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Originally Posted by PWI Kairi Sane vs. Shayna Baszler for the NXT Women's Championship was just announced for WWE Evolution at tonight's WWE NXT taping in Florida.

Spoiler tag used since its related to a new match announcement for WWE Evolution made during tonight's NXT TV tapings.

Originally Posted by Observer/PWI/Post Wrestling Indies Roundup: After facing Pentagon Jr. at All In, Kenny Omega has a match booked against the other member of the Lucha Brothers. Northeast Wrestling has announced that Omega will be facing Fenix at their show on Friday, November 9 at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie, New York. The event is Northeast Wrestling's 23rd anniversary show. wXw Femmes Fatales on 10/5 in Oberhausen, Germany has Melanie Gray vs. Session Moth Martina, Wesma vs. Meiko Satomura, Toni Storm vs. LuFisto, Kris Wolf vs. Killer Kelly and Audrey Bride vs. Millie McKenzie. Another match added to the OTT Anniversary show on 10/13 in Dublin at the National Stadium is a five-way with Rocky Romero vs. Gino Gambino vs. LJ Cleary vs. Paddy M vs. a mystery fifth man. Adam Page is auctioning off his gear and the phone he used to almost kill Joey Ryan to raise money for the North Carolina Relief Fund on Ebay. Matt Taven will be sporting a new look, as his head was shaved in the aftermath of the CMLL 85th Anniversary event. Ring of Honor noted this week that The Briscoes have officially broken 1,000 days combined as ROH Tag Team Champions. MLW has added a match between Shane Strickland and Tom Lawlor for the October 4th “Fury Road” events in Queens, New York at the Melrose Ballroom.

NEW: http://www.northeastwrestling.com/20181109.shtml , Page: https://twitter.com/theAdamPage/stat...54236603691008

Originally Posted by Observer A few notes on the talked about meeting with Ed Nordholm and Scott D'Amore with Paul Levesque at WWE headquarters. It was a meeting that WWE requested. There was said to be no substantial news out of it at this point. It was not Impact pitching ideas as was reported in the current issue.

Originally Posted by PWI Sami Zayn, who has been out of action after surgery on each of his rotator cuffs, will be making his first public appearance in months, representing WWE during a signing at the New York Comic Con on Saturday 10/6.

Originally Posted by PWI After her excellent match on the Mae Young Classic episode last night, Allysin Kay tweeted: My FIRST match back after 7 months of an almost career-ending injury was main-eventing a WWE Network show. I knew my odds weren't great. But if I had to go out, this was the way I wanted to go. In flames ????????????#FrenemyWorldTour #MYC2018 ???? @bobmulreninphotos pic.twitter.com/PMga4wFCjP — Allysin Kay / Sienna (@Sienna) September 20, 2018

Link: https://twitter.com/Sienna/status/1042822385500672000

Originally Posted by PWI In honor of Hispanic Heritage month, the following Hidden Gems were added to the WWE Network: Lucha Legend: Rey Mysterio puts his WCW Cruiserweight Championship on the line against fellow luchador Super Calo in this rarely seen match from Nitro. (9/23/96) Demolishing the Competition: WWE Hall of Famers unite when Tito Santana teams with the legendary Mil Mascaras to take on the tough tandem of Demolition. (8/28/87) The Pride of Puerto Rico: The beloved Pedro Morales defends his WWE World Championship against WWE Hall of Famer Blackjack Mulligan as their rivalry reaches a fever pitch. (3/15/71) The Fighting Fifties: Mexican legend Rito Romero battles Danny Savich in a 2-out-of-3 falls contest from the famed Sportatorium in Dallas, TX. (8/26/52)

Originally Posted by Observer Similarly, it was believed that Lesnar was done with WWE after SummerSlam, but the amount of money paid for the Saudi Arabia deal, a show that is far more lucrative now than WrestleMania, was enough to get Lesnar to return for the date. The Lesnar deal was not a last minute deal. During the week prior to SummerSlam, it was expected by the Lesnar camp that McMahon would make a huge offer for the Saudi Arabia show, as well as WrestleMania. Lesnar had not signed a new UFC contract, where UFC would have the ability to block the appearance, although UFC and WWE are not operating as enemies and UFC may not have stood in Lesnar’s way of making such a big payday if he was under contract. It is not clear when the offer was made and agreed, but it was several weeks ago. The exact nature of the deal is unclear past that Lesnar is looking at signing short-term deals, feeling that with all the money both UFC and WWE have, that the more he’s free, the more he can play both sides and get the best deal possible

Originally Posted by Observer Whether the $40 million to $45 million deal from Saudi Arabia was made for two shows this year, or that’s the price for each show individually won’t be known until the fourth quarter business numbers come out at the end of January or early February. The entire Saudi Arabia deal has a confidentiality clause, but WWE does, as a public company, have to report the income and it is put in a category where you can pretty much estimate pretty closely what the number is.

Originally Posted by Observer While the Melbourne Cricket Grounds can hold 100,000 people, the set up was to be for between 70,000 and 80,000. At first, in the scripted interviews, they had been using the number 70,000, which means, with the usual exaggerations on a stadium show, they were looking at probably 60,000. However, on Smackdown, the interviews were saying 60,000, meaning they are probably looking at closer to 50,000 as a real number. We’re told that a lot of tickets have been sold, and let’s face it, 50,000 for pro wrestling no matter where it is, is a great number, but there are plenty of seats available all over the stadium and in all but one price range.

Originally Posted by Observer The actual reason Katsuya Kitamura hasn’t been around is because one of his legs was crushed in a horrible scooter accident. It’s not 100 percent that he won’t be able to come back but we’re told it doesn’t look promising. That’s a real sad story because he had superstar presence and most figured he’d be fast-tracked, because of his age and look, to main event status. He was just starting to do some really good singles matches in prelims so he was getting it down.

Originally Posted by Observer World of Sport, moved up to 4 p.m. on 9/15, was down to 300,000 viewers, which was terrible, as it was down from 500,000 the prior week and well below the previous bottoming out number of 400,000. It also did a 3.9 share, a series low. Things look even worse since on 9/22 the show is being moved to 2:30 p.m., which is a worse time slot and the third time slot change since the series started.

Originally Posted by Observer Jeff Cobb is now expected to sign with ROH, which would remove him from the independent scene aside from working PWG and out of U.S. dates for 2019. He’s expected to work both here and New Japan but wouldn’t be signing until after whatever waiting period he has to wait after the completion of this season of Lucha Underground. He had gotten an agreement that if he returned for this season and they wrote about his Matanza Cueto character, that after the season he could get a release from his original seven season deal

Cobb revealed his status on a recent episode of X-Pac's 12360 podcast show.

Originally Posted by Observer I could see the idea of the U.K. show being put at that point in a Wednesday night block with NXT once the Mae Young Classic and Mixed Match Challenge runs end, but that isn’t official. Apparently the reason the U.K. show is on the network is because they had interest from BT Sports in the show, but BT is competition with Sky and it fell through, whether due to contract reasons with Sky or other reasons. WWE and Sky have had a long lasting relationship but there was a snag if you recall regarding the contract and the WWE Network. WWE never informed Sky about starting the network and Sky had just reached a deal where they would do PPVs of all the WWE PPV shows (previously they only did some on PPV and some aired on Sky).

Originally Posted by Observer For the WWE Network, one of the reasons the subscription numbers are kept up is that if you cancel your subscription, you are then given a free month to try and get you to keep it

Originally Posted by Observer Regarding rumors of Rousey vs. Cris Cyborg at WrestleMania that were going around, Ariel Helwani discussed them with Cyborg on his show and she didn’t act like there was a deal but obviously said she said she would be interested in doing such a match. She’s pushed the idea of late. I don’t sense there is anything to the story. One person in the company who would be in the loop on such things said that it has never been brought up to Rousey and without her approval it wouldn’t happen, and that it’s not something they think she’d want to do. There was legit bad blood between the two because of a public narrative of Rousey not wanting to fight her even though Rousey from the start had agreed to do so at 135, and continued to say that during her entire reign ... While forgotten in history, the first UFC women’s fight in Anaheim was supposed to be Rousey vs. Cyborg. With the benefit of hindsight, history may have changed greatly. If they did that fight and Cyborg had won, the entire Rousey run never would have happened. Had Rousey lost that fight, who is to say the women would have ever drawn significant numbers since Cyborg never drew in Strikeforce after beating Gina Carano. Without the big Rousey run where she proved she could do big PPV numbers, the history of women in UFC, boxing, kickboxing and WWE would be extremely different to say the least.

Originally Posted by Observer In the segment last week where the police officer was going to arrest Corbin for filing a false police report, which led to Corbin making the Raw tag title match at Hell in a Cell, a key element is that the ID pin on the officer’s shirt read “Ambrose.” So the idea was that the officer was a relative of Ambrose and it was Dean and his relative working a swerve on Corbin. It still doesn’t make sense that an officer would risk his career to do an arrest in that situation but there was at least more of a storyline explanation for it

Originally Posted by Observer The belief is that the people running Progress like Jim Smallman will be ending up running the U.K. shows, particularly if they do house show tours. WWE has owned both the Progress and ICW libraries for some time but still has done nothing with them. It’s basically up to Vince McMahon when he wants to pull the trigger on it. For now, Vince hasn’t allowed any modern indies on the network. Some feel that will change and the stuff will start airing when they launch the more expensive tiered pricing where those type of things would be among the things put on the higher tier, which the expectation right now is will start in 2019. The only official word on the new more expensive tier is that it’s coming “sooner than later.

Some other sheet news includes:

• In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, today is the 21st anniversary of WWE's first ever "One Night Only" ppv in the United Kingdom. Besides making history, the event is also notable for being the last singles match between Bret Hart and Undertaker in the WWF.
• According to the Observer, Impact Wrestling's current tv deal with POP TV expires at the end of this year.
• Observer had a lengthy piece on WWE's victory in the concussion lawsuit and stated because of the lawyer Konstantine Kyros' antics, future CTE/concussion lawsuits against the company are now almost impossible to succeed in court. Judge kept cutting down the window allowed to sue and added several stips that tipped the scales way too much in WWE's favor in the future.
• According to PWI, WWE is in the process of changing their contract terms from being standard 3 year deals to 4 year deals going forward. Rumored to have already changed some NXT contracts to include the extra year. https://twitter.com/SoDuTw/status/1042577346950250496
• Madison Square Garden officials recently debunked rumors of Vince McMahon and WWE holding a meeting with the arena in an effort to get MSG to pull out from hosting ROH's G1 Supercard event next year.

Some stuff from TPWW Frontpage:

• WWE Network Still Planning More Expensive Tier w/ More Content, Rumored for 2019
• Vice to Air Six Wrestling Documentaries, Including Montreal Screwjob; Benoit Episode Cut
• Shawn Michaels Wrestling in Saudi Arabia Reportedly “Confirmed”
• Alexa Bliss Reportedly Legitimately Injured