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Old 11-01-2017, 07:26 PM   #1
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The only reason the Sin Cara character ended up where it did was because the original Sin Cara shit the bed and they pretty much gave up on the character after that. It’s been three weeks that they’ve actually put any effort into getting the guy over and it’s been going great
But that's what I mean. Hunico has had the gimmick since 2013 now and they've done nothing with it. Four years and however many backstage fights later they decide they finally want to do something with it.
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Old 11-01-2017, 02:38 AM   #2
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With Kalisto being so uncharismatic, I wonder if they are cutting their losses there and going with Sin Cara for the Hispanic push?
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Old 11-01-2017, 08:51 AM   #3
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Kalisto is getting another cruiserweight title match at Survivor Series.
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Old 11-01-2017, 09:11 AM   #4
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Given that they switched the belt back, I imagine Enzo beats him again. Unless they have really given up on the division making sense.
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Old 11-01-2017, 10:24 AM   #5
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I know you don’t even watch the shows, but at this point I rather much prefer Sin Cara over Baron Corbin

In the three weeks they’ve been pushing Cara, he’s already more interesting than Corbin has ever been
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Old 11-01-2017, 07:28 PM   #6
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If they really want to do something they need to give his mask a mouth hole (or give him a Kenny from South Park gimmick).
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Old 11-01-2017, 08:35 PM   #7
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Or they could tape vignettes and have him do voice-overs in them.
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Old 11-01-2017, 10:39 PM   #8
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The 11/1 edition of Smackdown Live did 2,119,000 overnight viewers, down over a half a million from last week's 2,699,000 overnight viewers, which followed the Siege angle on Raw.
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We should have a full report from the show later, but the card for WWE’s first show on the European tour today had Triple H teaming with Seth Rollins & Dean Ambrose against Cesaro, Sheamus & Bray Wyatt in Glasgow, Scotland. The lineups for the tour had to be reshuffled since Roman Reigns wasn't medically cleared to go on it. He was supposed to team with Rollins & Ambrose, though WWE later announced that they'd be defending their tag titles against Cesaro & Sheamus before changing the cards again. Triple H wore full Shield gear for the match after being given a vest by Rollins, who cut a promo trying to explain the logic of Triple H teaming with them by saying that it was a call that he never thought he’d make and that you always need to have a plan B.

The match in Glasgow was Wyatt’s first since being out for the last several weeks with a viral infection.
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WWE is advertising Braun Strowman vs. Kane for several stops on Raw’s European tour shows, including a possible meeting at next week’s Raw television taping at the Manchester Arena.
link: https://twitter.com/WWEUK/status/925752147710480384

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Les Thatcher has also been spending some time at the Performance Center as a guest trainer this week.
Link: https://twitter.com/LesThatcher/stat...19620553506816

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The Squared Circle Sirens website reported today that Impact Wrestling has released MJ Jenkins, the talent who was signed to a deal after taking a LONG bus ride to Orlando to work as an enhancement talent. She had been used a few times but was never really given much of a TV presence. We have independently confirmed the release. Jenkins was obviously very early on in her career and needed seasoning, but something about the company letting her go really saddens me, given that what she was willing to through for a chance got her the job in the first place. That's the type of person you want on your roster. Hopefully she can continue to grow as a talent and rebound.

Although the talk when this round of tapings was moved to Ottawa is that the company was pretty much done with taping at Universal Studios Orlando for awhile, all indications internally are that the January TV tapings will indeed be back in Orlando, Florida.

Talks of tapings in Chicago, by the way, have greatly lessened.
More news and details regarding Impact Wrestling.

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On Saturday evening 11/4, there will be a special VIP dinner for fans with the talents. There will not be an Impact Hall of Famer announced. The initial pitched idea by Jeff Jarrett several months ago was to induct his father, Jerry Jarrett, who founded the company, but that obviously isn't going to happen now. The decision was made to wait on any inductions.

James Storm, who the company listed in a video as entering the Hall of Fame, told us earlier this week no one ever actually approached him about an induction and if they had, he would have fought against it as he feels the HOF should be for someone at the end of their career - which he feels he is not. Storm was at the ESPN Atlanta screening of the Ric Flair ESPN documentary last week.
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On this week’s episode of ‘Dinner With The King,’ co-hosts Jerry “The King” Lawler and Glenn Moore chat about some of the monsters he booked during the classic Memphis wrestling days. From Dr. Frank to Freddy to Leatherface, The King shares some audio and the backstories behind these characters.

The King also talks about the 25th Anniversary of Raw coming up in January and if he will be a part of the celebratory events:

"I’m not really sure. I would expect to be. How could they talk about 25 years of Raw without including me in some sort of way?

I know I’m going to be a part of the Royal Rumble [show]. I don’t know about calling the match [like last year], but probably the kick-off show and all that sort of stuff. “

On early Raw shows at Manhattan Center:

"One of the things about was amazing about it, was the Manhattan Center wasn’t a very big venue. At the time, they didn’t know how successful this thing was going to become. It was in the very early stages. Just an infant being born at the Manhattan Center. And this place was small compared to the Barclays Center. It was a very small venue.

The main thing I remember is having to dress, get ready for the matches, and get ready for the show in the stairwells. There was just not enough dressing rooms. And guys were dressing every little nook and cranny and broom closets to get ready for the show.”

Being in the new WWE mobile game:

"Did a two-hour voiceover. It’s a mobile game. It is awesome. I had a chance to look at the graphics. And it is really good.

I’m on the commentary for this game. They wanted it to sound like the Attitude Era. I don’t know if they are going to use J.R. or who-else they are going to use. I just know I did a two-hour session and did almost 300 lines for it the other day. They are going to have me back to do some more.”
Link: http://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed...-color/2179bd/

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Paige sent out a tweet today thanking Mandy Rose, Nikki Cross, Ember Moon, and Ruby Riot for helping her train for her comeback at the Performance Center over the last few weeks.
link: https://twitter.com/RealPaigeWWE/sta...87104025743360

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The National Wrestling Alliance released episode three of their digital series Ten Pounds of Gold late last night, featuring the announcement that former Impact Wrestling champion Nick Aldis (Magnus) would be challenging NWA champion Tim Storm on 11/12 at a Championship Wrestling from Hollywood event. The episode also features Corgan discussing the importance of the NWA championship and making reference to his attempts to help Impact Wrestling financially.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwnhA2pT5aY

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Big Japan has launched their own streaming service BJW Core. It appears to cost ¥888 a month, which at the current exchange rate is around $7.79 US. Looking at their selection, they seem to currently only have events going back to 2016 available on demand, but will have past home video releases added.
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We noted before that Kalisto vs. WWE Cruiserweight Champion Enzo Amore is now official for the November 19th WWE Survivor Series pay-per-view. It appears this was a late change as last week there was a plan for a 5-on-5 Traditional Elimination Match with the cruiserweights. The match was to have Team Captain Enzo, Noam Dar, Tony Nese, Drew Gulak and Ariya Daivari taking on Team Captain Kalisto, Sin Cara, Cedric Alexander, Mustafa Ali and Rich Swann.
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As noted, WWE announced on Sunday that they have parted ways with Emma, Summer Rae and Darren Young. Justin Barrasso of Sports Illustrated reports that Emma's departure had been in the works for some time as she had significant heat with company officials. The doors reportedly remain open for Emma to return down the line but some see her departure as "addition by subtraction" in the locker room.

Emma reportedly created enemies on the WWE writing staff and made those issues worse with the way she spoke out on Twitter. Emma did have as much respect as an in-ring performer as any other female Superstars in the locker room but her release sent a message to the locker room.

The decision to release Emma, Young and Summer reportedly came on Friday during Vince McMahon's routine budget meeting. The Superstars were told on Sunday before they would have needed to fly out for work on Monday. WWE then made the announcements on their website and social media accounts.
link: https://www.si.com/wrestling/2017/11...-rockstar-spud

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Charly Caruso will be hosting WWE's "Best of RAW and SmackDown 2017" DVD that comes out on February 27th, 2018. WrestlingDVDNetwork.com notes that the set will have more than 8.5 hours of content. Below is the official synopsis:

"2017 saw new WWE Superstars win championship gold, legends return to glory, and moments that made the WWE Universe say, "This is awesome!" Relive every match and major moment from RAW and SmackDown Live and see why 2017 was a year that will never be forgotten."

Renee Young will be hosting WWE's "Best Pay-Per-View Matches of 2017" DVD that comes out on January 2nd, 2018. WrestlingDVDNetwork.com reports that this will be a three-disc set. Below is the synopsis:

"The New Era has arrived and the Superstars of RAW and SmackDown Live leave the WWE Universe on the edge of their seat with The Best Pay-Per-View Matches of 2017! Featuring the greatest matches from Royal Rumble, WrestleMania, Money in the Bank, Survivor Series, and more!"

Some other sheet news includes:
  • Former LAW hosts John Pollock and Wai Ting held a final Review Smackdown episode together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm3kPVIb8lE
  • During a Q&A session at Comic Con last week, The Rock revealed Triple H, Roman Reigns, and Brock Lesnar would be his choices if he were to ever have another match in the WWE. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...ts-to-wrestle/
  • In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, today would have been Bobby Heenan's 73rd birthday.
  • Recent episode of Talk Is Jericho podcast show had the Singh Bros as the guests talking about the advice HBK gave to them, their future goals after their current run with Jinder ends, and the table spot with Orton during the Punjabi Prison match. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...-jinder-mahal/


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Old 11-01-2017, 11:05 PM   #9
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feel like I don't trust that "Justin Barrasso" Sports Illustrated guy anymore... He seemingly made up that story about The Rock telling Nia Jax to walk and that Nia was really unhappy and all this stuff and then Meltzer said none of it was true... seems like a lot of things he posts are just made up wild speculation based on something Meltzer posts...
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Old 11-02-2017, 11:18 PM   #10
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Now that the main event for NXT's next TakeOver special has officially been announced on television, WWE has revealed the rules for this month's War Games match:

There will be a steel cage that surrounds two rings.
A member from each team will start the match, with there being three separate shark cages near the entranceway that the other wrestlers are put in before they enter.
After five minutes, the remaining two members from one team will be let out of their shark cage and into the ring. Following that, there will be a three-minute period until the next team's wrestlers are let in. There will then be a final three-minute period until the last team's members are allowed to join the match.
The match can be won by pinfall or submission once all of the teams have fully entered.

The Undisputed Era (Adam Cole, Bobby Fish & Kyle O'Reilly), SAnitY (Eric Young, Alexander Wolfe & Killian Dain), and Roderick Strong & The Authors of Pain will be the three teams involved in War Games, which is the first time WWE has used the concept since acquiring WCW in 2001.
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We noted before how WWE NXT newcomer Lio Rush picked up some heat online after he tweeted on Emma's WWE departure after the company announced her release on Sunday, along with the releases of Summer Rae and Darren Young.

In a now-deleted tweet that referenced Emma's back-to-back losses to new RAW Superstar Asuka just days before, Rush wrote: "I guess these are the things that happen when you're not TRULY ready for @WWEAsuka"

Rush received strong tweets from Bray Wyatt, Jack Gallagher, Peyton Royce, Dash Wilder and others in response. NXT General Manager William Regal wrote a tweet somewhat defending Rush. Dash deleted his tweet but he wrote, "So busy trying to be a comedian, you forget you're a dumbass." Rush later posted an apology to Twitter but the damage had been done. You can see his original tweet below along with the apology and some of the comments from his co-workers.

The Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports that the heat on Rush was so bad that there was almost immediate talk of the former ROH star being fired from the company. It was also noted that Rush is going to have to put in work to get the heat off of him. It was speculated that Rush would have been released if it weren't for the apology coming soon after the original tweet, based on what sources were saying about the situation.
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Jinder Mahal's title will be on the line when WWE comes to the Manchester Arena for next week's episode of SmackDown.

WWE announced today that AJ Styles would be challenging for Mahal's WWE Championship on the show. In a storyline update, Shane McMahon revealed the news on his Twitter account: "Due to @JinderMahal vicious attack on @AJStylesOrg, he will defend the #WWEChampionship against AJ this Tues. in Manchester, UK on #SDLive."

As part of his program with Mahal, Styles has defeated both Singh Brothers over the last two weeks. Mahal laid out Styles following Styles' match with Samir Singh on Tuesday.

Mahal vs. Styles was always the planned direction, likely for the final pay-per-view of the year on December 17th in Boston. Their program has already started as the main event on the
SmackDown brand house shows.

Styles had been scheduled to face Rusev in a Survivor Series qualifying match to determine the final member of SmackDown's men's division team next week, but whether that will still happen at some point isn't clear.
Link: http://www.wwe.com/shows/smackdown/2...?sf137546722=1

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Emma, Darren Young and Summer Rae are all currently being paid through the end of February on a non-compete deal so they won't be signing anywhere until March at the earliest.
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Devon "Hannibal" Nicholson will be wrestling on the 11/7 Impact taping show in Ottawa.

Innovate Wrestling on 11/11 in Kingsport, TN at the Civic Auditorium with Chase Owens vs. Shawn Schultz in the main event.

Defy Wrestling on 11/10 in Seattle at Washington Hall with Tom Lawlor, managed by Bryan Alvarez, facing Ethan Page.

Tickets for WaleMania IV go on sale at 10 a.m. Central time on Thursday. The show will be 4/5, a Thursday night, at Republic NOLA in New Orleans. There will be a meet and greet, an MLW live podcast and an after party with Wale performing live. Tickets range from $15 to $150.

MLW's next show on 12/7 in Orlando has added Jimmy Havoc from the U.K. & Darby Allin vs. Shane Strickland & ?, plus MVP, with Tony Schiavone and Rich Bocchini doing live announcing.
WaleMania tickets link: http://www.mlwtickets.com/

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Ring of Honor announced the following:

On-Sale Dates Announced For Big ROH Shows In Tennessee, North Carolina, Atlanta

Professional wrestling has a rich history in the South, and Ring of Honor will continue that tradition when the Best Wrestling on the Planet comes to Tennessee, North Carolina and Atlanta for live events in January and February 2018.

ROH will be in Nashville, Tenn., at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium on Saturday, Jan. 27 for an international TV taping; Concord, N.C., at Cabarrus Arena on Friday, Feb. 9 for an international TV taping; and Atlanta, Ga., at Center Stage on Saturday, Feb. 10 for a live event.

Tickets for each show will be available for RINGSIDE MEMBERS on Wednesday, Nov. 8 at 10 a.m. Eastern. Tickets go on sale to the GENERAL PUBLIC on Friday, Nov. 10 at 10 a.m. Eastern.
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For those asking if the stories of a Survivor Series poster that has John Cena being listed as the guest referee for the Brock Lesnar-Jinder Mahal are legitimate, yes it’s true. We reported over a week ago that Cena would be the guest ref for the match.
Image of leaked poster: https://statics.sportskeeda.com/edit...597530-800.jpg

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Lince Dorado posted the following interesting view from the top rope:

Here's a preview! First person view of moves done off the top rope & by your favorite @WWE Superstars! Check meowt! #Plancha! #SSP is next! pic.twitter.com/gKKuafi3XH
— Lince Dorado (@LuchadorLD) November 2, 2017
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New Roddy Piper Film Production
A percentage of all sales go to Doernbecher Children's Hospital.

The 80's was a decade of excess, Reaganomics, moonwalks and big hair. It was also when the WWE exploded onto the national statge in no small part due to the bombastic stylings of "Rowdy" Roddy Piper.

A new film production is now available to stream from Nine Legends director David Sinnott which features never before seen footage of "The Hot Rod" titled: "Roddy Piper: In His Own Words". Dig deep inside a forty year career which was spotlighted in the WWE and WCW as well as the big screen, including the lead role in John Carpenter's 80's cult classic, "They Live".

A percentage of all sales will be donated to the Doernbecher Children's Hospital, a hospital which had a special place in Roddy's heart.
More details and trailer link: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...-more.html?p=1

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WWE has a new poll asking fans how they would rate WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle's performance as RAW General Manager so far, on a scale of 1 to 5. As of this writing, 44% voted for 5, the best, while 29% gave Angle a 4, 18% gave him a 3, 5% gave him a 1 and 4% gave Angle a 2.
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As noted, this week's "Flashback Friday" programming on the WWE Network will focus on 22 years of Big Show's pro wrestling career. Below is the live stream line-up:

* 2pm EST - Stone Cold Podcast: WWE Hall of Famer and Icon Stone Cold Steve Austin has a no holds barred LIVE interview with The World's Largest Athlete, The Big Show!

* 3pm EST - WCW Halloween Havoc 1995: The Giant battles Hulk Hogan for the WCW Title. Randy Savage faces Lex Luger. Sting and Ric Flair battle Brian Pillman and Arn Anderson.

* 6pm EST - SmackDown Flashback, 4/22/2011: Alberto Del Rio throws a Retirement Party for Edge. The Corre find themselves defending multiple championships. Rey Mysterio in action. (NEW)

* 7:30pm EST - WWE Swerved: Big Show becomes a bronze statue, a crazy fan invades the Performance Center, Becky Lynch and R-Truth set up a security checkpoint.

* 8pm EST - WWE Hell In a Cell 2012: CM Punk attempts to continue his historic run as WWE Champion when he faces Ryback inside Hell In A Cell.

* 11pm EST - Beyond The Ring, History of the World Heavyweight Title: The story of the one of the most distinctive and storied championships in the world of sports entertainment and the men who held it.
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WWE passed on signing top Japanese women's wrestler Io Shirai due to an issue they found with her heart during pre-signing medical tests, according to The Wrestling Observer Newsletter. It had been reported that there were issues with Shirai's back but the problems were heart-related. Shirai has been cleared by doctors in Japan for her neck and her heart but WWE doctors advised on not signing her.

Shirai had reportedly been offered a deal at the same time Kairi Sane was offered her contract. Shirai participated in a WWE Performance Center tryout this past March. It was reported that she accepted a deal but the offer was rescinded due to her medical examination.
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Kane is being built for a match with Braun Strowman, and will probably go over Dean Ambrose on the way to that happening in December, according to Wrestling Observer.

Finn Balor will be booked to get his win back after the Strowman match and The Shield will take Kane out before he leaves the company, however.
Current rumored plans regarding Kane.

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All Japan's attendance as of the end of October was up 58 percent from last year, which speaks volumes as there’s no major promotion who had that kind of year-to-year growth

ROH Final Battle on 12/15 at the Hammerstein Ballroom has already sold out

After it became the best selling shirt at Pro Wrestling Tees from day one, Hot Topic will be stocking “Cease and Desist” T-shirts before Christmas. That has become the best selling non-WWE T-shirt outside of Hot Topic

The city of Memphis made the decision to mothball the Mid South Coliseum, which these days is best known as the home of Monday night wrestling in the 70s and 80s. There was talk of a renovation of the building, as well as tearing it down, both of which could still happen. Members of the wrestling community including Jerry Lawler and Dave Brown have campaigned to keep the building open in some form. Lawler and Brown are featured in a documentary that comes out this week about the history of the building which was put together in hopes of keeping it alive. Right now the plans are to rebuild the roof and seal leaks and doors. There is talk of reopening the building as a youth sports facility as well
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There will not be a Raw-specific brand PPV until February. The crazy schedule of a show every few weeks will be broken up at the end of the year. After Survivor Series, there will be a Smackdown PPV on 12/17 from Boston–Clash of the Champions, and then nothing until Royal Rumble on 1/28 in Philadelphia. February will have two shows and then they’ll do the build for Mania

Multiple producers have expressed interest in doing a film on Jim Ross based on his book, "SlobberKnocker".

The angle on the 10/23 Raw show where Smackdown attacked was mostly shot in the afternoon before Raw. The decision was made to do it ahead of time to make sure it looked violent enough and there were scenes edited out that they felt didn’t look enough like a fight. They couldn’t do the retribution angle this week because the Raw crew had to fly out to Glasgow before Smackdown. On 11/7, Raw has a show in Birmingham at the same time as Smackdown takes place in Manchester. The cities are 87 miles apart so they could easily do a pre-tape since the Raw crew will be in Manchester the night before, but couldn’t do it on the live show itself unless they wait until the 11/14 show in Charlotte
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The ten most-watched shows this past week on the WWE Network were: 1. Table for 3 with The Shield; 2. TLC PPV; 3. Ride Along with The Shield, Banks & Bayley; 4. NXT; 5. 205 Live (the second straight week this show has finished well above what it had been doing); 6. Hell in a Cell PPV; 7. Story Time episode 5; 8. WCW Halloween Havoc 1995; 9. WrestleMania 33; 10. Halloween Havoc 1994
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The key for growth going forward, with the network seemingly hitting a plateau no matter what the product that is offered, is television. And that doesn’t depend on the product as much as two factors, which are the state of the television, or OTT business as far as people willing to spend upwards of $150 million per year for the WWE contract.

The current signs, as noted last week, look good. Even though the number that FOX offered UFC currently to renew was a disappointment, it still represented a significant increase over the terms of the last deal, and more than USA pays WWE, even though WWE brings in far more viewers.

It is believed the value of UFC will serve as a benchmark for the value of WWE, and WWE is no longer losing viewers at a high rate as in the past, so the fear of it being yesterday’s news and wrestling as a declining industry really isn’t there now. I mean, it’s not increasing unless you use fake stats like social media, but the fan base is more willing to spend more money and the fan base is steady, with the mature total fan base numbers (TV ratings and attendance) declining some, and the newer parts of the business (WWE Network) increasing at a slow level. But last year at this time they were in double-digit declines, and that’s been steadied.

Chief Strategy and Financial Officer George Barrios noted that the current contract with USA for Raw and Smackdown ends on September 30, 2019, while the U.K. contract with Sky (which has seen drastic drops in audience in recent years) expires on December 31, 2019, the same date as the other of the big three deals, with Sony Pictures in India.

He said to expect an announcement of a new U.S. deal between May and September of next year, or more than a full year before the current deal expires. That would seem to indicate a renewal with USA if a new deal is being announced that far in advance, and that they are in talks and happy enough with how the talks are going and probably in the ballpark from a money standpoint. Losing Raw would be a huge blow to USA because they have nothing they can put on that would generate the kind of numbers WWE gives them for five prime-time hours weekly.
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After being initially refused registration by the USPTO back in May for unacceptable specimens/documents provided as proof of use, Matt Hardy (through an IP Lawyer) submitted a new specimen on 10/31.

The new specimen is a promotional poster featuring Hardy as the Broken Matt character appearing for CWF Mid-Atlantic Wrestling during the 'Expedition of Gold' tour.

Hardy added an IP Lawyer based in Nashville, TN to assist with registering the trademark.
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Following the departures of Emma, Darren Young, and Summer Rae earlier this week, another wrestler has been released from their WWE contract.

NXT's Sawyer Fulton posted a statement on Twitter today announcing that he's no longer with the company. He wrote that he worked as hard as possible to come back after being injured in 2016, but it didn't end up working out. He noted that he's going to continue in pro wrestling and vowed to get back to WWE in the future.
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Chinese recruit Leo Gao was released from his WWE NXT contract today, according to Pro Wrestling Sheet. Gao never made it to NXT TV but he was said to be a favorite at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando.

A neck injury that Leo suffered while training back in August may have played a part in the departure. He was recently cleared to return to action but the injury was said to be very serious.
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In a fitting stipulation for their guitar-based feud, WWE announced today that Elias and Jason Jordan would face off in a guitar-on-a-pole match on next week's episode of Raw from the Manchester Arena.
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WWE has announced that Miz TV with special guest Raw GM Kurt Angle will kick off Monday's episode from Manchester, England.
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Manami Toyota, one of the greatest wrestlers of all-time, regardless of gender, ended her career earlier today at a show in Yokohama by wrestling 51 straight matches, including a few against men, in Yokohama.
Every match supposedly had a 1 minute time for the special occasion. First match was a handicap match and the rest a mega gauntlet match not dependent on winning to continue.

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For the New Japan Power Struggle show, it will start 2:40 a.m. Eastern time, but 12:40 a.m. Pacific time. That is figuring the clocks being moved back at 2 a.m., so if you don't move your clock back at 2 a.m. Eastern time, or do so early Pacific time, figure accordingly. The New Japan show is the last major show before the Tokyo Dome. Expect several Tokyo Dome matches to become clear on that show including several championship matches, as well as the identify of Switchblade being revealed and I was told there would be a major announcement as well.
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Also on Tuesday, Fathom Entertainment will be presenting a Ted DiBiase documentary at movie theaters for a 7:35 p.m. showing across the country. ESPN 30 for 30 will do the Ric Flair story.

The Highspots Wrestling Network will have a live interactive show on 11/13 with Kenny Omega, The Young Bucks, Cody, Marty Scurll and Hangman Page called "Ask the Elite."

United Wrestling Coalition on 11/11 in Wrightstown, NJ at Kelly's Banquet Hall. Fans are encouraged to donate nonperishable good items as well as used coats, hats, gloves and scarves for distribution to the needy.
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Wrestling DVD Network reported yesterday that WWE will release a DVD box set that will feature all the Hanna-Barbera WWE crossover animated movies called "4 Kids Favorites: WWE Tag Team Collection". This set will feature "Scooby-Doo & WWE: WrestleMania Mystery”, “Scooby-Doo & WWE: Curse of the Speed Demon”, “The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age SmackDown”, and “The Jetsons & WWE: Robo-WrestleMania”. The set will be released 1/16/18. The site also revealed that two more budget DVD titles in "Iconic Matches" line are on the way for fans in the UK. Bayley and Sasha Banks will be getting their own DVDs early next year. Both DVDs are scheduled for January 29, 2018.

WWE announced that the "Beyond Phenomenal" AJ Styles WWE Network Collection will be added this Monday, November 6.

WWE are now selling mini replicas of the WWE UK Championship, Cruiserweight Championship, and Million-Dollar Championship as well as Green Bay Brock Lesnar "One Way Ticket" T-shirt along with "To Be The Man" and "Walk That Aisle "T-shirts for Ric Flair.
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Impact is gearing up for a lot of media appearances locally in Ottawa over the next few days to promote Bound for Glory and the subsequent TV tapings.

There was scheduled to be a creative meeting last night to lock in final plans for the PPV including exactly what Alberto el Patron's role will be. There's been talk of everything from him being added to the Eli Drake vs. Johnny Mundo bout to refereeing to aligning him with a major heel but nothing had been settled yet.

Shop Impact is running a Black Friday sale the entire month of November, including new One Night Only DVDs as well as Bobby Roode and Eric Young Collections that are now available for preorder.
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The 11/2 edition of Impact did 275,000 overnight viewers, up from last week’s 231,000 overnight viewers.
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Rocky Romero ran down how well his 2017 went, which included a title run and introducing Roppingi 3k (who are already the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champs), now he wants a singles run to finish out the year. In the video below, Romero says he hasn't challenged for the ROH World Championship since Samoa Joe held it, but he wants a shot at Cody. Romero referred to the title as a "belt," and Cody responded on Twitter, "Belts hold your pants up. Titles on the other hand...I'll think about it." ROH then made it official, the two will meet at ROH Elite in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

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— ROH Wrestling (@ringofhonor) November 3, 2017

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I'll think about it https://t.co/qcM4RIKMj2
— Cody Rhodes (@CodyRhodes) November 3, 2017

It's official! @CodyRhodes will defend his ROH World Title against Rocky Romero (@azucarRoc) in Ft. Lauderdale! https://t.co/OuZGUCA1E4 pic.twitter.com/vLlIc3Resi
— ROH Wrestling (@ringofhonor) November 3, 2017
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It looks like WWE will not be signing Toni Storm and Piper Niven, who both worked The Mae Young Classic, according to The Wrestling Observer Newsletter. WWE officials told both competitors that they would be in touch after the finals of the tournament but it's believed that neither talent has been contacted. On a related note, Candice LeRae has not been signed either. LeRae, who is married to Johnny Gargano, appeared in the recent WWE NXT TV battle royal but she's just doing enhancement work.
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Asuka garnered the top spot in the 10th annual Pro Wrestling Illustrated "Female 50." Asuka had held the NXT Women's title for the entire evaluation period (October 1, 2016 - September 30, 2017) before relinquishing the belt on August 24 due to an injury. She made her main roster debut for RAW at WWE TLC last week.

Rounding out the top 10 are Charlotte Flair, Alexa Bliss, Sasha Banks, Bayley, Io Shirai, Natalya, Sienna, Naomi, and Kairi Sane.

This is the first PWI "Female 50" that ranks women who wrestle outside of the U.S. and Canada. Asuka, a 13-year veteran who competed as Kana before signing with WWE in 2015, is the first Japanese wrestler to earn the top spot. Earlier this year, Kazuchika Okada became the first Japanese wrestler to be named number one in the "PWI 500."

The issue containing "Female 50" (featuring Braun Strowman on the cover) can be purchased in print or digital formats at pwi-online.com.
For some reference, PWI weighs heavily on championships and WWE's status as the #1 wrestling company in their eyes for rankings.

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WWE will once again tour the U.K. in May of 2018. Tickets go on sale on Wednesday, November 22nd for the SmackDown taping in Birmingham on Tuesday, May 15th.

There were reports that WWE would be running a pay-per-view in Glasgow on their next U.K. tour, which is not true. The rumors started after Kenny McIntosh of Inside The Ropes posted a photo on Twitter of an intermission sign and joked that it was a UK pay-per-view. McIntosh deleted the tweet, noting that it was causing false reports:

I had it as a joke but the fact it's getting reported wasn't my intent ?? took it down so it doesn't keep gaining traction
— Kenny McIntosh (@KennyMc1985) November 2, 2017

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— Kenny McIntosh (@KennyMc1985) November 2, 2017

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WWE should definitely sign Toni Storm and Piper Niven. Would have to be nuts not to.
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Toni Storm will end up there. She's only 22, so they might just want her to get a few years. Piper Niven is harder to say. I didn't see her work in the tournament. Is she good? They have a few "atypical" women already, so she might be brushed over for those reasons.
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Being on tape doesn't seem to have even made the slightest difference in the audience for Raw last night from Manchester, England, as the show averaged 2.83 million viewers, identical to last week.

The show didn't start out quite as strong, and in a surprise during football season, it was the second hour that was the highest rated. There was a third hour drop, but not at the level of the previous two
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The three hours were:

8 p.m. 2.94 million viewers
9 p.m. 2.96 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.63 million viewers
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If you want to bear witness to WWE United Kingdom Champion Pete Dunne’s next colossal title defense live, there’s only one way to do so: By scoring a ticket to NXT’s debut at the Toyota Center in Houston on Saturday, Nov. 18.

Fresh off making his unforgettable debut on WWE Monday Night Raw, The BruiserWeight will put his WWE U.K. Title on the line against former NXT Tag Team Champion Johnny Gargano.

The match will not air as part of that night’s TakeOver: WarGames live special on WWE Network, meaning those lucky NXT fans in attendance in the Toyota Center will have an exclusive opportunity to watch the title bout unfold before their eyes.
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Prior to wrestling at Survivor Series later this month, Kurt Angle will be in action in Birmingham, England today.

Though he was previously announced as just making an appearance at the event, Angle confirmed in a tweet today that he would be wrestling in Birmingham. He wrote: "Birmingham UK!!! WWE Raw is here! My first 'WWE live event' in 11 years, in which I will be wrestling. #itstrue"
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For the first time since he was pulled from WWE's TLC pay-per-view due to a viral infection, Roman Reigns will return to television on next week's episode of Raw.

That news was announced towards the end of last night's show before Seth Rollins & Dean Ambrose lost their tag titles to Cesaro & Sheamus. What Reigns will be doing next week or if he'll be wrestling at Survivor Series wasn't made clear, with Jason Jordan having been announced as the final member of Raw's men's division team.

Reigns was supposed to return on Raw in Atlanta, Georgia next week and be announced as the fifth member of the team. An angle could be shot to have Reigns replace Jordan, though another possibility for Survivor Series was opened up with The New Day costing Reigns' Shield stablemates their tag title match last night.

Brock Lesnar will also be on Raw next Monday, which will be the Survivor Series go-home show. Raw still needs to confirm the final participant for their women's team, with the storyline being that Alicia Fox wouldn't pick Bayley for it last night.
Rumor right now leans towards a Shield vs New Day match at Survivor Series with Reigns on team Shield to make it 3v3.

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For as wild of a year as 2017 has been for pro wrestling, next year already appears to be following suit.

In a shocker, Chris Jericho will be wrestling Kenny Omega at the Tokyo Dome for New Japan Pro Wrestling on January 4th, 2018. Omega retained his IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship against Trent Barreta at today's Power Struggle show and called out his next challenger after. It was teased that no one was left to challenge him, but Jericho then appeared in a video ...

After Power Struggle, the other matches that appear to be set for Wrestle Kingdom 12 at the Tokyo Dome are Kazuchika Okada vs. Tetsuya Naito for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Jay White (who returned to NJPW as Switchblade today) for the IWGP Intercontinental title, Marty Scurll vs. Will Ospreay vs. KUSHIDA vs. Hiromu Takahashi for the Junior title, and Sho & Yoh vs. The Young Bucks for the Junior tag titles.
Pro Wrestling Sheet reported talks between Jericho and NJPW had been on-going since August and Jericho's upcoming boat cruise likely played a role in why he signed a deal with NJPW. Supposedly he asked WWE first to partner and lend NXT talent for his cruise but they said no. Then asked ROH and NJPW with both saying yes.

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“Nature Boy,” the 30 for 30 on Ric Flair’s life and career, airs on ESPN at 10 p.m. Eastern time tonight. Flair has been all over ESPN promoting it and Twitter has a Flair emoji for their “NatureBoy” hashtag. The special will also stream on ESPN3.
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Bram is no longer with Impact Wrestling, with him announcing in a tweet today that he’s been granted his release: “I've been granted my release from @IMPACTWRESTLING. Thank you to everyone from top to bottom and to you the fans for your support”

ROH announced that Kenny Omega’s match for their Survival of the Fittest show in San Antonio on November 17th (which is going against an NXT house show in the same city) will be Omega teaming with Cody Rhodes against Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian. The Young Bucks vs. Flip Gordon & Scorpio Sky is also set for the show.

Stephen Amell, who is the star of “Arrow,” is friends with Cody, and previously wrestled him in WWE, will be a special guest at Survival of the Fittest in San Antonio.

ROH’s TV tapings in Nashville have been rescheduled to January 20th.
Bram link: https://twitter.com/Thomas_Latimer_/...79660239081472 , Omega link: http://www.rohwrestling.com/news/cod...st-san-antonio , Amell link: https://twitter.com/ringofhonor/stat...49730298503168 , TV tapings link: http://www.rohwrestling.com/news/bre...onal-tv-taping

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The NWA released episode four of their “Ten Pounds of Gold” series, focusing on the different roads Tim Storm and Nick Aldis have taken to their title match.

The first show of NJPW’s World Tag League tour will air for free on NJPW World on November 18th.
Link to new NWA episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeMjSMbJISk , NJPW link: https://twitter.com/reasonjp/status/927438947424153600

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Josh Bredl, who won a WWE contract in the most recent season of Tough Enough, was released by the company at the end of last week, PWInsider.com has confirmed.

Bredl had been rechrisitened Bronson Mathews after winning his WWE deal and moving to Florida to join the WWE Performance Center at the end of 2015. He had not been used in a long time and had not even been training at the PC after what was said to have been concussion-related issues.
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Here's what the partial card for the Dome show looks like as of now:

IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada defending against Tetsuya Naito
IWGP Intercontinental Champion Hiroshi Tanahashi defending against Jay White
IWGP United States Heavyweight Champion Kenny Omega vs. Chris Jericho (NJPW has yet to officially confirm whether the title will be on the line)
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Marty Scurll defending against Will Ospreay, KUSHIDA, and Hiromu Takahashi in a four-way match
ROH World Champion Cody defending against Kota Ibushi
IWGP Junior Tag Team Champions Sho & Yoh defending against The Young Bucks
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They always have Raw and SmackDown in London a few weeks after WrestleMania.

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It looks like WWE will not be signing Toni Storm and Piper Niven, who both worked The Mae Young Classic, according to The Wrestling Observer Newsletter. WWE officials told both competitors that they would be in touch after the finals of the tournament but it's believed that neither talent has been contacted. On a related note, Candice LeRae has not been signed either. LeRae, who is married to Johnny Gargano, appeared in the recent WWE NXT TV battle royal but she's just doing enhancement work.
This is super fucking dumb.
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Toni Storm is very young. They might want her to get more experience. Piper Niven is different, but they've got girls who are a different. It surprises me that they weren't offered contracts, because they love to sign almost everyone, but I'm not shocked.
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After dipping to one of its lowest levels since moving to a live format for last Tuesday's episode that went against the World Series and Halloween, SmackDown was up 23 percent this week and averaged 2.603 million viewers. That number is near the viewership the show reached two weeks ago for the fallout of the SmackDown invasion of Raw.

SmackDown finished eighth for the night in total viewers on cable and was third in the 18-49 demo with a 0.82 rating. The show trailed American Horror Story in that demo, as it usually does, but also the ESPN 30 for 30 documentary on the life of Ric Flair, which did a 0.91 rating and 1.831 million viewers.

That the show was taped did not hurt the SmackDown rating at all, and it may have even helped as WWE itself and several other websites had posted news about a title change before the show aired. AJ Styles defeated Jinder Mahal to win the WWE Championship in last night's main event.
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Though details are sparse at this point, Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn have been removed from WWE's European tour.

Our Dave Meltzer reports that Owens and Zayn aren't at SmackDown's house show in Leeds, England today and won't be appearing on the rest of the tour. Both were on television last night, where they interrupted Shane McMahon and The New Day in SmackDown's opening segment and traded words with them in a promo.
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Pro Wrestling Sheet has learned Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn went against a creative directive given to them before SmackDown last night and we’re told it contributed to them being sent home.

Multiple sources tell us Sami and Kevin were supposed to “feed” for New Day following Zayn vs. Kofi Kingston yesterday, but for some reason they didn’t follow directions and left the ring.

The PWTorch glossary of insider wrestling terms defines “feeding” as: “The heel’s role during a babyface comeback where he runs at the babyface only to be repeatedly fended off, with the hope that the series of bumps by the heel will generate positive fan heat for the babyface.”

Owens hit the ring as soon as the match ended and attacked Kofi as planned. However, he and Sami quickly bailed from the ring. New Day then stood waiting, same for the sound crew who didn’t play anyone’s music, and the segment ended awkwardly when the two wrestlers seemingly went off script by not taking their planned beating afterward.

Since publishing the story on Owens/Zayn being sent home, multiple sources reached out saying the duo have been slightly difficult to work with lately and seem unhappy backstage.

It’s worth noting that they were both close with recently fired writer Jimmy Jacobs and Neville (who hasn’t been heard from since walking out).
Link with the video from last night's Smackdown: http://www.prowrestlingsheet.com/det...ens-sent-home/

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We are also told there was a situation where Owens was allegedly complaining loudly on a tour bus after the taping, which one person decreed was "the last straw following a long few days of touring." Another person who was on the bus cited that Owens was "just venting" and that it wasn't a major issue, but that the situation at TV may have exacerbated the situation, forcing WWE's hand.
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Though he was originally scheduled to referee a match at the show, John Cena will instead be wrestling at Survivor Series.

It was announced today that Cena had been added as the final member of SmackDown's men's division team for their elimination tag match against Raw. Cena will team with Shane McMahon, Randy Orton, Bobby Roode, and Shinsuke Nakamura.

Shane made the announcement about Cena joining the team on Twitter: "Further proving #SDLive is the superior brand, I'm happy to announce @JohnCena will be the 5th member of Team Smackdown at #SurvivorSeries."

Raw's team for the match is currently scheduled to be Kurt Angle, Braun Strowman, Finn Balor, Samoa Joe, and Jason Jordan.

Cena hasn't appeared on WWE television since losing to Roman Reigns at Raw's No Mercy pay-per-view in September. Reigns will return on next week's episode of Raw, possibly setting up his direction for Survivor Series.

In storyline, Cena is currently a "free agent" and can wrestle for both Raw and SmackDown. He was at one point planned to be the special guest referee for the Brock Lesnar vs. Jinder Mahal non-title champion vs. champion match at Survivor Series until plans were changed and it was decided that AJ Styles would win the WWE Championship from Mahal before the PPV.
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John Cena tweeted a message about being added to SmackDown’s Survivor Series team: “I am ready to answer the call where ever and whenever I’m needed. Where? #SDLive When? #SurvivorSeries”

Rusev also posted an in-character tweet about Cena being added to the team: “Congrats to my friend John Cena who qualified for the survivor series fair and square...... go get them TIGER”
Cena tweet: https://twitter.com/JohnCena/status/928329232807317509 , Rusev tweet: https://twitter.com/RusevBUL/status/928279470175375362

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ESPN has full video of their Ric Flair 30 for 30 available to watch online for those with cable subscriptions.

Rory Karpf, the director of the documentary, wrote that The Undertaker brewed coffee and had snacks for their crew and was one of the nicest people he’s ever interviewed.

ESPN’s 30 for 30 podcast series has an episode about the Flair documentary that includes an additional conversation with Flair and Karpf.
Link to documentary: http://www.espn.com/watch/collection...-30-nature-boy , Karpf: https://twitter.com/RoryKarpf/status/928102253399076864 , and podcast: http://www.espn.com/espnradio/play?id=21333568

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Chris Jericho discussed his match against Kenny Omega at the beginning of today’s episode of his podcast. Jericho said he would tell the whole story later but noted that he’s been working on the match for a couple of months, that Omega is the best performer in pro wrestling today, and it’s a best in the world vs. best in the world type of situation with him coming off the best run of his career. Jericho said they’re working on other ways for people to see the match in addition to New Japan World. Later in the episode, Austin Aries made an appearance to discuss his release from WWE.
Link to podcast episode: https://www.podcastone.com/episode/AustinAries

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Today is IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada’s 30th birthday.

Matt Riddle will face WALTER at EVOLVE 97 in Melrose, Massachusetts on December 10th. That show will also have Zack Sabre Jr. defending his EVOLVE Championship against Jaka.

Lian O’Rourke has a book on the life of Brian Pillman.
Book link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1976541247...n+pillman+book

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PWInsider.com has confirmed that Rockstar Spud will be signing with WWE and will start with the company once all the proper visa paperwork has been completed. The plan is for Spud to be part of the 205 Live brand.
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WWE Hall of Famer Edge was interviewed to promote the first-ever WWE Night at the New Jersey Devils tomorrow in Newark, NJ, announcing that Daniel Bryan would be there, among other WWE stars:

Diehard #NJDevils fan and @WWE legend @EdgeRatedR details why #WWE Night at The Rock will be the Game of Awesomeness. Be there: https://t.co/MPRql1Ladu pic.twitter.com/O7wYo8bLJF
— New Jersey Devils (@NJDevils) November 8, 2017

WWE Night takes place tomorrow at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ when the Devils play the Edmonton Oilers.

Promotional material for the evening notes, "World Wrestling Entertainment will take over The Rock with an immersive wresting experience for fans all night, including special appearances by WWE personalities on the concourse, a one-of-a-kind opening video moment, musical tributes and in-game features highlighting past and current WWE Superstars. Special ticket packages will be made available and include a unique WWE-Devils t-shirt."
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The Impact Wrestling veteran and ex-husband to WWE’s Charlotte has revealed that he will be asking for his release from the company following a frustrating year with the promotion. During an interview with Morgan Richards from Radio Cardiff at one of Insane Championship Wrestling's online tapings in Cardiff, UK on Monday, Bram commented on his situation with the company before receiving the release, commenting:

“Well Bound for Glory is today, I don’t know when this goes out but here’s a secret. I’m actually going to ask for my release after today. So Monday morning, the sixth (November) that’s when I’m going to ask for my release. As much as I love that company and ever since I’ve been there I’ve wanted to be there for as long as I can. It’s not the same place that I entered three years ago and I feel slightly stifled and let down by the place. So I’m very excited to be free, be a free agent and see what other avenues and options are out there for me because the last year I feel I’ve been miss used, mismanaged and it’s sort of a waste of a year really when it comes to my career besides doing what I do away from there”.
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Kassius Ohno vs. Lars Sullivan is now official for WWE NXT "Takeover: WarGames" during WWE Survivor Series weekend.

Below is the updated card for Takeover, which takes place on Saturday, November 18th from the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas:

WarGames
The Undisputed Era (Adam Cole, Kyle O'Reilly, Bobby Fish) vs. The Authors of Pain (Akam, Rezar) & Roderick Strong vs. NXT Tag Team Champions SAnitY (Eric Young, Alexander Wolfe, Killian Dain)

NXT Title Match
Andrade "Cien" Almas vs. Drew McIntyre

Fatal 4 Way for the Vacant NXT Women's Title
Kairi Sane vs. Ember Moon vs. Peyton Royce vs. Nikki Cross

Ab Contest
Shawn Michaels vs. Johnny Gargano

The Velveteen Dream vs. Aleister Black

Kassius Ohno vs. Lars Sullivan

Pre-Show Dark Match for the WWE UK Title
Johnny Gargano vs. Pete Dunne
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WWE has a new poll asking fans which special appearance at the RAW 25th Anniversary special in January are they most looking forward to - The Undertaker, WWE Hall of Famer Kevin Nash or WWE Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels. As of this writing, 73% voted for The Deadman while 19% voted for HBK.

Some other sheet news includes:
  • Impact Wrestling announced the host of Main Event Radio will be making a special guest appearance during tonight's TV tapings in Ottawa. Other local special guests were also announced to be appearing at the tapings. https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...ttawa.html?p=1
  • ESPN's current schedule for the replays of the 30 For 30 Ric Flair documentary are November 9th at 8:30PM EST on ESPN 2 and November 19th at 10PM EST on ESPN.
  • According to PWI, Vince McMahon was the reason why changes were made for the WWE championship and Cena's inclusion for Survivor Series. Both were made last week and at the moment, no reason was given for Jinder's removal from the PPV nor the plans for him at it. https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...anned.html?p=1
  • Recent blog by Jim Ross had Ross talk about Bound For Glory's booking, Gail Kim's retirement, and Jericho challenging Kenny Omega. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...g-kenny-omega/
  • Edge revealed this week's guest for the Edge & Christian podcast show will be Micheal Elgin. https://twitter.com/EdgeRatedR/statu...68744899973125


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As noted, Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn were sent home from the current WWE European tour following Tuesday's WWE SmackDown. The two reportedly went against a WWE creative decision, which would have seen them take bumps for The New Day after Sami's singles loss to Kofi Kingston on Tuesday's blue brand show from Manchester, England.

Dave Meltzer noted on Wrestling Observer Radio that the match finish went down as planned but the problem came during the post-match segment. Owens ran in and attacked Kofi as he was supposed to, and The New Day chased him away. Owens and Sami then left together. Apparently Sami and Owens were not supposed to leave right away as they were supposed to stay and get beat up, according to multiple sources. Other sources indicate that this was a complete miscommunication, and it's not like Owens and Sami refused to get beat up by The New Day. There are reportedly no issues related to Owens and Sami being mad about putting The New Day over. The issues were related to the two being expected to get beat up after the match, which was supposed to build their feud to a tag team match next week at SmackDown in Charlotte, NC.

Sami and Owens were told to leave the arena, go back to the hotel and fly home. They are off the current tour but everything else is up in the air. They could be back for Tuesday's SmackDown but nothing is official other than their status for the current tour.

On a related note, the pre-match segment went as it was supposed to but SmackDown Commissioner Shane McMahon did mess up, which forced officials to make an edit. Shane was booed when he mentioned SmackDown General Manager Daniel Bryan returning next week, which flustered him a bit. He then realized that fans were booing because they wanted Bryan there that night, not because they don't like him. There was an awkward edit made during that segment and this is why. There was also a mention of "men of honor" and some fans believed that was a reference to Ring of Honor but that was not the case.
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WWE announced today that Bayley, Mickie James and Dana Brooke will battle on Monday's Raw for the final spot on the Raw Women's Team for their Survivor Series match against their Smackdown counterparts.

The bout currently stands as: Team Raw Captain Alicia Fox, Nia Jax, Sasha Banks and Asuka, with Monday's winner joining them, vs. Team Smackdown Captain Becky Lynch, Charlotte Flair, Naomi, Tamina and Carmella.
Link to the announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf6X8Sew__Y

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WWE are opposing The Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame attempt at trademarking 'World Class Championship Wrestling' for action figures and clothing purposes. They mention that they acquired all WCCW trademarks from Kevin Von Erich around May 2006 and that there will be a likelihood of confusion if the trademark gets approved.
Based on court dates given, whole trial could end up lasting till mid-2019. https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...-news.html?p=1

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WWE sources this morning confirmed Roman Reigns is cleared to return to the ring.

The plan for the 11/19 Survivor Series is a six man tag featuring The New Day vs. The Shield, which will be officially set up at Raw this Monday in Atlanta, GA.
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Impact will have its second to last taping of 2017 tonight in Ottawa.

There have been quite a few talents that have privately remarked over the course of the week that it's yet another changing of the guard with Scott D'Amore taking the reigns as the lead creative force. There was some grumbling about the amount of attention being paid to Canadian talents at the show and a fear among those from the Nashville days that they are in the process of being shifted out. There was absolutely talk with some talents about taking lesser deals, which didn't help matters. There is a belief some higher paid talents will be the next to exit if they turn down attempts to get them to take less money.

D'Amore was the sole producer for the main event for the Impact championship at the Bound for Glory PPV. Sonjay Dutt and Abyss worked on producing other matches, some in concert with D'Amore, while Gail Kim helped produce the Knockouts championship bout.

Jimmy Jacobs was also working as a Producer this week. At the PPV, he helped set up the Team Impact vs. Team AAA bout.

The Alberto el Patron promo was cut from the UK airing of Bound for Glory. There were some in the locker room unhappy that Patron has his own private locker room (trailer) while the lion's share of the male talent this week has to share one locker room. Apparently, it's part of Patron's deal that he has a private locker room.

We are told Patron left Ottawa this morning, so he will not be at tonight's final TV taping.

All eyes have specifically been on James Storm given that his deal expires in January and the company isn't running again before that, so tonight could be his swan song with Impact. Storm has been with the company since the debut event in June 2002, with the exception of a short exodus to feel the waters out in NXT before returning.

We've heard from several wrestlers that there was a funny back and forth at catering before the Bound for Glory PPV where a X-Division star complained about the food, leading to Bobby Lashley sharply reminding him that he shouldn't even be commenting given his short time in the business before telling him to go buy food if he wasn't happy. Lashley popped a few of the veterans with his blunt response.

Santino Marella was pitched the idea of doing a pre-tape with Grado at Bound for Glory, but declined, instead doing an cameo where he sat in the first row.

The announcing line that Grado was wearing a shirt that Mick Foley gave him was a legitimate story. For those wondering why the match didn't go as well as hoped, we are told Abyss was back way too early from a knee issue. Grado was said to have been really beside himself backstage after the match over it not going well and Abyss was about the same. Despite the storyline stipulation, it's expected that Grado will be back next year.
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The updated advertised matches for the annual 12/26 WWE event at Madison Square Garden are:

*The Shield vs. Bray Wyatt & WWE Raw Tag Team champions Sheamus & Cesaro.

*John Cena vs. Samoa Joe.

*Kane vs. Braun Strowman.

*Also advertised are WWE Intercontinental champion The Miz, WWE Raw Women's champion Alexa Bliss, Finn Balor, Sasha Banks, Matt Hardy, Bayley, WWE Cruiserweight champion Enzo Amore. and more.
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The Rock denied that he turned down the opportunity to appear in ESPN’s Ric Flair 30 for 30.
Link to the tweet: https://twitter.com/TheRock/status/927547420703186945 , Link to article with more details: http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...own-ric-flair/

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Kenny Omega told Tokyo Sports that he’s staying in New Japan Pro Wrestling and called the promotion a place where wrestlers can be themselves. He said he wants to show how great a place NJPW is.

NJPW has video of everyone’s post-match comments from Power Struggle with English subtitles.

The NWA uploaded episode five of their “Ten Pounds of Gold” series, which is the final episode before Sunday’s Tim Storm vs. Nick Aldis title match.

Ethan Page made his debut for Impact at tonight’s tapings.
Omega link: https://twitter.com/reasonjp/status/928570261015707648 , NJPW video: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...lGzFvihJwI5b32 , NWA link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANGM...ature=youtu.be , Impact link: https://twitter.com/OfficialEGO/stat...96554848239622

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There's now speculation on WWE Champion AJ Styles vs. WWE Universal Champion Brock Lesnar closing the November 19th WWE Survivor Series pay-per-view from Houston. It was believed that the men's Team RAW (Kurt Angle, Jason Jordan, Braun Strowman, Finn Balor, Samoa Joe) vs. Team SmackDown (Shane McMahon, Randy Orton, Shinsuke Nakamura, Bobby Roode, John Cena) 5-on-5 Traditional Elimination Match would headline the event until AJ defeated Jinder Mahal for the WWE Title on this week's SmackDown, changing the top champion vs. champion match from Jinder vs. Lesnar to AJ vs. Lesnar.
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As noted, The New Day started working the RAW brand side of the current WWE European tour following this week's RAW in Manchester. F4Wonline.com notes that The New Day were sent to the red side of the tour because of the feeling that they needed more star power on that side with Roman Reigns being out of action. Triple H worked RAW and SmackDown live events on the tour but The New Day and RAW General Manager Kurt Angle were added to the RAW side of the tour once Triple H went home this week.
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WWE producer "Road Dogg" Brian James revealed on Instagram today that he filmed a future WWE DVD on The Hardys. He wrote:

Doing an interview for the Hardy Boyz DVD this morning. Theirs is a story of strength and perseverance! #OUDK
Link to Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/BbSE-EmnJxH/

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WWE has a new poll asking fans if Jinder Mahal will become WWE Champion again. As of this writing, 67% voted, "No. Some other title reigns may be in Mahal's future, but not the WWE Title." The rest went with, "Yes. Mahal will regain the WWE Championship at some point."

Some other sheet news includes:
  • ROH announced Dalton Castle will be challenging Cody for the ROH World Championship at next month's Final Battle PPV. https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...attle.html?p=1
  • ROH announced a new match for their upcoming Survival of the Fittest PPV event which will be Madison Rayne versus Deonna Purrazzo. This will be Rayne's debut for ROH. https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...month.html?p=1
  • According to PWI, Neville is still under contract in the WWE at the moment. Previous sheet reports hinted at Vince being furious at Neville's departure and wanting to make sure his contract expired before letting him go.
  • Impact Wrestling revealed the next batch of content arriving for their Impact Global Network service. https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...pdate.html?p=1
  • For those with an Observer Newsletter subscription, Dave Meltzer had some problems with his computer earlier in the week which is why the release of this week's issue has been delayed.
  • India Today held a recent interview with Sasha Banks talking about Survivor Series, Being a face star on RAW compared to being a heel in NXT, and advice to aspiring women wrestlers. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...-face-or-heel/
  • Vince McMahon recently congratulated Ric Flair on his 30 For 30 documentary that premiered earlier in the week. https://twitter.com/VinceMcMahon/sta...98816844484608
  • WrestlingDVDNetwork recently released the entire list of contents for WWE's upcoming "Best Pay-Per-View Matches 2017" DVD set. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...-pay-per-view/
  • In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, today is the 20th anniversary of both The Montreal Screwjob and Steve Blackman's debut in the WWF.


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Lucha Underground has been officially renewed for a fourth season. There is a lot to this, but officially the next set of tapings are to be filmed early next year. The talk we've heard is March. For some talent, this is good news, but for the talent under contract that wants to sign with New Japan or WWE, this is not good news. This doesn't make a difference regarding either Ricochet or Rey Mysterio Jr., who are gone from the promotion and their contracts have expired. But it does regarding people like Penta 0M, Jeff Cobb or others.
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The Trentonian interviewed Daniel Bryan at last night's WWE Night at the NJ Devils game. They quoted him as saying:

“I’m trying to get cleared as we speak. All my tests have come back fantastic, better than people who have never had any concussion-type stuff. But it’s a weird thing. We’re in a weird situation politically with the climate around concussions; right now, it’s very difficult. WWE would love to have me back, but is that the smart thing for me as a business to bring me back? If I was to come back, and they let me back, would they get a lot of flak for it? They have a ton of stockholders that they’re responsible for. It’s more than just, ‘Is he healthy to do it?’

There’s more than that to the whole situation. All the concussion doctors think that I’m healthy enough to do it, and that I should be able to do it — well, I don’t want to say all of them, I’m sure there’s somebody out there who doesn’t think that — but there’s a lot more than goes into it than just that. That’s the unfortunate situation with giant corporations and big business in the United States.”
Link to interview: http://www.trentonian.com/sports/201...return-to-ring

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Dustin Rhodes will be brought to ringside for the War Games match at the 11/18 Takeover show in Houston. Dusty Rhodes invented the War Games match in 1987, although the reality is that he invented and what this match will be are very different and they are really just creating their own new match and using the name of a famous match.

The Bill Goldberg 24 documentary debuts after Raw on Monday night.

Jeff Hardy will be doing a concert on 11/25 in Greensboro at The Blind Tiger. This will take place after the conclusion of the Starrcade show at the Greensboro Coliseum that night.
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WWE is working on a Matt and Jeff Hardy WWE 24 production currently.

With Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn having been sent home from the WWE European tour, it should be interesting to see if WWE Network airs their Kevin Owens 365 special as initially planned following the Survivor Series on Sunday 11/19.
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Evolve has this new documentary in 4K on Keith Lee as WWN champion plus future plans for the title.

Pro wrestling returns tonight to the Cow Palace in San Francisco with Rey Mysterio Jr. & Juventud Guerrera vs. Penta 0M & Rey Fenix, Jeff Cobb vs. Jack Swagger and Reno Scum vs. Michael Elgin & Brian Cage as the top bouts.

Austin Aries made his first appearance since his WWE release this past Saturday night for Impact Pro Wrestling, which is not the nationally televised promotion of a similar name. that group has its 20th anniversary show tomorrow night in Algona, IA at the Locker Room Bar & Grill.

Wrestle Circus announced that Aaron Solow, half of the tag team champions (and the fiance of WWE's Bayley), has another wrestling commitemnt on 11/18 so he's off the show in Austin. So there will be no tag team title match. New matches announced for that show on Twitch are Jimmy Jacobs vs. Ethan Page, Jervis Cottonbelly vs. Joey Ryan and a five-way with Rey Hours vs. JT Dunn vs. Jordan Len-X vs. Serpentico vs ACH. Other matches are Brian Cage vs. Keith Lee, Sammy Guevara vs. Matt Riddle, Zack Sabre Jr vs. Andrew Everett, Tessa Blanchard vs. Chelsea Green (Laurel Van Ness), Jimmy Jacobs vs. Ethan Page and Shane Strickland vs. Scorpio Sky. (thanks to Jake Koch)
EVOLVE link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxYaoA2kuBU

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PWInsider.com has confirmed with multiple sources that after being sent home from the currently ongoing tour of Europe, Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn are scheduled to be at this Tuesday's WWE Smackdown Live taping.
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WWE have applied to trademark 'WWE Mixed Match Challenge',an interesting choice as it could be the title of a new series or event.

The cpmpany has also applied to trademark "Project Rock", which may or may not be connected to Dwayne Johnson's "Project Rock" brand released as part of Johnson's partnership with Under Armour.
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Former WWE Announcer Jonathan Coachman tweeted the following:

Yes I? will be. Several projects in the works. When I? can discuss I? will. But it was just time to leave espn. Professional and personal reasons. But I? feel great and this show is for fun and to stay sharp. https://t.co/zw0Y9omDUj
— Jonathan Coachman (@TheCoachESPN) November 8, 2017

ESPN has had massive cutbacks over the year. It's not known if Coach fell victim to that.
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Ring of Honor put out a vignette for former WWE Superstar, Simon Gotch, who now goes by Simon Grimm. Grimm will make his debut at their upcoming live event in Florida this weekend and it looks like he'll be doing some kind of MMA gimmick with the company.
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Bleeding Cool reports that Asuka will make her WWE Comics debut in an upcoming issue of Boom! Studios' ongoing WWE comics series, WWE #14. The issue, which is the first of a four-party story, will be released in February and will feature the women's evolution. The story on Asuka will highlight her undefeated run in WWE NXT.
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WWE UK competitor Wolfgang suffered an injury during the November 3rd WWE live event in Aberdeen, Scotland, in a loss to WWE UK Champion Pete Dunne. He has been pulled from Sunday's PROGRESS Wrestling "Chapter 57" event where he was set to face Doug Williams. No word yet on injury details or when he might be back in action.
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As noted, today's "Flashback Friday" programming on the WWE Network will have a Veteran's Day theme. Below are upcoming themes for Flashback Friday:
* November 17th: Setting the Thanksgiving Table
* November 24th: Thanksgiving: Part 2
* December 1st: 27 Years of The Undertaker
* December 8th: WWE's Shortest Title Reigns
* December 15th: 'Tis The Season: Part 1
* December 22nd: 'Tis The Season: Part 2
* December 29th: Celebrating the New Year
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Emma, Darren Young and Summer Rae were all given 90-day non-competes. Basically that means they are being paid their downside guarantees through 1/27, at which point they will be free to work anywhere. Not sure what will happen but we do know that Emma is actively looking to continue her career and has publicly said she’s looking for indie dates after 2/1. Emma, who will go by Tenille Dashwood, her real name, was in talks with Stardom to start when her non-compete ended, but negotiations have fallen through as her asking price of $2,000 per match, plus first class tickets and full creative control weren’t thought to be economically or business prudent by that company
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The story of this match dates back to this past summer. Jericho was watching how much attention the Conor McGregor vs. Floyd Mayweather fight got, and came to the conclusion that the reason it was going to be such a success (and it ended up grossing more revenue than any combat sports event in history) was because it was two top guys in a match people thought they would never get a chance to see, because they were from different sports and different companies that don’t work together. But they did.

He tried to figure out how he could use what happened there and worked so big in his own world. So he came up with the idea of doing a singles match with Omega, who had become the biggest star in the U.S. with a non-WWE pedigree coming off his win of last year’s G-1 tournament and his Tokyo Dome and Osaka main events with Kazuchika Okada.

Jericho pitched the idea to Callis over the summer, who spoke with Omega about it. Omega was likely going to wrestle Kota Ibushi at the Tokyo Dome, which also figures into why Ibushi will be challenging Cody for the ROH title at the Dome show.

Jericho’s last WWE contract was set to expire with WrestleMania this past April. When he signed the contract, the plan was for Jericho to go into WrestleMania as the Universal champion, and then lose the title at WrestleMania to Kevin Owens. Plans changed, as the decision was made to have Bill Goldberg, rather than Jericho, win the title from Owens, and then lose it to Brock Lesnar. That’s why Jericho vs. Owens turned into a program for the U.S. title. The angle was going to well that he ended up signing a one-month extension to last through early May, and then dropped the title and left, so he’s been a free agent for the past six months, contrary to a lot of reports published this past week.

That said, those close to the situation expect him back in WWE in 2018, with one person saying that they don’t know the date but it could be as early as the Raw 25th anniversary special with the idea he’d have just come from making news and then would return as a bigger deal than before, citing how big the crowds reacted everywhere to A.J. Styles when he made his WWE debut coming from New Japan Pro Wrestling.
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Itami’s call-up for 205 Live is now expected imminently. It also should be noted that in Japan there is talk that Itami is interested in returning when his contract is up. As far as other call-ups, in the end, it’s Vince McMahon’s decision and they happen when they happen. Andrade Cien Almas was at one time on the list to come up in April, and here it is in November and they are still working on his character, and that’s been a good thing. The Authors of Pain were also on the list and haven’t been pushed as much in NXT of late, but it hasn’t happened yet.
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As noted before, Ronda Rousey has been training regularly at the Performance Center of late, so it’s no secret or something being hidden. Right now the Horsewoman vs. Horsewoman match it scheduled for WrestleMania, which gives her, Marina Sharif and Jessamyn Duke, who have all been training there as well, several months to be able to get ready for the match.
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As noted in the financials, there was no evidence at all that his [Jinder] being champion had generated new revenue out of India, but this is still a long-term play, in the sense his being champion did lead to media coverage that WWE would have never gotten in that country, and even if there is no money to be made now, the idea is a perception of being important in India could pay dividends years down the line when things are in place where there is money to be made with that huge population.
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Bound for Glory itself drew 650 fans. The television tapings the next two days did about 350, which were a combination of letting anyone who had purchased a ticket for Bound for Glory in free, some who actually paid and there weren’t many, whatever comps, and they were paying for 50 to 75 fans each night to attend using a local casting agent who offered $50 per night for fans to attend the shows, and they were told they could be given signs to hold and said that if they bring signs they will be more likely to get their faces sown on television.
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Mesias (Mil Muertes) is out of action after undergoing surgery on both knees on 11/2. That’s a tough comeback at 42 years old
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The idea of a Hulk Hogan return is being revisited. It’s always down to the same thing, the feeling of whether sponsors would be okay with it and perceiving if there would be a media backlash where the racist quotes come out. With Hogan, it’s magnified far beyond anyone else, which is why they could name an award after Warrior and build their breast cancer program around him even though he said stuff far worse than Hogan, and unlike Hogan, he never apologized for it. Hogan was in talks about a return to wrestling of late, but not with WWE, with an angle that would have been huge, but in the end, it wouldn’t have made economic sense and the feeling is also that if he went anywhere, maybe it would be a tease like he did in the past and not go through with it and it would just be his angling to get WWE to bring him back
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Regarding AJ Styles winning the WWE Title from Jinder Mahal on this week's SmackDown ...

No word yet on why Vince McMahon changed plans but lack of interest in Jinder vs. Lesnar may have been a factor. Jinder's WWE Title reign was done to help with their long-term expansion in India and it was widely believed that if Jinder were to drop the title, it would be after the India live events on December 8th and December 9th.

Cena was set to be the special referee for Mahal vs. Lesnar and that decision was actually finalized late last week, after the Styles vs. Mahal match was announced for SmackDown. There was speculation on Cena costing Mahal the match at Survivor Series, leading to a Cena vs. Mahal feud that could end with Cena winning the WWE Title again. The change in direction included removing Cena from the match as there was no reason for him to be there since his role was originally done to set up a future match. WWE is not planning on doing Cena vs. Lesnar or Cena vs. Styles.

For what it's worth, Bryan Alvarez noted on Wrestling Observer Live that as of last Thursday, Styles vs. Mahal was not to end in a title change but Vince reportedly changed his mind on Saturday.

WWE workers who needed to be aware of the title change were not told until around Monday, one day before the match. Those same people were not clear about whether Jinder would get the title back before Survivor Series as Lesnar's feuds are all booked in advance and Lesnar was told he would be facing Jinder all along. It's possible they have Jinder win the title back before the live events in India or Styles could be added to the India tour to do the change there, then the rematch at Clash of Champions. Styles is currently scheduled to work SmackDown live events while the RAW brand is in India but he could be added to the tour. Jinder Mahal & The Singh Brothers are the only blue brand talents currently booked for the India live events.

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A long play for India is a much wiser move than expecting instant success there. Plus it gives people a long time to forget how crappy Jinder Mahal was.
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The Survivor Series go-home edition of Raw saw a solid increase in numbers to an average of 3.02 million viewers, up nearly seven percent from last week ...

The three hours were:

8 p.m. 3.26 million viewers
9 p.m. 3.06 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.77 million viewers
In terms of hourly rankings, RAW went #2, #3, and #6.

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WWE's tour of India is down to one stop.

The Times of India confirmed today that WWE's planned December 8th house show at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in New Delhi has been canceled, with the December 9th date at the venue now being branded as a "Supershow."

In a match that was set up a few days ago, Triple H vs. Jinder Mahal has been announced as the main event. Mahal will be the only SmackDown representation on what is otherwise a Raw house show ...

Jeet Rama & Kishan Raftar, who are Performance Center trainees from India, will now be wrestling in their home country as they face Curtis Axel & Bo Dallas. Kevin Owens will no longer be appearing on the tour after originally being scheduled to challenge for Mahal's WWE Championship before he dropped it to AJ Styles.
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Another pro wrestler is trying their hand at mixed martial arts.

While appearing on the MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani this afternoon, Jack Swagger (real name Jake Hager) announced that he's signed with Bellator MMA and will be debuting as a heavyweight in 2018. Swagger said he's wanted to do MMA for a long time and had been negotiating with Bellator since the summer, finalizing terms with them over the weekend.

When asked how the news would affect his pro wrestling schedule, Swagger said he wants to continue wrestling in addition to his new career in MMA. Swagger has been working on the independent scene since departing WWE earlier this year.
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The WWE Network has started uploading episodes of the original “reality show” run of NXT.

WWE 365, which is focused on a year in the life of a wrestler, will be debuting on the WWE Network after Survivor Series. Kevin Owens is expected to be featured in the episode.
Link: http://www.wwenetworknews.com/2017/1...-nxt-episodes/

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NJPW announced that their revenue for the last fiscal year (August 2016-July 2017) was up 20 percent from the previous year.

Justin Credible credited the help of WWE’s wellness program for being able to live a life that he never thought was possible.

WrestleCircus announced that their show that was set for this Saturday has been canceled due to unforeseen circumstances, asking people to respect their privacy during this time. They have a form set up for fans who bought tickets to receive refunds. (thanks to reader Jake Koch)

In an interview with CBS Local Sports, Joe Koff reiterated that ROH will be launching an on-demand/streaming service in the first quarter of 2018. Koff said that they tested streaming events on last month’s Global Wars tour. When asked about pay-per-views, Koff noted that they might continue to have traditional PPVs but said the entertainment world is heading towards a streaming model.
NJPW link: https://twitter.com/EvanDeadlySinsW/...25401268531200 , Credible link: https://twitter.com/PJPOLACO/status/930472886569185286 , WrestleCircus link: https://twitter.com/WrestleCircus/st...70325359345664

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Former WWE Tag Team Champion Rob Conway is working as a guest trainer at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando this week.
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WWE has a new poll asking fans who will win the big champion vs. champion match at Sunday's Survivor Series pay-per-view. As of this writing, 54% voted for WWE Universal Champion Brock Lesnar while the rest went with WWE Champion AJ Styles.
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There has been talk backstage today of adding another Kickoff show match with a Raw vs. Smackdown theme.

The official main event of the 12/26 Madison Square Garden return will be John Cena vs. Samoa Joe based on local advertising. That will be Joe's first time headlining in the Mecca.

There has been talk of doing a WWE 24 episode based around the 25th Anniversary of Monday Night Raw. The company is already working on one dedicated to the Hardy Boyz.
For some reference about another pre-show match, Survivor Series is going to be 6 hours long this year (2 hour pre-show, 4 hour PPV).

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While the expectation in recent weeks has been that former WWE Cruiserweight champion Neville was on his way out of World Wrestling Entertainment, sources within the company have told PWInsider.com that there have been recent positive discussions between Neville and the company.

There is a belief among some in the company that talks have gone so well that Neville could actually be returning to action for WWE before the end of the month. One source even believed Neville could be back as soon as this week, but PWInsider.com has (as of this writing) not been able to confirm that. Obviously, we will see if that is soon the case ...

As we reported at the time, until Neville was actually released, there was always a chance that the two sides could come to terms, paving the way for his return to the company. If what we are hearing is correct, that road has been paved.
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The updated 12/15 ROH Final Battle PPV in New York City at the Hammerstein Ballroom:
*ROH champion Cody Rhodes vs. Dalton Castle.
*Tommy Dreamer & Bully Ray vs. The Briscoes.
*ROH TV champion Kenny King vs. Punishment Martinez vs. Shane Taylor vs. Silas Young.
*Jay Lethal vs. Marty Scurll.
*The Addiction vs. War Machine.
*Matt Taven vs. Will Ospreay.

The show is sold out but will air on all PPV outlets.
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Speaking of Jericho, he was recently interviewed by Viktre.com and discussed the night he won his first WWE World title.

"I was told in the afternoon that I was going to win when Vince McMahon said to The Undertaker at the catering table: 'Hey 'Taker, how do you know the business is going down the toilet? Because we're putting the belt on Jericho' and that's how I found out I was going to be the champion," Jericho said.

"I came back through the curtain, everyone was gone because when you're on last everybody leaves to get out of the traffic quicker. Sat there by myself and then drove to a hotel where room service stopped at midnight, it was 11:58. They wouldn't serve it, so I got pizza. They wouldn't bring it to my room, so I had to go down to the lobby to get it. When I went back up, I was locked out. Went back down to the lobby, the guy wouldn't let me in even though I just checked in a few minutes earlier. Dropped the pizza on the floor when he finally did let me in. So, I spent the night being the first undisputed champion eating cold, fuzzy pizza in a Ramada Inn somewhere in Anaheim, California. So, no hookers and blow there, kids."
Link to the interview: https://www.viktre.com/iamjericho/on...ld-fuzzy-pizza

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Alisha Edwards, Swoggle (f.k.a. Hornswoggle in WWE), The Veterans of War (Mayweather & Wilcox) and Mahabali Shera have all been removed from the active roster of Impact Wrestling.
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Mahabali Shera is gone from Impact Wrestling. The company removed him from their roster page on their website today, but we are told the departure quietly happened about two months ago.

As of today, no one from the Nashville office has been spoken with about what their future with the company will be once that office is folded into the office in Toronto. There is a belief among some that the Nashville office could be gone as soon as 12/1.
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Per PWInsider Elite, Mike Johnson is saying Triple H was a last minute decision to put him in the match, it was legitimately decided within the last 48 hours and Jordan found out Sunday night.

Some other sheet news includes:
  • In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, around 40 wrestlers have been released this year from Impact since Anthem started purging the company for costs reasons. http://wrestlingnews.co/impact-wrest...-left-in-2017/
  • In another "WWE Did You Know" type fact, NJPW's Okada has had 6 IWGP title defenses this year totaling around 4 hours in length. https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc...s_year_with_a/
  • Impact Wrestling's Rosemary is reported to have suffered a leg injury during a Shimmer show over the weekend.
  • PWI reported the WWE was considering plans during last weekend for Paige to be added as the 5th member of Team RAW for the Survivors Series match. Bayley ended up being announced as the final member during last night's episode of RAW.
  • According to the Observer, Jonathon Coachman was actually released by ESPN during the last batch of major cuts but only made public last week by a tweet from Coachman.
  • According to PWI, Marty Scurll recently applied for a trademark to his wrestling name.
  • The National had a recent interview with Ceasro talking about getting injured at No Mercy, dream matches in WWE, and working with the Hardys. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...-he-doing-now/


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Following up on AJ Styles' WWE Championship win from last Tuesday, SmackDown ratings were essentially even for this week's Survivor Series go-home show -- averaging 2.607 million viewers.
Last week had 2.603 million viewers as the average.

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After he was written off television last week, WWE announced that they've released James Ellsworth today.

The company's statement: "WWE has come to terms on the release of WWE Superstar James Ellsworth. WWE wishes Ellsworth the best in all of his future endeavors" ...

Ellsworth joins Emma, Darren Young, Summer Rae, NXT's Sawyer Fulton, Performance Center trainee Leo Gao, and former Tough Enough winner Josh Bredl as wrestlers WWE has released over the last few weeks.
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Tickets are currently on sale for WrestleMania 34, which takes place on April 8th, 2018 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The online pre-sale, which is listed as ending at midnight tomorrow, can be accessed by going to Ticketmaster and using the password "TICKETS" in the Got Offers Code Box.

The show is tentatively scheduled to be headlined by Brock Lesnar vs. Roman Reigns for the Universal Championship.

It is the culmination of the biggest weekend of shows as promotions from all over the world will be running events in the New Orleans area. For WWE, the Hall of Fame ceremony, an NXT TakeOver special, Raw, and SmackDown will also be taking place in the city in the days surrounding WrestleMania.

For those in New Orleans, there will be an on-sale party at the Superdome tomorrow. Charlotte Flair will be making an appearance, and The Hardys, Mickie James, Mark Henry, Heath Slater, and Rhyno are scheduled to be there signing autographs. There will be some NXT matches as well, with Hideo Itami vs. No Way Jose advertised.
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A new promotion called Arolucha, Inc. announced today that Charles "Konnan" Ashenoff has been named its head writer.

Arolucha is the promotion written about a few times in the Observer that Aroluxe is backing, and is expected to be running a television pilot taping in December in Nashville.

Ashenoff, who is the booker for The Crash promotion based in Tijuana, as well as working for Impact, was a key in gathering the talent roster for Lucha Underground, and was expecting to be used as the head writer there, but that company instead went with Christopher DeJoseph, and Ashenoff was out of the promotion by its second season, shortly after brokering the deal to get Rey Mysterio Jr. into Lucha Underground.

Vince Russo's name has also been mentioned as far as creative with this promotion. The name has come up as an assistant writer but there is no confirmation of a deal in place at this point.
Some more details via PWI: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...owner.html?p=1

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WWE has added another house show in Abu Dhabi for Raw’s brief tour of the United Arab Emirates and India next month. The event will take place at Zayed Sports City Tennis Stadium (with another WWE show taking place there the night prior) on December 8th, which was previously the date of their first show in India before that was canceled. Triple H vs. Roman Reigns in a rematch of the WrestleMania 32 main event is set to headline on the 8th.
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Charly Caruso, Booker T, and Sam Roberts will be on the panel for Saturday’s NXT TakeOver: War Games pre-show.
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In his first match for the company in several years, Joey Ryan will challenge for Kenny King’s ROH TV title at their Survival of the Fittest show in San Antonio on November 17th.

Cody Rhodes vs. Christopher Daniels in a Texas Death Match is set for Survival of the Fittest in Dallas on November 18th.

In today’s WWN email alert, it was noted that they’re in four different negotiations regarding their streaming future and that will shape what the EVOLVE schedule looks like going forward.

Zack Sabre Jr. will defend his Undisputed British Heavyweight Championship against Matt Riddle at Revolution Pro Wrestling’s show in London on December 8th.

The NWA uploaded full video of last weekend’s Tim Storm vs. Nick Aldis title match. They also have video of Storm’s post-match comments and an interview with him.
Ryan link: http://rohwrestling.com/news/kenny-k...an-san-antonio , ROH link: http://rohwrestling.com/news/texas-d...fittest-dallas , RevPro link: https://twitter.com/RevProUK/status/930419602798055425 , NWA link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXjoeQBjoYY

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WWE has a new poll asking fans who will win the two-ring main event of Saturday's WWE NXT "Takeover: WarGames" event. As of this writing, 44% voted for The Undisputed Era while 34% voted for NXT Tag Team Champions SAnitY and the rest voted for the team of Roderick Strong & The Authors of Pain.
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WWE has not confirmed the fifth member of Team SmackDown for the women's 5-on-5 Traditional Elimination Match at Sunday's WWE Survivor Series pay-per-view as of this writing but it's believed that Natalya will get the spot. Charlotte Flair was on the team but she will now be facing RAW Women's Champion Alexa Bliss after winning the title from Natalya tonight.

There's also speculation on Paige possibly getting the spot as she was originally scheduled to return to the blue brand.

Some other sheet news includes:
  • In a "WWE Did You Know"type fact, today would have been Macho Man's 65th birthday.
  • According to the WWE and city of Orlando, Wrestlemania 33 generated roughly $181 million in tourism and economic activity for Mania week. http://www.wwe.com/shows/wrestlemani...orlando-region
  • Rock recently claimed Bruno was the best face wrestler ever in WWE. The tweet was part of a fan poll pitting him against Bruno asking who was the better hero in wrestling. https://twitter.com/TheRock/status/9...670735360?s=17
  • Update on Impact's recent departures news as it turns out Alisha Edwards was not released and an mistake caused her profile page to be removed from the roster page from Impact Wrestling's official website. Her profile was restored after the mix up occurred.
  • Main Event Radio held a recent interview with Bobby Lashley talking about being in Canada for Impact Wrestling, Impact young stars he's impressed with the most, Brock Lesnar, and Heyman contacting him whenever Lesnar pisses him off. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...when-he-upset/


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Following his first appearance on WWE television since his health scare, Ric Flair will be part of the company's Starrcade house show later this month.

WWE confirmed today that Flair would be appearing at Starrcade in Greensboro, North Carolina on November 25th ...

Here's the updated card for Starrcade:
  • WWE Champion AJ Styles defending against Jinder Mahal in a steel cage match
  • SmackDown Women's Champion Charlotte Flair defending against Natalya in a steel cage match
  • SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Usos defending against The New Day, Shelton Benjamin & Chad Gable, and Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn in a fatal four-way match
  • United States Champion Baron Corbin defending against Shinsuke Nakamura
  • Bobby Roode vs. Dolph Ziggler
  • Dustin Rhodes vs. Dash Wilder
  • Appearances by Ric Flair, The Hardys, Ricky Steamboat, and The Rock 'n' Roll Express
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While speaking with the pro wrestling media ahead of Saturday's NXT TakeOver special, Triple H discussed bringing War Games to a new generation of fans and confirmed another change from the original concept.

"We're not gonna have a roof," Triple H said on a conference call today. "I think it's a little bit limiting. I think the style has changed. Not saying that anybody is gonna do it in this match, but I think going forward as War Games becomes -- I try to think about the future. Look, Arn Anderson wasn't doing moonsaults off the top of the cage. So, I think there's a difference in how the business is done. This allows for there to a be a little bit of a different opportunity to do some things. I don't feel, personally, that we have changed the concept of what it is."

Though the rules have been tweaked, Triple H said he thinks they work better for today's generation. And while there are some changes, he said the match is still about teams "going to war" and it worked with the storyline that The Undisputed Era, SAnitY, and The Authors of Pain & Roderick Strong are involved in.

Triple H noted that WWE using War Games and Starrcade this month was a coincidence and the decisions were made independently. He said he's always been interested in bringing back War Games and has been looking for the right time since NXT started up. He called TakeOver: War Games a chance to take something from the past into the future and slightly reinvent it while still staying consistent with Dusty Rhodes' vision.
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Pete Dunne and Johnny Gargano's United Kingdom Championship match will be airing on NXT TV next week ...

In addition to that, Ruby Riot vs. Sonya Deville will also be taped for next week. The episode will feature video packages and post-match interviews from TakeOver as well.

Gargano is set to become the first wrestler born outside of the UK to challenge for the title.
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Ahead of this weekend's pay-per-view, WWE has already announced the location for next year's Survivor Series.

Survivor Series 2018 will take place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California on November 18th. As is the case with all WWE "big four" PPVs, the arena will host an NXT TakeOver special on the Saturday before Survivor Series and Raw and SmackDown in the days after the show.

WWE noted that ticket information for all four events will be made available in early 2018.

This will be the first time California has ever hosted a Survivor Series. It will also be the first time an NXT TakeOver event has taken place on the west coast.
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New Japan opens its tag team tournament on Saturday morning with a live show from Korakuen Hall on New Japan World. There will also be shows on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday that will be put up on tape delay later those afternoons but with only the tournament matches. The complete lineups for each day is in the 11/13 issue of the Wrestling Observer.

The 11/25 WrestleCade show in Winston, Salem, NC will stream live on FITE TV headland by Eli Drake vs. Jack Swagger vs. Johnny Impact and Ivelisse vs. Taya Valkyrie.

Mike Davidson of Winnipeg got back into the wrestling promoting game and was set to debut a new promotion called Wrestling Supercard with shows on 11/23 in Thunder Bay, ONT, 11/24 in Winnipeg and 11/25 in Thompson using Santino Marella, Ken Anderson, Eugene and Shawn Daivari. On Tuesday, Davidson announced the shows were canceled due to low ticket sales.
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The 12/26 return to Madison Square Garden has a new, updated lineup:
*John Cena vs. Roman Reigns, with Reigns replacing Samoa Joe, who had been advertised vs. Cena earlier this week.
*WWE Raw Tag Team champions Sheamus & Cesaro vs. Seth Rollins & Dean Ambrose in a steel cage match.
*Braun Strowman vs. Kane.
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The debut episode of WWE 365 featuring Kevin Owens will be narrated by actor and director (and big wrestling fan) Michael Rappaport.
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Staffers at the Impact Wrestling Nashville office began to be let go yesterday, PWInsider.com has confirmed. We are told that there were "support staff" let go as the company begins to fold Impact's offices into Anthem's existing infrastructure in Toronto.

No new update on the Don Callis situation.

The continuation of Lucha Underground will not have a profound effect on their talents that are currently working for Impact. LU intends to ease off on the contractual restrictions when they are not taping in order to let talents appear on other televised promotions.

Ethan Page, formerly with EVOLVE, will be coming in as Chandler Park, the storyline cousin of Joseph Park.

There's been talk of Impact being interested in using LU star Brian Cage of late.

Sonjay Dutt has been taking an increased role in all aspects of the management of the company. One source noted they wouldn't be shocked to see him taking the lead in booking going forward.
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According to PWInsider with the fourth season in play for Lucha Underground, wrestlers will be able to work for other televised promotions, when the company is not taping. Previously, wrestlers weren't able to do so until the a Lucha Underground season wrapped up.
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On his podcast this week, Jim Ross noted during his interview with Chris Jericho that he renewed his deal with AXS TV for another year. So he would be able to voice-over his match with Kenny Omega when it airs on the channel.

Jericho noted during the interview that he is working with New Japan Pro Wrestling to have the Wrestle Kingdom event available through traditional PPV means, so people without access to New Japan World would be able to view it.

On whether Vince McMahon knew about his deal with NJPW before it was publicly announced, he said he would not go into any specifics but mentioned that being smart, he would not do anything that would jeopardize their relationship. He added that if Vince knew what an effect such a match can have on his own business, then he should not have a problem with it.
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Matt Hardy's 'Broken Matt Hardy' trademark is close to being published for opposition.

On July 14th, two 'Aro Lucha' trademarks were filed by Arolucha, an LLC company based in Franklin, TN. One for wrestling and the other for merchandise. Both filings will be published on December 5th for any opposition.
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WWE posted an article with WWE Superstars picking their dream Survivor Series team. Braun Strowman went with The Undertaker, Roman Reigns, Big Show, Bray Wyatt, and himself. Matt Hardy went with Jeff Hardy, Shawn Michaels, Bret Hart, "Macho Man" Randy Savage, and himself.
Link to the article: http://www.wwe.com/shows/survivorser...s-2017-edition

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NJPW Company business in the last fiscal year (August 1, 2016 to July 31, 2017) was up significantly, pretty much commensurate with the attendance increase. The company grossed 3.859 billion yen (which translates to $34,010,000) and had 926 million yen profit ($8,160,000). Revenue was up 17.8 percent and profits were up 99 percent. Full-time employees increased from 45 to 61. It would have been the company’s most revenue since 1997, but in those days, a far larger percentage of the revenue would have been ticket sales. The revenue was 2.007 billion yen in tickets, 1.196 billion yen in merchandise, 656 million in television rights fees (plus New Japan World revenue).

If you go with the idea that on average there were 55,000 New Japan World subscribers at $8, and it’s a 50/50 revenue share with TV-Asahi, that would be $220,000 per month or $2.64 million per years, so all their TV deals combined would only be $3.14 million per year which is the difference between a Japanese based wrestling business and an American based sports business where it’s all about television revenue and very little about ticket sales and merchandise. When Tanahashi first got hot and the company began its comeback, it was doing $9 million annually in gross revenue, so it has quadrupled business in about six years. It’s still not even five percent as large revenue wise as WWE, which will gross in excess of $700 million this year. Profitability the gap is a lot closer. From January 1 through September 30 of this year, WWE profits were $27.8 million
Some comparisons on how huge the gap is between NJPW and WWE in terms of revenues.

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As figured last week, James Storm is no longer with the company. His contract was running out and he was on a guaranteed annual deal in the $150,000 to $200,000 range, which isn’t a big number but Impact can’t afford numbers like that anymore. We’ll see if he can get into WWE.
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Regarding the Hall of Fame at Bound for Glory, once Jeff Jarrett left for good and they had nobody committed (the idea was Jerry Jarrett and Mike Tenay but Tenay wasn’t happening either way and Jerry, who did help start the company with Jeff and Bob Ryder and was a key guy in the early days, but left in a falling out with Jeff over Jeff using Vince Russo as booker and other things, in fact for years the two didn’t speak until reconciling) they decided to kill the concept, but James Storm was not on the list for being considered
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The Flair 30 for 30 show doing 1,831,000 viewers, the best rating for one of those shows since the December 10, 2016, show on the 1988 Miami vs. Notre Dame football game and its aftermath, has led to a lot of talk about more wrestling shows. One of the reasons the show was delayed so many times is that ESPN had turned down two other versions, and the unique direction this one took is something that you really couldn’t get with almost any other wrestler. For a comparison, the show on the XFL did 917,000 viewers. Rory Karpf, who put together the piece, said they would be releasing a DVD that would include a lot more interview footage that didn’t air on the show
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Just a clarification on Tenille Dashwood’s booking price, the $2,000 per show figure was for shows outside North America, for Europe, Japan and other markets. For North America the rate being quoted is $1,500 per show, plus round-trip airfare, hotel and ground transportation (on the indies promoters are expected to provide hotels and ground transportation, an expense that talent in WWE has to pay for on their own). That isn’t unusual for talent asking for bigger money booking fees for overseas shows since the travel is harder and you can often miss a day of regular bookings because of it. She’s also asking for a 50/50 split between her and the promotion for autograph and picture money and asking for 100 percent of her own other merchandise money (also consistent with most guidelines). She also asks for creative control, the ability to approve her opponent and do her own finishes, which in regular indies isn’t a deal-breaker since any top guy is basically going to have the right to approve that, but for some of the companies that run full-time and do storylines, that has been them balk. They are also asking for a 50 percent deposit ahead of time, which is also consistent with what most top stars on the market do unless they are working for a promoter they have a developed a long relationship with

Some other sheet news includes:
  • During today's media conference call, Triple H revealed more episodes of NXT will be taped away from Full Sail next year due to scheduling reasons. He stated they currently have plans for the first 13 weeks of 2018 to be taped at various locations.
  • During a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, The Rock's daughter revealed she is considering the idea of becoming a pro wrestler in the future. If it happens, she would become the 1st fourth-generation star in wrestling and/or the WWE. https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...-star.html?p=1
  • NWA is currently taking bookings for future NWA Championship matches after the Aldis-Storm II match. https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...iness.html?p=1
  • Website UPI had a recent interview with Cody Rhodes talking about ROH's recent success, Arrow's Stephen Armell, and a possible future match with Kenny Omega. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...e-kenny-omega/


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Ric Flair is suing Legacy Talent and Entertainment -- the company that represented him for several years until he parted ways with them in September.

TMZ first reported on the lawsuit today, noting that Flair is alleging Legacy Talent and Entertainment owes him at least $46,000 after hiring a lawyer to look into his finances. Of that money, Flair is saying they didn't inform him about $25,000 they received from First Row Films, which is Rory Karpf's production company. Karpf directed ESPN's 30 for 30 documentary on Flair.

The TMZ report states that Flair also noticed a $12,000 royalty advance he never got for an endorsement deal with Jake's Fireworks. Flair says Legacy Talent and Entertainment told him they were using the money to pay legal bills when he inquired about it, something Flair denies he approved.

Shortly after his health scare earlier this year, Flair announced that he was parting ways with Legacy Talent and Entertainment and their CEO Melinda Morris Zanoni. He is now being represented by Get Engaged Media.
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WWE performer David Otunga and longtime fiance Jennifer Hudson have split up and Hudson has filed a protective order against the former wrestler.

Hudson's publicists told People Magazine on Thursday that the two have been in the process of ending their relationship and she filed a protective order against him earlier in the day. The two had been a couple for nearly 10 years.

Tracy M. Rizzo, Otunga's attorney, countered to People, claiming Hudson is making up a story in order to gain custody of the couple's eight-year-old son, David Otunga Jr.
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David Otunga has pulled out of appearing on the Survivor Series show (he was never advertised to appear on the show to begin with) after the bad publicity stemming from ex-girlfriend Jennifer Hudson accusing him of domestic abuse in what appears to be a child custody battle. She claims ongoing harassing and threatening behavior and that he once pushed her. In her court filings, she said they argued because he believed she was dating one of her producers and she denied that was true. She called police last night to try and get Otunga thrown out of their home. The police came and ordered him to leave the Chicago area home that she owns.
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She says this was just the most recent in a pattern of escalating and threatening behavior and she says she's especially concerned because David is a 6'3" 240 lb professional wrestler.

Hudson goes on to say in legal docs, on occasion David left a gun and holster on their kitchen counter. He said it was a movie prop, but Hudson says, "David knows that I am and have been very sensitive to firearms after my mother and my brother were murdered by a firearm." She says, "I believe that he left it out to taunt, intimidate and frighten me, which he absolutely accomplished."
Link to the article: http://www.tmz.com/2017/11/17/jennif...ction-custody/

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Tonight's CMLL show is expected to draw one of the biggest crowds of the year with nostalgia nights, with major stars dating back to the 70s in four of the six matches. Black Terry, Canek, Cien Caras and Dos Caras, who all wrestled in he 70s in California, will be wrestling on the show, along with top 80s flyer Super Astro, boom period rivals Octagon and Fuerza Guerrera, and Hall of Famer El Satanico. Last year's show saw Negro Casas, Satanico & Fuerza Guerrera get huge reactions with the place going nuts, while the main event was one of the deadest matches of the year, but it drew a huge crowd. So they are repeating this with a similar main event with Rayo Jalisco Jr. (57) & Dos Caras Sr. (66) & Villano IV (52) vs Canek (65) & Cien Caras (68) & Mascara Ano 2000 (59). The show airs live, and will be available on the CMLL Facebook page for a replay viewing shortly after it ends.

Revolution Pro Wrestling announced Hiroshi Tanahashi for its 4/6 show in New Orleans which will be on Friday at 4 p.m.

Capitol Wrestling has inked a deal with Twitch as their live streaming partner with shows every Monday night.
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WWE NXT star and former ROH champion Adam Cole was legitimately busted open last night at the WWE NXT event in Austin, Texas during a six man tag between The Undisputed Era and Sanity. Cody Walper, who was sitting ringside, noted, "They set up a spot on the floor literally right in front of me where Bobby Fish, Kyle O'Reilly and Cole all got sent into each other head-first by Ssanity and it sounded like a soda busting in a freezer. Cole bled heavily and got pulled to the back to get cleaned up. The rest of the guys did an awesome job buying time until Cole came back out (never once breaking character) and continued the match."

The Undispted Era scored the win.

PWInsider.com has confirmed with several sources that Cole required several staples to close the wound. One source believed it may have been as many as seven.
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The 11/16 edition of Impact did 272,000 overnight viewers, up from last week’s 250,000 overnight viewers.
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Just in time for his return at Survivor Series, WWE Shop has the brand-new purple and green "Cenation Respect" John Cena gear.
Link to the new colors: https://www.instagram.com/p/BbnDGlWFSbt/

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The 'Broken Matt Hardy' trademark will be published for opposition on December 19th, so any parties who want to oppose will have a 30-day period beginning from that date to file an opposition.

If there is no opposition, the trademark will officially be in the hands of Hardy and available for him to use, within WWE or independently of the company.
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WWE announced some dates for their next European tour:

May 9 - Bournemouth, England
May 10 - Belfast, Northern Ireland
May 11 - Dublin, Ireland
May 14 - London, England (RAW TV)
May 15 - London, England (Smackdown TV)
May 15 - Birmingham, England
May 16 - Liverpool, England
May 17 - Newcastle, England
May 18 - Sheffield, England

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Some stuff from TPWW Frontpage:Impact Results – Nov. 16, 2017 – Eli Drake vs. Petey Williams
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Raw got a bump from coming the day after Survivor Series, doing its best numbers since football season started with an average of 3.06 million viewers last night.

As would be expected, the show did a strong first hour, but held up well in hour two. The third hour had the usual big drop, but it was still the most-watched third hour since August ...

The three hours were:

8 p.m. 3.24 million viewers
9 p.m. 3.19 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.79 million viewers
Even though recent weeks have been higher than same period last year, probably still end with a lower year average because of how poor the numbers were in the first half of the year.

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It doesn't appear that Brock Lesnar vs. Finn Balor will be happening at the Royal Rumble.

Dave Meltzer noted on Wrestling Observer Radio last night that Lesnar vs. Balor for the Universal Championship was originally scheduled for the pay-per-view, but WWE changed their plans yesterday as they decided to move away from that match. Meltzer mentioned that Vince McMahon thinking Balor wasn't over enough to face Lesnar right now was one of the reasons behind the decision.

Meltzer also speculated that McMahon may have made up his mind prior to the official change of plans given how Balor was positioned in the men's elimination tag match at Survivor Series. It isn't clear who will be challenging for Lesnar's title at the Royal Rumble at this point in time.

Balor lost to Samoa Joe by referee stoppage due to passing out in the Coquina Clutch on Monday's episode of Raw. After defeating AJ Styles at TLC, Balor lost to Kane on Raw the next night and was laid out by him the following week. The idea was apparently to build Balor back up prior to the Royal Rumble.
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In another milestone for his career, Roman Reigns won the Intercontinental Championship for the first time on Monday's episode of Raw ...

Now that he's Intercontinental Champion, Reigns has completed WWE's Grand Slam of title wins. He's previously held the WWE, United States, and Tag Team titles in his career.

With no Raw-exclusive pay-per-views scheduled before the Royal Rumble, Reigns could be Intercontinental Champion heading into that PPV. Dave Meltzer has reported that Brock Lesnar vs. Reigns for the Universal Championship is tentatively scheduled to main event WrestleMania 34.
All Rollins needs is the IC belt for every member of the Shield to become WWE Grand Slam Champs.

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Pro Wrestling Sheet reported that WWE is in talks with Facebook for the test run of a new weekly in-ring show that would air on Facebook Live. If it were to happen, it would be filmed after SmackDown on Tuesdays and would possibly feature Raw and SmackDown wrestlers, with mixed tag matches reported as a possible theme. WWE applied to trademark “WWE Mixed Match Challenge” earlier this month. Pro Wrestling Sheet mentioned that 205 Live taking place before SmackDown has been discussed if the new show comes to fruition.
Link to the report: http://www.prowrestlingsheet.com/fac.../#.WhS0Z7Q-cW9

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The implosion of the Georgia Dome, which hosted WrestleMania 27 and Goldberg winning the WCW title from Hollywood Hogan in 1998 (among other Nitro episodes), took place yesterday. The Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta opened as the Georgia Dome’s replacement earlier this year.
In a bit of a LOL moment, Weather Channel tried to air live feed of the demolishing but picked a bad spot to do it since it was a bus stop and a bus showed up right as it started blocking the entire view of its collapse.

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Christopher Daniels responded to some of the criticism he’s received for the flaming table spot he was involved in against Cody Rhodes for ROH over the weekend: "When people criticize me or my decisions with moronic comments (not valid critique), I fight the urge to draw attention to a vocal minority of fans, but I will say this: 1) Our business is up, 2) My paychecks are fine, & 3) My career won't be 1 day shorter. NOT. ONE. DAY.”

NWA Champion Tim Storm accepted CZW’s invitation to appear at this year’s Cage of Death show on December 9th.

MLW announced that their first show of 2018 will take place at GILT Nightclub in Orlando on January 11th. Matt Riddle is the first wrestler confirmed for the event.

Punishment Martinez won the six-way Survival of the Fittest ROH match in Oklahoma City last night, meaning he should get a shot at the ROH championship shortly.
Dainels link: https://twitter.com/facdaniels/statu...08161304223744 , NWA link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvrbz6cta6Y

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Both Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian were injured at Ring of Honor events in Texas this weekend.

Kazarian took a bad bump taking the Indytaker move, a spike piledriver, during the finish of Friday night's main event in San Antonio, a match with The Young Bucks, Kenny Omega, Cody Rhodes & Stephen Amell vs. Daniels, Kazarian, Scorpio Sky & Flip Gordon. Kazarian didn't work last night in Dallas, and flew back home to California before the show. It was thought on Friday to have been a possible stinger.

Daniels suffered mild burns last night in Dallas from a spot where he took a powerbomb through a flaming table. Cody defeated Daniels in a Texas Death Match to retain the ROH World Championship at the show.

Those at ROH believe the injury to Kazarian is not serious, but he won't be on tonight's (Sunday) show in Oklahoma City. The belief is that Daniels will be able to work tonight's (Sunday) show.
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Regarding the term "Superkick" party, Matt Massie (Matt Jackson) registered the term for clothing in 2015. That doesn't prevent WWE announcers from using the term, like Byron Saxton did last night. It only means they can't merchandise the term for clothing.
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WWE sent out an email to current Network subscribers offering them their first month free. They later issued a correction noting that the email was sent in error and apologized for any confusion, saying they hope you’ll enjoy Survivor Series.

Another WWE Network offer sent to some people advertised that you could buy Survivor Series as a one-time purchase and access Network content through Monday for $24.99. With the first month being free to new subscribers and it being $9.99 to anyone else, that wouldn’t seem to be much of a deal. Much of the appeal of still offering traditional PPV is to reach people without good internet connections, but you’d need one to watch Survivor Series with this option anyway.
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Last night's WWE Intercontinental championship change, with Roman Reigns defeating the Miz, was done, due to the Miz taking time off to film a movie, PWInsider.com has confirmed.

One source believed Miz would be going to film the latest installment of WWE Studios' The Marine movie franchise. There have been five films thus far in The Marine franchise, with The Miz starring in the last three. We are told that there is no current timetable for Miz's return and last night was his final appearance until filming is completed.
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Some updates on the lawsuit Flosports, Inc. brought against EVOLVE parent company WWNLive Inc. back in September.

The lawsuit, seeking $1 million in damages, was originally filed in the United States District Court of Travis County, Texas 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.

WWN filed a motion on 11/13, requesting the lawsuit being dismissed, citing that the suit was filed in a venue (Texas) that lacks jurisdiction over WWNLive. Flosports had argued the case should be heard in Texas since they were doing business with WWN in that State. In their 22-page filing, WWN argued that their business was based in Florida, as are its business records and bank accounts ...

WWNLive also argued that Flosports has failed to actually state a claim regarding their allegation there has been "negligent misrepresentation" on the part of WWNLive. Flosports' lawsuit alleges that "WWN negligently or otherwise misrepresented the number of fans purchasing pay-per-view and video-on-demand access to their fighting events. When pressed for the data that backed up WWN’s spreadsheet of viewership, WWN originally claimed it had lost or deleted that information. Ultimately, WWN sent records listing many subscribers more than once and including purchasers of DVDs instead of broadcast services. Even with that artificial inflation of viewership, the numbers WWN attempted to account for were far less than those represented in its initial spreadsheet." Thus, "WWN induced FloSports to pay it hundreds of thousands of dollars based on data that was not only inaccurate and unreliable; it was just plain false."

WWNLive responded by denying there were any falsehoods in the Spreadsheet data Flosports received from WWN, noting, "That data was pulled from and compiled by a now-defunct third-party company named Fineline Hosting that was based in Florida." WWN is arguing that since the data was compiled by a Florida company (one that is now defunct) and was emailed to Flosports from Florida, there is no actual merit to claiming "negligent misrepresentation" in the state of Texas - even if there was indeed inaccurate information ...

Flosports alleged that they have "Invested time and money that it will never recover in the market" noting, "since viewership drives FloSports’ subscription-base and its advertising revenue, WWN’s misrepresentations robbed FloSports..." WWN responded to that, citing, "Texas law is unequivocal, however, that benefit of the bargain damages are not recoverable for a claim of negligent misrepresentation" and claim that Flosports' own language in the lawsuit admits such, therefore the negligent misrepresentation count should be dropped.
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ESPN has a story here about some of the charity work that WWE did over Survivor Series weekend in Houston. It was noted that Booker T and NXT tag team The Street Profits worked with Habitat for Humanity on a house for a family in need, AJ Styles and Mark Henry helped out at the Houston Food Bank while Samoa Joe, Finn Balor, Sasha Banks and Alicia Fox worked with Americares to hand out medical kits hours before last Sunday's pay-per-view.
Link: http://www.espn.com/wwe/story/_/id/2...ston-food-bank

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WWE has apparently dropped the Network series Bring It To The Table, according to PWInsider. While there has been no official word on it being cancelled, Mike Johnson noted that the set was put in storage and there are no plans for future episodes. The series usually featured JBL, Corey Graves and Peter Rosenberg, although Paul Heyman filled in for Graves on a couple of occasions. It hasn't aired since JBL announced his WWE departure in September, with the last episode airing in late July.

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This week's WWE SmackDown, featuring the fallout from Sunday's WWE Survivor Series pay-per-view, drew 2.662 million viewers. This is up 2% from last week's 2.607 million viewers. SmackDown featured Natalya vs. SmackDown Women's Champion Charlotte Flair plus the debut of The Bludgeon Brothers advertised ahead of time. The main event featured Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens going over The New Day in a Handicap Lumberjack Match.
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Luke Harper and Erick Rowan are now just listed as “Harper” and “Rowan” respectively on WWE’s roster page after returning to TV.

TMZ reported that David Otunga was granted the right to have custody of his son from 3 p.m. on Thanksgiving to 7 p.m. the following day. A hearing is set for Monday, where Otunga will ask the judge to vacate the order of protection Jennifer Hudson filed against him and will ask for temporary custody of their son.

Daniel Bryan named AJ Styles as the person he’d like to wrestle if WWE were to clear him to return to the ring.
Otunga link: http://www.tmz.com/2017/11/21/jennif...-thanksgiving/ , Bryan link: https://www.si.com/wrestling/2017/11...yan-finn-balor

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NJPW’s Takaaki Kidani tweeted that tickets for January’s Tokyo Dome show are selling at their fastest pace in “around 20 years” and a high proportion of fans are coming from overseas. Kenny Omega responded by telling Kidani “you’re welcome.”

After taking on Matt Riddle at their Global Wars UK show earlier this month, Minoru Suzuki is returning to Revolution Pro Wrestling for their High Stakes 2018 event on January 20th.
NJPW link: https://twitter.com/reasonjp/status/933174738280517632 , Omega link: https://twitter.com/KennyOmegamanX/s...99308215656448 , RevPro link: https://twitter.com/RevProUK/status/933385647573929984

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The current plan for WWE is to have 14 PPVs in the year 2018. The schedule calls for there to be 5 Raw shows, 4 Smackdown shows and 5 combined events.

The new co-branded event will be Money In The Bank, which is slated for June 17 in Chicago, Ilinois.
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Longtime WWE wrestler and backstage staffer "The Brooklyn Brawler" Steve Lombardi quietly released an autobiography Brawler Unfiltered this month. It is currently only available via Amazon as an EBook for Kindle, featuring a foreword by Eric Bischoff.

A Big Van Vader autobiography has been completed and will be released around Wrestlemania 34. The book was co-written by Kenny Casanova, who did an amazing job on the Kamala autobiography and is working as well on the forthcoming Brutus Beefcake and Dangerous Danny Davis books.

April "AJ Lee" Mendez-Brooks' book Crazy is My Superpower will be released in paperback in April 2018. If you haven't read it, it really is an excellent book.
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From November 24 until November 26 (ending at 11:59pm ET) ROH Shop will have a Black Friday Weekend Sale with 25% off apparel (Bullet Club apparel only on Friday), 35% off DVDs, and free shipping on U.S. orders over $100. You can check out the full details by clicking here.

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Today is the 27th anniversary of The Undertaker's televised WWE debut at the Survivor Series in 1990. Taker debuted with manager Brother Love as a member of The Million Dollar Team, and was eliminated from the match for beating up WWE Hall of Famer Dusty Rhodes all the way backstage.
Video of his WWF debut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-1gy7CcSzs

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The latest collection of previously unreleased music by Jim Johnston, "WWE: Uncaged IV", is now available on iTunes. It features tracks for Brock Lesnar, The Ringmaster, Triple H, Lex Luger, Essa Rios, Kevin Nash, Droz, Chris Masters and D-X.
Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ww...-iv/1314592354


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  • According to PWI, WWE currently planning on holding more back-to-back RAW and Smackdown shows in the same cities and venues for next year. Likely as a way to reduce traveling and other costs.
  • Recent episode of The Ross Report podcast had Batista as the guest talking about not feeling ready for his initial big push, match with Taker at Mania 23, and feeling the match with Taker should have closed out the show. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...ania-23-match/


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MCW on 12/1 in Joppa, MD at the MCW Arena features an appearance by Sgt. Slaughter. Joey Mercury vs. The Bruiser is the main event. They also announced that on 2/17 they will have Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Tully Blanchard, Barry Windham and J.J. Dillon together along with Rosa Mendes.

MLW announced its third show of the new run would be 1/11 in Orlando at Gilt Nightclub featuring Matt Riddle.

For the MLW show on 12/7 in Orlando, if you go to www.MLWtickets.com and use the code WON, and you are a subscriber, you can get $5 off all tickets.
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Our Good Friends at www.RingsideCollectibles.com are starting their Black Friday sale early. It begins at 6 p.m. ET today. There will be a limited number of doorbusters at great prices so if you are interested in getting them, go to the site at 6 PM and get them before they sell out. They also new figures in stock, including an exclusive Shawn Michaels collectibles in stock.
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SAVE BIG WITH ROH BLACK FRIDAY WEEKEND SALES

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Thanksgiving is a time to relax, reflect, and spend quality time with the people you care about most. We also know this is prime time to knock out your holiday shopping. Here at Ring Of Honor we want to help you do both!

There’s no need to leave your family anymore to compete with long lines and overcrowded parking lots. ROH is hooking you up with big savings and even free shipping—and it all kicks off with BULLET CLUB BLACK FRIDAY!

For Friday only, all Bullet Club branded merchandise will be 25% off! Rep your favorite Bullet Club members including ROH World Champion Cody, ROH World Six-Man Champions The Young Bucks & Hangman Page, IWGP US Champion Kenny Omega, and IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion Marty Scurll!

In addition to BULLET CLUB BLACK FRIDAY, starting Midnight Eastern (Friday, Nov 24) through Sunday, Nov. 26, All ROH DVDs will be 35% Off and All Apparel** will be 25% Off! Not only that, but all orders over $100 will receive Free US Shipping!
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The Pop Network, which carries Impact Wrestling on Thursdays, has been pulled from the Dish Network due to an ongoing contractual issue between Pop's parent company CBS and the satellite provider.
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WWEShop.com has their Black Friday sale underway. You can save up to 75% on select WWE merchandise and an additional 25% off orders clicking here and using code FRIDAY at checkout.
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Sasha Banks was recently interviewed by The Hindustan Times to promote the upcoming RAW live event in Delhi on December 9th. During the interview, Sasha talked about headlining WrestleMania as being her biggest WWE goal.

"My main goal is to feature in the main event of Wrestlemania. It is the biggest dream of any WWE wrestler and although there has never been an all-woman main event, I think it is about time," Sasha said. "We have already done great things like the Money in the Bank this year and it is my goal to create history by headlining the biggest show of the company."

Sasha headlined the 2016 Hell In A Cell pay-per-view, which was the first time a women's match headlined a WWE pay-per-view. Sasha lost her RAW Women's Championship to Charlotte Flair in the Hell In A Cell cage.
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Below is the official poster for ROH Final Battle PPV in New York City on December 15. The main event will be Cody defending the ROH World Championship against Dalton Castle.

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It appears that all the controversy regarding Owens from when he and Zayn were sent home is gone, but the same isn’t the case of Zayn.
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Styles did an interview with boxhouston.com and said his goal right now it to work hard so he can enjoy it later noting that in a few years he’ll be able to see all of his kids sporting events. Styles in the past had told us he’s looking at retiring around the age of 42, and he’s 40 right now. But he’s making a ton of money right now and when you are, unless it’s an injury situation, the lure of one more year is pretty great. I can’t think of one person who truly walked away on his own except Michaels, although guys like Orton have remained with a reduced schedule and are really happy with it. There could be that compromise when his contract expires (early 2019) so he could still make good money while having more time to be with his family
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Wrestle Kingdom won’t be on PPV in North America. New Japan refused to allow it, wanting the only way to see it live be on New Japan World. The feeling is with Jericho vs. Omega that they have the shot at greatly building the number of new subscribers overseas as the mentality of that match is it’ll put new eyeballs on the product and many will enjoy it enough to become regular customers. Fite TV offered New Japan is significant guarantee for PPV rights outside of Japan but New Japan wasn’t interested in the deal. It is leaving money on the table, because there are people who will order a PPV, and there would also be advertising for the PPV that will hit people that aren’t going to order New Japan World. But the New Japan mentality is they want everyone they can on New Japan World with the idea of this show building numbers and retaining them going forward. Really New Japan should at this point be working with American partners to do four major shows a year, the Dome, G-1 finals, Dominion and a fourth similar show from a major U.S. city, and put them on live PPV and then follow it a week or two later with TV specials on AXS similar to the big event boxing model
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ric Van Wagenen of Lucha Underground on the Masks, Mats and Mayhem show said they would tape an episode count in the 20s from mid-February through the end of March, and the show would start airing in the late spring or early summer. He said taping so many episodes so quickly is due to the budget constraints and that the goal is to make it appear too the viewers that the shows don’t have a greatly lowered budget and noted cutbacks in things like vignettes. He said they’ll be taping every weekend during that period and may do some three nights of tapings (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) certain weeks. He said a deal is in place not only for next season, but also seasons five, six and seven, working with the new budget. He said the plan would be a set of tapings once a year, at the same time, so season five would, in theory, be taped in the spring of 2019.

Because of only using talent two months a year, they are relaxing the restrictions on where the talent is allowed to work as far as television goes. The original idea was for them to be exclusive on North American television to Lucha Underground. Now the idea is that they would allow talent to work on TV in other groups and said in specific they are opening doors to ROH (which explains Joey Ryan in ROH this past weekend), NOAH, Impact and Stardom. He said they are also open to letting people out of their contracts who don’t want to stay. He said they would give people releases who don’t want to stay, but asked that they return for at least part of next season so they could write their characters out or have them drop championships if they have them. If that is the case, then the issue a lot of talent had should be rectified if they are able to get releases if they ask for them. It’ll be interesting who decides to stay at that point, because the one issue is that WWE won’t use anyone under contract to another company and don’t want to have a tampering case, so it’s been hands off on bringing people in for tryouts or directly offering people from here any deals. The one issue is they don’t have a location to tape at this point as the studio in Boyle Heights is being used, but the hope is to find a place in the Los Angeles area.
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The January television tapings are going to be back in Orlando at the Impact Zone. Even though they could appear, I don’t anticipate either Taryn Terrell or Jim Cornette being back. Both were gone because the tapings were being done in Canada and in the case of Terrell, she couldn’t get in the country, and with Cornette, while he may have been able to, he didn’t want to take the steps to do so
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Cena was only in for Survivor Series and right now is not scheduled for the 12/17 Clash of the Champions, even though it’s in Boston. He is scheduled to start back at the Raw house show on 12/26 in Madison Square Garden
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With six new women characters all starting at once, that has left a lot of marginal talent nervous about spots because when there are a lot of additions there are likely some subtractions coming
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WWE sent another marketing survey asking some people who their favorite wrestler was, including current stars, all the major stars from the past (Savage, Flair, Sammartino, Piper) and the NXT stars. The key name not listed was Hogan
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It’s notable that ever since Lio Rush made the ill-advised joke on Twitter when Tenille Dashwood was fired, which he quickly apologized about, he hasn’t been used on any shows. Hopefully for his sake this blows over but it is a lesson not to mock people who have just lost their jobs, even though he wasn’t really mocking as much as trying to be clever and not realizing it was the wrong time. People in the company see Rush as a down the line main roster legit superstar but he also has a lot of heat on him with the tweet being a catalyst and he’s been on ice every since
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However, what has come interesting is that FS 1 has had talks in recent months with WWE. The feeling is if they lose UFC programming, they can plug in WWE programming on FS 1, which would be significantly higher rated for a station that has been struggling to garner consistent viewership. WWE programming alone would up FS 1's prime time average, but the negative is that as a sports station, there is the question as to whether WWE should fit into that category. For WWE, their audience would surely decline moving from USA to FS 1, both because USA has a much higher base prime time audience and because (based on August numbers), USA is available in 91,898,000 homes whereas FS is in 84,221,000 homes. Less audience available means and lower profile television which means fewer fans, although the difference in tens of millions annually greatly overrides whatever decline that will cause. And there are ways to reach fans other than television that are more meaningful than in the past. Nobody knows how quick the migration will be regarding the value of television time from a promotional standpoint, as well as monetary, as compared with streaming. Since UFC events on FS 1 stream and air on television, we do have actual numbers and of late, it’s still more than 98 percent of viewers will watch the FS 1 shows on FS 1 as opposed to streaming it on their television or watching it away from their television.

What makes this notable is that if FOX does keep UFC, the value of WWE for them goes down significantly. They could easily air both, since UFC is mostly Saturday nights and WWE is Monday and Tuesday, but it’s questionable that the station would want to pay the costs for both promotions.

WWE also met with CBS, Disney, Amazon and YouTube, to get ready for its next round of negotiations. Right now, no serious negotiations can take place because NBC Universal, the parent company of the USA Network, has an exclusive negotiations period that ends in about four months.





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I don't get it......
Because the latest rumor is that Vince feels he is not over enough to face Brock at the Rumble, Finn's made a post where he's forced the phrase "I'm not over" into the sentence, and he's capitalized it for emphasis. See, it's funny because he's not over and he capitalized "I'm not over," even though no one would use the sentence "I'm not over cooking the turkey."
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