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Old 10-14-2018, 01:22 PM   #1
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HHH also said he has an announcement later today...
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Old 10-15-2018, 09:31 AM   #2
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Old 10-15-2018, 10:20 AM   #4
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They should air the PPV WCW did in Korea
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Old 10-15-2018, 11:18 PM   #5
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Attendance was down for Impact at the same venue. They couldn't get people hooked enough to come back.
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Old 10-16-2018, 12:20 AM   #6
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Attendance was down for Impact at the same venue. They couldn't get people hooked enough to come back.
First time they have done that venue. What are you talking about?
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If you want to break it down internationally than Impact has deals around the world as well and I'm not sure ROH has those type of deals.
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If you want to break it down internationally than Impact has deals around the world as well and I'm not sure ROH has those type of deals.
I don't. That's a point, but I know they got their asses cancelled hard in Australia.
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Going against both Monday Night Football and the baseball playoffs, Raw was up one percent from last week, averaging 2.39 million viewers.

It would be the fourth lowest of the modern era, but at the same time, the best number in a month ...

It was a usual ratings pattern with a third-hour drop, but not more significant than usual. The drop was more with both under 18 and over 50 viewers in hour three, rather than the teenagers usually holding up strong. Every demo group dropped in hour three.

The three hours were:

8 p.m. 2.49 million viewers
9 p.m. 2.48 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.22 million viewers
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A multi-promotional event featuring a number of high profile Japanese promotions will take place next February.

Tokyo Sports announced this morning that Wrestling All-Star Battle will go down on February 19 at Sumo Hall. It will feature wrestlers from All Japan Pro Wrestling, Pro Wrestling NOAH, New Japan Pro Wrestling, Big Japan Pro Wrestling and Wrestle-1. Broadcasting information for the event isn’t currently known, nor were any matches announced.

The event is in commemoration of two events: the 20th anniversary of Giant Baba’s death (which took place on January 31, 1999) as well as the 60th anniversary of Tokyo Sports itself.
Link: https://www.tokyo-sports.co.jp/prore...rores/1157539/

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ROH has announced the next three wrestlers for this year's Global Wars tour.

After announcing Tetsuya Naito for the tour yesterday, ROH has confirmed that Los Ingobernables de Japon members EVIL and SANADA will be in action on the Global Wars shows. Former IWGP United States Heavyweight Champion Juice Robinson is also set for the tour ...

The Global Wars tour will begin in Lewiston, Maine on November 7. There are also stops in Lowell, Massachusetts on November 8, Buffalo, New York on November 9, and Toronto, Ontario, Canada on November 11.
Link: https://www.rohwrestling.com/news/ju...obal-wars-tour

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According to TMZ Sports WWE, Charlotte and Ric Flair are being sued by Charlotte’s ex-husband Riki Paul Johnson for defamation. The lawsuit centers around the book Second Nature, which she and her father co-wrote and released last year. He alleges in the lawsuit that they wrote multiple false allegations regarding physical and psychological abuse and was intentionally painted as a villain. The suit also mentions WWE, saying that they should be held liable due to their marketing of the book. WWE issued a response to TMZ Sports, saying “We recently received what appears to be a meritless lawsuit and we will vigorously defend ourselves.”
Link: http://www.tmz.com/2018/10/16/ric-fl...-and-wwe-sued/

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WWE issued a statement to the New York Post regarding Sports Illustrated’s report that multiple members of the WWE roster (speaking on the condition of anonymity) have expressed discomfort with the idea of performing in Saudi Arabia: “As always, we maintain an open line of communication with our performers as we continue to monitor the situation.”
Link: https://nypost.com/2018/10/15/wwe-su...-saudi-arabia/

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DDP is helping out at the Performance Center again this week. He posted a picture that includes Punishment Martinez, who we reported was headed to WWE after he departed ROH.
Link: https://twitter.com/RealDDP/status/1052273647770054656

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The Rock tweeted about SmackDown 1000: “Huge #SD1000 congrats to my @WWE family! Fun fact, in 1998, I said to @VinceMcMahon ‘I’m gonna use the word ‘Smackdown’ tonight in my promo’. He said what’s that mean? I said it means I’m gonna whup some ass. He belly laughed and said say it! The rest was history! #IfYaSmell”
Link: https://twitter.com/TheRock/status/1052323753307332608

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Indies Roundup:
Jericho also wasn’t happy hearing that Don Callis wasn’t used after classic New Japan matches were uploaded with new commentary: “Not using @CyrusOverHuge over huge for ANY AND ALL commentary is a big mistake and just plain stupid.”

ROH announced that P.J. Black and Colin Delaney would debut for the promotion as part of the Survival of the Fittest show on 11/4 in Columbus, OH.

Hangman Page has been added to the lineup for ROH’s Survival of the Fittest tournament in Columbus, Ohio on November 4. Tracy Williams, Marty Scurll, Andrew Everett, Jonathan Gresham, Flip Gordon, PJ Black, and Colin Delaney are also set for the tournament.

Laredo Kid vs. Barrett Brown in a special attraction match has been added to the NWA 70th anniversary show.

Cody vs. Brian Cage has been announced for World Series Wrestling in November in Sydney.

Jordynne Grace, one of the most popular and well liked independent female stars, will make her Impact Wrestling debut tonight during tonight's TV taping in New York City at the Melrose Ballroom.

Lanny Poffo has stated on his podcast that he will be receiving a tryout with New Japan Pro Wrestling on the English broadcast team. He is being flown to Japan on October 23rd and will be there through November 4th, so presumably, he will be calling Power Struggle in Osaka with the some of the Super Tag League shows.
Jericho: https://twitter.com/IAmJericho/statu...55316071428096 , ROH: https://www.rohwrestling.com/news/wi...d-championship

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Due to a rib injury, Will Ospreay is off New Japan Pro Wrestling's Road to Power Struggle tour.

NJPW announced the news overnight, with them noting that Ospreay will miss the tour to "focus on the NEVER Openweight Championship match" that he's having against Taichi at Power Struggle in Osaka on November 3. Taichi also won't be wrestling on the Road to Power Struggle tour because of Ospreay's absence.

The matches that Ospreay and Taichi are missing are from October 19 to November 1.

Ospreay's injury happened when he landed badly during his match against Chris Ridgeway for Revolution Pro Wrestling on Sunday.
Link: https://www.njpw1972.com/37182

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WWE have registered to trademark 'Lightning Fist' for clothing purposes, likely in conjunction with John Cena's new finishing move.

In addition to Lightning Fist, WWE have applied to trademark "Shandian Quantou" for clothing purposes. They have also applied to trademark the Chinese characters for Lightning Fist.
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Former ECW World Champion Taz, who now hosts a morning drive sports show for CBS Sports Radio, posted the following video message wishing WWE a happy Smackdown 1000:

Message to #SD1000 #SDLive - @VinceMcMahon @StephMcMahon @TripleH @MichaelCole pic.twitter.com/5NNrzizq1B
— TAZ (@OfficialTAZ) October 16, 2018

Of course, Taz and Michael Cole were the voices of the series for many, many years.
Link: https://twitter.com/OfficialTAZ/stat...39189038149632

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In regard to a story making the rounds over the last 24 hours that Impact Wrestling is in negotiations with Alberto el Patron to return to the company, we have been told by several that is incorrect and there have been zero discussion of his return after he no-showed an event for the company over Wrestlemania 34 weekend in New Orleans and was terminated.

There has been no sign of Austin Aries at today's TV taping, so we will see. The word making the rounds was that he flew home yesterday to Las Vegas, which was not the original plan. There were some re-writes to this week's TV tapings one source stated.
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The 1,000th episode of SmackDown takes place tonight from the Capital One Center in Washington, D.C. Beyond teaching a generation of wrestling fans yet another word with a capitalized letter in the middle, SmackDown has a big impact on the WWE’s television presentation since premiering in 1999 ...

It’s funny that the WWE is promoting the first all women’s pay-per-view because the original idea was that SmackDown was going to be an all women’s show. The presentation of the female performers in 1999 was a stark contrast to today as the division was built around Sable and Debra and there were no illusions over what was being sold. The concept would have been nearly impossible to pull off, especially in a two-hour format and the outcome would have probably been a change to include everyone on the roster to save the show or would have died like Super Astros.
Part of a long article on the history of Smackdown leading to its 100th episode: https://www.postwrestling.com/2018/1...-episode-1000/

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John Layfield was on Varney & Co. on Fox Business on Tuesday and defended the WWE’s decision to hold the Crown Jewel event in Saudi Arabia. Layfield cited past examples of the WWE going overseas to hold shows for the troops, the post 9/11 edition of SmackDown and that you don’t change a region of the world by isolating it.

The difference is that change is not the objective of this deal and it’s not the reason the WWE is doing this show. As complex a story as we can make this, it’s very black and white and if there wasn’t a lucrative deal in place this would be a non-issue. The WWE is not addressing this story on their broadcasts or even presented a public statement to defend their decision to run this show.
Link: https://twitter.com/Varneyco/status/1052211574939770881

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The indie wrestler who played The Conquistador on last night's RAW in Philadelphia was Bill Bain. He lost to The Authors of Pain in a Handicap Match, which was supposed to be WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle under the mask. One of the security guards that The Bella Twins sent to face off with RAW Women's Champion Ronda Rousey was Icarus of CHIKARA fame.

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Sorry, Chris, but you're wrong re: Cyrus. He's a shit commentator and New Japan is well within their rights not to use him. If Jericho is so bummed out he stops working with New Japan, that's a real shame, but for him too, since it's been his best work where he get out of the WWE grind of "nothing matters." But honestly, there may not have been a billion other things for Jericho to do anyway. I could imagine him taking a break after Wrestle Kingdom anyway.

John Cena's relationship with China seems to be something they have been developing for a while. Apparently he was living there because he was filming a Jackie Chan movie? It's just a pretty interesting thing they are capitalizing on.
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For just the second time since SmackDown went live in July 2016, the show has beaten Monday Night Raw in the "ratings war." SmackDown 1000 on Tuesday averaged 2.545 million viewers, the show's best number since April 24.

Unlike when Raw does these sorts of shows and brings in an audience that is almost always the best number of the year, this audience total is just above the year-to-date average and actually below what SmackDown was doing on a regular basis in the lead-up to WrestleMania ...

This was also the first week since June 12 that SmackDown's ratings increased year-over-year.
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TMZ interviewed Randy Orton and asked how he feels about WWE going to Saudi Arabia for Crown Jewel. His defense was similar to the one JBL gave on Fox Business. "I think we should go. I think the only way to help with change over there is to go and not to cancel the trip,” Orton said. "That's the goal is to make things better everywhere and I think us not going doesn't help. Going helps." Like JBL, Orton brought up WWE having a women’s match in Abu Dhabi. Orton said "100 percent" when he was asked if he thinks they’ll be able to have a women’s match in Saudi Arabia at some point.
Link: http://www.tmz.com/2018/10/17/wwe-ra...mal-khashoggi/

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Rey Mysterio challenging for Shinsuke Nakamura’s United States Championship is now listed for the Starrcade house show in Cincinnati, Ohio on November 24. Rusev was originally advertised as Nakamura’s opponent.
Link: http://usbankarena.com/event/2018/11/wwe-starrcade

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Indies Roundup:

Beer City Bruiser, Silas Young, and Luchasaurus have been announced for ROH’s Survival of the Fittest tournament. The other wrestlers who have been confirmed thus far are: Tracy Williams, Marty Scurll, Andrew Everett, Jonathan Gresham, Flip Gordon, Colin Delaney, PJ Black, and Hangman Page.

Ilja Dragunov will be wrestling at PROGRESS’ show in Manchester, England on November 11.

The final episode of Ten Pounds of Gold before the NWA’s 70th Anniversary Show finished building to Cody Rhodes and Nick Aldis’ rematch.

MLW issued the following: MLW AND BEIN SPORTS TEAM-UP FOR HALLOWEEN SPECIAL NEXT FRIDAY NIGHT WITH MLW FRIGHT NIGHT. Next Friday night terror will rule the ring as Major League Wrestling (“MLW”) and beIN SPORTS presents their first Halloween special on October 26th at 8pm ET entitled MLW FRIGHT NIGHT.
Impact: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/12...pdate.html?p=1 , ROH: https://www.rohwrestling.com/news/si...ival-fittest-0 , PROGRESS: https://twitter.com/ThisIs_Progress/...05231048138752 , NWA: https://youtu.be/spx0D1x80Mc , MLW: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/12...ports.html?p=1

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We noted last night that Dave Bautista arrived late at Smackdown 1000. One source noted that he actually arrived around 6:00 PM Eastern for a show that went on the air at 8 PM. 6:43 PM Update: Our original report listed 7:40 PM but two additional sources have since reached out to state it was actually earlier than that and that Bautista arrived around 6 PM.

The original plan was for the show to open with Rey Mysterio vs. Shinsuke Nakamura, but there was a lot of shuffling of segments in the last few hours prior to the show.

The Undertaker promo was always set in stone to close the broadcast, although it was planned to be much longer, but time was cut as the show ran long.

WWE also cut time for the Mysterio vs. Nakamura match, as well as Mysterio's entrance.

The Miz match was always scheduled to go three seconds.

Several backstage segments were cut from the show, including one with James Ellsworth, who instead shot a segment for WWE's YouTube segment.

The R-Truth segment was originally slated for later in the show.

At one point, there was talk of bringing in Christian but we have not heard he was there.

Kane was supposed to be at the taping but was not there. Obviously, he has lots of duties elsewhere these days.

Zack Ryder was backstage but not used.
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The National Wrestling Alliance 70th Anniversary event will air live on Fite.tv this Sunday 10/21 from The Nashville Fairground Arena in Nashville, TN featuring:
*NWA Champion Cody vs. Nick Aldis - Best of Three Falls.
*NWA Women's Champion Jazz vs. Penelope Ford.
*Willie Mack vs. Jay Bradley vs. Mike Parrow vs. Ricky Starks - NWA National Title Match A.
*Sam Shaw vs. Colt Cabana, Scorpio Sky vs. Sammy Guevara - NWA National Title Match B.
*Match A and B Winners face to crown new NWA National Champion.
*Tim Storm vs. Pretty Peter Avalon.
*Crimson & Jax Dane (with Road Warrior Animal) open challenge.
*Laredo Kid vs. Barrett Brown.
*Former NWA Champions Jeff Jarrett, Blue Demon Jr., Tim Storm and Dory Funk Jr, will all be in attendance at the event as well.

The announcing team for the event, which will air live on iPPV (priced at $24.99) on Fite.TV, will be Joe Galli of Championship Wrestling from Hollywood and Jim Cornette, while Tony Schiavone will be calling the NWA title bout via a deal reached with MLW, where Schiavone is under contract.
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WWE Network News is reporting that more classic episodes of WWE Main Event from 2013 will be added to the streaming service this Monday, October 22. According to their post as of right now it is only 10 episodes much like the last two weeks. But given that there 40 episodes unavailable on WWE Network it could be more.
Link: https://www.wwenetworknews.com/2018/...still-missing/

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Vince McMahon tweeted:

Getting to 1,000 episodes is only possible if you have an entire universe behind you. Thank you, #WWE Universe, for celebrating #SD1000 with us. Here’s to 1,000 more. pic.twitter.com/fVI5B0jTWn
— Vince McMahon (@VinceMcMahon) October 17, 2018
Link: https://twitter.com/VinceMcMahon/sta...93435364302849

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Mauro Ranallo is not at tonight's WWE NXT TV tapings from Full Sail University. Vic Joseph replaced Mauro, joining Nigel McGuinness and Percy Watson at the announce table. These are the final tapings before "Takeover: War Games II" during WWE Survivor Series weekend next month. No word yet on why Mauro missed the tapings but we will keep you updated. Mauro recently tweeted at MMA promoters to let them know he's taking MMA bookings for 2019 but he noted in a later tweet that he is still with WWE.
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With the major emphasis on pushing WWE in the United Kingdom, Triple H has developed an extension of the company that focuses on exclusively appealing to the UK crowd ...

As a result of this success, the NXT UK brand will debut weekly today on the WWE Network, with Johnny Saint as the General Manager. However, as reported by The Mirror, Triple H is still hesitant to host a WrestleMania in the UK, primarily because of the misconception that the 1992 SummerSlam was a success.

"The time zones are the big kicker - we have to go where the most people can watch," said Triple H. "I always hear about Wembley, I always hear it was such a massive success: It was not. From a business standpoint, it was not. That's why we didn't come back and that's why we're still trying to figure it out."
Link: https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other...ple-h-13406996

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With their big win at SmackDown 1000 last night, new SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Bar joined The Usos as teams that have defeated The New Day multiple times for tag team titles in WWE. On a related note, Cesaro and Sheamus became the 9th & 10th Superstars in WWE history to reign as both RAW Tag Team Champions and SmackDown Tag Team Champions in their careers.
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Week 5 of WWE's Mixed Match Challenge Season 2 saw two teams pick up wins - Bobby Lashley and Mickie James, The Miz and Asuka. Country Dominance defeated Bobby Roode and Natalya while Team Awe-ska defeated Rusev and Lana.

Live Facebook Watch viewership for this week's episode peaked at 74,400 viewers. This is up from last week's 72,000 viewers, week 3's 42,800 viewers and week 1's 52,400 live viewers.

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Odd that they were going to use James Ellsworth after the BFG stuff. Like, the guy's got to work and I'm sure there wasn't "heat," but it just seems weird to be promoting a guy that might do more work with them imminently.

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Recent survey sent by the WWE asked for fan feedback in regards to three potential match for this year's Survivor Series.

* Roman Reigns vs Braun Strowman for Universal Championship
* Rey Mysterio vs Shinsuke Nakamura for U.S. Championship
* Charlotte vs Asuka for Smackdown Women's Championship

Spoiler tags used since its related to rumored plans for Survivor Series matches and potential Evolution match spoilers.

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Kevin Owens will spend the next few months out of action following double knee surgery.

On this morning's Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer gave an update on Owens’ injury status. While neither surgery was major, Meltzer mentioned that Owens’ left knee had more damage to it than previously thought. Meltzer also wrote in this week's Wrestling Observer Newsletter that the tentative time for Owens' return "looks to be perhaps late February, more likely early March, maybe April at the worst."

Owens had the surgery on his knees on 10/17. He posted a picture of his wrapped up knees on Twitter following the surgery, writing “They had a 2 for 1 sale going at the surgery store!”
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Indies Roundup:

Two more wrestlers from NJPW have been confirmed for November's ROH Global Wars tour. ROH announced today that KUSHIDA will be wrestling at the four Global Wars shows in November. BUSHI has also been added to the tour, with him joining fellow Los Ingobernables de Japon members Tetsuya Naito, EVIL, and SANADA.

MLW and Bein Sports at 8 p.m. on 10/26 has MLW Fright Night as a special show with Jimmy Havoc vs. Sami Callihan in a spin the wheel, make the deal match plus PCO vs. L.A. Park.

MLW announced PCO vs. Brody King in a no DQ match for the 11/8 show in Chicago at Cicero Stadium.

The NWA show on Sunday in Nashville has announced an appearance of Magnum T.A. who will present the new NWA National title belt to the winner of the tournament.

AAW announced Scarlett Bordeaux & Kimber Lee vs. Kylie Rae & Marti Belle for its 10/26 show in Marionette Park, IL at 115 Bourbon Street. Also on the show is Sammy Guevara vs. Rey Fenix, MVP vs. L.A. Park, Davey Vega & Mat Fitchett vs. Bandido & Flamita.

One person noted to us that The Crash attendance being down also has to do with those living in the U.S. being less likely to cross the border for shows. It was noted it’s a combination of violence in the city being at a high point and it affecting tourism, and that the type of wrestlers people would cross the border to see, like the big name American stars like Rey Mysterio, Young Bucks or Hardys no longer being there has hurt. The biggest name to the American fans is Penta 0M, but he’s losing some of his luster to Americans from his peak due to the lessening interest in Lucha Underground.

Major League Wrestling has signed PCO aka former WWE star Pierre Carl Oulette, who now does a Frankenstein’s Monster style unstoppable beast gimmick, to a deal, PWInsider.com has confirmed.
ROH: https://www.rohwrestling.com/news/ku...obal-wars-tour , NWA: https://www.tennessean.com/story/mon...ow/1668264002/

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A number of personalities within the pro wrestling world, including our own Les Thatcher, have sent word that former Dick Slater, who had a long run working for Mid-South, Mid-Atlantic, the WWF and WCW, has passed away. At this time, we do not have additional details regarding his passing.

Sad to hear that Dick Slater passed away this morning at age 67. One hell of a worker, and promo man. Go with God my friend.????
— Les Thatcher (@LesThatcher) October 18, 2018

Our deepest condolences to Slater's family, friends and fans.
According to the Observer, Slater died from heart complications yesterday. Link: https://twitter.com/LesThatcher/stat...92030123302913

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The WWE Network will be adding the 10/23/83 Georgia Championship Wrestling "The Last Battle of Atlanta" event from the Omni in Atlanta, GA to the Hidden Gems section for VOD viewing later today, making it the first time since that event took place live that it will be able to seen by an audience. The news was first reported by WWENetworkNews.com.
More details: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/12...today.html?p=1

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With the apparent link to the death of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey while at the Saudi Arabian consulate, the WWE has become under fire for doing the 11/2 Crown Jewel show in Riyadh. While there was talk about backup plans and monitoring the situation, at press time the show is a go, and tickets were to be put on sale on 10/19 for the show at King Saud University Stadium. The move from King Fahd International Stadium to the smaller King Saud University Stadium in Riyadh for the Crown Jewel show had nothing to do with popularity or ticket sales (which hadn’t even started) but because the larger stadium was up for renovation.

It appears that WWE is taking the approach that they have a deal worth $450 million or so, over ten years, that they would breach by not doing the show, and that, as is almost always the case with Vince McMahon, what is going on in the real world doesn’t matter since McMahon only knows one world, which is the one he usually almost fully controls. Those in the company said that the show will happen as planned unless either President Donald or the state department orders them to do it, and that is not going to happen ...

Within WWE, the reaction has been notable in a few ways ... WWE during the broadcast, mentioned Crown Jewel, but during the three hour show, Saudi Arabia and Riyadh, and the stadium were never mentioned. On the web site, mentions of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as the site for the show weren’t there either, although that has since changed at press time as they are promoting the 10/19 on-sale date locally for the show ...

We were told by people in the company that almost all the production people and most of the talent think doing the show at this time is a bad idea. Many weren’t happy about the first show and what it turned into, but only one person, Corey Graves, even hinted that in public. Management, on the other hand, was strongly in support of doing the show.

The original emotional reaction that they are going to do a big show without women wrestlers, which was the least important part of the story, was the one they thought they had handled by doing the WWE’s first all-women’s PPV four five days earlier. There was the issue of being paid millions not to just come in and do a show, but for clear propaganda purposes and being able to slide under the radar doing it where the NFL, NBA or any other major league entertainment would be excoriated for doing so. The treatment of women within that culture making the company’s own women’s empowerment promotion being made into a farce was also somewhat explained by the idea that things were changing and they’d be part of the change. There is some change, but it’s slow, but the idea that WWE coming or not coming has even the slightest part in that is comedic at best and pathetic at worst. But it changed to a point nobody can address, which is the dismemberment of someone whose main crime was being critical of the prince, the very person who earmarked the money to WWE, and more so , there is mounting evidence from U.S. intelligence officials who believe that same prince who struck the deal with WWE is culpable in the murder.

If the company was financially struggling, perhaps it would change the equation in the “greater good” argument, in the sense that if the company went under, that affects thousands of people and millions of fans. But that’s not the case. The company is doing ridiculously well and can walk away from the deal, like many other businesses are. The attitude, which is likely to be the case, and probably something other businesses in the same position are doing, is to be hopeful the story runs its course and they can go back to business as usual. As far as strict business is concerned, the amount is significant, but not nearly as significant as the $450 million over ten year price tag would indicate. Eric Handler of MKM Partners told Deadline that if the show was canceled, it would cost the company between $2 million and $3 million in operating income in quarter four, which for a company the size of WWE is significant, but not game changing. He estimated that if the deal was canceled it would cost WWE between $12 million and $16 million in operating income in 2019.

While a number of business publications covered the story, it’s been a wait-and-see for investors. The stock on 10/17 closed at $83.98 per share giving the company a $6.549 billion market value, lower than it had over the past few weeks, but up from the lower level after the market plunge last week. It doesn’t appear the controversy has hurt the stock price. It will be interesting if the subject is brought up on the company’s investment conference call on 10/25.
Normally tend to post an abbreviated version of longer news fro Meltzer in a Newsletter but made an exception this time because of how in depth he goes on the Saudi topic.

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After Johnny Impact pinned Austin Aries to win the Impact title, Aries got right up, walked out and flipped off people on the way out. He then missed the next two nights of television. The entire Aries-Impact situation has been an attempt to do a worked shoot vibe, and while other sources are reporting that what happened at the end wasn’t planned and that everything at TV was rearranged, the key people involved when directly asked would not answer, giving me the impression that the worked shoot environment leading up to the match is continuing ...

While clearly meant to build the match, the environment, similar to the Sami Callihan heel push coming off the Eddie Edwards incident, you see a company looking to take reality, or take modern topics, and weave them into storylines for mainstream attention. It’s understandable, the promotion has been frustrated with the comments that the product has improved and the wrestling is the strongest its been in a while, at the same time ratings are falling and demos are aging, basically the same as for everyone except New Japan in the U.S. right now. But for Impact, largely a TV product owned by a TV company, it’s become an issue of trying to do anything to garner talk.
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As noted last week, Callis was never called to appear at King of Pro Wrestling. He had to cancel the last three days of G-1 due to his Impact schedule, and New Japan started making plans for a replacement which included the talks of Lanny Poffo. Callis has still not been called and is open to at least do big shows

Poffo, 63, addressed last week’s issue and said at he met Craven at the All In show in Chicago and Craven asked him if he would be interested in doing the color commentary on the show (this would be New Japan World in the spot Don Callis had, not AXS). Poffo said he would, that he loved New Japan and had ever been to Japan. He said he’s flying to Japan for an audition and would be doing English language commentary for shows from 10/23 to 11/4, which would include Power Struggle. Poffo said his return to wrestling all came by fate. He said he was on an airplane to New Orleans for WrestleCon over Mania weekend and sat next to Mark Brown, a producer for the ROH television show. Brown told him to contact Hunter Johnston, the ROH booker, and Johnston booked him on the 4/28 show in Lakeland. The Young Bucks, at the show, asked him to do a skit for Being the Elite and he said that turned his career around.
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The company [NJPW] wanted the Omega vs. Kota Ibushi singles match to headline King of Pro Wrestling, but Omega and Ibushi have turned down requests to do the match in the past a few times because they didn’t want to do it unless it was special. Budokan Hall made sense, in the sense it was where their previous singles match took place and it would determine the G-1 finals. But they wanted the rematch to be in a bigger building, obviously the idea being the 2020 Tokyo Dome show or MSG (and likely not with a one week build), so Cody was added to basically do Omega and Ibushi but not it being the big title singles match
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Wednesday's episode of WWE's Total Divas drew 340,000 viewers on the E! network. This is down 10.5% from last week's episode, which drew 380,000 viewers, and a new historic low for the show since it began airing back in 2013.
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With the big drop in ratings this season for Total Divas, in as obvious an idea as possible, those in WWE are talking about approaching Rousey to become a regular cast member. The last word we’ve heard is she hasn’t been approached, but that word was several days ago and things could have changed by the time this comes out. It’s a smart move in that it ups the profile of the show, but they’d probably also have to change aspects of the show. Some of the aspects like the scripted issues could say, but a lot of the show is still about setting up gratuitous bikini shots to promote the next episode during the regular shows, and while Rousey has done her swimsuit modeling in Sports Illustrated, that feels like the wrong fit with the character she portrays on the other shows. Then again, they had Lana as Russian on the regular shows and not Russian on Total Divas so in a sense they are seen as separate worlds
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Regarding FOX, because wrestling is being positioned as part of the sports block, a Thursday through Sunday thing FOX is looking at starting in 2019, especially during football season, FOX wants the Smackdown show to be less comedy and more in a sports direction. Vince is more into the comedy presentation with wrestling but they are looking at having their sports people on the different shows heavily promote it and they want to give them something athletically-oriented to promote
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Three WWE NXT Superstars have been quietly released from their developmental deals - Tian Bing, Jason Cheng and Gabriel Ealy. The Wrestling Observer Newsletter adds that Gabriel's twin brother Uriel Ealy was released back in June.
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New Japan Pro Wrestling reportedly has interest in bringing back three talents that are currently signed to WWE, according to Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio.

NJPW officials are said to be interested in signing Luke Gallows, Karl Anderson and WWE United States Champion Shinsuke Nakamura. It's believed they all signed three-year contracts with WWE in early 2016 and there has been no news on renewals coming up.

It's expected that Gallows, Anderson and Nakamura will stay with WWE. Nakamura moved to the United States back when he signed with WWE and he's settled here. Meltzer noted that there's talk of Gallows possibly looking to return but that was not confirmed. Anderson will likely stay here in the States as he has a family to take care of.
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Eric Bischoff was a recent guest on the Pancakes and Powerslams Show and took part of a Q&A session. Bischoff answered a number of questions, while also affirming that he will not be at Crown Jewel ...

Bischoff then revealed who he feels is the Mount Rushmore of pro wrestling.

"I think it would have to be Hulk Hogan, Vince McMahon, Ric Flair, and probably Stone Cold [Steve Austin]," said Bischoff.
More highlights: https://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/20...sional-646867/


Some other sheet news includes:
  • In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, today is the 8th anniversary of WWE launching the "Stand Up for WWE" website as part of Linda McMahon's failed Senatorial campaign.
  • According to the Observer, Impact Wrestling sold around 900 tickets for last week's Bound for Gory 2018 event.
  • Also according to the Observer, WWE currently has plans for the next NXT branch to be based in Germany and be called NXT Germany.
  • Seems rumors of WWE debuting new Women Tag belts at Evolution were finally squashed due to the Observer reporting all unannounced main roster women for the event will be in the Battle Royale instead.
  • Based on recent ticket tracking, WWE's upcoming all-women Evolution event is close to reaching sell out status and likely will hit it by the day of the event itself. Observer reported Ronda vs Nikki announcement managed to cause a surge in sales.
  • Based on recent court documents, Charlotte could be facing her own Hogan-like situation in regards to making racist comments and having them recorded. In her case it was via police reports and dash-cam footage. https://www.scribd.com/document/3911...an-Shields-WWE


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Oh shit if Charlotte actually made racist comments that get leaked.

TNA are fucking stupid.

Lol at Total Divas and Ronda vs. Nikki actually spiking sales.
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Impact Wrestling didn't get a significant ratings bump coming off Bound for Glory 2018.

Thursday's episode averaged 189,000 viewers on Pop TV, up slightly from last week's 183,000. The rating in the 18-49 demo was unchanged at a 0.04.

This was the third-lowest audience Impact has drawn in 2018 and the third straight week they've been below 200,000 viewers.

Impact will begin airing in a new time slot next week. Next Thursday's episode, which will feature new Impact World Champion Johnny Impact defending his title against Fenix, will air at 10 p.m. Eastern time.
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There are plans for WWE Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels to appear on this Monday's Monday Night Raw in Providence, Rhode Island to help build to his return to the ring at the 11/2 Crown Jewel event in Saudi Arabia, PWInsider.com has confirmed.

That match, featuring DX vs. The Undertaker and Kane will be Michaels' first official match since retiring after losing to The Undertaker in the main event of Wrestlemania 26.
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Saudi Arabia state media has confirmed the death of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist who wrote for the Washington Post. They said that an altercation between Khashoggi and those who met him inside the Saudi consulate in Turkey led to his death. Crown Jewel is scheduled for November 2 in Riyadh.
Pretty much more fuel to fire for WWE's backlash if they still go ahead with the event following recent events. Saudis originally denied that the journalist was dead or having any role in it.

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Indies Roundup:
ROH has begun announcing matches for next month’s Global Wars tour. Jay Lethal, KUSHIDA, Chris Sabin & Jonathan Gresham vs. Los Ingobernables de Japon (Tetsuya Naito, EVIL, SANADA & BUSHI) is set for Lewiston, Maine on November 7, The Young Bucks vs. KUSHIDA & Sabin vs. Lethal & Gresham vs. The Kingdom (Vinny Marseglia & TK O’Ryan) will be taking place in Lowell, Massachusetts on November 8, KUSHIDA vs. Gresham vs. Flip Gordon vs. BUSHI is set for Buffalo, New York on November 9, and Lethal will defend his ROH World Championship against Kenny King in Toronto on November 11.

Dalton Castle and CMLL’s Stuka Jr. and Guerrero Maya Jr. have been announced for ROH’s Survival of the Fittest tournament in Columbus, Ohio on November 4.

Pro Wrestling EVE has uploaded their entire WrestleQueendom show from May 5, featuring a match between Meiko Satomura and Kay Lee Ray.

David Starr vs. Tomohiro Ishii has been added to the 11/9 Rev Pro Uprising event in York Hall. The match was made after Starr issued a challenge to Ishii.

Lucha Underground averaged 73,000 viewers this past Wednesday on the El Rey Network, which was down from 84,000 last week. The fourth season will conclude with a two-part Ultima Lucha special on October 31st and November 7th.

Jordynne Grace has announced she has had to pull out of three shows this weekend due to a lingering ankle injury she has been working with. Grace sprained her ankle several weeks back and was told it would take 4-6 weeks of recovery but worked on it anyway. She said her ankle is worse than ever and take a short break and hopes to be back in two weeks. She was scheduled to work for Nova Pro Wrestling in Virginia, AWS in California, and Innovative Pro Wrestling in New Jersey this weekend. Grace also made her debut with Impact Wrestling at the television tapings this past Tuesday and wrestled a match with Katarina.
ROH: https://www.rohwrestling.com/news/da...d-championship , PW EVE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETBcUtaO7uY , Rev Pro: https://twitter.com/RevProUK/status/1053402866247970818

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There's been talk of naming the Big Show's new alliance with Sheamus and Cesaro "Showbar." The name was being used backstage at Smackdown 1000, but we'll see if it ends up on camera.
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The WWE will be holding their quarterly investors call next Thursday and should have significantly more attention than usual because of the upcoming Crown Jewel event. It’s impossible to imagine that topic not dominating the questions from investors and the rationale of the company to move forward with the event and fulfill this pact over the next decade.
Based on an analyst, WWE could be looking at a $12-$16 million hit in net income for the fiscal year if they break the Saudi contract. Link: https://deadline.com/2018/10/wwe-sau...gi-1202484980/

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The full lawsuit that has been filed by Riki Paul Johnson against Ashley & Ric Fliehr, author Brian Shields, and the WWE can be read online. Johnson is seeking $500,000 in actual damages and an additional $5 million in punitive damages over the content of the Fliehr’s 2017 book, “Second Nature”. Johnson is alleging that falsehoods were written in the book, including that Johnson was sterile and unable to father children, physical and psychological abuse that Ashley outlined in the book along with alleged criminal misconduct that is “unsupported by any official record, medical reports or any other supporting documentation. Moreover, such conduct being attributed to the Plaintiff that is, in fact, contradicted by official police reports and police dash cam video footage depicting Defendant #1 (Ashley) being the ‘out of control’ aggressor in a physical and verbal tirade which was directed at the responding officers as well as her disparaging and racist comments being directed at the Afro-American community in Chapel Hill, NC.”
Some more details regarding the Flair's defamation lawsuit.

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Originally Posted by WrestlingInc
Earlier today a report was released that stated Chris Jericho and Jim Ross were working with a major benefactor to launch a new pro wrestling promotion. The report also noted that the two had been in talks with AXS TV about securing a TV deal. Since then AXS TV has flatly denied any involvement in the rumored project.

Chris Jericho has taken to Twitter just now to share the following, throwing even more cold water on the idea:

I'm starting my own wrestling company? AWESOME! Im also starting my own movie studio w #LadyGaga, my own carwash w #Bono & my own bakeshop!
— Chris Jericho (@IAmJericho) October 20, 2018

It doesn't seem in the cards for Jericho to be opening a movie studio with Lady Gaga, or a car wash with Bono for that matter. So, it would seem he's not going to be launching a promotion with Jim Ross.
Link: https://twitter.com/IAmJericho/statu...44644812546048 , Link from the SEScoops report in dispute: https://www.sescoops.com/chris-jeric...ing-promotion/

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WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair is currently scheduled to be at WWE Evolution later this month, according to PWInsider. We also now know of more WWE NXT names that are reportedly being brought in - the injured Tegan Nox, Shadia Bseiso, Kavita Devi, Xia Li and Taynara Conti. It's possible Bseiso is working as a backstage interviewer like she has with the Mae Young Classic.
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RAW Women's Champion Ronda Rousey has received a lot of props this week for her promo with Nikki Bella on Monday's RAW from Philadelphia. This strong promo by Rousey is especially interesting because she personally wrote most of the promo herself and used her own words, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

Paul Heyman has been producing Rousey's segments as of late because she's most comfortable working with him, and because Heyman has the best knowledge of Rousey's career and her character.

Regarding Monday's RAW promo, Heyman gave Rousey instructions and the key parts to focus on - the line about John Cena's bedroom, The Bella Twins leeching off Cena and Daniel Bryan. He also gave The Bellas their key lines on how they were the real Superstars who started the women's revolution and the Divas Title record. With The Bellas putting over Nikki's Divas Title record, the idea was that fans consider the Divas era to be a negative point in time for the women of WWE, and The Bellas would be pushing the era like it was a good thing.
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WWE has a new poll asking fans which Evolution match they're most looking forward to. As of this writing, 46% voted for the Last Woman Standing match between Charlotte Flair and SmackDown Women's Champion Becky Lynch while 20% voted for Nikki Bella vs. RAW Women's Champion Ronda Rousey, 17% for Alexa Bliss and Mickie James vs. WWE Hall of Famers Lita and Trish Stratus, 11% for the Battle Royal and 6% for Shayna Baszler vs. WWE NXT Women's Champion Kairi Sane
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Next Wednesday’s episode of 205 Live is their 100th episode after premiering in November 2016 on the WWE Network. The show will feature a Falls Count Anywhere match between Hideo Itami and Mustafa Ali and Mike Kanellis will have his first match on the show against Lince Dorado. The show will be taped Tuesday in Newark, New Jersey prior to the SmackDown and Mixed Match Challenge tapings.

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Showbar is an awful name.

God, I hope there is some fire to go along with that Chris Jericho/Jim Ross story. If there was ever a time to start a new promotion, it is probably now. ROH are getting more backing from Sinclair, but it's got that stigma of its style. A new "rassling" promotion would do the scene some good.
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On Wrestling Observer Radio Dave Meltzer said the reason for the Daniel Cormier tryout on commentary (when it happens) is because FOX has asked for him to do play-by-play for SmackDown when it moves, as they really like him doing play-by-play for UFC.

Dave said FOX thinks Cormier will help give the product a more 'sports feel' and re-iterated that a 'sports-feel' is what FOX is indicating they want for Smackdown (translation : no more New Day/R-Truth segments)
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On Wrestling Observer Radio Dave Meltzer said the reason for the Daniel Cormier tryout on commentary (when it happens) is because FOX has asked for him to do play-by-play for SmackDown when it moves, as they really like him doing play-by-play for UFC.

Dave said FOX thinks Cormier will help give the product a more 'sports feel' and re-iterated that a 'sports-feel' is what FOX is indicating they want for Smackdown (translation : no more New Day/R-Truth segments)
That makes sense, but it's still a bit baffling to me that you pick up a Vince McMahon product when Vince McMahon doesn't do a sports presentation. It'd be like signing a Tim Allen sitcom and saying "Hey, can you have some modern jokes mixed with drama." Like, I get there isn't that alternative on a major level for wrestling right now, but it's just a square peg/round hole thing to me.

I give it less than six months before Cormier is in angles, by the way.
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slik note : wouldn't a more 'sports feel' basically be NJPW (or copying the NJPW style)?
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WWE took a lot from ECW and boomed the attitude era. Nothing wrong with borrowing good ideas.
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Undertaker dealing w/ chronic knee pain right now:

http://www.bodyslam.net/2018/10/22/t...nic-knee-pain/
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well he is a geriatric.
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Undertaker dealing w/ chronic knee pain right now:

http://www.bodyslam.net/2018/10/22/t...nic-knee-pain/
Considering his health issues in recent years and him looking out of shape at Super Show-Down, not surprised at all. WWE made a huge mistake not making Taker-HHH a short match like with Mania to preserve his remaining wrestling health.

Wouldn't be surprised if something similar happens with Rey Mysterio in the near future since his schedule back with the WWE barely has any real time off for rest.
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They've got this idea that main events always need to be "epics." So many featured matches at big shows would have gotten so much more out of being shorter and simply went about achieving their goals (Jerry Lawler killing Michael Cole, Bret Hart killing Vince McMahon, etc.).

The Undertaker was dealing with an arthritic knee in 1999.
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Meltzer reporting on WO Radio that Lashley is injured, not sure if he'll take time off or needs to yet though
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WWE once again rumored to be planning to use the main event of the all-women Evolution event just to hype up Survivor Series. Rumored to be calling up the rest of the MMA 4 Horsewomen for Ronda and debut as a group there during the match.

Currently unknown if WWE will have Nikki lead Team WWE against MMA 4HW at Survivor Series or rush WWE 4HW together as a group for Survivor Series.

Also currently rumored Charlotte is beating Becky at Evolution since WWE wants Charlotte to look strong for the potential Ronda-Charlotte Mania tease at Survivor Series.

Spoiler tags used since its related to potential plans for Evolution.

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A combination of the lack of baseball competition and the shocking news of Roman Reigns' leukemia diagnosis led to Raw being up six percent last night and averaging 2.54 million viewers ...

Women stuck with the third hour at a higher percentage than men, which is different from the usual pattern, and likely related to more interest in any follow-up on Reigns.

However, in the 18-49 demo, 41.5 percent of women stayed for the Evolution special, while 42.3 percent of men 18-49 stayed for the special.

The three hours were:

8 p.m. 2.61 million viewers
9 p.m. 2.62 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.41 million viewers
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The broadcast team for Sunday's Evolution pay-per-view is set.

WWE has confirmed that Michael Cole, Renee Young, and Beth Phoenix will be on commentary for Evolution. That's the same commentary team that has called this year's Mae Young Classic.

Before the main card begins, there will be an hour-long pre-show on the WWE Network starting at 6 p.m. Eastern time. It will feature Young, Phoenix, and Paige. Lilian Garcia, JoJo, and Kayla Braxton will be the ring announcers, Braxton and Charly Caruso will be on the red carpet, and interviews will be done by Dasha Fuentes, Cathy Kelley, and Sarah Schreiber.
Link: https://www.wwe.com/shows/wweevoluti...-wwe-evolution

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Cody Rhodes' first IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship defense will be taking place at next month's Global Wars tour.

ROH announced today that Cody will defend the IWGP United States title against Beretta at Global Wars: Toronto on November 11. They've been building up a match against each other, which has included Beretta issuing a challenge to Cody at an NJPW Road to Power Struggle show and Cody tweeting out a poll asking if Beretta deserves a shot at the title.
Link: https://www.rohwrestling.com/news/co...eretta-toronto

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Braun Strowman wrote about his friendship with Reigns: “I’ve been in many wars with this man. He’s been my biggest rival on tv!!!! But behind the scenes he’s one of my closest friends!!!! He’s is one of the toughest men I’ve ever met and I have no doubt he’ll kick leukemia’s ass and and be back to battling with me soon and I can’t wait. You and your family are in my prayers. Love you Big UCE!!!!! #FUCancer”
Link: https://www.instagram.com/p/BpQhh68l...y=adamscherr99

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The WWE’s “Road to Evolution” special that aired immediately after Raw averaged 1,114,000 viewers on the USA Network.
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The "Road to Evolution" special that aired on the USA Network after last night's RAW did not air on the WWE Network as originally scheduled. It will now premiere on the Network this Thursday at 8pm ET. The thirty-minute special will also air on Wednesday night on the E! network after Total Divas goes off the air.
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Indies Roundup:
Christopher Daniels vs. Juice Robinson has been added to ROH’s Global Wars show in Lewiston, Maine on November 7. The Young Bucks vs. Bully Ray & Silas Young is also set for Lewiston. Tetsuya Naito will face Hangman Page in Lowell, Massachusetts on November 8, and Jay Lethal vs. Chris Sabin in a proving ground match (if Sabin wins, he gets a future shot at Lethal’s ROH World title) is set for November 9 in Buffalo, New York.

Daniels is the final entrant in this year’s Survival of the Fittest tournament.

Joey Janela will have surgery on his knee this Friday. He tore a number of ligaments in his knee back on 9/21 in a match against Psicosis.

Nick Aldis will defend the NWA Worlds Heavyweight title against Billy Gunn at a CWA event in Puerto Rico on December 16.

Joey Ryan & Hornswoggle, forming a tag team called “Size Matters”, will make their MLW debut as a team in Chicago on November 8. Joey Ryan & Swoggle form a tag team called Size Matters and face the Dirty Blonds on the 11/8 MLW show in Chicago. That's the show headlined by Pentagon Jr. & Rey Fenix vs. L.A. Park & El Hijo de L.A. Park.

Marko Stunt vs. Ace Romero has been added to the November 8 MLW tapings in Chicago.

Not only is Impact moving from 10 p.m. to midnight Thursday on Pop TV, but there is no midnight replay this week. Impact also moves to 10 p.m. in Canada on The Fight Network. The show is also moving to 11:30 p.m. on Game TV in Canada.
ROH: https://www.rohwrestling.com/news/ch...rvival-fittest , Janela: https://twitter.com/JANELABABY/statu...66083549757442 , NWA: https://www.facebook.com/cwapr/videos/1928509970778067/ , MLW: http://wrestlingnews.co/mlw-news/joe...-november-8th/ & https://mlw.com/2018/10/23/ace-romer...nt-in-chicago/

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The new main event for Crown Jewel is scheduled between Brock Lesnar and Braun Strowman on November 2nd with the winner becoming Universal champion. The Crown Jewel show itself is in a state of flux. Tony Maglio at The Wrap is reporting that the WWE will decide the fate of the Crown Jewel event on Wednesday. The Turkish government was scheduled to release their findings into the murder of Jamal Khashoggi on Tuesday and it could sway the WWE’s decision to go to Saudi Arabia. Robbie Fox of Barstool Sports adds that the company is “frantically scouting locations to move Crown Jewel to. This is NOT definite confirmation that it’s out of Saudi Arabia, but the location and date are unquestionably in major jeopardy right now.”

The timing is important of the WWE’s deadline to make a decision. On Thursday, they are scheduled for their quarterly investor’s call and earnings report being released. I would imagine this subject will dominate the investor’s call and it’s going to be a tough position for the WWE to take if they stick to their plan of running Crown Jewel in Riyadh. Conversely, you will have shareholders and analysts also question the financial windfall of pulling out of the show and future repercussions to the deal with the General Sports Authority. This deal is a mess for the company and it’s a matter of mitigating rather than avoiding because any choice they make is going to have a backlash.
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Robbie Fox had reported Monday that John Cena and Daniel Bryan were refusing to work the Crown Jewel. I was told that on Monday afternoon, creative was informed that John Cena was off the show and they did have a replacement in mind. On Monday’s Raw, Cena was still being advertised and mentioned in a promo by Kurt Angle as participating in the World Cup. That tells me there is still hope they can work out a deal with Cena, or if the event moves it could eliminate whatever reservations Cena has. It’s worth mentioning, I was not given the specific reason for Cena’s removal from Crown Jewel.
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The only mention of Roman Reigns’ prior battle with leukemia was a vague reference by sports writer Justin Rogers in a 2015 article. The story focused on footballer player Calvin Johnson and his former Georgia Tech teammate, Joe Anoa’i. The article mentioned Anoa’i going undrafted and then, “As a free agent, Anoa’i got a shot with the Minnesota Vikings and Jacksonville Jaguars, but a serious illness forced him to take some time off.”
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WWE issued a new survey gauging fan interest on possible features for an upgraded tier on the Network. They wrote: "WWE is considering a new premium tier for WWE Network, offering more content, features and perks. This tier would be available for $15 per month."

The survey stated that the new tier would include exclusive streaming content, such as live monthly Saturday Night Main Event shows, special live events, as well as current and archived ICW and Progress Wrestling events. Non-streaming features with the new tier would include free shipping on merchandise purchased on WWE Shop, a WWE rewards program where you receive points for money spent on the premium subscription or on WWE Shop, early access to live event tickets, automatic entries into WWE-themed sweepstakes and the ability to stream and download WWE content on up to 4 devices concurrently (instead of 2).

Elsewhere in the survey were questions about viewing habits, other promotions like NJPW and ROH airing on the Network, what other benefits fans would be interested in and more.
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Scott Hall celebrated a milestone birthday on Saturday as the WWE Hall of Famer turned 60 years old. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson tweeted Hall a happy birthday message and said he often studied Hall's matches while wrestling in Memphis, Tennessee (in 1996 for the United States Wrestling Association, which also served as a developmental promotion for the World Wrestling Federation). The Rock said Hall heavily influenced his "work style."

I studied the f--k outta Scott's work and while working for Jarret in Memphis, I watched his matches nightly back at my apt. Big influence on my work style. Happy Birthday Bad Guy ????
— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) October 21, 2018


Hall responded:

You took it to another level Rock. Thanks for the birthday wishes https://t.co/K000me5Rzu
— Scott Hall (@SCOTTHALLNWO) October 21, 2018
Links: https://twitter.com/TheRock/status/1053935376484761600 , https://twitter.com/SCOTTHALLNWO/sta...45553606840325


Some other sheet news:
  • Besides wrestlers, ROH and Madison Square Garden sent messages of support for Roman Reigns in his battle with leukemia. https://twitter.com/ringofhonor/stat...06109175926784 , https://twitter.com/TheGarden/status...50297632296960
  • PWTorch's Wade Keller reported Roman Reigns' speech last night was not something planned nor known backstage prior to the show. Creative originally had plans for him to give a different promo and same for RAW's booth being legit caught off guard with his farewell.
  • In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, today is the 18th anniversary of the passing of Yokozuna.


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Dammit, Dwayne -- Jarrett used to spell his name out for you and you still get it wrong and say you're friends with the family.
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WWE's tiered pricing system is basically them admitting that they can't get new Network subscribers and have to milk more money out of their current ones.
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They really should have just used the Network for old PPVs and the occasional special. I guess NXT and the Takeovers and stuff too, but NXT would benefit from being on proper TV -- or they could pitch the Takeovers to other places.
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They tried that model initially but while its great for launch, its not sustainable if you want to actually grow and maintain a healthy subscription base.

Even MLB and NFL realized their vast vaults mean nothing if your not constantly supplying new content since that is what people care for the most. Same with Netflix and their constant buying of new films and shows to keep up the interest for subscribers.
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If they uploaded some Capitol Wrestling footage I'd be up for it.
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Coming off last week's highly-rated 1,000th episode, SmackDown viewership dropped 18 percent this week to the second-lowest number of the year. At just 2.087 million viewers, this was also the fourth-lowest number since SmackDown moved to its live format.

This came despite the fact that Raw was up this week, and was likely due to SmackDown airing opposite the World Series. Game one between the Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers averaged almost 14 million viewers, and ratings juggernaut NCIS on CBS cracked 11 million viewers.

SmackDown was down over 22 percent year-over-year and retained just 82 percent of the Raw audience from the night before, which may have been inflated due to curiosity about the health of Roman Reigns.

SmackDown finished eight for the night on cable in terms of total viewers, which is right in the normal range.
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WWE and EVOLVE have made a couple of announcements concerning WWE wrestlers working upcoming EVOLVE shows.

As was announced earlier this month, Mustafa Ali will be wrestling at EVOLVE 115 in Livonia, Michigan on November 9 and EVOLVE 116 in Oak Lawn, Illinois on November 10. Ali's opponents were revealed today, with him facing DJZ in Michigan and Darby Allin in Illinois.

Kassius Ohno is set to wrestle at EVOLVE 117 in Queens, New York on December 15 and EVOLVE 118 in Deer Park, New York on December 16. He'll also be a guest trainer at a seminar that WWN is holding in Long Island on December 16.

EVOLVE Tag Team Champions Chris Dickinson & Jaka issuing an open challenge has been set up for EVOLVE 114 in Ybor City, Florida this Sunday. On Twitter, it's being teased that The Street Profits (NXT's Angelo Dawkins & Montez Ford) will be the team to face Dickinson & Jaka.
Links: https://www.wwe.com/shows/wwe-205-li...olve-wrestling & https://twitter.com/AngeloDawkins/st...75916520841216

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WWE Network News is reporting that the following Brothers of Destruction matches will be this week's "Hidden Gems" added tomorrow on the streaming service:

RAW 04/16/2001 – Destruction After Dark

The Brothers of Destruction look to put the brakes on Stone Cold Steve Austin and Triple H’s power trip in this rarely seen moment from RAW.

OVW 06/30/2001 – Destruction Comes to OVW

The Undertaker has a big surprise in store for the team of Diamond Dallas Page and Leviathan when he brings his brother Kane to OVW.
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Indies Roundup:
MLW issued the following: BRIAN PILMAN JR. VS. TOMMY DREAMER IN A BATTLE FOR RESPECT ON NOVEMBER 8 IN CHICAGO AT MLW FIGHTLAND. CHICAGO – Following a violent attack on Kevin Sullivan, the Hart Foundation’s Brian Pillman Jr. wants to add the head of another legend to his mantle: the “Innovator of Violence” Tommy Dreamer… and Dreamer has accepted the challenge.

CMLL star Rush has been booked for the 12/13 and 12/14 MLW events in Miami, Florida.

In regard to rumors of European star WALTER coming in [MLW], there are no current plans for that. The two sides had contact several months ago but nothing came of it and they've had zero communication since.

Chris Jericho announced Wednesday that the Rock ‘N Rager cruise is now sold out. The cruise boards on Saturday from Miami and sails to the Bahamas and returns October 31st. There is a huge list of wrestlers and personalities that are part of the cruise, including a big tag match with Jericho & The Young Bucks vs. Kenny Omega, Cody & Marty Scurll, as well as the Sea of Honor tournament. Talent from Ring of Honor and Impact Wrestling will be on the cruise and the Bucks will have an inter-promotional match against Santana & Ortiz of LAX. Select matches will be airing on Honor Club and FITE TV on Saturday, November 3rd.

The El Rey Network will be airing an all-day marathon next Wednesday Lucha Underground’s fourth season leading into the first part of Ultima Lucha at 8 pm Eastern.
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Former WWF and WCW star Samu Anoa'i publicly revealed today that he is battling stage four liver cancer and is waiting for a liver transplant.

Anoa'i revealed his battle during a Facebook post this morning addressing complaints about t-shirts he began selling this week, which some criticized as being exploitative after Roman Reigns announced the return of his leukemia.

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I want to take a minute to address the situation with myself and that of my family.

I recently have posted I am selling shirts “Anoa’i Strong”

These shirts have been for sale for many years and in light of the current situation that has struck myself and my family, I have decided to change the shirts to various colors for cancer.

My cousins news has struck the world and we are all devastated at this time. What many of you may or may not know is I am also dealing with stage 4 liver cancer and am currently waiting for God’s grace to help me get a transplant.

I am an elder member of my family and in no way am I or my family attempting to profit from any serious sickness. Instead, I want to use our name in order to help doctors and researchers find ways to cure this evil sickness.

I do not endorse or will I ever endorse profit on the misfortune of others or myself or that of my family.

I want all of my friends, family and fans to know we will always remain “Anoa’i Strong.” and these shirts will remain for sale and we will be speaking with various cancer organizations on how we can help.

Until you can stand in the shoes we stand in you will never know the pain and the struggle we endure daily.
Over the course of his run in professional wrestling, Samu has worked as the third member of the Wild Samoans, headlined Madison Square Garden, worked World Class and the NWA/WCW with Fatu (later Rikishi) as the Samoan SWAT Team and then returned to WWF with Fatu as the Headshrinkers. He currently operates WXW out of Allentown, PA and has competed for MLW at their BattleRiot event in NYC.
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Do you think that the reaction to Becky Lynch is similar to that of Daniel Bryan, while inadvertently, making Charlotte the female Roman Reigns?

Becky definitely has the Bryan role. The fans have gotten behind her and want to cheer her and see her reach the summit. I don’t think they hate Charlotte like they did Reigns, for the simple reason that Becky got the Title. WWE didn’t want to give the Title to Bryan so that made the fans angry at whoever got pushed in his place. Now, if that ends up being what they do with Becky, we can revisit it then.
From PWI's weekly Q&A articles on the similarities between Becky Lynch and Daniel Bryan in terms of crowd support and WWE's stubbornness.

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With Roman Reigns' health issues, all early plans for Wrestlemania 35's main event picture are now out the window we are told.
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As of this morning, tickets still have yet to go on sale for the 11/2 Crown Jewel event in Saudi Arabia.

However, the first set of WWE staff members working the show are scheduled to travel there within the next day with the remaining heading over there following the next set of TV tapings. The talk at this week's TV among staffers was about traveling to Saudi Arabia, so everyone is under the impression they are going as nothing else has been communicated to them by management.

If WWE is going to change plans, they will have to do so very soon.
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Inside the Ropes has announced three speaking events with The Undertaker for 2019. The Undertaker will be doing shows on April 30th in London, England, May 1st in Glasgow, Scotland, and May 2nd in Manchester. Tickets for the three shows go on sale next Wednesday at www.insidetheropes.co.uk.
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We've noted how Alexa Bliss reportedly suffered a concussion at Saturday's WWE live event in Hartford, which has her status up in the air for Sunday's Evolution match with Mickie James against WWE Hall of Famers Lita and Trish Stratus. PWInsider reports that the belief is Bliss suffered either a concussion or a broken nose as both stories are going around backstage. WWE kept Bliss off TV this week as they wanted her to heal up to make sure she's good to go for Evolution. As pointed out earlier this week, Bliss indicated that she's been at home but she's still planning on being at Evolution as she has new merchandise dropping.
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Triple H posted the following to reveal the following theme songs for the WWE NXT "Takeover: War Games II" event during Survivor Series weekend in Los Angeles - "Wonderful Life" by Bring Me The Horizon, "Mariana Trench" by Nita Strauss, "Voices" by Motionless In White.

.@WWENXT's War Ensemble…@MIWband, @BMTHOfficial, and @HurricaneNita are #NXTLOUD. #NXTTakeOver: WarGames #WeAreNXT pic.twitter.com/LiI322BnD8
— Triple H (@TripleH) October 24, 2018
https://twitter.com/TripleH/status/1055190098013229058

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Roman Reigns announcing on RAW this past Monday night that he was vacating the WWE Universal Championship due to his battle with leukemia continues to be the talk of the wrestling world. Reigns revealed that he's been living with leukemia for the past 11 years and it has returned.

Leukemia is a serious form of cancer with an average five-year survival rate (the percentage of patients alive five years after the disease is diagnosed) of 57% in the United States. Reigns has not specified the type of leukemia that he has. There are many types of leukemia, however acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML) are the most common in young adults.

According to Cancer.org, the total treatment time for ALL is 2 years. Treatment for AML varies depending on if chemotherapy is required, but in total it can be several months to a year.

While Reigns had never publicly revealed his previous battle with leukemia until this week, an article at MLive.com in June of 2015 stated that Reigns was forced to leave the Jacksonville Jaguars of the NFL because of "a serious illness" before signing with the Canadian Football League. Reigns was released from the Jaguars in August of 2007 before signing with the Edmonton Eskimos of the CFL in 2008 and playing for the Eskimos that fall.

Assuming MLive.com's report is accurate, that would mean that Reigns was out of action for about 10 months, since his last game with the Jaguars was in August of 2007 and he played for the Eskimos in the 2008 CFL season, which started that June.
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SmackDown General Manager Paige was backstage for last night's TV show in Newark but she was not used in an on-camera role. The decision was made to put SmackDown Commissioner Shane McMahon on the show this week as he eases back into a regular TV role. PWInsider adds that WWE officials still love Paige in her role as General Manager.
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Could the nWo be up for a WWE Hall of Fame induction in the near future?

Reddit user thegumpguy posted about meeting WWE Hall of Famer Kevin Nash at the Gump City Con in Mobile, Alabama this past weekend and said Nash claimed the upcoming nWo reunion is being done to gauge interest on a potential WWE Hall of Fame induction for the group.

Thegumpguy wrote on Nash, "No line at his booth, so I had plenty of time to talk to him, even gave him a cigar. ... He did a Q&A panel and discussed the upcoming nWo reunion and how it's just a bunch of Q&A parties to gauge interest for inducting them into the Hall of Fame" ...

There's no word yet on who the induction would be for but it could be for the original nWo - Hogan, Hall and Nash. The group featured more than 50 members since it was first put together in 1996.

Nash revealed at the convention that he's a big fan of Bayley and Sasha Banks, and that they would have been a welcomed addition into the nWo. Thegumpguy also noted how Nash said Jim Cornette is bitter about how the wrestling business has changed, and how he doesn't get why Joey Ryan is so popular as he thinks Ryan's gimmick is crass & not in good taste.
Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc...in_nash_today/

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The Rock has been pretty savvy about avoiding controversy throughout his career, but a months-old social media post has inserted himself into the Saudi Arabia situation.

Six months ago, The Rock posted on Instagram that he had the pleasure of having dinner with Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. Rock described it as a "fascinating experience" and one that he "asked a lot of questions. Listened and learned."

CNN reporter Oliver Darcy uncovered that old Instagram post and blasted The Rock for it.

This Instagram post from @TheRock did not age well. Reached out to his publicist several times today to see if he has any new thoughts on MBS, but no response. pic.twitter.com/N538sD52X1
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) October 19, 2018


The Rock responded by calling Darcy's post "clickbait" and urged him to go back and read what he said in the Instagram caption.

Such a silly, clickbait post, Oliver. Im surprised you'd post this. Go back and really read my words. I listened and learned then. As I listen and learn now. C'mon man
— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) October 20, 2018


Darcy responded with a tweet of his own in which he asked Rock if his opinion on bin Salman has changed over time.

You had dinner with a brutal authoritarian, playing a role in his PR campaign to convince the West that he was, as you'd say, someone with "modern views." Then you gushed about it on social media. Ppl look up to you. Do you regret giving him a platform? Has your opinion changed? https://t.co/yPHazTLIRt
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) October 20, 2018


Rock hasn't responded to Darcy's latest post but he becomes the latest member of the WWE family to appear to, in some way, defend Saudi Arabia. However, Rock's post is from April 2018 and was before journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

Others who have more blatantly defended Saudi Arabia include JBL who commended the country for promoting change and Randy Orton who said going to Saudi Arabia for Crown Jewel would "make things better everywhere."
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WWE has a new poll asking fans who won the war of words between The Bella Twins and RAW Women's Champion Ronda Rousey over the last two weeks. As of this writing, 77% voted for Rousey.

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Today's Dirty Sheets:

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WWE took in $188.4 million in revenue in quarter three and ended with a $33.6 million profit. For a comparison, the first two quarters profit was a combined $21.8 million. Last year's third quarter had $186.4 million in revenue and $21.8 million in profits.

However, there were negative signs, in that the profit increase was due to a $15.6 million benefit provision from income taxes, so if you take that out, operating income fell from $31.1 million last year to $18.0 million this year ...

The major difference was an increase in spending which was not offset by the much smaller increase in revenue. In addition, while TV rights fees continue to increase, live events and consumer products were significantly down, to the point where the live events are barely breaking even, with just $120,000 in live event profits for the combined months of July through September.

Vince McMahon said that he has always considered live event attendance as the barometer of how well they are doing, that he knows what is wrong and said they are antiquated, that he knows how to fix it and that they will turn around.

They also said the long-term goal is to have Performance Centers all over the world in every major market and that they are working on major changes for the business. During the call, the company said that the show in Saudi Arabia was a sensitive subject and they would say nothing more than their statement earlier today.

The WWE Network had 1,615 subscribers on September 30, broken down as 1,186,000 in the U.S. and 429,000 outside the U.S. At this time last year, the numbers were 1,507,000 subscribers broken down as 1,106,000 in the U.S. and 401,000 outside the U.S.

However, that is misleading due to discount subscribers, as while during the quarter, the average for the quarter was nine percent more subscribers than last year (at the end that dropped to seven percent due to weaker performance at the very end of the three months and stronger performance in the earlier portion), the revenues were only up two percent, meaning far more people were paying lower rates ...

Arena attendance, averaging 4,500 fans in quarter three in the North American market, was the lowest in many years.

Even with the declines in key indicators of overall popularity, the television rights fees will keep the company at record profit levels going forward.
Some notes from today's fiscal report and investor's meeting by the WWE.

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Kevin Kay, a huge figure in MMA history and to an extent pro wrestling, is out after more than 20 years with Viacom. Kay was running the Paramount Network, TV Land and CMT. Kent Alterman will take over Paramount, TV Land, Comedy Central, MTV, VH1 and will also be the man in charge of Bellator. Key helped create the environment where Raw could command real money in TV rights in a 2000 deal with WWE, and also green lit UFC on television in 2005, TNA on television in 2005, and purchased Bellator. He literally saved TNA which was on the verge of shutting down, may have saved UFC and basically gave it life, and made Bellator stable. He was a big combat sports fan and his being out could lead to major changes in the future with a new person in charge of Bellator.
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Cody on Twitter kind of outright said he wouldn't be working the ROH/NJPW Madison Square Garden show in April. He wrote, "I am not on that show." It's notable also because the group of Cody, Young Bucks, Hangman Page and Kenny Omega have talked of sticking together.
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The scheduled WWE talent appearance on today's Megyn Kelly Show on NBC has been scrapped as Kelly is in the middle of a controversy after she defended the idea of using Blackface for Halloween costumes, which as you might imagine, received an extremely negative response.

Kelly was taken to task by her fellow NBC broadcast journalists and has apologized.

NBC has distanced themselves from Kelly (who is now rumored to be leaving the Today Show) and will air a rerun instead of a new, live episode.
For some comparison on how messed up WWE has become, WWE feels being associated with someone making blackface comments is worse than being associated with someone making racist comments on tape (Hogan). Both are bad but potentially being an actual racist is less bad in WWE's eyes.

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Indies Roundup:
Rey Mysterio Jr will be on the Jericho Cruise on 10/27 and 10/28.

Tom Lawlor vs. Sami Callihan in a street fight has been added to MLW's tapings in Cicero, IL on 11/8.

The Women of Wrestling promotion that debuts on AXS in 2019 will be both performing and participating in a panel at the L.A. Comic Con on 10/26 to 10/28 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. There will be matches on Saturday at 4 p.m. and a panel discussion on Sunday at 2:30 pm., and more matches after that.

ROH is putting tickets on sale tomorrow at 10 a.m. local time for shows on 12/15 in Philadelphia at the 2300 Arena, 1/24 in Dallas at Gilley's Dallas, 1/25 in Houston at the NRG Arena, and 1/26 in Austin, TX at the Austin Highway Event Center.

Big League Wrestling announced today that Neville (who is again going by the name PAC since departing WWE) will be making his United Kingdom in-ring return at their show at the Westlands Entertainment Venue in Yeovil, England on Sunday, November 18. He'll be facing Dean Allmark and Jake McCluskey in a three-way match.

Ireland's OTT Wrestling also announced that Neville is coming to their promotion soon. A date for when Neville will debut for them wasn't announced, but OTT noted that it wouldn't be in November.

The Young Bucks vs. KUSHIDA & Chris Sabin has been added to the card for ROH’s Global Wars show in Toronto on November 11. The Briscoes vs. Beretta & Chuckie T vs. Cody Rhodes & Hangman Page is set for Global Wars in Buffalo, New York on November 9. Jeff Cobb vs. Christopher Daniels and Jay Briscoe vs. Scorpio Sky have been announced for Lowell, Massachusetts on November 8.
BLW: https://twitter.com/GoBigLeague/stat...85557000507392 , OTT: https://twitter.com/OTT_wrestling/st...41570391040000

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Will Ospreay is off Power Struggle after suffering an injury earlier this month.

New Japan’s English website made the announcement tonight that Ospreay will not make his scheduled match against Taichi for the NEVER Openweight championship at next weekend’s event, saying that he needs more time to recover from the injury. There will not be a replacement match and instead the bout will be cancelled.

Ospreay suffered an injury to his ribs back on October 14 in a match against Chris Ridgeway on a RevPro/New Japan Global Wars UK event in Brixton, England. He landed wrong after a kick and was taken to a hospital for evaluation after the match.

A few days later, New Japan announced that Ospreay would be taken off the Road to Power Struggle tour and instead would focus entirely on the NEVER title match at Power Struggle. Obviously, things have changed.
Link: https://www.njpw1972.com/37866

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The National Wrestling Alliance announced today that a new version of their NWA 70 event from this past weekend has been uploaded to FITE.tv, correcting the audio issues from the live broadcast:

We thank everyone who ordered #NWA70 on @FiteTV!

We can confirm that an updated version of the show is now available with the audio issues fixed including the 2 backstage interviews. If you bought original event, you now have this version!#NWA70 - https://t.co/2XNYx8pJwX pic.twitter.com/psC526g5Sd
— NWA (@nwa) October 25, 2018
Link: https://twitter.com/nwa/status/1055479905234825217

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Nikki also did an interview with the New York Post, where she admitted she wasn't happy about the Ronda Rousey line a few weeks ago on Raw regarding Bella's relationship with John Cena. “I’ve grown thick-skinned to it,” Bella said “I just can’t wait for the day it can stop and not every promo towards me brings up my ex and I think it will [stop]. I think there will come a day for that, but maybe there won’t, but I do hope so.”
Wow so the rumor was actually true after all. Literally have thin skin when it comes to not being able to handle worked shoot or "pipe bomb" promos. Probably why they let her try one on Ronda about her mother as a makeup to keep her happy. Link for those interested: https://nypost.com/2018/10/24/nikki-...ys-cena-taunt/

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Vince McMahon was not at television, which explains his not being in the video footage the company shot of Reigns backstage after his interview hugging everyone and leaving. That was also a surprise since the show was in Providence, which is in the Northeast, closer to Stamford than most shows. But he was in constant contact. Reigns was kept on a bus all day before the show, at his own request. Vince made moves during the day to prepare people who had to know, without going into detail ...

It is believed Reigns found out about the diagnosis on or just before 10/18, because it was that night that Vince McMahon first found out. It wasn’t until the next morning when the key people knew who had to start making plans for what to do, at least temporarily, without him and how to fill the hole of his not being around ...

About an hour before the show, a few people, including both Rollins and Ambrose, were told that Reigns would be opening up the show and giving up the title, but were also given the same word we were, basically that it would all be explained when he did his promo. Reigns had told Ambrose and Rollins before the show to be ready to come out and meet him when his promo was done, but neither were told what it was about. Michael Cole also knew that the show would open with Reigns relinquishing the title, but it is believed he also didn’t know why ...

Leukemia is no joke, and getting it a second time at the age of 33 is worrisome. It would seem to indicate that even if and when he beats this again, he’s at a high risk for it to come back later. Because we don’t know what form of leukemia this is, this percentage may not be accurate, but for leukemia in general, about 57 percent of the people who get it will live for more than five years. It also should be noted that most who get it are much older than Reigns, and not nearly as strong and fit. At the same time, strength and fitness, and even age to a degree, is not a safeguard against the disease because cancer isn’t fair ...

If he has Chronic myelogenous leukemia, which he may have based on saying he’s had it in him for 11 years, then he would be lucky to the degree leukemia is lucky, which is more the best of the worst luck. Chronic myelogenous leukemia is treatable with the drug Gleevec or similar drugs and 90 percent of the people who get it will live five or more years. Hairy cell leukemia, a disease that almost exclusively hits adult males, is both incurable, but easily treatable. About 96 percent or more of people diagnosed with it will live at least ten more years. But both of those forms, while he is likely to survive for a number of years, are also high risk of giving him problems many more times throughout his life.

If it is another form, the odds greatly differ. The other reality is that if he’s got the version of leukemia we hope he has, while nothing is a sure thing, he’s probably beating it and coming back. If he can beat this and come back with most of his athletic ability, he may become the most popular wrestler in the business based on real-life beating of the disease, and coming off the expected highly visible work he’ll do in raising attention and funding for treatment and a cure. In his long-term life story, that will end up being far bigger than main eventing WrestleMania or a delayed coronation or number of times holding championship titles.

Since 2012, Reigns was the guy in the on deck circle, the handpicked replacement for Cena. He was supposed to take the spot in 2015. While it was delayed, with Cena pretty much gone as far as full-time wrestling goes, he’s had the spot since beating Cena in a program and nobody else was considered. The feeling was that it was a spot they probably didn’t have to worry about for five or more years, giving them ample time to find somebody new. The one decision they figured they wouldn’t have to worry about for years is now one they have to make.
Meltzer pretty much went down the list of stars in the main roster and NXT and pretty much came with the conclusion that WWE doesn't have anyone who could fill in Reigns' spot beyond being a temporary or transitional top star. Pretty much just Drew McIntyre and even he's not at the level yet to be an established top star. If Vince gets rid of his size and muscular fetish, the pool for a real potential successor improves by a good amount.

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More details have come out on the lawsuit filed by Riki Paul Johnson, the first husband of Ashley Fliehr (Charlotte Flair), against Ashley, father Richard Fliehr, author Brian Shields and the WWE ...

The Charlotte Observer had printed excerpts regarding a 2008 fight with Johnson and Ric Flair before the book came out.

The incident in question took place on September 5, 2008, long before Ashley, 22 at the time, became a pro wrestler and before Ashley and Johnson were married in 2010. The two divorced in 2011. At the time Chapel Hill police said that neighbors called for help when they heard a commotion in the parking lot of an apartment complex. Officers found Rick, Ashley and Johnson in a room and that there was a fight that had left Ric bloodied and bruised. Richard Fliehr at the time declined to press charges against Johnson. Then Ashley allegedly kicked an officer and police used a taser gun on her. She was charged with assault on a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest. The issue was quickly resolved as a family matter. She pleased guilty to a lesser charge, was sentenced to a 45 day suspended sentence, put on probation and fined $200.

Ric’s version of the story in the book, saying that his daughter and Johnson were having a fight and he tried to step in. “Your daughter,” Ric claimed Johnson said was all he heard before it turned into an altercation. “My daughter did everything for this guy. He could barely hold a job. I got up and said, `Do you think you’re a man behaving this way? You’re not a man.’ Ashley’s boyfriend exploded in a fury and started throwing punches at me. I just stood there. Police arrived, and all hell broke loose. When one of the police officers entered her space and asked her to put her hands behind her back, I heard her say, `Don’t touch me. I said don’t touch me.’ The next thing I knew, the officer used a taser to subdue her. She was brought to the floor and taken into police custody in handcuffs. Her boyfriend assaulted me. I had bruises on my face, and somehow my daughter, who tried to be the peacekeeper, was arrested.”

Ashley noted that she gave up her scholarship at Appalachian State University as a Division I volleyball player after her sophomore year to move in with Johnson, who was attending the University of North Carolina. She claimed in the book there were multiple instances in which arguments led to him become physically violent toward her and also claimed that he used to do drugs with her younger brother, Reid, when Reid lived with them. The lawsuit claimed in that incident that she was the one who went into a tirade directed at the police officers and in doing so said disparaging remarks and racist comments about the African-American community in Chapel Hill, NC.
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Evolution is at about 300 tickets shy of capacity, which would be about 10,900 tickets. Some of that is because scalpers went in heavy early and they are dying now with lots of tickets out at around $9 or $10, the lowest big show price for entry in years, with about 1,650 tickets left on the market with a few days left. The show was dying until the Ronda Rousey vs. Nikki Bella angle, but even the late sales were something of an illusion as noted by the secondary market pricing.

There are a lot of interesting questions, notably how the Nassau Coliseum crowd, one of the two arenas (Pittsburgh's PPG Center being the other) that have the reputation as the hardest crowds in North America, will react. Rousey gets the biggest reactions and she and Nikki Bella are considered the company's two biggest mainstream stars. Rousey has come through in the clutch and the promo buildup for this has revitalized the show. Lynch and Flair have gotten strong reviews for their house show work and also have a heated storyline. Lynch is the hottest she's ever been, even if it's as a babyface even though each weekly they try and turn her heel.

All of the NXT women that are on television were at one point slated to appear on the show in some form. They were still listed as being there but nothing has been announced for any of them except Baszler, Sane and Shirai.
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While this week's editions of RAW and SmackDown Live did very little to promote the pay-per-view, Dave Meltzer on the most recent Wrestling Observer Radio noted that the internal reaction to WWE Evolution was that nobody in the company saw it as a big show. Meltzer further noted that the event was announced for Stephanie McMahon to brag about the show, and also as a way to take heat off for the women not traveling to Saudi Arabia for WWE Crown Jewel.
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Nick Aldis regained the NWA heavyweight title from Cody at the NWA's 70th anniversary show on 10/21 at the Fairgrounds in Nashville. The deal was always that Cody would take the title at All In, and then drop it back at the NWA's show. Cody is still under an exclusive ROH contract, but ROH allowed him to wrestle on this show as part of a deal that included Aldis doing some ROH shows and Cody getting the championship. The change had nothing to do with whatever may or may not be the future of Cody, The Young Bucks and others at the start of 2019. Under the circumstances, with an inability to guarantee that he would be available after the first of the year, it did make sense to move the title back to Aldis, who, along with David Lagana, are really the only people working full-time for Billy Corgan's version of the promotion ...

Corgan has a name and business connections, but hasn't been able to get a TV deal unless there is something unannounced on the horizon. It's known that he pitched the idea to TBS, and some would find something historically significant about the NWA on TBS, since a very different NWA did control the station for most of the period from 1972 to when the initials were dropped in favor of WCW around 1990. But nothing seems to have transpired from it. Most of the top talent these days is under contract to WWE, New Japan or ROH, with a few with Lucha Underground and Impact. Corgan is likely shut out of that talent, as well as CMLL, because they work with ROH, unless it's a unique deal like Cody, who was a key reason the show did as well as it did.
Apparently this show drew the largest crowd ever for a wrestling event at the venue. Crowd size was roughly around 1400.

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NJPW had cracked down on usage of both GIF's of their product and on people who have produced their own videos. The argument against the move is that this only increases awareness for New Japan. The thing is, a company does have the right to control its content and they do charge for usage of their footage, as does WWE, and NJPW charges a ton to outside parties, which is why you don't see people using a lot of NJPW footage in documentaries. On the flip side, cracking down on the Showbuckle videos that explain the storylines and such of New Japan is so unbelievably counterproductive
Supposedly they are considering easing some of the restrictions but not sure if it was done yet.

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Cody’s ROH contract actually ends at the end of this month, so his last contracted dates are the Jericho Cruise. However, he is expecting to continue through January but he hasn’t signed a new deal and I wouldn’t expect he would right now as he and The Young Bucks and Hangman Page really are trying to stick together and see what the open market has. Once January comes, for obvious reasons, nobody knows right now what is next. As for Cody and New Japan, nothing is concrete but he’d like to continue to work for New Japan for the rest of his career if that is possible as he loves working there. He doesn’t have a New Japan contract at this point
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The only thing we were told about the Austin Aries situation is that Aries has a minor concussion and is physically beaten down that there are a lot of layers to the story and what has gone down. The company did not confirm or wasn’t aware of a concussion and that those who talked with him after the match saw no signs of one, but that he and Johnny Impact were stiffing each other with a lot of shots during the match because the early part was trying to work it as a shoot (which is very different and more tiring) and later they tried to do some hard hitting New Japan style hitting and from that style of a match something like that is possible. It is also confirmed that Aries’ contract has expired and no new deal has been signed. He was there on 10/8 in the morning on the first day of television and then was sent home. The television was rewritten to take the stuff involving him out before he was sent home. There is also a lot of Pillmanesque stuff going on with him, as we’ve seen from the entire Johnny Impact angle
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In a further attempt to make the 12/26 MSG show special and get a rare sellout, they have added a ten-man NXT tag match with Tommaso Ciampa & Adam Cole & Kyle O’Reilly & Roderick Strong & Bobby Fish vs. Pete Dunne & Aleister Black & Velveteen Dream & Johnny Gargano & Ricochet. The whole deal among other things is with the NJPW/ROH sellout in April, the last thing WWE wants is the story to be that WWE hasn’t been able to sell out MSG in years, especially when they couldn’t last time out with both the return of the Undertaker after eight years to MSG and the debut of Rousey.
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WWE sent Dana Warrior to Spirit Day to support LGBTQ youth. This is really a weird one since Ultimate Warrior was as publicly anti-gay as almost anyone ever, to the point he lost college speaking engagements and caused a stir because of just how homophobic he was. Now, just because her husband said those things doesn’t mean she believes them. However, it went one step farther as she wore Ultimate Warrior face-paint while doing so
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Garza Jr., was interviewed in Mexico and talked about his WWE situation. As we reported, Garza was to be signed but because his shoulder was so messed up, after his examination, WWE passed on signing him. Garza said he will have a another shot at a contract early next year and is hoping his shoulder heals enough that he gets clearance this time, noting that he was nixed by the doctors and not by WWE. Garza is barely wrestling these days, hopeful that speeds up the healing process
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Hogan in an Orlando Sentinel article when asked about holding down younger talent while on top admitted that was the case. “Once I got in the spot, to keep the spot, that’s where the politics came in. Everybody goes, `Well, Hulk Hogan was a politician.’ Well, thank God I was. That’s why I made more money than anybody, that’s why I kept the belt longer, that’s why instead of a five or six or ten year run like The Rock or Stone Cold or different wrestlers, I had a 35 year run on top.
Pretty much a noted piece of shit in wrestling basically being proud at being a big piece of shit during his career.

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There was recently a pitch made to reunite Bray Wyatt and Harper on WWE TV, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

There's no word yet on if The Wyatt Family reunion is actually being considered but Wyatt and Harper have both been without programs since their partners went out of action with injuries. Wyatt had been teaming with Matt Hardy and the two had a run as RAW Tag Team Champions. Harper and Rowan had a run with the SmackDown Tag Team Titles as The Bludgeon Brothers.
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We noted earlier this week how Bobby Lashley has reportedly been working through an injury.

Lashley has been working with a separated shoulder, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. The injury has been causing Lashley a lot of pain but he continues to work through it.

There's no word yet on if Lashley will miss any ring time because of the injury but it was believed that he would keep working as long as he could. It could be a situation where he takes time off down the road to heal.





Some other sheet news:
  • WWE continues to get bad press due to their unwillingness to cancel their upcoming Saudi show. The latest being an article from the Associated Press exposing the contradictions of WWE running shows in Saudi Arabia while proclaiming to be a positive force for women's wrestling evolution. https://apnews.com/d7b11ede0d1c48e28b7320d82852894a
  • Texas based Children's Health clinic recently offered their words of support to Roman Reigns on behalf of his kid fans fighting their own battles with illness at their clinics. https://twitter.com/ChildrensTheOne/...21301944745986
  • For those interested, Post Wrestling will be holding a charity drive on November 2nd for their Crown Jewel post-show with them personally donating $5 for every minute discussed about the show. The charity is called Committee to Protect Journalist.


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G1 Supercard is 6 months out. And now Cody comes out and says he's not working it?

I doubt ROH & NJPW haven't even thought about a card that far off let alone what the production setup is going to look like.

He's got plenty of time to change his mind.
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Unsurprisingly, this week's Impact drew the promotion's lowest ratings since debuting on Pop TV.

Last night's Impact averaged 98,000 viewers on Pop. This was the first episode to air since Impact moved time slots, with the show beginning at 10 p.m. Eastern time and ending at midnight. In the old time slot, last week's Impact averaged 189,000 viewers.

This week's show was headlined by Johnny Impact retaining his Impact World Championship against Fenix.

The rating in the 18-49 demo was a 0.04. That's unchanged from the past couple of weeks.

The previous low mark for Impact was 161,000 viewers for the episode that aired on December 14 of last year, which went up against WWE's Tribute to the Troops special. The previous low for this year was the 168,000 viewers that Impact averaged on August 9.
Massive loss in terms of percentage and something that needs fixing fast or else lot harder to see POP TV renew their deal even at more favorable terms to them.

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On what's been a busy week of announcements concerning EVOLVE's relationship with WWE, two NXT wrestlers have been confirmed for EVOLVE 114.

The Street Profits (NXT's Angelo Dawkins & Montez Ford) will challenge for Chris Dickinson & Jaka's EVOLVE Tag Team titles at EVOLVE 114 in Ybor City, Florida this Sunday. Dawkins & Ford answering Dickinson & Jaka's open challenge had been teased on Twitter before the match was officially announced.

WWE.com is also teasing further NXT involvement in Sunday's show: "Sources say the upcoming match has gotten the attention of the NXT locker room, meaning there’s no telling who else could attend this Sunday’s event."
Link: https://www.wwe.com/shows/wwenxt/art...dickinson-jaka

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WWE stock fell to $69.78, a drop of $5.90 per share today coming off the decision to go to Saudi Arabia. It was $77.37 when the decision was made and the drop was a combo of some disappointment in the third quarter results, even though it was the most profitable quarter in company history, weak house show numbers and merchandise numbers were a concern but given that this is no longer a company about engaging consumers as much as selling product to third parties, those are metrics that define popularity but they don't define the financial future of the company which is all about the content market after 2024 and nobody can predict that.
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Seeking Alpha analyzes the WWE stock and states that it’s coming back down to Earth. The stock has fallen 28% since October 1st. Analyst Kevin Cavanagh looks at the results of their third-quarter earnings report and how live events, television numbers, and social media engagement performed and has provided concern.
Link: https://seekingalpha.com/article/421...ing-back-earth

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Indies Roundup:
Defy tomorrow night in Seattle at Washington Hall has Shane Strickland defending the Defy title against Schaff, Mike Santiago & Ethan HD defend the tag titles against Flamita & Bandido, Rey Fenix vs. Artemis Spencer, Brody King vs. Jeff Cobb and MJF vs. Randy Myers. There will also be a Halloween costume party. You must be 21 or over to attend.

Some new matches from Australia are Brian Cage vs. Bandido for the Impact X title on 11/25 for World Series Wrestling in Perth, Brandi Rhodes vs. Shazza McKenzie for 11/26 in Sydney and Rhodes vs. Erika Reid vs. Indi Hartwell on 11/23 in Melbourne.

Stokley Hathaway will return to MLW on 11/8 in Chicago at Cicero Stadium.

Tommy Dreamer, Low Ki and Sami Callihan also work behind the scenes as agents for MLW.
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Konnan has risen in power in Major League Wrestling and will be replacing Bruce Prichard as the company's senior Producer and top agent behind the scenes.

Prichard, PWInsider.com has confirmed, will be leaving MLW in terms of working behind the scenes in what has been said to be an amicable departure. We are told the doors are open for Prichard to return in another role down the line should something come up and that Prichard and Conrad Thompson's uber-popular Something To Wrestle With podcast will continue on MLW's podcast network. That podcast has morphed into a WWE Network series, which is potentially being brought back for a second season.

Konnan started behind the scenes for MLW last month in Fort Lauderdale and almost immediately grew into a larger role, running the locker room at the MLW Fury Road event in NYC. He will be taking over all of Prichard's former responsibilities, which also included gorilla position. The wrestling side of MLW now has Court Bauer, Konnan and Mister Saint Laurent, who all started the first MLW podcast together years ago, as the trio heading up the wrestling side. We are told this will have no bearing on Konnan's work with AAA or Impact Wrestling.
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How Triple H treats the female talents: "He's really invested in building up the women, he treats us like wrestlers,he'll talk to me like he does to Adam Cole. I wish people would understand how much freedom he gives us. Just the fact we're getting a creative say is making it different."
From a recent episode of the Breaking Kayfabe podcast show with Shayna Baszler as the guest: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/12...n-raw.html?p=1

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Ronda Rousey spoke to TMZ on the WWE’s decision to move forward with the Crown Jewel event in Saudi Arabia. Rousey brought up her own experiences at the 2004 Olympics games and running with an Iraqi athlete following the U.S. and Iraq conflict that began in March 2003 and citing how this story hits home with her sister being a journalist. While Rousey admittedly states she is an “idealist”, any defense of running this show must include the fact WWE is being paid such an exorbitant amount of money and that was the ultimate decisionmaker as opposed to the company acting as change agents. In April, this was not a show about change, and if it was, it was the WWE’s willingness to “change” how they operate with the exclusion of talent and complicit endorsement of a foreign government with a horrible track record of human rights violations. For the WWE to present a similar show in tone next week, will renew a lot of the backlash. The WWE’s defense would have less criticism if they were running a regular show that was independent of the Government, that is not what this show is. The company didn’t wake up one day and realize they need to enact change in Saudi Arabia, they were offered an enormous contract to bring a “form” of their entertainment to the country. These shows are seen as a larger commercial for Saudi Arabia to a worldwide audience and that is what they are paying for.
Pretty much the same BS type reasons as WWE, JBL, and Randy Orton had on how WWE has to hold the event there in order to bring positive change to women's rights in the country. Link with the quotes and video: https://www.f4wonline.com/wwe-news/r...-arabia-268761

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As of Thursday, we were told that John Cena is still off the Crown Jewel event. A replacement for Cena in the World Cup tournament probably won’t be announced until Raw on Monday.
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On today’s Super Junior Tag League show from Korakuen Hall, they tried out a new English commentary team with Shaun “Mavs” Gillis and Lanny Poffo. Gillis is a sports broadcaster that is based out of Nova Scotia.
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It looks like the WWE Network will start airing two episodes of the WWE NXT UK series each Wednesday, beginning next week. The Network schedule currently has two one-hour episodes scheduled for 4pm and 5pm ET on Wednesday. The usual 3pm ET timeslot will now feature a replay of the previous week's episode. Noam Dar vs. Zack Gibson and Trent Seven vs. Saxon Huxley are being advertised for the 4pm episode. Wolfgang vs. Mark Andrews and Moustache Mountain vs. Huxley & Sam Gradwell are being advertised for the 5pm episode.
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New NXT Superstar Chelsea Green (former Knockouts Champion Laurel Van Ness) is set to make her in-ring debut for the brand at tonight's live event in Largo, Florida. She was originally scheduled to debut at Thursday's show in Cocoa, FL but that show was postponed until next month due to Hurricane Michael. Green tweeted the following on tonight's debut and asked fans which side of her they want to see:

Who do you want to see tonight, @WWENXT Largo?
??????? or ???? https://t.co/ESxKweClhr
— Chelsea Green (@ImChelseaGreen) October 26, 2018
Link: https://twitter.com/ImChelseaGreen/s...15447206080512

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Tye Dillinger is the latest WWE Superstar to play a game of "tweet & delete" on the social media platform.

Dillinger posted a #TBT tweet on Thursday and included a photo of his match with WWE United States Champion Shinsuke Nakamura. Dillinger wrote, "#TBT To that time I used to wrestle."

Matt Jackson of The Young Bucks responded to Dillinger's tweet and wrote, "Money ain't everything."

Dillinger responded to Jackson's tweet with a simple, "Word."

It's interesting that Dillinger and Jackson deleted those last two replies to the original #TBT tweet. You can see a screenshot of the deleted exchange below, thanks to Reddit user ceps2111.

With the deleted tweets, it's also interesting that Dillinger left up several other tweets related to the original #TBT tweet, including fan comments on how he could potentially be released for tweeting something about how much in-ring time he gets. It looks like at least one of the fan replies could have been a reference to his "Word." tweet to Jackson.
Link to the tweets: https://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/20...ackson-647158/

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WWE officials reportedly tried keeping Rey Mysterio from going on Chris Jericho's "Rock 'N' Wrestling Rager at Sea" cruise that sets sail this weekend, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

Mysterio informed WWE officials of the cruise booking as a pre-existing commitment when he signed his new contract to return to the main roster and told them he would not be wrestling, he would just be attending as a guest. WWE still tried to keep Mysterio from going.

Mysterio was not booked for any WWE live events this weekend but it will be interesting to see if he makes Tuesday's SmackDown tapings in Atlanta, the final show before Crown Jewel. WWE currently has Rey advertised for SmackDown but the cruise does not end until the next day. It's possible Rey leaves the cruise a day early when they make it to the Bahamas on Monday.
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Nearly as shocking as Roman Reigns' announcement that he's battling leukemia is the revelation that he battled the disease before. Both fans and fellow Superstars were unaware of Reigns' history with the disease but Triple H was one of the few who knew.

Triple H and Stephanie McMahon appeared on the Elvin Duran Show where Hunter discussed why Reigns didn't make public his first battle with leukemia.

"Very few people knew about [his first battle]. He and I had spoken about it and this was something that he didn't want to put out there until he had reached a certain point in his career because he didn't want people to feel like he was being pitied or given things for a certain reason," stated Triple H. "He wanted to be able to come out at the end and say, 'Look, I've dealt with this the whole time. You can do anything. This is not an end sentence.'

"As we talked about on Monday, [I told him] 'Life is what happens when you're busy making plans.' The rest of the stuff happens and it didn't work out the way he thought it would. It's back and now's the time to spread that message."
Link with more quotes and video interview: https://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/20...battle-647153/

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Above is this week's WWE Network Pick of the Week, featuring Toni Storm introducing her Mae Young Classic win over Meiko Satomura. Storm will now face Io Shirai in the MYC finals at Sunday's WWE Evolution pay-per-view.

It's worth noting that WWE's YouTube description for this video notes that Storm will be doing battle for the WWE NXT UK Women's Title on Sunday at Evolution. It appears this is just an error by the social media team. WWE's official match preview for Storm vs. Shirai confirms the winner will receive the MYC trophy. There is no mention of the NXT UK Women's Title.

It's also interesting that the NXT UK Women's Title match has been pulled from the official Evolution card on WWE's website ... WWE noted that there would be a NXT UK Women's Title match at Evolution when they first announced the pay-per-view several months ago.
Likely due to the inaugural winner of the UK Women's belt hasn't aired yet and WWE decided to hold that title match at the recent batch of NXT UK tapings instead even though they've been spoiling who won it at recent NXT house show events.


Some other sheet news:
  • According to recent tracking, WWE for some strange reason decided to release more tickets for sale for Evolution even though it seems to be around 1400-2000+ away from original sell out status.
  • According to the Observer, the secondary market for Evolution's tickets is at its lowest ever amount for a WWE event in a very long time at $7.64. Seems to be a mix of scalpers bought up way too many tickets and general interest being lower than usual.
  • Apparently Vince McMahon had a fondness for both Yokozuna's and Rikishi's ass which was the origin for Rikishi's Stink Face move, according to Bruce Prichard. https://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/20...k-face-647157/
  • According to Showbuzz Daily, this week's episode of Lucha Underground drew around 80k viewers.


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Wow, TNA has almost fallen to Lucha Underground levels.
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Them suffering a sizeable drop was to be expected considering its happened to them before in the past but since they were already dealing with a tiny viewerbase, that drop ended up being magnified a lot more.

Their current tv deal with POP TV expires at the end of this year so not a lot of time left for them to gain back what they lost and then recoup their viewership losses from the past couple months.

I'd still put them ahead of LU in terms of health considering El Rey is very weak as a national network in the US and they are about to take a major hit to their value once their Netflix deal expires mid-November.
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The writing is on the wall with TNA, I think. They moved them back for a reason. There is better stuff to put in that slot. They may have had a chance of surviving if they could retain their fanbase at the later time, but nope. They certainly won't be making money off their deal if they get offered a new one, and what is the appeal of TNA to other networks? <100,000 viewers? They have a history of being thrown off TV and being absolute pains to work with (say what you want about new management -- this is the legacy they have inherited).

Their parent company might try to keep them alive because of international TV deals and their presence on their app or whatever, but I'd be surprised if they end up with something better than POP given that they've scaled back their presence.
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