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Old 09-17-2018, 03:56 PM   #1
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Lesnar going to rassle at the November 2nd Saudi Arabia show

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Old 09-17-2018, 04:56 PM   #2
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Old 09-18-2018, 11:20 AM   #3
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Nothing came of their last scoop....but I'll give them another shot w/ this one
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Old 09-18-2018, 01:47 PM   #4
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Gotta be actual WWE employees at HQ if their tweets are pinging from the Bridgeport/Milford area.

That's my theory at least.
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Old 09-18-2018, 05:19 PM   #6
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Old 09-18-2018, 06:17 PM   #7
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That Ronda-Cyborg rumor sounds terrible if it also ends up main eventing next year's Mania. Pretty much telling the rest of their women's roster that they are useless and not even Charlotte is worthy of being involved in what could be the most high profiled women's Mania match ever.

That HBK-Taker rumor is equally terrible since not only did WWE toss away Reigns getting the rub from defeating and retiring Taker at Mania, that star making retirement rub is getting tossed away again because of WWE's ineptitude.
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This account nailed Brock at HIAC before it happened and a few other things before they were reported (like Bliss being out of MMC this week due to injury and Ember replacing her) so we'll see how their accuracy is, I guess
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Impact is back up for sale.

For fuck's sake. Someone just buy it and Old Yeller the damn thing.
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Impact officials have said the meeting wasn't about a sale of either the company or the library but they would probably say that even if it was about a sale.
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Raw did its lowest numbers since June last night, but that wasn't unexpected going against a big football game and the Emmy Awards.

Raw averaged 2.66 million viewers, down three percent from the prior week. Normally Raw would get a bump coming off a pay-per-view -- but with the Seattle Seahawks vs. Chicago Bears doing 11.72 million viewers and the Emmys on NBC doing 10.21 million viewers, that made the difference ...

Raw ended up in eighth place for the night on cable, trailing news shows and ESPN programming related to the NFL ...

The three hours were:

8 p.m. 2.84 million viewers
9 p.m. 2.75 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.43 million viewers
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Stephanie Bell aka Mia Yim was at the WWE Performance Center today and was featured on a video from the PC released by WWE. The former Impact Wrestling star was a competitor in the Mae Young Classic. She has lived in Orlando for some time, so she is local, but it's also quite possible she has signed a WWE NXT deal. If so, that puts her back in the same company with Adam Cole, who she partnered with in CZW and other independent promotions years ago. We've reached out to WWE for confirmation, but most likely that won't confirm until it's time for the official announcement of the next set of talents coming into the PC..
Link: https://twitter.com/WWENXT/status/1042098121378029568

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In support of Glenn Jacobs, WWE is donating $100,000 to the Knoxville Public Safety Foundation (a charity that supports first responders after they “suffer injuries, illness, death or other life-changing events).
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Indies Roundup:
Jay Lethal & Jonathan Gresham will face KUSHIDA & Jushin Thunder Liger at ROH’s TV tapings in Las Vegas on September 29. Coast 2 Coast (Shaheem Ali & LSG) will also challenge for the ROH Tag Team titles at the tapings. The Briscoes hold the titles and will defend them against Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian at Death Before Dishonor on September 28.

Tetsuya Naito, EVIL & SANADA vs. Shane Strickland, Bandido & Flamita has been made official for OTT’s Fourth Year Anniversary show at National Stadium in Dublin on October 13.

MLW announced that they’ll be taping TV in the Chicago area on November 8. The tapings will be held at Cicero Stadium in Cicero, Illinois, and tickets go on sale this Saturday.

Paul Richard, who has been the General Manager of New England Championship Wrestling for nine years, is retiring from the wrestling business and will be working with Christopher Nowinski in educating athletes on CTE. Richard himself said he was diagnosed with CTE and had nine concussions while wrestling.

David Arquette will be part of the Rise 10 show on 10/19 in Berwyn, IL at the Eagles Club. He will be attending a seminar put on by Mercedes Martinez, Rain, Cheerleader Melissa and Lexie Fyfe. It sounds like an angle where Arquette tries to join the all-women's promotion.

Marko Stunt will debut on the 10/4 MLW show in New York at the Melrose Ballroom teaming with Rich Swann & ACH against the New Hart Foundation of Brian Pillman Jr. & Davey Boy Smith Jr. & Teddy Hart. The main event on the show is L.A. Park vs. PCO.

IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kenny Omega will make his debut for Northeast Wrestling on Friday 11/9 in Poughkeepsie, NY, the promotion announced tonight:
ROH: https://www.rohwrestling.com/news/ep...egas-tv-taping , OTT: https://twitter.com/OTT_wrestling/st...11821034229760 , MLW: https://mlw.com/2018/09/18/mlw-debut...this-saturday/ , NEW: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/12...ember.html?p=1

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Judge Vanessa Bryant in U.S. District Court in Connecticut threw out all of the Konstantine Kyros led-concussion lawsuits against WWE earlier today. The two key ones were the remaining counts in the Vito LoGrasso and Evan Singleton cases, as well as the case with 53 different wrestlers including Joe Laurinaitis, Paul Orndorff, Jimmy Snuka and many others. Bryant strongly admonished Kyros for his complaints being too long, having irrelevant or non-factual arguments and said she has told him over and over to rewrite the complaints, only to have them come back with similar problems. She stated that having him rewrite the complaints would seem to lead to the same thing. She also ruled that the complaints were time barred in that such a lawsuit would have to come within five years of suffering the injuries in question and almost all the wrestlers involved were long since retired when the complaint was filed.
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Early this morning, attorney Konstantine Kyros issued a statement to PWInsider.com, announcing he intended to appeal Bryant's dismissal order, which included ruling that Kyros would be responsible for reimbursing some of WWE's legal fees.

PWInsider.com contacted WWE's lead counsel Jerry McDevitt for comment on Kyros' plans to appeal. Below is the complete response from McDevitt:

"This is the same kind of drivel Kyros pawned off on former wrestlers when soliciting them to sue WWE by false statements that he had obtained a billion dollar settlement for NFL players and would do the same for wrestlers, when in fact he had absolutely nothing to do with getting that settlement. He was caught repeatedly making false allegations; has been admonished repeatedly by federal judges about his dishonest behavior; and has now been subjected to two different sanction orders of the kind that would make most lawyers embarrassed and ashamed. The rant he sent you now insults the federal judge who issued the decision, and he still fails to address the basis of her opinion. He may well have been able to mislead those he solicited to join his lawsuits, but he will never succeed in misleading us or federal judges. Frankly, he should be disbarred."
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While there was a U.K. news story claiming WWE was confiscating pro-Becky Lynch signs at last night's show, the WWE has stated that they did not do so, but said it is possible if a fan was holding a sign in front of the hard camera, it may have been removed to prevent blocking camera shots.
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Netflix's GLOW, based on the 1980s Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling troupe and TV series, ended up with two Emmy wins.

GLOW's Stunt Coordinator Shauna Duggins won the Emmy for Outstanding Stunt Coordination for a Comedy Series or Variety Program, becoming the first woman in history to score the accolade since it was instituted in 2002. The series also captured the Emmy for Outstanding Production Design For A Narrative Program (Half-Hour or Less).

In response to the wins, GLOW's Twitter account commented:

Thank you to the @TelevisionAcad and congratulations to team GLOW on winning 2 #Emmys! Special shout out to our awesome Production Design team and Stunt Coordinator Shauna Duggins on a history making win.???? pic.twitter.com/K09jcOxUQ4
— GLOW (@GlowNetflix) September 18, 2018
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Wrestling historian Tim Hornbaker, who has written several excellent books on the business, officially released his latest, Death of the Territories: Expansion, Betrayal and the War that Changed Pro Wrestling Forever on 9/18. The book provides an excellent, well researched account of the pro wrestling's world's reaction to Vince McMahon's push to take the WWF national and how Vince's moves and their reactions led, one by one, to the end of the promotions that had long carved out their own fiefdom in professional wrestling.
More details: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/12...ories.html?p=1

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I spoke with someone regarding Becky Lynch and the direction she is going. At SummerSlam, it was designed to turn Becky into a heel, however after the reaction that week in Brooklyn they decided to adjust and make it more about Becky and Charlotte’s issues with one another rather than making Becky a strong heel. The directive at the time was that Becky was a ‘Stone Cold’ type of character knowing she would be cheered, however, we are told that has somewhat changed. Internally, Becky is technically considered a heel, although she isn’t generally being received as one by the public. There are no plans to make Charlotte Flair a heel coming out of this.
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It's no secret that Becky's popularity has been on the rise since turning on Flair at SummerSlam. Dave Meltzer noted on Wrestling Observer Radio that the idea of last night's match was to slowly turn Flair babyface.

Despite Becky pinning Flair in the middle of the ring clean, the idea was to end the match with Flair as a babyface after Becky "screwed" her to win the title. Apparently Becky's big heel move was the post-match handshake blow-off. There was supposed to be a few significant heel moves by Becky during the match but both of them worked most of the match as a babyface. WWE officials knew going into the match that Becky would be cheered.
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Above is the intro for the new Curt Hawkins "Nothing To Lose" WWE Network Collection, featuring Hawkins as the host. The Collection is now live on the Network and features more than 20 videos with a look at major losses in WWE history.
Link: https://youtu.be/Hhr6MArhS5c

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WWE has a new poll asking fans who they would rather have in their corner at WWE Super Show-Down - Kane or WWE Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels. As of this writing, 54% voted for Kane. As noted, Kane will be in The Undertaker's corner while Michaels will be in Triple H's corner for the big match on October 6 in Australia. It's believed this will lead to Michaels coming out of retirement for a big tag team match at WWE Crown Jewel in Saudi Arabia on November 2.
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Regarding WWE using a red Cell structure at this year's Hell In a Cell pay-per-view, @WrestleVotes reports that Vince McMahon made the call as a way to do something new, similar to when they dropped the Roman numerals from WrestleMania. It was also noted that they did a visibility test and everything was OK for the broadcast.

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Coming off Hell in a Cell and with Becky Lynch's Women's title victory over Charlotte Flair from the pay-per-view being the focus of the show, SmackDown viewership was up two percent over last week.

The show averaged 2.281 million viewers and finished eighth overall for the night in terms of total cable TV viewership. It was second in the 18-49 demo with a 0.78 rating -- almost identical to The Mayans on FX, which did a 0.79 ...

Year-over-year viewership was down nine percent, marking the 14th straight week the show has suffered a decline from 2017.
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Indies Roundup:
SHIMMER’s StreamSHIMMER streaming service has officially launched. The promotion noted that the web player and Roku app are available and that they’ll be on Amazon FireTV soon. Their first 61 events are on the service now.

OTT announced Hirooki Goto & Sean Guinness vs. Satoshi Kojima & Michael May for their Fourth Year Anniversary show in Dublin on October 13.

All of the New Japan talents who are in for the ROH Death Before Dishonor PPV on 9/28 will be appearing at the TV taping as well.

As PWInsider.com reported last night, IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kenny Omega will make his debut for Northeast Wrestling on Friday 11/9 in Poughkeepsie, NY at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center ... PWInsider.com has also confirmed that former WWE and ECW Champion Rob Van Dam has been booked for the date.
SHIMMER: https://streamshimmer.com/ , OTT: https://twitter.com/OTT_wrestling/st...71156173631490

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The WWE Network is working on a WWE Chronicles documentary about Paige.

The paperback edition of the WWE book Second Nature, about Ric and Charlotte Flair, was officially released today.

The official release date for the Smackdown: 20 Years Later book is 5/7/19.
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As noted in recent weeks here on PWInsider.com, there had been a recent period where Pentagon Jr. and Rey Fenix had been noncommittal to promoters regarding independent dates in 2019. That, coupled with the fact that World Wrestling Entertainment was interested in the two brothers, led to a lot of speculation on the future of the duo, who have been involved in major storylines and matches in Mexico, The United States and beyond.

So, are they heading to WWE?

The answer to that is no.

PWInsider.com has learned from sources familiar with the duo's deals with Lucha Underground that they are still locked into a contractual non-compete for that series until 2020. If Lucha Underground gets picked up for another season, they would work that fifth season. If it does not, but there is a potential for the series to be picked up before their non-compete ends, they would be locked in and not be able to go and sign with WWE. So, they are not NXT bound.
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Major League Wrestling has signed a deal with BeIn Sports to bring a Spanish language version of the MLW: FUSION series on beIN SPORTS en Español. This is being seen internally as a big clearance for MLW, potentially doubling the size of the series' weekly audience as as beIN en Español has a very strong audience thanks to their boxing and soccer rights. The first episode will debut this Tuesday and will be airing in the United States (including Puerto Rico) and Canada. Konnan, Pentagon Jr., Fenix and LA Park have all filmed interviews and promos to support the launch. The announcing team has not been announced yet, but I'd be shocked if Konnan wasn't involved ...

Kaci Lennox, who has been working as a backstage interviewer on MLW TV, has signed a deal with the company.

There have been talks with New Japan Pro Wrestling about sharing Brian Pillman Jr. with the idea that sending Pillman, who is still very early on in his career, overseas will help his growth as a talent ...

For those who have asked about MLW not having returned to Orlando at the Gilt Nightclub, it is not for lack of trying. The venue has had conflicting events on the dates MLW has reached out to book. MLW are now looking to run Saturdays, which are a big event night for clubs. Previously, they had been using the venue on Thursdays, which aren't as busy. MLW is still hoping to return there soon. There's a feeling that without the Orlando audience, they wouldn't have been in the position to get the TV deal and they really don't want to abandon the fans in the market ...

PCO, Pierre Carl Oulette, will be in regularly going forward.

The company is working on making Brody King, who made a great impression at the Wargames event, in as a regular as well.

MLW is talking with Sammy Guevara and working on bringing him in.

The plan is to make the Wargames and the Battle Riot matches annual occurences.
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There continues to be praise for Jessamyn Duke coming out of WWE NXT, according to Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio. WWE looks to be fast-tracking Duke and Marina Shafir, largely in part due to their connection to Shayna Baszler and RAW Women's Champion Ronda Rousey but also because of their progress.

It was reported earlier this summer that WWE had plans for a Horsewomen vs. Horsewomen match at the November 18 Survivor Series pay-per-view in Los Angeles but there's no word on if they still plan on doing that match ...

Meltzer also noted that a major pay-per-view match in November could be too soon for Duke and Shafir. Word is that Duke is way ahead of where she should be and Shafir is not far behind her. Rousey adapted quickly and Baszler could likely pull off a high-profile match like the Survivor Series match but it could be asking a lot of Duke and Shafir this early in their careers.

Regarding the rumored Flair vs. Rousey match at WrestleMania 35, the latest is that the match is not as locked-in for WrestleMania as everyone thinks, but it is definitely being talked about.
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WWE revealed that Daniel Bryan has an 88 rating in WW 2K19. Of the ratings announced so far, the only wrestlers ahead of him are AJ Styles (91), Triple H (89) and Braun Strowman (89). Close behind Bryan are The Undertaker (87), Randy Orton (87), Finn Balor (85), Jeff Hardy (84), Asuka (84), Rusev (84), Adam Cole (81), Shayna Baszler (81) and Mustafa Ali (81).
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Below is video of WWE Performance Center Coach Scotty 2 Hotty leading a class on in-ring stamina with the NXT Superstars earlier this week:

Some Tuesdays are easier than others. @TheScotty2Hotty has his class working on in-ring stamina this morning. pic.twitter.com/d5GnL2LQLd
— WWE NXT (@WWENXT) September 18, 2018
Link: https://twitter.com/WWENXT/status/1042075208281202689

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Impact Wrestling officials have reportedly reached out to MLW World Champion Low Ki to come in for their upcoming shows in New York next month. Despite Impact talent appearing on MLW shows recently, there are some that feel that this was a move by design to hurt MLW. Low Ki declined the bookings out of loyalty to MLW. Impact had recently booked MLW's Jimmy Havoc earlier this month for a match in the UK where he was beaten by Sami Callihan.
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Tonight's season two premiere of WWE Mixed Match Challenge peaked at 52,400 viewers on Facebook Watch. It was down 61% from the season one premiere in January, which peaked at 135,600 viewers. Last season, viewership never reached the 100,000 mark for the live airing again until the finale, which peaked at 114,000 viewers.

This week's viewership hovered in the 35,000 - 50,000 range before peaking at 52,400 in the middle of the AJ Styles & Charlotte Flair vs. Jimmy Uso & Naomi match. Viewership dropped to 43,000 viewers for the finish. The Braun Strowman & Ember Moon vs. Kevin Owens & Natalya match that preceded it topped at 43,600 viewers.

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

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

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Indies Roundup:
After facing Pentagon Jr. at All In, Kenny Omega has a match booked against the other member of the Lucha Brothers. Northeast Wrestling has announced that Omega will be facing Fenix at their show on Friday, November 9 at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie, New York. The event is Northeast Wrestling's 23rd anniversary show.

wXw Femmes Fatales on 10/5 in Oberhausen, Germany has Melanie Gray vs. Session Moth Martina, Wesma vs. Meiko Satomura, Toni Storm vs. LuFisto, Kris Wolf vs. Killer Kelly and Audrey Bride vs. Millie McKenzie.

Another match added to the OTT Anniversary show on 10/13 in Dublin at the National Stadium is a five-way with Rocky Romero vs. Gino Gambino vs. LJ Cleary vs. Paddy M vs. a mystery fifth man.

Adam Page is auctioning off his gear and the phone he used to almost kill Joey Ryan to raise money for the North Carolina Relief Fund on Ebay.

Matt Taven will be sporting a new look, as his head was shaved in the aftermath of the CMLL 85th Anniversary event.

Ring of Honor noted this week that The Briscoes have officially broken 1,000 days combined as ROH Tag Team Champions.

MLW has added a match between Shane Strickland and Tom Lawlor for the October 4th “Fury Road” events in Queens, New York at the Melrose Ballroom.
NEW: http://www.northeastwrestling.com/20181109.shtml , Page: https://twitter.com/theAdamPage/stat...54236603691008

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A few notes on the talked about meeting with Ed Nordholm and Scott D'Amore with Paul Levesque at WWE headquarters. It was a meeting that WWE requested. There was said to be no substantial news out of it at this point. It was not Impact pitching ideas as was reported in the current issue.
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Sami Zayn, who has been out of action after surgery on each of his rotator cuffs, will be making his first public appearance in months, representing WWE during a signing at the New York Comic Con on Saturday 10/6.
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After her excellent match on the Mae Young Classic episode last night, Allysin Kay tweeted:

My FIRST match back after 7 months of an almost career-ending injury was main-eventing a WWE Network show. I knew my odds weren't great. But if I had to go out, this was the way I wanted to go. In flames ????????????#FrenemyWorldTour #MYC2018
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— Allysin Kay / Sienna (@Sienna) September 20, 2018
Link: https://twitter.com/Sienna/status/1042822385500672000

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In honor of Hispanic Heritage month, the following Hidden Gems were added to the WWE Network:

Lucha Legend: Rey Mysterio puts his WCW Cruiserweight Championship on the line against fellow luchador Super Calo in this rarely seen match from Nitro. (9/23/96)

Demolishing the Competition: WWE Hall of Famers unite when Tito Santana teams with the legendary Mil Mascaras to take on the tough tandem of Demolition. (8/28/87)

The Pride of Puerto Rico: The beloved Pedro Morales defends his WWE World Championship against WWE Hall of Famer Blackjack Mulligan as their rivalry reaches a fever pitch. (3/15/71)

The Fighting Fifties: Mexican legend Rito Romero battles Danny Savich in a 2-out-of-3 falls contest from the famed Sportatorium in Dallas, TX. (8/26/52)
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Similarly, it was believed that Lesnar was done with WWE after SummerSlam, but the amount of money paid for the Saudi Arabia deal, a show that is far more lucrative now than WrestleMania, was enough to get Lesnar to return for the date.

The Lesnar deal was not a last minute deal. During the week prior to SummerSlam, it was expected by the Lesnar camp that McMahon would make a huge offer for the Saudi Arabia show, as well as WrestleMania. Lesnar had not signed a new UFC contract, where UFC would have the ability to block the appearance, although UFC and WWE are not operating as enemies and UFC may not have stood in Lesnar’s way of making such a big payday if he was under contract. It is not clear when the offer was made and agreed, but it was several weeks ago.

The exact nature of the deal is unclear past that Lesnar is looking at signing short-term deals, feeling that with all the money both UFC and WWE have, that the more he’s free, the more he can play both sides and get the best deal possible
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Whether the $40 million to $45 million deal from Saudi Arabia was made for two shows this year, or that’s the price for each show individually won’t be known until the fourth quarter business numbers come out at the end of January or early February. The entire Saudi Arabia deal has a confidentiality clause, but WWE does, as a public company, have to report the income and it is put in a category where you can pretty much estimate pretty closely what the number is.
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While the Melbourne Cricket Grounds can hold 100,000 people, the set up was to be for between 70,000 and 80,000. At first, in the scripted interviews, they had been using the number 70,000, which means, with the usual exaggerations on a stadium show, they were looking at probably 60,000. However, on Smackdown, the interviews were saying 60,000, meaning they are probably looking at closer to 50,000 as a real number. We’re told that a lot of tickets have been sold, and let’s face it, 50,000 for pro wrestling no matter where it is, is a great number, but there are plenty of seats available all over the stadium and in all but one price range.
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The actual reason Katsuya Kitamura hasn’t been around is because one of his legs was crushed in a horrible scooter accident. It’s not 100 percent that he won’t be able to come back but we’re told it doesn’t look promising. That’s a real sad story because he had superstar presence and most figured he’d be fast-tracked, because of his age and look, to main event status. He was just starting to do some really good singles matches in prelims so he was getting it down.
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World of Sport, moved up to 4 p.m. on 9/15, was down to 300,000 viewers, which was terrible, as it was down from 500,000 the prior week and well below the previous bottoming out number of 400,000. It also did a 3.9 share, a series low. Things look even worse since on 9/22 the show is being moved to 2:30 p.m., which is a worse time slot and the third time slot change since the series started.
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Jeff Cobb is now expected to sign with ROH, which would remove him from the independent scene aside from working PWG and out of U.S. dates for 2019. He’s expected to work both here and New Japan but wouldn’t be signing until after whatever waiting period he has to wait after the completion of this season of Lucha Underground. He had gotten an agreement that if he returned for this season and they wrote about his Matanza Cueto character, that after the season he could get a release from his original seven season deal
Cobb revealed his status on a recent episode of X-Pac's 12360 podcast show.

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I could see the idea of the U.K. show being put at that point in a Wednesday night block with NXT once the Mae Young Classic and Mixed Match Challenge runs end, but that isn’t official. Apparently the reason the U.K. show is on the network is because they had interest from BT Sports in the show, but BT is competition with Sky and it fell through, whether due to contract reasons with Sky or other reasons. WWE and Sky have had a long lasting relationship but there was a snag if you recall regarding the contract and the WWE Network. WWE never informed Sky about starting the network and Sky had just reached a deal where they would do PPVs of all the WWE PPV shows (previously they only did some on PPV and some aired on Sky).
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For the WWE Network, one of the reasons the subscription numbers are kept up is that if you cancel your subscription, you are then given a free month to try and get you to keep it
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Regarding rumors of Rousey vs. Cris Cyborg at WrestleMania that were going around, Ariel Helwani discussed them with Cyborg on his show and she didn’t act like there was a deal but obviously said she said she would be interested in doing such a match. She’s pushed the idea of late. I don’t sense there is anything to the story. One person in the company who would be in the loop on such things said that it has never been brought up to Rousey and without her approval it wouldn’t happen, and that it’s not something they think she’d want to do. There was legit bad blood between the two because of a public narrative of Rousey not wanting to fight her even though Rousey from the start had agreed to do so at 135, and continued to say that during her entire reign ...

While forgotten in history, the first UFC women’s fight in Anaheim was supposed to be Rousey vs. Cyborg. With the benefit of hindsight, history may have changed greatly. If they did that fight and Cyborg had won, the entire Rousey run never would have happened. Had Rousey lost that fight, who is to say the women would have ever drawn significant numbers since Cyborg never drew in Strikeforce after beating Gina Carano. Without the big Rousey run where she proved she could do big PPV numbers, the history of women in UFC, boxing, kickboxing and WWE would be extremely different to say the least.
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In the segment last week where the police officer was going to arrest Corbin for filing a false police report, which led to Corbin making the Raw tag title match at Hell in a Cell, a key element is that the ID pin on the officer’s shirt read “Ambrose.” So the idea was that the officer was a relative of Ambrose and it was Dean and his relative working a swerve on Corbin. It still doesn’t make sense that an officer would risk his career to do an arrest in that situation but there was at least more of a storyline explanation for it
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The belief is that the people running Progress like Jim Smallman will be ending up running the U.K. shows, particularly if they do house show tours. WWE has owned both the Progress and ICW libraries for some time but still has done nothing with them. It’s basically up to Vince McMahon when he wants to pull the trigger on it. For now, Vince hasn’t allowed any modern indies on the network. Some feel that will change and the stuff will start airing when they launch the more expensive tiered pricing where those type of things would be among the things put on the higher tier, which the expectation right now is will start in 2019. The only official word on the new more expensive tier is that it’s coming “sooner than later.

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


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Indies Roundup:
Ring of Honor has added a stipulation match to the card for next week's Death Before Dishonor pay-per-view. ROH announced today that Flip Gordon will be teaming with Colt Cabana against Bully Ray & Silas Young in a tables match at the PPV. Gordon and Bully Ray have been involved in a feud in ROH, with Cabana standing up for Gordon over the course of it.

World Class Revolution Wrestling on 9/29 in Ardmore, OK for OklaMania 3 has Chavo Guerrero Jr. vs. Jack wagger, Taya Valkyrie vs. Sajara Seven and John Morrison vs. Scott Steiner.

Brody King vs. Tommy Dreamer has been added to the MLW TV tapings on 10/4 at the Melrose Ballroom in Queens, NY.

Tyler Bate & Trent Seven vs. Zachary Wentz & Trey Miguel headlines on 10/5 for Destiny World Wrestling in Sarnia, ONT at the River City Vineyard. Pete Dunne is also on that show.

LAX will make their Pro Wrestling Guerrilla debut on 10/19 in Los Angeles vs. The Rascalz. PWG Champion WALTER vs. Jeff Cobb has been announced for the event as well.
ROH: https://www.rohwrestling.com/news/ta...death-dishonor

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Tony Schiavone is set to call the main event for the NWA’s 70th anniversary show next month.

It was revealed during the latest episode of Ten Pounds of Gold that Schiavone will be calling the Cody and Nick Aldis match for the NWA Worlds Heavyweight title. Schiavone appeared briefly in a video message confirming the news. It appears to be a deal between the NWA and Major League Wrestling, where Schiavone currently works as a commentator for their television show.
Link: https://twitter.com/nwa/status/1043152920647278593

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New Japan Pro Wrestling wraps up their Destruction tour with “Destruction in Kobe” this Sunday airing at 3 am Eastern on New Japan World. Below is the lineup:
*Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kazuchika Okada for the Wrestle Kingdom title shot
*KUSHIDA vs. Bushi in the IWGP junior heavyweight title tournament
*Tetsuya Naito, Sanada & EVIL vs. Minoru Suzuki, Zack Sabre Jr. & Taka Michinoku
*Juice Robinson, David Finlay & Toa Henare vs. Jay White, Will Ospreay & Yoshi-Hashi
*Killer Elite Squad vs. Chuckie T. & Beretta
*Yuji Nagata, Satoshi Kojima, Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Manabu Nakanishi vs. Togi Makabe, Tomoaki Honma, Ryusuke Taguchi & Ayato Yoshida
*Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desperado vs. Jushin Thunder Liger & Tiger Mask
*Roppongi 3K vs. Ren Narita & Shota Umino
*Yota Tsuji vs. Yuya Uemura – these two have had 14 singles matches and each one has ended in a 10-minute draw
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The 9/20 edition of Impact did 229,000 overnight viewers, down from last week's 258,000 overnight viewers
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Nikki Cross noted that today marked ten years in the wrestling industry for her:

Ten years ago yesterday, I made my pro wrestling debut at Glasgow’s Kelvin Hall. Wrestling doesn’t own me a thing but it gave me the world. Laugh the loudest, cry the hardest, love the most. Be the whirlwind in the room. Be the weird girl nobody wanted to play with. Be you pic.twitter.com/hxmU6CxtWa
— Nikki Cross (@NikkiCrossWWE) September 21, 2018
Link: https://twitter.com/NikkiCrossWWE/st...95140981051393

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As noted last night, former NWA Champion and long-time TNA/Impact Wrestling stalwart Abyss has been named as the 2018 Impact Wrestling Hall of Famer. Abyss will be inducted officially on Saturday 10/13 at McHale's Pub in New York City. Tickets for the induction are already on sale.

Abyss took to social media to comment on his induction, commenting:

I’m absolutely over whelmed with the response to my upcoming @IMPACTWRESTLING Hall of Fame induction. Thank you ALL for your messages. This is one of the highlights of my career. I’m over come with emotion. Thank you to everyone who ever supported me. This is for all of YOU!!
— Abyss (@TherealAbyss) September 21, 2018
Link: https://twitter.com/TherealAbyss/sta...59518148243456

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Wednesday’s episode of Lucha Underground averaged 97,000 viewers on the El Rey Network with Pentagon Dark dropping the Lucha Underground title to Marty the Moth Martinez to close the show. The number was up 22.7% from last week’s figure of 79,000. From July 11th – August 8th, the show averaged 129,000 viewers per week but since then has averaged 91,700 viewers.
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The Knoxville News Sentinel has a story on Glenn Jacobs accepting a series of dates with the WWE this fall, beginning with the Super Show-Down event on October 6th. Jacobs spoke to the newspaper and said, “Basically, WWE contacted me, and they wanted to do a really big show, or series of shows, that they wanted to do. Of course, I was like, ‘Hey man, Vince (McMahon), I’m most likely going to be mayor’, and was the arrangement we came up to.” Earlier this week, it was announced that the WWE would be donating $100,000 to the Knoxville Public Safety Foundation as a favor for Jacobs going to work these upcoming events for the company. Jacobs recently hired an assistant, Brad Hair, who will stand in for any events that Jacobs cannot attend with the Knox County Law Department and human resources approving the hiring of Hair.
Link: https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/...ia/1357077002/

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WWE Network has added a thirty-minute Q&A special with WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley. The Q&A was filmed after the "20 Years of Hell" special was filmed in Pittsburgh a few months back. The "20 Years of Hell" one-man show is available in the Originals archive as well. Below is the synopsis:

"The WWE Universe joins Hardcore Legend Mick Foley for a fun 'Fan Q and A' from Pittsburgh, site of the Mick Foley: 20 Years of Hell special."

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A combination of network season premieres and a strong NFL game led Raw to what will undoubtedly be the lowest rated episode in its history last night.

The Raw rating is not available, but the total audience was 2.35 million viewers. The previous modern-era low audience was 2.46 million viewers set on July 9. The September 26, 2016 Raw, which went up against the Clinton-Trump debate, also did 2.46 million viewers.

While excuses can be made, and those were the reason for the low number, there are season premieres every year and NFL big games every season. Last year's Raw during the same week did 2.91 million viewers, so that's a 19 percent year-to-year drop.

The show featured what will almost surely be the two lowest rated hours, hours two and three ...

The new Observer will go into more detail about where the audience was lost, but the big drop from hour one-to-two was viewers over the age of 50, which is Raw's usual largest audience demo. It was unusual in that the third hour was actually slightly up from the second hour by 6,000 total viewers.

The three hours were:

8 p.m. 2.49 million viewers
9 p.m. 2.28 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.28 million viewers
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Liv Morgan has officially been diagnosed with a concussion from the two kicks that hit her in the head in the Yes Kick flurry by Brie Bella last night on Raw in Denver, Colorado.

Morgan appeared knocked out by likely the first kick, and in slumping, she fell into a second kick. She was out of the match quickly, but did return for a triple suplex spot.

Those backstage reported last night that she was okay, but WWE officials reported the concussion.

The company issued a statement today: "Liv Morgan has a concussion and is going through the proper protocol under WWE’s comprehensive wellness program."

She will be out of action until she passes Impact testing procedures and there is no way to estimate a time frame for that.
Would be legit surprised if she gets cleared for Super Show-Down and depending on lingering effects, even Evolution could be in doubt. Two big pay checks at risk because Brie is horrendous as a wrestler.

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After an errant Yes Kick rocked Liv Morgan and required her to leave the match during their six woman tag team bout on Monday Night Raw, Brie Bella issued the following comments on her Twitter account: “Every match on #Raw is an opportunity for us to entertain our fans. Our intentions as @WWE Superstars is to win the match, never injure our opponents. Thinking about @YaOnlyLivvOnce tonight.”
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We were told by one person within the company that she was said to be okay and walking around backstage with Brie and Morgan both apologetic to each other in the back
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Indies Roundup:
wXw and DDT will both be coming to the US during WrestleMania weekend. They will be a part of the WWNLive Experience, a group of collective shows that will take place at the La Boom nightclub in Queens, New York during WrestleMania weekend. Other promotions under the WWN banner will also run shows, including EVOLVE, SHIMMER, Kaiju Big Battel and their annual Supershow: Mercury Rising event. This is the first time DDT will run a show in the United States, while wXw previously ran shows in Philadelphia and New Jersey in 2010 and 2011.

Low Ki will defend his MLW World Championship against Daga at the promotion’s TV tapings in Queens, New York on October 4.

Kenny King vs. Chase Owens has been announced for ROH’s post-Death Before Dishonor TV tapings in Las Vegas on September 29.

Cody Rhodes will be donating 100 percent of his meet and greet proceeds for the NWA’s 70th Anniversary Show to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

Women of Wrestling has announced that Shaul Guerrero, the daughter of Eddie & Vickie and the wife of WWE wrestler Aiden English, has joined the promotion as their ring announcer. Guerrero was in Florida Championship Wrestling from 2010-2014 and wrestled as Raquel Diaz before leaving the company. WOW will be holding their next television tapings on October 10th and 11th from the Belasco Theatre in Los Angeles. The promotion will be premiering on AXS TV in 2019
WNN: http://www.morethanmania.com/ , MLW: https://mlw.com/2018/09/25/low-ki-vs...ursday-in-nyc/ , ROH: https://www.rohwrestling.com/news/ki...club-home-turf , WOW: http://www.axs.tv/press_articles/sha...-of-wrestling/ , Cody: https://twitter.com/CodyRhodes/statu...53765887889419

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Carmella spoke to TV Insider about teaming with R-Truth on Mixed Match Challenge: “I’m game to have a good time and play a character and know my role. Whether it was being a manager for Enzo and Big Cass in NXT and then with James Ellsworth and now with R-Truth. It’s cool to show different sides of myself and my character. I feel like not that many people get to do that. They sort of stay the same their entire career, but I totally am open to all aspects of Carmella.”
Link: https://www.tvinsider.com/718264/wwe...k19-smackdown/

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The full card has been released for this Sunday’s Fighting Spirit Unleashed.

The show will headline with Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi teaming up to take on Kazuchika Okada and Tomohiro Ishii ...

Here is the full card for this Sunday’s show, which will take place at the Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, California:

Tomohiro Ishii and Kazuchika Okada vs. Kota Ibushi and Kenny Omega
Juice Robinson vs. Cody for the IWGP United States title
The Young Bucks vs. Guerillas of Destiny for the IWGP tag team titles
Will Ospreay vs. Marty Scurll in a IWGP Jr. Heavyweight title tournament semi-final
Hiroshi Tanahashi and KUSHIDA vs. Jay White and Gedo
Tetsuya Naito, EVIL and SANADA vs. Zack Sabre Jr. and Killer Elite Squad
Flip Gordon, Chris Sabin and Jeff Cobb vs. Best Friends and Hirooki Goto
Frankie Kazarian and Christopher Daniels vs. Chase Owens and Hangman Page
ACH, Ryusuke Taguchi and Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Roppongi 3K
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Rob Conway is a guest coach at the Performance Center this week. Conway is still competing these days in bodybuilding.
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New Japan had a brief update on Yoshi-Hashi following Sunday’s closing angle in Kobe. The promotion stated he was hospitalized after suffering a head and shoulder injury after falling into the ring apron. He got up from the fall and was cut open on the forehead and was quickly sent to the floor after a quick interaction with Jay White.
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The 8th annual Streamy Awards, which aim to recognize the best in web video, official nominations are out. WWE Mixed Match Challenge is nominated for a Sports Series Streamy Award "Lifeline" a YouTube Premium sci-fi series from Dwayne Johnson's Seven Bucks Productions is nominated for Overall Sci-Fi/Action Streamy Award.
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WWE announced the following:

Big Show is ready to take on a new role: He’s set to star in a recurring role on the second season of Syfy’s hit show “Happy!” The World’s Largest Athlete has been cast as Big Pink, the cellmate of Ritchie Coaster’s diabolical character, Mr. Blue.

“Happy” stars Christopher Meloni as Nic Sax, a corrupt ex-detective-turned-hitman whose life is changed forever when an imaginary and extremely positive blue-winged horse named Happy appears.
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I notice MLW has recently used a couple of ex-WCW concepts such as Wargames and Spin the Wheel, Make the Deal. They are no threat whatsoever to WWE but I’m surprised they’re allowed to use anything that would be trademarked by WWE (okay, STWMTD probably isn’t). How are they able to do that?

The names are not owned by WWE as they didn’t keep the trademarks active after acquiring WCW in 2001. In the case of Wargames, that allowed MLW to trademark them and use it.


What did you guys think of WWE’s version of ECW when it first started with One Night Stand in '05 (one of the best wrestling PPVs ever) and '06 along with the follow-up? Was it originally the plan to make an alternative to Raw & Smackdown or did you already realize from the start that it would eventually be just another WWE-formatted show? I consider that one of WWE’s biggest blunders and looking back, what was the purpose of bringing ECW back anyway?

The success of the first ONS led WWE to bring back the brand. The original plan was to book a show that was similar to the original ECW for the first few months then slowly turn it into a WWE style (Vince McMahon-like) product. Instead, they went to the WWE style almost immediately and the brand lost its fan base. ECW fans weren’t interested in a WWE-ized version of the product.
From PWI's weekly Q&A articles.

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The top three matches for the 12/26 WWE Smackdown live event at Madison Square Garden are:
*WWE Champion AJ Styles vs. Samoa Joe in a Steel Cage Match.
*WWE Smackdown Women's Champion Becky Lynch vs. Charlotte Flair.
*The Miz vs. Daniel Bryan.

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Broken Universe sitcom could be good if it's all Matt Hardy. Really think the WWE Network lacks stuff like that with it talent. Like the Kevin Owens Show and Miz TV should be nightly talk shows on the Network instead of throw away segment's on Raw and Smackdown.

Also wasn't impressed by Mia Yim/Jade in her time in Impact and they really tried to push her.

Cornette doing the NWA show should be interesting, just got it for free today.

Brie needs to retire from wrestling.

Enjoyed the first season of Happy and should be a good role for Big Show.
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Tuesday night's SmackDown on the USA Network averaged 2.193 million viewers, the lowest number since August 14 but probably a little higher than expected following Raw's record-low ratings the night before ...

SmackDown was also up against season premieres for NCIS, FBI, and This Is Us, which all did over 10 million viewers, as well as The Voice, which was just under that figure. There was no major sports competition for SmackDown, however.

Year-over-year, the show was down 14 percent as compared to 19 percent this week for Raw. Year-to-date, SmackDown is down on average by 5.3 percent after starting 2018 with year-over-year increases.
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After the storyline where Aiden English asked Lana if she was going to tell Rusev about "one night in Milwaukee," English bringing video evidence of the accusation is advertised for next week’s SmackDown. It will be the go-home show for Super Show-Down, and WWE will follow up on the cliffhanger where Samoa Joe visited AJ Styles’ house and rang the doorbell as the show went off the air.
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Big E tweeted about Kofi Kingston breaking the record for most cumulative days as WWE Tag Team Champion in his career: “@TrueKofi has the most days as a tag team champion in the history of WWE. Never failed a drug test. Never had a brush with the law. Always a professional to the highest degree. Give this man his flowers while he can still smell them.”
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During an interview with The Mirror, WALTER answered a question about whether or not he would consider signing with WWE at this point in his career: “I don’t know if I mentioned this but being a part of the Raw or SmackDown roster is nothing I am interested in. I don’t want to live in the US. I really like NXT though, I think it's a great product, filled with the best talent in the world and is focused on competition in the ring, which is something I enjoy. I don’t want to say it will never happen because in wrestling things change so quick.”
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You can't make this up, folks. The 2019 Wrestlecon event has announced that on Friday 4/7/19 they will present the first-ever Joey Ryan's Penis Party event. Yes, you read that correctly. We are told the event will feature ten matches (and I can't even fathom what else) with tickets already on sale now at www.Wrestlecon.com..

During the epilogue for the “All Us” video series, Cody Rhodes brought up the question of whether or not they’ll do another All In. Cody said the best answer he can give is that, while it could have just been a great night at the matches, the show felt like a revolution and revolutions aren’t just for one night.

With Joey Janela unable to wrestle at the show due to his knee injury, Darby Allin will instead face Trevor Lee at PWG's Smokey and the Bandido on October 19.

MJF will defend his Middleweight title against Jason Cade and Jimmy Yuta in a triple threat elimination match at MLW’s TV tapings in Queens, New York on October 4.
Joey Ryan: https://twitter.com/wrestlecon/statu...26690872795136 , All Us: https://youtu.be/_Q6g13VHoyk , PWG: https://twitter.com/OfficialPWG/stat...58127765241856 , MLW: https://mlw.com/2018/09/26/mjf-vs-ca...ursday-in-nyc/

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Although there has been no additional information released regarding the injury that required Sasha Banks to be pulled from the ring by WWE, the company did announce today that the former Women's Champion will be appearing on “Wild ‘N Out” this Friday at 10:30 PM.

The series released the following preview via social media:

.@BlocBoy_JB teaches us how to move, ???? and @SashaBanksWWE is ready to lay the smack down on the red squad! ????Catch all new #WildNOut this Friday 10/9c on @MTV! pic.twitter.com/76itGVVkZz
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With the Crown Jewel main event being strowman vs Lesnar vs. Reigns, do you think this is a way for WWE to redeem themselves and still give Strowman a rub from Brock if he pins him to win a title. I know Lesnar isn't Champion anymore but under the Triple Threat rules I still think it could be a little bit of a rub if Strowman pins Lesnar clean, then they have a ready-made storyline where Roman can chase the title and come out every week saying Strowman may be the champ but he still couldn't beat me. What do you guys think of the scenario?

I think your scenario makes perfect sense but I don’t see it happening. WWE has shown no desire to have any younger talent get a rub from Brock. He has destroyed all of them. Even when he lost the Title at SummerSlam, it was on a fluke. So, I don’t see them suddenly doing a 180, even though I think that they should.
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Last week Abyss was announced as the next inductee into Impact Wrestling's Hall of Fame. He's been with the company since 2002 and, unlike many other TNA Originals, Abyss never jumped ship to another promotion.

Abyss is still with Impact today and also works as a creative producer. He joined Busted Open Radio where he discussed why he's stayed so loyal to the company.

"I know Tommy [Dreamer] can relate with the ECW thing. Impact is and was home. It's where I started," Abyss said to Dreamer and Dave LaGreca. "I spent practically my entire adult life there. Impact took a gamble on me when I was a nobody. I was coming out of Puerto Rico with a decent name but nothing to where nobody knew who I was stateside.

"TNA gave me that chance when nobody else was biting at the time. To see that growth, and be part of that growth, I always tell people, that meant the most. That's one of the reasons I never wanted to leave because I was there since the beginning. I was part of the original ground floor of the company."
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WWE issued a poll asking fans if they thought Dean Ambrose would turn on The Shield this past Monday. As of this writing, the vote is split at 50% for yes, 50% for no.
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Above is new video of Renee Young talking about how excited she is to call Triple H vs. The Undertaker at WWE Super Show-Down in Australia.

"Before I even worked for WWE, I was down at WrestleMania 28 and got to see Undertaker and Triple H go at it, just from a fan perspective," Young said. "Fast-forward to where we are now to where I get to call their match at Super Show-Down, it's unbelievable."
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WWE Hall of Famer Hulk Hogan took to Twitter this week and posted the following message, causing some fans to speculate on some sort of WWE return for The Hulkster soon. As noted, Turki Al-Sheikh, who is the Minister and Chairman of the General Sports Authority in Saudi Arabia, tweeted out a photo of Hogan, which is naturally leading to speculation that he will be appearing at the upcoming WWE Crown Jewel event on November 2nd.

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Link: https://twitter.com/HulkHogan/status...01646590906369

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After signing with WWE, Mia Yim is scheduled to make her NXT house show debut this weekend.

WWE announced today that Yim will be wrestling at this Saturday's NXT show in Fort Pierce, Florida. Further details about the match Yim will be debuting in haven't been revealed.
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Ahead of their match at Super Show-Down, WWE Network has added an Undertaker vs. Triple H collection.
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The WWE Network added several new Hidden Gems this morning, all featuring rare encounters between Triple H versus The Undertaker before the advertised final time at "WWE Super-Showdown" on Saturday 10/6 in Melbourne, Australia:

WWE 05/12/1996 – The Kuwait Cup

The very first in-ring battle between Hunter Hearst Helmsley and The Undertaker happens overseas in the Semi-Finals of the 1996 Kuwait Cup.

Shotgun Saturday Night 02/08/1997 – An Escalator Ride to Remember

In this memorable bout from Shotgun Saturday Night, Hunter Hearst Helmsley goes one-on-one with The Undertaker at Penn Station in NYC.

Friday Night’s Main Event 09/05/1997 – Friday Night Fight

On a special edition of Friday Night’s Main Event, Hunter Hearst Helmsley journeys to the dark side to battle The Undertaker.
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Cody Rhodes vs. Will Ospreay will be the main event of Fight Forever Wrestling’s debut show that is taking place in Birmingham, England on December 6.

Nicole Matthews on Twitter regarding being banned from entering the United States following visa issues: “Timing, eh? I’ll be fine, everyone. That’s all I’m going to say about the elephant in the room.”

Joey Ryan will face Richard Holliday at MLW’s TV tapings in Queens, New York on October 4.

WrestleCon announced that Revolution Pro Wrestling will again be holding a show as part of WrestleMania week next year. It will take place in New York City at 4 p.m Eastern time on Friday, April 5.

On the same night as Cody Rhodes makes his first title defense, former NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Nick Aldis will also be in action. Ring of Honor has announced that Aldis will be wrestling at their post-Death Before Dishonor television tapings at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada this Saturday. Aldis is set to face Christopher Daniels.

Game Changer Wrestling has announced that Joey Janela’s Spring Break III will take place Friday, April 5th at 8 pm Eastern with no location announced yet. GCW is running shows at the White Eagle Hall but is not listing Spring Break for that venue. The interesting decision is that Spring Break will not be a Midnight show as it’s been presented in years past.

Game Changer has also announced that IWS Hardcore will be part of their collection of shows running at the White Eagle Hall over WrestleMania Weekend. IWS will host their event on Saturday, April 6th at 4 pm and I’d imagine would want their show wrapped up with plenty of time to spare for fans wanting to attend either TakeOver or Ring of Honor at Madison Square Garden.
FFW: https://twitter.com/fightforeveruk/s...51011647463428 , Matthews: https://twitter.com/nmatthewsninja/s...60919746830337 , MLW: https://mlw.com/2018/09/27/joey-ryan...ion-tv-taping/ , WrestleCon: https://twitter.com/wrestlecon/statu...27963880247302 , ROH: https://www.rohwrestling.com/news/ch...dis-face-vegas

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The 2019 WWE Royal Rumble, set for Sunday 1/27 at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona will officially go on sale on 10/12. There will be an online pre-sale that week as well. Daniel Bryan threw out the first pitch at the Arizona Diamondbacks vs. LA Dodgers baseball game last night at the stadium to promote the on sale and spoke with FOX Sports Arizona
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I asked last week about gulak being in the shield beat down, related to drake maverick being aop manager, and you said dont look too far into it. Now this week lio rush is paired with lashley. Are they just phasing 205 guys into management roles?

We are told it's just that the talents are being tapped for roles on Raw. It will be interesting to see whether it has any greater effect on 205 Live overall, but we haven't heard that this is step one in phasing out that brand or anything that would be considered a negative.
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Ring of Honor will present their 2018 Death Before Dishonor PPV event at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas tomorrow, Friday 9/28. Scheduled for the event:
*CHAOS - Kazuchika Okada & Trent Baretta & Tomohiro Ishii & Rocky Romero & Chucky T vs. BULLET CLUB - The Young Bucks & Cody & Marty Scurll and Adam "Hangman" Page.
*ROH Champion Jay Lethal vs. Will Ospreay.
*ROH TV Champion Punishment Martinez vs. Chris Sabin.
*ROH Tag Team Champions The Briscoes vs. The Addiction.
*Bully Ray & Silas Young vs. Colt Cabana & Flip Gordon in a Tables Match
*Women of Honor Champion Sumie Sakai vs. Tenille Dashwood.
*Jushin Liger vs. Kenny King.
*EVIL, SANADA and KUSHIDA in action.
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Bein Sports, which carries MLW on both its English and now Spanish language stations, has reached a new deal with both the Dish Network and Sling TV, but is still off both DirecTV and Comcast
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Arquette is doing a lot of indie stuff for different groups like NEW, and he’s working the 10/6 Border City Wrestling anniversary show in Windsor. Some of it seems to be working with RJ City and helping him build his name. He did a FOX News interview and said his return to wrestling was fueled by a tweet from Bully Ray, who said about the change of IHOP to IHOB, that it was the worst idea since making David Arquette world champion. So Arquette saw that tweet and wanted to get back into wrestling and prove to be a real wrestler to I guess shut people up ...

Second, I don’t know of anyone mad at Arquette, that was a corporate decision. Everyone viewed Arquette as a person positively, and he donated all his WCW money to wives of wrestlers who had died young. If he’s having fun wrestling and people enjoy seeing him, more power to him ... Arquette said that although Rock has changed this somewhat, there is ignorance in Hollywood regarding wrestling. He also felt that he had become bullied in social media over being the joke of a world champion. He said he’s been training like crazy to be a wrestler. He also noted that he’s never taken any money for wrestling. Andy Kaufman was the same way. Kaufman never cashed any of those Jarrett checks during his program with Jerry Lawler. He said he’s already taken a knee to the face and broken three ribs
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Cody did an NWA/Lagana video from his appearance at Championship Wrestling from Hollywood and they brought up his being a free agent on 1/1. Obviously he didn’t say anything definitive at this point past he said he’s making a decision based on his gut, and said the choices would be stay with ROH, pointing out how much fun he had in 2018, going to WWE, touring as NWA champion and trying to take Jack Brisco photos or going full-time with New Japan
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Regarding rumors of Michaels working more than just the tag match in Saudi Arabia, the best we can get is that there are people who feel Michaels may do more than one match but that nobody on the inside can confirm anything other than the Saudi Arabia match at this point
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In a story that also has repercussions when it comes to pro wrestling, the National Labor Relations Board dismissed the claims by Leslie Smith that UFC fighters should be reclassified as employees rather than independent contractors.
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"Because of me and my size I often get asked if I work in the office. I’ll get asked that. Uh huh. Oh my God, every time… it’s unbelievable! Right. The people who are the worst are the TSA agents, so when I traveled with the NXT North American Championship, that often times is when I would get the… they would take the championship out, and look at it, and say, ‘what’s this?’ I’d say, ‘oh, it’s a championship belt.’ And they’d say, ‘for what?’ And I’d say, ‘for wrestling.’ And they would look at the belt, look at me, look back at the belt with just the most interesting look on their faces. Like, ‘guy, I’m right here! I’m right here, man.’ There is nothing that makes me more falsely arrogant, like, wanting to defend myself, than a TSA agent. Like, automatically, I’m like, ‘I may be small, but I’m really good. Like, that championship says it right there.'”
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Wednesday's episode of WWE's Total Divas drew 390,000 viewers on the E! network. This is down 14% from last week's episode, which drew 454,000 viewers for the lowest Total Divas premiere viewership in show history. This week's number is the lowest Total Divas viewership in show history, going back to last week. The second episode of the 6th season drew 461,000 viewers.
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After 15 years in the wrestling business and stops in various promotions, Marty "The Moth" Martinez finally claimed his first major world championship. He won the Lucha Underground Championship after cashing in his Gift of the Gods title and defeating Pentagon Dark.

Marty talked with Wrestling Inc. President Raj Giri about that title win and what we can expect out of Lucha Underground going forward ...

Lucha Underground is currently in its fourth season and Marty responded to talk he's heard of a fifth season.

"I have heard rumors [taping would start] before the end of this year or the beginning of next year, but nothing official," Marty said.
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Ted Turner recently revealed that he is suffering from Lewy body dementia.

Turner, 79, talked to Ted Koppel during an episode of CBS Sunday Morning that will air on 9/30. Deadline reported on Turner’s comments regarding his diagnosis.

“It’s a mild case of what people have as Alzheimer’s,” Turner reportedly said. “It’s similar to that. But not nearly as bad. Alzheimer’s is fatal. Thank goodness I don’t have that.” It was reported at one point during the interview, Turner paused and was unable to remember what his disease was.

Turner was responsible for bringing pro wrestling to TBS the early 1970s. Turner Broadcasting eventually purchased Jim Crockett Promotions in 1988, which would later become World Championship Wrestling. It was Turner who approved a two hour block of wrestling, which would go on to be WCW Nitro, to square off against WWE Raw head to head on Monday nights in the fall of 1995. The two television shows battled for ratings supremacy for several years.

After Time Warner, the parent company of Turner Broadcasting merged with AOL in 2001, Turner found himself with diminished power within the conglomerate. After being battered in the ratings for several years, along with massive financial losses, WCW Nitro and sister show Thunder were cancelled in March of 2001, with WCW being sold to WWE shortly after. Turner did not attempt to get back into wrestling after WCW’s demise.
Link: https://deadline.com/2018/09/ted-tur...er-1202473068/

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The final episode of the first season of World of Sport on ITV in the U.K. will be tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. Rampage defends his WOS title against Justin Sysum and Isteyn Rees & Kip Sabian defend the tag titles against Grado & Davey Boy Smith Jr.

MLW announced the Smash & Dash Connection vs. Samoan Island tribe for Thursday's TV tapings at the Melrose Ballroom in Long Island City, NY (Queens). The Samoan Island Tribe is Samu and his son Lance Anoa'i.

PCW Ultra on 10/26 has announced Shane Strickland vs. Darby Allin and Tessa Blanchard vs. Priscilla Kelly.

AAW debuts on 10/12 in Austin, TX at AFS Cinema with Eddie Kingston vs. ACH, Mat Fitchett & Davey Vega vs. Ricky Stars & Aaron Solow, Sami Callihan vs. Darby Allin, AR Fox & Myron Reed vs. Dezmond Xavier & Zachary Wentz, Thunder Rosa vs. Fuego del Sol vs. Barrett Brown vs. Kody Lane vs. Jazzy J Serious vs. Andy Dalton plus Brody King, Rich Swann, Trevor Lee and Laredo Kid.

Lucha Underground averaged 89,000 viewers this past Wednesday on the El Rey Network, which was down from 97,000 the week prior. Last week’s show featured Marty the Moth Martinez winning the Gift of the Gods championship from El Dragon Azteca Jr. and then cashing in his title shot to win the title from Pentagon Dark but didn’t lead to an uptick in the audience this week.

WrestleCon has clarified that the “Joey Ryan Penis Party” card over WrestleMania Weekend will be a wrestling show that features ten matches. Nothing has been announced yet beyond Ryan’s involvement with tickets going on sale this past week. The show will be going head-to-head with Joey Janela’s Spring Break on Friday, April 5th at 8 pm.
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WWE announced this afternoon that Evolution (Triple H, Batista, Randy Orton and Ric Flair) will reunite on October 16 at the Smackdown 1000 show in Washington, DC.

This will be Batista's first appeance on WWE TV since he "quit" during Raw on June 2, 2014.
Link: https://www.wwe.com/shows/smackdown/...smackdown-1000

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The 9/27 edition of Impact did 222,000 overnight viewers, down from last week's 229,000 overnight viewers
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WWE announced the following :

British Strong Style will be in full effect this weekend at PROGRESS Wrestling’s Hello Wembley event in London, where WWE United Kingdom Champion Pete Dunne, Tyler Bate and Trent Seven are set to compete in separate matches for what is already being dubbed the biggest independent wrestling show in U.K. history. Also highlighting the huge night are 2018 Mae Young Classic competitor (and 2017 semifinalist) Toni Storm, 205 Live’s Mark Andrews and NXT’s newest signee, Matt Riddle.
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I've seen several of the Twitter sources I follow mention Undertaker possibly retiring at Survivor Series against HBK

(and also that HBK will be back for 4-5 matches)
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I'll believe he's retired after I've seen it with my own eyes two more times.
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If HBK is back for that many matches I might re up my network sub just to watch him. I caught a clip of his promo last night about picking his bff everyday of the week, twice on Sundays. He is instantly the best promo in the company. I miss Shawn Michaels.
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As I have said (and #1-wwf-fan has echoed this sentiment), and it's not exactly a bold prediction: Shawn Michaels is going to be the best worker in the company when he comes back. Remember how he was so good 2002-2010? It's going to be an even greater gap this time, because he knows how to promo, sell and will work wisely.
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Rumored that the Saudi Gov. wants The Rock at the next Saudi show in April 2019 after WM to appear as "The Champion".

Couple that w/ those rumors of Rock vs Roman at WM35....and that the Saudi gov is willing to shell out $20 million for the Rock to appear...and Rock winning/beating Roman at WM35 is an actual real possibility.


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I'd pop for that
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I'm interested to see what The Rock's stance on that is. I had him pegged to win the Universal Title from either Reigns or Triple H at Mania (Trips wants that match and you know it), but working Saudi when he's dropped hints he wants to be President one day...it's dicey. But world leaders shake hands with pieces of shit all the time. It'll be interesting to see how that all turns out.

Lol if Rock takes the money and donates it all to women's shelters or something.
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A big Monday Night Football rating led to yet another modern low as Raw last night fell another two percent from last week's mark with 2.29 million viewers ...

The actual rating isn't available but it would be expected to be the second-lowest Monday night rating for wrestling ever on the USA Network.

Raw lost to everything on the networks except CW and Raw was 16th for the day on cable, the lowest it has done in years ...

The three hours were:

8 p.m. 2.50 million viewers
9 p.m. 2.33 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.08 million viewers
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Young spoke to The Mirror about her new role as a commentator on Raw and said she’d love to be an on-screen general manager if ever given the opportunity: “Would I like to do that? Oh my God, actually, I would love to do that. The way that I'm watching Paige navigate being the general manager of SmackDown, it looks like it it's so much fun. Who gets to yell at Samoa Joe and kind of put a little bit of fear in his eyes? Not a lot of people get to do that. If that was an opportunity that came down my way, I would definitely wear that hat, that would be really, really fun.”
Link: https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other...-love-13343795

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Collections on Rey Mysterio and Sasha Banks are set to arrive on the WWE Network next month.
Link: https://www.wwenetworknews.com/2018/...e-highlighted/

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ROH has announced two title matches for Glory by Honor night one in Baltimore on October 12. Jay Lethal will defend his ROH World Championship against Silas Young, and SoCal Uncensored (Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian & Scorpio Sky) will challenge for The Young Bucks & Cody’s Six-Man Tag Team titles.

As was noted in our post on the card for the show, a new member of Los Ingobernables de Japon will debut at NJPW King of Pro Wrestling next Monday. They’ll team with Tetsuya Naito, SANADA & BUSHI against Kazuchika Okada, Toru Yano, Sho & Yoh.

Pentagon Jr. & Fenix will defend their Tag Team titles against LA Park & Hijo de LA Park in the main event of MLW’s TV tapings in Chicago on November 8.

WALTER defending his PROGRESS World Championship against Zack Sabre Jr. has been announced for PROGRESS’ show at the Electric Ballroom in Camden on October 28.

After wrestling for the promotion on their United States tour, LAX (Santana & Ortiz) are set to make their UK PROGRESS debut in Manchester on December 8. They’ll also be wrestling for PROGRESS in Sheffield on December 9.

IPW UK revealed that they’ll be producing a weekly series for the Fight Network on Sky channel 455 in the United Kingdom. They noted that the premiere date will be announced soon.

ROH Honor Club will be streaming Friday night's Arena Mexico show featuring the World Grand Prix tournament starting at 9:30 p.m. Eastern time for subscribers.

ACH is expected to be in the Super Juniors tag team tournament that starts in two weeks in New Japan.

PROGRESS Wrestling’s “Hello Wembley” card on Sunday ran long and caused many fans to leave the building to catch their train home and missed the main event. As a cool gesture on the part of the promotion, they are going to post the main event between Walter and Tyler Bate for free as a make good on their Demand Progress streaming service. The entire show from Sunday should be up and available for purchase this week.

Game Changer Wrestling has announced “Joey Janela’s L.A. Confidential” card will take place from Los Angeles on Friday, November 16th (the weekend of Survivor Series in the city) with tickets going on sale tonight. Janela will not be wrestling on the show.
NJPW: https://twitter.com/njpwworld/status...24093982597121 , MLW: https://mlw.com/2018/10/02/lucha-bro...event-chicago/ , PROGRESS: https://twitter.com/ThisIs_Progress/...23397005647872 & https://twitter.com/ThisIs_Progress/...43478557298688 , IPW: https://www.facebook.com/IPWuk/photo...type=3&theater

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The full card has been released for next week’s King of Pro Wrestling.

As expected, the main event will feature Kenny Omega defending the IWGP title in a triple threat match against Cody and Kota Ibushi, which was set up this past Sunday at Fighting Spirit Unleashed. In the co-main event, Hiroshi Tanahashi will defend his WrestleKingdom 13 briefcase against Jay White ...

Meanwhile, a new member of Los Ingobernables de Japon will make their debut at the show, after a YouTube video featuring LIJ indicated that they would be bringing in a new pareja. The mystery partner will team with Naito, SANADA and BUSHI in an eight man tag against CHAOS ...

Here is the full card for King of Pro Wrestling, which will take place next Monday at Sumo Hall:

Kenny Omega vs. Cody vs. Kota Ibushi for the IWGP title
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Jay White for Tanahashi’s WrestleKingdom 13 title shot briefcase
KUSHIDA vs. Marty Scurll for the IWGP Jr. title
EVIL vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
Kazuchika Okada, Toru Yano and Roppongi 3K vs. Tetsuya Naito, SANADA, BUSHI and a mystery partner
Tomohiro Ishii, Hirooki Goto and Will Ospreay vs. Minoru Suzuki, Taichi and Takashi Iizuka
The Young Bucks, Hangman Page and Chase Owens vs. Guerillas of Destiny, Bad Luck Fale and Taiji Ishimori
Togi Makabe and Tomoak Honma vs. Juice Robinson and Toa Henare
Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. Jushin Thunder Liger and Tiger Mask for the IWGP Jr. tag team titles
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World Wrestling has continued their recent strategy of filing trademarks on older material ... On 9/27, WWE filed a trademark on the term "WCCW", obviously a reference to World Class Championship Wrestling. WWE purchased the rights to the WCCW video library from Kevin Von Erich in 2006.

On 9/26, the company also filed trademarks on the following terms:
-"Phenomenal One", obviously in reference to WWE Champion AJ Styles.
-"Fearless Nikki", for usage related to Nikki Bella.
-"The Awesome One", for usage related to Miz.
-"The Glorious One", related obviously to Bobby Roode.
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Yesterday, Alberto Del Rio announced he is preparing for a return to MMA and will be fighting when Combate Americas holds its first PPV event: Del Rio made the announcement during an interview on the MMA hour
Link: https://youtu.be/D4hxaOTKbHQ

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New Japan announced attendance at 3,007 for Sunday’s card at the Walter Pyramid. The empty seats were very visible throughout the show and acknowledged by Kenny Omega in his closing promo. As great a show as it was, shows don’t sell tickets in hindsight and it’s all about the promotion and anticipation ahead of time.

Mauro Ranallo, Kairi Sane, and Io Shirai were all seen in the audience at the New Japan card in Long Beach on Sunday.
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WWE has a new poll asking fans which title should Dean Ambrose go after. As of this writing, 47% voted for Roman Reigns' WWE Universal Title while 11% voted for Seth Rollins' WWE Intercontinental Title. The rest, 42%, voted, "Neither as long as a member of The Shield holds them."
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Above is a clip for tonight's post-RAW edition of Table For 3 on the WWE Network, featuring a 3MB reunion with Heath Slater, Jinder Mahal and RAW Tag Team Champion Drew McIntyre.
Link: https://youtu.be/YoxcJPCComQ


Some other sheet news includes:
  • WWE recently released an official promo video for their upcoming all-women Evolution event. https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1046957736557195264
  • For those interested, WWE's Shawn Michaels 3-disc DVD set called Shawn Michaels: The Showstopper Unreleased was released earlier today.
  • In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, El Dandy celebrated his 53rd birthday today. When asked for a comment, Bret Hart stated "Who are you to doubt El Dandy?"


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After a night in which Raw had its lowest audience total of the modern era, SmackDown followed with its second-lowest number of the year.

Tuesday night's episode drew 2.095 million viewers. That's the fourth-lowest total since the 2016 brand split, trailing only the night of the 2016 election, the July 3 show from this year (holiday weekend), and June 13, 2017, which went up against game seven of the NBA finals.
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Content highlighting professional wrestling’s shooters is coming to the WWE Network tomorrow.

WWE Network News reports that this week’s WWE Hidden Gems content relates to professional wrestling’s shooters. These matches will feature shoot wrestlers/athletes such as Lou Thesz, Karl Gotch, Danny Hodge, Nobuhiko Takada and Billy Robinson. These matches span several decades in multiple promotions, including Stampede Wrestling, AWA, WWE and the Florida and Texas territories.

The matches that will be uploaded include:
  • Lou Thesz vs. Wild Bill Longson (Texas Rasslin’, 6/17/52)
  • Karl Gotch and Rene Goulet vs. The Rugged Russians (WWE MSG event, 1/31/72)
  • Danny Hodge and Jos Leduc vs. Pak Song and Toru Tanaka (Championship Wrestling from Florida, 11/12/74)
  • Nobuhiko Takada vs. Athol Foley (Stampede, 8/12/83)
  • Billy Robinson vs. Rick Martel (AWA, 10/18/84)
Link: https://www.wwenetworknews.com/2018/...ve-promotions/

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The United States District Court of Connecticut officially closed the concussion-related lawsuits brought against World Wrestling Entertainment and Vince McMahon on 9/27 with the following judgment issued ...

ORDERED, ADJUDGED and DECREED that declaratory judgment is entered in favor of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. as to Ware and Billington; that judgment is entered for World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. as to Evan Singleton and Vito LoGrasso; and judgment is entered for World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. and Vincent K. McMahon as to Joseph M. Laurinaitis, Carole M. Snuka on behalf of Estate of James W. Snuka, Paul Orndorff, Salavador Guerrero IV, Kelli Fujiwara Sloan on behalf of Estate of Harry Masayoshi Fujiwara, Bryan Emmett Clark, Jr., Anthony Norris, James Harris, Dave Hebner, Earl Hebner, Chris Pallies, Ken Patera, Terry Michael Brunk, Barry Darsow, Bill Eadie, John Nord, Jonathan Hugger, James Brunzell, Susan Green, Angelo Mosca, James Manley, Michael “Mike” Enos, Bruce “Butch” Reed, Carlene B. Moore-Begnaud, Sylvain Grenier, Omar Mijares, Don Leo Heaton, Troy Martin, Marc Copani, Mark Canterbury, Victoria Otis, Judy Hardee, Mark Jindrak, Gayle Schecter on behalf of Estate of Jon Rechner, Barbara Marie Leydig & Bernard Knighton as co-representatives of Estate of Brian Knighton, Marty Jannetty, Jon Heidenreich, Terry Szopinski, Sione Havea Vailahi, Larry Oliver, Bobbi Billard, Ashley Massaro, Perry Satullo, David Silva, John Jeter, Charles Bernard Scaggs, Charles Wicks, Shirley Fellows on behalf of Estate of Timothy Alan Smith, Tracy Smothers, Michael R Halac, Rick Jones, Ken Johnson, George Gray, Ferrin Jesse Barr, Lou Marconi, Rod Price, Donald Driggers, Rodney Begnaud, Ronald Scott Heard on behalf of Estate of Ronald Heard, and Boris Zhukov.
Link: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/12...losed.html?p=1

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Charlotte Flair praised NXT’s Bianca Belair during an interview with GiveMeSport: “She is the future. She’s a real stud.”
Link: https://www.givemesport.com/1398043-...-future-of-wwe

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Indies Roundup:
Jay Lethal, Jonathan Gresham & a mystery partner vs. The Kingdom (Matt Taven, Vinny Marseglia & TK O’Ryan) has been announced for ROH’s Glory by Honor TV tapings at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia on October 14.

The promotion will also return to Philadelphia on Sunday 10/14 for a TV taping at the 2300 Arena.

LA Park vs. MJF and Sammy Guevara vs. Fenix are set for AAW’s show in Merrionette Park, Illinois on October 26.

House of Glory Wrestling will return to NYC this Friday 10/5 in Jamaica, Queens. The promotion issued the following in support of the event. New York's biggest Wrestling Promotion returns October 5th for "Extreme Warfare!" featuring the Crown Jewel Champion Sami Callihan taking on WWE Hall of Famer Bully Ray!
ROH: https://www.rohwrestling.com/news/hu...-signed-philly , HoG: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/12...n-nyc.html?p=1

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Ever since Shawn Michaels called it a career in 2010, he has constantly been asked about returning to the ring, not just by fans but by WWE as well. Rumors of Michaels' return have popped up again now that he's involved in the "Last Time Ever" match between Triple H and The Undertaker at Super Show-Down.

Michaels joined Inside the Ropes where he talked about the biggest temptation he ever had to return to the ring.

"It was probably about four years after I retired, there was an idea that was, it was with 'Taker again," revealed Michaels. "But it was just from a creative standpoint, it was easily the most intriguing idea, one of those ones where my wife said, 'oh, that's pretty cool.' And that was the one, when I said no, she said 'you really are done.'"
More highlights and link to interview: https://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/20...hed-to-646354/

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It looks like WWE's main focus for this year's Survivor Series pay-per-view won't be the usual Team RAW vs. Team SmackDown theme.

There are plans to do a traditional Survivor Series Elimination Match between teams captained by RAW General Manager Kurt Angle and Acting RAW GM Baron Corbin, according to the @WrestleVotes Twitter account, which has broken several WWE scoops in the last year so. There most likely will be matches with the red brand vs. the blue brand but Team Corbin vs. Team Angle is currently scheduled.

There's no word yet on when Angle will be back on WWE TV but he was temporarily written out last month when RAW Commissioner Stephanie McMahon forced him into a vacation, naming Corbin as the Acting General Manager. It's been reported that Angle has been training for a return to the ring, possibly for more than one match. It's possible that the Survivor Series match could see the winning captain become the full-time General Manager.
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As noted, WWE cameras were filming a Halloween-themed pilot episode for a potential WWE Network series at Matt Hardy's Hardy Compound in North Carolina last week. PWInsider reports that the crew was scheduled to wrap filming this week.

In an update on the project, the footage being filmed is for a Halloween special that will premiere on the WWE Network later this month. The footage is doubling as the pilot for a potential series titled "House Hardy" that would feature Matt, Queen Rebecca Hardy, Senor Benjamin, King Maxel and the others, including "Brother Nero" Jeff Hardy.

Word is that the content filmed is very much in-line with the "Broken Hardy" segments that were featured on Impact Wrestling while The Hardys were with that company. We noted before that former Impact producers Jeremy Borash and James Long, who now work with WWE, were working on the new project and it's said that the creative for this new project is very much being dictated by those who know what made the Impact content work so well.
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Renee Young recently spoke with the UK's Express Sport and discussed Saturday's WWE Super Show-Down match between Triple H and The Undertaker. Renee, who will be one of the announcers for the match, called it history for the company.

"It's history. This is such a showcase match," Renee said. "It's the kind of match that dads can show their kids what they grew up on. I think it can be such a bonding moment for people that have watched WWE for so many years and now we get to see this again for the last time ever. [It's a chance] to show the new audience that have never seen Undertaker and Triple H. They might have been able to see some old matches of them on the WWE Network but to see these two men where they are in their careers - Triple H being the COO [Chief Operating Officer] of WWE [and] The Undertaker, The Phenom, stepping back into the ring to face Triple H - it's gonna be mind-blowing. This is going to be a match for the ages."
Link: https://www.express.co.uk/sport/wwe/...uper-Show-Down

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Dewey Foley was the man who played Mr. Bootyworth in the SmackDown segment with The Bar and SmackDown Tag Team Champions The New Day last night. Dewey works behind-the-scenes for WWE and is the son of WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley. Dewey tweeted on Cesaro and Sheamus after the segment:

Sheamus and Cesaro are my heroes
— Dewey Foley (@DeweyHaveTo) October 3, 2018
Link: https://twitter.com/DeweyHaveTo/stat...85054282584064

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Night 3 of WWE's Mixed Match Challenge Season 2 saw two teams pick up wins - Finn Balor & Bayley, Jimmy Uso & Naomi. Team B&B defeated Alicia Fox & Jinder Mahal while Day One Glow defeated Rusev & Lana ...

Live Facebook Watch viewership for this week's episode peaked at 42,800 viewers. The premiere had peaked at 52,400 live viewers.

Some other sheet news includes:
  • WWE's website had a recent interview with several former Seattle SueprSonic players getting their reactions to Elias and Kevin Owens jab at the team and city during this week's episode of RAW. https://www.wwe.com/article/super-so...as-kevin-owens
  • In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, today is the 13th anniversary of WWE RAW's return to the USA Network after spending a few years on Spike TV. The card for the "Homecoming" episode included HBK vs Kurt Angle in a 30 minute Iron Man match.


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Liv Morgan was cleared on 10/1 so she will be wrestling in the Ronda Rousey & The Bella Twins vs. The Riott Squad match. This match is supposed to set up the angle for the Evolution main event of Rousey vs. Nikki Bella for the Raw women’s title on 10/28 at the Nassau Coliseum, unless that plan has been nixed. Nothing has indicted that is the case.
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WWE issued the following:
WWE® to Report Third Quarter 2018 Results

STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- WWE (NYSE:WWE) announced that it will report its third quarter 2018 results on Thursday, October 25, 2018, before the opening of the market. The Company’s Chairman & CEO, Vincent K. McMahon, and Co-Presidents, George A. Barrios and Michelle D. Wilson, will host a conference call beginning at 11:00 a.m. ET to discuss the results.
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Mercedes Martinez tweeted:

Thank you all for your kind words. See it for the first time or relive it again on @WWENetwork. The Latina Sensation vs. @satomurameiko was truly a battle where all combatants left everything in the ring. https://t.co/yEGdkehsSQ
— Mercedes Martinez (@RealMMartinez) October 4, 2018
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Lita has high praise for a NXT standout.

Bianca Belair is one of the fastest rising stars in NXT and she's already caught the eye of a WWE Hall of Famer. Speaking to The Sun's Gary Stonehouse, Lita revealed what she loves about the EST of NXT.

“She’s physically gifted, a great attitude, and when I very first saw her she had that intangible star quality that I just want to see more," she said. "Every time I see her I just want to see more. I can’t wait to see where her career goes. It’s crazy… no-one has ever used their hair as a weapon. It’s so cool how she thought of that and how it works. She sure has that star quality and uniqueness.”

Lita isn't the only one to take notice of Belair. Recently, Charlotte Flair called Belair "the future" of the division.
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Indies Roundup:
4 months after being dethroned by Low Ki for the World Heavyweight Championship, Shane “Swerve” Strickland has optioned his rematch clause. Strickland will challenge for the World Heavyweight Title at MLW’s Chicago debut on November 8th as part of its FUSION TV taping for beIN SPORTS the Cicero Stadium. Shane Strickland’s World Championship Rematch is the second main event announced for the big MLW: FIGHTLAND card in Chicago November 8th.

Chris Jericho announced a James Ellsworth vs. Jenny Rose match for the intergender championship on his cruise.

Progress Wrestling ran its biggest show in its history, “Hello Wembley,” on 9/30 at Wembley Arena, drawing 4,750 fans, the largest crowd for a U.K.-based promotion in England since the 1981 Big Daddy vs. Giant Haystacks match that drew 7,000 fans. Everyone in the U.K. for years has used 10,000 as the attendance with the idea Daddy vs. Haystacks sold out Wembley, but the actual numbers for Daddy’s three Wembley shows were about 10,000, a legitimate sellout, for the 1979 show against Mighty John Quinn, about 5,500 for the 1980 show with Daddy & Wayne Bridges vs. Quinn & Yasu Fuji, and 7,000 for Daddy vs. Haystacks.

There will be two small [NJPW] shows as part of an expo at the Anaheim Convention Center on 11/10 and 11/11. Both will be four or five matches, focusing on younger wrestlers with a Lion’s Gate style programs. The 11/10 show will have Jeff Cobb vs. Hirooki Goto as the main event and 11/11 will be the first-ever meeting of Kenny Omega vs. David Finlay.
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Wednesday's episode of WWE's Total Divas drew 367,000 viewers on the E! network. This is down 5.9% from last week's episode, which drew 390,000 viewers, and is a new historic low for the show.

This week's show ranked #63 on the Cable Top 150 in the 18-49 demographic. Last week's show ranked #56.
Total Divas and Bellas being mainstream draws for WWE is pretty much over. Last season started the serious decline and the show never really recovered since then.

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There have been some notes from Chris Harrington and others regarding the drop in women watching Raw as compared to men. In the recent year-to-year declines it has hit women harder. Basically the key is this. When wrestling was at its most popular two decades ago, it was usually about a 70/30 men/women split, similar to most sports. Due to the popularity of Total Divas, the women’s had audience increased while the men’s audience decreased significantly ...

What has happened this year is that Total Bellas and Total Divas have declined greatly in ratings, and thus, that women’s audience has also declined. It’s notable that this is taking place at a time when women are being treated as characters with more respect. The belief was that this change might help the women’s audience but could hurt the men’s audience, with the idea women want to see women treated respectably and as athletes rather than sex objects, but a lot of men watch the women only because they are hot and could care less if they could wrestle well or not. In fact, the opposite has happened ...

But the decline in Total Divas, probably because of the show being on for so many seasons and shows like that run out of steam, and perhaps a big part if the Cena/Nikki break up since it was their relationship that was the key driver, has led to fewer viewers, and that “new” women’s fan base is now declining significantly. The funny part of that decline is it came at the same time Ronda Rousey became a regular character on Raw, and she was a huge mover among women on her UFC PPV shows. That also says that while Rousey is popular with wrestling fans, that the Rousey MMA sports fan and older women fan base, did not follow her in significant numbers to WWE television.
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WWE on television was using the number 70,000 for Super Show Down, which means they have to announce a number in that realm or slightly higher. We were told that paid attendance expectations were 58,000 to 60,000. The MCG holds 100,000, and the Australian Football League (Australian Rules Football, like rugby, not soccer) on 9/29 drew a number in that realm. With the stage, WWE would have legitimately sold out with 80,000, which was the goal. But 60,000 for pro wrestling, WWE’s largest crowd ever outside of the U.S., Canada or England, would still have to be considered a major success.
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Yoshi-Hashi’s shoulder is pretty bad off. New Japan rarely edits their stuff on New Japan World, and the only one I can recall was a blade job caught on camera, but they did edit Yoshi-Hashi’s run-in where he lost his footing and crashed into the ring. WWE would have replayed the same thing to death, and did with O’Neil

Lance Archer has been banned from doing his running around the crowd, drinking water and spitting it all over people ring entrance. He’s taken to social media trying to get fans to get behind him to get the decision changed

There is new regime in charge, not just Harold Meij as the new President, but also others that he’s put in key positions. The new people in charge for the most part don’t have any background in wrestling so there are things like some things said and etiquette that are different. They’ve replaced popular long-time officials that the wrestlers trusted and respected. The question a lot of wrestlers are asking is why a company that was on such a major business upswing has gutted the business team in charge during that upswing. Obviously the idea is to expand the business outside of Japan, but there is concern.
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The reason WWE is filing for all kinds of trademarks on old wrestling terms from WCW, WCCW and other companies is because they were not happy that MLW trademarked War Games and has the ability to use the term
For some reference, WWE used to own the War Games trademark as part of their purchase of WCW but abandoned most of the WCW trademarks years ago.

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The final episode of World of Sport was on 9/29. It was a good show, built around two title changes to end the first season. The bad news is that the audience dropped again, down to 200,000 viewers in a 2:30 p.m. Time slot. They opened on 7/28 with 937,000 at 5 p.m. There was major erosion after week one, and then secondary erosion with the time slot change in week six (700,000 down to 400,000). We didn’t have the 9/22 rating in last week’s issue but it was 300,000 viewers.
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wXw announced major changes in hierarchy and business...

The company also confirmed a deal with WWE. We don’t know if this was the case with this deal, but WWE’s deals working with other companies are that WWE would allow its talent on shows and also have the right to purchase the promotion at an agreed upon price should they choose to do so, as well as own the library. We don’t NWO that this deal is similar to other deals. But WWE is looking for independent libraries when they add tiers to the WWE Network. Robbie Brookside and Canyon Ceman of WWE were at the training school scouting talent last week and were looking for talent to bring to a November tryout in Cologne
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There is definitely talk about All In 2 and even 3, but the contract situation is what it is. We’ve heard Memorial Day and Labor Day both being talked about, as well as Southern California and Chicago. Nothing is definite. The Memorial Day drawback is that’s less than two months from the MSG show and that’s a quick turnarond since it’s going to be a major traveling audience, and even though the MSG show actually sold out mostly to those within driving distance of New York, a large percentage of the All In crowd base will be going to New York that weekend
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WWE is looking at expanding talent and the NXT side with all the added revenue coming in from the new deals. Among the ideas are more international Performance Centers and international territories, which means being even more aggressive in locking down people who they spot having marketable potential
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There are those in the company pushing for the idea of the NXT TV show going two hours because they have so much talent, and to also increase the time of their Takeover shows. I could see the idea of two different one hour shows if one moves to a television platform as I’ve suggested in the past, and even could see a 90 minute show, but two hours seems like too much product. Similarly, the Takeover shows are the one thing in wrestling that isn’t broken and doesn’t need fixing. A key is that they already have one hour in the building before Takeover since they have to tape then next week of TV. So if they try and increase from 2:15 to 2:40 or so and go over three hours, you’re talking about a four plus hour live event, and that’s the night before a five to six hour live show
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Wrestle Talk magazine claims through their sources in Saudi Arabia that the Saudi sports minister’s tweet regarding Hulk Hogan was not meant as a hint of a Hogan appearance on the 11/2 show. The tweet read in their language, “What is this World Cup that nobody is talking about?” It was meant to be Saudi Arabia mocking that its political enemy, Qatar, got the 2022 World Cup. They didn’t rule out Hogan being there, just that the tweet itself was meant to run down Qatar
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An interesting stat regarding retention of the audience, and maybe product interest. Miz & Mrs. being promoted on television and airing right after Smackdown was doing 1.1 million to 1.5 million viewers. Mixed Match Challenge, promoted even harder on Smackdown and featuring live matches, airing in the same time slot, but on Facebook watch, live, as far as average viewership for the 30 minute show, was doing just under 30,000
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The top ten most-watched shows on the WWE Network this past week were: 1. NXT on 9/26; 2. Table for 3 with McIntyre, Slater and Mahal; 3. Mae Young Classic week four on 9/26; 4. 205 Live on 9/26; 5. Hell in a Cell 2018; 6. 19998 Kuwaiti Cup; 7. Photo Shoot: Scott Hall; 8. Mixed Match Challenge from 9/18; 9. Mae Young Classic from 9/19; 10. Mixed Match Challenge from 9/25. So the key takes on this are that 205 Live is doing better when moved from being live to Wednesday and the week of the second week of Mixed Match Challenge, interest declined so badly that the first week beat it during the second week, which coincides with the decline on that show of the live audience

Some other sheet news includes:
  • According to the Observer, WWE actually launched an internal investigation regarding Brie Bella injuring Liv Morgan with the initial blame going towards the ref for not checking Morgan afterwards. WWE's medical team also got looked at for why they allowed Morgan to go back into the ring for a spot.
  • Rumor going around the net hints at WWE working on a partnership deal with The Crash in order to help their chances with the Mexican market.
  • Another rumor going around the net hints at Vince becoming very impressed with Becky recently and even softened his stance against her promos due to her accent.


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Pete Dunne is currently dealing with a foot injury, though the extent of the injury isn’t known at this time.

It isn’t known when exactly the injury went down. He last wrestled on September 30, when he took on Ilja Dragunov at the Hello Wembley show from PROGRESS Wrestling. He was noticeably limping during the match, picking up the win. The injury isn’t expected to keep him out of action at next weekend's NXT tapings, according to Dave Meltzer.

Destiny Wrestling, a independent promotion out of Canada, said that he pulled out of wrestling there this coming weekend. He was also set to wrestle CIMA before the 9/30 PROGRESS show for the second night of Fight Club Pro’s Project Mayhem on 9/29. The match did not take place as scheduled, but did appear on the first night in a non-wrestling capacity.

The next set of NXT UK television tapings will take place at The Plymouth Pavillions in Plymouth, England on October 13 and 14.
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Indies Roundup:
MLW made a couple of announcements at last night's television tapings in Queens, New York. It was revealed that CMLL's Rush will be making his MLW debut this fall. When and where Rush will be debuting hasn't been announced.

MLW has announced a second show during WrestleMania Week at the Melrose Ballroom in Queens, New York. The promotion will be holding a Fusion television taping on Thursday, April 4th and have booked the venue the following night on April 5th with the return of “Battle Riot”.

Impact Wrestling has announced Matt Sydal & Ethan Page vs. Rich Swann & a mystery partner for Bound for Glory. The PPV is taking place at the Melrose Ballroom in Queens, New York on October 14.

Jeff Cobb vs. Eli Isom and Flip Gordon & Kenny King vs. The Kingdom (Vinny Marseglia & TK O’Ryan) have been added to ROH Glory by Honor night one in Baltimore on October 12.

Already announced for Joey Janela’s LA Confidential include The Great Sasuke and a match between Hardcore Holly and Brody King.

This week’s viewership of Lucha Underground fell off a clip with a 43% drop from last week. This week’s episode did an all-time low for a first run episode with 51,000 viewers on the El Rey Network, down from 89,000 last week. The season will wrap on November 6th with a two-part Ultima Lucha special on the final two episodes.
MLW: https://twitter.com/courtbauer/statu...36393556086784 , Impact: https://twitter.com/IMPACTWRESTLING/...32526005129216 , Janela: https://twitter.com/JANELABABY/statu...57963692478464

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Impact Wrestling fell below 200,000 viewers for last night's episode.

The show averaged 190,000 viewers on Pop TV, down from last Thursday's 222,000. This is the second-lowest number that Impact has drawn in 2018, only ahead of the episode that averaged 168,000 viewers on August 9 ...

For a year-over-year comparison, the October 5, 2017 edition of Impact drew 251,000 viewers.
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Super Show-Down airs live on the WWE Network at 5 a.m. Eastern time tomorrow morning. It’s listed as running from 5 a.m. to 9 a.m.
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Liv Morgan spoke to The Mirror about being cleared for Super Show-Down: “"I'm 100% cleared by the WWE doctors. They took great care of me. They have a very extensive concussion protocol, which we followed 100% and luckily I am feeling fantastic and we are ready to win.”
Link: https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other...s-100-13363500

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WWE announced the following:

A few professors at Herzing University in Milwaukee might be surprised when one of their students shouts out, "Excuse me!" during a lecture this semester.

That's because former Raw and SmackDown General Manager Vickie Guerrero has been named as one of the recipients of the 2018 WWE Talent Scholarships.

“I am honored,” Guerrero told WWE.com. “I’ve always considered WWE my second family, and for them to recognize that I have this dream of graduating and continuing my education has motivated me even more to keep continuing what I’m doing.”

Guerrero is currently pursuing her bachelor’s degree in science and healthcare administration at Herzing University and plans on graduating next summer.
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Ronda Rousey & The Bella Twins vs. The Riott Squad

Liv Morgan has been cleared to compete and will be in the match. Most of the focus is on Rousey with The Bellas and whether they turn the Bellas or they simply win the match and leads to a challenge by Nikki. I prefer the former as The Bellas have played such obnoxious characters in every scene with Rousey that it seems to telegraph a turn. I don’t know if they go through with the actual turn on this show or save it for Raw, but there is a great tie-in with The Bellas causing Rousey’s first loss in the WWE in the same city where she had her first MMA loss in 2015 to Holly Holm.
Post Wrestling on the interesting tie in WWE could pull based on Ronda's past in MMA.

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In the photo below, WWE SmackDown Women's Champion Becky Lynch headed to a mural of herself in Australia. Lynch also sent a message to WWE, "You keep me off your posters, your morning shows, and your magazines while the people put me on their walls." Lynch will be defending her title against Charlotte at tomorrow's event.

You keep me off your posters, your morning shows and your magazines while the people put me on their walls. #thechamp #boothewoo pic.twitter.com/QzJ8hH7skk
— Rebecca Quin (@BeckyLynchWWE) October 5, 2018
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Vince McMahon remains at the head of the WWE creative crew, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, and gives the final say for everything on RAW and SmackDown. Ed Koskey is the lead writer for RAW and currently has the most creative input of anyone next to Triple H and Vince. "Road Dogg" Brian James and Ryan Ward are the head writers for SmackDown while Joe Belcastro is the lead writer for WWE NXT.

Dave Kapoor, who previously played the Ranjin Singh character on TV, is the show-runner or the Chief of Staff for creative. The other writers, for the most part, aren't at the meetings with Vince at WWE headquarters and only work with him at TV tapings.

The Observer adds that Vince usually just dictates what creative plans he wants and the writing team doesn't get a lot through to him, with a few exceptions.
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While Taz was with WWE, he was asked by Vince McMahon to return to ECW to wrestle Mike Awesome for the ECW Championship. Awesome was the ECW Champion and had made a surprise jump from ECW to WCW while holding the belt. A deal was made for Awesome to make one appearance to drop the title.

It was the first time that there was a WCW contracted talent facing a WWE star for the ECW Championship. While Taz went on to defeat Awesome for the title, he revealed that he did not want to do the match.

"It was awesome, it was a lot of fun, but I didn't want to," Taz said. "I remember coming back from the road and I get a call on the phone from WWE, and Vince [McMahon] is one of the guys on the other phone, I was at the mall with my wife pushing my kid in a stroller.

"They're like 'hey, uh, Paul Heyman needs a little help', and I'm like 'what do you mean?' Vince was like 'hey look pal, they got a guy there who is holding the title hostage and I need you to go in there and help Paul and take the title from this Mike Awesome guy.'"
Came from a recent episode of The Apter Chat podcast show with Taz as the guest. https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the...hat/e/56361400

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WWE is promoting the upcoming nWo reunion fan event with WWE Hall of Famers Hulk Hogan, Scott Hall and Kevin Nash. This is not an event put together by WWE but it's interesting that they are promoting the show.

The "2 Sweet" event will take place on Saturday, October 27 in Orlando and will also feature a live recording of the "83 Weeks Podcast" on WCW with Eric Bischoff and Conrad Thompson.
Pretty much just a matter of time before Hogan is back on WWE tv based on WWE's recent actions. If the rumor about the upcoming Saudi show ends up being true, he's back by next month.


Some other sheet news includes:
  • WWE's website had a recent article ranking the Top 15 Greatest Wrestlers in Smackdown's history. https://www.wwe.com/inside/15-greate...ckdown-history
  • In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, today is the 21st anniversary of the passing of Brian Pillman. Today was also the 12th anniversary of the passing of Mexico's AAA founder Antonio Pena.
  • In another "WWE Did You Know" type fact, 9 out of the 26 stars shown in the official poster for WWE Super Show-Down will not be at the event based on its card. https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc...owdown_poster/


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Seats 25,000 normally, so I imagine will be set up for 30-35,000?
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Interesting turn.
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Must be really low interest for the 2nd show considering the arena for the Greatest Rumble held almost triple the amount.

Then again, the main reason why the first show sold well was due to the government buying most of the tickets and giving them away I believe.
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I don't know if they had more than 30,000 legit for the last one so I think this is a good. I think the card could be incredible if they let it be. Sure it will likely be hurt by the odd audience, you know if there are couches and shit and business meetings in the ringside.
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It was around 60k but the arena holds 62k-68k for wrestling which is why there was a lot of empty space at ringside.

Even with WWE's habit of fluffing the numbers, probably was close to being legit as a number due to a mix of WWE not selling tickets directly to fans and government making sure the place was packed.
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