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Originally Posted by Observer
SmackDown's go-home show for SummerSlam averaged 2.088 million viewers on the USA Network, up nine percent from last week. With Raw also being up this week, SmackDown retained the usual 84 percent of Monday night's audience ...
SmackDown was only down five percent from the same week in 2018, the third time in the last four weeks that the year-over-year decline has been in the single digits.
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Originally Posted by PWI
There were a lot of changes to last night's Smackdown episode. The original plan for last night's Smackdown episode was to feature Kofi Kingston vs. Andrade in the main event. However, once WWE had their production meeting for the show, plans were changed and the new main event was to be Xavier Woods & Kingston teaming against Daniel Bryan and Rowan. However, about an hour before the show went on the air, the decision was made to pull Kingston from the main event and replace him with Big E. We are told all the changes were Vince McMahon calls.
Originally, the Summerslam card was to have featured Roman Reigns against Daniel Bryan, but the word making the rounds at TV last night was that the bout will likely be dropped in order to let the current storyline play out.
The Daniel Bryan career announcement has also appeared to have been dropped, unless WWE decides to work that back into a storyline. There was zero mention of it last night backstage.
Last night's Smackdown ended with a reveal that Rowan was responsible for the attacks on Roman Reigns, but we are told that may not be 100% set in stone as other ideas have been pitched. Reigns is slated to wrestle Daniel Bryan on a TON of live events coming out of Summerslam.
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Originally Posted by PWI
WWE is holding an invited tryout over this weekend in Canada, seeking new potential talents.
The only name we have confirmed in taking part thus far in the tryouts is Canadian female talent Maddison Miles, a 19 year old talent from Halifax.
We have not heard any additional confirmed invited talents as of this writing, but it's likely that WWE will disclose the names via their website in the forthcoming days.
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Originally Posted by Fightful
Triple H, who recently turned 50-years old sat down with the Performance Center's own Josiah Williams and talked about a variety of topics including the fulfillment he gets from seeing NXT talents have their shining moments. Triple H added that he receives more fulfillment from that than he did his in-ring career.
“Shawn [Michaels] and I talk about this all the time: I think, in some ways [I] get more out of what I’m doing now than I did in my career where it was just about me -- now it’s, the ability… For me to sit in gorilla and watch kids realize their dream and their passion and have that light bulb moment or whatever that is or see their success, know how much they poured their heart and soul into it and have that success. To see you [Josiah Williams] go out there and tear it up -- knowing how that all came to be. Those are just really cool moments and I think that’s the passion now so to me, 50 is just a number.” He explained.
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Originally Posted by Post Wrestling
In an interview with the Nikkan Sports outlet in Japan, Jon Moxley spoke about working with New Japan Pro Wrestling and his future with the promotion ...
In the interview, Moxley confirmed his AEW contract doesn’t restrict him from taking future dates with New Japan beyond the summer and said:
"Fortunately, there is no problem in fighting in New Japan while belonging to an American organization (AEW). In the future, I can always show up in Japan."
He indicated that he wanted to wrestle on the Tokyo Dome shows next January when New Japan will stage back-to-back cards at the venue on January 4th and 5th.
Regarding any future opponents he would like to face, Moxley said he wants to have a match with Minoru Suzuki along with other wrestlers with new and unique styles.
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Originally Posted by Observer
The National Wrestling Alliance announced that they will be holding television tapings this fall.
The company posted a video with NWA President Billy Corgan talking about studio tapings from the 1970s and 1980s, leading to an announcement about the NWA starting their own television tapings. The video then announced that tapings would be held in Atlanta, Georgia on September 30 and October 1. No venue was announced, nor was it mentioned where the tapings would be airing.
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Originally Posted by Observer
After being part of the 24/7 title segment on Raw, NXT referee Jessika Carr appeared on last night’s SmackDown and 205 Live. She was the referee for Ember Moon vs. Natalya and Humberto Carrillo vs. Lince Dorado. Carr wrote about her main roster appearances: “These past few days have been an absolute blur and more incredible than I could have even imagined. The train keeps chugging along as tomorrow we head into our #nxttakeovertoronto weekend! See you soon #nxtalbany #nxtbuffalo. Grateful. Blessed. Determined. Never satisfied. Keep on working, always more to accomplish, there are no ceilings. #wwe #nxt #wearenxt #sdlive #raw #natalyawwe #embermoon #205live”
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Originally Posted by Observer
MLW announced that their War Chamber match in North Richland Hills, Texas on September 7 will be Tom Lawlor, Marshall Von Erich, Ross Von Erich, and a partner vs. Contra Unit (Jacob Fatu, Josef Samael, Simon Gotch and a partner). It’s a War Games-type match, with two wrestlers from each team starting off. After five minutes, the team that won a coin toss will have their second teammate enter. There will then be alternate additions to the match every two minutes until everyone is in. The match can be won by pinfall, submission, or surrender once everyone enters.
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Originally Posted by WrestlingInc
WWE has had talks on possibly doing Roman Reigns vs. Buddy Murphy at Sunday's WWE SummerSlam pay-per-view, according to a new report from @Wrestlevotes. The talks were held backstage at Tuesday's SmackDown.
There's no word yet on if Reigns vs. Murphy will happen on Sunday, but it remains a possibility as we get closer to Sunday's big event in Toronto.
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Originally Posted by Fightful
AEW has revealed how they will determine who's going to challenge for the Women's World Title.
The newest episode of 'Road To All Out' has been released and it featured AEW Chief Brand Officer Brandi Rhodes revealing how a challenger to the AEW Women's World Championship on October 2nd will be determined. Brandi stated that the Casino Battle Royale will be returning at All Out on August 31st and the rules are the exact same from the Casino Battle Royale at Double Or Nothing.
There are not 21 members of AEW's women's division to compete in the match so coming into the fray to compete at All Out in the Casino Battle Royale is Ivelisse, former NWA World Women's Champion Jazz and Teal Piper, who is the daughter of late WWE Hall Of Famer 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper.
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Originally Posted by WrestlingInc
WWE, Converse and Foot Locker are partnering to release new sneakers inspired by WWE Champion Kofi Kingston, RAW Women's Champion Becky Lynch, and WWE Hall of Famers Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels. The sneakers will be available this Friday at the Foot Locker flagship store in New York City, and at FootLocker.ca. You can see the sneakers below:
Limited edition custom @Converse kicks inspired by @BretHart, @BeckyLynchWWE, @TrueKofi, and @ShawnMichaels will be available EXCLUSIVELY at @footlocker's flagship store and https://t.co/rP5QY814sS THIS FRIDAY! https://t.co/nXSsaNKTyG
— WWE (@WWE) August 7, 2019 |
Link: https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1159164418703405057
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Originally Posted by PWI
Bret Hart announced he will be getting limited edition converse that will be sold in Toronto at Foot Locker's Yonge Street location over Summerslam weekend:
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