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Old 05-05-2017, 12:44 PM   #1
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Old 05-06-2017, 03:32 AM   #3
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No.

But I just so happen to know him as well. I consider him a friend, or at least an acquaintance.
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Old 05-05-2017, 08:42 PM   #4
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Careful there is a leaker leaking leaks of stuff like that. Good thing you're not famous, or are you?
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Kairi Hojo, one of the elite woman wrestlers in the world, who signed with WWE in March, but had personally kept it quiet, should be reporting to the Performance Center shortly.

Hojo, real name Kaori Housako, 28, announced at Saturday's Stardom show that she is leaving the promotion. She never mentioned WWE, because talent is not allowed to mention they are going to WWE until WWE announces it first.

We had reported Hojo's negotiations and signing as the story was playing out from last year. WWE was after both Hojo and Stardom's top star, Io Shirai. Shirai was brought to Orlando not that long ago to train, which was not supposed to go public but due to a communications issue, was briefly mentioned on the WWE website.

Shirai hasn't signed with WWE at this point.

Hojo has wrestled for just over five years and was an Olympic hopeful in yachting before getting into pro wrestling. She had worked a few shows for Lucha Underground but was not under contract with the promotion.
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Ember Moon has been pulled off the advertising for the NXT TakeOver show on 5/20 in Chicago. The women's title match is now a three-way with Asuka vs. Ruby Riot vs. Nikki Cross. It had been scheduled for a four-way.
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The 5/4 edition of Impact on Pop brought in 260,000, a slight rise from last week's 255,000 viewers, but still down significantly from 320,000 viewers two weeks ago.
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The teams for Monday's RAW Tag Team Turmoil match from London have been revealed - Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson, Enzo Amore & Big Cass, Goldust & R-Truth, Sheamus & Cesaro, Heath Slater & Rhyno. As noted, the winners of the match will become new #1 contenders to RAW Tag Team Champions The Hardys.
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Katsuyori Shibata is still hospitalized. He’s been in touch with some of the wrestlers via text, and the word is he’s in good spirits and making jokes to some of them about wrestling, such as how ridiculous Yoshitatsu’s new look is. He’s in stable condition, but only family members are allowed to see him. The company is looking to create a new top star feeling there is a major hole to fill, so that may happen in G-1
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On April 28. 2017, TNA Entertainment registered to trademark Broken Matt, Brother Nero, Vanguard1 and Broken Brilliance.

Some other sheet news includes:
  • WWE recently uploaded around 120 hours worth of footage from Prime Time Wrestling to the WWE Network.
  • Recent episode of the Busted Open podcast show had Chris Jericho as the guest talking about his recent WWE run, Fozzy, and him trying to get newer stars over. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...t-and-lasting/
  • In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, yesterday was the 15th Anniversary of WWE's "Plane Ride from Hell" incident. For some reference, this was the incident that led to Mr Perfect and Scott Hall getting fired. A brawl broke out during the trip, Lesnar almost opened the door to the plane in mid-flight, Micheal Hayes almost pissed on someone, and Ric Flair supposedly sexually assaulted the flight attendants. https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc...personnel_got/
  • In another "WWE Did You Know" type fact, Asuka hit the 400 day milestone for her NXT Women's title reign today.
  • Lucha Underground's Jack Evans recently suffered a seizure during a show in Mexico according to reports. https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc...e_after_a_bad/
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Old 05-08-2017, 01:39 PM   #9
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Just them trying to get as much leverage into a possible settlement from the WWE. WWE knows Anthem is only pulling these antics to get a fatter paycheck and the WWE doesn't care because they don't want to get dragged into another legal mess with Impact again.

They just recently came off from a potential big legal mess with ROH in regards to their signing practices and don't want to deal with another lawsuit that can be avoidable.
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Old 05-09-2017, 11:21 PM   #10
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Raw fell to yet another non-football season and non-holiday record modern low last night with 2.68 million viewers for the show in London.

The audience dropped six percent over the previous low mark set last week of 2.86 million viewers.

The last time Raw numbers were at this point outside of football season was 1997, when it went head-to-head with Nitro ...

In the past, being taped hadn't hurt the rating but it does appear that was the case here. Next week will be more evident because if the number is in the same ballpark for a live show, that would be a very bad sign.

The three hours were:

8 p.m. 2.83 million viewers
9 p.m. 2.85 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.42 million viewers
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Emma was injured at today's house show in Liverpool, England. Banks did the double knee spot and covered Emma, who was supposed to kick out, but didn't. The ref counted to three and then waved off the call. The other four women in the match (Bayley, Banks & Mickie James vs. Alexa Bliss, Emma & Nia Jax) brawled and realizing Emma was hurt, Banks went to pin her again and the ref counted three again. She left under her own power holding her arm and shoulder ...

Emma wrote that she's off of the remaining European tour dates and headed back to the United States to get tests on her injured shoulder.
Link to the announcement by Emma: https://www.instagram.com/p/BT3IK9ajo9k/

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Rusev posted a video where he said that he's coming to SmackDown next week to look for answers from Shane McMahon. An angle was set up on the show two weeks ago where he said that he would only join the brand in the roster shakeup if he got a WWE title shot at Money in the Bank. He's been out of action since having shoulder surgery in March.
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Kairi Hojo, one of the elite woman wrestlers in the world, who signed with WWE in March, but had personally kept it quiet, should be reporting to the Performance Center shortly.

Hojo, real name Kaori Housako, 28, announced at Saturday's Stardom show that she is leaving the promotion. She never mentioned WWE, because talent is not allowed to mention they are going to WWE until WWE announces it first.

We had reported Hojo's negotiations and signing as the story was playing out from last year. WWE was after both Hojo and Stardom's top star, Io Shirai. Shirai was brought to Orlando not that long ago to train, which was not supposed to go public but due to a communications issue, was briefly mentioned on the WWE website.

Shirai hasn't signed with WWE at this point.
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In a video that WWE posted, Scott Dawson said that The Revival plan to be back in six weeks. Dash Wilder is currently sidelined after fracturing his jaw.
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Thaddeus Bullard, who works as Titus O'Neil in WWE, had a lawsuit filed against him in Los Angeles County Superior Court stemming from a incident filming the WWE Network show "Swerved".

TMZ originally broke the story.

Donald Anderson, who worked on the show as a cameraman, claimed the incident took place on May 18, 2015, and is suing for more than $1.2 million in damages.

According to his complaint, Bullard was zapped with an electric shock as part of the show. Anderson claimed that when that happened, Bullard kicked the camera out of his hands, causing serious inury to his hand, fingers, and wrist.

Anderson said that when it happened, he was told to leave the premises immediately for fear of further attacks.
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Tyler Bate and Pete Dunne will once again be facing off with the WWE United Kingdom Championship on the line.

It was announced at yesterday's[Sunday] UK TV tapings in Norwich that there would be a UK title defense at NXT TakeOver: Chicago on May 20th. The participants for the match were then confirmed today, with Dunne set to challenge for Bate's title.
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WWE officially announced that the NXT Women's Championship match at TakeOver: Chicago is now a triple threat with Asuka defending against Ruby Riot and Nikki Cross. Ember Moon was removed from the match due to what WWE claims is a grade one shoulder sprain.
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Several standout independent wrestlers attended WWE's tryouts in the UK this week. WWE confirmed that Jurn Simmons, Flash Morgan Webster, Chris Brookes, Travis Banks, and TK Cooper were among the names there.
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Jim Ross announced today on his blog that he will be the play-by-play announcer for the WWE U.K. television show, teaming with Nigel McGuinness.

The first shows were taped on Saturday and Sunday in Norwich, England, with results on the front page of the site.

As of what we've heard, the shows will be broken up into weekly one-hour shows, similar to NXT, airing on the WWE Network. At the tapings yesterday, it was announced that the first episode would be debuting before the end of the month.

Triple H also tweeted the same thing.

Ross will continue to also do weekly television for AXS and New Japan Pro Wrestling due to the unique contract situation he has, so he will be announcing for the two largest pro wrestling companies in the world at the same time.
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WWE Chairman Vince McMahon took to Twitter today and wished Batista a happy anniversary. As seen below, the man behind Marvel's Drax The Destroyer responded and said he has "a f--k ton of unleashing left" in him:

15 years ago today, @WWE unleashed The Animal @DaveBautista on the WWE Universe. Happy anniversary, "Drax."
— Vince McMahon (@VinceMcMahon) May 9, 2017


I still have a f--k ton of unleashing left in me! Thanks for showing me the world boss! #DreamChaser https://t.co/ufoXLcdtWL
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Earlier today, PWInsider.com noted that a source at Impact Wrestling disputed that the company had filed for trademarks related to the "Broken Universe" Hardy-related characters in April (government documents list it as 4/28/17) but had actually filed back in January.

In response to our report, Matt and Rebecca Hardy each took to Twitter, knocking that claim:

The days of "working" figures & statistics (aka lying) in this industry are OVAH.. Especially government documented records. https://t.co/CHCi0QTAEo
— The VESSEL of MMH (@MATTHARDYBRAND) May 9, 2017

Again, government records list 4/28/17.

Obviously, the situation is going to get uglier unless all sides come to some sort of agreement.
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Pro Wrestling Sheet has learned Braun Strowman is scheduled to be out of action following tonight’s Raw taping to undergo a minor procedure to fix some issues with his elbow.

Sources tell us Strowman will be gone four to eight weeks due to the undisclosed injury/surgery, causing creative to re-tool plans for Extreme Rules and Great Balls of Fire.

Braun’s character on TV is supposedly suffering from a torn rotator cuff — even though he’s been wrestling Roman Reigns in street fights on the UK/European tour — and his injury angle was furthered at the TV taping tonight to officially give him time to get fixed up.

Strowman came out in a sling to wrestle Kalisto, but Reigns quickly interrupted. The segment ended with Roman hitting Braun’s arm with a steel chair on the steps.
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Bring It To The Table returned to the WWE Network last night after RAW. It was the first episode since March, which was believed to have been the catalyst in Mauro Ranallo's WWE departure.

Corey Graves, JBL and Peter Rosenberg made light of the controversy during the opening of last night's show. Rosenberg noted that there has been controversy over his comments about Roman Reigns, while Graves said that there has been controversy over his own comments regarding Shane McMahon. The camera then cut to JBL, who had a humorous guilty expression on his face, who simply introduced himself before saying that he "won $24 last week playing golf."

As noted, Mauro Ranallo and WWE parted ways in late April. While Mauro remains under WWE contract until August 12th, he will be able to commentate for non-wrestling shows until then.
During the same episode JBL said he rather be captured by ISIS than ever hang out with Sami Zayn. Was done as one of those commercial cut-in type segments PTI does on ESPN but those usually have some context while JBL's statement had no context with the show itself.

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WWE has green-lit a new WWE Network series starring R-Truth, PWInsider.com has confirmed with multiple sources.

WWE secretly filmed a pilot for what would be the Network's first-ever game show with Truth as the host back in March and we are told the series has been picked up for a first season.

The plan is for the series to debut in late summer/early Fall.

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Despite the near-record low WWE Raw ratings from the night before and strong competition from network fare and the NBA playoffs, SmackDown's ratings for their taped show on Tuesday, May 9th were up two percent from last week.

However, the 2.348 million viewers marks the eighth lowest number for the show since moving to a live format last July.

The show was taped earlier in the day from the UK and was heavily wrestling-oriented with a main event six-man tag match featuring WWE World Champion Randy Orton, Jinder Mahal, and more.

SmackDown finished 11th for the night in total viewers on cable but third in the 18-49 demo with a 0.74 rating, trailing only NBA playoff action and its post-game show.
Dave Meltzer thinks next couple of weeks could be another low mainly because several big shows are having their season finales during that period.

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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is on the cover of GQ Magazine this month and GQ's Caity Weaver wrote an excellent profile on him. It has received a lot of attention for Johnson saying that there's a "real possibility" that he'll run for President of the United States one day. Johnson answered some political questions and revealed that both the Trump and Clinton campaigns wanted him to endorse them last year, but he declined because he didn't want to make people unhappy or sway opinions.
Link to the article: http://www.gq.com/story/dwayne-johns...resident-cover

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Braun Strowman confirmed that he'll soon be undergoing surgery: "I will return to finish what I've started and that's carving my name in history as the most destructive thing #WWE has ever seen. This surgery is just a minor speed bump I will return bigger stronger faster and even more dangerous than ever mark my words I'm the definition of unstoppable!!!"
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Former Tough Enough winner Sara Lee and NXT wrestler Wesley Blake are now parents after Lee gave birth to their daughter on May 1st.
Link to the announcement: https://www.instagram.com/p/BT60Lmjgc25/

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PROGRESS Wrestling revealed Tyler Bate, Zack Sabre Jr., and Zack Gibson as the latest entrants for the company's Super Strong Style 16 tournament.
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Though it took longer than expected, Brianna and Bryan Danielson (Brie Bella and Daniel Bryan) finally welcomed their daughter into the world last night.

WWE.com and E! Online announced the news today. The baby's name is Birdie Joe Danielson (as was previously revealed) and she was born at 11:58 p.m. on Tuesday.

"There is no better feeling in the world than meeting your daughter,” Brianna said. “I can't even express the overwhelming joy and love that Bryan and I are feeling. Now we know what parents mean about the love you feel when you first meet your child. Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers on the safety of Birdie coming into this world."

Brianna's due date was originally scheduled for April 30th, but they were told that the baby would be arriving about a week late at a doctor's appointment shortly before then.

This is the couple's first child. They announced that Brianna was expecting last October, which came after she stepped away from wrestling earlier in the year to prepare for motherhood. She was featured in a 10-woman tag on the WrestleMania 32 pre-show in her last match.

Bryan has been absent from his role as SmackDown general manager and co-host of Talking Smack over the last few weeks in anticipation of the arrival of the baby.
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Vince McMahon tweeted the following to congratulate Daniel Bryan and Brie Bella on the birth of their first child, a daughter named Birdie Joe Danielson. As reported earlier via WWE, Birdie Joe arrived on Tuesday night, May 9th at 11:58pm. She was born at 8 pounds, 10 ounces and 21 inches. Vince welcomed Birdie Joe to the WWE family with this tweet:

Congratulations to Brie @BellaTwins & @WWEDanielBryan on their beautiful daughter and newest addition to the @WWE family.
— Vince McMahon (@VinceMcMahon) May 10, 2017
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WWE announced today on their community affairs website that WWE exec and long-time performer Paul "Triple H" Levesque will be inducted into the Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) Alumni Hall of Fame today in Dallas, Texas. The Hall of Fame honors distinguished people who got their start at their local Boys & Girls Club. Also being honored today are WNBA star Skylar Diggins, MLBPA Executive Director Tony Clark, Dallas Cowboys tight end Jason Witten, actor Anthony Anderson, Dr. Dante Lauretta and Dr. Philip Schein. Vince McMahon was inducted into the Hall in 2015.
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Impact Wrestling has signed MJ Jenkins to a contract, PWInsider.com has confirmed. Jenkins is the female talent who took a hellaciously long bus ride to Orlando for a tryout a few months back.
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WWE will begin taping their announced Women's tournament on Thursday 7/13 and Friday 7/14 at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida, PWInsider.com has confirmed.

The tournament, a 32 competitor event, will be taped for a WWE Network series. As PWInsider.com reported earlier this week, the current plan is to not release the episodes as a weekly episodic series but to instead release sets of episodes at once as Video on Demand programming, similar to how WWE has rolled out original series such as Holy Foley! and Camp WWE in the past. This would be the first attempt at releasing first-run in-ring programming with this strategy on the Network,.

The tournament would be similar to the Cruiserweight Classic with a big focus being on different international competitors. A number of talents are already undergoing background checks.

The current plan is to hold the finals of the tournament as a live WWE Network special on Tuesday 8/29.
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WWE officially released the WrestleMania 33 DVD and Blu-ray this week. Each set comes with a Seth Rollins Topps trading card while Walmart exclusive sets include the trading card and a John Cena "Fathead" wall decal. You can order the set via Amazon at this link. It's worth noting that the WrestleMania 33 Kickoff pre-show matches did not make the DVD or Blu-ray in the United States. Austin Aries vs. WWE Cruiserweight Champion Neville, Baron Corbin vs. WWE Intercontinental Champion Dean Ambrose and the 4th annual Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal are only included in the UK versions of the set, which will be released on June 5th.

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The website betonline.ag has established 80-to-1 odds on Dwayne Johnson being our next president. The favorites are Donald Trump at 11-to-4, Mike Pence at 6-1, Elizabeth Warren at 8-1, Michelle Obama at 14-to-1 and Cory Booker and Bernie Sanders at 20-to-1.
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Stephanie McMahon, doing promotional work in the U.K., hinted on a future WrestleMania or SummerSlam in the U.K.
Link to the article: https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/wwe/3...-wrestlemania/

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Ring of Honor returns to PPV this Friday with "War of the Worlds 2017" from the sold out Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City at 9 PM Eastern, featuring:

*ROH champion Christopher Daniels vs. Cody Rhodes vs. Jay Lethal.

*ROH TV champion Marty Scurll vs. Matt Sydal.

*ROH Tag Team champions The Young Bucks vs. Tetsuya Naito & BUSHI.

*ROH Six Man Tag Team champions Bully Ray & The Briscoes vs. NEVER Openweight champion Hirooki Goto & Roppongi Vice.

*Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Adam Cole.

*IWGP Tag Team champions War Machine vs. EVIL & SANADA vs. Jonathan Gresham & Chris Sabin (with Alex Shelley).

*Will Ospreay vs. Jay White.

*Adam "Hangman" Page vs. Frankie Kazarian.

*KUSHIDA vs. Dalton Castle (with the Boys) vs. Bobby Fish vs. Silas Young.
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The updated lineup for WWE NXT Takeover: Chicago:

*WWE NXT champ Bobby Roode vs. Hideo Itami.

*WWE NXT Tag Team champions The Authors of Pain vs. DIY: Ladder Match.

*WWE NXT Women's champion Asuka vs. Ruby Riot vs. Nikki Cross.
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"As far as the performance level it's definitely a business for the young and I am on the older side of young but I don't think I'll ever not be involved with the WWE. They will have to tell me that they no longer need my services because it is my home,"
Part of an interview Cena had with Fox News on the topic of when he wants to retire. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...-wrestlemania/

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It’s uncertain how long Strowman will be out of action at this point, as the original estimates were that he could have made the July PPV. However, he’s been pulled off all shows past that 7/9 date, with Bray Wyatt being moved out of his scheduled matches to Finn Balor, to headline the Raw crew live events going forward against Roman Reigns as far as advertising goes. If Strowman is unable to work the July PPV, Rollins or Balor would be the most likely opponent for Lesnar, because Reigns is slotted to face him at next year’s WrestleMania and it doesn’t appear to make sense to do that match first and then bring it back. If anything, Reigns should be sidetracked from a title match until WrestleMania, although that makes booking tricky since Reigns is positioned as the biggest star on the brand except when Lesnar is around. Strowman at last word was expected back for SummerSlam, so he could face Lesnar there.
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AXS and New Japan closed the deal for how the Long Beach shows will be covered. An announcement will officially be made on 5/18. All indications are the 7/1 show goes live at 8 p.m. Eastern time
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Katsuyori Shibata had another brain surgery on 5/2. Before he had the second surgery, he wrote: “It is a miracle to be alive. I had my skull removed in my last surgery. I have another surgery on May 2, 2017. I will return. Every day, using pain medications three to four times. I endure the pain. I can hardly see out of my right eye right now. Currently, the hearing ability in my right ear is not normal. The sound is broken and hard.
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On the NWA sale front, 5/10 was supposed to be the deadline for all the papers to be signed for Bruce Tharpe to officially sell the rights to the NWA and whatever intellectual property that goes with it to Billy Corgan. What we do know is that as of 5/9, there was no word that the papers were signed and those in the NWA haven’t heard anything official
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Regarding the cancellation of the World of Sport tapings, the public story is logistical problems and the idea the tapings were too close to the dates for the Impact tapings in India (which are 5/30 and 6/1) and they are having trouble getting new dates, but that’s a clear cover reason. The key problem is what was reported here last week regarding ITV and Impact not coming to a business agreement over their partnership. ITV wants to do it, and the feeling was that they had the structure to handle a taping for one show, but not a promotion, which is where TNA came aboard since they have experience in running a wrestling business. It’s certainly not dead that they would be able to reach an agreement and do tapings later. It also may not happen. Whether ITV would do it on their own or work with a U.K. promotion is still up in the air. The problem with the U.K. promotions is that all the talent in the U.K., besides those signed with WWE & Anthem are free agents and work everywhere, and ITV would want a crew under contract so WWE couldn’t pick them off. The Mirror reported that the shows won’t be taped until 2018 which will kill the project because I don’t see any top talent not getting signed somewhere before that. A lot of the talent doesn’t think it’s going to happen now since no new dates were announced and just the way it quietly was announced as not happening. One person key in the plans said the story they were told was they were looking at starting in the next year, which sounds a lot less promising than if they said they’d be taping in the next two months. There were several minor things done to sabotage the project but ultimately I think ITV wanted to try wrestling which used to be cheap programming in the old days, but now it’s expensive and you have to sign the talent to deals or you’ll lose them if they are good to one of many different companies, most notably WWE. There are major issues that aren’t settled. ITV supposedly has a backup plan, but working with What Culture is not something that is being considered right now based on what we’re told. A lot of the talent signed by ITV was unhappy when the word was that Impact would be taking over and wanted out, and even more disappointed when these shows were canceled. Some were told that it may not be until next year when the first tapings take place, which is where the starting back in 2018 story came from. There was actually talk among some of the guys of a Radicalz 2000 jump to WWE, which obviously would have loved to have taken the top tier talent from the project, but many of the key contracts with ITV from the first set of tapings were for one year, so they have a long way to go. There was talk of some of them being at the WWE tryouts, but I’m not sure WWE would let guys try out publicly who have existing contracts and we didn’t hear anything about the contracted guys here trying out. Others involved with the project outright told us that given how everything went down this past week, with the cancellation and not even a clue of a new tapings date, or the nebulous early 2018, that they are going with their own mentality of like it’s not happening, and it’s a big disappointment because much of the talent had high hopes for the project
Its a long read but to summarize, Impact Wrestling is to blame for World of Sport delays and issues ITV is having with its production. Several wrestlers who were interested want out because they don't want to work with Impact Wrestling. ITV is considering an early 2018 date but also likely they will drop the project by then due to rising costs.

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Dave Bautista was on Jericho’s podcast and said he had gone to WWE and talked to Vince and HHH about working a retirement program with him and that Vince said it was an interesting idea, but they never got back to him. He said now he’s booked solid the next 18 months so it can’t happen any time soon
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Jericho has said that his original plan was to lose at WrestleMania to Owens and that would be it. He said Vince asked him to stay an extra month, since Jericho wasn’t going back on the road until the first week of May with Fozzy. He said he was originally going to finish on 4/30, but then Vince had the idea of him staying the extra day until 5/1. Then, when the decision was made to move Owens, that 5/1 was moved to 5/2. He said he’d like to say they were geniuses this time with the “list, “it” and “stupid idiot” which got him over, but he noted none of those were planned. It just happened and they decided to run with it. He said originally he was just going to do 2016 in WWE and then go back to the music, but the Owens vs. Jericho program got strong enough so he decided to stay through Mania and blow it off there.
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Io Shirai hasn’t signed yet and her coming to Orlando in late March to the Performance Center as WWE recruiting didn’t go swimmingly from her standpoint. Shirai is Stardom’s biggest star and Hojo was No. 2. Stardom would be able to survive losing one, but losing both, particularly if Mayu Iwatani also retires, would be devastating.
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Henry Holmes, who is a well-known Malibu, CA, based attorney specializes in sports and entertainment, was the one who facilitated the release agreement between WWE and Mauro Ranallo. He has represented and negotiated deals for people like George Foreman (he negotiated the famous George Foreman grill deal), Hulk Hogan, Billie Jean King, Lennox Lewis, Shane Mosely, Martina Navratilova, Oscar De La Hoya, Bill Goldberg, Frank Shamrock, Buzz Aldrin, and Larry King
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Ember Moon will be out of action for at least four to five more weeks. There was an angle done on television where Asuka attacked her on the NXT show and it was written that she suffered a grade one shoulder sprain. That aspect was storyline. People in the company have said the angle was a cover for a legit injury, similar to what happened with Strowman this week on Raw. She’s had her arm in a sling and also out of the sling at the Performance Center of late. That puts her out of action in the Takeover show on 5/20 in Chicago. The match now will be Asuka defending in a three-way against Ruby Riot and Nikki Cross
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For what it’s worth, WWE sent out a mailer plugging Talking Smack with a new starting time of 10:30 p.m. It had been starting right before 11 p.m. due to 205 Live. WWE officials said that nothing is changing and they just listed 10:30 p.m. because 205 Live has never been scheduled for one hour and so 10:30 p.m. would be the time meaning a time slot prior to the 11 p.m. time slot

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  • Emma recently hinted on her Instagram account about getting bad news from her medical test related to her recent shoulder injury. https://www.instagram.com/p/BT9ojqKDeQM/
  • Chris Jericho is currently expected to return to the WWE by June 30 as part of WWE's tour of Japan during that week. Currently booked on the card for both June 30 and July 1st shows in Tokyo.
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"NO! You have to get your win back! If you just leave after WrestleMania, our US champion will look stronger than someone else on the roster! I don't care if you're an older guy and putting over a younger talent would be good, not only for business, but for a future feud if/when you do come back... EVERY FEUD MUST BE 50/50! EVERYONE MUST BE EQUAL! DON'T YOU SEE!?"
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New Japan Pro Wrestling will be crowning the first IWGP United States Champion when the company comes to Long Beach, California in July.

The announcement was made in the ring prior to tonight's co-branded ROH/NJPW War of the Worlds pay-per-view at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City. There will be a round robin tournament held over the two nights in Long Beach to determine the first champion.

Jay Lethal was confirmed as the first entrant in the tournament.

The shows in California will take place on July 1st and 2nd. Aside from initial announcements about which NJPW wrestlers will be appearing, this is the biggest news that has been revealed about them so far. The cards should take shape after NJPW's Dominion PPV on June 11th.

Both shows will air live on NJPW World. Jim Ross also posted that AXS TV is set to announce their broadcast plans for the events on May 18th. Ross wrote that fans will like what they hear.
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Brock Lesnar, who is slated to return to defend his WWE Universal Title after a three month post-WrestleMania beak and the Great Balls Of Fire PPV on July 9, is scheduled to appear at the following RAW TVs:

June 12 - Lafayette, LA
June 26 - Los Angeles, CA
July 3 - Phoenix, AZ (Go home to Great Balls of Fire)
Jul 10 - Houston, TX (Post-Great Balls of Fire)
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According to the schedule listed on the website, the first special of the UK Championship TV Tapings from Norwich last weekend will stream on WWE Network on May 18th from 8 pm to 9:30 pm ET.
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Matt Hardy tweeted the following, which is a point that I made as well many times on Elite Audio recently.

If @Billy had got TNA, company/talent would've been great.

Instead, a naive @EdNordholm is now funding GFW into existence at TNA's expense. https://t.co/2ajD3OhmJr
— I AM MORE (@MATTHARDYBRAND) May 12, 2017

I have to agree with Matt, and myself, here. Perhaps Anthem has a vision for TNA that I don't comprehend but from the outside it looks like since they bought the company less than six months ago they have:

Let talent that the TNA fans loved go in The Hardys, Drew Galloway, Maria Kanellis and Mike Bennett, Jade and others.
Had their booking team denigrate the TNA brand that they had just purchased from Dixie Carter as if it wasn't worth promoting, or even watching.
Pushed a company in Global Force Wrestling, which has little-to-no national following, no television and frankly hardly any history, above the product that they just bought, which does have all of those things.

Now again, maybe they have a master plan percolating that will explain this behavior down the line but right now? I am with Matt Hardy. It seems like Anthem needs to step up and protect its investment in the Impact brand instead of promoting GFW.
Article PWI had in regards to the feeling Anthem is blundering with putting too much focus towards GFW instead of putting all the focus on rebuilding Impact.

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The 5/11 edition of Impact on Pop brought in 309,000 viewers, up from last week's 260,000 viewers.
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The rumor mill for NXT TakeOver: Chicago is about to be in full swing … because there’s a singer who claims she’s recording Johnny Gargano‘s new theme — but she didn’t mention his partner.

A singer named Hope Vista tweeted on Monday night saying, “Tomorrow I am recording lead vocals for WWE star @JohnnyGargano‘s theme for when he enters the ring. Shall be interesting.”

Before you go into full panic mode … it’s possible the singer just didn’t think about her wording and the song is simply for #DIY/Tommaso Ciampa as well.

However … the team has seemingly run it’s course. Especially if they’re unable to regain the tag titles on Sunday. So a turn, presumably by Ciampa, would only seem to make sense.

Spoiler tags used since its related to possible plans for this weekend's NXT Takeover Chicago special.

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Raw last night was up only two percent from last week's seasonal all-time low number, doing 2.75 million viewers.

Last week's show did 2.68 million viewers and was taped, and that would seem to indicate that last week's lower numbers, which included a major third hour drop, were only slightly impacted by not being live ...

The three hours were:

8 p.m. 2.88 million viewers
9 p.m. 2.72 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.65 million viewers
For some reference, Observer was speculating 2.85 million or better would have been considered good for the WWE based on competition. Jump from taped to live week was pretty bad since it was just 70k more viewers and could have been worse had the Cs-Wizards game lasted longer.

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Io Shirai, one of the biggest women's wrestling stars in Japan, has accepted WWE's offer to join the company, our Dave Meltzer reports.

Shirai, 27, is considered one of the top wrestlers in the Stardom promotion. She had previously attended a Performance Center tryout back in March, though WWE quickly wiped out all mentions of her in an accompanying article.

This would be a big blow to Stardom, with both of their top acts in Shirai and Kairi Hojo departing the company. Both had previously considered staying in Japan after receiving interest from WWE late last year, but it seems that both have now changed their minds.

Hojo announced her departure from Stardom earlier this month, and is expected to start at the WWE Performance Center shortly. As of right now, there is no start date for Shirai to come in.
WWE pretty much got the big star they wanted for the upcoming Women's Tournament and likely heavy favorite for it. Might still purge Stardom for at least one more big name based on recent rumors and reports.

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Tye Dillinger vs. Aiden English has been officially added to Sunday's WWE Backlash PPV in Chicago, IL, airing as part of the Kickoff broadcast.

Previously announced for the PPV:

*WWE champion Randy Orton vs. Jinder Mahal.

*WWE Smackdown Tag Team champions The Usos vs. Breezango.

*Natalya & Carmella & Tamina vs. Charlotte & WWE Smackdown Women's champion Naomi & Becky Lynch.

*WWE United States champion Kevin Owens vs. AJ Styles.

*Dolph Ziggler vs. Shinsuke Nakamura.
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NBC Universal plans to utilize more picture-in-picture commercials during SmackDown in the future. The show will remain playing without sound in a small box on the screen as audio and video from the commercial also airs. NBCU tried out the idea during two episodes of SmackDown last year and it tested well.
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NJPW held a press conference last night in advance of the beginning of the Best of the Super Juniors tournament. Business was a topic of conversation, with owner Takaaki Kidani saying that the company wants to "find US stars, develop a dojo, and build a territory." It was also announced that Tomoaki Honma is training in hopes of a return and that there is no timetable on if Katsuyori Shibata will return.
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Hiroshi Tanahashi was injured last night in Philadelphia. We don't know anything more than the doctor at the building was examining his biceps. The hope and feeling was that it wasn't a full tear, which would be a major injury. A partial tear people work through although it hurts and doesn't get better quickly unless you take a long rest.
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PROGRESS Wrestling has revealed the full lineup for this year's Super Strong Style 16. The field is: Jack Sexsmith, Pastor William Eaver, Travis Banks, Trent Seven, Jeff Cobb, Jimmy Havoc, Flamita, Zack Gibson, Zack Sabre Jr., Tyler Bate, David Starr, Flash Morgan Webster, Nathan Cruz, Mark Haskins, Mark Andrews, Matt Riddle.
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So there was a bunch of Twitter stuff going on the past two days. It started when Rip Rogers shared something about too many dives in pro wrestling. Then Bully Ray, who is in ROH, sent a photo of him coming off the top rope. The Young Bucks wrote something about the match described in the Rogers post with a ton of superkicks, dives and this is awesome spots and joked it sounded like a great match. Then Randy Orton, who doesn't like Bully Ray and was in Copenhagen, Denmark on the last night of his tour, wrote a tweet about indy mark, indy guys and old-timers, and bragging about the Smackdown tour doing $5 million in gates over the past 11 shows (I'd think that's a very low estimate and would be closer to $7-8 million) and kind of ran down indy guys. Then Orton apologized.

The reality is that guys looking to make names are always going to do too much for a veteran who has already made their name. And that the style has changed. And that guys in the past who have all kinds of injuries working safer want to warn the young guys for fear of them messing up their bodies. It's really a constant subject behind-the-scenes as far as risks in the ring that is very real. But it's easier to simplify this as bitter veterans or disrespectful young guys rather than address there are two sides to the story. Some guys would like to keep the profession safer, which is a noble goal, and some who aren't gifted with size and look or a promoter who likes them for that reason, want to make themselves stars and have realized through different experiences what works for them and what fans want to see from them.
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There was a mistake in the translation and the New Japan U.S. title tournament that will take place on 7/1 and 7/2 in Long Beach will be a single elimination tournament, not a round-robin tournament.
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Scott Hall was hospitalized last night with bad chest pain and was very agitated while in Norwich, England. He was appearing for the Knight Family's WAW promotion. He was discharged at 4 a.m. and flew back home after the word first being that he probably shouldn't be traveling. He had a big entourage with him and the ward at the hospital was shut down to accommodate him.
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Jim Ross will be joining Nigel McGuinness to call the United Kingdom Championship match at NXT TakeOver: Chicago on Saturday.

Ross announced the news on Twitter today. The match will feature Tyler Bate defending his title against Pete Dunne, which was set up at WWE's tapings in Norwich, England earlier this month.

Those tapings will begin airing on Friday as WWE debuts its first United Kingdom special. Ross and McGuinness were previously announced as the commentary team for that show.
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Sources close to the situation have confirmed that Billy Corgan signed a purchase agreement with Bruce Tharpe to purchase the NWA name and its intellectual property. A change in the original deal is that Corgan will now own the NWA on Demand website that has the Paul Boesch Houston tape library on it. The original deal did not include the NWA on Demand site.
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Matt Hardy responded to a fan on Twitter asking Impact execs to come to terms with the Hardys over the "Broken" material today, writing:

They have a chance to. Hope they do the right thing. I adore most people there.. Hope a couple of bad apples don't spoil the bunch for them. https://t.co/kTr3smTxix
— #TheTruthTeller MMH (@MATTHARDYBRAND) May 16, 2017
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No update on World of Sport and the impression from sources on the British side is that it may be some time before there is an update.
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WWE reported on Monday that Braun Strowman is expected to be out of action for up to six months after undergoing successful elbow surgery ...

Dave Meltzer revealed on Wrestling Observer Radio that the six month number is a work, and Strowman is actually expected to wrestle at SummerSlam. Strowman will likely face WWE Universal Champion Brock Lesnar at the event and return in mid-July to start the build for the match.

Meltzer speculated that WWE will swap Brock Lesnar's original opponent for SummerSlam - which was most likely Seth Rollins or Finn Balor - for the main event of the Great Balls Of Fire pay-per-view in July. As seen on RAW last night, WWE announced that Rollins, Balor, Samoa Joe, Bray Wyatt and Roman Reigns will square off in a Fatal 5-Way at the Extreme Rules pay-per-view on June 4th, with the winner becoming the new #1 contender.
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A new generation of CZW is kicking off … and Pro Wrestling Sheet has learned Sami Callihan recently took over their creative team to help lead them into the future.

Sources tell us Callihan and his team will be handling creative/promotional decisions from now on, while CZW Prez DJ Hyde will focus on managing all the back-end business aspects of the company.

The company has long been known for promoting death matches, something that was covered last year in a popular Vice documentary, and stuff like Tournament of Death/Cage of Death will still be happening — but we’re told they’ll no longer be featured as the forefront of the company.

Some other sheet news includes:
  • Netflix recently released a new trailer for their GLOW wrestling tv series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZqDO6cTYVY
  • Busted Open Radio had a recent interview with Adam Cole discussing his future now that he's a free agent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdHJYjOnbkg
  • Busted Open Radio also had a recent interview with Bully Ray discussing Orton's recent tweets and past issues he and Orton had in the WWE. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...g-shot-at-him/
  • Debut of WWE's UK show got delayed from this Thursday to this Friday with NXT Takeover Chicago as the reason since the debut episode has matches tied to the event. Also new debut time of 3PM EST with a replay at 8PM EST.
  • WWE was revealed to be releasing a Kurt Angle DVD/Blu-Ray set this August.
  • Recent episode of the Steve Austin Show had Shane McMahon as the guest and topics including his current run in the WWE, criticisms with WWE's current product, and if the backstage is afraid of speaking out or giving ideas to help their careers. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...n-on-triple-h/
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Last night's episode of SmackDown on the USA Network was down to 2.175 million viewers. That's the third lowest total since the brand split and move to a live format.

The only two shows that it beat were last year's November 8th episode, which was against presidential election coverage, and the October 25th episode, which was against the final presidential debate.

Tuesday's big competition on cable was the Golden State Warriors vs. San Antonio Spurs NBA playoff game and NBA draft lottery. Those broadcasts did 5.775 million and 3.224 million viewers respectively and both aired against SmackDown.

SmackDown was down 173,000 viewers from last week (a drop of seven percent), which corresponds with this week's NBA game being up over a million viewers from last week.

The show was 10th for the night on cable in terms of total viewers. In the important 18-49 demo, it was fourth, trailing the NBA game, draft lottery, and SportsCenter, which directly followed the game.
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WWE announced an advertising partnership with the Rocket League video game. Rocket League will be sponsoring Backlash, Great Balls of Fire, and SummerSlam.
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At last night's Best of the Super Juniors show, Dragon Lee, Marty Scurll, Ricochet, and Taka Michinoku kicked off the tournament with wins in Block A. The winners from Block B were Ryusuke Taguchi, El Desperado, ACH, and Volador Jr.

There will be a Block A show at Korakuen Hall tonight/tomorrow morning with the NJPW rematch of Will Ospreay vs. Ricochet in the same building where their match in last year's tournament took place. It will air on NJPW World at 5:30 a.m. ET. The tournament matches are:

Ospreay vs. Ricochet
Hiromu Takahashi vs. Jushin Thunder Liger
Scurll vs. Dragon Lee
Taka Michinoku vs. Taichi
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NJPW announced that they'll be holding a "major press conference" tomorrow about the July shows in Long Beach. It will be streamed on Facebook at 7 p.m. ET. Tomorrow is the day that AXS TV is supposed to announce their broadcast plans for the shows, so the press conference could be related to that.
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Al Snow attempted to clarify a story about him being arrested for "failure to appear" on Monday night. Snow wrote that he had a ticket from two years ago that he had taken care of, but due to a typo there was a bench warrant issued for him that he was unaware of. Snow said that he paid a $234 fine and was released.
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This past Sunday, Adam Cole wrestled what may have been his final Ring of Honor appearance. Following the match, Cole, addressed the crowd in Philadelphia.

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On the tenth episode of Dinner With The King, Jerry “The King” Lawler and Glenn Moore talk about the tweets from Rip Rogers and Randy Orton over the weekend.

Lawler on today’s indie wrestling: "I think that the problem Rip [Rogers] and Randy [Orton] have is what the young guys think they need to do to get noticed. It’s what the young guys do in these matches that bothers guys who have been in the business for a while. The young guys, like they said, they have a tendency to go out there and try to squeeze in every single move that they know. Every dive. Every flip. Every flop. Everything they can put in one 15-minute match. So in order to do that, if you are going to put all those moves in, you’re not going to have time to sell anything. It’s just going to be one move after another until the match is over. That is not the way wrestling became what it is today. Not what I think veterans look at and not what the business is supposed to be. It’s not that really entertaining for fans. I think that’s Rip’s and Randy’s point they are trying to make there.”

The King also gives insight on when he will hang it up and retire from wrestling: "When the non-wrestling appearances become more and more than the wrestling appearances. But I do not have a set end date when it comes to retiring from wrestling.”
Link to the podcast episode and more highlights: http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...g-independent/

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Judge Vanessa L. Bryant, who is presiding over the lawsuits brought against WWE in the United States District Court of Connecticut, ordered on 5/9 that the attorneys involved meet with their clients to discuss possible settlement offers that they would be happy with. Bryant also ordered that attorneys from each side inform the court within 21 days of dates in June, July and August where all sides will be available to "commit to a full and final settlement of these matters are available to devote an entire day to settlement discussions with Judge Thomas Smith."

Meanwhile, WWE filed paperwork on 5/12 following up on their request for a Summary Judgment that would end the case against them by former WWE star Vito LoGrasso and former developmental star Evan Singleton. The court had previously thrown out all claims against WWE in their lawsuit, with the exception of the allegation that WWE was fraudulent with passing on their knowledge of potential head injuries that could happen from performing as a professional wrestler for the company. The court has allowed that allegation to stand, feeling that it was within the realm of possibility.
More details from PWInsider: http://www.pwinsider.com/article/109...sions.html?p=1

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WWE Hall of Famer Ricky Morton will be working as a guest trainer next week at the WWE Performance Center.
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Pro Wrestling Sheet has learned Eva Marie will NOT be returning to Total Divas for season seven — and producers have been interviewing her potential replacements.

Multiple sources have confirmed that production is hard at work interviewing the female roster to determine the new cast member before filming begins next month.

We’re told Charlotte and a handful of others are among the women they’ve spoken with.

It’s unclear if Paige will continue to appear on the show, but our sources say original cast members Nikki Bella, Brie Bella, Natalya and Naomi are a lock.

Eva was last seen on the show’s finale dealing with her Wellness violation suspension.
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As noted, it was recently revealed that Charly Caruso and former WWE announcer Sean Mooney will be hosting a three-disc "WWE Unreleased: 1986-1995" DVD on September 4th in the UK and September 5th in the United States. WrestlingDVDNetwork.com reports that there are plans to include a rare Owen Hart match from 1986 and a rare Taz match from 1993, which may be a WWE tryout match. Speculation is that the Owen match is against The Brooklyn Brawler from a July 1986 All Star Wrestling taping in Ontario, while the Taz match is against Scott Taylor at a May 1993 Wrestling Challenge taping in Portland, Maine. WDN also released this new synopsis for the set:

WWE unlocks the vault and brings you never-before-seen matches from 1986-1995. Check out these unreleased hidden gems featuring some of the greatest Superstars in WWE history.

— WWE has gone deep into its vault and uncovered exclusive content that you can only find right here on this set,

— Features Superstars such as Randy Savage, Ultimate Warrior, Andre the Giant, Shawn Michaels, Bret Hart, Mr. Perfect and more,

— Never-before-seen matches from the years 1986 through 1995!
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WWE has plans to release a "1997: Dawn of the Attitude" DVD this coming October, according to WrestlingDVDNetwork.com. The set will look at the beginning of The Attitude Era with Steve Austin, DX, The Hart Foundation, Kane, the Montreal Screwjob and more.
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“Bray began with my real-life lunacy,” says Rotunda. “I’ve always been an against-all-authority kind of child. I was a big fan of Rage Against the Machine, they were a big influence on my life as a child, so when I started working with Dusty Rhodes, I began losing my mind on a very real level. I became obsessed with this character.”

When Husky Harris failed on the main roster, he went all in with the Wyatt persona. “I was going to jury duty in my hometown, and Dusty made me go to jury duty as Bray,” Bill Rotunda says. “Dusty told me, ‘This is the perfect exercise. Become Bray.’ I literally went to jury duty as Bray Wyatt. I was so immersed in the character that I didn’t break once. Obviously, I didn’t get picked for jury duty, but I had the white pants, Hawaiian shirt, the whole nine yards. There were no fragments of Husky Harris. Husky Harris was dead, and he was to stay dead. I was Bray Wyatt. We were one.”
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New Japan Pro Wrestling made a number of announcements today at a Los Angeles press conference covering the July 1st and July 2nd shows in Long Beach.

As reported here already, AXS TV will be airing both shows. The July 1st show will air live at 8 p.m. Eastern and 5 p.m. local time. The July 2nd show will air live on New Japan World with a replay airing on AXS on July 7th with AXS airing it in a four-hour window from 8 p.m. Eastern to midnight.

The first night will only be shown live on NJPW World for those outside of the United States.

The IWGP Heavyweight, IWGP Intercontinental, IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team, and IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team titles will all be defended over the two days. A tournament will also be held to create the IWGP United States Championship, which will be the key territorial belt when New Japan opens up a full-time U.S. outpost in 2018
In terms of roster for the show, it was revealed to be a mix of guys from NJPW, ROH, and CMLL. http://www.f4wonline.com/japan/njpw-...h-shows-235786

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New Japan announced before its show earlier today that Hiroshi Tanahashi had a ruptured right biceps (full tear) and will be out of action until 6/9 when he will return at Korakuen Hall. Satoshi Kojima replaces him in all of his matches until then. With that injury, he really should have surgery and be out six months.
Observer's Meltzer stated Tanahashi is currently risking his bicep being permanently deformed the longer he waits to do major surgery. Same issue Paul Orndorff had when he suffered a similar injury in 1988.

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Today's Best of the Super Junior tournament results from Korakuen Hall:

Taichi (1-1) beat Taka Michinoku (1-1)
Dragon Lee (2-0) beat Marty Scurll (1-1)
Hiromu Takahashi (1-1) beat Jushin Liger (0-2)
Will Ospreay (1-1) beat Ricochet (1-1).

The next show is Saturday in Matsuzaka with:

Desperado vs. Bushi
ACH vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru
Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Volador Jr.
Tiger Mask vs. Kushida
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The Five Star Wrestling promotion and promoter Daniel Hinkles made a grandstand offer of $1 million to C.M. Punk for him to enter their 128-man tournament that begins on 6/10 in Liverpool's Echo Arena and ends on 12/30 at the Manchester Arena. They will be running weekly Saturday night shows starting on 6/10. Hinkles said, "We've been trying to contact CM Punk on and off for well over a year. We wanted him on the first show we did in Edinburgh in 2015. I've tried going through friends in the industry. I've gone through his website and sent dozens of emails but the opportunity has never been this big. We want to offer C.M. Punk $1 million to come and join the Five Star Wrestling tour starting 6/10. It's a genuine offer. We'd love to hear back from the man himself." Punk is currently still under exclusive contract with UFC.
5 Star previously announced John Morrison, Chris Masters, Carlito, Moose, PJ Black, and Shelton Benjamin will be in their mega tournament.

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Impact this week in the U.K. is being moved from its usual Friday night at 9 p.m. time slot to Saturday at 10 p.m. on Spike UK. Spike UK will be airing one hour of Bellator's London show headlined by Rory MacDonald vs. Paul Daley at 9 p.m. The main bouts from London will air on Ch. 5 in the U.K. at 10 p.m. Spike UK evidently believes that there is a strong crossover and is moving Impact to another night rather than airing it one hour later.
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Impact Wrestling touted on social media that Ava Storie, Veterans of War, Kongo Kong, Matt Sydal, Dezmond Xavier and Diamante of LAX have all signed with the company.
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For what it's worth, the Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports that there are still open lines of communication in regards to WWE possibly bringing Mauro Ranallo back to SmackDown commentary.

This does not mean that Mauro will be returning, but The Observer notes that there is a lot of water under the bridge. There was an agreement reached where WWE is paying Mauro until his contract ends on August 12th.

Mauro has indicated on Twitter that he will be pretty busy with Showtime Boxing and other non-wrestling commitments over the next few months. He's also teased possibly doing other pro wrestling work in the future.
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“Drawing more money, what does that mean anymore?” Bischoff commented. “Again, I like Randy a lot and I have a ton of respect for him so I do not mean this to be any kind of a shot at Randy. But Randy has the luxury of having a very successful career with for what is in all intents and purposes — it wasn’t intentional but [WWE’s] a monopoly.”

“Yes, WWE makes a lot of money and as a result so does Randy. Randy hasn’t had to change his style because he has the privilege of working for a company that is able to pay Randy a lot of money. And he doesn’t have to go out and make his living on the independent circuit. Randy doesn’t have to go out and create new fans. All Randy has to do is stay on the treadmill.”

Bischoff continued on the subject by saying if he were a young worker in the indies he would take offense to what The Viper said in his comment. “[Randy] has that luxury, that privilege of getting [his] seven figures and having a check show up in the mail once a month for things [he] don’t even remember doing, and getting merchandise money because [he has] this machine behind [him] that prints that money. And a lot of people don’t, the vast majority of people don’t. It’s a little bit like the music industry where 2% of the people make 98% of the money. Well, I don’t think that 2% of the people who are making 98% of the money should necessarily look down their nose at the other 98% who are trying to craft a living.”
Eric Bischoff on the recent Randy Orton Twitter stuff against indie wrestling. Came from the latest episode of Bischoff on Wrestling podcast show.

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[Kairi]Hojo lost her Wonder of Stardom championship on the 5/14 show at Korakuen Hall to Miyu Iwatani with a dragon suplex. Hojo still has to lose the trios championship. Hojo was given the word that she has to come up with a new finisher. A lot of people questioned that. Hojo has the coolest looking elbow off the top rope in pro wrestling, probably the best since a young ICW-era Randy Savage. She was told that’s Bayley’s move. To those in Japan, it’s considered ridiculous because that’s the move she’s known for, but it’s a different world. Hojo would walk right into WWE as technically the best of their women wrestlers, but she’s also maybe 5-foot-1, and a lot smaller than Asuka.
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Jeff Jarrett brought up the World Cup, saying that there was talk of AAA, Pro Wrestling NOAH and Impact working together for the annual World Cup trios tournament, saying it would be in Japan in October but it’s not a done deal. It’ll be hard because the guy from Japan who was key the previous years had a falling out with AAA and was helping The Crash.

Some other sheet news includes:
  • Both Jim Ross and Nigel McGuinness were sent to WWE's HQ today to record commentary for the recently taped episodes of WWE's United Kingdom show.
  • While previously reported by PWI, ROH officially announced today they have signed Travis "Flip" Gordon to an exclusive deal.
  • For those interested, The Rock was announced to be this weekend's host of SNL.
  • In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, today is the 2nd Anniversary of Kevin Owens' debut on WWE RAW. Owens celebrated the occasion of beating up John Cena on Twitter. https://twitter.com/FightOwensFight/...08697521393664
  • According to a report from the Observer, WWE is currently going after more stars from Stardom targeting mainly their foreign stars. Stardom expects to lose them by the time of WWE's tournament since they can't compete money-wise to WWE's offers.
  • Also according to the Observer, Summer Rae is currently in an Emma-like position where she's been healed for a while but Creative legit has no plans for her.
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Summer Rea on Raw or Smackdown? Think it Raw, not sure but they could switch her like they did Swagger. I say throw her on dispatch for the Fashion Police though.
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Def make her someone's valet...... maybe even toss her into the mix on 205 Live like Alicia Fox..... use her to create more "interest" in a cruiserweight.......
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Think Summer Rea is under rated in the ring. She can have her clumsy moments same as any but the few matches she has had I was impressed by some of the things she did.
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Old 05-19-2017, 10:19 AM   #30
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I don't know why but i find Eric Bischoff's comments unexpected
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I don't know why but i find Eric Bischoff's comments unexpected
Could see his past experience with WCW's Cruiser division being a big factor. He played a big role in its creation and it was full of young stars trying to make a big name for themselves.

Replace indies with WCW in general and you'd get similar issues occurring there at the time.
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The condition of Tommaso Ciampa is up in the air, but all things considered, the news was positive as X-rays showed he didn't suffer a broken ankle last night.

During the match in Highland Heights, Kentucky, with Ciampa & Johnny Gargano vs. Alexander Wolfe & Eric Young, Ciampa suffered what appeared to be a left ankle injury about four minutes into the match.

Paul Levesque, on this morning's WWE conference call, said that Ciampa suffered a sprained ankle and was feeling a lot better today.

He said that as of this moment, the plans for tomorrow night's Ciampa & Gargano vs. Authors of Pain ladder match in Chicago for the NXT tag team titles are still on. But he said that it's up to the medical side if they will clear him tomorrow.

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For the 7/1 live show on AXS TV, it is scheduled from 8 p.m. to midnight, but if the show goes long, it's not an issue and there is no specific time cue to hit. If need be, the show can go as long as five hours as they have scheduled to replay the Kenny Omega vs. Kazuchika Okada match from Osaka at Dominion at midnight that night, and then replay the Long Beach show at 1 a.m. The Saturday night show will be geoblocked live on New Japan World, but will be available on the service the next day. The 7/2 show will be available live on New Japan World, and air on AXS from 8 p.m. to midnight on the following Friday.
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Sean Waltman took a polygraph test live on Afterbuzz TV. Based on the results of the test, the administrator said that Waltman passed saying he did not having any meth on him and the pills taken were not meth when he was arrested at the Los Angeles airport, that he has lied previously to cover things up and talk his way out of trouble but has been completely truthful on what happened at the airport, and that he had never sold drugs or was not looking at selling anything that he had on him.
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As noted, WWE Hall of Famer Jim Ross did the commentary for the UK Championship Tournament and will also be calling the UK Championship match between Tyler Bate and Pete Dunne at Takeover this Saturday. JR confirmed to Busted Open Radio today that he will also be calling the WWE Women's Tournament this summer.

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Impact Wrestling Creative Consultant to Head of Creative Dutch Mantel, Matt Hardy and Matt's wife, Reby, were involved in a Twitter spat this afternoon. It started with the message below with Mantel quoting a tweet that read, "If Matt knew he had a case he'd be trying to get this in front of a judge ASAP. If Anthem was avoiding court, Reby would let us know."
Link with more tweets and arguments between the sides: http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...xecutive-over/

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How far in advance does WWE plan out their programming, their creative and the touring of their live events?

We are told they have WWE Network plans, at least tentative plans for original content they will create and add, mapped out 6-9 months in advance. WWE touring schedules are usually locked in at least 12 months in advance, if not more. Creative is week to week with a tentative long-term outlook that changes as often as Vince McMahon blinks. Everything can change on a dime based on Vince's call in all aspects of the company.
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Andrew Everett, who was seen working the Ultimate X match last night on Impact Wrestling, noted he's been working with a torn meniscus, writing on Twitter, "Best time as ever... I've been performing on a torn meniscus for 7 months. Time to fix it and come back better. See you at Slammiversary."
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H was excited to see who the first caller would be. Of course, it was Mike Johnson! H said Adam just gave H ten dollars. Mike asked for his cut. H said that he should have negotiated in advance. Mike asked about this being Itami’s biggest match in the US. If this match doesn’t go well for him, is this the end of line for him?

H said if this match doesn’t work out, he doesn’t know. He will decide then. He said that he likes to look at things from a positive point of view. Itami went from being a big star in Japan to having a lot of setbacks. Part of it was Itami finding his way in NXT. It happens at times. It’s a confidence and comfort thing. But he is a good guy and has worked hard so when he got injured he felt bad for Itami. H thinks he is a big player and he will rise to the occasion. If he doesn’t, they will discuss it and he will see what Itami wants to do and they will go from there.
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  • Recent episode of the Busted Open Radio podcast show had Chris Jericho as the guest talking about originals plans for the Owens-Jericho feud and his last run in the WWE. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...rsal-title-at/
  • USA Today had a recent interview with Becky Lynch and topics including debunking rumors of her joining Total Divas and the Ellsworth feud. http://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/05/beck...down-charlotte
  • Recent episode of the Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling podcast show had Earl Hebner as the guest and topics including the Montreal Screwjob and chance of being in WWE's Hall of Fame. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...hof-induction/
  • In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, WWE's Creative once had the idea for Christian to parody The Rock and go by the name of The Lock before getting shut down by Vince who thought the idea was really stupid even by WWE standards. https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc..._christian_to/
  • Recent rumor going around the next involves WWE considering the idea of Kurt Angle's first wrestling match back in the company being at Mania 34.
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In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, WWE's Creative once had the idea for Christian to parody The Rock and go by the name of The Lock before getting shut down by Vince who thought the idea was really stupid even by WWE standards.
That just makes me think of Lock Jaw.
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Raw set its third non-football and non-holiday record low last night in the past four weeks, doing 2.61 million viewers on average for the show. The live episode actually did fewer viewers than the taped show from London two weeks ago, which set the previous seasonal record low of 2.68 million viewers.

It was a lock the numbers would be low given how many viewers the show has lost since the NBA playoffs started. However, both the NBA and NHL playoff numbers dropped from last week and Raw still declined five percent against easier competition ...

The key to the show is that there were the lowest number of viewers in the first hour dating back at least 20 years, even below shows on New Year's Eve, last year's show on July 4th (which is really scary when you think there were slightly more viewers at 8 p.m. on July 4th), and even the night of the Trump-Clinton debate last September.

The three hours were:

8 p.m. 2.66 million viewers
9 p.m. 2.76 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.43 million viewers
Some key notes includes same show last year had around 650k more viewers and RAW is currently on a 4 week streak of being under 3 million. Worst is the streak happening before WWE starts their annual lull period usually after SummerSlam.

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The legal situation surrounding the ownership of the "Broken Hardys" characters inevitably came up when Ed Nordholm (president of Impact Wrestling and Executive VP of Anthem Sports & Entertainment) sat down with John Pollock for an interview that aired on this week's episode of Live Audio Wrestling ...

Nordholm also had interesting comments regarding whether WWE is even interested in the "Broken Hardys" gimmick. He claimed that he'd be open to speaking with The Hardys and that they've been offered the opportunity to find an arrangement that would work for both parties, but said that he doesn't believe WWE is interested in their "Broken" characters.

"As far as I know, the WWE doesn’t want the gimmick, and indeed, from every conversation I’ve had with them, I’ve been told they have no interest in it," Nordholm said.
According to the Observer, Nordholm was only telling half the truth since a big reason why talks stopped was due to Impact not actually willing to sell the gimmick and still demanding royalties for its use. PWI and others recently released portions of emails sent by Impact Wrestling trying to prove their side of the issue: http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...s-even-uglier/

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This summer's WWE women's tournament officially has its name.

Triple H announced today that the tournament will be called the "Mae Young Classic." The name honors Young, who the company has long held up as a legendary figure in women's wrestling. She was 90 years old when she passed away in January 2014.

After being in the planning stages for a while, the tournament was announced at WWE's business partner summit in Orlando over WrestleMania weekend. WWE hyped that it will feature a 32-competitor field and that 17 different countries will be represented.

The Mae Young Classic will begin taping on July 13th and 14th at Full Sail University, with tickets going on sale this Friday at 10 a.m. ET. It is being taped to air on the WWE Network.

Jim Ross has confirmed that he'll be part of the announce team for the tournament, but no wrestlers have officially been revealed for it yet.
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PROGRESS Wrestling revealed that they're coming back to the United States for a show at the Elmcor Center in Queens, New York on August 12th. It will be a double-header with EVOLVE, which has a show taking place at the same building in the afternoon.
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What Culture Pro Wrestling announced that the weekly tapings for their "Loaded" shows will be canceled going forward starting on June 9th. WCPW noted that the model for the show is no longer sustainable due to a change in YouTube's policy where wrestling videos have been categorized as non-advertiser friendly. All of the company's other shows will go on as scheduled.
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In a video that WWE uploaded on YouTube, it was revealed that Vic Joseph will be joining Corey Graves on the announce team for Main Event going forward.
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Many people in WWE, including Triple H and Stephanie McMahon, have sent their thoughts to those in Manchester after last night's awful terrorist attack at the Manchester Arena. TMZ posted a statement from the company about the NXT house show that's scheduled to take place at the arena on June 6th: "WWE offers its heartfelt condolences to those affected by this tragedy. We are working with local authorities on the appropriate course of action as it relates to our event scheduled for Tuesday, June 6 at the Manchester Arena."
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CMLL announced today that Maximo Sexy, La Mascara and Bobby Villa have all been fired. Mascara was under the impression yesterday he was only suspended. Maximo and La Mascara were fired for being on the scene when Ultimo Guerrero's car was destroyed in the Arena Mexico parking lot. Because the video tape of the incident came out, there was a significant amount of national media coverage of this. Bobby Villa was not in the video tape but somehow was implicated, but it should be noted that Ultimo Guerrero brought Villa into the promotion.
Link with more details on the incident this past weekend: http://www.f4wonline.com/mexico/alva...ncident-235916

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Ring of Honor announced today a second War of the Worlds tour, this time in the U.K., which they stated would be a joint effort between ROH, New Japan, CMLL, and Revolution Pro Wrestling.

The tour will have shows on August 17th at York Hall in London, which is Revolution Pro's Summer Sizzler 2017 event. It will follow with a War of the Worlds branded show on August 18th in London at York Hall, an August 19th show in Liverpool at the Olympia, and an August 20th show in Edinburgh, Scotland at the Corn Exchange.
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Pro Wrestling Sheet has learned WWE officials are planning to announce a women’s Money in the Bank match for next month’s event … and if all goes accordingly, we’ll be getting the first of it’s kind.

Sources tell us the SmackDown brand pay per view will not only feature the men’s MITB, but as it currently stands they’re planning to announce a women’s match as well in the next few weeks.

Thats right, 2017 is more than likely going to feature the inaugural Women’s Championship briefcase.

No word yet on participants, or if there is any added stipulations, but the fact they are having this match alone is just another large step forward in women’s equality in WWE.

This past October WWE stepped up and featured not only the first ever women’s Hell In A Cell, but also the first ever women’s PPV main event. And just this past Wrestlemania, #givesdwomenachance ended up moving those wrestlers from the pre-show to the main card.
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The 7/7 WWE return to Madison Square Garden, which is a Raw brand event, has officially added a Smackdown match in the form of Dolph Ziggler vs. Shinsuke Nakamura. This will be Nakamura's official debut in the legendary "Mecca"
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While WWE has announced that Braun Strowman is expected to be out of action for up to 6 months after undergoing elbow surgery, PWInsider notes that officials expect him back much sooner. We mentioned last week that Dave Meltzer reported on Wrestling Observer Radio that Strowman is expected to wrestle Brock Lesnar at SummerSlam and will likely return in mid-July to start the build for the match.

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Despite monster competition from an NBA playoff game on Tuesday night, SmackDown viewership was up seven percent over last week. The show averaged 2.328 million viewers.

Game four of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals between the Cleveland Cavaliers and Boston Celtics aired opposite SmackDown for the last 90 minutes of the show and averaged 7.017 million viewers ...

The episode was eighth for the night in total viewers on cable, but it finished third in the 18-49 demo, trailing only the NBA game and the basketball post-game show.
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WWE revealed the participants for this year's Money in the Bank ladder match during the opening segment of tonight's episode of SmackDown.

It will be AJ Styles, Baron Corbin, Sami Zayn, Dolph Ziggler, Kevin Owens, and Shinsuke Nakamura competing for the briefcase and a future shot at the WWE Championship. The announcement was made by Shane McMahon.
Current rumors hint at another MitB match getting announced soon for the ppv involving the women's division.

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Matt Hardy responded to Impact Wrestling president Ed Nordholm's statement and the documents that he released about The Hardys' contracts and the legal situation over their "Broken" characters: "I tell the truth & I don't need to desperately overcompensate to prove my public credibility. My facts will be shared via the correct venue."
Link to Hardy's response: https://twitter.com/MATTHARDYBRAND/s...02944747290624

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The New Day made their first appearance on WWE TV since the roster shakeup on Talking Smack last night.
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Mahal winning the WWE Championship was recognized by Graham Sucha in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
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Asuka tweeted about her undefeated streak: "I respect Goldberg so much. He is amazing. I am honored to be the undefeated champion with the longest streak in WWE history. #WWE #WWENXT"
Link to the tweet: https://twitter.com/WWEAsuka/status/867512342120148993

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PWG officially announced that this year's Battle of Los Angeles tournament will take place on September 1st-3rd. The promotion also revealed the card for their June 16th show (which will be called "Man on the Silver Mountain"):

reDRagon vs. Zack Sabre Jr. & Marty Scurll
Matt Sydal vs. Sami Callihan
War Machine vs. Brian Cage & Michael Elgin
Lio Rush vs. Keith Lee
Chuck Taylor & Trent Barreta vs. Jeff Cobb & Matt Riddle
Jake Crist vs. Trevor Lee
Jason Cade vs. Dezmond Xavier
Link to the announcement: https://twitter.com/OfficialPWG/stat...74957393911808

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A watch party event for Impact Wrestling that was scheduled for this Friday in Manchester has been canceled due to the terrorist attack that took place in the city earlier this week. The company's UK Twitter account posted yesterday: "Due to the horrific terrorist attack yesterday, so close to where Friday's fan event was scheduled, we feel a party is not appropriate. Ticket holders have been emailed. Full refund are being provided and alternative plans made so they can still meet Jeff Jarrett and JB. Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Manchester and the whole of the UK."
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PROGRESS Wrestling announced that they'll be crowning the promotion's first Women's Champion in the main event of their show on Sunday. It will be Jinny vs. Toni Storm vs. Laura Di Matteo in the Natural Progression Series final. Kay Lee Ray will face Katey Harvey the next day to determine the next contender for whoever wins.
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Jim Ross posted his latest blog at JRsBarBQ.com. Here are some highlights:

If he wants to return to work full time:

"At this stage of my career, I am much more interested in the quality of my work rather then the frequency of travel of it which translates to; I am not interested in going back on the road every week as I did for so many years. Working on events such as the U.K. special, the occasional NXT booking, etc are right down my alley and are projects that I get to work with new partners and new talents which is always fun. As I mentioned on a recent Ross Report, I love 'coming out of the bullpen' and trying to throw a few strikes whenever WWE deems I'm needed."

The issues between Impact Wrestling and the Hardys:

"Not overly conformable with official contract info, communications, etc being distributed to the pro wrestling media regarding the contract issues involving the Hardy's and Impact Wrestling. Not sure what it proves or if it helps anyone's cause other than keeping this private, business matter lingering in the eyes of the public. Just my two cents but most pro wrestling companies have bigger fish to fry than making a matter such as this click bait."
Link to the blog post: https://www.jrsbarbq.com/blog/51739

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On this week's episode of Dinner With The King podcast with WWE Hall of Famer, Jerry "The King" Lawler, and his co-host, Glenn Moore, talk about Owen Hart's death, which is 18 years ago this week. Lawler was one of the first people to rush to Hart's side in the ring in Kansas City, after Hart fell from the rafters. They sent us these highlights:

The incident being 18 years ago (6:09 mark of show):

"It just seems hard to believe it's been 18 years since that night. Because that night is still so vivid in my mind. For some reason I was looking around as the promo was playing. I glanced up and was looking around. And as the promo was going, I just saw something. I couldn't say that I saw it; saw Owen actually fall. I just saw a blur."

Rushing to Hart's side (11:30 mark of show):

"Once your heart is no longer beating anymore, I could just see his face turn gray, from the tip of his nose all the way down his face as the blood was settling in his body. I knew, I realized that moment right then, that Owen was gone."

Jerry Lawler also discussed more about the pranks Owen Hart pulled and Jinder Mahal's title win.
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On Tuesday, Nordholm leaked an email exchange he had with a WWE employee who stated that WWE had "no interest" in getting involved with acquiring the gimmick.

Dave Meltzer reported on the most recent episode of Wrestling Observer Radio that WWE is not getting involved because they don't want to set a precedent of buying a gimmick or idea from someone else. Hardy is actively pursuing acquiring the rights to it, and Meltzer noted that if WWE was not interested in the gimmick, they would tell him to stop doing the "Broken" mannerisms that he's been using on television. Meltzer added that it's clear that they have interest in the gimmick if Hardy can get the rights for it, however they have no desire to get involved in the process.
Detailed updates to recent news regarding WWE's interest for the Broken gimmick.


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The Washington Post interviewed Chris Jericho about his tour with Fozzy and when he'll be coming back to WWE. “It’ll be a long time before I go back,” Jericho claimed. “If I ever do go back, if I never go back, it’s fine. If I never wrestle another match, it wouldn’t bother me.” Jericho has made similar comments in the past in an effort to keep his WWE returns from being known in advance.
Link to the interview: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...=.10aa7e211de8

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5 Star Wrestling owner Dan Hinkles told the "Pancakes and Powerslams" show that his offer to CM Punk isn't a publicity stunt and that he may be willing to offer more than the $1 million. Hinkles said that he wants to speak to Dana White about it.
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MLW Radio announced that a podcast hosted by Sean Mooney and "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan will be debuting over the summer. It will feature the two of them looking back at their time in the WWF.
Link to the announcement: https://www.facebook.com/majorleague...type=3&theater

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The 'Broken Matt Hardy' trademark application filed by Matt Hardy in March, has been given an initial refusal by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The trademark refusal was listed as:

"Registration is refused because the applied-for mark, as used on the specimen of record, identifies only the name of a particular character/personal name; it does not function as a service mark to identify and distinguish applicant’s services from those of others and to indicate the source of applicant’s service
According to PWI, Patent Office felt parts of Hardy's application were not valid or tried claiming stuff from Youtube already belonging to others.

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During my interview yesterday with Billy Corgan, Corgan categorized his purchase of the National Wrestling Alliance as "97%" done and that they were working out the final points that needed to be taken care of. Corgan has signed a deal memo that he will be purchasing the brand.

During the interview, Corgan noted that Dave Lagana would be his "partner" on the venture and also noted that Jay Bradley aka Aiden O'Shea and Sherri Shaw, who had written music for Impact during the time period Corgan was President, would also be on board.

One would assume this means O'Shea is gone from Impact, which hasn't used him since Anthem purchased the company.
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During his interview with John Pollock, Ed Nordholm noted that the GFW-Impact storyline "merger" would likely conclude at Slammiversary on 7/2.

Nordholm also noted the company's current deal with Pop ends in January 2018.
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If you missed my interview with Billy Corgan yesterday, he revealed that Anthem's Ed Nordholm had come to him of late and asked him to act as a mediator between Impact Wrestling and the Hardys. Corgan has likely stepped away from that role after Nordholm's release of material related to the situation, including what was said to be pages from Matt Hardy's contract.
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Roughly 20 percent of the tickets sold for the NJPW Long Beach shows came from the local market. That’s an even lower percentage than WrestleMania which is usually 25 percent. It’s another reason why, even though the quick sellouts were impressive, that we really didn’t learn that much about New Japan’s U.S. potential long-term from those sellouts past I expect Mania-level per head merchandise sales
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The reason that there are so many multiple person matches being booked in WWE is that right now the booking is slow. They have plans to heat things up in July and August for SummerSlam and know where they want to go, but really don’t have a lot of ideas for right now, so they’re just using multiple person matches to fill the time.
WWE feels instead of using time to try out new ideas or build up people better, rather just waste time till they get closer to SummerSlam. Same happens whenever this trend occurs in the WWE, usually more-so during their yearly down period.

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The Rusev returning for a title match at Money in the Bank plan also seems to have changed since Rusev hasn’t been mentioned the past two weeks on Smackdown after he was promoted as returning to confront Shane McMahon last week. There’s no spot for him with Mahal now as champion instead of Orton, which would seem to indicate a decision on Mahal wasn’t finalized two weeks ago. Mahal said he just found out the day of the show. There were odds movements from people who got every match correct that started coming in on the Friday night before the show, so that sounds like when the decision was made, although given the reasons for the decision, it seemed logical for a few weeks
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The WWE will be naming its women’s tournament the Mae Young Classic. In a sense, that’s a slap in the face of Moolah, as for whatever reason, after promoting Moolah as the all-time greatest because she dominated the title that she owned and was close wit Vince’s father, they’ve moved Mae Young into the spot of the Babe Ruth of women’s wrestling in their own history. Plus, Stephanie McMahon was close to Young. Much of the tournament will be shot on 7/13 and 7/14 at Full Sail University

An interesting name who was asked to be in the women’s tournament is Viper. The reason it’s interesting is because she was on the World of Sport tapings and WWE up to the point hasn’t had interest in signing those any of those wrestlers because of their existing ITV contracts. Not sure if Viper’s situation was different or they’re going with the idea they can’t be held to those contracts since ITV has nothing going on, or if this is a sign that the project is dead. Those close to the situation say the ITV thing is still alive and ITV is considering several options to work with, with Impact being one of the options, but nothing is going to happen any time soon

Jim Ross confirmed he will be the lead announcer for the women’s tournament shows. Rumor has it that the team will be Ross and Lita
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Regarding Adam Cole, we’re told that WWE has still not offered any contracts to ex-ROH wrestlers based on whatever the legal issue regarding tampering has been that gave them cold feet. That said, Cole did finish up in ROH and on the indie scene, he’s not out there taking bookings like Kyle O’Reilly, Donovan Dijak, Bobby Fish and others are, and the feeling is that unless something changes, he’ll be in WWE, probably pushed as a major star on the NXT brand. Impact is also still making a play for him because they are looking for new hot talent and he’s a free agent. Right now Cole has no signed deal with anyone. That’s been expected for more than one year
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As noted before, WWE has perhaps more television viewers in India than any country. A large percentage of their vaunted social media followers and those who view YouTube videos also come from India. Network subscriptions in India are very small. However, aside from television rights fees, the company makes very little money from India. The merchandise business is very limited and the company has set up an office there with one of the goals to push merchandise. They almost never run live shows in India, and even if they did, they’d be better off financially running the shows elsewhere for the short-term because they can make more money in most places.

But like with China, the idea is that if they can make India catch on fire, because of the population, about 1.34 billion, theoretically that can be a giant difference maker. The company has the theory that social media numbers will lead to more money, but the huge numbers in India and lack of revenue from the market fly in the face of all that, and everything they have been programmed to believe in. So the idea is that, like with most booms, whether boxing in the U.K. or Germany, basketball in China, or UFC in Ireland and Brazil, the key is a native superstar. In wrestling, as a general rule, to draw from a certain demo in a big way, the guy in that demo needs to be the top guy, not a top guy. Rey Mysterio’s heyday in Mexico, when he was never the top guy, does fly in the face of that, but Mexico has a long history of pro wrestling success. India has had some success in different eras, and Great Khali was a big star there, but even so, he didn’t generate big revenue there. But the company wasn’t directly targeting India for growth when they had Khali.

The point of all this is judging Mahal is not whether it clicks in the U.S. If it does click, if ratings and attendance increases, then it’s a success, whether the main event matches are good or not. But if they don’t move, or even go down, it’s not a failure unless all forms of revenue from India are basically unchanged, and that’s a long-term play as well. In theory, there should be at least signs of merchandise growth and WWE Network increases in India over the next few months that can be talked about in late July or early August. Or there won’t be and the social media numbers they take as religion are a fraud religion. It’s all theoretical because just because something sounds like it’ll work on paper in a market you know nothing about doesn’t guarantee success, or failure.
Observer's Dave Meltzer on WWE's long term plans with India and China.


Some other sheet news includes:
  • Titus O'Neil and Chef Inspired Popcorn Company are currently collaborating on a "Titus Brand" flavor of popcorn with proceeds going to charity. https://www.instagram.com/p/BUf0jLABxdS/
  • Sports Illustrated had a recent interview with Sean Waltman/X-Pac talking about him liking Bullet Club, Val Venis once planned to join DX, and Scott Hall helping his career. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...to-dx-but-got/
  • 5 Star Wrestling recently announced RVD has agreed to be in their upcoming 128-man tournament.
  • Emma is currently expected to be returning mid-June after recent medical tests showed the injury to be less severe than originally believed.
  • For those interested in a nice read, Observer's Dave Meltzer wrote an article about the struggles the WWE has had with 205 Live, why the CWC was different for reception, and why the 205 Live model can't be used for the UK show (or rumored Women's show). http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost...postcount=1483
  • According to the Observer, Ciampa ended up making his current ankle injury worse because of the spots done at Takeover Chicago. Unknown at how severe the injury has become. Ciampa is already expected to be taking time off soon to deal with another injury needing surgery.
  • Recent Rumor going around the net hints at WWE currently going after another Joshi promotion to nab their top stars for the upcoming Women's Tournament. WWE is rumored to want both Sareee and Nakajima from Seadling. https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc...william_regal/
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