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Old 08-27-2018, 12:00 PM   #1
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Old 08-24-2018, 09:50 PM   #2
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Ratings for Thursday's episode of Impact were about even with last week's numbers.

The show averaged 212,000 viewers on Pop TV, up just under one percent from last Thursday. At 248,000, 168,000, 210,000, and 212,000 viewers, the last four episodes have been the four lowest audiences for Impact in 2018. All four went up against preseason football ...

For a year-over-year comparison, the August 24, 2017 episode of Impact drew 296,000 viewers.
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New Japan Pro Wrestling's next show in the United States will be airing on AXS TV a few days after taking place.

AXS announced today that Fighting Spirit Unleashed, which will be held at the Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, California on September 30, will be premiering on the channel at 8 p.m. Eastern time on October 5. The show is taking place on a Sunday and then airing on AXS on Friday.

Jim Ross and Kevin Kelly will be the broadcast team for the event, with Kelly filling in for Josh Barnett due to Barnett having a scheduling conflict.

“I had a conflicting event with one of my fighters in Japan,” Barnett said, “otherwise I’d be there to call this event and have my partner Jim Ross’ back, as always. I’ll be back next time!”

“While I will miss working with my normal broadcast partner Josh Barnett, I am excited for the opportunity to work again with Kevin Kelly, whom I broadcast with for the first time 20 years ago," Ross said. “Kevin has great knowledge from working on NJPW World, so he’ll bring another perspective to the broadcast and, as we all know, anything can and usually does happen. It should be a heck of a night.”

Cody Rhodes challenging for Juice Robinson's IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship, The Young Bucks defending their IWGP Tag Team titles against Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa, and Will Ospreay vs. Marty Scurll in an IWGP Junior Heavyweight title tournament semifinal match have been announced for Fighting Spirit Unleashed.

KUSHIDA vs. BUSHI is the other semifinal match in the eight-man tournament, with them facing off at Destruction in Kobe on September 23. The finals are scheduled for King of Pro Wrestling on October 8.
Link: http://www.axs.tv/press_articles/axs...-5-at-8pe-5pp/

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For those asking, the 9/30 Long Beach New Japan show will air live on NJPW World. It won't air on AXS TV until 10/5 in its normal Friday night time slot. Jim Ross and Kevin Kelly will be announcing since Josh Barnett will be at the Rizin show at the Saitama Super Arena cornering one of his fighters that night.
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Pro Wrestling Revolver on 10/20 in West Des Moines, IA at the Val Air Ballroom with Sami Callihan & Jake & Dave Crist & Larry D vs. Shane Strickland & Matthew Palmer & Jason Cade & ?, Walter vs. PCO, Dezmond Xavier & Zachary Wentz vs. Mat Fitchett & Davey Vega vs. Dustin Rayz & Aaron Williams, JT Dunn vs. Jimmy Jacobs, Rich Swann vs. David Starr vs. Trey Miguel and Marko Stunt vs. Ace Romero.

Rise on 10/19 in Berwyn, IL with Rise champion Tessa Blanchard vs. Mercedes Martinez in a 60 minute Iron woman match and Dust & Raven's Ash defend the tag titles against Delilah Doom & Shotzi Blackheart.

The UK based Revolution Pro Wrestling has announced they will be holding a television taping on Wednesday, September 5th at York Hall. They have announced KUSHIDA vs. Zack Sabre Jr. and Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Chris Brookes this far for the taping, which is being promoted as an “International Wrestling TV Taping” but have not announced the outlet.

MLW has announced singles matches with Teddy Hart vs. Rich Swann and Brian Pillman Jr. vs. Vandal Ortagun for their War Games card on September 6th in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Chase Owens has been added to the Ring of Honor television tapings from Las Vegas on Saturday, September 29th.
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Ronda Rousey's emergence in WWE has impressed many with her dedication to learning the art form of professional wrestling. Sasha Banks recently spoke to Peter Rosenburg on Complex's Open Late where she expanded on how she initially felt like WWE didn't need a distraction like Rousey, but that opinion changed in time ...

"I'm ready for her," Banks said on wanting to face Rousey. "Especially knowing her now I would be more than happy to have a match with her. I think she's awesome I think we could make magic together and I have don't have anything bad to say about her.

"When I first found out that she was going to come [to WWE] I was like 'ugh we don't need that taking away from what we're doing but she helps so much she works so hard. She always wants to learn and she loves it and respects it, and you know, I appreciate that. She works very hard."
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The September vintage WWE Network content will be more episodes of the old WWWF All Star Wrestling series from the 1970s and early '80s.

As PWInsider.com previously reported, the Network will be working on adding additional content to already established vintage wrestling content as opposed to adding new, older wrestling promotions or series that have yet to be presented in the Vault section of the WWE Network.
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WWE has begun uploading 1981 episodes of All-Star Wrestling to the WWE Network.
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Any word on Summerslam next year? There was nothing announced during the show and they usually make that announcement.

The rumor among those within the company was that the event was Toronto-bound, but we were unable to confirm that. Raw is in Toronto next week, so it makes sense to announce it then. Had they announced that during Summerslam, they would have risked the NYC audience being angry and turning on the show live.
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WWE NXT Champion Tommaso Ciampa debuted a new entrance and finally came out with theme music at last night's tapings. Correspondent Will Henderson (@willh94) tweeted these photos of Ciampa making his entrance at the tapings:

It's his moment now. @ProjectCiampa #NXTFSLive pic.twitter.com/lcUvFWq2eE
— Will Henderson (@willh94) August 24, 2018
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As expected, Madison Rayne's latest stint in IMPACT Wrestling has officially come to an end.

Earlier this week, her profile on ImpactWrestling.com was removed from the Knockouts roster and placed among the Alumni.

Last month at Slammiversary, Rayne unsuccessfully challenged Su Yung for the Knockouts Championship. Rayne passed out after Yung locked in the mandible claw, thus awarding the victory to Yung. Immediately following the match, Yung placed an unconscious Rayne inside the coffin and stood on top of it with the Knockouts Championship held high.

Yung's actions seemingly wrote off Rayne's character from IMPACT Wrestling and the promotion alluded to that on Twitter ...

A week later, WWE announced that she would compete as Ashley Rayne in Mae Young Classic 2018.

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Old 08-26-2018, 01:49 AM   #3
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The Rock competing in the RR is my guess
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Old 08-27-2018, 03:45 AM   #4
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I posted that without reading what Slik said.
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Old 08-27-2018, 11:43 AM   #5
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SummerSlam in Toronto likely to be announced this week while WWE is in Toronto for RAW
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Old 08-27-2018, 03:31 PM   #6
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Old 08-27-2018, 06:11 PM   #7
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Interesting to hear what Seth Rollins has to say about that.
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Old 08-27-2018, 06:25 PM   #9
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Old 08-28-2018, 02:04 AM   #10
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Why Seth Rollins?
Because he was one of the assholes that dog-piled Dave Meltzer. Yet here he is taking a paycheck from Saudi Arabia. It's so fucking dirty and hypocritical.
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Even though the competition was much easier last night than the week before, Raw was down eight percent from last week with 2.84 million viewers.

But last week was unusually high due to coming the day after SummerSlam. Last night's number was almost identical to the 2.82 million viewers from two weeks ago ...

The three hours were:

8 p.m. 3.08 million viewers
9 p.m. 2.93 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.63 million viewers
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Jason Sensation, who appeared on WWE TV in the late 1990s as an Owen Hart impersonator, created a scare before last night’s Raw by tweeting that he brought a gun through security and was going to kill himself at the show. Authorities were informed and the Toronto Police issued a statement saying that they were with Jason and that he was never at the arena: “We are with Jason Sensation now he was never at the Scotiabank Arena, all is in order." Jason sent out a tweet today apologizing to anyone who was affected and said that he was detained and forced to stay in the hospital: “I've been detained by Police & forced to stay in the Hospital after sending out that awful, thoughtless tweet last night. I honestly wasn't thinking strait. I am sincerely sorry & apologize to everyone & anyone this affected, especially my loved ones, @WWE & @TorontoPolice.”
Links: https://twitter.com/iamjohnpollock/s...58569888026624 , https://twitter.com/JasonSensationX/...01275768049665

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Natalya paid tribute to her father by pointing to the sky after defeating Alicia Fox on Raw. She also tweeted after the match: “Right about now, I’d be texting my dad about my night and how it all went...especially after I wrestled. I know my dad was there watching me tonight on #Raw. I did that dropkick just for him. I hope I made him proud!”
Link: https://twitter.com/NatbyNature/stat...18924941287424

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The NWA also uploaded Nick Aldis and Cody’s face-to-face segment from Saturday’s ROH TV tapings in Philadelphia ahead of their NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship match at All In.

NJPW officially announced Kenny Omega, Kota Ibushi, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kazuchika Okada, Tomohiro Ishii, Tetsuya Naito, EVIL, and SANADA for Fighting Spirit Unleashed in Long Beach, California on September 30. Matches for those wrestlers have yet to be announced. Juice Robinson vs. Cody Rhodes for the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship, The Young Bucks vs. Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa for the IWGP Tag Team titles, and Will Ospreay vs. Marty Scurll in a semifinal IWGP Junior Heavyweight title tournament match are set for the show.

Tom Lawlor will face Joey Janela at MLW’s War Games event in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on September 6.

Jason Cade vs. Myron Reed has been added to the MLW show 9/6 in Fort Lauderdale.

MLW has announced that they will be holding an event during WrestleMania Week in New York on Thursday, April 4th. The company has announced that the event will feature several elements and will include a television taping for the MLW Fusion program on beIN Sports. In the release, the event was not promoted as “WaleMania”, which was the name of MLW’s annual WrestleMania Week event dating back to 2015. Wale recently appeared on WWE programming when he sat in on commentary for a match on 205 Live last week.

Shimmer provided an update on their streaming service yesterday, noting that it should be up and running within about a week. Shimmer 1-61 will be available in the archive at launch.

Smash Wrestling is also running a unique concept show on October 14th at the Rec Room where all the wrestlers will work for free and admission is free. They will be taking optional donations, with all the money going to the staff members at Smash Wrestling with the company and wrestlers taking nothing.
NWA: https://youtu.be/81ohUGyqpX8 , NJPW: https://www.njpw1972.com/34699 , MLW: https://mlw.com/2018/08/28/lawlor-vs...south-florida/ , Shimmer: https://twitter.com/SHIMMERwomen/sta...23223053553664

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Ring of Honor has officially announced the Tag Team title match for next month's Death Before Dishonor pay-per-view.

It will be The Briscoes defending their titles against SoCal Uncensored members Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian at the PPV. The teams have been feuding since Best in the World in June, where SCU said they wanted the titles after making the save while The Briscoes were attacking The Young Bucks.

The Briscoes are also set to face Kazarian & Scorpio Sky in a non-title match at All In (during the Zero Hour broadcast on WGN America) this Saturday.

Death Before Dishonor is taking place at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on September 28.
Link: https://www.rohwrestling.com/news/ta...death-dishonor

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The updated lineup for the Friday 9/28 Ring of Honor Death Before Dishonor 2018 PPV in Las Vegas at the Orleans Arena features:
*Kazuchika Okada & Trent Baretta & Tomohiro Ishii & Rocky Romero & Chucky T vs. The Young Bucks & Cody & Marty Scurll and Adam "Hangman" Page.
*ROH TV Champion Punishment Martinez vs. Chris Sabin.
*ROH Tag Team Champions The Briscoes vs. The Addiction.
*Women of Honor Champion Sumie Sakai vs. Tenille Dashwood.
*Jushin Liger, EVIL, SANADA and KUSHIDA in action.
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Two more names have been added to the Over Budget Battle Royal at All In: Zero Hour.

Punishment Martinez and Brandon Cutler have been added to the match over the last couple of days. Martinez is the current ROH television champion. Cutler has been regularly working in the California area in the last year, and has previously wrestled for PWG and Championship Wrestling from Hollywood.

Already announced for the battle royal are Jordynne Grace, Brian Cage, Moose, Billy Gunn, Rocky Romero, Jimmy Jacobs, Marko Stunt, Colt Cabana and Ethan Page. This brings the current total to 11, with four more spots still unannounced. Also set for Zero Hour is a tag team match pitting the Briscoe Brothers against SoCal Uncensored’s Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky.

All In: Zero Hour is the preshow that will be held right before All In’s main card goes on the air. It will start at at 6 p.m. EDT on WGN America.
Link: https://twitter.com/ALL_IN_2018/stat...96002138255360

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As we reported yesterday on PWInsider.com, Jeff Jarrett and his company Global Wrestling Entertainment had sought an order from the United States District Court of Tennessee regarding the Global Force Wrestling master copies, requesting an expedited discovery regarding the masters while also requesting ruling requiring Impact Wrestling's parent company Anthem Sports & Entertainment to allow them access to the masters so they can be copied as Jarrett's side has filed a copyright on each hour of the 16 hours worth of footage.

Yesterday, the court denied that order, ruling that it has not even been confirmed that Anthem has even been officially served with the lawsuit, noting that the motion wasn't even sent to Anthem's attorney, but "only a registered agent" for Anthem. The court noted that even if they ruled in Jarrett's favor, they would "have no idea" who to send the order to, since there are not attorneys attached to the Anthem side as of 8/27.
More details via PWI: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...tapes.html?p=1

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WWE's website now lists Kevin Owens as a member of their alumni, playing up the idea he quit on Raw.
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For those wondering what Kevin Owens said in French on Raw, it was: "Oh so you're not happy anymore? Earlier you were happy and now you are mad? But hey, it doesn't bother me, you already all paid for the new t-shirt anyway."
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*One of the pivotal behind-the-scenes figures behind the rise of the World Wrestling Federation as a national touring entity has passed away. Ed Cohen, who previously served as the Senior Vice President of Live Events, had been in poor health prior to his passing on Sunday. Cohen was instrumental during the national expansion and growth period of the 80’s when it came to the touring department. Cohen secured deals with arenas and buildings throughout North America, including the booking of the Pontiac Silverdome for WrestleMania 3 in 1987. One of his colleagues said that he extremely well-liked by everyone, including Vince McMahon and was always seen smiling and greeting the guys when they arrived at the buildings. Cohen is one of those guys, much like the late Zane Bresloff, who had such an extreme knowledge of the business end of the company and the ins and outs of the touring side of the business that it would have been highly educational and informative if we had ever written a book or did a lengthy interview about his career. The WWE issued the following statement on his passing:

WWE is saddened to learn of the passing of beloved former WWE Live Events executive Ed Cohen. Cohen was instrumental in helping to transform WWE’s Live Event touring business into the global phenomenon it is today. The company would like to express its sincerest condolences to Mr. Cohen’s family and friends. He will be greatly missed.
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Above is video of Mike Rome talking to WWE Hall of Famer Trish Stratus after her hometown appearance in Toronto last night. Stratus discussed the women's revolution and the upcoming match with Alexa Bliss at WWE Evolution.

"It's almost like, I feel like we were always trying to be part of the boys, and try to be welcomed into this community, this wrestling world," Trish said when asked about the progress of the women's division. "And I feel like we finally made it, we made our mark, we are viewed as equals and we have equal opportunities, and it feels really good. When you go into this world and you're doing your work, you don't know really what you're creating, you're creating this stuff behind you and to step away from it, and come back, and to see what we had a little part of... Amy Dumas (WWE Hall of Famer Lita) and I, and Victoria, and Molly Holly, and the girls. It's amazing, I'm honored to be part of it and I'm excited about October because I'm going to whoop Alexa Bliss' butt."
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WWE recently filed to register trademarks on The Undisputed Era, Bobby Fish, Kyle O'Reilly, Kairi Sane and Corey Graves.

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  • For those interested, the PS4 version of Fire Pro World was released earlier today.
  • Also for those interested, the WWE: 30 Years of SummerSlam DVD set was released today as well.
  • Justin Credible recently launched a podcast show called "I Hate This Podcast w/ Justin" http://www.crediblepod.com/
  • Seth Rollins recently celebrated the 6th anniversary of his WWE career. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm_YfkFh...ource=ig_embed


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Kevin Owens will drop 25 lbs to get in "Chris Benoit shape" and return as "Silent" with his new manager....Paul Heyman


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Lol, we all know what happens when Kevin Owens is asked to lose weight.
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It sounds cool but it's odd to make the best talker in the business go silent.
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It sounds cool but it's odd to make the best talker in the business go silent.
Kinda like trying to turn faces that the crowd has a connection with all heel
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Rock vs Roman possibly at WM35:


http://www.bodyslam.net/2018/08/29/w...35-main-event/


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I heard Rock was maybe going to appear at SDLive 1000 and was negotiating for the Royal Rumble...but I can't see WWE doing Rock vs Roman because it doesn't help anyone. Roman gets booed out of the building if he pins Rock, Roman shouldn't lose to part-timers at WM and The Rock really shouldn't return to lose. A Rock/HHH or Rock/someone like Miz program makes more sense to me.
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I heard Rock was maybe going to appear at SDLive 1000 and was negotiating for the Royal Rumble...but I can't see WWE doing Rock vs Roman because it doesn't help anyone. Roman gets booed out of the building if he pins Rock, Roman shouldn't lose to part-timers at WM and The Rock really shouldn't return to lose. A Rock/HHH or Rock/someone like Miz program makes more sense to me.
Rock/Hogan, Rock/Cena, Rock/Cena II.

Roman is going to get booed out of the building anyway. Reigns loses to part-timers anyway (three times in the past SummerSlam-to-SummerSlam year alone). He also lost to Bobby Lashley.

If Rock comes back, he is headlining the PPV, because nothing will be able to follow it. Why would you put Triple H or The Miz in another WrestleMania main event? Although Triple H would probably be down for it, and I think that was the plan a few years ago. Just let Reigns beat the advertised Mania main event record and never mention the fact that he's lost 2 or 3 of those 5.
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If that does happen, Reigns ends up tying Hogan's Mania main events in a row record.

He breaks it if you count Bret-Yokozuna and not Hogan-Yokozuna as the real main event match of Mania IX.
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Slik I see your point on Roman/Rock however I think that match would be so mega huge for WWE/Roman that they cannot pass it up if they can get it. I can see Roman/Rock having a really fun match and likely Roman would be selling the whole match which would please the Wrestlemania audience. So what if they lose their shit when Roman hits the spear 1...2.....3 WWE already has their money and won't be coming back to NYC for WM for probably 10 years.
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True.

And a grumpy crowd reaction has not deterred WWE yet, because as I myself am a perfect example, many will likely attend another WM regardless or continue to watch.
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Other than gate potential and additional network buys, Rock v Reigns is a dead end. Like Slik said, Rock shouldn't come back to lose, Reigns shouldn't lose, but winning doesn't really do anything for him either.

If they can draw Rock out for something like a 4 or 5 match run then maybe it'd be beneficial.

From a pure entertainment standpoint I'm all for it tho.
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Ring of Honor has confirmed the Television title match for next month's Death Before Dishonor pay-per-view and announced one of NJPW's top stars for the post-PPV tapings.

Punishment Martinez will be defending his TV title against Chris Sabin at Death Before Dishonor. Sabin defeated Silas Young in a number one contender's match in June to get the title shot.
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WWE Network News reported that Antonio Cesaro, Dean Ambrose & Damien Sandow vs. Seth Rollins, Derrick Bateman (EC3) & Johnny Curtis (Fandango) is being added to the WWE Network’s hidden gems section this week. The match took place for FCW in 2011.
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NJPW announced that All In will be available on-demand for New Japan World subscribers “shortly after the live broadcast.” Further details on when the show will be uploaded haven’t been revealed.

Episode six of “All Us” is largely focused on building to Christopher Daniels vs. Stephen Amell at All In.

Terry Funk told Sports Illustrated that a problem with his abdominal hernia is preventing him from traveling to Starrcast and All In. Funk said about the success of All In: “I think it’s wonderful that Cody is having success, and I was really looking forward to seeing him. Cody and Dusty are similar in so many ways, but they’re different also. I’ve never met anyone like Dusty. He was loved by everyone and everybody. He was a phenomenal in-ring performer who understood the business, and that was passed on to Cody."

FreeSports in the United Kingdom revealed that Revolution Pro Wrestling is going to start airing on the channel in September. RevPro has TV tapings taking place at York Hall in London on September 5 and 6, and they'll air on FreeSports later in the month. 5 Star Wrestling was formerly on FreeSports before the promotion shut down.
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Tuesday's post-SmackDown episode of WWE's Miz & Mrs. on the USA Network drew 1.161 million viewers and ranked #6 for the night on cable in the 18-49 demographic.

This is down from last week's episode, which drew 1.235 million viewers and ranked #3 for the night. This is also the lowest viewership and lowest 18-49 demographic ranking for the show since it began.

Last night's episode was the season one finale of the show. The second season will begin airing some time in 2019 ...

Below is our Miz & Mrs. Season 1 Viewership Tracker with totals:
  • Episode 1: 1.473 million viewers
  • Episode 2: 1.303 million viewers
  • Episode 3: 1.225 million viewers
  • Episode 4: 1.162 million viewers
  • Episode 5: 1.235 million viewers
  • Episode 6: 1.161 million viewers

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  • According to Post Wrestling's John Pollock, WWE recently changed their plans for the Becky-Charlotte storyline due to poor reception. Instead of being a typical face-heel feud, both are going to be presented more evenly in terms of motivates and reasons. Same for Becky's heel turn being dropped in favor of being more anti-hero or Austin-like.


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Rock/Roman as a one off would be great.
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Gabe Sapolsky tweeted about Velveteen Dream working EVOLVE 112 in Joppa, Maryland on September 7 and EVOLVE 113 in Queens, New York on September 8: “Dream was requested by us because of his history at the MCW Arena in Joppa, MD. We wanted a homecoming. He was then asked to do Queens, to give the fans something special at La Boom. Dream was not ‘sent’ by anyone, he agreed and wanted to. This is WWE helping the independent wrestling scene. This is WWE, EVOLVE and Velveteen Dream giving fans a unique, memorable and exciting experience. This is what is good for our business. Thank you.”
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Keith Lee told WWE.com about how Dusty Rhodes helped with his “Bask in my Glory” catchphrase: “When I first met and worked with him, he let me know how much and where I lacked. I applied his words and honed myself. During the 2013 tryout, if you were going to show who you were on a microphone, you had to do it in front of The American Dream. When I finished, he pulled me aside and said to me, ‘That's it, baby. You've got a presence I can literally bask in. Take it and do what you want.’ And thus, ‘Bask in my glory’ was born. It is now something I hold very dear.
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ROH has officially announced that Jushin Thunder Liger will be facing Kenny King at Death Before Dishonor in Las Vegas, Nevada on September 28. Dave Meltzer reported that the match would be taking place at the PPV in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

Along with continuing to build to Nick Aldis vs. Cody Rhodes, the latest episode of the NWA's All Incoming features emotional comments from Cody about his father Dusty and wife Brandi.

beIN Sports is currently off AT&T, DirecTV, and DirecTV NOW amid a carriage dispute. In addition to airing on beIN on Fridays, MLW also uploads their TV episodes to their YouTube channel at 6:05 p.m. Eastern time on Saturdays.

El Hijo de LA Park vs. Jimmy Yuta is set for MLW’s War Games event in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on September 6.

Hiroshi Tanahashi has been added to the Ring of Honor television tapings on Saturday, September 29th in Las Vegas. There will be a large contingent of New Japan talent on the tapings as the tapings are one day before New Japan’s next Long Beach card in California.
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A few details have emerged regarding the injury that Toni Storm suffered at NXT United Kingdom's television tapings in Birmingham, England over the weekend.

Dave Meltzer notes that it was a spine injury that Storm suffered. She hasn't been evaluated yet, but the injury is not believed to be too serious at this point.

The referee put up the "X" sign to signal that Storm was hurt on Sunday after she lost to Rhea Ripley in the finals of the two-night, eight-woman tournament to crown the first NXT UK Women's Champion. Storm was able to walk to the back unassisted after the match.

PROGRESS and wXw announced yesterday that Storm is off their shows this coming weekend due to the injury. Storm had held the wXw Women's Championship, but the promotion announced that the title would be vacated since it would have gone over four months without being defended.
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The WWE has adjusted several European dates from the first weekend of November and moved the shows to October. It is widely believed this will clear their calendar for their second card in Saudi Arabia that weekend, with PWinsider.com reporting the event, is scheduled for Friday, November 2nd. Earlier this year, the WWE entered a ten-year deal with the General Sports Authority of Saudi Arabia that launched with an event in April in Jeddah. While some attempted to divorce the WWE from the politics of the region, it became impossible with so many concessions made by the WWE with regards to who could work the show and amplified by a public service announcement on the broadcast to promote the changes within the country. The event is expected to take place one week after the all women’s pay-per-view.
In another case of WWE being tone deaf with this deal, Saudi government recently announced they will be executing a female activist among a group of activist who were arrested for advocating for more human rights in the country. Since WWE's Greatest Rumble event, they have been cracking on female activists trying to promote for more women's rights in the country.

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As I stated on Rewind-A-SmackDown, the portrayal of Becky Lynch has been slightly adjusted coming off last week’s reaction to her turn. The new idea is for Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair to have less of a babyface and heel dynamic and instead, they are two ex-friends that each have valid reasoning for their actions. It is not designed to be a double turn. The thinking behind turning Becky initially was to freshen her character and have her in a bigger spotlight, which they feel they can still achieve this way. While they are many examples of the WWE fighting the audience on specific characters, this is one where they seem to have realized immediately that there is a better option to achieving the same objective.
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There were three ideas for venues for All In, one being the Citizens Bank Arena in Ontario, CA, which is near where the Young Bucks live; the other was the Cow Palace in San Francisco, ironically for a July date that New Japan ended up taking, because it was inexpensive to rent for a building of that size and was a legendary arena that Cody had drawn one of the bigger independent crowds in recent years at as the headliner for a cage match with Joey Ryan promoted by All Pro Wrestling. The decision was made for Labor Day weekend, and the Cow Palace had costs associated with streaming that didn’t make it viable. So they went for the Sears Center in Hoffman Estates, IL, which had the advantage of being the same city as Pro Wrestling Tees, one of the events sponsors, meaning shipping tons of T-shirts could be done the most conveniently and the most economically.

Even if the show failed to sell out or draw 10,000 people, it would likely have been a success figuring in the merchandise sales ... Most notably, with the exception of WrestleManias, which also does about 75 percent of ticket sales outside the area of the show, this would be the most widely traveled to U.S. event in history.

Because there is no precedent historically for this show, promoted with no local television and off some out-of-market ROH syndicated television but mostly through their own YouTube show, there is no real way to read what this means. About the only thing for sure is they ran a building too small for the ticket demand, and priced the show far too low ... But going in, there was no track record and their idea was to keep the price affordable to make it so price was not a barricade in hitting the number 10,000.
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The more successful, the harder it will be. A huge success will have WWE looking to shut it down as much as possible, and that’s not even mentioning the MSG success.

With the exception of Marty Scurll, who is under contract to ROH for about another year, and Mysterio Jr., who is all but gone to WWE already, almost every key player on this show will have contracts due before February.
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Due to all the heat about Rush vs. L.A. Park hair vs. mask not being on the 9/14 anniversary show, CMLL has actually responded ...

Rush now says that Park was being disrespectful by working for AAA and that they couldn’t make the match when Park had put his mask up somewhere else. Actually that does make sense. Julio Cesar Rivera on the CMLL Informa show said it wasn’t Park’s fault, but the fault of AAA, which they said was threatening CMLL over using Park and because of that CMLL couldn’t sign him for the match. Well, that would make sense if Park wasn’t booked on that very show, and continuing to be booked regularly ...

By the way, AAA has made a lot of legal threats to wrestlers over the years, but this seems to be a story completely made up. Konnan actually said the story was made up. Park, who is working the anniversary show, posted legal papers showing that he owned the name and that AAA had given up any rights to the name, and AAA couldn’t stop him from doing the match ...

The issue, in the end, is because it’s the one nobody can say publicly because in Mexico they are still careful about how far they’ll go in saying results are not real and nobody can say this, is that Park came in to lose his mask for a big payoff on a big show figuring Dr. Wagner Jr. got his payoff and he’s 52 years old and it’s time. Then, he kept drawing big houses week after week and became the hottest wrestler in Mexico. Realizing that, plus he was able to work AAA’s big shows on top, and that unlike many, his gimmick is so important to his character that he will take a career hit as just Adolfo Tapia, the unmasked guy as opposed to the legend in the legendary outfit, he felt that maybe his career wasn’t just about over after all and reconsidered. We do know that Park has talked with promoters about being willing to lose his mask, but he’s trying to delay it until 2019 or later, as opposed to now.

The other half is what we mentioned last week, that CMLL could still have done the match, but had Rush lose his hair, which isn’t the end of the world although Rush has never lost his hair, but he’s got super charisma, could get mileage out of being bald and having it grow back and eventually it’ll grow back. But CMLL wasn’t going to let Rush lose his hair to somebody who also works for AAA and is an outsider.
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Starting with the 9/1 show, World of Sport is moving up 30 minutes to a 4:30 p.m. start time and will remain in that time slot until all ten episodes are finished, which would be 9/29 ... It was considered a good sign that they didn’t take it off the schedule or just air it on a Sunday morning because this would have been a face-saving excuse. The real good sign was the ratings on 8/25 were up 28 percent to 700,000 viewers and peaked at 900,000. And while this isn’t exactly fair because of ITV’s reach and WWE on Sky, but a replay of Raw that went head-to-head with a replay of WOS saw ITV do 155,000 viewers and Sky do 1,000 viewers. Then again, two months from now there is a good chance there will be no ITV World of Sport so this one-sided victory means nothing in the big picture. Still, a 28 percent increase in ratings was a great sign and if there is another big increase this coming week it ups the odds for a renewal, that looked very unlikely a week ago.
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Xavier Woods is now in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the most subscribed to video game channel in the world which as of last week had 1,633,509 subscribers, which is really quite the accomplishment. The channel is also not under the Woods name, but the Austin Creed name (a prior pro wrestling name, his real name is Austin Watson), meaning he owns it and can control it if he leaves WWE
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I’m not sure if this means main roster or just ideas, but WWE is looking to trademark about 15 new names, mostly newcomers and Corey Graves who are on the main roster. The names not on the main roster, and one would think this indicates they are on the call-up radar, are Shayna Baszler, Kairi Sane, Kyle O’Reilly and Bobby Fish.
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Regarding this week’s rumors, the idea of A.J. Lee in the Evolution PPV would sound very difficult given the circumstances. As of two weeks ago, there was nothing to it and there were rumors, but it sounded like a very difficult deal. The whole situation with the lawsuit against her husband (C.M. Punk) would seem to make it almost impossible even with the suit being settled. Stranger things have happened but this would be high on that list
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The @WrestleVotes Twitter account, which has broken several legitimate scoops in the past year or so, noted that Bray Wyatt is in line for a slight refresh to his character. They wrote, "The character should remain in tact once he returns to TV, but I'm expecting a renewed push along with a singles baby face run. Pivotal time in his career ahead."

Some other sheet news includes:
  • According to the Observer, WWE recently downgraded their ticket sales expectations for the upcoming Australian Super-Show from 80k to around 60-70k.
  • Also according to the Observer, early ticket sales for WWE's Evolution PPV are slower than usual for a WWE PPV event. Didn't hit sell out status in any of the pricing sections being sold.


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Impact Wrestling's ratings were up a bit for this week's special episode.

The show, called "Impact ReDefined," averaged 225,000 viewers on Pop TV last night. That's up from last week's 212,000 viewers but is the fourth-lowest audience that Impact has drawn in 2018.
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Glenn Jacobs (Kane) was sworn in as mayor of Knox County, Tennessee at the Knoxville City-County Building today ahead of tomorrow being his first official day on the job. Jacobs did his first weekly Facebook Live video and also posted a picture of himself putting together a chair, captioning it with “Hard at work on my first day in office…” Dustin Rhodes, who’s good friends with Jacobs, was with him at today’s event.
Link: https://www.wate.com/news/glenn-jaco...040/1409981194 , https://twitter.com/GlennJacobsTN/st...49691155492865

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Sami Zayn lobbied for Cyndi Lauper to be inducted into the celebrity wing of the WWE Hall of Fame: “I only today realized that @CyndiLauper is not in the @WWE Hall of Fame celebrity wing. As part of the ‘rock n' wrestling connection’ with MTV in the 80's, she was CRUCIAL to WWE crossing over into mainstream. Arguably no celebrity more deserving. #InductCyndi”
Link: https://twitter.com/SamiZayn/status/1035310836242411522

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WWE is uploading collections on Stephanie McMahon and The Hardys to the Network on Monday.
Link: https://www.wwenetworknews.com/2018/...n-wwe-network/ , https://www.wwenetworknews.com/2018/...rk-collection/

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All In takes place from the Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates, Illinois tomorrow. The show is available through pay-per-view, Fite TV, and HonorClub. All In is included with HonorClub VIP subscriptions, and other HonorClub subscribers can purchase it with a 50 percent off discount. All In: Zero Hour will air exclusively on WGN America at 6 p.m. Eastern time before the four-hour main card begins at 7 p.m. The show will also be uploaded to New Japan World, though when it will be added is “to be determined.” Here’s what’s been announced for the event:

The Young Bucks & Kota Ibushi vs. Rey Mysterio, Fenix & Bandido
Kenny Omega vs. Pentagon Jr.
NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Nick Aldis defending against Cody Rhodes
Kazuchika Okada vs. Marty Scurll
ROH World Champion Jay Lethal defending against the winner of the Over Budget Battle Royale
Madison Rayne vs. Tessa Blanchard vs. Britt Baker vs. Chelsea Green
Hangman Page vs. Joey Janela (Chicago Street Fight)
"Arrow" star Stephen Amell vs. Christopher Daniels
15-participant Over Budget Battle Royale for an ROH World Championship shot against Jay Lethal later in the night (Moose, Rocky Romero, Colt Cabana, Jordynne Grace, Ethan Page, Brian Cage, Billy Gunn, Jimmy Jacobs, Marko Stunt, Brandon Cutler, and Punishment Martinez have been confirmed) (All In: Zero Hour)
The Briscoes vs. Frankie Kazarian & Scorpio Sky (All In: Zero Hour)
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At today’s All In press conference/weigh-in, it was revealed that Earl Hebner will be the referee for Nick Aldis and Cody Rhodes’ NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship match. Hebner, Jerry Lynn, Rick Knox, Todd Sinclair, and Paul Turner were announced as the referees for the show in June.
Link: https://www.fite.tv/watch/all-in-wei...ference/2o7pe/

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Dustin Rhodes tweeted a message to his brother wishing him the best ahead of All In: “Hey little brother @CodyRhodes , I want to wish you the very best as you go #AllIn and fight for the coveted #NWAWorldHeavyweightChampionship . The world is watching you and what you have done is incredible. Try to enjoy the magic created. #ILoveYou #AllIn #BeAtHomeWatchin”
Link: https://twitter.com/Goldust/status/1035592468773982210

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Travis Banks has had to pull out of this year's Battle of Los Angeles tournament.

Pro Wrestling Guerilla announced today that Banks won't be able to wrestle in BOLA due to an injury. He'll be replaced by Sammy Guevara, and two of the first round matchups have been shuffled. Banks was supposed to face Shingo Takagi in the first round, but Takagi will now take on Ilja Dragunov. Jonah Rock, who had been matched up with Dragunov, will now wrestle Guevara in the opening round.

Banks suffered a dislocated shoulder in July. He provided an update on the injury this week, noting that he initially thought he would be cleared to wrestle sooner rather than later but that hasn't been the case and he still doesn't have a return date to give everyone.

BOLA 2018 is taking place at the Globe Theatre in Los Angeles from September 14-16. Banks is the second person to drop out of the tournament, with Matt Riddle having been replaced by Trevor Lee last month due to Riddle signing with WWE.
Link: https://twitter.com/OfficialPWG/stat...34614717407232 , https://twitter.com/Travis_BanksPW/s...92023626461184

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Ring of Honor announced the following Flash sale with 20% off DVDs at www.ROHWrestling.com:

Save 20% on ALL #ROH DVDs in the #ROHProShop through Labor Day with checkout code: ROHFLASH#HonorClub always takes AN ADDITIONAL 15% off!

Check out all the new DVDs at https://t.co/VgqPj8BfXC! pic.twitter.com/F3Udox5wAb
— ROH Wrestling (@ringofhonor) August 31, 2018
Link: https://twitter.com/ringofhonor/stat...54099390046208

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WWE has a new poll asking fans if we have seen the last of Kevin Owens on RAW after he "quit" this past Monday night. As of this writing, 67% voted, "No, he'll figure out a way to get back on Team Red." The rest went with, "Yes, KO is finished with the red brand."
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"Leaping" Lanny Poffo will be bringing back stories of his brother, the late "Macho Man" Randy Savage, with his new podcast,, The Genius Cast with Lanny Poffo. Lanny and JP Zarka of ProWrestlingStories.com will take you through his time in the NWA territories in the 1970s to becoming a star in his father Angelo Poffo's promotion, working in International Championship Wrestling (ICW), traveling with Randy to the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in June of 1985 all the way up to today. Weekly features include the "Macho Man Clip of the Week", "Poem/Limerick of the Week" and more. The podcast drops this Monday here with new episodes each Monday at 3 a.m. ET.
Link: https://audioboom.com/channels/4971557.rss


Some other sheet news includes:
  • In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, Jeff Hardy (41), Mickie James (39), and Ember Moon (30) all celebrated their birthday today.
  • Recent episode of the Edge & Christian podcast show had Drake Maverick as the guest.
  • According to ratings website ShowBuzzDaily.com, this week's episode of Lucha Underground had 83,000 viewers as its viewership.


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After making her Raw commentary debut last month, Renee Young again filled in for Jonathan Coachman and called this week’s show with Michael Cole and Corey Graves. Coachman had obligations with his job as the host of The World Long Drive Association on the Golf Channel. Young wrote about doing commentary for the show: “I got to call Raw again and the Undertaker showed up!!! To call out Shawn Michaels!!! What is this life?! Thanks for letting me sit at the cool table @michaelcole and @wwegraves”
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Stone Cold vs. Vince McMahon (part three) and Ted DiBiase collections will be added to the WWE Network next month.
Link: https://www.wwenetworknews.com/2018/...eud-revisited/

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Indies Roundup:
PWInsider reported that Joey Mercury was arrested on Saturday morning after police were notified that he was sleeping in his car outside The Marriott in Schaumburg, Illinois. Mercury has no pending charges in Illinois, but police found an outstanding warrant from Florida and he was taken into custody. He’s being held on $2,500 bail ahead of a court day tomorrow. What the warrant was for isn’t yet known. Mercury works for ROH as a trainer and producer and was in Chicago to work backstage at All In.

In an article where they interviewed Pro Wrestling Tees owner Ryan Barkan, Sports Illustrated reported that Pro Wrestling Tees in Chicago generated almost $500,000 during All In weekend (Thursday to Sunday) and sold over 20,000 products.

Saturday’s episode of World of Sport averaged 400,000 viewers on ITV, a big decline from last week’s 700,000. The show shifted to a new time slot this week and started a half hour earlier.

Game Changer Wrestling announced that they’ll be holding a show in Los Angeles on November 16. That’s the Friday of Survivor Series weekend in LA.

The NWA had three different cameramen documenting the Cody vs. Aldis title change, which was the most emotional thing on the show, and their footage will be featured on their YouTube series going forward. One would think Cody will soon he showing up doing dates for the NWA going forward.

PROGRESS Wrestling has announced that Matt Riddle will be facing Mark Haskins on September 30th at the SSE Arena, Wembley in London. Following Riddle’s appearance at NXT TakeOver last month in Brooklyn, it was announced he would wrestle one final independent show for PROGRESS, which does have a relationship with the WWE. The card will be headlined by WALTER taking on Tyler Bate for the PROGRESS championship.
PWTees: https://www.si.com/wrestling/2018/09...-weekend-sales , WOS: https://twitter.com/the_watw/status/1036535560364609536 , GCW: https://twitter.com/GCWrestling_/sta...55424876982273

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Kurt Angle answered a question on Facebook about what he feels his best accomplishment in WWE has been: “Proving to everyone that a ‘shooter’ or ‘real wrestler’ could be the best entertainer of his era. I was very proud of what I was able to accomplish, whether I was loved or hated.”
Link: https://www.facebook.com/realkurtang...22R%2399%22%7D

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Batista hasn't wrestled since leaving WWE after a short five-month run in 2014. While Batista has expressed interest in returning to WWE, he has been concentrating on his movie career, where he had great success with his role as Drax the Destroyer in the Guardians of the Galaxy / Avenger series.

During a recent interview with talkSport, Batista discussed how his movie career would not have happened if he didn't leave WWE in 2010.

"It came about out of spite," Batista said of his transition from pro wrestling to acting. "First it came from me discovering I was a horrible actor. I wanted to become a better actor and I wanted to do it while I was still with WWE. They would not give me the opportunity within the company. I said that I should be given the opportunity to do it outside of the company, and they said 'absolutely not.' I said, 'Well, I'm going to let my contract run out, and I'm gonna leave.' So that's exactly what I did and I set out to be an actor."
Link: https://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news...t-wwe-in-2010/

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In his last run with WWE in 2013-2014, Batista wasn't thrilled with how things went creatively. If he did come back again, he would make sure he had more say with his stories and his opponents.

"I think, one, it would have to be the right time, and two, it would have to be the right opponent. That's pretty much it, and it would have to make sense," Batista said. "Yeah, I think the last time I went back was with really good intentions and I felt like I wasn't delivered what I was promised and that was just creatively. So, that would be it, I'd have to have a strong say of what I did and who I worked with. It would have to make sense as far as time, not only do I have to be free, but I also have to factor in there is a risk that I would be injured. If I got injured I would need some time to rehabilitate myself, so I always kind of factor those things in."
From another interview Batista had this time with WhatCulture Wrestling: http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...return-to-wwe/

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I know that Many people think that Vince McMahon will never retire. However with Triple H having more power now than anyone else has had since Vince took over from his father do you think that Vince could step aside sooner than we think?

In a word? No. WWE is his baby and his creation. Now, could he spend some of his time with another venture, like the XFL? Sure, but WWE is his domain and I don’t ever see him totally handing over the reins to anyone else.
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As I discussed in my 90 minute breakdown of the "All In" PPV earlier today in the Elite section of PWInsider.com, the show came dangerously close to going off the air without a finish. After The Kenny Omega vs. Pentagon Jr. segment went nearly 15 minutes over its scheduled time (including the entrances and post-match angle with Chris Jericho attacking) and Marty Scurll vs. Kazuchika Okada bout went 12 minutes longer than planned, backstage there was a lot of scrambling. Plans to have separate entrances for everyone in the six man tag were scrapped and turned into one entrance for each team. They cut half of the match out in order to fit the limited time they had (18 minutes including entrances) and the production team was able to negotiate more time for the satellite feed, which had to go off the air on time due to the fact it was being aired on cable and satellite PPV as well as Internet streaming. They were able to get one additional minute and as it turned out, they needed it as the three count took place with 20 seconds of airtime left. Had the Bucks not been completely on point with going to the finish with perfect timing, it would have been an absolutely disaster. Instead, it was a home run.

During Scurll vs. Okada, production was losing their mind trying to get their attention to get them to go home. We were told during the show it was painfully obvious they were sending signals to Scurll and Okada.

Chris Jericho was snuck into the building during Nick Aldis vs. Cody and as soon as his segment was over, he was rushed to a private plane in order to make his concert in Kansas later that evening.

The show was far and away the most successful pro wrestling iPPV event ever carried by FITE.tv.
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The WWE has announced a second season of the Mixed Match Challenge to air on Facebook Watch. The series will return Tuesday, September 18th, and air each Tuesday night with a pre-show at 9:50 pm and then begin at 10 pm Eastern following SmackDown Live. The following teams have been announced for the upcoming season:
*The Miz & Asuka (the winners of the first season)
*AJ Styles & Charlotte Flair
*Finn Balor & Bayley
*Bobby Lashley & Sasha Banks
*Alexa Bliss & Braun Strowman
*Kevin Owens & Natalya
*Lana & Rusev
*Jinder Mahal & Alicia Fox
*R-Truth & Carmella
*Jimmy Uso & Naomi

The second season will consist of 14 episodes that will feature two matches per week. The finals will take place at the TLC event on Sunday, December 16th. In addition, the series will be available on Facebook Watch outside of the U.S. for the first time viewers in Australia, Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil, France, Germany, the Philippines, Spain, Vietnam, and Thailand able to watch it live.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKokI6vdFGU

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The NWA came out of the weekend with more interest than it has had in decades and their next major event is their 70th-anniversary card. The show will take place from Nashville, Tennessee on Sunday, October 21st and will be airing on FITE TV. David Lagana was a guest on the Voices of Wrestling network on Sunday, reiterating that the NWA will bring back the National title and will have a video series to accompany that championship as well. Lagana added that the match between Aldis and Cody was the first chapter and there would be a rematch down the road, while also noting that Cody will be a free agent at the end of 2018.
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The indie wrestler who played Jimmy James for the squash loss to The Authors of Pain on last night's RAW was James Alexander, who also appeared on WWE 205 Live earlier this year. No word yet on who played Keith Thompson.
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The WWE Network has added even more episodes of All-Star Wrestling to the Vault section. WWE announced the following blurb for the addition:

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Just added to WWE Network: 66 episodes of All Star Wrestling

This month, exclusively on WWE Network, enjoy 50 new hours of one of WWE's very first weekly televised series, All Star Wrestling. Harken back to the famed Hamburg Fieldhouse in the early 80s and witness the origins of WWE Hall of Famers like Pedro Morales, Jesse "The Body" Ventura, Sgt. Slaughter, Hulk Hogan and many more. All Star Wrestling dominated the airwaves for 15 years and was at the forefront of expanding the exposure of WWE across America.

Some other sheet news includes:
  • RAW's ratings are delayed till tomorrow due to Monday being Labor Day holiday.
  • In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, Xavier Woods celebrated his 32nd birthday today.
  • In another "WWE Did You Know", last Sunday was the 16th anniversary of Eric Bischoff awarding the World Heavyweight belt to Triple H as RAW's first top champion during the 1st brand split era.
  • PWI had a recent article discussing why its time for ROH to hold their own Hall of Fame and who should be in the inaugural class. https://www.pwinsider.com/article/12...ucted.html?p=1


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Raw on Labor Day was up very slightly from the prior week on a night that included college football on ESPN, but much lesser cable competition.

Monday's Raw did 2.87 million viewers, up one percent from 2.84 million viewers last week ...

It was slightly behind last week in the first two hours but held the audience better than last week in hour three.

The three hours were:

8 p.m. 2.95 million viewers
9 p.m. 2.93 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.74 million viewers
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Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair are now set for two high profile matches in the next couple of months.

WWE announced today on their website that Becky Lynch will face Charlotte Flair for the WWE SmackDown women’s title at WWE Super Show-Down. This is in addition to their match that has been announced for WWE Hell in a Cell later this month.

The two have been feuding since SummerSlam, when Charlotte took advantage of a prone Lynch and pinned her to become SmackDown women’s champion. Lynch didn’t like the outcome and jumped Charlotte, throwing her over the announcer’s table. The two have exchanged tense words since then and are first scheduled to meet in a title match at Hell in a Cell on September 16.

Here is the current card for WWE Super Show-Down, which will take place at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Australia on October 6:

The Undertaker vs. Triple H
AJ Styles vs. Samoa Joe for the WWE title
John Cena and Bobby Lashley vs. Kevin Owens and Elias
Daniel Bryan vs. The Miz - winner gets a WWE title match
The Shield vs. Braun Strowman, Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre
Ronda Rousey and the Bella Twins vs. The Riott Squad
Cedric Alexander vs. Buddy Murphy for the WWE Cruiserweight title
The New Day vs. Cesaro and Sheamus for the WWE SmackDown tag team titles
Charlotte Flair vs. Becky Lynch for the SmackDown women’s title
Asuka and Naomi vs. The IIconics
An appearance by Shawn Michaels
Link: https://www.wwe.com/shows/wwe-super-...?sf196990012=1

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Toni Storm will be returning in time for PROGRESS Wrestling's Wembley Arena show later this month.

PROGRESS announced today that the Women's Championship match for the September 30 event will be Jinny defending her title against Storm and Millie McKenzie in a triple threat match: "BREAKING: with confirmation from our medical team that @tonistorm_ will be fit to compete by 30th Sept, both she and @MillieMcKenzie0 take their title shots and look to dethrone the #Queen @JinnyCouture when we head to @ssearena!"

Storm also tweeted about the match announcement: "I’ll be back stronger than ever"
Link: https://twitter.com/ThisIs_Progress/...03802276651008 & https://twitter.com/tonistorm_/statu...07385537658880

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Tessa Blanchard has signed with Women of Wrestling and is set for the promotion's first television tapings for AXS TV next month.

Blanchard will challenge reigning champion Santana Garrett for the the WOW World Championship at the tapings. Blanchard is also working as a trainer at WOW's Training Center in Southern California.

The first set of WOW tapings for AXS will take place at the Belasco Theater in Los Angeles on October 10 and October 11. WOW will begin airing weekly on AXS in January 2019 ...

Blanchard will be wrestling for WOW while also being part of Impact Wrestling, where she is the current Knockouts Champion.
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Heath Slater wrote a post on Instagram about the tag teams and factions he’s been in and wanting to do things his own way one day: “I got signed with @wwe when I was 22 years old. I’ve been through Deep South, Florida Championship Wrestling and The Foundation of @wwenxt Ive been in faction after faction and tag team after tag team none of them actually went the way I hoped. I just hope that one day before this is all over that I can do things my way. And as a grizzled young vet in the business I hope that time comes sooner than later.”
Link: https://www.instagram.com/p/BnWvqpEA...athslater_xxii

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In the aftermath of All In, the NWA and Being the Elite have both released fallout episodes from the show. The NWA’s Ten Pounds of Gold episode focuses on Cody and Nick Aldis backstage before their match and Cody’s NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship win. Being the Elite is over 47 minutes long and chronicles the weekend.

Ring of Honor issued an announcement via social media that the final group of tickets that will be released for their April 2019 Madison Square Garden debut are now on sale after production plans were finalized. This may be your only chance to get tickets unless you are going to attempt the secondary market.

The next season of “Survivor” featuring John Hennigan as a contestant, will premiere on Wednesday, September 26th with a 90-minute special at 8 pm Eastern on CBS.
NWA: https://youtu.be/ck4LnU7a3dQ , Elite: https://youtu.be/CSQdnl4n6CY , ROH: https://twitter.com/ringofhonor/stat...63464614891520

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Ric Flair and Charlotte Flair were the latest guests of the Photo Shoot series on the WWE Network. Both Ric and Charlotte are featured on the "Wooo" edition of WWE 2K19, and gave the viewers an inside look of the photo shoot that is placed on the video game cover ...

Flair also saw a picture of him and Ricky Steamboat, and called him the greatest babyface in the history of pro wrestling.

"There will be arguments about this, [but] not many that can stand. [Steamboat is] the greatest babyface of all time," said Flair. "I don't think anyone had better matches in the history of the business than Steamboat and I had. [His] physique, second to none. Legitimately tough, and one of the nicest people you'll ever meet in your life."
More highlights: http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...e-of-all-time/

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Above is new video of Jeremy Borash talking to WWE NXT Superstar Tegan Nox about her Mae Young Classic match with Zatara that airs tonight.

"It's incredible, I'm still speechless," Nox said. "It's been a year in the making and tonight I get to finally show everybody in the WWE Universe exactly what Tegan Nox is all about."
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Lanny Poffo, better known as The Genius during his WWE run and the brother of Macho Man Randy Savage, didn't necessarily squash the rumor regarding his brother and Stephanie McMahon.

For decades there has been an urban legend about Savage having an affair with Stephanie McMahon in the mid-1990s. According to the unsubstantiated story, Savage was blacklisted from WWE until his passing once Vince McMahon learned of the affair years later.

Poffo addressed that rumor during the first episode of his new podcast, The Genius Cast.

"I don't know, and if I knew I wouldn't tell you because Randy was very private and I have absolutely no idea if that happened," Poffo explained. "I will tell you what did happen. Triple H had done an interview with a magazine and they said, what do you think of Hulk Hogan and The Macho Man? He said that they are great but they are dinosaurs. Evidently, Hulk Hogan didn't mind being called a dinosaur, but Randy Savage took big exception to it" ...

"I have absolutely no idea if the urban legend is true," said Poffo. "Like I said, if it were true I wouldn't tell you because it is nobody else's business. There is only one other person who knows for sure and that is Stephanie McMahon. Randy is not here and she is not talking, so, let's give him the benefit of the doubt and just talk about something else."
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Tuesday night's SmackDown averaged 2.319 million viewers on the USA Network, down one percent from last week and five percent from the post-SummerSlam show two weeks ago ...

SmackDown was down 10 percent in the year-over-year ratings, which has been the recent trend. This was the 12th straight week the show has had a decline from the same week in the previous year.

With network first-run shows set to debut in a few weeks, it's likely SmackDown's ratings will drop 5-10 percent from the current levels as it has done in previous years.
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Two "Hiden Gems" focusing on Mae Young Classic competitors will be added today to WWE Network:

Heat 06/12/2006 – The Climb

Long before making a name for herself in the Mae Young Classic, Mercedes Martinez goes one-on-one with Victoria in this match from Heat.

Mae Young Classic competitor Meiko Satomura teams with WWE Hall of Famer Madusa against Japanese legend Akira Hokuto and Kaoru.

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Former Ring of Honor broadcaster Mike Hogewood died Wednesday at 63 years old. Best known for his work as a college sports announcer for the Atlantic Coast Conference and for various on-air roles at local broadcast stations, Hogewood became the ROH play-by-play man when the promotion had a run on HDNet in 2009, now AXS TV, despite having no wrestling experience.

Ring of Honor paid tribute to Mike Hogewood on their website. He did announcing for their ROH on HDNet show from 2009-2011.

Ohio Valley Wrestling will tape its 1,000th episode on 10/10. It will feature appearances from Hurricane Helms, Billy Gunn, Tommy Dreamer and Abyss.

New Japan has released the first part of a Katsuyori Shibata documentary called “California Dreamin’”, where he talks about his move to California.

Tickets for Wrestle Kingdom go on sale to New Japan Fan Club members on 9/10. An interesting note is that they are putting more tickets on sale, standing room tickets in the upper deck because with whatever they have planned and their business increases this year, they expect to have the first Tokyo Dome real sellout in 17 years.

Bein Sports has dropped DirecTV so that’s another blow for the reach of MLW
ROH: https://www.rohwrestling.com/news/ro...-mike-hogewood , NJPW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25jrxw-E4yI

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The NJPW Destruction Tour kicks off tomorrow in Korakuen Hall for the first of three consecutive Road to Destruction shows. This show will be live on NJPWWorld.com at 5.30AM EST/10.30AM UK.
  • Ran Narita & Shota Umino vs Chase Owens & Yujiro Takahashi
  • Juice Robinson, Michael Elgin, David Finlay & Aoya Yoshida vs Bad Luck Fale, Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa & Taiji Ishimori
  • Toa Henare vs Beretta
  • Hirooki Goto & Gedo vs Taichi & TAKA Michinoku
  • Tetsuya Naito, SANADA, EVIL & BUSHI vs Minoru Suzuki, Takashi Iizuka, El Desperado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru
  • Hiroshi Tanahashi, Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma vs Kazuchika Okada, YOSHI-HASHI & Toru Yano
  • Tomohiro Ishii & Will Ospreay vs Kenny Omega & Kota Ibushi
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Matt Hardy tweeted the following regarding the possibility of a new WWE Network show featuring House Hardy as mentioned in the recent WWE survey:

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The total attendance at All In was 11,263 (and a few days after the show they had already released an 11,263 T-shirt), which was, with the set up, was the fire department maximum they could put in ...

The live gate was $458,525. We don’t have final merchandise numbers but every item they had sold out, and the key event shirt, the All In shirt, sold out at 3:30 p.m., 90 minutes before the show started and 30 minutes after the doors opened ...

FITE TV grossed more than $1 million between iPPV sales and Starrcast iPPV sales. That would probably indicate in excess of 20,000 iPPV orders, which was well above expectations if you figure 80 percent of the revenue came from the show and 20 percent came from the convention. The Starrcast convention sold 11,000 tickets, but that doesn’t mean 11,000 people because people bought tickets for multiple events ... Pro Wrestling Tees did just under $500,000 worth of T-shirt business over the weekend through all channels, and most of the merchandise in the venue would be part of that total. Highspots reportedly had its biggest merchandise day ever at the convention as well as its biggest weekend ever, which is huge because they are a key part of every WrestleMania weekend.

The first hour, airing from 6-7 p.m. Eastern, did 196,000 viewers on WGN. It was the best number on the station for the day and is in line with what most of the station’s top rated prime time original shows do, even on the worst night of the week for television and being out of prime time ... PPV numbers aren’t available at this point, and with no prior reference point it was impossible to predict. Illegal streaming numbers were about the same as for a non-major WWE PPV event, which these days don’t do more than 20,000 to 30,000 buys. Google trends, historically an excellent predictor, showed that the show did not crack the top 20 for the day, so this had its cult interest but it didn’t have the mainstream interest of a major UFC and WWE event. But nothing in pro wrestling that isn’t WWE or the death of a major star has ever cracked the top 20 in recent memory.
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A lot of people were upset by the Joey Ryan angle, which was a spoof of Undertaker’s druids. For those who watched BTE, they knew Ryan had to confront Hangman Page. The fans live expected it, but people who didn’t watch BTE and were watching with the idea of seeing a loaded PPV and thinking it would be like a New Japan match, weren’t thrilled. They showed a video of the “dead” Ryan on his back, and suddenly his penis got hard and erect and came to back life, and announcer Don Callis made reference to his being resurrected. Some were offended on religious grounds. Others didn’t like the fact that the druids were dressed up as white dicks. Ryan then did his routine, confronting Page and putting Page’s hand on Ryan’s dick and Ryan doing the dick flip. This was definitely a moment that was the one that separated the live audience, which reacted well to it and with the build, saw it as something that had to happen for storyline reasons and others who thought the white dicks were just like a bad WWE idea.
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There were attempts to get both Tony Schiavone and Mike Tenay to announce the Cody vs Nick Aldis match. Schiavone had a college football commitment. Aldis had asked for Tenay to announce it with the idea it would give it more of an authentic feel. Tenay never spoke to Cody directly, only Conrad Thompson, and they never made a deal.
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The 10/28 Evolution PPV show at this point has sold 7,000 tickets to the Nassau Coliseum. It will end up close to full as a full house is scaled at 10,900. Of those 7,000 tickets, about 2,400 went to ticket brokers and the price to get in is $41
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The key players in the ring, Cody, Omega, Young Bucks and Page (Scurll was not in the ring for the finish and he’s the only one whose contract doesn’t expire by the end of January) vowed to stick together in their upcoming negotiations and certainly left one with the impression they aren’t going to WWE. The best we can say right now is this. The vow to stick together among the five is legit. The decision of what that means hasn’t been made and WWE, which has made strong overtures, is an option. It’s not going to be an easy decision. There are many different things to weigh, some obvious and others not so obvious. The belief is that WWE is not blind to the obvious angle and has the same basic idea that would be obvious regarding how to use them at first.
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While New Japan has had at least informal feeler talks with a number of WWE stars whose deals are coming due, you don't see people, even those whose fortunes are going nowhere, leaving to try and do what Juice Robinson has done.

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  • Based on estimates from a recent episode of the RBR Weekly Wrestling podcast show, WWE will be making roughly $1.1 million per segment/match shown on Smackdown once their new deal with FOX begins. The estimates assume Smackdown does not get an extra hour and is around 8 segments per week.


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A collection on The Undertaker and Triple H’s rivalry and one on Curt Hawkins will be added to the WWE Network this month.
Link: https://www.wwenetworknews.com/2018/...e-highlighted/

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Chris Jericho discussed his All In appearance on today’s episode of his podcast. He said Cody Rhodes called him months ago when the show was announced, and Jericho said he wasn’t wanting to work non-WWE shows in the United States at that time. Jericho said his mindset has changed and he’s enjoying being part of this “revolution” of wrestling that’s going on. Jericho said he’d consider it, but the idea had to be right. Cody pitched him on being under the Burnard the Business Bear costume and attacking Kota Ibushi, but Jericho said he wasn’t really interested. Cody called him again, they kicked around ideas, and Jericho came up with attacking Kenny Omega and keeping their angle alive from the Tokyo Dome and having it be a late promotional opportunity for his cruise. They were able to work the logistics out with Jericho’s Fozzy concert in Kansas and get it pushed to later in the night. Pentagon Jr.’s extra costume was silver instead of gold, so they had to find a Home Depot and get gold spray paint at the last minute.
Link: https://omny.fm/shows/talk-is-jerich...urday-fullshow

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Indies Roundup:
Destiny Wrestling, a Toronto-based promotion, will have their first iPPV on FITE TV on November 25. Titled Fearless, it will be hosted by Alicia Atout, Scott D’Amore and the former Santino Marella.

Cody has announced today on Twitter that he is writing a children’s book similar to the Young Bucks’ book as part of the Elite Team Series. It will be released next spring.

Wednesday’s episode of Lucha Underground averaged 100,000 viewers on the El Rey Network, up from their season-low of 83,000 the week prior. It was Lucha Underground’s highest number since August 8th.

On Saturday, WWN Live will present a SHINE card at 3 pm with the SHINE championship tournament scheduled. EVOLVE 113 will be streaming live at 6 pm Eastern with Shane Strickland vs. Tracy Williams for the EVOLVE title, and the live audience will see Velveteen Dream vs. Darby Allin in the main event.

NJPW announced Wrestle Kingdom 13 tickets will go on sale to the general public on October 25 and have a couple pre-sales before that. Ticket prices range from 4,500yen ($40) to 50,000yen ($450). Ticket bundles for international fans should be announced in the near future.
Cody: https://twitter.com/CodyRhodes/statu...39949340663808

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The Hollywood Reporter has a story on a new biopic on WWE Hall of Famer Rocky Johnson is in the works. The film entitled "Ring King" is being produced and written by Toronto-based filmmakers Jonathan and Justin Gajewski. The brothers have numerous assistant director credits for films and television produced in Toronto such as Suicide Squad, Scott Pilgrim Versus the World and Fox's Minority Report TV series. Dwayne Johnson has no affiliation with the film.
Link: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...f-2018-1139787

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Despite competition from the first game of the NFL season, Impact Wrestling ratings were up a bit this week.

The episode averaged 236,000 viewers on Pop TV, which is up from last week's 225,000. Viewership has increased each of the last four weeks, but the past five episodes are still the five lowest audiences Impact has drawn in 2018.
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Ring of Honor has confirmed the date and location of this year's Final Battle pay-per-view.

Final Battle 2018 will be held at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City on Friday, December 14. This will be the third straight year that the venue has hosted the PPV. Aside from Final Battle 2015 being held in Philadelphia, the event has taken place in New York City since 2006.

Tickets for the show will go on sale to HonorClub members at 10 a.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, September 12. They'll then be made available to the general public at 10 a.m. Eastern on Friday, September 14.
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Do you think that the reaction to Becky Lynch is similar to that of Daniel Bryan, while inadvertently, making Charlotte the female Roman Reigns? I feel the audience will now be booing Charlotte, even when she is past this feud because the current storyline is dictating that she came in out of nowhere, is getting pushed at the expense of other talent, etc.

I don't think that was the plan, but it sure looks that way. Of course, it wasn't the plan with Bryan either and he ended up headlining Wrestlemania 30, so this could all end up being extremely beneficial to Ms. Lynch!
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A few months back, Finn Balor cracked a joke about Acting General Manager Baron Corbin stealing his vest from TGI Friday's. Apparently, this got back to the restaurant chain who "fired" Corbin and sent him his severance package in the form of a gift card.

Thanks to @FinnBalor telling on me @TGIFridays fired me for "borrowing" a vest. It's a bummer but on the bright side I got my severance package in the mail yesterday. I'm getting boneless wings now who's going with me? pic.twitter.com/vvKP2u4mzM
— Baron Corbin (@BaronCorbinWWE) September 7, 2018
Link: https://twitter.com/BaronCorbinWWE/s...48153256685569

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WWE has a new poll asking fans which match they're most looking forward to at the Hell In a Cell pay-per-view. As of this writing, 38% voted for the HIAC match between Braun Strowman and WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns while 18% voted for Samoa Joe vs. WWE Champion AJ Styles, 17% for Becky Lynch vs. SmackDown Women's Champion Charlotte Flair, 15% for the HIAC match between Randy Orton and Jeff Hardy, 7% for Daniel Bryan and Brie Bella vs. The Miz and Maryse, and 5% for Alexa Bliss vs. RAW Women's Champion Ronda Rousey.
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WWE Hall of Famer "Mean" Gene Oklerlund, Charly Caruso and Jonathan Coachman are the hosts for the new 30 Years of WWE SummerSlam DVD. The set is available now and can be purchased at a sale price via this Amazon link. Okerlund appears in this new promo for the set:

Join @TheGeneOkerlund @TheCoachrules & @CharlyCarusoWWE for an unprecedented look at THREE DECADES of #SummerSlam! pic.twitter.com/S3mLxw6A12
— WWE (@WWE) September 7, 2018
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Last night's Raw held up well against the first week of the NFL season, doing 2.74 million viewers, a drop of five percent from the prior week ...

ESPN ran a doubleheader, with the New York Jets blowout of the Detroit Lions doing 10.34 million viewers against the first two hours of Raw and part of hour three, while the last 52 minutes of Raw went against a Los Angeles Rams vs. Oakland Raiders game that did 9.61 million viewers.

Raw was seventh for the night on cable, trailing only the two games and news shows. It also beat out both FOX and CW programming ...

The three hours were:

8 p.m. 2.82 million viewers
9 p.m. 2.80 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.60 million viewers
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On the 17th anniversary of her father (Michael Angel Trinidad) passing away in the 9/11 terror attacks, WWE posted a video with Zelina Vega (Thea Trinidad) being interviewed by Renee Young. Vega reflected on her memories of her father and that day. She also discussed how her father was a fan of professional wrestling and The Rock, how they bonded over wrestling, and her telling The Rock about him.

Vega wrote about her father: “Even 17 years later it’s still hard to breathe when they get close to reading his name at the #911Memorial ceremony but today and everyday I celebrate and represent for you Daddy. I’m on my way to Cajundome for #SDLive and live our dream. Thank you all for the luv #TRANQUILO”
Link: https://youtu.be/SUzbsVFrMU8 & https://twitter.com/Zelina_VegaWWE/s...59228514549769

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Indies Roundup:
Revolution Pro Wrestling announced that Global Wars UK will only be a one-night event this year, with the show being held at the Brixton Recreation Centre on October 14. Minoru Suzuki will defend his Undisputed British Heavyweight Championship against Tomohiro Ishii, and KUSHIDA will challenge for David Starr’s Cruiserweight title.

RIngside seats for the NWA’s 70th Anniversary Show are being priced at $70, with general admission tickets costing $19.48 (the year the NWA was founded). Tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. Central time this Friday. The show will take place in Nashville, Tennessee on October 21, and it’s being headlined by Cody Rhodes and Nick Aldis’ rematch for the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship.

David Arquette will team with the Hurricane this Friday for Northeast Wrestling.

The second part of the Katsuyori Shibata documentary looking at his life in California has been uploaded.

World of Sport this week scored 0.5 million viewers with a 5% share, up slightly from last week.

New Japan has a Road to Destruction card in Hinagahigashi Tuesday headlined by Kenny Omega, Kota Ibushi & Yujiro vs. Will Ospreay, Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano. They have a show in Kyoto on Wednesday and Osaka on Thursday before Saturday’s big Destruction in Hiroshima card, which will stream on New Japan World.
RevPro: https://twitter.com/RevProUK/status/1039529542484938752, Northeast Wrestling: http://www.northeastwrestling.com/ , NJPW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQbO...ature=youtu.be

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CMLL and ROH are partnering to make CMLL's 85th Aniversario event available via HonorClub.

ROH announced tonight that this Friday's CMLL anniversary show will be streamed live for all HonorClub subscribers. It will also be available to watch on-demand.

The broadcast will only be shown with Spanish commentary, with it being done by CMLL's announce team. CMLL has yet to announce if the show will be broadcast anywhere other than HonorClub.
More details and event's card: https://www.f4wonline.com/mexico/cml...norclub-265566

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The talents decimated by The Author of Pains on Monday Night Raw were Wildkat Wrestling regulars Johnny Flex and Nathan Bradley.

The person attacked backstage by Braun Strowman and tossed painfully across the hallway was Wildkat Wrestling's Buku Dao.
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Michael Cole took to Twitter to comment on Renee Young being moved into a full-time announcing position on Monday Night Raw:

Work hard and you will be rewarded. Simple but true. Tonight will be a top 5 highlight in my 22 year career. Congrats @ReneeYoungWWE
— Michael Cole (@MichaelCole) September 10, 2018
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CM Punk (Phil Brooks) appeared on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show on ESPN Monday to promote Ultimate Beastmasters, which was released on Netflix last month. Punk listed off the movie projects he has been working on and was non-committal on a return to mixed martial arts. He stated he would decide by the end of the year and added that it wasn’t “UFC or bust” for him, suggesting he would be open to fighting elsewhere if he wasn’t retained by the promotion.
Link with more highlights: https://www.tpww.net/2018/09/intervi...-to-wrestling/

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WWE Hall of Famer Sting was a recent guest on Apter Chat, with Bill Apter. During the chat, Sting discussed how his character developed over the years and even shared how he came to use the 'Scorpion Deathlock'.

"I was fortunate enough in those early days, while I was still with Bill Watts, (Giant) Baba from Japan wanted me to come do a show," Sting said. "Bill sent me to Japan and there was a wrestler named Riki Choshu. He used that hold and I went 'oh, I like that' and so then the scorpion kinda popped in all at the same time and attempting to brand myself."
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The latest edition of Dinner With the King with WWE Hall of Famer Jerry Lawler is now online. The show was recorded in Chicago during Starrcast, and featured Lawler speaking to a live crowd. Below are some highlights.

Jerry Lawler on being associated with the word “puppies” in WWE:

The thing with the puppies, I did not coin the phrase. I was not the first one to say the phrase on WWE TV; but, because like you said I am so associated with that word puppies, most people think that way. That is probably the reason I’m not on TV anymore and I mean that seriously because they [WWE] went so politically correct. It’s not necessarily PG because they’re not PG. They’re further south than PG. They’re PC. They’re so politically correct to a fault and especially like they got so right now into – starting with the Revolution – now it’s all about empowering women and that’s a big political correct thing these days and everything, so WWE jumped right on that, so it’s about empowering women. They actually came to us and said, ‘Do not ever say that women are sexy or that they’re good looking or that they’re beautiful. You must treat them exactly like you would a male athlete. You could say that they are powerful, they’re strong, they’re athletic, all this stuff; but, nothing that would be considered sexist at all.

Lawler on slipping in “puppies” during the Raw 25th Anniversary show and Vince McMahon’s reactions:

This is like early on the show and I said, ‘JR [Jim Ross], it’s so nice to be here tonight and we’re gonna go back in time or something and I might even say puppies tonight.’ Immediately I hear [Vince McMahon] in my earphone (grunts), ‘Let’s stay away from that tonight.’ That was the last time it was ever said on there.

Some other sheet news includes:
  • In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, Paul Heyman celebrated his 53rd birthday today.
  • In another "WWE Did You Know" type fact, today is the 2nd anniversary of AJ Styles first WWE Championship victory. Styles defeated Dean Ambrose for the belt at Backlash 2016.
  • PWG recently revealed the cards for this weekend's Battle of Los Angeles 2018 tournament. https://www.pwinsider.com/article/12...ineup.html?p=1
  • According to the Observer, WWE hasn't been unable to get both Pentagon Dark and Fenix's contracts with Lucha Underground voided via a loophole. At the moment, WWE can't sign both to deals till after the current LU season ends and can't use them on tv for another 6 months later.


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Tuesday's go-home show for Hell in a Cell saw SmackDown average 2.229 million viewers, down four percent from last week and marking the third straight week that SmackDown ratings have been down ...

SmackDown was down almost 20 percent year-over-year. The edition of the show that aired one year ago this week saw Vince McMahon make a rare appearance on SmackDown to confront Kevin Owens, who was in the middle of a program with Shane McMahon.

This was the 13th straight week that SmackDown has had a year-over-year drop and the 16th week in the last 17 that the show has been down from 2017.
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Young’s WWE audition tape is being added to the WWE Network’s hidden gems section this week. Beth Phoenix vs. ODB vs. Katie Lea (OVW, 2006) and Kaitlyn vs. Rosa Mendes (FCW, 2011) are also being uploaded.
Link: https://www.wwenetworknews.com/2018/...audition-tape/

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EVIL & SANADA vs. WALTER & Timothy Thatcher is set for Revolution Pro Wrestling’s Global Wars UK event at Brixton Recreation Centre on October 14. Minoru Suzuki vs. Tomohiro Ishii for the Undisputed British Heavyweight Championship and David Starr vs. KUSHIDA for the Undisputed Cruiserweight title have also been announced.

Impact Wrestling announced that tickets for this year’s Bound for Glory pay-per-view have officially sold out, which was expected with the smaller building they’re running. The PPV is taking place at the Melrose Ballroom in Queens, New York on October 14.

The first month of Impact episodes from the Spike TV era have been uploaded to the Global Wrestling Network.

WALTER vs. Will Ospreay for the OTT Championship will headline OTT’s show at National Stadium in Dublin on October 13.
RevPro: https://twitter.com/RevProUK/status/1039937547823198214 , Impact: https://impactwrestling.com/bound-for-glory-sold-out/ , GWN: https://twitter.com/IMPACTWRESTLING/...91385099345921 , OTT: https://twitter.com/OTT_wrestling/st...64202142396416

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Marko Stunt has been added to this weekend’s PWG Battle of Los Angles tournament.

It was announced today by PWG's Twitter account that Stunt will replace Chris Brookes, who is out of the tournament due to an undisclosed injury. Stunt will face Trevor Lee in a first round match that will take place during night two.

Stunt gained notoriety last month when he was a part of Joey Janela’s Lost In New York event that took place during SummerSlam weekend. Despite his small size, Stunt managed to impress against the much larger KTB. Following the match, Stunt was added to the All In Over Budget battle royal where he eliminated Moose early in the match. He was later eliminated by Bully Ray.

This weekend’s Battle of Los Angeles tournament will start with first round matches on September 14 and 15, with the finals taking place on the 16th. All three shows will take place at the Globe Theater in Los Angeles, California.
Link: https://twitter.com/OfficialPWG/stat...03082409525248

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Stephanie McMahon was among the featured speakers today at the SportsBusiness Journal's 2018 SBJ Game Changers Conference in New York City, a one-day event focused on the multiple ways in which women intersect with sports. During a discussion panel called "Ideas That Move Us Forward: Storytelling In Sports Business," Stephanie revealed the reason behind WWE's success.

"We're successful for one reason only: We listened to our audience," Stephanie said.
Link with more highlights:http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...d-wwe-success/

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Recently on The Jim Ross Report, WWE Hall Of Famer Jim Ross caught up with the newly crowned NWA World's Heavyweight Champion, Cody. Among many other pro wrestling topics, 'The Grandson Of A Plumber' talked about his role at All In and what he learned from his experience, planning a sequel to the wildly successful indie show, and the future of the NWA's top prize ...

During the interview, Cody hinted at planning another All In and noted that he learned a lot about time management [except for timing pro wrestling matches].

"Well, maybe we already started planning [laughs]." Cody added, "I kept writing these lists. And my dad was a big list guy and I have become a big list guy too. I kept writing these lists of these are the things to do to make sure you're in peak condition, and also make sure you're in peak mental state, and make sure you paid this guy and talked to this guy. I also learned I wanted to do every single thing with this show. I wanted to do payroll; I wanted to know elements of production; I wanted to know how many chairs were in the union catering room.

"Just, next time, I don't need to know all that stuff. I also learned you are only as good as the team around you and we've discovered some new teammates over the course of [All In] weekend."
Link: http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...-for-all-in-2/


Some other sheet news includes:
  • In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, today is the 19th anniversary of Sting's 6th WCW World Championship victory. Sting defeated Hollywood Hogan for the belt at Fall Brawl 1999.
  • Recent episode of the SirusXM's Busted Open radio show had Chris Jericho as the guest. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...hon-right-now/


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WWE released a press release today announcing The World of The Rock, a comprehensive visual novel of The Rock’s WWE career. It will be out on October 2nd for $24.99, and will be published by DK.
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A collection featuring the “biggest losers” in WWE history will reportedly be coming to the WWE Network on Monday. Curt Hawkins will be the host.
Link: https://www.wwenetworknews.com/2018/...n-wwe-network/

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Kassius Ohno (formerly known as Chris Hero) posted a tweet yesterday marking his 20th anniversary in pro wrestling.
Link: https://twitter.com/KassiusOhno/stat...25848202272768

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Tetsuya Naito vs. Chris Brookes has been added to Revolution Pro Wrestling’s Global Wars UK show at Brixton Recreation Centre on October 14.

Minoru Suzuki vs. Timothy Thatcher has been signed for Over the Top Wrestling’s Fourth Year Anniversary show. WALTER will also defend the OTT World title against Will Ospreay.

Hart Foundation vs. Rich Swann, ACH and a mystery partner has been added to MLW’s television taping on October 4.

A number of unique bouts have been announced for the 9/22 ICW event in Woodside, NY at Ultimate Fitness Queens with Nick Gage vs. Psicosis, Joey Janela vs Jack Evans, Teddy Hart vs Eli Everfly, Homicide vs SHLAK, Rich Swann vs Danny DeManto, Alisha Edwards vs. Penelope Ford and more.

The Ironman match between Jay Lethal and Jonathan Gresham from this week’s episode of Ring of Honor can be watched for free on FITE TV. This was the best Ring of Honor television match this year and from a presentation standpoint, I felt it was one of the best television matches period this year.
RevPro: https://twitter.com/RevProUK/status/1040207080408444928 , OTT: https://twitter.com/ott_wrestling/st...421487622?s=21 , https://mlw.com/2018/09/13/hart-foun...nyc-october-4/ , ROH: https://www.fite.tv/watch/roh-364/2oaie/

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Ric Flair and Wendy Barlow have committed themselves to one another.

TMZ Sports first reported that Flair and longtime fiancee Wendy Barlow had a commitment ceremony on Wednesday at a resort in northern Florida. Video provided showed Flair walking down the aisle in what was said to be a custom suit, then Dolph Ziggler walking Barlow down the aisle. The Undertaker was also said to be there. Although initial reports said it was a wedding, including TMZ who first reported it, Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio last night said it was a commitment ceremony.

Ric Flair has been married four times in the past. Megan and David Flair were from his first marriage to Leslie Goodman. Reid and Ashley (Charlotte) were from his second marriage to Elizabeth Harrell. His most recent marriage was with Jacqueline Beems, who filed for divorce in 2012. Barlow and Flair became engaged in 2016.

Barlow was also briefly in WCW in the early 1990s as a part of the Flair For the Gold talk show segments as Fifi the maid.
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FOX's CFO John Nallen praised the forthcoming debut of WWE Smackdown during an investor's call today, commenting, "It’s a 50 to 52-week-a-year sport with no repeats. It’s a new novella every week. For us to have that kind of appointment programming, that audience, every week of the year, is a really unique opportunity for us.” Smackdown debuts on FOX in October 2019.
I give FOX about 6 months to a year before they start having buyers remorse. Link to the interview: https://www.thewrap.com/why-21st-cen...mackdown-live/

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Former TNA Champion James Storm, who debuted at last week's MLW taping in an angle designed to kick off a feud with Tom Lawlor is already done here. Yep, already. A source with the promotion said the two sides decided to "part ways." Storm attacked Lawlor during a bout with Joey Janela and later won a quick squash. My guess is none of that footage will ever appear on MLW TV ...

There were a number of executives from BeIN Sports (which is headquartered in Florida) and MLW sponsors at the Wargames event last week in Florida. BeIN Sports will be expanding the MLW's presence on their networks going forward ...

There was an attempt made to book the former home of WCW in Atlanta, the Center Stage Theater, but we are told that the attempt was dropped at the request of another promotion using the venue. The company is looking at other potential venues in that market. More as we confirm it.

During our coverage of the Wargames event last week in Florida, we noted that ACH was working the show with what was believed to be the flu. It was actually some sort of stomach bug that ended up hitting a number of others who work for the company during the same time period. ACH got really sick an hour before his match but still went out and performed, which you have to respect ...

The company is also looking to shift as many of its TV tapings and dates, which have traditionally been Thursdays since the company relaunched, to Saturday evenings.

No word yet on a WaleMania event over Wrestlemania weekend.
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Last Tuesday's SmackDown Live was at the Cajundome in Lafayette, Louisiana. To promote the show, Carmella appeared as a guest on a local news station, KLFY News 10, and talked about how she went from dancing to being in the WWE.

"I was a dancer my whole life," Carmella said. "I've been dancing since I was three years old. Then I was a cheerleader in the NFL and in the NBA with the Lakers. My dad was actually a wrestler back in the day in the early 90's, he dabbled in it a little bit. So just kind of brought everything full circle with my dad's background and my love of and passion for entertainment" ...

Carmella has not been a bystander in the women's evolution, as she made history by becoming the first ever Ms. Money in the Bank. She talks about what it's like to currently be on the women's roster during the evolution and everything that has been accomplished so far.

"What a time to be a women in the WWE," said Carmella. "We're in the midst of this women's evolution and we actually have our first ever all-women's pay-per-view October 28th, which is huge! It's called WWE Evolution. It's going to be amazing. The first ever all-women's pay-per-view. The women, we're just taking over. [We've had] the first ever Hell in a Cell match. The first ever Money in the Bank ladder match, which I was the first ever Ms. Money in the Bank. So, it's just really cool to see the women just taking over."
Link: http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...ourney-to-wwe/

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Her WWE future:

"I hope to be around for a little bit. The Danielsons do want baby No. 2 so that's something that is on the horizon. If I can come back for a couple of months or more that's heaven for me.
Great even more nonsense Bellas stuff to look forward to watching for the next few months. Link with more highlights and interview itself: http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...-botch-on-raw/


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  • 2K Games recently released a new gameplay trailer for WWE 2k19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L1Zmmbou3s
  • In another incident of him having thin skin for booking criticisms, Road Dogg once again got into a Twitter spat and this time towards those still upset at WWE's handling of the Lynch-Charlotte storyline. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...w-becky-lynch/
  • For those interested, wrestling merch retailer Highspots.com is currently selling official All In merchandise.
  • This week's edition of the Observer Newsletter has been delayed due to scheduling issues.


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Despite going against regular season NFL football for the second straight week, Impact Wrestling viewership was up again last night.

The episode averaged 258,000 viewers on Pop TV, up from last Thursday's 236,000. This is the fifth straight week that Impact viewership has been up, with the promotion climbing back after drawing just 168,000 viewers on August 9.
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Indies Roundup:
PCW Ultra on 10/26 has announced Penta 0M, Shane Strickland, Tessa Blanchard, Jake Atlas, Hammerstone, Daga, Puma King, Abyss, Joey Janela, Sinn Bodhi, Brody King, Darby Allin, Eli Everfly and more.

The Monster Factory in Paulsboro, NJ, which has produced a number of stars over its decades-long existence, including Bam Bam Bigelow, Raven and current ROH TV Champion Punishment Martinez, will hold their first-ever TV taping tomorrow evening. The promotion will be announcing the broadcast outlet shortly.

In what will be the biggest test for the National Wrestling Alliance to date, tickets for their 10/21 70th Anniversary event at the Nashville Fairgrounds (aka TNA Asylum) are officially on sale, with ringside seats at $70 and general admission tickets at $19.48 at nwa70.com. It will be the biggest litmus test to date to see whether the promotion's excellent YouTube series will translate into ticket buying customers for the promotion's first full scale event since Billy Corgan purchased the company a year ago. The event will be headlined by NWA Champion Cody vs. Nick Aldis in a rematch from All In as well as the crowning of a new NWA National Champion. The three hour event will air live on FITE.tv, priced at $24.95.

MLW has announced that tickets for their WrestleMania Week card will be going on sale October 10th at 10 am Eastern. MLW’s event is scheduled for Thursday, April 4th in New York City and will feature a taping for their Fusion television program on beIN Sports.

Wednesday night’s episode of Lucha Underground saw the series hit their lowest average of the season with 79,000 viewers watching on the El Rey Network. It was a 21% drop from last week’s figure.
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Anthem Sports & Entertainment filed a motion asking the United States District Court of Tennessee for an extension in time so they can properly respond to the lawsuit filed by Jeff Jarrett and his company, Global Force Entertainment. Noting that Jarrett's attorneys have already agreed to an extension, Anthem has asked that the court give them until 10/15 before they file a response.
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Are Paul Heyman and Brock Lesnar under WWE deals anymore?

WWE has been very mum on the subject of Brock Lesnar. It was known he was finishing up at Summerslam, but it's never been stated that he's no longer under contract and any questions of that nature have been ignored. It's possible his deal expired, but it's just as possible he's still under contract but is being given the time off to pursue his UFC exploits, just as he was given the chance to compete at UFC 200.

As for Heyman, he has been backstage at recent TV tapings working in a behind the scenes capacity.
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Yahoo! Sports has an interview with Brie Bella about the challenges involved in returning to the ring after becoming a mother, including changes to her body after having given birth. On her dive mishap last week on Raw, Bella commented, "With any type of physical body change, it changes so much. Even last week on ‘Raw’ when I did the suicide dive and it was less momentum than I should have had, I forgot that I’m 10 pounds heavier than what I was. Gravity doesn’t lie. That was a little different for me. I don’t mind if I fail or if I succeed. No matter what, I want to look back with no regrets. If I fail, last week for example, I went to sleep at night and I was kind of bummed out, but I learned something about myself. I learned where my body is at, where I am at.”
Link: https://sports.yahoo.com/reclamation...015914952.html

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Zack Ryder tweeted:

I started my journey to become a professional wrestler 15 years ago this week. It all started in this garage... @NYWCWRESTLING. My only “job” has been wrestling for @WWE for the past 12 years. Dreams come true if you do the work...and stay #AlwayzReady. pic.twitter.com/TygDDcCzJl
— Zack Ryder (@ZackRyder) September 13, 2018
Link: https://twitter.com/ZackRyder/status...77517540712448

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El Hijo del Fantasma said that he was staying in AAA and not going to WWE
For those wondering, he is King Cuerno in Lucha Underground.

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The 9/30 Long Beach show is barely two weeks away and there are about 2,400 tickets sold, coming after a first show at the Walker Pyramid that sold out instantly. There was no way to get the traveling fans so soon after All In, but there was a feeling that after doing 6,333 paid in San Francisco, a different market, with largely local fans, in what is right now not considered as good a market as Southern California, that this is a disappointment.
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Things are not going well for Pete Polaco, 44, best known as Justin Credible in ECW and WWE. His wife had taken out an order pr protection against him in March and he has been arrested twice since then for violating it. He was released from the New Haven Correctional Center after the second arrest on $50,000 bond over the weekend. He was bailed out by the people involved in doing a documentary on his life and went to rehab. He had earlier gone through WWE sponsored rehab, thanked them and said he had turned his life around
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Konnan is now working as a senior agent for MLW and will be on almost all of the shows. MSL is head of talent relations, Bruce Prichard is a senior producer and Alex Greenfield is also a senior producer. Brian Pillman Jr. signed a three-year deal. They may try and work a deal to send him to New Japan as a trainee with the idea that for him to become a good worker and gain experience, he will progress far faster there than in US ...

MLW is also looking at moving tapings from Thursdays to Saturdays, which will be easier to draw fans, but tougher to get talent. Indie talent gets the majority of their bookings on Fridays and Saturdays and very little on Thursday, so they can get a lot more talent on those days, especially with the guys who are in demand, many will have Saturday bookings. But the key guys they are building around are under contract which means they’ll have priority on their dates and even the Mexicans who are in high demand are getting their dates well ahead of time

MLW wanted to run Center Stage in Atlanta and this was the first time they’ve tried to run a venue where the venue told them they wouldn’t rent to them based on a deal with other companies. The two companies that run Center Stage are ROH, which has no history of trying to block people, and WWE, which runs NXT shows there, and certainly does have a past history but it’s not as if there’s any direct tie that this came from WWE, just that they were told they couldn’t run the venue
Some more details on yesterday's batch of MLW news.

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World of Sport was up to 500,000 viewers on 9/8, which is a 25 percent increase from the series low of 400,000 the week before. But it’s still the second lowest, and next week will probably do worse because it’s being moved up another half hour to 4 p.m. ...

Even though the first-run ratings have dropped from 937,000 to as low as 400,000, those with the project expect it to be renewed for at least a second season as ITV and Martin Goldsmith have the early 2019 tour which will need TV to make it work. My gut is the tour may be used as a barometer for the future as if ITV can make money off touring and merchandise with the project they may keep them on in spite of falling ratings. More bad news is that the 9/22 show is moving to 2:30 p.m., before soccer instead of after it.
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Due to his size and look, both New Japan and WWE have interest in Killer Kross.
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More notes on the All In rating from 6-7 p.m. on Sunday on WGN America. The 196,000 number was down from the 227,000 number that Blue Bloods did in the same time slot the prior week. However, it drew a much younger audience, with 107,000 of the viewers 18-49 whereas Blue Bloods had 75,000, and 72,000 of those 18-49 viewers (67.3 percent) being male as opposed to Blue Bloods where it was 25,000 males in the demo and only 34.7 percent of the viewers being male
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According to a report we got, after a three-way tag title match on the 9/7 Raw show Birmingham where Ziggler & McIntyre retained over The B Team and Matt Hardy & Wyatt, a fan after the match begged Hardy not to retire. His response was, “Unfortunately, I don’t have a choice. This was probably my last match ever.” Hardy did work the rest of the weekend shows. He had already been pulled off television and reports from the weekend were that he was moving like he was hurting. Hardy had pretty much indicated that he wasn’t going to be wrestling for a while and has been learning the role of a producer while being out of action. Hardy then, after his match on 9/9 in Biloxi, wrote that it was the last match of Woken Matt Hardy. The last we heard, retirement was a possibility but not official, likely depending on how his body reacts to rest and injury rehab
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This past week has seen more talk regarding Penta 0M & Rey Fenix, and at this point it does look like not only is nothing happening in this direction soon, nor can it because of their Lucha Underground contracts. Both have started making commitments to promoters for next year, which indicates they aren’t planning on doing anything here anytime soon. WWE has had interest, obviously, since they are Mexican stars who can work great with Americans and have names on the indie scene ...

They are under contract with Lucha Underground until a few months after the season ends. At that point, I expect they’ll have the option to go almost anywhere.

The belief right now is that Lucha Underground is solid for another season, and that El Rey is paying them enough to continue as flagship programming going forward. With Konnan having a strong hand in creative in AAA and them being his guys, and Fenix being world champion right now, obviously they’ll be able to get a joint deal from both groups which would also likely have them working for Impact as well, just like they are now, and be able to do U.S. indies. But they are in talks about a deal with AAA and Impact right now. AAA does want them exclusively for Mexico if they can get that deal done, to keep them from also working for The Crash and CMLL.
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Stephanie McMahon spoke at the Sports Business Journal Game Changer conference on 9/12 and said “We’re successful for one reason only: We listen to our audience.” You can just imagine the reaction that drew. It was enough that reporter Katie Rosenberg, who tweeted that line, noted she woke up to a number of fans saying the opposite. Every writer I’ve ever spoken to, and most people who have run creative, have always said either these words or something approximating them, that the show is written for “the audience of one,” which is Vince McMahon

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Those All In numbers don't exactly scream "wrestling renaissance." They're only useful if you really want that 18-49 male demo, specifically. But that's compared to Blue Bloods, which is clearly preferred by women. If it was competing against a show preferred by men, then there isn't that straw to clutch onto. And who knows if those numbers are even sustainable?
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Depends on how you view the numbers since both Meltzer and John Pollock mentioned normal comparisons don't really work for something unique as All In.

Zero Hour's 196k puts them towards the lower end of Impact's numbers since they moved to POP but I think better than what Impact was doing near the end of their Destination America run. Not sure about ROH or MLW since their numbers rarely get reported.

In terms of comparisons with WGN, it did worse than Blue Bloods the previous week but for that night it was both the highest viewed and rated show for the network.

If there is a renaissance of sorts, its All In proving there is enough room for non-WWE stuff to be very successful in wrestling. Them getting that number without anything really great for Zero Hour and the 10k in tickets sales as the proof. Even NJPW's recent US shows and ROH's MSG success is more proof.
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