark. Ultimate Lucha was kind of a passing of the torch from Puma to Pentagon as kind of the kingpin of Lucha Underground.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fFEw_yZOM4


Some other sheet stuff includes:
  • In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, today is the 13th anniversary of ECW One Night Stand ppv event.
  • In another "WWE Did You Know" type fact, today is also the 3rd anniversary of Dusty Rhodes' passing.
  • Konami announced Xavier Woods will be a playable character in the Super Bomberman R video game. https://twitter.com/XavierWoodsPhD/s...61087599210499
  • Revolution Pro Wrestling recently revealed the cards for their upcoming Strong Style Evolved: United Kingdom with NJPW co-promoting the event. https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...stars.html?p=1
  • Recent rumor going around the net hints that ROH's parent company, Sinclair, is helping finance Cody and the Young Bucks' All In event. They are already loaning out ROH crews to help with the preparations and production of the event.
  • Interactive Wrestling Radio had a recent interview with Lucha Underground's led producer and writer, Chris DeJoseph, talking about Season 4, the appeal of LU, his previous work in the WWE, and more. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...ason-3-hiatus/
  • According to Eric Bischoff, he feels WWE managing to land tv deals with both FOX and NBC is actually bad for the rest of the wrestling industry. His basis is WWE snagged the two biggest networks interested in wrestling and the huge number of markets now shut for promotions wanting their own tv deals or expansion. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...e-devastating/
  • Recent episode of the Inside the Ropes podcast show had Chris Jericho as the guest talking about his NJPW schedule, not wanting to work for non-WWE promotions in the US, and juggling his indies work with wanting to stay in WWE's good graces. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...in-the-states/


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