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Old 02-07-2018, 06:47 PM   #1
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"Raw has become so popular we have had to cut down the number of shows we do, in order to service the fans."
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Currently there are 8,000 tickets sold for Elimination Chamber on 2/25 in Las Vegas at the T Mobile Arena, so it won’t be close to a legit sellout.

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Cena is releasing a children’s book called “Elbow Grease".

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Miz just signed a new four-year deal, locking him up through 2022. With the fans turning Strowman face, the only other big heels on the RAW side are Samoa Joe and Elias. Sheamus & Cesaro have been headlining the house shows as the biggest heels on the card. The Smackdown side isn’t much better for heel depth with Mahal, who was demoted, and Corbin, who they expected to be a superstar by now and hasn't happened at all. Mahal and Corbin's failure to catch on as major stars is why Sami Zayn has ended up being a top heel with Owens for the blue brand.
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Per Wrestling News World this is the planned WM card...

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Brock Lesnar vs. Roman Reigns for the Universal Championship
AJ Styles vs. Shinsuke Nakamura for the WWE title
Shane McMahon and a partner vs. Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn
Ronda Rousey and a partner vs Triple H and Stephanie McMahon or Ronda Rousey vs. Charlotte Flair
Alexa Bliss vs. Asuka for the RAW Women's Championship
The Miz vs. Braun Strowman for the Intercontinental Championship

are the current major matches they are planning
*First time I've used that site as a source, bought a 'day pass' since they claimed to be 'legit'...ya never know...
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Regarding Undertaker and The Rock at WrestleMania, there is nothing new on either front. Given that John Cena is in the Elimination Chamber, if Cena vs. Undertaker is the plan, and it was the plan as of a few weeks ago, it would make no sense to shoot the angle until the Chamber is over and Cena hasn’t won.

As of last week, the plans were Charlotte Flair vs. Asuka for the Smackdown title and Bliss vs. Jax for the Raw title for WrestleMania. However, on TV this week, Angle said that if Jax beats Asuka on the PPV show, that the Mania match would become Bliss vs. Jax vs. Asuka. Last week the idea was that Asuka hadn’t said which title she would challenge for, nor would she until after the Chamber match. This week Angle outright said she was in the Raw title match. Whether that’s a change of plans or they were looking to throw the fans off scent, isn’t clear. They could do a disputed finish with Asuka vs. Jax, because Asuka beating Jax and then Bliss vs. Jax stemming from it, while it can be done, doesn’t seem the best way to do it. Jax beating Asuka to end her streak before Asuka faces either Flair or Rousey makes even less sense.

Jason Jordan’s surgery was a posterior cervical microdiscectomy, to decompress the nerve issue that caused the problems. There was no report on a return date but we’re told that Jordan vs. Rollins at WrestleMania is not a dead issue, but it’s far from a certainty.

Spoiler tag used since its related to possible Mania plans.

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In an interview that was posted on WWE.com today, it was revealed that Serena Deeb has joined the Performance Center as a coach.

Deeb told WWE.com that she'll be a coach for the women's wrestlers and the goal is that she'll eventually be teaching her own class.

After retiring in 2015, Deeb wrestled twice in the Mae Young Classic last summer. PWInsider reported last month that she was at the Performance Center after previously being spotted in Pittsburgh, which they noted was possibly to undergo medical testing ahead of returning to WWE in some capacity.

"The offer presented itself initially almost a year ago," Deeb said. "It was pre-Mae Young Classic. I knew of the tournament and was aware of it, and then I was contacted by the company to see if I had any interest in being one of the talent in the tournament, but it was also coupled with the idea of potentially coming in as a coach following the tournament."

"The tournament was the first stop on the tracks, and following that, I came back in a week in the fall for an official coaching tryout, and following that, it was pretty quickly offered," Deeb said.
Link: http://www.wwe.com/shows/wwenxt/arti...oach-interview

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The subject of Ronda Rousey's contract was probably the biggest news outside of the financial figures covered at the WWE investors call this morning, along with strong hints regarding multiple suitors for the television deal that expires in the United States in September 2019.

Paul Levesque said that they are finalizing the Rousey contract right now and that it was a multi-year deal. WWE will be her priority and will be the first option on her schedule. He said that Rousey wants to be part of the DNA of the WWE ...

As far as the numbers went, WWE produced more revenue in the fourth quarter, at $211.6 million, than ever before, but overall profits were down. WWE profits for the quarter were $4.8 million, although that was largely due to $18.9 million in income taxes in the quarter. In 2016, the quarter generated $194.9 million in revenue and $8.0 million in profits, but the tax was $4.8 million.

For the year, WWE produced a record $801 million in revenue and generated $32.6 million in profits. In 2016 they generated $729.2 million in revenue and $33.8 million in profits ...

The decline in profits was due to a one-time charge of $11.3 million from the enactment of a new tax law, $10.9 million of which was a non-cash charge due to the remeasurement of deferred tax assets and $400,000 regarding foreign earnings.

However, Donald Trump's new tax law change will greatly benefit the company in 2018 and lead to a significant increase in profits. It is a virtual lock that profits will finally break past the pre-Network numbers in 2018.

So while profits were slightly down this year, normalized they would have been up, although still below pre-Network years ...

In the fourth quarter, there were declines in profits of arena events, largely due to running two fewer shows and mostly due to a significantly less successful European tour. Also down were profits in arena merchandise and a slight decline in WWE Shop profits even though revenue in that sector was up.

On December 31st, the WWE Network had 1,065,000 U.S. subscribers, 406,000 subscribers outside the U.S., and 76,000 people getting it for free, for a total of 1,547,000. One year earlier, the Network had 1,033,000 U.S. subscribers, 370,000 subscribers outside the U.S., and 70,000 people getting it for free, for a total of 1,473,000. The outside growth was due to it being available in more places ...

During the fourth quarter, there were 413,000 people who dropped the Network and 377,000 who added, for an overall decline of 36,000. Last year's fourth quarter saw a decline of 41,000.
The most interesting thing from the entire report is WWE's profits still have yet to reach pre-Network levels which shows how much of a money drain its been to the company and why all those free sub offers are not helping. Trump's new tax plan is likely going to be the only reason why the next fiscal report will be able to post a pre-Network level of profit.

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Vince McMahon said she fits in with what they are doing now. Stephanie McMahon said that they’ve seen the women go to main event performers and revenue driver. She brought up the first-women’s bout ever in Abu Dhabi leading to a “This is hope” chant from men and women. The fan response for the women, Rousey included, exploded in terms of social media and engagement. The segments with the women are proving to be some of the highest rated segments.

Vince McMahon said it all shows what the women’s evolution means to them. Stephanie said everyone, including their media partners, have great interest in the movement. The audience demanded it and their women are rising to the occasion with every opportunity.

Triple H said that the increased popularity in the women’s division has led to Ronda wanting to be involved and be part of this globally around the world. It’s just starting to attract women like Ronda in wanting to be involved in WWE.
More from today's investors meeting dealing with the growth of the Women'd division and it becoming a new revenue driver for the company. More details from the rest of the meeting: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...erage.html?p=1

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Evolve on 2/17 in Queens, NY has Sabre Jr. vs. Theory for the Evolve title, Lee vs. AR Fox for the WWN title, Dickinson & Jaka vs. The End for the tag titles, Matt Riddle vs. James Drake, Tracy Williams vs. Anthony Henry, Fred Yehi vs. Dom Garrini and Darby Allin vs Jason Kincaid vs Jarek 1:20.

For Stardom on Saturday night, the main event is Io Shrai & AZM vs. Momo Watanabe & HZK, who are members of Queen's Quest facing each other.

Big Time Wrestling on 3/30 in Altoona, PA at the Jaffa Shrine has James Ellsworth vs. Emma (billed under that name) with Mick Foley as the special enforcer plus appearances by Mark Henry, Tony Atlas and Hurricane Helms.

William Corgan's Lightning One has introduced the NWA Network audio platform. Episode One “Fortune Favors The Brave,” focuses on the famous Ten Pounds of Gold and the man who currently holds it, Nick Aldis.
NWA: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/...k/id1346415923

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This morning, New Japan Pro Wrestling announced CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada & Jay White & Will Ospreay) vs. Bullet Club (Young Bucks & Cody Rhodes) as the main event for 2/18 in Sydney, Australia.
Link: https://twitter.com/njpwaus/status/9...rc=twsrc%5Etfw

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All Japan Pro Wrestling announced its own streaming service, “All Japan Pro Wrestling TV,” debuting in March. The price will be 900 yen per month ($8.17). No other details were given but when it comes to All Japan, one can argue that when it comes to actual great matches, it has the potential to have the best library of any company in the world, since almost all of its great matches from 1972 on were taped, and at many times in the 70s, 80s and 90s, they had the best wrestling in the world. The service will go into effect just before the annual Champion Carnival tournament, which take place between 4/7 and 4/30. This looks to be one of the most loaded tournament since the glory days of the promotion with a number of key outsiders including Naomichi Marufuji, Shingo Takagi and Yuji Hino.
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The never-ending Impact pay issues are that now the checks come six weeks after the appearance and some guys now, since Impact is booking guys for indie dates, are mad at losing their own indie dates where they’ll get paid that night and working indie dates for Impact where they’ll be paid six weeks later instead
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There have been people now openly talking about next year’s WrestleMania at MetLife Stadium (before it was something talked about, but not in public to fans), so one would think the official announcement should come soon
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Currently there are 8,000 tickets sold for Elimination Chamber on 2/25 in Las Vegas at the T Mobile Arena, so it won’t be close to a legit sellout. The Raw on 2/12 in San Jose only has a 7,000 ticket advance, which for this market is very soft. For 2/19 and 2/20, they are doing both Raw and Smackdown in Phoenix. There are combined tickets and such to help Smackdown in particular and the expectations right now are about 8,500 for Raw and 6,500 for Smackdown. The house shows coming up this weekend in California don’t have strong advances. The one thing that is different this year from the past is that January through end of March is the season, where everything is up. But this year the house shows have been well below expectations and the Raws seem that way as well
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The key to Rousey is more about Stephanie McMahon, which is why they want that super high-profile match (and if they can get Johnson, it makes it even more high-profile). Stephanie McMahon is a big star in wrestling, but she is not a mainstream star at all. It was explained to me that the key in all this goes back to what made Vince McMahon a big star, which was the program with Steve Austin, and what made Steve Austin a breakthrough star past being a pro wrestling top guy, which was hardly an interview at King of the Ring or the WrestleMania match with Bret Hart, as legend has it, but the angle in Fresno with Mike Tyson.

Rousey is a major sports star. The idea that she was the single most searched female athlete in the U.S. on the Internet in 2017, a year she never competed and for the most part laid low in, speaks volumes. The idea for the program is to make Stephanie a star outside of just the pro wrestling world.
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The next WWE 24 special will once again feature the Women's Evolution. It is titled, WWE 24: Women's Evolution 2. A premiere date has not yet been revealed. The first WWE 24: Women's Evolution aired in August of 2016 and focused on the Women's Division having a primary spot on the WrestleMania 32 card.

Some other sheet news includes:
  • ROH announced they will be airing a free live stream of tomorrow Honor Reigns Supreme show starting at 7PM EST. https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...tails.html?p=1
  • Edge announced The Drifter will be this week's guest for the Edge & Christian podcast show.
  • As part of recent tradition, WWE recently sent replica WWE Championship belts to the Philadelphia Eagles as celebrations of their Super Bowl win. One of the belts was displayed during the team's championship parade.
  • PROGRESS announced the card for their upcoming Chapter 63 show features a tag team match of British Strong Style (Trent Seven & Pete Dunne) vs. David Starr & Matt Riddle. https://twitter.com/ThisIs_Progress/...78574049783809
  • Daily Star had a recent interview with Braun Strowman talking about the stiff punch he took from Lesnar at the Royal Rumble, being a Big Man wrestler in today's wrestling, and teaming with Alexa Bliss. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...h-alexa-bliss/
  • CBS Local Sports had a recent interview with Edge talking about Paige's neck injury, if Cena or Rock is the better actor, remaining life goals. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...n-ring-career/


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They are right that the Tyson angle put Austin over the edge. But Stephanie McMahon is neither Austin nor is she Vince. She is somewhat talented but over exposed at best, and a complete fucking hack at worst.
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They are right that the Tyson angle put Austin over the edge. But Stephanie McMahon is neither Austin nor is she Vince. She is somewhat talented but over exposed at best, and a complete fucking hack at worst.
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I skimmed thru the entire hour and five minute borefest. Here's Brad's news:


* KO t-shirts are no longer selling well.

* Daniel Bryan is not likely to wrestle at WrestleMania.
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Actually intrigued by that All Japan service. Maybe even more so than New Japan World. I think All Japan has some big years coming up.
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It having one of the biggest growth years of any promotion in 2017. It's far from its glory years (obviously), but it's trending in a good direction, and it's got plenty of room to go before it hits a ceiling, and its classic footage will only help with that, provided they can get it onto a streaming service.

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PCW Ultra on 3/16 on Fite TV has Penta 0M vs. Rob Van Dam for their championship, Douglas James vs. Jordan Devlin for the light heavyweight title plus Flip Gordon vs. Garza Jr., and Swoggle vs. Kikutaro. (thanks to Jake Koch)
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Going forward for the foreseeable future, Josh Mathews and Sonjay Dutt will be the announce team for Impact Wrestling.

One story making the rounds over the last 24 hours is that Jeremy Borash and Josh Mathews did voiceovers for last night's episode that were discarded. That is incorrect. Impact usually does voiceovers on Wednesdays for the episode that airs the following night on Pop TV as a way to keep them as fresh as possible. When Borash informed Impact he was leaving for WWE, only last week's episode had been voiced over. Last night's episode was done with Mathews and Dutt this week. The later episodes that will air from the most recent set of TV tapings have yet to be voiced over.
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The One Night Only "Canadian Clash" PPV will be exclusive to the Global Wrestling Network beyond the usual PPV distribution via cable and satellite systems when it debuts on 2/16. Here is the official promo video for the PPV:

The PPV, which was taped in Ottawa, Ontario, will feature:

*Alberto El Patron vs. James Storm.
*Moose vs. EC3.
*Rosemary vs. KC Spinelli.
*LAX vs. Trevor Lee and Caleb Konley.
*Dezmond Xavier and Eddie Edwards vs. OVE.
*Bobby Lashley vs. El Hijo del Fantasma.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3QuO4AJ4E

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The 2/8 edition of Impact did 294,000 overnight viewers, down from last week’s 319,000 overnight viewers.
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In an update on the Dwayne Johnson action film Red Notice bidding war from yesterday, Universal Studios and Legendary Pictures won the film. They are no strangers to Johnson projects as they are distributing this summer's Skyscraper. Reports are that lots of major players in Hollywood were bidding on the project including Netflix, Warner Bros., Paramount and Sony.
More details: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...otice.html?p=1

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Major League Wrestling announced that legendary wrestler and manager Col. Rob Parker (Robert Fuller) will be debuting for the promotion next month, bringing a "Stud Stable" to the promotion.
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During his media call yesterday promoting Impact Wresting, Impact champion Austin Aries noted he is not currently under contract to the company. His discussions to return began as soon as he was a "free agent" but they initially began as talks of Aries working behind the scenes to get involved to help "right the ship." When the new team became in charge, those talks turned to him returning as an in-ring talent. Aries said he didn't feel pressure being the nucleus of the company as they try to rebuild. He said that one of the aspects of the return that interested him was the ability to continue to work independently and go off to different companies and "collect belts."
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In regard to Rey Mysterio, the word that has made the way among the talents in the company is that the company had negotiated a deal with Mysterio for him to debut, but once Konnan (who reps Rey) got involved to seal the deal, something went wrong leading to the agreement never getting finalized and signed. Thus, Rey's debut was canceled. That explains why we heard travel was set at one point. There was hope of trying to get him to debut in April at the TV taping, but with Mysterio making it clear that he and WWE are in a courtship phase of trying to work something out, he obviously won't be coming into Impact unless something falls through with WWE. The big sticking point with WWE and Rey is that they want him back full-time, but he, at 43 and with an infinite number of knee surgeries under his belt, wants to work part-time.
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Xavier Woods posted a video on his Instagram showing New Day and WWE personality Renée Young popping balloons on a game show set with the title "Who Knows?"

It could be that WWE is filming a pilot for the WWE Network. As previously reported by PWInsider.com, there was a pilot filmed for a R-Truth hosted game show that was originally set to go forward, but was then canceled.
Link: https://www.instagram.com/p/Be6b-MKhNqD/

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New Japan Pro Wrestling announced this morning that IWGP Heavyweight champion Kazuchika Okada and Rocky Romero vs. IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Evil and Sanada in a non-title match will main event their 2/19 event in Perth, Australia.

Also announced was The Bullet Club (Kenny Omega, Gino Gambino, Chase Owens and Bad Luck Fale) vs. The Mighty Don't Kneel (Jonah Rock, Slex, Marcus Pitt and Damian Slater.)
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On Thursday's earnings call, WWE CFO George Barrios said that Facebook was "very happy" with Mixed Match Challenge so far. However, it was also stated on the call that in the 4 weeks since the debut of the series, the show had produced over 6 million views and 12 million minutes watched. The 6 million views would have probably been as of the end of the day on Wednesday. Regardless, that means that the average person only watches two minutes of the 20 minute broadcast
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Emma made her debut on tonight's ROH Honor Reigns Supreme event and was announced as the final participant in the Women of Honor tournament to determine the first champion for the division. ROH announced Emma by her real name, Tenille Dashwood.

The tournament is a 16-woman, single-elimination styled format. Many names are from within the division and some are from the Japanese wrestling promotion, Stardom. Here are the other 15 participants: Brandi Rhodes, Jessie Brooks, Karen Q, Kelly Klein, Madison Rayne, Mandy Leon, Deonna Purrazzo, Holidead, Sumie Sakai, Jenny Rose, Stacy Shadows, HZK, Hana Kimura, Kagetsu, and Mayu Iwatani.
Link with the announcements by Emma and ROH: http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...eigns-supreme/

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Jason Jordan's neck injury reportedly caused changes to the men's Elimination Chamber match at the upcoming WWE Elimination Chamber pay-per-view later this month. According to Dave Meltzer in the latest edition of The Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Jordan's injury forced both himself and his tag team partner, Seth Rollins, out of the match. It was noted that they might have been in there to work an angle to build to a match between the two at WrestleMania.
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Tamina Snuka recently underwent surgery for a torn rotator cuff. Snuka last appeared at last month's Women's Royal Rumble match and wrestled with the injury. She had the surgery two days later ...

Jeff Hardy has been out of action since undergoing surgery for the same injury last October. The timetable for a return from the surgery is usually 6-8 months.

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PWI's Elite section reported Jeff Jarrett is currently rumored to be among this year's class for WWE's Hall of Fame.

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Raw delivered well last night when going against the Winter Olympics, actually increasing over the week before.

Raw had some of its lowest numbers in history in 2016 against the Summer Olympics, but last night's show did 3.10 million viewers, up one percent from the 3.08 million viewers the prior week ...

It appears the 3.0 million to 3.2 million level will be the range at least until the NBA playoffs, which is the next period that usually hits Raw hard.

The three hours were:

8 p.m. 3.28 million viewers
9 p.m. 3.22 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.84 million viewers
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John Cena appeared to reference The Undertaker on Raw, with him doing a promo and calling WrestleMania a place that can bring a legend back from the dead.

Kevin Owens posted a tweet noting that today is the one-year anniversary of the Festival of Friendship where Owens turned against Chris Jericho.

David Bixenspan wrote about a letter Jerry Lawler sent to prosecutors in his 1993 statutory rape and sodomy case. Those charges were dismissed in 1994 as part of a plea agreement.

Drew McIntyre thanked ICW after being inducted into their Hall of Fame yesterday.
Cena: https://twitter.com/totaldivaseps/st...17713316421634 , Owens: https://twitter.com/FightOwensFight/...04468594647040 , Lawler: https://deadspin.com/jerry-lawler-wr...ors-1822790447 , ICW: https://twitter.com/DMcIntyreWWE/sta...83127307800576

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New Japan World uploaded a nearly 30-minute long video where Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi speak about their reunion, teaming together as the Golden Lovers again, and the ongoing Bullet Club split.

Filming for Lucha Underground season four will begin in Los Angeles later this month as three days of tapings were officially announced for February 23-25. They’ll be filming at a different venue than the previous three seasons, and Uproxx got a look at the new location.

Matt Riddle and Tom Lawlor will face off in a semifinal match in Orlando on March 8th as part of MLW’s tournament to crown a World Heavyweight Champion.

Riddle won a fan vote against Jonah Rock and will be challenging for Travis Banks’ PROGRESS Wrestling Championship in London February on 25th.

David Starr vs. Mike Quackenbush is the second match announced for Joey Janela’s Spring Break II on April 6th during WrestleMania week. Janela vs. The Great Sasuke will headline the show.
NJPW: https://njpwworld.com/p/o_original_0002_63 , LU: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/lucha-u...nd-16771024101 , LU new location: http://uproxx.com/prowrestling/lucha...-pics-tickets/ , MLW: https://mlw.com/2018/02/13/riddle-vs...march-8th-bro/ , PROGRESS: https://twitter.com/ThisIs_Progress/...22625237643264 , Janela: https://twitter.com/JANELABABY/statu...28707312848896

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Shouldn't it be the inductee's decision on who can induct him/her into the WWE Hall of Fame? Seriously, the way this company micromanages everything is pathetic.

I think for a Hall of Fame where the person is voted in by a (mostly) impartial group of voters, yes they should be able to choose who inducts them. But that isn’t what the WWE Hall is. It’s a company event where they choose who gets inducted. People have a voice in who want to induct them but the final decision rests on WWE. I understand that too as this is their feel-good celebration event of the year and they want to have a degree of control over how it comes across on the Network. Yes, they are very micromanaged, but they always have been.
From PWI's weekly Q&A articles on why inductees don't get to pick who gives their speech for WWE's Hall of Fame.

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WWE issued SEC filings announcing various executives received performance stock bonuses:

Kevin Dunn - 52,062 (239,233)
Stephanie Lesvesque - 46,963 (38,507)
Paul Levesque - 43,145 (38,507)
Michelle D. Wilson - 42,770 (232,157)
George A. Barrios - 42,349 (231,780)
Michael J. Luisi - 28,398 (30,805)
Casey Collins - 23,622 (27,725)
Basil V. Devito Jr - 13,002 (16,173)
Blake Timothy Bilstad - 10,994 (12,322)
Mark Kowal - 8,358 (9,627)

Numbers in brackets is how much performance bonus they received last year.
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The increase in the number of live events WWE runs isn't paying off as strongly as the company might've hoped. WWE ran more live events in 2017 compared to previous years, but the increase in volume hasn't led to strong increases in profits related to events. In fact, according to WWE's new annual report, sales of merchandise at venues was down slightly for the year, despite more events and attendees.
More details and charts: http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...re-events-and/

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Ethan Carter III in a recent interview with Newsweek talked about what led to his decision to leave Impact Wrestling and join WWE. While Impact has a track record of financial problems, that wasn't a factor in his move, he told Newsweek.

"My decision to leave Impact had nothing to with their business or finances and everything with me wanting to challenge myself to something new," he said on January 23. "Leaving Impact was a very difficult decision as I had six months left on a very lucrative and talent-friendly contract. Anthem lived up to that contract and always treated me with the utmost respect as a businessman and a person."
Link: http://www.newsweek.com/impact-wrest...agement-802632

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WWE Hall of Famer Steve Austin tweeted the following on Ivory joining him in the Hall this year, indicating that he will be there in New Orleans for WrestleMania 34 Week. Austin and Ivory shared the cover of Entertainment Weekly back in December 1999 for what was considered a big score for WWE. Austin wrote:

Congrats to @MorettiIvory on making it into @WWE HOF!!!! I have been a fan ever since your days in #GLOW. Looking forward to talking w you!
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The 2018 WWE Hall of Fame Collection on the WWE Network will go live this Friday at 10am EST on-demand. The Network updated their Shorts section earlier this week with a "Then & Now" Collection on SmackDown Women's Champion Charlotte Flair and a "Playback" Collection on The Miz.

Some other sheet news includes:
  • NJPW and ROH recently revealed the cards for this month's joint promotion Honor Rising event. https://www.f4wonline.com/japan/njpw...-ibushi-251636
  • In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, today is the 21st anniversary of HBK's "Lost My Smile" speech and vacating the WWF Championship due to a "knee injury."
  • According to reports, WWE likely made last minute changes to the main event of RAW due to accidentally spoiling the winner of the Last Chance match for the Chamber. Their ad for the Chamber leaked Balor as the final competitor before it was quickly pulled.
  • ESPN had a recent interview with Ivory talking about being inducted into WWE's Hall of Fame, today's era of women's wrestling, Vince McMahon, and more. https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...notes.html?p=1
  • WWE currently dealing with some online backlash due to their PR Twitter account retweeted an article from far right/alt-right website Breitbart. Also for being revealed they gave the writer ring side seats as possible gift for writing a favorable article.
  • Indie wrestling streaming service Powerbomb TV recently fired one of the co-owners of the company due to issues related to Micheal Elgin's recent sexual harassment controversy. The co-owner was fired after objecting to Elgin matches being streamed on the service while the other co-owner and company did not want to risk losing their deal with Smart Mark Video who helps deliver indie content to the service. https://twitter.com/newfoundmass/sta...57287078719488


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Apparently the Jeff Jarrett rumor has already been killed.
I literally said out loud "Yeah I'll believe that bullshit when I see it"
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Rumor going around the net is Carmella might end up cashing in her MitB case during next week's episode of Smackdown. The rumor teases if she does, it opens the door for Charlotte-Ronda at Mania and if she doesn't, it means the match isn't happening at Mania.

Source of the rumor has been sketchy recently though.

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For the sixth straight week, SmackDown ratings were down on Tuesday night.

Last night's show averaged 2.449 million viewers, the lowest number since Halloween. Ratings have been down since the January 2nd episode averaged 2.720 million viewers ...

This was also the third straight week, and fourth in the last five, that SmackDown ratings were down year-over-year.
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Kenny Omega's match against Cody Rhodes for Ring of Honor won't be the only time he'll be wrestling during WrestleMania week.

WrestleCon announced last Friday that Omega would be appearing at their SuperShow on April 5th. They didn't reveal Omega's match then, but it was confirmed today that Omega & Kota Ibushi would be teaming against Best Friends (Trent Barreta & Chuck Taylor) at the show.
Link: https://twitter.com/HighspotsWN/stat...20485812334592

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Last night’s Mixed Match Challenge currently has 1.5 million views on Facebook, which is in line with what the show has been doing.

Big E tweeted about the significance of The New Day wearing kente cloth this month: “Yes, we’re wearing kente because it’s Black Panther season & Black History Month. No, you should not come for us because you think we’re being divisive & schismatic. Yes, we’re going to take some time to acknowledge our dreads, our Afro puffs, and our chocolatey skin.”

In court documents filed in Ford’s lawsuit against John Cena, Cena claimed that there was nothing in the contract he signed that prevented him from selling a rare Ford GT he bought within 24 months after the sale. Ford alleges that Cena profited off of the car and wasn’t allowed to sell it within two years after being selected in the application process.

Titus O’Neil tweeted that he’s in the process of writing a book.
Big E: https://twitter.com/WWEBigE/status/963810934367113216 , Cena: http://www.tmz.com/2018/02/13/john-c...ercar-lawsuit/ , Titus: https://twitter.com/TitusONeilWWE/st...97427965071361

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PWG announced that Matt Sydal is off their Neon Knights show on Friday due to injury. Brody King will make his PWG debut and sub in for Sydal against Adam Brooks.

ROH uploaded Tenille Dashwood’s in-ring debut for the promotion on YouTube. Dashwood teamed with Mandy Leon against Stacy Shadows & Kelly Klein.

Jeff Cobb posted a picture on Instagram teasing that he was backstage at SmackDown last night.

In his autobiography, Gedo wrote about meeting Jericho and how hard Jericho has worked throughout his career.

Jonah Rock is set to make his PROGRESS Wrestling debut against Zack Sabre Jr. in London on February 25th.
PWG: https://twitter.com/OfficialPWG/stat...11755187290112 , ROH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-jABzaKrik , Cobb: https://www.instagram.com/p/BfL2rPGle6C/ , Gedo: https://twitter.com/reasonjp/status/963533598761484289 , PROGRESS: https://twitter.com/ThisIs_Progress/...50594728505344

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Announced for tomorrow's edition of Impact Wrestling is Sami Callihan vs. Bobby Lashley. Lashley, who has departed the company, is now contractually free to appear anywhere he chooses.

There's been talk of late that former ECW live events booker Greg Bagarozy could be coming in to help book venues for Impact. We are told that Impact Wrestling Director Michael Vedder has suggested Bagarozy for the role. A lot of people have been praising Vedder's work since he came back in to the company.

We have gotten a few questions on how the NWA is able to use TNA/Impact footage on their videos. There is some sort of working relationships between the two sides stemming out of Anthem's settlement with Billy Corgan last year. The two sides have mad multiple meetings about how Anthem and the NWA can work together, but Corgan has had those discussions with lots of other companies as well.
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The questions about Corgan sparked this, however. It felll through the cracks at the time, but PWInsider.com has confirmed that the lawsuit brought against Impact Wrestling last year by Fraley International, LLC ended in September 2017 with a ruling brought against Impact. Fraley had sued TNA Entertainment, LLC so it does not appear that current owner Anthem Sports and Entertainment was on hook for the judgment. Fraley International, which handles importation of merchandise from overseas, had sued over money owed from shipments of TNA merchandise being brought to the United States after they were produced in the Far East. In Aprill 2017, attorneys representing Impact in the case withdrew as their representation and after receiving permission from the Chancery Court in Nashville to allow them to do so, citing lack of payment. From that point on, Impact never responded or appeared in court during the proceedings, making the case pretty easy for Fraley to win. There's no word what Fraley won or whether they ever actually collected the judgment.
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A pre-trial conference in the lawsuit Flosports filed against WWNLive last year is set for 2/27 before Judge Lee Yeakel in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, Austin Division.

What is interesting about that conference is that on 12/28, Judge Yeakel signed an order referring the WWNLive motion claiming that the lawsuit against them should not be heard in Texas for lack of jurisdiction to another Judge, Andrew W. Austin. Judge Austin has not, to the best of PWInsider.com's knowledge, issued a ruling on that matter.

Flosports filed a motion on 12/22/17 seeking to have WWNLive's previous request for the lawsuit the streaming provider brought against them shut down. Flosports' lawsuit, seeking $1 million in damages, revolves around allegations that WWN, run by Sal Hamaoui and Gabe Sapolsky, had "robbed Flosports" by provided false information that led to the streaming provider paying inflated prices for WWN content.
More details: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...wsuit.html?p=1

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Above is a sneak peek at February's WWE Network Collection. This month includes: Alexa Bliss - Five Feet Tall, Goldberg - Who's Next?, and the WWE Hall of Fame 2018 Class.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3VpCk_BxvU

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Hulk Hogan was apparently considered to appear at NJPW Wrestle Kingdom last month as an honorary member of the Bullet Club, according to a new report from Sports Illustrated. New Japan approached Hogan about appearing at the show, however talks fell apart when Hogan demanded $750,000 for the appearance.
Link: https://www.si.com/wrestling/2018/02...ziggler-salary

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Sports Illustrated reports that Ziggler has just signed a new contract with WWE. The new deal is reportedly for two years at $1.5 million per year. It was noted that Ziggler had always planned on re-signing with the company.
Same link as the Hogan story above.

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We've noted before how the future of WWE Blu-rays have been up in the air after several titles were pulled due to bad sales, costs associated with production and weak support from retailers. WrestlingDVDNetwork.com reports that WWE Home Video distributor Warner Bros. may have taken most, if not all, of the WWE Blu-ray titles out of print. This could mean that there will be no new WWE Blu-ray copies produced. It has not been confirmed that they have ceased production on future WWE Blu-rays as the WDN report appears to only affect the back catalog of titles. WDN notes that there should be confirmation on the status of the WrestleMania 34 Blu-ray soon. WWE has releases a WrestleMania Blu-ray every year since WrestleMania 24.

Some other sheet news includes:
  • Rumor going around the net teases at WWE planning a potential Daniel Bryan match to happen at this year's SummerSlam event. If true, would confirm previous rumors about WWE wanting to medically clear Bryan before his contract expires to entice him to sign a new deal.
  • Recent episode of the Steve Austin Show podcast had Edge & Christian as the guests. https://www.podcastone.com/episode/Edge--Christian
  • Recent episode of Talk Is Jericho had Will Ospreay as the guest. https://omny.fm/shows/talk-is-jerich...-bea-priestley
  • According to PWI, Nigel McGuinness is currently dealing with an illness as the official reason for his lack of appearances recently on NXT.
  • As part of the lawsuit by Ford against Cena in regards to selling a sponsorship car without permission, Cena admitted he has been running out of money and needed to sell the car to pay some bills.
  • Fightful wrote a recent article in regards to the current mess caused by the Elgin situation at Powerbomb TV. https://twitter.com/FightfulOnline/s...22617000243201

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It's really quite sad that Cena is running out of money.
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Quite bellaivable though.
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Hogan wanting $750,000 for Wrestle Kingdom is crazy but also believable
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I dunno, Karl Anderson apparently used to get $750,000 a year. If you had a choice between Karl Anderson for a year and Hulk Hogan for a night, it's arguable that Hogan for a night would be more valuable to a company trying to get some attention in the US.
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I dunno, Karl Anderson apparently used to get $750,000 a year. If you had a choice between Karl Anderson for a year and Hulk Hogan for a night, it's arguable that Hogan for a night would be more valuable to a company trying to get some attention in the US.
Probably not Hulk Hogan now. Too old, and too much of a has been. He's still a legend and can perform in his own way, but Karl Anderson can fulfill dates and be a workhorse... he may not be a draw but you need that consistency. He can shine your big stars night in and night out because he's pretty good.

Hogan's reach is no longer enough where he can show up for a night and garner that much attention. Most people think he's a joke at this point.

Now if you could get Hogan to play ball and utilize him properly on a consistent, then he'd probably be infinitely more valuable than a "mechanic" like Anderson.
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I dunno, Karl Anderson apparently used to get $750,000 a year. If you had a choice between Karl Anderson for a year and Hulk Hogan for a night, it's arguable that Hogan for a night would be more valuable to a company trying to get some attention in the US.
Its just too expensive for a one time appearance considering how small their yearly profits are. Last year they made around $34 million in revenues but net profit was only a few million.

Also if Hogan's time in TNA/Impact is any indication, he likely won't promote the company after his appearance and/or try to get all his buddies deals as well. Think when Hogan was in TNA, he ended up talking more about WWE than TNA in official interviews.
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Rumor goign around the net involves WWE currently considering two options for Kurt Angle at Mania. One involves him & Ronda vs Triple H & Steph while the other option is Angle vs Rollins. In regards to the mixed tag match, Strowman is currently considered as the backup option if Rock is unable to be at Mania and WWE still wants the match done.

In regards to post-Mania plans, Observer reported WWE is seriously considering the idea of pairing Paul Heyman with Reigns. The idea would be for Heyman to cover for Reigns; lack of promo skills as a top star and as a backup in case Lesnar really does leave for MMA again.

Another post-Mania rumor involves Heyman being paired with Ronda Rousey to help with her promos and as a backup plan for Lesnar

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There have been reports going around about Jeff Jarrett being offered a spot in this year’s WWE Hall of Fame. While not confirmed, there was a list of names a few weeks ago under consideration and he was on the list.

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After Kazuchika Okada made the challenge and Will Ospreay accepted last weekend, the main event for New Japan Pro Wrestling's 46th anniversary show is now official.

It will be Okada (the IWGP Heavyweight Champion) vs. Ospreay (the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion) in a non-title match. Okada mentioned there being a history of the Heavyweight Champion facing the Junior Heavyweight Champion when he made the challenge for the anniversary show.
More details and card for the event: https://www.f4wonline.com/japan/okad...-lineup-251776

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Impact announced that its 4/22 Redemption PPV will be in Orlando at the Impact Zone. The original plan was Toronto but they couldn't find a venue that made it work. Impact will also be airing their 4/7 show in New Orleans at the Sugar Mill live on Twitch.

Aaron Frobel (Michael Elgin) filed a suit against "Moses Malone" (a pseudonym) in Circuit Court in Warren County, Missouri, claiming she wrongly associated his name with men who sexually assault women.

Pro Wrestling Revolver announced a 4/7 Pancakes and Piledrivers show at WrestleCon with Jessicka Havok vs. Meiko Satomura, Penta 0M & Rey Fenix vs. Teddy Hart & Jack Evans and Colt Cabana & Marty DaRosa vs. Joey Ryan & Session Moth Martina.
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Xavier Woods noted that his car was broken into last night. He said he doesn't keep anything valuable in there so he wasn't that upset, but that the people who broke in left it a mess, smoked cigarettes in the car and spilled Polynesian sauce.
Link: https://twitter.com/XavierWoodsPhD/s...42430839812099

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This afternoon, it was officially announced that the original lineup of The Smashing Pumpkins will be reuniting and touring. Obviously, NWA owner Billy Corgan is the centerpiece of that legendary musical act so the financial riches that will come with that reunion will certainly be a positive for the National Wrestling Alliance at some point.

Meanwhile, the NWA officially released James Ellsworth's challenge of NWA champion Nick Aldis, which was filmed on Sunday at Championship Wrestling from Hollywood:
Seems Corgan is running out of money again which is why the Smashing Pumpkins reunion is happening according to the band's original bassist. Link to the NWA title match: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ2qW4tMGQs

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As of this morning, the WWE roster has not been informed of any plans to go forward with dual-branding of PPV events.

Although I have not yet confirmed his role, WWE Hall of Famer Diamond Dallas Page is slated to be at this Monday's Raw in Phoenix, Arizona.

Will Ospreay, while on Chris Jericho's podcast this week, noted that he's been approached by WWE about signing but turned down the idea immediately, wanting to stay with New Japan, citing the insanity of the WWE schedule for talents.

WWE Network has been adding new episodes of World Class Championship Wrestling in an effort to fill gaps that exist in the current run of episodes. WWE has at times sought out private collectors to track down content that was missing from the actual library they acquired.
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For the year, WWE grossed $800,959,000, by far its record year, up 9.6 percent from last year. Profits were $32,116,000. In 2016, the company grossed $729,216,000 and the profits were $33,725,000. However, the decline of profits is misleading as there was an $11,284,000 charge, a one-time payment arising from the enactment of the new tax law, of which $10,878,000 was a charge due to the re-measurement of deferred tax assets and $406,000 associated with reparation of foreign earnings. So normalized, the profit margin would have been $43.4 million, the best since 2010, about the time WWE started spending money to start the network. It has come slower than expected, and the growth in profits wasn’t because of the network, as predicted eight years ago. The original predictions of $150 million to $250 million in profits and three to four million subscribers by this point aren’t close to happening and the latter won’t happen for decades, if ever.

For the year, profits on the WWE Network rose from $36.9 million to $57.3 million. The company profits about $3.12 per month per paid subscriber, up from $2.17 in 2016. The increase has been cutting back when it comes to some programming as well as cutting back on the number of PPV shows. Those numbers are actually not completely accurate, because the network division includes actual PPV revenue. In 2017, the company took in $14.2 million from traditional PPV on 16 shows (about 950,000 buys for the year), up from $12.6 million the prior year on 15 shows (about 850,000 buys for the year).
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While WWE has not officially stated the end of brand-specific PPV shows, the belief internally is that is the case. WWE officials told us that an announcement regarding this would be made shortly, which would also indicate the end of them ...

While again not official, within WWE the belief was that, because of having to fit the top stars of both brands, that the former B shows will be increased an hour with two match pre-shows and four hour PPV shows. They will have both shows specifically pushing the same PPV every month and all the top stars would be on it. The negative is a lot of the middle and lower card acts won’t be on PPV as much, if at all. And if they’re not on the PPV, they’ll be focused on less on television ...

It also makes having separate champions in each brand feeling even sillier since the key title bouts will be on shows with the other brand’s title also defended. You’ll have two women’s title matches and two tag title matches on most shows, along with two world title and two secondary singles titles and a cruiserweight title (which is likely to almost never be on the main PPV shows). There will be title matches relegated to the pre-show, hurting their significance. There will be less place for non-championship matches, and to get the top stars on the show, likely more multiple-person matches. Also, there will likely be more matches on the shows meaning less time or more rushed matches. So there’s good with the bad. The biggest complaint on WWE PPV shows has been the length of the big shows, and now every show will be five hours long.
Supposedly WWE is considering those multi-man matches to be mainly for their big stars not in title matches. Would be another big hit for the undercard.

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During 2017, there were 1,803,700 new subscribers and 1,735,300 canceled subscriptions. It would be logical to say that many of those are the same people.
That's actually really terrible for the net gain and a lock WWE is likely never hitting their lofty target goals they were expecting to have hit by now for subscribers.

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Alberto El Patron said he was very close to returning to AAA, and hinted it would be for TripleMania in August. He said he and Dorian Roldan talked things out and reached a verbal agreement but wants it all put on paper
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NJPW officially announced that their Los Angeles dojo would be opening in March. The prior Los Angeles dojo was the home of people like Bryan Danielson, Samoa Joe, Karl Anderson, Shinsuke Nakamura and Lyoto Machida among others

Michael Elgin signed a two-year NJPW contract through the end of January of 2020
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Miz, Rawley and Ziggler have all signed new contracts. They vary from two to four years but not sure which are which other than Miz was four years. So that should end any rumors of Ziggler going anywhere. There was never anything to that to begin with
In regards to Ziggy, his is rumored to be 2 years at $1.5 million per year. For some comparisons, he supposedly made $900k last year.

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With the OIBDA for the year breaking $100 million, stock bonuses were given to many of the key executives. Among them, Stephanie Levesque (as she’s corporately listed even though she uses McMahon in public) received 46,963 shares worth $1,659,569 on 2/12, leaving her with 166,484 shares worth $5,886,874. Michelle Wilson got 42,770 shares ($1,512,347) and has 482,460 shares worth $17,059,785. Paul Levesque got 43,145 worth $1,525,607 and now has 164,455 shares worth $5,815,129. George Barrios received 42,349 shares worth $1,497,461 and now has 434,997 shares worth $15,381,493. Kevin Dunn got 52,062 shares worth $1,840,912 and now has 737,658 shares worth $26,083,586
Going to be really expensive to buy out Dunn from the company assuming Triple H & Steph get rid of him in the future.

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Inside educated speculation is that Mysterio will sign some kind of a deal, maybe in 2019 if not this year, but it would be part-time. It’s possible he’d go to a term deal like Jericho where he’s with the company for a portion of time, and then has time off for his own projects or to work elsewhere. The thing with Jericho was that when he wasn’t wrestling, he’d be doing music or television but nobody thought he’d be doing pro wrestling since he’d made it clear he would never wrestle anywhere but WWE. Obviously that ended up changing because he saw the opportunity for the Omega match, but he had never wrestled anywhere but WWE and presumably was not going to do so, except there were flirtations with TNA many years ago according to those in TNA, but that’s the period he was gone for a long time and not the current period.
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Vice did an article on Riddle where it brought up his issues with marijuana and it keeping him from WWE or New Japan. He said that if the money was right with WWE and they told him to quit smoking, he’d quit smoking. He said he would never bring weed to Japan. “I’m not an idiot,” he said. He said he knows there’s a lot of drinking in Japan so he’d go there and enjoy himself. With New Japan, he had a deal for last year’s tag team tournament, teaming with Jeff Cobb. But Bushiroad, the parent company, found out about his marijuana past, failing tests in UFC and being such an advocate for the drug, that, because marijuana is viewed very differently in Japan, they told New Japan not to bring him in. Riddle himself said that he’s having fun doing what he’s doing. “Honestly, right now I make six figures. I make my own merch. I’m the main or co-main event of every show I’m on. I get to be me and I get to wrestle like I want to. Can they promise me that? If not, why would I go to WWE to probably make less money and be gone more? By the time they do pick me up, if they decide to, I’ll be worth so much more.

Some other sheet news includes:
  • FDA recently announced they have approved a new blood test meant to help diagnose concussions and their effects. More details: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...ncussions.html
  • In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, today is the 14th anniversary of Eddie Guerrero's first and only WWE Championship victory. Guerrero defeated then champion Brock Lesnar at No Way Out 2004 for the title.
  • Recent episode of the X-Pac 12360 podcast show had Sean Waltman talk about Lucha Underground contacting him, memories of Curt Hennig, and being upset at past negative comments he made towards Ivory. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...ripping-ivory/
  • Recent WWE media call with Rusev as a host included Rusev talking about the popularity of Rusev Day, showing personality on Total Divas and on TV, and Aiden English. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...glish-pairing/


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Sports Illustrated reports that Ziggler has just signed a new contract with WWE. The new deal is reportedly for two years at $1.5 million per year. It was noted that Ziggler had always planned on re-signing with the company.

At first I was like what are you doing bro then I saw that they were payinghim 1.5 million to be a glorified jobber and was like ok
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We've noted how WWE plans to debut Ronda Rousey in the ring at WrestleMania 34 in a tag team match with a mystery partner vs. Triple H and Stephanie McMahon.

There are 4 male Superstars still being considered for Rousey's partner, according to Sports Illustrated. Those 4 are, in order of WWE's preference, The Rock, RAW General Manager Kurt Angle, SmackDown General Manager Shane McMahon and Seth Rollins. It's very possible that top WWE officials have already decided on Rousey's partner and these 4 names should be taken as a rumor for now.
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“There are guys inside of WWE that have come to me and said that they have heard Jeff Jarrett is being inducted into the WWE Hall Of Fame. While I have no idea that this is the case or not but there certainly seems to be some smoke floating around. Whether there is fire to that smoke, I don’t know.”
Collaborates Observer's recent report about Jarrett being on the list of choices for this year's class.

Spoiler tag used since its related to potential Mania plans and this year's Hall of Fame class.

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Tetsuya Naito is in the U.S. this weekend for three shows. He's working tonight for Wrestling Revolver in Dayton, OH against Michael Elgin. He's working tomorrow in Chicago, IL at the Logan Square Auditorium for AAW against Sami Callihan. And he's working Sunday in Edwardsville, IL for Glory Pro Wrestling against AR Fox. The Dayton show also has Brian Cage vs. Clayton Saenz, AR Fox vs. Jason Cade, Jessicka Havok vs. Shotzi Blackheart, Dave & Jake Crist & Sami Callihan in a tornado match against MJF & Ace Romero & Moose Shane Strickland vs. Trevor Lee and more. The Chicago show has no other matches announced but ACH, Zema Ion, David Starr, Jeff Cobb and Trevor Lee are appearing.
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Ultimo Guerrero, Volador Jr. and Soberano Jr. were all announced for the 3/3 ROH show in New York at the Hammerstein Ballroom.

Darby Allin vs. Joey Janela in a fans bring the weapons match has been added to the MLW Spring Break show on 3/8 in Orlando at Gilt Nightclub.

Beyond Wrestling announced for its 4/5 show in New OrleansToni Storm vs. Timothy Thatcher, Deonna Purrazzo vs. Matt Riddle and Joey Janela & Penelope Ford vs. Darby Allin & Priscilla Kelly.
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The SummerSlam ticket itself has a number of wrestlers on it including Ronda Rousey.
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Within the company, the talk is that it is inevitable that Paul Levesque takes over and he’s assembling his team in NXT to be ready when that time comes. In recent weeks, Levesque has taken over the 205 Live television show to go along with the NXT show. It was also Levesque and Stephanie McMahon, and not Vince McMahon, who were doing the negotiations to bring Ronda Rousey to WWE. It was Vince McMahon who cut the deal for Brock Lesnar. It will be interesting who becomes the point person for Lesnar’s talks this time out since it would be Levesque’s department but it’s Vince’s company.
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The 2/15 edition of Impact did 300,000 overnight viewers, up from last week’s 294,000 overnight viewers.
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With Eli Drake's contract with Impact ending soon, has there been any interest from WWE in bringing him in?

I haven't heard of any interest in him, but given that he was under a WWE developmental deal in the past, I am sure that if he does become free, WWE would at least take a look at him.
From PWI's weekly Q&A articles about potential Eli Drake goes to the WWE in the near future. Drake mentioned in a past interview the terrible experience he had training under Bill Demott was a big reason for why his previous attempt at a WWE career failed.

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A charity show for Yoshihiro Takayama has been announced that will take place on August 31st at The Korakuen Hall. More details will be made over the coming months.

Takayama, 50 years old, has been paralyzed from the neck down after suffering an injury in May 2017 while wrestling in Osaka, Japan for DDT. A foundation had been previously set up to assist him and his family with medical care.
More details: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...ummer.html?p=1

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A mystery promotion is holding free television tapings from 3/27 through 3/29 in Nashville, TN, offering tickets via NashvilleAudience.com. The website notes that everyone attending will be required to sign a non disclosure form agreeing that they will not reveal the results or details of the taping publicly.

Among those listed as performing for the company are James Storm, Jeff Cobb, Joey Janela, Brian Pillman II, Shane Strickland, Corey Hollis, Aaron Solow and more.

To apply to attend the taping, http://nashvilleaudience.com.
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NXT star Donovan Dijak has launched a GoFundMe to assist victims in yesterday's school shooting in Florida:

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Devastated about the shooting in Parkland, a community that is part of the @WWE & @WWENXT family as we run shows at #NXTCoralSprings.

If you have any money to spare, I will make sure it gets to the victims/families. Please donate, thank you.https://t.co/jh9VI1Ljmg pic.twitter.com/EGwV2TDx2B
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Wrestling INC President Raj Giri spoke with Konnan during today's Impact media call and asked about Mysterio's future, how he's doing and where Konnan thinks Rey will end up. Konnan confirmed the talks with Impact and the fact that Rey will not return to WWE on a full-time schedule.

"I don't know, he's had an incredible year. It was very important for him to leave WWE and do things on his own terms, and he has. I know that Impact has reached out to him and obviously WWE did, and that's obviously a decision that he's going to be making pretty soon," Konnan said. "I hope to have him over here obviously because we have a great history together, and Alberto El Patron is here with the whole Latino movement. At the end of the day, it's who's going to make the best offer for him because one thing I know 100% for sure is that he will never go back on a full-time schedule."
Link: http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...sterio-future/

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A new thirty-minute episode of WWE Photo Shoot will premiere on the WWE Network after Monday's RAW goes off the air. The episode will feature RAW General Manager Kurt Angle. Below is the synopsis:

"WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle gives the inside story behind some of the unpredictable ups and downs throughout his illustrious career."
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Rich Swann has been announced for the House of Hardcore shows on March 23rd in St. James, NY, March 24th in Philadelphia and April 7th in New Orleans during WrestleMania 34 Week. As noted, Swann and WWE mutually agreed to part ways earlier this week. Swann was cleared of all domestic charges back in January but WWE never brought him back from the suspension that was handed down following his arrest in December.

Swann has not commented on his departure as of this writing but he did re-tweet this post from HOH's Tommy Dreamer:
Link: https://twitter.com/THETOMMYDREAMER/...42781803225089

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WWE has a new poll asking fans what they're most looking forward to seeing at the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view. As of this writing, 51% voted for the men's Chamber match with Seth Rollins vs. Roman Reigns vs. John Cena vs. Braun Strowman vs. Elias vs. Finn Balor vs. WWE Intercontinental Champion The Miz and 29% voted for the first-ever women's Chamber match with Bayley vs. Sasha Banks vs. Mickie James vs. Sonya Deville vs. Mandy Rose vs. RAW Women's Champion Alexa Bliss, 15% voted for Ronda Rousey's RAW contract signing and 6% voted for Asuka vs. Nia Jax.
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Sean Waltman noted on Twitter that one of the victims of Wednesday's shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida was the 14 year old daughter of his mother's niece. You can see Waltman's tweet and the original tweet from Vice News on Gina Montalto below:

Rest in peace, Gina Montalto pic.twitter.com/3DUEl6g0op
— VICE News (@vicenews) February 16, 2018

She was the daughter of my mother's niece. She was only 14 years old. ???? https://t.co/iWMmreaVyF
— Sean Waltman (@TheRealXPac) February 16, 2018
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Veteran independent wrestler LuFisto has been diagnosed with cervical cancer.

The French Canadian wrestler revealed the diagnosis on Thursday, which is her 38th birthday, in a post on her official website.

From https://t.co/KrUUxWTXEP... I don't know what else to say. Everything is in there. Thank you. pic.twitter.com/S5NoHRnW29
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WWE's latest poll asked fans: "Which current NXT Superstar is most likely to win a WWE Championship or Universal Championship first?" As of this writing, the top five picks are: Aleister Black (24 percent), Drew McIntyre (23 percent), Adam Cole (18 percent), Andrade "Cien" Almas (8 percent), and Johnny Gargano (8 percent).

Some other sheet news includes:
  • Update to Ziggy's new deal being for $1.5 million per year news as another rumor going around the net claims it is only for $600k per year. Assuming its true and the rumor of him making $900k last year, he got a big pay cut for this new deal.
  • Recent rumors regarding the Iconic Duo getting boob jobs as the reason for their sudden disappearance from NXT appear to have been true. Basis for it being true are new WWE photos of Billie Kay and Triple H stating they needed some final "reps" done to finish their time in NXT. https://twitter.com/ifyouseekcasey/s...73526165544966
  • Deadspin had a recent article discussing Bill Watts firing from WCW and how Watts racist views played a big role. It involved Watts booking Hank Aaron as a special guest to a live WCW event with Aaron unaware of Watts' racist views. Aaron found out later and contacted others in TBS management to see if they were aware. Supposedly TBS was not and Watts was fired within days of the event to prevent a big racism scandal hitting the company.https://deadspin.com/hank-aaron-spar...-st-1823080138
  • While arguing with a fan on Instagram over an earlier post he made stating prayers and bringing God back into public schools would prevent more school shootings, Orton claimed schools also needs to hire former special forces members as guards to kill anyone causing a dangerous situation.
  • 98 Rock Baltimore's Justin, Scott and Spiegel radio show had Ric Flair as the guest talking about who he would pick for a Modern Four Horsemen stable and Randy Orton. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...would-be-from/


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  • While arguing with a fan on Instagram over an earlier post he made stating prayers and bringing God back into public schools would prevent more school shootings, Orton claimed schools also needs to hire former special forces members as guards to kill anyone causing a dangerous situation.

School budgets are shit and were purposely defunded even more over the last year. The teachers have to buy their own school supplies in most cases, yet, there's going to be legislation somehow passed to grant funding to hire "special forces members as armed guards?" I get where Randy is trying to go because he's a proud gun owner and doesn't want THAT legislation to be altered, but the logistics of his alternative suggestion don't make any sense, and I'm not even talking about the "prayer and God" part.
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There isn't 1 thing that will end shootings in schools. Ban gun? Sure that may help but it won't end everything. Hiring old fools to patrol schools? It may deter some people or force more planning but it won't solve the issue.

The problem is everyone just wants to change 1 thing and that won't fix the issue entirely.
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You shouldn’t need an armed guard in a school.
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Especially if you have enough prayer and God.
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You shouldn’t need an armed guard in a school.
There shouldn't be a need for nuclear weapons also.
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I don't know about special forces but maybe the National Guard haveing a post in schools. Might help with recruiting as well. Agree not 1 thing will stop it either but I think the media needs to reassess how they cover these shootings and giving these kids the attention they seek.
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Seth Rollins tweeted about wrestling in last night’s gauntlet match: “It’s nights like these when I remember why I fell in love with professional wrestling. Thank you to the men I shared the ring with this evening. It was truly special. I’ve drawn a line in the sand... #MONDAYNIGHTROLLINS #WrestleMania.” Rollins was in the match for an hour and five minutes and pinned Roman Reigns and John Cena back to back, and the entire thing lasted for nearly two hours if you consider it one match.
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PWInsider reported that DDP was brought to Raw last night to film material for the upcoming Randy Savage unreleased matches DVD and other projects. Bayley tweeted a picture of her, DDP, Corey Graves, and Sean Mooney filming for the Savage DVD.
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Luke Gallows told Sky Sports that he hopes The Young Bucks come to WWE one day and that he thinks they owe it to themselves to: “This is the pinnacle. It doesn't get bigger than this. There's no bigger worldwide stage than WWE. So I think The Young Bucks owe it to themselves to come out here and thrive. Japan is a great place to wrestle but WWE is a worldwide platform and you can't beat that. Their reach is all across the world."
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After these matches were set up at their most recent round of television tapings, ROH confirmed that Dalton Castle will defend his World Championship against Jay Lethal in the main event of their 16th Anniversary PPV in Las Vegas on March 9th and The Briscoes will challenge for Motor City Machine Guns’ Tag Team titles.

PWG’s next event will be called “Time is a Flat Circle” and will take place on March 23rd. NJPW’s show in Long Beach takes place two days later on the 25th.

Pro Wrestling Elite noted that Wolfgang is off their March 17th show due to his commitments with WWE.

Matt Riddle will challenge for Zack Sabre Jr.’s EVOLVE Championship in New Orleans on April 5th.

Revolution Pro Wrestling also announced that ZSJ will defend his Undisputed British Heavyweight Championship against Tomohiro Ishii at their WrestleMania week event on April 6th.

In an announcement video that was really well done, WALTER vs. Pierre Carl Ouellet was revealed for Joey Janela’s Spring Break II on April 6th.

James Ellsworth is creating an Intergender Championship title belt.

ROH announced Cody Rhodes vs. Flip Gordon for Manhattan Mayhem on March 3rd. Fan will vote on the stipulation, with the three options being lumberjack match, two-out-of-three falls, and Gordon gets booked on Cody and The Young Bucks’ “All In” show if he wins.
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EVIL is off New Japan's anniversary show next month due to injury.

New Japan announced this evening that EVIL is out of action due to a left broken orbital bone, which likely happened during the New Japan tour that took place in Australia. As a result, he will miss the upcoming anniversary show on March 6th.

Originally scheduled to be IWGP Tag Team Champions EVIL & SANADA vs. Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI in a non-title match, SANADA will instead take on YOSHI-HASHI in a singles bout. Hirooki Goto has been moved down the card, now teaming with fellow CHAOS members Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano to take on Juice Robinson, David Finlay & Toa Henare in a six-man tag team match.
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Impact Wrestling announced today that the 3/4 Twitch taping being produced in conjunction with Destiny Wrestling has been titled "Last Chancery" and will be headlined by Impact champion Austin Aries vs. Kongo Kong vs. Matt Sydal. Also scheduled for that show is Alberto el Patron vs. Moose, Trevor Lee vs. Josh Alexander and KC Spinelli vs. Allie. The show will debut on Twitch on 3/9.

The next Twitch special will then be the live event from Wrestlecon in New Orleans on 4/6.
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The book will be co-authored by Kenny Casanova, who did an amazing job on the Kamala autobiography that was released several years ago as well as the Brutus Beefcake book that was just released. Casanova has also worked on books for Vader and Dangerous Danny Davis that are also slated to be released in 2018.
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John Cena's pinfall loss to Seth Rollins in the Gauntlet Match on last night's RAW was just the 15th time that Cena has lost a WWE TV match clean. This was also the first time that Cena has lost clean on RAW since his loss to Triple H on October 10th, 2009.
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As noted, Richard Rodriguez, former owner of the Iron Addicts Gym in Miami, was interviewed by Jon Bravo and revealed that Roman Reigns was one of his clients in a steroid distribution ring. His gym was raided in February of 2017, and Rodriguez is now serving time in prison. Rodriguez agreed to inform Bravo of these inner-workings to clear his name and inform others of who else was involved in the distribution. Reigns was also one of three people named in order for Rodriguez to get a better plea deal ...

In a following video, Rodriguez said that he will provide snippets of proof via text messages, tracking numbers and addresses where products were shipped that will be tied to each of the accused culprits. Rodriguez added, "That information with us communicating with Roman via text messages will be provided to the appropriate party, which will then be disclosed prior to our documentary that's going to be filmed soon."

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  • RAW's viewership and ratings numbers are delayed due to Monday being President Day holiday.
  • Indie promotion AAW is currently dealing with online backlash regarding booking Micheal Elgin to a show and refusing to tell anyone about it beforehand. Previously the company stated Elgin was blacklisted due to his legal issues, then claimed they had to book Elgin because he brought Naito for last weekend's show, and then the owner claim after the show it was all a lie and Naito's situation played no role in it. After getting called out on the mess, AAW promised again they will no longer book Elgin for future shows.
  • For those interested, the entire content listing for the upcoming Hardy Boyz DVD set was revealed recently. https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...-boyz-dvd.html
  • In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, Seth Rollins set a new record last night for longest time in a wrestling match in RAW history at 1 hour and 5 minutes.
  • The Phoenix New Times had a recent interview with Becky Lynch talking about WWE's Women's division, thoughts on Ronda Rousey, if she wants to face Ronda in a match, and more. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...-ronda-rousey/


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The 107 minute gauntlet match proved to be a major ratings success on Monday night with 3.27 million viewers going against the Olympics ...

It was a huge victory for proponents of long matches on television and also likely shocked a lot of people.

The show fell hard, losing 20 percent of the audience after the second hour, which is one of the largest second-to-third hour drops on record. But that was to be expected ...

The three hours were:

8 p.m. 3.52 million viewers
9 p.m. 3.51 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.82 million viewers
In terms of comparisons, higher by around 177K from last week and 67k from same week last year. 3rd hour still contining the streak of being under 3 million for a Road to Mania though.

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Aiden English wrote a tribute to Eddie Guerrero after visiting a street mural of Guerrero in El Paso, Texas. English is married to Guerrero’s daughter Shaul.

Rusev tweeted about he and Lana not being on SmackDown for two straight weeks: “In case you missed us the past 2 weeks on #SmackDownLIVE here we are. Your chants are ‘DULY’ noted”

The Usos and The Young Bucks would both like to face each other at some point in their careers.

Fast Company named WWE as its third most innovative company in Hollywood, coming in behind Marvel Studios and Netflix.
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As of this morning, ROH had sold 4,621 tickets for Supercard of Honor XII in New Orleans.

Tetsuya Naito did an in-character interview with Tokyo Sports where he complained about being booked against Taichi at NJPW’s 46th Anniversary event: “I actually rate Taichi, a bit. But I won MVP two years in a row, right? And I just beat him (at Takataichimania) anyway? Why not have YOSHI-HASHI face Taichi, and then the winner faces me? Just chucking people at me for no reason, expectations get raised, and then they lose, obviously. It’s bad for them, if anything. They need to stop throwing matches together at random.”

When asked if All In would be televised in any form, Cody Rhodes noted that it depends on initial ticket sales.

Also on the All In front, CM Punk trolled his Twitter followers last night by posting that a lot of people have been asking him if he’s “in” and following up with a tweet that said “You know I'm in. #EverbodyIn #cubs @cubs,” referencing the Chicago Cubs’ “Everybody In” slogan for this baseball season.

Jimmy Havoc & Mark Haskins will defend their PROGRESS Wrestling Tag Team titles against Zack Gibson & James Drake in London on Sunday.

Bar Wrestling announced Tenille Dashwood vs. Taya Valkyrie and Joey Ryan vs. James Ellsworth for their event in Baldwin Park, California tomorrow night.
ROH: https://twitter.com/IanRiccaboni/sta...19725662887938 , Naito: https://twitter.com/reasonjp/status/966221402045952000 , Cody: https://twitter.com/CodyRhodes/statu...05071053737984 , CM Punk: https://twitter.com/CMPunk/status/966127325652967425 , PROGRESS: https://twitter.com/ThisIs_Progress/...87285653643264 , Bar Wrestling: https://twitter.com/BarWrestling/sta...63990086397952

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A "Smackdown Live special attraction" match between Shinsuke Nakamura and AJ Styles vs. Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn is being advertised for the WWE show in MSG on 3/16. This will be the second time that Nakamura, Styles and Owens have been added as Smackdown talent to a RAW-branded MSG show. It will be Zayn's first appearance at MSG as a main roster talent. He appeared in 2014 while being NXT champion wrestling against Adrian Neville.
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Dalton Castle and Volador Jr. vs. Jay Lethal and Ultimo Guerrero has been added to ROH's Manhattan Mayhem on 3/3.
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Samir Singh posted this video of him walking on his injured knee. He is making progress from his ACL tear.

4 weeks post op and my leg is alive... #KeepMovingForward pic.twitter.com/UQi3ffLQ0g
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Officially announced for the Ring of Honor Anniversary PPV in Las Vegas are:
*ROH champion Dalton Castle vs. Jay Lethal.
*ROH Tag Team champions The Motor City Machineguns vs. The Briscoes.
*Marty Scurll vs. Punishment Martinez.

The show will air through all traditional PPV outlets as well as part of a VIP membership to ROH's new streaming service #Honorclub, which you can subscribe to at www.ROHWrestling.com.

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NXT losing money is really interesting to me. It hasn't really produced a bunch of from-scratch stars. It seems to me quite ineffective. Also interesting is the apparent re-focusing on Seth Rollins. I don't expect them to deviate from the plan, because wins and losses mean nothing to them, but the idea of Seth Rollins winning the Elimination Chamber and being re-focused on as a top babyface star is somewhat refreshing. Roman Reigns can be the guy that teams with Ronda Rousey, considering that match will probably get the most media attention. Brock seems to have no problem working with Rollins and the two could have a tremendous match. Fans also have less problem cheering Rollins, and it seems like he sells a ton of merch and could very easily be presented as that top babyface figure for a while.
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Spoiler tag used since its related to the rumored remaining members of this year's WWE Hall of Fame class.

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After six straight weeks of declining viewership, SmackDown rebounded on Tuesday night with a seven percent increase from the previous week and had its biggest audience since the January 2nd episode. The show averaged 2.613 million viewers ...

It wasn't all good news, though, as SmackDown was down year-over-year for the fourth straight week. Conversely, Raw has been up from the previous year the last two Mondays and three of the last five weeks.
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The first major program built out of Being the Elite, with Cody vs. Kenny Omega, has its first meeting late tonight (early tomorrow) at Korakuen Hall with a six-man tag main event of Cody & Marty Scurll & Hangman Page vs. Omega & Kota Ibushi & Chase Owens. There is also a Cody & Scurll vs. Omega & Ibushi tag team match on the second show of the tour which takes place on Saturday in Japan.

Lou Thesz, Pedro Morales, Bearcat Wright, announcer Dick Lane, Chavo & Mando & Hector Guerrero and The Assassins (Jody Hamilton & Tom Renesto) were elected to the Los Angeles Wrestling Hall of Fame.

River City Wrestling on 3/2 in Kirby, TX at Turner Club features Abyss vs. Michael Faith, plus Jeff Jarrett will appear as a referee.

WrestleCircus announced for 3/24 in Austin, TX will have Tessa Blanchard vs. Chelsea Green for the women's title plus Teddy Hart, Andrew Everett, Zachary Wentz, Shane Strickland, Myron Reed, Dezmond Xavier, Leva Bates, JT Dunn and more.

Pro Wrestling Eclipse announced its 3/10 show in Oshawa is off since WWE is running the same night in the city. They will be running 3/18 with Teddy Hart.
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ROH has announced that Cody will take on Matt Taven on the 16th Anniversary pay-per-view on March 9 in Las Vegas.

Previously announced:

Jay Lethal versus Dalton Castle for the ROH World Title.

The Briscoes versus The Motor City Machine Guns for the ROH Tag Team Titles
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I was watching an old WCW PPV and I was curious, as dumb as this is, how the hell did WCW get the rights to OZ for a character played by Kevin Nash?

At the time, WCW was owned by Turner Broadcasting, which had the rights to The Wizard of Oz. There was a decision made to try and use the rights within the promotion, hence that short-lived gimmick.
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Seth Rollins actual wrestling time over his three matches was 62:16, which is likely the longest actual in-ring time on a show for any wrestler in company history since the legit 65:05 time of the September 30, 1972, match with Morales defending against Sammartino in what was called “The Match of the Century.” It was four seconds longer than Rey Mysterio Jr.’s 62:12 in winning the 2006 Royal Rumble. The Bret Hart vs. Shawn Michaels Iron Man match at the WrestleMania on March 31, 1996, in Anaheim, went 61:52.

Cena vs. Rollins, which went 34:22, was the fourth longest match in the 25-year history of Raw if you take them as separate matches, and really you should. There was a 60:00 Iron Man match on July 24, 2004 with HHH vs. Chris Benoit, and a 55:49 length match on April 23, 2007, with Cena against Shawn Michaels from London. There was also an elimination mach on June 14, 2004, with Benoit & Chris Jericho & Edge vs. Randy Orton & HHH & Batista that went 34:33.
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From a money standpoint, for the top talent, the difference in cutting PPVs probably won’t be significant. It could be down, since in the network era, the pay is determined based on what the shows each month did in the pre-network era, and then allocated in a secret and non-existent formula among the talent on the shows. If there is more talent on the shows in the main event position, then the money in theory would decrease. It wouldn’t decrease from the top guys, as the company traditionally always takes care of its top talent. For non-top guys, if there are more people on the show, it would cut down on their money. For mid-level guys who would have been on PPVs eight to ten times a year, and now may not be on PPV at all, or if they are, on fewer shows, the difference will be more significant.
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John Pollock reported that based on the regulations of the Louisiana Boxing and Wrestling Commission, that blood and piledrivers are both prohibited on all wrestling shows in the state. The commission will be having a meeting on 3/7 to determine whether the Canadian Destroyer fits into the category of a piledriver. At press time there was no answer regarding a tombstone piledriver although it would be hard pressed to say that wasn’t a piledriver.

The ban of the move is because there was a legitimate significant injury from the move in a match that took place under their auspices, and they banned the move.
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Originally Posted by Observer
While wrestlers were last told that ITV’s World of Sports would be starting in the spring, we’re getting close to spring with no word at all, so that’s not a good sign. Really, most expected when they canceled the tapings last year and there was no rescheduling that the project wasn’t going to come to fruition
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The fourth season of Lucha Underground will begin taping with six shows taped at the new location on 2/23, 2/24 and 2/25. Because of the way they’ve set up the building, the capacity will be about the same (300ish) as in the old building. There are no places to jump off and the freezers, since its an cold storage building, will be utilized. They are now planning on taping over the next four weekends and Christopher DeJoseph on The Wrestling Guy’s Store said there would be five wrestlers debuting this week.
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The reason Io Shirai isn’t in the Women of Honor tournament is because her eventual goal is to get cleared and go to WWE and she’s afraid working for ROH could hurt her chances
Speculation is whatever caused her heart problems is very treatable with medicine and similar to MVP's heart issues when he wrestled in the WWE.

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Originally Posted by Observer
You can make of this what you will, but WWE company policy when it comes to drug test failures and suspensions are that all main roster failures and suspensions are released publicly, but failures in NXT and of other developmental talent are not
This could tie into the rumor of Velveteen Dream's sudden removal from NXT for over a month was due to him getting busted by the Wellness Policy for cocaine.

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Originally Posted by Observer
Mark Henry was interviewed by TMZ and said that in his mind, for Hogan to return he should apologize to all the existing black talent currently in the organization. They questioned if Hogan would do so. I don’t question it for a second. Hogan would apologize to everyone individually to get himself back in. The issue is the role he would play is one in P.R., and it’s not good if somebody is out doing P.R. for a company and it leads to media stories that bring up sex tapes and racial things, and also, if any sponsors will question it or look the other way. If they are assured by people that is no longer an issue, there is no reason they wouldn’t bring him back. If there is any risk of either of those things, as a company, it’s best they don’t
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Originally Posted by WrestleInc
WWE shocked the wrestling world earlier this month when they confirmed TNA co-founder Jeff Jarrett for the 2018 WWE Hall of Fame class. Justin Barrasso of Sports Illustrated reports that Triple H is the man who made the induction possible.

It was noted that Jarrett does have some supporters in WWE. The obvious allies would be WWE Champion AJ Styles and WWE United States Champion Bobby Roode but Jarrett is also close with WWE Hall of Famers Scott Hall and Kevin Nash, who are close to Triple H.

Barrasso also pointed to another possible twist in the Jarrett story - his future with WWE. There's no word yet on if Triple H will try to bring Jarrett on to work with the WWE NXT brand, as he has done with Jeremy Borash, another longtime TNA employee.
Link: https://www.si.com/wrestling/2018/02...gler-joey-ryan

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Originally Posted by WrestleInc
Last September, Bray Wyatt, 30, and his estranged wife Samantha, 31, split after Samatha allegedly learned that he was cheating on her with WWE ring announcer Jojo Offerman, 23. Prior to the split, the two had been married for five years after meeting in college. The couple also share two children together, aged six and four. Per a court judgment, Wyatt (Windham Rotunda) was ordered to pay Samantha $14,735 per month in spousal support, with an upfront payment of $50,000 to cover legal expenses. However, Wyatt has only been paying his wife $6,000, nearly two-and-a-half times less than the court-ordered amount.

According to a report from Daily Mail, Wyatt has allegedly been using this money on luxurious expenses instead of spousal support. Samantha claims that Wyatt has been using thousands of dollars to shower his girlfriend, Jojo, with gifts. The report noted that Wyatt "spends much of his time" at JoJo's apartment near Miami.
More details: http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...equired-child/


Some other sheet news includes:
  • Besides Roman Reigns, the alleged steroid dealer from Florida also recently claimed he will reveal very soon 15 others in the WWE who have purchased roids from his now defunct company. These are supposedly a mix of former and current wrestlers in the WWE. Already speculated Brock Lesnar is one of them based on a tag made on a recent Instagram post. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...sion-was-over/
  • WWE's official website had a recent interview with Mark Henry talking about WWE's old developmental system, Braun Strowman, Bianca Belair, Baron Corbin, and helping the WWE recruit new stars. http://www.wwe.com/article/mark-henr...e-scout-mentor
  • According to the Observer, NJPW's tour of Australia is currently estimated to have done better than NXT's tour of the country in 2016. NXT had higher crowd numbers but in terms of gate revenue and merch sales, NJPW did better. NJPW also flat out beat NXT in regards to ticket sales for one of the cities.
  • Also according to the Observer, NJPW is currently planning on holding another tour of Australia later this year. Looking at either November or December as the likely target and more cities included for shows.
  • New York Post had a recent interview with Elias talking about who he wants to face at Mania, Braun Strowman playing a bass, and wanting to do a concert with The Rock. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...ss-on-wwe-raw/


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