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Originally Posted by Observer Raw saw good news in the ratings last night with a seven percent increase from last week, doing 2.48 million viewers and finishing third for the night ... The key was the lessening of the third-hour drop. The show grew in the second hour and fell in the third hour, but hour three actually beat hour one, which has been a rarity in recent years ... The three hours were: 8 p.m. 2.41 million viewers 9 p.m. 2.57 million viewers 10 p.m. 2.44 million viewers

Originally Posted by Observer During Monday Night Raw, WrestlePro owner Pat Buck was shown during the aftermath of the Roman Reigns car accident as one of several on the scene checking on Reigns. PWInsider.com has confimed that Buck was hired by WWE to work as a Producer for the company. Buck worked several weeks back as a Guest Coach at the WWE Performance Center and was given a Producer tryout recently as well.

Originally Posted by Observer The bouncer who stopped the shooter in Dayton, OH at the door of a bar was area independent wrestler Jeremy Ganger. Ganger is a close friend of James Yun, who many of you will remember as Jimmy Wang Yang.

Originally Posted by Fightful PAC has suffered an injury during a match at a recent TNT Extreme Wrestling show. A tweet posted by Ring Rules said he suffered a groin injury after competing in in TNT's Summer Explosion show in the United Kingdom, though the picture in the tweet looks more like it was closer to his inner thigh. The severity of PAC's injury was not revealed or if he will have to miss any future bookings he had already committed to.

Originally Posted by PWI Roman Reigns was interviewed about a number of topics by Martin Hoffman German of sports website Sports1.De to promote the forthcoming WWE 2K20 videogame: Over the course of the conversation, All Elite Wrestling was brought up. Reigns commented, "I’ll be damned if anyone is gonna disrespect what we do here, especially within our company. If you’re within our walls, within our locker room and not handling your business the right way, I have no problem with stepping up. I fear no man and if you don’t like what I’m coming from, there’s a couple of options we can do. I firmly believe in the history that my family has had in this business, the relationship they had with the McMahons and WWE. And I’ll be damned if anyone disrespects our way of life. I’ve been fed and I fed my family for years now from this meal plan and I’m not gonna let anyone step on that. If that makes me a locker room leader, then yeah, you can call me that. “I think Seth Rollins is being generous in calling them a competition. I don’t want to get too deep into this… I said it before: it’s an option and that’s great for professional wrestlers, pretty cool for fans. Before my family was WWE only, we’ve been a territorial family. You had to move, work with different promotions and territories. I’m always gonna be ‘pro pro-wrestler’, but at the end of the day, WWE is my home. It’s what I represent and we’re so far ahead. You can see it in other shows – it’s not easy to have a clean production. You have to have a lot of experience. Our talent is top-notch, we’ve got main eventers for days but it also is our crew. They’re busting their asses all night to get the show running. There are so many people that make this place work. When you see other people out there trying to do it, you see the flaws and it makes you respect what we do even more. It’s easy to complain and to say this and this on paper, but when it’s time to go out there and actually do it, nobody will do it like WWE. Period.”

Originally Posted by PWI WWE Network News reported the following: There will be a new episode of "Prime Target: Takeover" Wednesday at 7:30 PM Eastern before this week's episode of NXT focusing on Adam Cole and Johnny Gargano for the NXT Championship An episode of the audio documentary series "WWE Untold" will air this Friday at 8 PM and tell the story of WWE's most unlikely duo of Kane and Daniel Bryan otherwise known as Team Hell No. It will feature Daniel Bryan, Kane and others, discussing Team Hell No

Originally Posted by Post Wrestling After initially promoting a 6 pm Eastern start time, the SummerSlam kickoff show is back to its usual run time of two hours and begins at 5 pm this Sunday.

Originally Posted by Post Wrestling All Elite Wrestling has announced locations for the second and third episodes on TNT. On Wednesday, October 9th they will be going to the Agganis Arena in Boston, Massachusetts and on October 16th they will be in Philadelphia at the Liacouras Center. The Agganis Arena has a listed capacity of 7,200, which will fluctuate based on the staging. The Liacouras Center is on the grounds of Temple University and is a big building at 10,200, which Impact Wrestling ran for their Lockdown pay-per-view in 2009 and Bound for Glory in 2011. Ticket information is going to be released on Friday. The advertising for both shows features Kenny Omega, Chris Jericho, The Young Bucks, Jon Moxley, and Cody. In Boston, the larger TD Garden is already booked on October 9th for a Post Malone concert. In Philadelphia, there is nothing scheduled for the Wells Fargo Center on the 16th, so in theory, they could have the larger building that WWE just ran for Extreme Rules last month.

Originally Posted by Post Wrestling According to our data, SmackDown Live averaged 1,988,000 viewers per episode in July 2019, which is down 11.5% compared to July 2018 when they averaged 2,246,000 per episode.

Originally Posted by PWI The third season of Netflix's acclaimed series GLOW will debut this Friday 8/9 with the complete third season available for streaming.

Originally Posted by Post Wrestling The G1 Climax picks back up on Wednesday as we go into the final stretch with five cards remaining. Wednesday’s show in Hamamatsu is an A Block show that streams at 5:30 am Eastern on New Japan World ... If Okada defeats or goes to a draw with EVIL then EVIL is eliminated. If Okada wins then Ibushi must win to stay alive. If EVIL wins and Ibushi loses, then EVIL is alive going into the final day and would win the block if he beats Archer and Ibushi beats Okada forcing a three-way tie at 12 points, which EVIL would win based off wins over Ibushi and Okada. I’m expecting Ibushi and Okada to win their matches tomorrow and then EVIL is out, and it comes down to Okada vs. Ibushi on Saturday to determine the block winner.

Originally Posted by Fightful All Elite Wrestling has held just three shows since its formation on January 1, 2019. AEW Double or Nothing was presented on pay-per-view and reportedly did nearly 100,000 buys. AEW Fyter Fest and Fight For The Fallen were presented free on B/R Live and were two of the most popular live-streaming events in the platform's history. But the decision to give away Fyter Fest and Fight For The Fallen came with a risk. “In terms of putting shows out there for free, we took a bath financially on that and I took a big hit, and I was willing to do it as a company because I believed in our brand of wrestling,” AEW President Tony Khan told The Decider. “There hasn’t been a legitimate other company [besides WWE] presenting weekly, high quality wrestling, and never before was HD available. [Once AEW premieres on TNT] the revenue streams are going to be huge.” Khan went on to say that his “dream” was to get AEW to the level “where WCW was.”

Originally Posted by Observer SmackDown again underwent changes this week, with Vince McMahon tearing up the show and having it rewritten today. Dave Meltzer noted that Kofi Kingston & Xavier Woods vs. Daniel Bryan & Rowan is the latest main event planned for the show. It’s taking place at the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan. Kevin Owens inviting Shane McMahon to be on the KO Show has also been announced, and Kingston will respond to Randy Orton’s comments in an exclusive interview.

Originally Posted by Observer Pro Wrestling Sheet reported that Bobby Lashley recently underwent surgery to remove bone spurs in his elbow and is on track to return in early November.

Originally Posted by Fightful During tonight's WWE SmackDown Live, Jessika Carr served as the referee for the women's match between Ember Moon and Natalya. The match ended in a no contest when Natalya kept the Sharpshooter locked on Ember Moon on the outside. Carr is the first full-time female referee in WWE history and has worked the Mae Young Classic and NXT.

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