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Old 03-09-2018, 09:06 PM   #1
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Rich Swann has pulled himself from all of his appearances, including the ones he's advertised on, including his WrestleMania weekend shows, even Crash in Mexico. He is very despondent based on the reaction to his wrestling. Previously he had said he would fulfill his agreed upon dates and then retire from wrestling.

Konnan underwent hip replacement surgery this past week. This is his third hip replacement as the last one came loose about ten years ago from coming back and doing angles too quickly and he's been in great pain ever since.

Deonna Purrazzo vs. Mayu Iwatani in the Women of Honor tournament will take place tomorrow at the ROH tapings in Las Vegas.

MLW's show last night in Orlando was taped for television. There will be more on that but they are doing a series of 60 minute shows with Tony Schiavone and Rich Bocchini as the announcers. Dan Bynum, who was the director of World Class Championship Wrestling is directing, Charlie Bruuzzese of ECW was there as a Producer, as was Bruce Prichard at Senior Producer according to PW Insider. An announcement of the TV is expected soon.
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The 3/8 edition of Impact did 325,000 overnight viewers, down from last week's 365,000 overnight viewers.
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The Wrap reported that WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair will have a role in the wrestling-centric feature film R-rated dramedy Uncle Steamroller & Champion Rabbit. The film follows a dejected Iraq war veteran who struggles to regain his pro heavyweight wrestling championship while being managed by a failed motivational speaker. Flair will play the president of the World Wrestling Union, a Las Vegas syndicate that owns the wrestling tour that is Steamroller attempting to stage his comeback. Flair and his fiancée Wendy Barlow are executive producers on the film.

Flair also has a role in the upcoming film Easter which will see release this December. That film stars Glenn Close, Carl Weathers, Joe Leland and Reginald VelJohnson. Flair will play himself in the film which has the following plot, "In an effort to save both his reputation and family, retired detective, Easter (Joe Leland), finds himself in a war pitted against the most formidable foe - hatred."

Flair has done some acting work in the past, but mostly cameos playing himself many years ago in projects like the syndicated TV series Learning The Ropes and Roddy Piper-Dirk Benedict film Bodyslam the Movie.
Link: https://www.thewrap.com/ric-flair-fe...wwe-exclusive/

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Bobby Fish underwent ACL surgery yesterday in Birmingham, Alabama. The estimate is 5-6 months out of the ring, which obviously, really sucks.
Based on other sources, Fish might be out for a whole year instead since his injury is rumored to have been a lot worse than originally expected.

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Former Seattle Seahawk Demitrius Bronson, who has been training in the developmental system, is said to be out of action with a very bad concussion.
He was originally rumored to have been cut yesterday but which would have brought the total to 4 people but got debunked afterwards.

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Robbie E. (Rob Strauss) has announced he will be launching a podcast on the MLW network called “Why It Ended”. The show will feature weekly guests that had short runs on television or have disappeared from the industry. The podcast is set to launch on Wednesday, March 14th at www.mlw.com.
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Following her release from WWE NXT yesterday, Abbey Laith issued the following statement on Twitter this afternoon.

Dear @WWENXT and @WWE ..... Thank You. Thank you for all the opportunities you gave me in the last year. Thank you for everything I was taught and I wouldn't trade that chapter of my life for anything. Now my path may be changing, but the Crown Jewel is still very much alive????
— Abbey Laith (@AbbeyLaithWWE) March 9, 2018


She already has an indie wrestling appearance lined up next month for Beyond Wrestling in her hometown of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

BREAKING: Beyond Wrestling returns to the @WrestleFactory_ in Philadelphia for a doubleheader with @CHIKARApro on Saturday, 4/28 featuring #KimberLee's homecoming! @AbbeyLaithWWE #ShesAWrestler pic.twitter.com/g5jaLmyJ6o
— Beyond Wrestling (@beyondwrestling) March 9, 2018
Abbey: https://twitter.com/AbbeyLaithWWE/st...70039565651969 , Beyond Wrestling: https://twitter.com/beyondwrestling/...86542314868737


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  • Website AllWrestling had a recent interview with Luke Harper talking about his new movie, wearing a knee brace in the film, origins of the Bludgeon Bros, origins of his dirty tank top shirt. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...llets-for-the/
  • Sports Illustrated had a recent interview with John Cena talking about his WWE future, potentially breaking Ric Flair's title record at Fastlane, and the rumors of him wrestling against Rey Mysterio at Mania. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...tion-being-an/
  • In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, today is the birthdays of Melina (39), Rick Steiner (57), and Nikita Koloff (59).


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Old 03-09-2018, 09:36 PM   #2
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Mike Bennett, shit Kanellis would be a good fill in for Fish.
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Old 03-09-2018, 11:04 PM   #3
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Kanellis worked a house show I went to a few weeks ago
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Old 03-09-2018, 11:05 PM   #4
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Old 03-09-2018, 11:34 PM   #5
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He was ok.
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Old 03-10-2018, 03:32 AM   #6
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Mike Bennett, shit Kanellis would be a good fill in for Fish.
Has the same thought.
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Old 03-10-2018, 09:45 PM   #7
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Hope Shane beats that Ramen noodle haired joke in record time.
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Old 03-12-2018, 02:19 PM   #8
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In what sounds like a desperation scare tactic, Lucha Underground sent out cease and desist letters to at least two reporters (Steve Bryant and Ryan Satin) who wrote stories on things that took place at their TV tapings over the past two weeks. LU makes all fans and performers sign non-disclosure agreements because they don’t want their news getting out, but the idea of threatening reporters with legal action for covering news when it happens is ridiculous and will never hold up. But obviously it’s meant as a threat to see if they can scare them away from not reporting on the news
Shut the fuck up and stay in your lane, Dave.
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Old 03-12-2018, 04:12 PM   #9
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Dirty Sheets doesn't want their news getting out anymore either
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Old 03-12-2018, 04:26 PM   #10
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Is this the same guy(s) who splintered off from Sportskeeda which was already known for being very hit-or-miss for reliability?

Same for a lot of their scoops being stuff that came from other places or from the same sources.
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Old 03-14-2018, 12:29 PM   #11
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Last night's Raw increased nine percent over last week in the ratings and did the best number since the post-Royal Rumble episode, averaging 3.35 million viewers.

What's noticeable is that despite the fact that there was no real advertised main event, the third hour held up much better than usual. It was the highest rated third hour since the Monday after WrestleMania last year.

The show opened with 3.351 million viewers for hour one and increased to 3.429 million viewers for the second hour. This was the first week of Daylight Savings Time, and the second hour has traditionally been the highest rated in recent years once DST kicks in. The third hour only dropped to 3.275 million, which was just 2.3 percent down from hour one, the best such audience retention since July of last year ...

Another notable aspect is that the overrun only ran three minutes -- as opposed to most weeks where it is anywhere from seven to 15 minutes. It's possible that more of their audience is leaving during that overrun than is realized ...

This was the fourth week in the last five that Raw has been up year-over-year.
The good news was the bait & switch worked for the WWE but they run the risk of pissing off fans the longer they do it like WCW in the past. Also depending on the state, WWE could also be breaking laws due to doing it deliberately.

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Women's wrestlers from Raw, SmackDown, and NXT will be taking part in a battle royal at WrestleMania next month.

A video aired on Raw tonight paying tribute to the Fabulous Moolah and portraying her as a pioneer of women's wrestling. It announced that the first-ever Fabulous Moolah Memorial Battle Royal will be taking place at WrestleMania on April 8th, with the Raw, SmackDown, and NXT women's divisions all represented ...

Naming the match after Moolah will bring WWE plenty of criticism given her history. David Bixenspan detailed some of that in an article for Paste last year, writing that "It’s long been wrestling lore that her Girl Wrestling Enterprises booking agency was, if not outright a scheme to pressure trainees into prostitution, then dangerously close to one."
Besides online backlash, several women wrestlers who wrote tweets in praise of Moolah later deleted them and WWE is already getting negative mainstream press about the announcement and backlash (Forbes & UK's Mirror so far).

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Mad Maxine, who got her start in wrestling through the Fabulous Moolah, issued a statement to Pro Wrestling Sheet about WWE announcing the Fabulous Moolah Memorial Battle Royal for WrestleMania. In the statement, she writes about how Moolah treated women that she trained: “The Fabulous Moolah was a real-life heel. A lot of women paid to train at her school and then went out on the road. They risked life and limb in their matches and she repaid them with the worst kinds of abuses. She skimmed their money, she ignored women who were badly hurt, she pimped women out to creepy men and on and on.”
Link: http://www.prowrestlingsheet.com/moo.../#.WqhSn5PwYW-

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Kevin Owens tweeted about Shane McMahon being shown backstage when Roman Reigns confronted Vince McMahon on Raw: “Glad to see our #SDLive commissioner has his priorities in order. His crew is at a live event in Dayton, yet he’s sitting by daddy at #Raw in Detroit. Lovely!” Owens also mentioned Shane being at Raw instead of at SmackDown’s event in Dayton at last night’s house show.
Link: https://twitter.com/FightOwensFight/...65017159651328

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Mike Kanellis thanked everyone who has supported him as he reached eight months sober: “As I sit here before #SDLive I feel the need to thank all the @WWEUniverse and all my fans before I got here, who have,over the last 8 months, tweeted me their encouragement and support. If you guys want to know what keeps me going, it’s you guys!! Thank You #WWE @WWE”
Link: https://twitter.com/RealMikeBennett/...30682885951490

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In conjunction with All In, “Starrcast” was officially announced for Labor Day weekend in Chicago. It’s a convention with wrestling podcasts and wrestling guests that will be joining them. Cody Rhodes, The Young Bucks, and others who will be on All In are also scheduled to appear.

Andrew Everett, Dezmond Xavier & DJZ vs. King Cuerno, Aerostar & Drago is the first match announced for the Impact Wrestling vs. Lucha Underground show in New Orleans on April 6th.

Penta El Zero M vs. Nick Gage is also set for Joey Janela’s Spring Break II on April 6th.

Kimber Lee will be returning to CHIKARA and teaming with Los Ice Creams at this year’s King of Trios. Beyond Wrestling announced that she’ll be wrestling at their show in New Orleans on April 5th as well.
Starrcast: https://twitter.com/ALL_IN_2018/stat...94589758492673 , Impact-LU: https://twitter.com/IMPACTWRESTLING/...72425004544000 , Janela: https://twitter.com/GCWrestling_/sta...56393754447872 , CHIKARA: https://twitter.com/CHIKARApro/statu...78238796959745

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As it turned out, Impact only announced the one match for their 4/6 Lucha Underground vs. Impact event on 4/6 in New Orleans yesterday.

Las Vegas' Future Stars of Wrestling teased they would be working with Impact, announcing, "Coming off the heels of the hugely successful Mecca II, FSW is in talks for a huge event in Jun/July, that we believe will truly make a huge IMPACT on the business and wrestling in Vegas"

Next up for Impact are a pair of live events promoted in conjunction with Kirk White's Big Time Wrestling on 3/23 in Newark, CA and 3/24 in Salinas, CA.
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Vader tweeted last night that he was going in the hospital this morning for heart surgery: “Going in the hospital in the Am for heart surgery wish me luck and my Dr a good night's rest”
Link: https://twitter.com/itsvadertime/sta...83617379520513

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Though an official announcement has yet to be made, it looks like CM Punk will be returning to the Octagon at UFC 225 in Chicago on June 9th.

While responding to someone on Twitter who asked when we'd see him cry in the UFC again, Punk indicated that he'll be fighting at UFC 225: "June nine, after I win and lock eyes with my beautiful wife, embrace my coaches and shout out my entire team."

TMZ Sports also reported that June 9th will be the date for Punk's second mixed martial arts fight. An opponent hasn't been named, but the UFC was discussing booking Punk vs. Mike Jackson for Chicago as of last month. Jackson's only pro fight was in a loss to Mickey Gall in February 2016, which set up Gall as the opponent for Punk's debut.

Gall submitted Punk with a first-round rear naked choke at UFC 203 in September 2016. Punk has continued to train at Roufusport since then.

UFC 225 will take place at the United Center in Punk's hometown. Alistair Overeem vs. Curtis Blaydes, Joseph Benavidez vs. Sergio Pettis, and Claudia Gadelha vs. Carla Esparza have already been announced for the show.
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Although she was advertised for every Monday Night Raw leading into Wrestlemania, former UFC Bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey missed this past week's Raw.

PWInsider.com can confirm that Rousey missed the date because she was traveling to the Northeast to prepare for her Wrestlemania showdown against Triple H and Stephanie McMahon.

Rousey and Kurt Angle were both in Stamford, CT yesterday working on the match, one of the headline attractions for the 4/8 Wrestlemania 34 event in New Orleans.
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MATT RIDDLE VS. SHANE “SWERVE” STRICKLAND SET FOR APRIL 12TH CLASH IN ORLANDO TO CROWN NEXT WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION

ORLANDO – History will be made on Thursday night April 12th as the next MLW World Heavyweight Champion will be crowned in Orlando at Gilt Nightclub. After dominating top ranked wrestlers in the opening round and semi finals, Matt Riddle vs. Shane “Swerve” Strickland is set for the MLW: The World Championship Finals.
Link: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...pion-.html?p=1

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The New Japan Cup takes a break on Tuesday and will resume with a show on Wednesday in Shizuoka and Thursday at Korakuen Hall. Below are the four quarter-final matches that will take place on those two shows:
*Michael Elgin vs. Juice Robinson
*Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Bad Luck Fale
*Kota Ibushi vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
*Sanada vs. Toru Yano

The semi-finals take place on March 16th and 18th and the finals are set for Wednesday, March 21st with the winner receiving a title shot of their choosing at Sakura Genesis on Sunday, April 1st.
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Taiji Ishimori announced in a press conference on Monday that he is leaving Pro Wrestling NOAH in order to wrestle freelance with the goal of eventually making it to the WWE. Ishimori began his career in 2002 after being trained in the Toryumon system and bounced around promotions, including working for NOAH as a freelancer beginning in 2006. Ishimori became a full-time member of the NOAH roster in 2008 and went on to become a three-time GHC junior heavyweight champion and six-time GHC junior heavyweight tag champion. He was well known because of his representation of NOAH internationally where he represented the group in AAA, Ring of Honor, New Japan, and most recently for Impact Wrestling, where he became the X division champion (he dropped the title to Matt Sydal, which just aired last week on POP TV). Ishimori is 35-years old and cited Shinsuke Nakamura and Hideo Itami as examples he wants to follow of achieving success in the United States and figured now is the time to make a move or else he would have regretted not attempting to.
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The woman who wrestled as Joan King on last night's WWE RAW in Detroit for the squash loss to Nia Jax was local wrestler Shayla Hyde, who goes by the name The Wicked Witch. She tweeted the following after the loss:

Todays been so eventful. Filled with amazing possiblities and amazing experience.#blessed#JoanKing pic.twitter.com/MuTJrTTH9v
— Shayla Hyde (@likablemshyde) March 13, 2018




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Ishimori has been one of my favorite parts of Impact. Would be a great get for 205 Live though.
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For a show that promised a WrestleMania announcement from Shane McMahon, last night's SmackDown averaged 2.771 million viewers, up six percent from last week. It was the largest audience for the show since April 11th of last year, which was the Superstar Shakeup episode.
Guess people really love seeing Shane getting beaten up badly

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The first match between Eddie Edwards and Sami Callihan since Callihan accidentally injured Edwards in a baseball bat spot gone wrong will be taking place next month.

Impact Wrestling announced today that Edwards will face Callihan in an I Quit match at their Impact vs. Lucha Underground show in New Orleans on April 6th. Though the theme of the event is the promotions going against each other, Callihan isn't billed as his "Jeremiah Crane" character from Lucha Underground ...

Impact vs. Lucha Underground is part of WrestleCon's weekend of events in New Orleans and will stream live on Impact's Twitch channel at 10 p.m. Eastern time. Andrew Everett, Dezmond Xavier & DJZ vs. King Cuerno, Drago & Aerostar is the only other match that's been announced as of now.
Link: https://twitter.com/IMPACTWRESTLING/...89638825127937

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In the case of Rousey, POST Wrestling was told by someone in the company that it was an issue with the web department publishing last week’s article that she would appear on every Raw episode until WrestleMania with the web team not being given final approval to run the article. Given they are purposely false advertising Lesnar in hopes of generating a negative reaction for Lesnar, you don’t want to paint Rousey in the same light and the WWE.com article made it feel that way this past Monday.
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WWE's latest book The Book of Booty: Shake It. Love It. Never Be It.: From WWE's The New Day will be officially released tomorrow.
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WWE production are putting together a new special "Wrestlemania's Greatest Moments" currently.

The plan is for the 60 minute special to be be released on the WWE Network and for a version of it (obviously edited for time) to also air on the USA Network.

No word yet when the special will debut.
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A cursory Wikipedia search will show that Ric Flair has won far more than 16 world titles in his career. Why does WWE push the "16-time" narrative and ignore certain wins? I've noticed that they don't recognize many other wrestlers' title wins as well, even if they were legit wins.


To be blunt, WWE feels that the facts and history are what THEY say they are. They literally couldn’t care less about what we can find by searching the net. They make the truth

...

Perhaps I am being a bit over cynical here, but in reference to the question in the Q and A for February 19th about Stephanie McMahon having an influence over the WWE's shift in portrayal of the women wrestlers, if this is the case why didn't Steph instigate this when she was head of creative for all those years? Wasn't she in charge when they ran some of the more objectionable and lurid angles involving the woman, like making Trish bark like a dog, the Torrie Wilson-Dawn Marie lesbian deal and ludicrous Molly Holly fat shaming/virgin angles, to name just a few? Not to mention the proliferation of lingerie pillow fights and gravy bowl matches et al that also occurred under Steph's watch, surely if she was that adamant about portraying women positively she would have petitioned Vince about it much harder back then and not jump on the current bandwagon?

As we have said MANY times, whoever holds the position of head of creative is really not where the buck stops. That person is Vince McMahon. Steph did not set the direction for the product, Vince did. He was the one who had the final say. To take it further, Steph has even stated that when she was “in charge” she was a manager/facilitator, not the idea person. Her and Triple H (and everyone else with an idea) has to lobby Vince to accept and implement it. That is what she has done over the years.
From PWI's weekly Q&A articles on WWE's revisionist history tendencies and why Stephanie's influence on women's wrestling rise in the WWE was a lot more limited than what WWE has portrayed.

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The Hardy family took to Twitter, apparently commenting on the Jeff Hardy arrest over the weekend:

Matt Hardy tweeted the following:

Help others up when they're down.
— #WOKEN Matt Hardy (@MATTHARDYBRAND) March 14, 2018

Reby Hardy tweeted:

So much misinformation being touted as truth from people who have exactly ZERO real insight or information on what they're talking about. Seriously, unless you know - REALLY KNOW - just shut it with the "scoops" & speculate like the rest of them ????
— Reby Hardy (@RebyHardy) March 14, 2018

Garbage like this is what I'm talking about. From all sides about all topics. It's exhausting. https://t.co/lw5G6jXpM0
— Reby Hardy (@RebyHardy) March 14, 2018

On the lighter side of things,

I made my pro wrestling debut on WWE #RAW while my brother had to work his way up the indies.

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— Lord Wolfgang (@WolfieHardy) March 14, 2018
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Ring of Honor announced the following:
PUNISHMENT MARTINEZ AND TOMOHIRO ISHII FACE OFF AT SUPERCARD OF HONOR

The monstrous Punishment Martinez has quickly established himself as a big-match competitor, winning the prestigious Survival of the Fittest Tournament last November, picking up wins along the way against stars like Jay Lethal, Flip Gordon, Shane Taylor, and more! Martinez has firmly established himself as one of the top contenders for the Ring of Honor World Championship but the Creeper of Violence and Messiah of Pain wants to spread his brand of anarchy across the globe.

In New Orleans, he will get an opportunity to do just that against one of the most intimidating and hard-hitting stars in New Japan Pro-Wrestling history, the greatest NEVER Openweight Champion of all-time and former ROH World Television Champion, Tomohiro Ishii!

PUNISHMENT MARTINEZ vs. TOMOHIRO ISHII
More details: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...honor.html?p=1

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Several days removed from the WWE’s announcement, the backlash against the decision to honor the Fabulous Moolah (Lillian Ellison) with a women’s battle royal at WrestleMania has gotten progressively louder. While I have minimal optimism that the WWE would correct course and walk back their decision, it has been encouraging to see the level of coverage, outrage and education provided from this announcement so that the allegations are known to a wider audience ...

Pro Wrestling Sheet spoke to Jeannine Mjoseth, who was trained by Moolah and described her as a “monstrous person”, who skimmed money from the women she trained, ignored their injuries, and pimped the women out.

David Bixenspan has a piece on Deadspin outlining many of the allegations and questioning why the WWE opted to canonize Moolah at a time when they had bypassed Moolah as the “matriarch of the women’s evolution” by naming last year’s tournament after Mae Young.

Again, I don’t expect the WWE to walk this one back, although in maintaining this decision it places the women that are a part of this battle royal in a difficult position. There will be numerous media interviews and it is bound to be brought up somewhere and I would imagine many of the women on the roster, involved in this battle royal will be offset by the company’s hypocrisy in celebrating the women’s evolution within the company while celebrating a woman like Moolah. The positive from this is a wider audience now aware of these stories and understanding the underbelly of Moolah’s legacy, understanding the actual history and not being spoon fed the WWE’s narrative. Ultimately, it would have to take significant mainstream media pressure or internal pressure from the WWE’s sponsors to force a change and history has shown that the WWE typically bypasses that level of scrutiny.
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Revolution Pro has announced that Hiroshi Tanahashi and Juice Robinson will take on Aussie Open at their WrestleMania Week show on Friday, April 6th at 4 pm at The Sugar Mill.
Link: https://twitter.com/RevProUK/status/973999489068556288

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Triple H announced today that there will be two theme songs for the WWE NXT "Takeover: New Orleans" event during WrestleMania 34 Weekend - "It Follows" and "Lord of Flies" by NXT Loud artists Cane Hill. You can hear the singles below:

With two official theme songs for #NXTTakeOver: New Orleans, NOLA's own @Cane_Hill is #NXTLOUD. #WeAreNXT pic.twitter.com/sd3K4LEOwJ
— Triple H (@TripleH) March 14, 2018
Link: https://twitter.com/TripleH/status/974022220241604609

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WWE NXT General Manager William Regal will be hosting the "Best of NXT 2017" DVD that hits stores next Tuesday, according to WrestlingDVDNetwork.com. The DVD will also feature a foreword introduction from Triple H. The DVD will include 22 matches along with new interview segments filmed at the WWE Performance Center.
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WWE has a new poll asking fans who has the mental edge in the ongoing battle between Jinder Mahal, Bobby Roode and new WWE United States Champion Randy Orton. As of this writing, 69% voted for Orton while 17% voted for Mahal and 14% for Roode. Roode announced on last night's SmackDown that he will be cashing in his rematch against Orton at WrestleMania 34.
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Sami Zayn took to Twitter today and wrote the following on how he and Kevin Owens destroyed Shane McMahon on last night's SmackDown. The attack came after Shane booked Owens vs. Sami in a WrestleMania 34 singles match, which came right after Shane announced that he was taking an indefinite leave of absence from his SmackDown Commissioner duties. Speculation is this ending with Shane vs. Owens and Sami in a Handicap Match or Shane vs. Sami vs. Owens in a Triple Threat at WrestleMania 34.

If you've never beaten up your boss, you should totally try it.

I did it and it was amazing.
— Sami Zayn (@SamiZayn) March 14, 2018
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Above is new video of 2018 WWE Hall of Famer Hillbilly Jim talking to TMZ Sports. Jim talks about how he was lucky enough to work with Hulk Hogan early in his career, adding that he would love it if The Hulkster inducted him next month in New Orleans during WrestleMania 34 Weekend. Jim reveals that he won't find out who is inducting him until around the time everyone else finds out.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPxMXValmpU

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Filmmaker Jon Bravo revealed tonight on Instagram that his video on the WFN investigation is 25 minutes long and will be released this Friday. The video reportedly implicates Roman Reigns and 15 other current and former wrestlers as past customers of jailed steroids dealer Richard Rodriguez. Rodriguez and his company, Wellness Fitness Nutrition LLC (WFN), were accused of being involved in a distribution chain that imported goods from China, then manufactured illegal steroids in Arizona before distributing them out of the Miami area.
Link: https://www.instagram.com/p/BgSliJxhtGo/

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Recently, Corbin was recently interviewed by All Things Wrestling Radio. During the interview, Corbin stated that 2017 was a whirlwind year for him from winning the Money in the Bank briefcase to unsuccessfully cashing it in. He also revealed when he was told that he was going to cash-in the briefcase.

"It was kinda like an hour before [SmackDown Live]," said Corbin. "We discussed, and then they made a decision that was gonna be the night. It didn't work out, but, yeah it was definitely about an hour before. I mean, it's the fun part of this business. You never know what your day is gonna hold. Some things could be very, very last minute. It could be at that very last second. So, it's pretty wild, and it keeps you on your toes. That's for sure."
Link: https://www.spreaker.com/user/lacros...r-baron-corbin

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Kurt Angle posted a photo with him and Ronda Rousey in front of a WWE ring on Instagram today as they’re working out their match for WrestleMania.

Angle also paid tribute to Eddie Guerrero on the 14th anniversary of their WrestleMania XX match: “14 years ago to this day, I shared the ring with possibly the greatest overall performer of all time, #eddieguerrero. He always had something up his sleeve, and he didn’t disappoint in this Wrestlemania Showdown. Thank you Eddie. #LieCheatSteal #itstrue”
Links: https://www.instagram.com/p/BgUEA8nh...erealkurtangle , https://www.instagram.com/p/BgT3HtdBrNZ/

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Cody Rhodes gave an update on when “All In” tickets will go on sale: “Perhaps May, perhaps a bit earlier. We have to scale the arena first...it won't be a surprise. We will give plenty of heads-up. Judging
Link: https://twitter.com/CodyRhodes/statu...94035796877312


Some other sheet news includes:
  • Apparently WWE is fully aware of the backlash they've gotten in regards to naming the Women's Battle Royale match in honor of the Fabulous Moolah. Their way of addressing the problem was to just disable the comments on their official Youtube channel for the video of the announcement.
  • Deadspin's David Bixenspan recently wrote a new article about WWE's announcement honoring Moolah and why fans have been vocal online against it. https://deadspin.com/fans-are-revolt...lah-1823744298
  • While responding to a fan question, Joey Janela revealed he is currently working on plans for more special Spring Break-like events to be held during the year. He is waiting on how well Spring Break II event does before making any official decision on his plans.
  • Recent episode of the Chasing Glory with Lilian Garcia podcast show had Sonya Deville talking about if she wants a match with Ronda Rousey in the future, being the first openly gay woman in the WWE, and the push for equality in wrestling and society. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...-woman-in-wwe/
  • Website TheWhig had a recent interview with Tyler Breeze talking about getting a gimmick over with today's fans, the grind of WWE's work schedule, his pairing with Fandango, and more. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...e-main-roster/


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Kid Rock was announced as the celebrity wing member for this year’s class of the WWE Hall of Fame on 3/12. The news was actually broken by Brad Shepherd back in December. This leaves Bam Bam Bigelow as the only name on the original list to have not yet been announced

Spoiler tag used since its related to the rumored rest of this year's WWE Hall of Fame class.

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Regarding WWE dropping the Fabulous Moolah name from the Battle Royal, a key to this happening was Snickers getting complaints from wrestling fans. Before WWE made the decision, Snickers, a sponsor of WrestleMania, wrote, "We were recently made aware of the World Wrestling Federation Inc's decision to honor a former wrestler during the upcoming WrestleMania 34 event. As a principle-based business that has long championed creating inclusive environments that encourage and empower everyone to reach their full potential, this is unacceptable. We are engaging with WWE to express our disappointment."
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According to one person in the company, this reaction is being thought about a lot when it comes to others, including Hulk Hogan.

Talent has been very quiet on the Moolah subject and Stephanie McMahon spoke for the company on Twitter saying that they are listening to their fans and there will still be a historical women's Battle Royal at WrestleMania.
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The semifinals for the New Japan Cup have been set.

Juice Robinson and Hiroshi Tanahashi fill the first two slots. Robinson defeated Michael Elgin to advance on March 14, while Hiroshi Tanahashi defeated Bad Luck Fale by countout to advance. Hiroshi Tanahashi and Juice Robinson will now headline tomorrow morning’s New Japan Cup show, with the winner advancing to the finals.

SANADA and Zack Sabre Jr have advanced to the semifinals as well. SANADA outwitted Toru Yano on this morning’s show to advance. Meanwhile, Zack Sabre Jr. pummeled Kota Ibushi bad enough that the referee stopped the bout and ruled Sabre the winner. These two will square off on March 18.

Once the two semifinalists make it to the final round, they will face off on March 21. The winner will have the right to challenge for the IWGP title, the NEVER title, or the Intercontinental title.

The show on March 16 will start at 5:30 a.m. EDT. The last two shows will start at 2:30 a.m. EDT. All three shows will have English commentary.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Kota Ibushi vs. Adam Page has been added to the 4/7 Supercard of Honor show.

AAW tomorrow night in Merrionette Park, IL at 115 Bourbon Street has Jushin Liger & ACH vs. David Starr & Trevor Lee, Jessicka Havok vs. Hudson Envy, Sami Callihan vs. Eddie Kingston, Moose vs. Keith Lee, Davey Vega & Mat Fitchett & Colt Cabana vs. Curt Stallion & Jake Something & Connor Braxton, MJF vs. Paco, Zema Ion vs. Myron Reed, Dave & Jake Crist vs. Teddy Hart & Joey Janela and Trey Miguel & Stephen Wolf vs. Dezmond Xavier & Zachary Wentz.

Santana Garrett vs. Priscilla Kelly was added to the 4/12 MLW show in Orlando at Gilt Nightclub.

Smash Wrestling on 3/25 at The Phoenix in Toronto with Jeff Cobb and Matt Riddle.

Pro Wrestling Mid South on Saturday in Dyresburg, TN at the Herb Welch Wrestle Plex with Jerry Lawler vs. Matt Riviera plus Doug Gilbert and Tim Storm appear.
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Originally Posted by PWI
NJ.com is reporting that WWE will hold a press conference tomorrow at 11 AM As to announce that Wrestlemania 35 will be coming to Metlife Stadium in April 2019. Both WWE and Metlife have declined comment.

As we have mentioned over the last year here on PWInsider.com, Wrestlemania 34 was initially earmarked for Metlife, but New Orleans made WWE such an great offer to have the show held as part of their Tricentennial celebration, WWE decided to move the show to the Big Easy. We had heard all along the Northeast was the planned region for 35 and the proximity to NYC, where the first Wrestlemania was held, makes sense for the 35th edition of the event.

It should be interesting to see where WWE will hold AXXESS. Last time they ran Metlife, AXXESS was held in the now-defunct IZOD Center and was easily the worst received and reviewed version of that event.
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The other wildcard and name that got speculation is Bryan. What I can say factually is that as of a couple of weeks ago, he was not cleared. He has been constantly working to get cleared for some time. He has claimed that his hyperbaric chamber therapy has improved his brain and had very positive tests results. There are a number of doctors who have cleared him. But it’s a very touchy issue because WWE made the decision in 2015 that he wasn’t going to be cleared again and had turned him down many times when he’s pushed to be able to come back. I’ve heard nothing new since a few weeks back. However, if he was cleared, at ths point in time I’m certain it would be kept top secret for a big announcement. But there is nothing past speculation on this subject at this point.
Meltzer on Bryan's current medical status. From a longer article discussing the Sami-Owens Mania match and possible plans involving Shane.

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Originally Posted by Observer
A second match announcement was a Fabulous Moolah Battle Royal. The idea of a women’s Battle Royal to get everyone on the show had been planned all along. The issue was the Moolah name. In recent years, due to a number of interviews with women who worked for her and were part of her stable, as well as those who have gone through history, Moolah’s reputation took a major hit. Women wrestlers being sent places to earn money bot by working but also by sleeping with promoters and talent most definitely did not start with Moolah, but there are too many people who publicly will talk that it didn’t end with her either. There are numerous accounts and stories out there.

WWE last year chose to go overboard in celebration the life and promoting the death of Jimmy Snuka, literally as the ink was drying on a judge throwing out his potentially going to trial for the death of ex-girlfriend Nancy Argentino due to his health deteriorating and the feeling he was no longer mentally competent. How WWE handled the death was going to be touchy and criticized no matter what, and I felt leeway in a unique situation would probably be the best reaction. But I ended up being shocked with just how hard they lionized him, and granted, he had family with the company, but it was just way overboard, including sending out a mailer to network subscribers about celebrating the life of Snuka with selected matches.

They also used the name of the Ultimate Warrior for their co-promotion with the Susan G. Komen breast cancer charity, even though Warrior both celebrated it happening and mocked Bobby Heenan as he was battling cancer. They did name an award after him which didn’t get nearly he negative reaction, but the cancer thing had a raw nerve with a lot of people, particularly since it was in the same year that Heenan had passed away.

Had the NFL or NBA or MLB, or a major entertainment network, done something like that, they’d be excoriated in the media. But WWE’s media is still mostly underground, although there is some mainstream, such as Forbes and Deadspin that was critical of the decision, and there will likely be follow-up. There was a lot of Twitter outrage on WWE’s account, but everyone running companies has pretty much gotten immune to Twitter outrage. The reality is the next night on Smackdown, WWE doubled down, repeating the glowing video of Moolah as a trailblazer for women athletes, comparing her with the likes of Babe Didrikson Zaharias and Althea Gibson ...

But WWE has always reinvented history. In its history, the Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio of women’s wrestling were Moolah and Mae Young, who were seen as lovable grandmothers in the late 90s attitude era. In her defense, wrestling itself was a very sleazy cutthroat industry and women’s wrestling was, if anything, often a sleazier subset of it. In such an industry, Moolah was able to survive and keep control for decades. Mildred Burke, the top woman’s star before Moolah, had her detractors as well. Still, when top class reporters like Frank Deford and Jeff Leen heavily investigated her life, after her death, they both came to the conclusion she was an overall sympathetic character. Burke was a pioneer, far bigger star in her day, and responsible for the early boom period of women’s wrestling, which turned into a bust during the Moolah years and it really wasn’t until the last 15 or so years, and mostly the past few, where it has turned around. But Ellison was always close with Vince McMahon’s father, and she sold her world title belt to the current Vince McMahon when he expanded in 1984 and became part of the family.
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The other match involves Braun Strowman, and also ties into the planned main event dating back more than one year. ... Strowman was originally booked to face Miz for the IC title, but there were issues with Reigns due to his being named in a video as a potential steroid user. Strowman was kept out of a Mania program to be the replacement ... The company clearly became confident enough that Reigns vs. Lesnar will take place with no issues, and turned it into a tag team title match after Strowman, as an individual, almost single-handedly beat every other tag team on the Raw roster in a Battle Royal for the title shot. According to those in the company, it was to be determined by Vince McMahon whether this would be a handicap match for the tag titles, or whether there would be a partner.
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When it comes to Reigns, it seemed that the Jon Bravo/Richard Rodriguez story had gone cold. After talking about the investigation being done and a video coming out, suddenly there was no word. The word we got was those in the company thought it was a dead story ...

From a WWE standpoint, if there was a connection, and no purchases of banned substances were made after June, 2016, when he was suspended, one could argue he would be free and clear. It wouldn’t make for the best timing of anointing him as the top star of the company at WrestleMania, but Vince McMahon has put this off for three years now and spent the last year building it. The last thing he’ll want to do is change it. Like everything with a public company, the media reaction will probably be more of an issue than whatever the facts of the case are, if there is any issue, because obviously the Bravo/Rodriguez thing has been quite sleazy on its own. If there are purchases after that are documented, that would be a violation of the Wellness policy and constitute a 60-day suspension for his second strike.
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New Japan may be doing its most ambitious test of the U.S. market to date as they have a preliminary hold on a date for a show on 7/7 at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. There is also talk of the July return being in a major arena in either Long Beach or Las Vegas. The show as planned right now would be on the same night as UFC’s show in Las Vegas for International Fight Week, which is traditionally one of its biggest events of the year, which would be significant head-to-head competition ... The Cow Palace lists a capacity of more than 14,000 for wrestling.

Chris Jericho is not touring with Fozzy that week. Jericho vs. Naito would at least be the kind of a main event worth coming back that quickly and running such a large arena, which would be New Japan’s first true major test to date.
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Jeff Hardy was scheduled to return to WWE television in the Ultimate Deletion segment that was filed for Raw on 3/8 at the Hardys home in Cameron, NC, built around a fight on the grounds between Matt Hardy and Bray Wyatt. The segment will be airing on the 3/19 Raw. It is not known, even by those close to the situation at press time, if they will edit Jeff out of the finished product, but if he is not on the air, then the company made a directive to edit him out.
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Trent Baretta is recovering from surgery this past week top repair his torn pec and triceps. We don’t have any word on the recovery period but that’s usually six to eight months

Togi Makabe was also out this past week with a right knee injury. It was also thought to not be too serious and he’s be back quickly, but if you know anything about New Japan wrestlers, any injury that causes one to miss bookings is a serious one

Tanga Loa was brought in to replace the injured Hikuleo in undercard tag team matches on the current tour. Hikuleo is out due to ACL damage in his right knee
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An angle for Being the Elite to build up Hangman Page vs. Joey Ryan, which they’ve been pushing on the show for months, the first penis envy angle I can think of in pro wrestling, was shot on 3/8 at Ryan’s Bar Wrestling show in Baldwin Park, CA. The show saw Ryan beat Hot Young Briley (Ryan Nemeth, the younger brother of Dolph Ziggler). After the match, Cody, The Young Bucks and Page came out. Page came out first and the crowd was on fire. On the flip side, if you want wrestling to be something you can watch with other people in the room who aren’t fans and not leave you embarrassed, this segment is very much for insiders only. Page got in Ryan’s face and then bent over and looked like he was insulting Ryan’s dick. The conversation with the dick is so completely preposterous and then he grabbed it and said it had nothing. So you’ve got this guy holding Ryan’s dick for far too long a period of time in public to be comfortable. Then when he wants to let go, evidently the dick, besides having super physical powers, also has a super magnetic force. Hard as he tried, he could not pull his hand off it. Ryan then flipped him with it. Because everyone is in on the gag and it’s been promoted for months, the place exploded for it. Ryan then poured a bottle of what was supposed to be urine into Page’s mouth and superkicked him. The other guys were in the ring filming all this
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The mysterious promotion that is doing television tapings in the Nashville area will be doing the shows in Brentwood, TN for three days starting I believe on 3/27. They are sending invitations to attend as there are no tickets being sold, and they have noted there will be no chairs and told people to be prepared to stand for the entire tapings. They also told fans not to wear any pro wrestling T-shirts or T-shirts with logos of any brands, nor sleeveless shirts. They also noted they are overbooking so if people get there late they may not get in. They are trying to keep all information regarding the promotion and what they are doing secret.
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The cease and desist letters sent to Ryan Satin and Steve Bryant from Lucha Underground appeared to backfire in the sense that it made the company look real bad, and didn’t stop anyone from printing any information on the tapings. It’s almost laughable what a bad idea that was. However, the audience was a cult as some fans started to think it was their job to make sure no info got out and started harassing people who they thought may have been paying too close attention. A lot of the wrestlers were really embarrassed for the company with the feeling that all the money sent on legal fees for a non-case could be spent trying to market the product or bring in talent with the budget cut way back

Even though tickets are free and they are taping in a building that only holds a few hundred, there were tickets still left unbooked this past week at Lucha Underground
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Tyler Bate is out of action with a minor knee injury. Trent Seven & Bate were originally in the Dusty Rhodes tag team tournament. Still, they had taped an angle at the previous tapings to set up Pete Dunne & Roderick Strong as a tag team and they replaced Seven & Bate and went to the finals. They also changed up the bracketing after it was first announced, which would indicate another likely change of plans
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As it turned out, the stories of Cena being in the “Blue’s Clues” remake were not true even though reported everywhere. It was actually a deal where Cena did a mock audition that was shown at the Nickelodeon upfronts on 3/6. But it was just meant as a comedy sketch, and that all the buyers, advertisers and execs there were all aware it was a mock audition and not a legitimate story. But it still went everywhere but it’s been confirmed there is actually nothing to it

Some other sheet news includes:
  • Besides Becky and Dakota Kai, Carmella also deleted her social media posts honoring Moolah prior to WWE officially dropping the name from Mania's Women's Battle Royale match.
  • For those interested, Pro Wrestling Tees will be holding a Steve Austin 3:16 sale tomorrow on their online store. https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...scom-.html?p=1
  • Recent episode of the Main Event Radio podcast show had Jeff Jarrett as the guest talking about WWE's Hall of Fame, if he has spoken to Vince, success of former TNA wrestlers in WWE, and more. https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...-more.html?p=1
  • Kane's first primary for his Knox County mayoral campaign will occur on May 1st. He is running for the Libertarian Party in terms of political association.
  • According to the Observer, WWE recently pushed the dates back for a couple of house shows in Canada due to scheduling issues related to the upcoming Saudi Arabia Rumble event.


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Kind of want a Braun Strowman/Luke Harper team, because Harper deserves more from this company. Cesaro and Harper are also two of the best in the ring, and it'd be fun to see them mix it up. I imagine it will just be a handicap match or Braun will call in James Ellsworth to be his partner. Or Heath Slater or something.
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Elias is apparently a likely candidate. Okay. I suppose a Braun/Elias musical comedy tag team is a more entertaining way to go than "Braun Strowman: Serious Main Eventer."
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WWE had a press conference today for the announcement of next year's WrestleMania with the big show at Metlife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ, while the Hall of Fame, NXT, Raw and Smackdown will be at the Barclays Center. Those brought in were Nikki Bella, Nia Jax, Titus O'Neil, Apollo, Alexa Bliss and Braun Strowman. Those speaking were the New Day, Stephanie McMahon, HHH, Ronda Rousey and John Cena. Rousey said she would be wrestling on the show.
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Reports are that the Jon Bravo 25 minute video covering 15 WWE performers, past and present, who were clients of alleged steroid dealer Richard Rodriguez, with Rodriguez on the video, will be released somewhere around 11 p.m. tonight.
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The All Japan Pro Wrestling streaming service debuts on Monday with a live show from Korakuen Hall. They will also air live the 3/25 show in Saitama with Joe Doering vs. Kento Miyahara for the Triple Crown. Both of these shows will air for free. It will start charging in April for the Champion Carnival tournament at 900 yen per month which is $8.49. It will be available on PC, smartphones and tablets.
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Christy St. Cloud, the backstage interviewer on NXT, had her contract recently expire and the two sides parted ways as she didn't sign a new deal. Her departure was first reported by Squared Circle Sirens.
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Shinsuke Nakamura's autobiography will be released on 8/7. This is actually a combination of two books he wrote about his life in 2015, that is being translated into English.
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In what may be a first, with the tournament, of the eight biggest wrestling crowds in the U.S. in 2018, seven will be for college wrestling and only one (WrestleMania) will be for pro wrestling. This week will be numbers two through seven as all six sessions will do in excess of 18,600 fans at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland. We have a preview of the competition in the current Observer.
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Paul London has been announced for a 4/29 Welterweight wrestling iPPV from Turner's Hall in Cleveland. The show will air on FITE TV.

Major League Wrestling announced that Sean Mooney would be part of their WaleMania show on 4/5 at Republic NOLA in New Orleans. That will also be one of the two activities I'll be doing that week.

Trent Seven & Tyler Bate vs. Marcius Pitt & Damian Slater was added to the joint Progress and EPW show on 4/18 in Perth, Western Australia. Toni Storm vs. Jessica Troy was announced for the Progress PWA show on 4/23 in Sydney. (thanks to Kevin Chiat)
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Following Monday Night Raw this week will be a new "" WWE 24" documentary which has the following description: Female Superstars are redefining sports entertainment with groundbreaking matches and the addition of Ronda Rousey to a star-studded roster.
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Earlier today, at the WWE Wrestlemania 35 press conference at Metlife Stadium, I had the opportunity to speak with WWE Chief Brand Officer Stephanie McMahon about the negative response to the company initially naming the Wrestlemania Women’s Battle Royal after The Fabulous Moolah, leading to WWE removing Moolah’s name from the branding of the match.

McMahon commented, “I love that the WWE audience expressed their opinions, whether they are positive or negative. I think that it is our responsibility to listen to our audience and do our best to give them what they want. Clearly, they did not want to name the Women’s Battle Royal after The Fabulous Moolah. We were really proud that they spoke up and we were really happy to make that change.”

On the possibility of branding the match after another former talent, McMahon noted, “For right now, we are sticking with the Wrestlemania Battle Royal Branding.”
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Natalya also revealed a gift that those competing in the first-ever Women's Royal Rumble received from WWE:

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House of Hardcore returns to St. James, Long Island at the Sports Arena on Friday 3/23 featuring Tommy Dreamer vs. Joey Mercury with Shane Douglas in a Long Island Street Fight, Killer Kross vs. Guido Maritato in a Submission match, Brian Cage vs. Sami Callihan vs. Willie Mack, The Squad vs. Swoggle & Crazzy Steve, Dan Maff vs. The Luchasaurus, NWA champion Nick Aldis defending the title, Alex Reynolds vs. Bull James plus Bully Ray, Rich Swann, Matt Cross and more appearing.

On Saturday 3/24 at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, HOH will feature NWA champion Nick Aldis defending against Tommy Dreamer on top. The tournament bouts feature Kenny vs. Swoggle, Alex Reynolds with MJF vs. Crazzy Steve, Dan Maff vs. Bull James, Willie Mack vs. Brian Cage plus Rich Swann, Killer Kross, Sami Callihan and more.

The promotion has announced that Austin Aries is out of the championship tournament.
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The first finalist for the 2018 New Japan Cup is Hiroshi Tanahashi, who defeated Juice Robinson in the main event of Wednesday’s card at Korakuen Hall ...

Tanahashi will meet the winner of Sunday’s semi-final match between Sanada and Zack Sabre Jr with the finals taking place next Wednesday.

The winner will receive a title match of their choosing at Sakura Genesis on Sunday, April 1st at Sumo Hall.
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The Louisiana Boxing & Wrestling Commission was scheduled to have a meeting last Thursday to go over several topics, including whether certain variations of a piledriver would be allowed during the series of shows in the state over WrestleMania Week. POST Wrestling had specifically inquired about the use of the tombstone, which everyone would assume will be used by The Undertaker at WrestleMania, and the Canadian Destroyer. We had been told that both moves would be brought up at the meeting, but we have inquired with multiple members of the commission over the past week and not been given a response regarding the status of those moves. We also asked about whether any promotions, including the WWE, had attempted to get an exemption to use blood and/or piledrivers on their events and are awaiting a response. Both blood and piledrivers are banned on professional wrestling events in the state of Louisiana, although we have been told privately that exceptions have occurred over the years. It is also worth adding that The Undertaker did use the tombstone at WrestleMania in 2014 in New Orleans during his match with Brock Lesnar.
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As noted earlier via The Wrestling Observer Newsletter, WWE UK Superstar Tyler Bate has suffered a minor knee injury. WWE's website picked up on the injury, noting that he previously tweaked the knee and will be out of the ring for two weeks, and Bate talked to Cathy Kelley about the injury in the video above. WWE NXT General Manager William Regal tweeted about using the weekend to determine a replacement for Bate and Trent Seven in the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic but as noted, they will be replaced by Roderick Strong and WWE UK Champion Pete Dunne.
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Can we call college wrestling "professional wrestling" and WWE/the indies "amateur wrestling" now?
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it was 3/16 and you don't use a Stone Cold Steve Austin gif for the latest dirt sheets? For shame, Smeat.
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it was 3/16 and you don't use a Stone Cold Steve Austin gif for the latest dirt sheets? For shame, Smeat.
esp when every day is rusev day.
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The cease and desist letters sent to Ryan Satin and Steve Bryant from Lucha Underground appeared to backfire in the sense that it made the company look real bad, and didn’t stop anyone from printing any information on the tapings. It’s almost laughable what a bad idea that was. However, the audience was a cult as some fans started to think it was their job to make sure no info got out and started harassing people who they thought may have been paying too close attention. A lot of the wrestlers were really embarrassed for the company with the feeling that all the money sent on legal fees for a non-case could be spent trying to market the product or bring in talent with the budget cut way back

Even though tickets are free and they are taping in a building that only holds a few hundred, there were tickets still left unbooked this past week at Lucha Underground.
1) I saw no harassment of anyone. People joked about not leaking spoilers, but that's it.

2) Dave lies because every seat was definitely full.
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1) I saw no harassment of anyone. People joked about not leaking spoilers, but that's it.

2) Dave lies because every seat was definitely full.
Because you didn't see it then it definitely didn't happen, right? If everyone who watched LU on television went to the tapings they wouldn't fit any seat. LU is a dumpster fire that treats its talent like shit.
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Those crowd numbers seem insane. Surely they could pull 20K+ for PPVs?
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Most arenas don't even seat 20,000 and WWEs stage also takes away from attendance.
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After being cleared to return to the ring by WWE, Daniel Bryan will be appearing at the start of tonight's SmackDown.

Bryan announced the news while making his first comments about returning: "Saying goodbye to the ring was one of the hardest moments of my life. But thanks to the amazing people supporting me, I was able to keep fighting for my dream. This moment feels surreal and I'm glad to be able to talk to you all at the beginning of #SDLive tonight."

Bryan was scheduled to return to television tonight to address Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn's attack on Shane McMahon from last Tuesday.
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As Dave Meltzer reported, Bryan & Shane vs. Owens & Zayn has been the plan for WrestleMania 34 if Bryan were able to get cleared.
Spoiler tag used since its related to potential Mania plans.

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Regarding Bryan's in-ring status, he is currently free and clear to wrestle as much as WWE wants to use him and as much as he wants to work. There's no word yet on if Bryan wants to work a full-time schedule. Meltzer stated that Bryan had talked about wanting to work somewhat a limited schedule, perhaps around 60 dates instead of 200 dates, but that was referring to working outside of WWE.

It was also noted that Bryan has had more testing done than any WWE talent in history and possibly more than any fighter in history. Bryan has seen many doctors while trying to get cleared and all doctors that he's seen in the last 23 months or so have cleared him.

Bryan's WWE deal expires in September and it's believed that he will not be looking to go to the indies now that he's been cleared.
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Raw had another big number last night with 3.31 million viewers, down slightly from last week's 3.35 million, but aside from last week, it was better than all but a few episodes since the fall of 2016.

The big question regarded the Ultimate Deletion segment in the third hour. The show dropped 11 percent from hour two to hour three, which is a big number, but hour three still topped three million viewers, which has only happened a handful of times in recent months. Given how last week's show did, it did not hold the viewers as well as last week did, but you can't call it a notable ratings success or failure ...

The second hour being the most-watched hour once again is due to the changing patterns during Daylight Savings time.

The three hours were:

8 p.m. 3.43 million viewers
9 p.m. 3.47 million viewers
10 p.m. 3.08 million viewers
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Episodes of WCW Thunder were added to the WWE Network this morning.

So far, WWE has uploaded most episodes of WCW’s secondary show from the start of the program on January 8, 1998 through September 1999. Some episodes during this time period are still not up as of this writing, but more may be added by the end of the day.

WWE Network News originally reported that episodes of WCW Thunder would be added on March 19. It was theorized that the reason why it had taken so long for the show to appear on the network was due to the lawsuit against WWE by Buff Bagwell and Raven over royalty fees associated with the WWE Network. That lawsuit was dropped back in December.

WCW Thunder ran for a little over three years, ending its run on March 21, 2001. It was the final wrestling program on TBS, which had broadcasted professional wrestling for 29 years before a regime change cancelled all professional wrestling on Turner networks.
Some details regarding incorrect episode numbers on the Network: http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...e-wwe-network/

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Ring of Honor has announced the Tag Team title match for their WrestleMania weekend show.

It will be The Briscoes defending their titles against Hiroshi Tanahashi & Jay Lethal. This will be the first defense for The Briscoes since they defeated the Motor City Machine Guns at ROH's 16th Anniversary pay-per-view earlier this month to begin their ninth reign with the belts.
Link with more details: https://www.f4wonline.com/ring-honor...nor-xii-253886

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While their medical situations are different, Paige took the Bryan news as a sign of hope about her own situation: “Congrats @WWEDanielBryan overcoming what looked like a career ending injury to being fully cleared and ready to compete again! Real life super man. Gives hope to a lot of people to never give up on your passion! Inspiring. @WWE”
Link: https://twitter.com/RealPaigeWWE/sta...08256929599489

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The Ultimate Deletion wasn’t included in the Hulu version of Raw this week. Hulu support responded to someone who asked about the decision: “Sorry for the disappointment, Shannon! We have the rights to stream a pre-formatted 90-minute special of Raw, and no edits are done on our end. We'll share your feedback with our team.”

Jeff Hardy (as Brother Nero) made a cameo near the finish of the Ultimate Deletion match. The appearance was filmed before his DWI arrest earlier this month but wasn’t edited out.
Link: https://twitter.com/hulu_support/sta...00739004149761

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The main event for the Impact vs. Lucha Underground show in New Orleans on April 6th will be announced on Facebook Live at noon Eastern tomorrow.
Impact-LU: http://impactwrestling.com/the-main-...a-underground/

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MLW has announced that Matt Sydal will debut with the promotion against Low Ki at their “World Championship Finals” event on Thursday, April 12th, at the Gilt Nightclub. The show will feature Matt Riddle vs. Shane Strickland in the finals of the MLW title tournament, and they have also announced a match between Priscilla Kelly and Santana Garrett.
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The US Marshals on Raw last night were local Texas wrestlers Kristopher Haiden, Brad Sanders and Ricky Starks.
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The announced Rey Mysterio co-ownership of Aro Lucha appears to be a marketing move by the company with the idea of pushing fans into personally investing into the company the way Mysterio "has."

Part of Aro Lucha's strategy, according to The Tennessean's report on the Mysterio co-ownership over the weekend is to offer fans a chance to buy into the promotion, using rules relaxed by President Barack Obama that would allow Aro Lucha to potentially raise $1 million via sales of stock to non-credited investors.

PWInsider.com was told today by multiple WWE sources that the company is still moving forward with plans to speak with Mysterio about a potential new deal going forward.
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The New Japan Cup finals takes place very late Tuesday night, 2 a.m. Eastern start and 11 p.m. Pacific in Nagaoka, with Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Zack Sabre Jr. Sabre Jr. is on fire in the tournament on a murderers row run submitting Tetsuya Naito, Kota Ibushi and Seiya Sanada in a row. The complete card for what is a Wednesday Japanese time show is listed in the schedule section above. Expect a lot of angles at the show because they have to set up matches both for Long Beach on Sunday and for Sumo Hall on 4/1 with almost no lead time. Really, it's amazing they cut it this close, but evidently there are things that have to happen Wednesday in the stories they are telling before the two big cards can be announced.
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A vote is going to be held on Tuesday among owners of the Trump Parc Stamford condominiums in Connecticut. This is where Vince McMahon owns a penthouse suite, which he purchased for $4.1 million in 2009, but has since depreciated and is now valued at $1.98 million, although McMahon did buy the suite for $1 million above what it was initially appraised at. The controversy stems from many of the condo owners upset that their units have been devalued because of the association to President Donald Trump. Tuesday’s vote will elect a homeowners’ board and will determine if the new board will proceed with hopes of dropping the association with Trump. The average unit price at Trump Parc has dropped from $1.05 million in 2015 down to $881,563 in 2017 based on the units sold.
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Bill Apter spoke with Joyce Grable regarding last week’s story involving the Fabulous Moolah and the allegations that were brought back to light after the announcement of the battle royal. Grable worked for Moolah for 13-years, beginning in 1971 and lasted until 1984. Grable said the women knew upfront in the contract how much money Moolah took a percentage and it wasn’t hidden. Grable asked for a raise at the end, was denied it by Moolah and she gave her notice and left. Grable outright denied any of the allegations of Moolah pimping out the women and sending any men to the women’s rooms. Grable specified an incident where Moolah was approached by a German promoter to bring Grable over where they had the women wear two-piece suits during the match and the loser would have their top removed. Grable said she wouldn’t do it and Moolah didn’t proceed further with the promoter.
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WWE recently filed to register a trademark for "WWE Brawl," which appears to be for some sort of video game use.
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We noted before how WWE recently filed to trademark the "Samoa Joe" name. That registration was filed on March 9th but WWE later abandoned the trademark on March 16th.

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Coming off all of the buzz surrounding yesterday afternoon's announcement that Daniel Bryan has been cleared for an in-ring return by WWE, SmackDown posted its best rating in almost a year and the third biggest number since moving to its live format on Tuesday nights.

The show averaged 2.888 million viewers, a four percent increase over last week and 12 percent higher than two weeks ago.

The only shows to beat this number were the Superstar Shakeup episode from April 11th of last year and the initial draft special in July 2016 ...

SmackDown was also up nine percent from the same week last year, the third time in the last four weeks the show was up year-over-year.
Getting out of their long holding pattern and actually building things to Mania has started to pay off for Smackdown.

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Bryan was interviewed by Al Arabiya English before he was cleared. Bryan said that the Greatest Royal Rumble in Saudi Arabia may end up being more historically important than this year’s WrestleMania. He was also asked about the Bullet Club’s “All In” show and said that his contract with WWE runs out on September 1st: “But no, my contract actually runs out September 1st, which is actually the day of the All In show, but it’s funny because that doesn’t compute. I was in the Bahrain Comic Con the last two days, and we did Q&As, and at each one, somebody asked me about that. They said, ‘are you going to be at All In’? I’m not. I don’t know what to tell you. But yeah, my contract is up September 1st.”
Link: https://english.alarabiya.net/en/lif...stlemania.html

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Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn’s profile pages have been moved to the alumni section on WWE.com to further the angle where Bryan “fired” them on SmackDown. Owens has also changed his Twitter name to Kevin Steen and his handle to “FightSteenFight.”
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Former Indianapolis Colts punter and current Barstool Sports personality Pat McAfee will be part of the NXT TakeOver: New Orleans pre-show panel with Charly Caruso and Sam Roberts on April 7th. McAfee is a pro wrestling fan and was the guest ring announcer for Adam Cole vs. Aleister Black at a house show in Indianapolis earlier this month. McAfee took a steel chair out of Cole’s hands before Black got the win.
Link: https://www.wwe.com/shows/wwenxt/art...pre-show-panel

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HBO released the poster for their Andre the Giant documentary ahead of it premiering on April 10th.
Link: https://twitter.com/HBO/status/976503718681202688

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Zack Sabre Jr. challenging for Kazuchika Okada’s IWGP Heavyweight Championship was set up for Sakura Genesis on April 1st as Sabre defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi to win the New Japan Cup this morning. Sabre beat Tetsuya Naito, Kota Ibushi, SANADA, and Tanahashi on his way to being elevated by winning the tournament.

Chris Charlton noted that Sabre will be the first British-born wrestler to challenge for the IWGP Heavyweight title since William Regal in 1995.

The post-New Japan Cup press conference will be taking place at 11 p.m. Eastern tonight, likely to announce the rest of the card for Sunday’s Strong Style Evolved show in Long Beach and the lineup for Sakura Genesis.

Dragon Gate will be launching a streaming service on April 1st. It will have a tiered pricing system, with there being a cheaper option for just the archives.

ROH uploaded Mayu Iwatani vs. HZK from the first round of the Women of Honor Championship tournament on YouTube. The match took place in Japan for Stardom.

MLW moved their show that was originally scheduled for May 10th to May 3rd in order to not conflict with NXT’s TV tapings.
Sabre: https://twitter.com/reasonjp/status/976381426386927617 , Dragon Gate link: https://twitter.com/DragonGateEN/sta...43001956929536 & https://twitter.com/reasonjp/status/976358035802136576 , ROH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N-2YOcsaQg , MLW: https://mlw.com/2018/03/21/schedule-...for-may-event/

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Several WWE sources have indicated that Rey Mysterio will be traveling to Birmingham, Alabama later this week in order to have his partially torn bicep checked out in advance of Mysterio potentially signing a new WWE deal.

Mysterio is still advertised for Sunday's New Japan Pro Wrestling event on 3/25 in Long Beach, CA, where he is slated to face Jushin Liger.
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On the latest edition of his podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Jerry Lawler announced that he and Jim Ross would reunite as the announcing team for the 4/27 Greatest Royal Rumble event in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The event will air on the WWE Network. Lawler also stated the event would live on television on Saudi Arabia.
More details: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...am-is.html?p=1

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Mark Henry spoke with TMZ Sports about being a personal friend of 17-year old Draylen Mason, a victim of the recent bombings in Austin, Texas. Henry was asked about how the city was doing and called the young man a talent and that it was a hard loss.

"People were on edge, it's very unfortunate that [Draylen Mason] died, he was a friend of the family," Henry said. "I knew the kid pretty well, I know the Grandfather, really well, Dr. Mason. It was his Grandson, we spent a lot of time together. We're in a couple different civic organizations together, try to help people out, it was just tragic to lose a kid like that so young. He was so full of life, so talented, a talented bassist. He traveled, competed, it was a hard loss."
Link with the video and more comments from Henry about the Austin bombing spree: http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...n-bomb-victim/

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As noted, 2018 WWE Hall of Fame inductee Bill Goldberg will appear on ABC's hit comedy The Goldbergs tonight at 8 p.m. The former WWE Universal Champion will reprise his role of high school coach Nick Mellor, who moves in with the Goldbergs, a role which he has played twice before. Goldberg spoke to the Associated Press about appearing on the show tonight, as well as his return to WWE in 2016. The former WWE Universal Champion said that he's not closing the door on a WWE return.

"Do I want to roll the dice again? I don't know," Goldberg said. "I'll quote one of the most famous movies that I was ever in, 'Santa's Slay': It ain't over 'til I say it's over."
Link: http://www.pahomepage.com/news/forme...edy/1063215700

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Matt Hardy teased on Twitter that we may see more matches like The Ultimate Deletion from The Hardy Compound in WWE. He also made some comments on Bray Wyatt that may give an idea of potential storyline plans for Wyatt now that The Great War between the two has ended. You can see some of Hardy's recent tweets below:

Gracias, mi amigo. This #UltimateDELETION was merely an introduction of My #BROKEN & #WOKEN Universe to the @WWEUniverse.

Merely the GENESIS. https://t.co/AvPdj9tgel
— #WOKEN Matt Hardy (@MATTHARDYBRAND) March 20, 2018


RE-TWEET if you DESIRE to see another #UltimateDELETION on #RAW, maybe..

Michael Cole, The OBSOLETE MULE

or

Roman Reigns, The LARGE CANINE

or

The DASTARDLY MeekMahan pic.twitter.com/VQMfDKQjsj
— #WOKEN Matt Hardy (@MATTHARDYBRAND) March 20, 2018
Links: https://twitter.com/MATTHARDYBRAND/s...13841582039041 , https://twitter.com/MATTHARDYBRAND/s...81285876387845

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WWE has a new poll asking fans which was more emotional - Daniel Bryan's retirement speech in 2016 or his passionate return address on last night's SmackDown. As of this writing, 59% voted for last night's segment on SmackDown.

Some other sheet news includes:
  • NWA recently uploaded a new episode from their Ten Pound of Glory series featuring the upcoming NWA World Championship match between Tommy Dreamer and Nick Aldis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ree7FIGxSK8
  • Webesite Solo Wrestling had a recent interview with AJ Styles talking about if his match with Nakamura should main event Mania 34, possibility of a match against Daniel Bryan in the future, and possibility of reuniting with The Club. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...rafted-to-raw/


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Revolution Pro Wrestling has announced Kota Ibushi's match for WrestleMania week in New Orleans.

Ibushi will be teaming with Flip Gordon & Shane Strickland against Will Ospreay, Rocky Romero & Chuck Taylor on Friday, April 6th ...

RevPro's event is in conjunction with WrestleCon and will take place at The Sugar Mill at 4 p.m. Central time. The other matches that have been announced are: Zack Sabre Jr. defending his Undisputed British Heavyweight Championship against Tomohiro Ishii, Minoru Suzuki vs. Jeff Cobb, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Juice Robinson vs. Aussie Open, and Martin Stone vs. David Starr.
Link: https://twitter.com/RevProUK/status/976892639009300481

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Two matches have been confirmed for Sakura Genesis on April 1.

The main event was officially announced today as Kazuchika Okada defending the IWGP Heavyweight title against New Japan Cup winner Zack Sabre Jr.. If Okada were to defeat Sabre, he would tie Hiroshi Tanahashi's record of most IWGP Heavyweight title defenses in a single reign at 11 ...

The other match announced for the card is a triple threat match pitting new IWGP Jr. tag team champions Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru against BUSHI and Hiromu Takahashi and Roppongi 3K in a triple threat match. This would be a rematch from the 46th anniversary show that took place back on March 6, where Desperado and Kanemario won the championships from Roppongi 3K ...

Sakura Genesis will air at 3 a.m. EDT on April 1. It will have English commentary.
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Sky Sports announced today that the 4/27 WWE Greatest Royal Rumble event will air live at 5 PM local time in Great Britain.

That start time would mean the event, if it airs live on the WWE Network (as opposed to VOD) will air at 12 PM EST.
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As previously noted on PWInsider.com, Court Bauer's Major League Wrestling is said to have signed a cable broadcast TV deal that will be announced in the next several weeks. We are told that the announcement will come from the network itself first. There have been some rumors swirling as to who the outlet is, and if the outlet we have heard is correct, the series will be available on a number of cable and satellite providers.

Major League Wrestling have applied to trademark "MLW Fusion", so that may be the name of their new series.

There was a photo shoot this week with a number of wrestlers done for use for the series.
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With the announcement that Daniel Bryan has been reinstated, is it possible WWE could bring back Paige?

It's entirely possible she could ask them to reconsider, although her issues (neck) are vastly different from Daniel Bryan's issues. My feeling is that we won't see her return to the ring under the WWE umbrella, but there is always a possibility they could reconsider. After getting this email, however, I asked whether there had been any changes in her status and was told no. We are told that her role going forward will be to continue to support Absolution and obviously, she'll be involved in promoting the Fighting With My Family film that comes out in the Fall.

When was Bryan actually cleared?

The word that was making the rounds backstage at Smackdown Tuesday night was that it was several weeks ago, but we later learned that was when he took the final round of tests. According to Bryan in an interview, WWE informed him he was cleared this past Monday, so it was about 12-24 hours before they issued the press release announcing he was free and clear.
From PWI's weekly Q&A articles on Paige's WWE status and when Bryan was medically cleared.

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Edge announced:

It’s the 1 year anniversary of @EandCPod Friday and we have inarguably two of the biggest stars EVER @BretHart & @steveaustinBSR on the SAME show, same time, talking their Wrestlemania 13 Submission Match in our Anatomy of a Match special. Truly our best show yet. pic.twitter.com/M26D76c1u2
— Adam (Edge) Copeland (@EdgeRatedR) March 22, 2018
Link: https://twitter.com/EdgeRatedR/statu...21893263478784

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To sell the "firing" angle from Smackdown Tuesday night, WWE moved Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn to the Alumni section on their website and the Owens vs. Zayn match has been removed from the WrestleMania match listing. But they are still being advertised for house shows and TVs. Owens changed his Twitter name to Kevin Steen and handle to @fightsteenfight. Zayn's twitter remains the same @SamiZayn
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Trademarks for Rich Swann, Bobby Roode, TJ Perkins and Brian Kendrick were all officially registered to WWE as of 3/20.

A funny thing with Perkins' trademark is that it was listed with the following note: "The name(s), portrait(s), and/or signature(s) shown in the mark identifies Cedric Alexander Johnson, whose consent(s) to register is made of record."
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Regarding the All In show and the 9/1 date, the plan was to hold the show later with Danielson headlining. However, they were aware of Danielson working so hard to get cleared by WWE. They felt there was a significant enough chance for it to happen, and decided upon, and later announced the Labor Day weekend show, a date where it was impossible Danielson could appear on. Cody also stopped doing the LeBell lock and they stopped teasing Danielson's name in social media. On the flip side, Danielson was still studying non-WWE wrestling, in particular of Zack Sabre Jr., and thinking about the idea of a vegetarian submission masters tag team.
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There's a lot of movement going on behind-the-scenes when it comes to the often-delayed U.K. project. WWE does have a date booked in December in Margate, Kent and may have others. It should be noted that they've had a lot of dates booked for U.K. TV tapings and have canceled them quietly. However, they have renewed all the key contracts of the U.K. guys. The "big five," which they consider as Trent Seven, Tyler Bate, Pete Dunne, Wolfgang and Mark Andrews were believed to have gotten better deals, in at least one case from $20,000 a year to $50,000. They also just signed Zack Gibson, and it was for the U.K. project and not for NXT. The idea is still to do tapings and run a U.K. based promotion, and eventually open a training center with the idea of bringing U.K. trainers to Florida (like Johnny Moss already did) to teach them how WWE wants people trained and have them run it. Marty Jones did a Q&A and actually brought up this which was supposed to have been kept quiet. There is nothing at all new on the ITV front. If ITV were to make a move, it would speed up the process ...

In the U.K. dressing rooms the word has been passed around that Joe Coffey has signed a U.K. deal, but Coffey himself has personally denied it. The problem is the immediate counter is that he has to say that until WWE announces it, but as a story, this has already spread in different places
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Both Garza Jr. and Ultimo Ninja are both undergoing WWE medicals with the feeling they will be offered a contract if they pass. Garza Jr. had been working for Impact.

It shows WWE getting aggressive looking for new Mexican stars, given they have been also talking with Alberto and Mysterio. Garza Jr. is coming off shoulder surgery
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Tommy Dreamer, 47, spoke to the Wrestling Estate and said that his back is really thrashed. He said he broke his neck in ECW but didn't know it at the time and kept wrestling. His body then healed wrong. He's never had a surgery in his career (which is amazing with the abuse he's taken) and recently took a table bump when the table didn't break with his hip and that made things worse. He said a good day now is walking like Terry Funk and has been in excruciating pain for a while and knows his time in the ring isn't long. But he said he can't take time off now, but he is going to get an MRI done this week to find out the extent of the damage.
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The next regular ROH PPV show will be the Best in the World show on 6/29 in Baltimore. They are moving from the small DuBurns Arena, their home base in Baltimore for years, to the new UMBC Event Center, which holds 5,000 fans.

In numbers compiled by Lavie Margolan, for the first quarter, ROH averaged 1,266 fans per show, up 30 percent from the first quarter of 2017. There were seven sellout in eight shows, a sellout percentage unprecedented in company history. The company's previous best first quarter averaged 1,000 in 2015.
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Due to Rousey's debut, the mainstream interest in WrestleMania is at the highest level in years, even if ticket sales aren't, with a number of major outlets looking at covering the show for her angle. The secondary market, in particular, is not doing well. Right now the production crew is going to be going crazy as there are plans for three documentaries to be shot, one on WrestleMania itself, one on Undertaker's comeback and the obvious one on Rousey's debut. Rousey's debut also has gotten major interest from both ESPN and Fox Sports, and they also want to shoot a number of Table for 3 episodes that weekend, including pitching one for Rousey
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There were rumblings about some sort of a change in the Wyatt character. It's overdue to begin with the Ultimate Deletion where he was thrown into the Lake of Reincarnation, only to vanish in the lake. That would at least make one suspect some type of change.
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Showtime has been working on a documentary about Mauro Ranallo, basically about his battles with mental health issues from his teenage years, his ups and downs in recent years, and ultimately winding up as the announcer for the biggest boxing matches in the world with Showtime as well as working with WWE and Bellator. Showtime and WWE are both involved with this project. The documentary will have a world premiere in May in New York and then air on Showtime later in May.
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Matt Hardy has officially received the trademark for Broken Matt Hardy from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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Dave Bautista said that he hasn't accepted invitations to the WWE Hall of Fame because he doesn't see his career as being over and would like to go back. It was noted here last year that at one point he was being talked about for this year's Hall of Fame class.
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The most-watched shows on the WWE Network for the past week were: 1. Fast Lane; 2. NXT from 3/14; 3. WWE 24: Empowered; 4. Mixed Match Challenge from 3/13; 5. First episode of WCW Thunder; 6. WrestleMania 31; 7. 2018 Royal Rumble; 8. Elimination Chamber 2018; 9. WrestleMania 33; 10. 205 Live from 3/13. So the negative is that MMC was way ahead of 205 Live even though it could also be seen for free on Facebook and not just on the Network, plus it's not on the network for several days, and also that 205 Live finished behind several old PPV and a 20 year old episode of Thunder.
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Above is new video of TMZ Sports catching up with John Cena. Cena was asked if he's a fan of the intergender matches in WWE.

"Of course I am. I think any story is a good story as long as they're presented in a decent light," Cena responded ...

The TMZ reporter also asked Cena if WWE is ready for a transgender Superstar.

"I'm a storyteller my friend, and that's what we do in WWE," Cena answered. "And it's not segregated to sex, race, creed, religion, any of that. So as long as the story is good, it belongs in WWE."
Link with more quotes and video: http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...der-superstar/

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Former WWE and WCW star Vader will be undergoing open heart surgery this Monday in Dallas, Texas. The 62-year-old revealed the news in a tweet on Wednesday night.

Monday morning. Dallas, TX I am now having full blown Open Heart Surgery. They say it's tough surgery to get through. Wish me luck I am gonna need it.
— Big Van Vader (@itsvadertime) March 22, 2018
Link: https://twitter.com/itsvadertime/sta...19081343426560

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Below are upcoming Flashback Friday themes for the WWE Network:

* March 23rd: WCW's Lasting Legacy
* March 30th: April Fool's Weekend Begins
* April 6th: WWE Hall of Fame Friday
* April 13th: WrestleMania Friday
* April 20th: April's "Other" Big Events
* April 27th: 55 Years of the WWE Title
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Impact has announced that its Saturday night show in Salinas, CA will be a One Night Only TV taping. The advances for both Impact shows this weekend in Newark, CA on Friday and Salinas are good. Both are expected to sell out.

Some other sheet stuff includes:
  • PWI had a recent article detailing the demise of 5 Star Wrestling in the UK. https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...celed.html?p=1
  • Recent episode of the X-Pac 1-2-360 podcast show had Xpac talk about Daniel Bryan being cleared by the WWE, thoughts on Mark Henry in WWE's Hall of Fame, and thoughts on Ultimate Deletion match. http://www.pwinsiderxtra.com/ViewArt...p?id=34235&p=1
  • According to the Observer, the reason for the lack of women wrestlers and women matches at the Saudi Rumble show is due to the terms of the deal WWE made with the Saudi government. WWE didn't bother to negotiate for better terms since they cared way more about the huge sums of money they are set to get from this 10-year deal.
  • According to the Observer, WWE is strongly considering the Ronda/Angle vs Steph/HHH match to main event Mania 34.
  • wXw announced the card for their May 5th show in Oberhausen, Germany features a singles match of Toni Storm vs Tenille Dashwood. https://twitter.com/wXwGermany/statu...73769229803521


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For a match at WrestleMania 34, Lilian Garcia will be returning to ring announcing for WWE.

WWE announced today that Garcia will be the guest ring announcer for the WrestleMania Women's Battle Royal on April 8th. Garcia tweeted about the news: "Words can’t describe how honored & excited I am to be announcing the 1st ever Wrestlemania Women’s Battle Royal! To be back w/ the VERY talented @WWE female Superstars & all of you the @WWEUniverse is priceless! Can’t wait to see you all!"
Link: https://www.wwe.com/shows/wrestleman...s-battle-royal , Garcia tweet: https://twitter.com/LilianGarcia/sta...49206208352257

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Dr. Robert Cantu, who was one of the experts that saw Daniel Bryan on his road to being cleared to return to the ring by WWE, has elaborated on his evaluation of Bryan.

“I evaluated Bryan for a neurological opinion on return to WWE on February 26, 2018. Included in his medical records were multiple evaluations by renowned concussion clinicians,” Cantu wrote in an email to Newsweek.

“I determined that Bryan is currently asymptomatic, has a normal detailed neurological and cognitive neuropsychological examination, normal EEG, and an MRI that showed no definite evidence of a prior brain injury. It is my medical opinion that there is no absolute contraindication to his return to in-ring action in WWE."

When announcing that Bryan had been medically cleared, WWE cited Cantu, Dr. Javier Cárdenas, and Dr. Jeffrey Kutcher as three leaders in their field who had cleared Bryan before he was given the okay by Dr. Joseph Maroon.

Cantu is a co-founder of the Concussion Legacy Foundation, as well as the CTE Center at the Boston University School of Medicine. He's also the medical director and director of medical research at his own concussion center at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts and consults with teams in the NFL, NBA, and NHL.
Link: http://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-do...e-shows-858934

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Though the show is still over five months away, the list of people who will be appearing at All In continues to grow.

Penta El Zero M and his brother Rey Fenix became the most recent names announced for the show last night. Whether they'll be teaming together as the Lucha Brothers or not has yet to be revealed.

They join Cody Rhodes, The Young Bucks, Kenny Omega, Marty Scurll, Hangman Page, "Arrow" star Stephen Amell, and Tessa Blanchard as people who have been confirmed for All In.

The show is being self-financed by Cody and Matt & Nick Jackson and will take place at the Sears Centre Arena in the Chicago area on September 1st. Cody tweeted earlier this week that he expects May is the earliest that tickets will go on sale.
Penta: https://twitter.com/PENTAELZEROM/sta...91327924695042 , Fenix: https://twitter.com/ReyFenixMx/statu...72114023600128

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Molly Holly is set to make her second WWE appearance of 2018.

WWE announced today that Holly will be inducting Ivory into the company's Hall of Fame over WrestleMania week. Holly last appeared as a surprise entrant in the women's Royal Rumble match in January, coming in at number 12 before being eliminated by Michelle McCool.
Link: http://www.wwe.com/shows/wwe-hall-of...e-hall-of-fame

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After making appearances at a couple of events last week, War Machine wrestled in their first match for WWE at last night's NXT house show in Jacksonville, Florida.

Hanson & Rowe took on Cezar Bononi & Adrian Jaoude, telling them "first we're going to shake your hand, then we're going to kick your ass" and then getting the win. Though their names could still be changed when they debut on television, they were announced as "Hanson & Rowe, War Machine."

WWE announced that War Machine had signed in January, with them reporting to the company in the same class as Ricochet and Candice LeRae. Hanson & Rowe were shown on camera sitting in the front row at TakeOver: Philadelphia, but they've yet to be featured on an NXT TV taping.
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The 3/22 edition of Impact did 362,000 overnight viewers, up from last week's 350,000 overnight viewers.
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The updated lineup for the 4/6 Lucha Underground vs. Impact Wrestling event at Wrestlecon in New Orleans will feature:
*Impact champion Austin Aries & Rey Fenix vs. Penta 0M & Alberto el Patron
*Impact Tag Team champions LAX vs. Lucha Underground's Da Mack (Willie Mack) and Killshot (Shane Strickland)
*Impact Knockouts champion Allie vs. Lucha Underground's Taya.
*LU's Aerostar & King Cuerno & Drago vs. Impact's DJZ & Andrew Everett & Dezmond Xavier.
*LU's Jeremiah Crane (Sami Callihan) vs. Impact's Eddie Edwards - I Quit Match.
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Main Event in Australia released the following promo for WWE's Greatest Royal Rumble, anouncing it would air live on 4/28, which would be the date due to the time difference down under
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgwseSKjPRs

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Kirk White's Big Time Wrestling in California will be promoting two events themed for Impact Wrestling this weekend, tonight in Newark, CA and tomorrow, Saturday 3/24 in Salinas, CA with Impact champion Austin Aries, Alberto el Patron, Moose, LAX, Eli Drake, Eddie Edwards, Trevor Lee, Taya, Rosemary and Brian Cage announced. Impact will film a One Night Only event over the course of the weekend.

Interesting to note Brian Cage is advertised for both Impact and Tommy Dreamer's House of Hardcore this weekend, and they are on opposite coasts.

Since announcing the Lucha Underground vs. Impact Wrestling theme, the 4/6 Impact event has moved tickets at such a rate, an advance sellout of likely for Wrestlecon event.

Impact plans to stream 12 hours of live programming per day from Wrestlecon in New Orleans over Wrestlemania weekend.

The promotion had to scramble this week to get Josh Mathews and Sonjay Dutt out of the path of the latest Noreaster to his the Eastern seaboard of the United States so they could get to Nashville to do voiceovers for the next two Impact episodes.

Last night's Impact episode was the final appearance of EC3, obviously.
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Corey Erdman has written a feature for VICE Sports, examining the legacies of Ethel Johnson, Babs Wingo, Kathleen Wimbley, and Marva Scott, who were first black female wrestlers, who began in the early 50’s. The article noted their drawing ability and citing a figure of $300 per week the women were making and a listed attendance of 9,000 they drew for a Kansas City card in 1954 at the Municipal Auditorium. They will also be the subject of an upcoming documentary called “Lady Wrestler”, which is scheduled to premiere on March 29th at the Wexner Center for the Arts and there is also a trailer for the documentary
Vice Sports: https://sports.vice.com/en_us/articl...male-wrestlers , Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44MviTkZs8U

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For those in Canada, the Strong Style Evolved card will only be airing on New Japan World. Several people asked us if Fight Network would be carrying the show and they will not be.
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A new thirty-minute episode of WWE Photo Shoot will air on the WWE Network after Monday's RAW goes off the air. The episode will focus on Kofi Kingston. Below is the synopsis:

"It's been a wild ride throughout Kofi Kingston's WWE career, as captured in these snapshots from the good, the bad, and the booty!"

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Last night's Raw did another strong number with 3.36 million viewers. It was the third best number for the show of the year, trailing the episode the day after the Royal Rumble and the 25th anniversary show.

It also held viewers better than usual as the third hour was the best third hour for Raw -- except for the 25th anniversary show -- dating back to August.

The pattern of second hour growth that goes back to the start of Daylight Savings time continued as well, with hour two averaging 3.55 million viewers ...

8 p.m. 3.40 million viewers
9 p.m. 3.55 million viewers
10 p.m. 3.15 million viewers
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After Charlotte Flair underwent minor dental surgery for a mouth infection last Wednesday, WWE has pulled her from tonight's SmackDown and Mixed Match Challenge episodes.

WWE.com announced that Charlotte is "unable to compete on WWE Mixed Match Challenge tonight due to injury." A fan vote will decide who replaces her, with Becky Lynch, Carmella, and Lana listed as the three options. The winner will team with Bobby Roode against Finn Balor & Sasha Banks ...

Charlotte wasn't on any of this weekend's house shows after having the surgery. She's still scheduled to defend her SmackDown Women's Championship against Asuka at WrestleMania 34 on April 8th.
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More of WCW's long running Saturday night program is coming to the WWE Network next week, a new report indicates.

Episodes from 1992 through 1994 will be uploaded to the Network starting on April 2, WWE Network News reports. It will be seperate from the World Championship Wrestling shows that have already been uploaded, which has episodes from 1985 through 1989. World Championship Wrestling was rebranded into WCW Saturday Night on April 4, 1992, so that may be the starting point. WWE Network News estimates that up to 100 hours of content will be uploaded.

Saturday Night was WCW's flagship show until 1995 when WCW Nitro was introduced and changed the wrestling world forever with a live program that rivaled WWE Raw for years. With the addition of WCW Thunder three years later, Saturday Night eventually became a meaningless "C-show" program that largely featured WCW's midcard and Power Plant trainees. The show continued to run until 2000, when it was turned into a recap show and ultimately cancelled altogether on August 19, 2000.
Link: http://www.wwenetworknews.com/2018/0...ork-next-week/

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MLW (Major League Wrestling) is coming to national television next month.

MLW announced via Sports Illustrated today that their new one-hour weekly series will debut on beIN Sports USA at 8 p.m. Eastern time on Friday, April 20th, with a replay set to air at 11 p.m. It was noted that MLW is getting a rights fee from beIN Sports as part of the deal.

“We’ve been in talks since the fall, and they were very impressed with our product,” MLW CEO Court Bauer told Sports Illustrated. “We offer a different presentation because we identify ourselves as a combat sport, but we have a lot more creative freedom than every other combat sport to give the most high-octane presentation" ...

The TV episodes will be taped monthly and then edited for the weekly show.

Bauer said that MLW has worked out an agreement with Lucha Underground and AAA for Pentagon Jr. and Rey Fenix to be regulars on the TV series. Tony Schiavone and Rich Bocchini (formerly known as Rich Brennan in NXT) will be the announcers for it.
Link: https://www.si.com/wrestling/2018/03...ng-bein-sports

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Ronda Rousey did a media tour of ESPN today and wasn’t very receptive to questions about her mixed martial arts career. She corrected Mike Golic and noted that she’s never said that she won’t fight again, then responded “There’s a possibility that I could go back in time? That’s your question to me?” when Golic asked a follow-up question about going back in time. The interview continued fine from there, with Rousey saying she thinks Floyd Mayweather competing in MMA is just talk. On “First Take,” Rousey questioned if Max Kellerman was hiding his own opinion when he asked her thoughts on people who claimed she was overrated after her losses. Rousey also appeared on “Get Up!” with Mike Greenberg, Michelle Beadle, and Jalen Rose, with a segment about her armbar being better than the Figure Four and Sharpshooter.
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WWE Shop has released a “Fight for Your Dreams” t-shirt, with this being Daniel Bryan’s first new merchandise since he was cleared to return.

WWE posted Bryan vs. Batista vs. Randy Orton from WrestleMania 30 for free on YouTube.

Curt Hawkins again tweeted that he wants to be Braun Strowman’s partner at WrestleMania.
Bryan: https://shop.wwe.com/daniel-bryan-fi...5_color=Silver , Mania 30: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-NEE_8Q2uE , Hawkins: https://twitter.com/TheCurtHawkins/s...32000418861057

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ROH officially announced that Six-Man Tag Team Champions SoCal Uncensored will defend their titles against The Young Bucks & Flip Gordon in a ladder match at Supercard of Honor in New Orleans on April 7th. The Kingdom were originally announced to challenge for the titles, but the angle is that they’ve been “barred from participating” in the show.

Impact Wrestling revealed their streaming schedule for WrestleMania weekend, which includes Twitch Casts with Josh Mathews and Sonjay Dutt and videos following their wrestlers around events in New Orleans.

PROGRESS Wrestling Champion Travis Banks defending against Shane Strickland, Timothy Thatcher & WALTER vs. David Starr & Jack Sexsmith, and Pete Dunne vs. Flash Morgan Webster vs. Mark Andrews have been confirmed for PROGRESS’ show in New Orleans on April 6th.

Fred Yehi is set to debut for Revolution Pro Wrestling against Martin Stone at their Epic Encounter show on March 11th.
ROH: https://www.rohwrestling.com/news/yo...d-ladder-match , Impact: http://impactwrestling.com/impact-wr...ursday-sunday/ , RevPro: https://twitter.com/RevProUK/status/978650035326943233

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While sending a tweet to Wendys, Braun Strowman confirmed that he and Alexa Bliss are filming an episode of Ride Along: “.@Wendys you’re killing me. Three times in two weeks have stopped for grilled chicken and they don’t have any ready @AlexaBliss_WWE is trying to keep me calm while we’re filming #RideAlong I wait I’m starving and someone might #GetTheseHands”
Link: https://twitter.com/BraunStrowman/st...82101466673159

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Since we have gotten a number of emails about this, the women who portrayed Asuka's opponent last night, Jamie Frost, was independent talent Brittany Rae Steding.
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On 3/21, WWE applied to trademark "Talking Snack" as the title for what looks to be a series based on cooking and fitness ...

As PWInsider.com has previously reported, WWE has a new official cookbook coming out later this year.
More details about the trademark: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...eries.html?p=1

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Lucha Underground applied to trademark "Octagon", so that looks to be a new character for the next season. At this point, it's unknown if the trademark would be related to the original AAA star Octagon or a new character.
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The George Tragos / Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame has announced their 2018 induction class with the following scheduled to be inducted over the weekend of July 26-28th in Waterloo, Iowa:
*Booker T. will receive the Lou Thesz Award
*Bruiser Brody will be posthumously awarded the Frank Gotch Award
*Ben Askren will receive the George Tragos Award
*Koji Miyamoto will receive the Jim Melby Award
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One of the larger stories attached to the Saudi Arabia show is the representation of female talent, which will not take place on the show. The WWE did issue a statement to reporter David Bixenspan stating that women and children will be allowed to attend the event, but no female performers will be part of the show. While an optimist can hope that in future shows, women will be welcome on the cards, to me it’s a hard part to overlook for this show that women are not welcome to participate. At a time when the WWE has been so steadfast in their promotion of the women’s movement within the company, being presented on par with the men and using the example of Sasha Banks vs. Alexa Bliss having a match in the UAE, it seems contradictory to underplay this element of their lucrative deal with the Government of Saudi Arabia through the Vision 2030 program. It’s a massive deal for the WWE, although no terms are public yet, but for all the praise the company has received for the elevation of the women, I feel equal criticism is justified in this instance, even if not a WWE call but rather entering a business arrangement that does present restrictions, at least for the first show of the new deal. If this were a case of certain wrestlers being denied participation based on race or sexuality, there would be enormous backlash and gender should be included in that grouping.
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Tuesday night's SmackDown on the USA Network averaged 2.576 million viewers, down 11 percent from last week's return of Daniel Bryan.

The rating was hurt by the monstrous number that the premiere of ABC's "Roseanne" reboot garnered, with over 18 million viewers tuning in for the return of the '90s sitcom. Numbers were down across the board for all of the other network shows.
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Mike and Maryse Mizanin are now parents to a healthy baby girl.

The Miz announced this afternoon on Instagram that his wife Maryse gave birth to Monroe Sky Mizanin on March 27 at 11:40 p.m. WWE congratulated them on the birth not too long after The Miz’s announcement. The baby weighed in at seven pounds, five ounces. The WWE.com article mentioned that both mother and daughter are resting comfortably.

Maryse announced publicly that she was pregnant back on the September 11, 2017 edition of Monday Night Raw ...

Miz and Maryse’s chronicles in becoming parents will be documented in the upcoming reality series Miz & Mrs. The show is set to air on the USA Network at some point in 2018.
Miz: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg4gjR3H6oo , WWE: http://www.wwe.com/article/the-miz-m...?sf185740661=1

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In an interview with The Mirror, Nia Jax defended bullying and body shaming being used in her storyline with Alexa Bliss: “I think it's amazing. I think it's something that people know but they don't want to talk about it, they always want to keep it hidden. I feel like we're tackling it head-on and it should be [tackled]. Young women and young girls, and boys, should actually be hearing this and seeing the conflict that we go through and seeing somebody stand up for themselves and not have to allow somebody to bully them, because of the way they look, what their shape is, or the color of their skin is. You should always stand up for yourself. So I think it's amazing. I'm very honoured to be a part of it.”
Link: https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other...lying-12264276

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David Bixenspan has an article for Deadspin about the commission regulations in New Orleans for WrestleMania week. The commission secretary noted that WWE and ROH are exempt from move bans due to being major league promotions and the commission trusting the competence of their wrestlers.
Link: https://deadspin.com/how-louisianas-...wre-1824118577

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Vader tweeted after undergoing open heart surgery on Monday: “Fear no Man Feel no Pain!!!! I am sorry to say the feel no pain is a bunch of BS. Worst pain I’ve ever been in, even worse than getting hit in the back with a shovel by @RealMickFoley.”
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PROGRESS Wrestling announced WALTER vs. Zack Sabre Jr. for their show in New Orleans on April 7th, with the winner getting a future shot at their World Championship. Jinny & Mercedes Martinez vs. Toni Storm & Shazza McKenzie is also set for their April 6th show.
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World Wrestling Entertainment scored the final victory today in the United States District Court of Connecticut when Judge Vanessa L. Bryant officially dismissed the remaining two counts from the original lawsuit filed by former WWE performers regarding the company's alleged lack of protection when it came to performers' health, specifically concussions, CTE and other brain-trauma related injuries.

Although several the allegations against the company had been previously thrown out by the court, there was one allegation that had been ruled as being able to go forward. That charge, brought by Vito LoGrasso and former WWE developmental talent Evan Singleton, was a claim for fraud by omission. The claim was allowed specifically because they had alleged that in 2005, WWE "became aware of and failed to disclose to its wrestlers’ information concerning a link between repeated head trauma and permanent degenerative neurological conditions."

Since WWE had created the Wellness Policy and Lograsso and Singleton had wrestled during that period, the court ruled it was within reason that there was a possibility that WWE had a "greater knowledge" of the dangers via information cultivated via Wellness Policy data. So, the court allowed that aspect of the case to move forward so the matter can be determined.

In a 21-page ruling, Judge Bryant threw those final counts against WWE out, writing, "After careful consideration of the evidence in the light most favorable to the Plaintiffs, the Court has determined that the evidence does not support a finding that WWE knew of a risk that repeated head injuries incurred while performing as a professional wrestler could cause permanent degenerative neurological conditions prior to September 5, 2007."
More details: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...today.html?p=1

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Impact Wrestling is planning to stage a press conference designed to promote their Redemption PPV next week in New Orleans, PWInsider.com has confirmed.

The conference will take place on Saturday 4/7 and is designed to promote the company's 4/22 return to PPV from Orlando, Florida at Universal Studios.

The PPV will be headlined by Impact Wrestling champion Austin Aries defending against former champion Alberto El Patron.
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Former UFC fighter Tom Lawlor, who has been out of action after an injury in the ring required a steel plate and 12 pins to be put in his forearm, has been cleared to return to the ring. He will be working the 4/12 MLW TV taping in Orlando, Florida at the Gilt Nightclub.

PWInsider.com has confirmed that Maxwell Jacob Friedman aka MJF, has signed a deal with MLW. MJF was initially trained by Curt Hawkins and has had a nice run on the independents thus far with his pompous heel personality.

Set for the MLW TV taping on 4/12 in Orlando is Matt Riddle vs. Shane Strickland to determine the MLW champion, Rey Fenix vs. Penta 0M, Low Ki vs. the debuting Matt Sydal, Joey Janela & Sami Callihan vs. Jimmy Havoc & Darby Allin in a "Bogus Adventure" Match, plus Tom Lawlor, MVP, Mike Parrow, Santana Garrett and more.

MLW: Fusion will debut on BeIN Sports on Friday 4/20 at 8 PM EST.
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Tammy "Sunny" Sytch was extradited this morning from the Monmouth County Correctional Facility in New Jersey by authorities from the State of Pennsylvania. She will be remanded to the Carbon County Correctional Facility.

Sytch, 45-years old had been arrested and charged with DUI twice this year in Jersey while on probation for several charges in Pennsylvania, including three separate 2015 DUI arrests. She failed to appear in court to answer either of the Jersey cases, leading to her arrest on 2/27 in Aberdeen Township, New Jersey. While she was being processed for multiple charges of Contempt - Disobedience/resistance, it was learned that Sytch was technically a fugitive from justice because a motion had been filed in August 2017 in Pennsylvania, requesting her February 2017 parole from the Carbon County Correctional Facility in Pennsylvania be revoked. A bench warrant for her arrest was issued in order to bring her in for a hearing over the issue, but since Sytch was not living in PA at the time, she could not be located to be served or taken into custody.

Sytch's Pennsylvania DUI charges in 2015 were a result of three separate incidents over that summer.
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Pro Wrestling Guerrilla has announced the end of an era as the popular Southern California promotion will be holding their final events in Reseda, California at the American Legion Post #308 over the next two months.

The promotion sent out a note on Wednesday that their final three shows at the 400-seat American Legion Post will take place April 20th and 21st and May 25th.

Reseda has been home base to the promotion for the past decade, outgrowing the venue years ago but showing an unwillingness to compromise the live atmosphere the venue provided, making PWG one of the hardest tickets to come by in professional wrestling. Tickets have escalated to $80 general admission and $100 for front row seats.
Link: https://twitter.com/OfficialPWG/stat...49242081005568

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IMPACT Wrestling announced today a partnership with Illinois-based RISE to host seminars with a focus on developing women's professional wrestlers, as well as the creation of original content for IMPACT Wrestling's Twitch channel and Global Wrestling Network (GWN) multi-platform digital service.

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In addition to the Raw and SmackDown go-home shows, there will be three more hours of WWE programming on the USA Network as part of WrestleMania week.

A special that looks at the greatest moments in WrestleMania history will air on Thursday, April 5th at 8 p.m. Eastern time, a one-hour version of the 2018 Hall of Fame ceremony will be shown at 10 p.m. on April 7th, and the second hour of the WrestleMania pre-show will be live on the USA Network, which is in addition to its other platforms.

WWE has yet to announce which matches are scheduled for the pre-show. The first hour will begin at 5 p.m. Eastern on April 8th before the main card starts at 7 p.m.

This year's Hall of Fame ceremony takes place on the Friday of WrestleMania week, with the full version airing live on the WWE Network. Goldberg, The Dudley Boyz, Ivory, Jeff Jarrett, Hillbilly Jim, Mark Henry, celebrity inductee Kid Rock, and Warrior Award recipient Jarrius "JJ" Robertson will be honored during it.
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The WWE made a statement today noting that Hulk Hogan will not be involved in any WrestleMania activities.

The statement comes because Hogan will be at a WWE-related function, the HBO premiere party for the Andre the Giant documentary tonight. Hogan, like myself, was invited by HBO to attend and not by WWE.

WWE sources have said that while the company has had conversations of late with Hogan, they were about his interest in helping others learn from mistakes he has made in life. The company said that quote has been misinterpreted with people believing a return is imminent.

"Hulk Hogan is an important part of Andre the Giant's history, however his appearance at tonight's HBO premiere of the documentary and his plans to help others learn from his mistakes does not mean WWE is rehiring him. Hogan is not scheduled to be at any upcoming WWE events."
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Company sources have noted the idea of Hogan coming back to WWE in a role where he would talk about how stupid he was to have said what he did, with it being a redemption/forgiveness story and figuring enough time has passed that his return wouldn't be controversial.
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Jerry Jarrett is behind a television pilot that is being filmed on 4/26 in Wheeling, WV. The show is called Olympus Wrestling. They are shooting a pilot with the idea of doing an America's Got Talent like format where matches would take place and there would be three judges evaluating both the matches and the wrestlers. Robert Fuller and Jim Cornette will be two of the judges.
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PCW Ultra on 5/4 in Los Angeles is headlined by Chelsea Green vs. Tessa Blanchard to create their first women's title.
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AAW on Saturday night in LaSalle, IL at the Knights of Columbus has ACH vs. Keith Lee for the AAW title, Jessicka Havok vs. Ivelisse for the women's title, Davey Vega & Mat Fitchett vs. Curt Stallion & Jake Something for the tag titles, David Starr vs. Jimmy Jacobs, AR Fox & Myron Reed vs. Trey Miguel & Steven Wolf and a Rumble with the winner getting a shot at the Heritage title, as well as Scarlett vs. Kyle Rae and Trevor Lee & Eddie Kingston vs. Shane Strickland & Moose.
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Road to Sakura Genesis from Korakuen Hall is live on NJPWWorld.com tomorrow morning at 5.30AM Est/10.30AM UK. The show will have English commentary.

*Tetsuhiro Yagi vs Ren Narita
*Yuji Nagata vs Shota Umino
*Togi Makabe, Michael Elgin & Ryusuke Taguchi vs Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Tiger Mask IV & Tomoyuki Oka
*Juice Robinson, David Finlay & Toa Henare vs Hirooki Goto, Jay White & Tomohiro Ishii
*Hiroshi Tanahashi, KUSHIDA & Tiger Mask IV vs Toru Yano, SHO & YOH
*Tetsuya Naito, EVIL, SANADA, Hiromu Takahashi & BUSHI vs Minoru Suzuki, Lance Archer, Davey Boy Smith Jr, El Desperado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru
*Kazuchika Okada & YOSHI-HASHI vs Zack Sabre Jr & Taichi
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Several readers sent word that they spotted Dean Ambrose and Renee Young in Birmingham, Alabama yesterday and today, so Ambrose is back there working on rehabilitating his triceps tear. Ambrose was spoting a sling around town last night when they were spotted.

Dean Ambrose, who has been out for some time following triceps surgery, was pulled from his scheduled signing at Wrestlemania AXXESS next week. Fans who purchased a VIP ticket to meet the former WWE champion will instead get to meet WWE Hall of Famers Sting and Ric Flair.

When Ambrose first went under the knife, WWE stated he would be out nine months. April would make it four months into that process.
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Rusev Day merchandise sales have led to Rusev being pulled from the Battle Royal and put into a four-way for the U.S. title, joining previously announced champion Randy Orton, and challengers Bobby Roode and Jinder Mahal.
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Stephanie McMahon was recently interviewed by The Times of India to promote WrestleMania 34. During the interview, she was asked if Jinder Mahal's run as WWE Champion last year was a success.

"I think his Championship run was incredibly interesting and successful to our global audience and not just to India," said McMahon. "If he became a bit of a hero in India as a result, well that is awesome too... Jinder of course is playing the antagonist here in the States. I think he was received as a homecoming hero when he performed live in India and whenever there is a local star there is significance to the audience there. Our audience is so much bigger, it is global, so we have to entertain everyone."
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Aside from the WrestleCon Super Show, none of the events in New Orleans were sold out at press time, but NXT, Raw, ROH and WrestleMania are all very close and will be sold out shortly. WrestleMania is not an automatic sellout because it's a stadium show, so being this close is a sign people like the card. Raw and NXT, on the hand, were expected to be sold out some time back. The Hall of Fame on 4/6, the WWE's first show of the weekend, and Smackdown on 4/10, the final show, are not expected to sell out and both have a lot of tickets left, priced as low as $25. After the announcement last week of the return of Daniel Bryan, tickets for Mania were very strong when it came to late sales so his return is money. At press time there were about 700 tickets left, almost all on the floor, with the cheapest price being $337.
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Deadspin and David Bixenspan had an article regarding the regulation of these WrestleMania Week shows. Piledrivers will be banned at these events, but apparently, not for WWE events or the ROH show, as the commission considers them major league events. This stems back to a 1996 accident where an independent wrestler, Aldus Bergeron was paralyzed and sued Jason Dupre (Steve Anthony) and the commission, which regulated the show, and the result was a several million dollar settlement. It was appealed and upheld because the judge ruled that the commission did not do its job to prevent sham matches (keep in mind every pro wrestling match is a sham match, meaning that this judicial ruling is downright scary) and said that since the injury took place in a post-match attack, and not during the match, the commission didn't enforce their rules about the ring being emptied once the match is over. In 2007, the commission changed the rules, no longer banning sham matches.

John Green Jr., the commission secretary, said banned moves would include all variations of the piledriver, all variations of the power bomb, moonsaults, shooting star presses, 450 splashes or anything that involves one wrestler leaping or flipping off the ropes or turnbuckles to contract the head or neck of the opponent, as well as any variation of the stun gun or a move where a wrestler's head or neck gets draped or clotheslined over the ropes, as well as any striking the head with any kind of object like a chair or trash can lid, of knocking anyone over the top rope. However, the commission has the right to allow these moves to be used prior to an event if they believe the wrestlers have sufficient training, athletic ability and experience to perform them without endangering each other. Luke Hawx of Wildkat Wrestling, who is providing the local license that many of the outside promotions are using, has noted that they've never been bothered about doing 450s or moonsaults, but they avoid fighting in the crowd, blading and piledrivers. He said as long as the promotions stay away from those moves, he doesn't think there will be any problems.
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Mesias/Mil Muertes/Ricky Banderas had a press conference on 3/27 talking about leaving the promotion. He said he injured his knee in June but AAA insisted he continue to work through October. He said that Dorian Roldan paid him less than he promised during his time off while being injured and was told by Gonzalo Perez Rodriguez (The Director of Programming) that anything more that they would pay him would be considered a loan he would have to repay. When he finally returned after five months off, the first thing he was asked was to lose to La Parka. He said he didn't want to do it, not because it was La Parka, but because he thought it was dumb for him to return after five months and lose in his match back. He said he made his mind up to quit, but didn't announce it until the completion of the Lucha Underground season. He said that he's asked to see his contract and for four years has gotten the runaround by Dorian Roldan and Marisela Pena so he doesn't even know how long he's under contract. He said Roldan told him he'd make his life impossible if he quit and said this was not the same Roldan that he used to know.

He said he was very upset about how Roldan has changed and the things he's said about people who have left the promotion. He said AAA claimed they owned all of his names, but her noted he used Ricky Banderas long before he came to AAA. He said he thinks he'll still be able to work Lucha Underground since Pentagon, Fenix, Jack Evans and others still worked there after quitting AAA. Banderas said a lot of people would like to leave but there is the fear of the unknown. He also said he would be wrestling Cibernetico on 4/28. In fact, the only major AAA stars still in Lucha Underground are Vampiro (who has immense heat on him as there was a situation a few weeks ago that nearly came to blows between Vampiro and El Texano Jr.), King Cuerno, Texano, Drago and Aerostar.
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At the grand opening of the New Japan dojo in Carson, CA, just outside Los Angeles, there was a press conference with Hiroshi Tanahashi (most of the questions regarded how he takes care of his hair, believe it or not), Jushin Liger, Adam Page, Jay White and Katsuyori Shibata. The most notable was Shibata saying that he would wrestle again some day and that his teaching and training with the students at the school would get him back. It is believed he would never be cleared again after life-saving brain surgery after his April 1, 2017 match with Kazuchika Okada at Sumo Hall, largely from his delivering a sick head-butt that left him with bleeding on the brain. Shibata physically looks in good shape.
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Impact are thrilled with all the publicity Sami Callihan has gotten as a heel in the wake of the accidental baseball shot to Eddie Edwards, particularly with the negative feedback from Jim Cornette and Kassius Ohno and him playing that up.
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In a business move that relates to WWE whether they wind up with USA or FS 1/FOX in the next deal, and perhaps UFC depending on where they end up, both FOX and NBC are looking at lowering the amount of commercial time on their television shows starting with the fall season. The idea is cutting down on the length of the commercial breaks to keep viewers from tuning out to other shows. They are pitching to advertisers that with shorter breaks and fewer commercials, that the value of the commercials will now be greater and thus are looking at upping the price of commercials to make up for the lost revenue of fewer actual ads. NBC Universal is looking at reducing ad time by about ten percent in prime time, and this would include Raw.
Rumor going around the net is FOX's offer being in the $200 million range which is what they currently pay for UFC. Would be around $60 million higher than what WWE currently gets from NBC & USA Network.

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The belief is that silly Smackdown top ten thing is already done. They did it one week, and tried to do a lame angle between Orton and Roode with the idea Roode was rated higher than Orton even though he hadn't been there as long to play into the U.S. title three-way deal.
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The top ten most-watched shows of the past week on the WWE Network were: 1. Mixed Match Challenge from 3/20; 2. NXT from 3/21; 3. WrestleMania 32; 4. WWE 24: Empowered; 5. Photo Shoot: Kofi Kingston; 6. Fast Lane 2018; 7. Royal Rumble 2018; 8. WrestleMania 33; 9. WrestleMania 30; 10. WrestleMania 31. 205 Live on 3/20 finished 11th for the week.

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Bein Sports and Major League Wrestling sent out their official press release today regarding the new weekly one hour MLW Fusion show that starts on the station on 4/20 in the Friday night at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. Eastern time slot.

John "Bad Bones" Klinger, who has been one of the top stars of the German-based wXw promotion, is no longer with the group, and the reasons are being kept quiet. wXw issued a release yesterday saying, "It is with great regret that we have to inform you about the immediate suspension of Bad Bones John Klinger from all future wXw events. The wXw World Tag Team Championship, currently held by Da Mack and John Klinger, has been vacated effective today. It will be contested at the next marquee event, wXw True Colors on April 14 in Dresden."

ROH announced a main event for a 4/28 show called Bound By Honor at the RP Funding Center in Lakeland, FL. It will be four members of the Bullet Club against four champions, Dalton Castle & Kenny King & Mark & Jay Briscoe.

Fred Yehi vs. Maxwell Jacob Feinstein was announced for the 4/12 MLW show in Orlando, FL at Gilt Nightclub. This will be Yehi's debut with the promotion.

Sabotage Wrestling announced that Ricardo Rodriguez would debut as their figurehead General Manager, most likely on their 4/28 show in Austin,TX.
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Jeff Jarrett will be filming a Table for 3 Segment next week. WWE is filming tons of shows and documentaries with so many people in New Orleans next week.
Link: https://twitter.com/RealJeffJarrett/...43666834214912

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Impact Wrestling's positive ratings trend continued this week as the company posted its highest viewership since The Hardys' Final Deletion match.

Last night's episode averaged 399,000 viewers on Pop TV, up from the 362,000 that Impact did the previous week. That's Impact's highest number of 2018 and tops all of their shows from last year. The Final Deletion, which had Matt Hardy facing Jeff Hardy in the first match of its kind from the Hardy Compound, drew 410,000 viewers on July 5th, 2016.

The company thanked its fans after this week's ratings came out: "The BIGGEST THANK YOU possible to each and every one of you who helped make last night's IMPACT the most watched episode in 20 months and our 2nd most watched episode on Pop!"
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Besides the 50 man Royal Rumble, also announced for the 4/27 "Greatest Royal Rumble," at the 62,000 seat King Abdullah Sports City Stadium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, is Cena vs. HHH, a ladder match for the IC title with Miz vs. Rollins vs. Balor vs. Joe, and a tag title match with Sheamus & Cesaro vs. The Hardys. There will be no women allowed to wrestle on the show. There are those critical of WWE pushing how much they are behind women wrestling and female empowerment and then doing business with a country where women are treated as second-class and where their women roster members wouldn't be allowed to perform. But in the end, this is a gigantic money deal over ten years and that trumps just about everything. You can't expect high morals from a major corporation, and doubly so from a wrestling promoter. Granted, the key to this argument is about how WWE promotes itself as being on the cusp of revolutionary for women in sports, even when they were a half-century behind tennis and years behind even the UFC, which at one point was being run by people closed-minded that needed their eyes opened. If WWE is even pretending to be revolutionary, or even somewhere nearly up to date, on treatment of women and that's one of their calling cards, and their biggest mainstream star is female, I don't expect them to stand up for that because they are wrestling people, but at that point they have no right to claim anything legitimately when it comes to backing women. Like I said, I don't expect anything, but if you're legit on a cause, sometimes you have to make unpleasant decisions to back that cause. In this case, they failed to do so.
Meltzer on WWE's image problem hosting the Saudi Rumble while juggling their spin on the Women's Revolution/Evolution historic impact on the company.

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There is a lot of talk that UFC television negotiations are not going well. The company had hoped to have the deal done by the end of last year, and now we're almost in April with no sign of a deal being done and the target looks like the summer for an announcement. There have been some stories along with the word on the street that UFC and FOX would likely be done. FOX made UFC an offer but now it looks like FOX is more interested in WWE, as they could get WWE for similar money and WWE would deliver higher ratings. Still, FS 1 and FS 2 have relied on UFC for a live percentage of their programming for years.
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I was wondering if you knew why ROH's women's matches are always you tube exclusives ,dvd extras,or just pre show matches?Pretty much every promotion that has women wrestlers feature therm on the regular card>Even WWE when they had "divas" matches that lasted all of three minutes were part of the main show.Is it because the owners or booker(s) don't like women's wrestling or do they don't think the women can draw? also if they're not featuring women wrestlers as part of the main show,why bother having a partnership with the Stardom promotion as the women from that promotion that come over heee to work for RPH willl just getbused the same way

They only have 60 minutes a week of their TV, plus they have seen the YouTube videos be extremely successful so they have continued to push the matches via that forum. I also think the company is taking a very slow walk before they run strategy. That's just the way ROH works. They take a very measure, slow approach.
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David Bixenspan has done a lot of research into the attendance figure from WrestleMania 3 at the Pontiac Silverdome in 1987. The 93,173 figure is the most attendance figure in professional wrestling history, initially because of the legend of the event that signified the peak the promotion’s national expansion boom but has grown in legend because of the debate for over 15 years regarding its legitimacy. As the story goes, WWF event promoter Zane Bresloff, years after the show, spoke to Dave Meltzer and provided documentation of the actual number that was reported to be 78,500 and this was backed up years later when Meltzer was provided internal attendance figures by the company that also listed that figure. The WWE’s internal numbers when Meltzer was provided them listed the WrestleMania 3 total attendance at “about 78,000” and paid attendance listed at 75,700.

In Bixenspan’s research, Meltzer had reported an advance of 78,500 two weeks before the show and added that was 9,500 short of capacity for the venue, bringing the total capacity to 88,000. The Pontiac Silverdome website later listed the total capacity of the building at 88,000 and cited a visit by The Pope in 1987 attracting that sized audience.

Many of the documents to back up the various sides were unable to be recovered and there probably isn’t going to be a definitive conclusion, although it makes no sense for the WWE to have internal documents that would underreport the attendance. Bixenspan did seek to obtain these records from the WWE and didn`t receive a response.

The agreement most have is that the venue was truly full and there were no unoccupied seats. The other factor is whether the Pontiac Silverdome provided an accurate number of seats as their total capacity or inflated the true number and that presents the discrepancy.

If the 78,500 figure is accurate, there are two WWE events that have surpassed that total with SummerSlam 1992 at Wembley Stadium in London and WrestleMania 32 from AT&T Stadium in Texas in 2016.

It’s funny because if the aerial shot of the stadium was never taken, I don’t feel this debate would have raged on for so many years. While there was a lot of dispute when the WWE announced the 101,763 figure for the AT&T Stadium, there was nothing close the emotion of the WrestleMania 3 figure, possibly because it’s so much easier to verify a present attendance figure than one from 31 years ago. The WWE also stepped back from the figure and explained it wasn’t a paid number and they counted many people that you wouldn’t typically account for to reflect the attendance of a show.
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Impact Wrestling ended the month of March with their highest number on POP TV since July 2016. Thursday’s episode averaged 399,000 viewers, which is their highest Thursday night average on POP and second-highest number overall since the Final Deletion episode in July 2016 (when Impact was airing on Tuesday nights on POP). For the year, Impact is averaging 322,000 viewers on POP, which has been bolstered by their performance throughout the month of March where viewership has increased.
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ESPN has a piece on the L.A. Memorial Coliseum’s attempting to attract the WWE to run WrestleMania with a look back at the Coliseum nearly hosting the show in 1991. The Coliseum put together a video to persuade the WWE (then World Wrestling Federation) to book the Coliseum and it’s stated in the article by Joe Furin, the Coliseum’s General Manager, that Vince McMahon loved the video. The company scheduled WrestleMania 7 for the Coliseum in March 1991 and announced the site during the broadcast of WrestleMania 6 the year prior. The promotional campaign centered around attracting “over 100,000 fans” to the Coliseum and breaking the previous record of 1987 (see story above). In February 1991, amidst lackluster ticket sales, they moved the show indoors to the L.A. Sports Arena and transferred the tickets. In the article, Furin stated it would be great to try and get WrestleMania into the Coliseum in 2020 or 2021. Los Angeles will also have a new stadium for the L.A. Rams opening in August 2020 with Hollywood Park, which is scheduled to host the Super Bowl in 2021.
Link: http://www.espn.com/wwe/story/_/id/2...estlemania-vii

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Rey Mysterio appeared on Below The Belt this week, which is hosted by former UFC Heavyweight Brendan Schaub. The former WWE Champion addressed rumors that he would be appearing at WrestleMania this year.

There had recently been reports that Mysterio would be working with John Cena at WrestleMania. Sports Illustrated reported this week that Mysterio is expected to work WrestleMania if he's healthy, and that Vince McMahon is considering having Mysterio as Braun Strowman's tag team partner against Cesaro and Sheamus. Mysterio noted that he's not going to be able to wrestle at the event due to the tear of his left biceps that he suffered earlier this month at a Northeast Wrestling show.

"Unfortunately I just suffered a torn bicep three weeks ago," Mysterio said. "I opted not to get surgery. It's a full tear, but I'm just going to sit back, do some therapy for it and hopefully I'll be back next month."

Mysterio said that while he won't be wrestling at the show, he's looking forward to it.

"This one's going to be off the hook," Mysterio noted. "There's going to be a lot of good matches."
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWk4b3RO4EA

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Vince McMahon and other people in WWE were said to be blown away by the social media success of The Ultimate Deletion match that aired earlier this month, according to Sports Illustrated. The hashtag for the match was trending worldwide at number one for three hours.

This could mean that there is a future for Matt Hardy and his Woken Warriors in the WWE Universe. SI also noted that the match was seen as a big success within the WWE office.

There's been speculation that Michael Cole's negative comments about the match were being fed to him by Vince and Vince being surprised at the success may add to that theory.
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Cody Rhodes tweeted out the classic Bullet Club logo is being retired and he would be revealing a new logo next week. Rhodes will be facing Kenny Omega next Saturday at ROH Supercard of Card XII.

THE CLASSIC BULLET CLUB LOGO IS BEING RETIRED...

I will be unveiling the new logo next week! pic.twitter.com/U4Z1F3nriT
— Cody Rhodes (@CodyRhodes) March 30, 2018
Link: https://twitter.com/CodyRhodes/statu...70387443859456


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Even going against the NCAA basketball championship game, Raw held steady last night with 3.35 million viewers, down from the 3.36 million the prior week.

Staying even against that level of a sporting event has to be considered good, even though the Villanova-Michigan game did 13.28 million viewers, shockingly low since no NCAA final in the last 43 years had ever fallen below 17 million and last year's final drew 23 million viewers ...

The key was how reversed from usual the third hour drop was, as in recent weeks, it's been double digit drops among women, and in women 18-49, it was up one percent and males 18-49 were up eight percent. It did drop among teenage girls and those over 50.

The three hours were:

8 p.m. 3.43 million viewers
9 p.m. 3.33 million viewers
10 p.m. 3.31 million viewers
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Last night’s go-home edition of Raw ended with John Cena vs. The Undertaker still not having been announced for WrestleMania, but that hasn’t stopped WWE from hyping it ahead of Sunday. They posted an article on their website questioning if the match could still happen, and Cena again taunted Undertaker on his Instagram account.

Michelle McCool responded to someone on Twitter who asked where The Undertaker is: “We’re actually eating breakfast!”
WWE: https://www.wwe.com/shows/wrestleman...t-wrestlemania , Cena: https://www.instagram.com/p/BhGm59yAyOw , McCool: https://twitter.com/McCoolMichelleL/...64308448137216

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WWE Shop released a “Balor Club is for Everyone” shirt where 20 percent of proceeds through June 30th of this year will be donated to GLAAD.

Edge’s last match took place on this day seven years ago as he defeated Alberto Del Rio at WrestleMania 27. WWE also uploaded his WrestleMania 24 match with The Undertaker on YouTube today.

Paul Heyman told NBC Sports that The Usos could end up being the greatest tag team of all time. He also compared Cody Rhodes finding himself outside of WWE to Steve Austin’s experience in ECW.

Mark Henry said his salmon-colored suit from his fake retirement angle might make an appearance at his Hall of Fame induction since so many people want to see it.

Shawn Michaels opened a merchandise store with Pro Wrestling Tees.
WWE Shop: https://shop.wwe.com/finn-balor-%E2%...rt/X10077.html , Edge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2YrA1-wtPo , Heyman: http://sports.nbcsports.com/2018/04/...n-he-left-wcw/ , Henry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zH3c5tgOg4 , HBK: https://www.prowrestlingtees.com/shawnmichaels

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With AJ Styles defending the WWE Championship against Shinsuke Nakamura this Sunday, NJPW uploaded Styles vs. Nakamura from Wrestle Kingdom 10 as this week’s free match. It’s their only other singles match and finished fourth in that year’s Match of the Year voting in the Observer awards.

ROH announced Cody vs. Punishment Martinez and Jay Lethal vs. Scorpio Sky for their show in West Palm Beach, Florida on April 27th.

Impact Wrestling is allowing co-streaming of their Impact vs. Lucha Underground show on Friday and want streamers to do their own commentary.

EVOLVE’s latest mini-documentary looks at Zack Sabre Jr.’s 400-plus days as champion.
NJPW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HajGBj3uQiE , Impact: https://twitter.com/IMPACTWRESTLING/...75146001330176 , EVOLVE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ciWnU4BKG0

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It was announced that iTunes sales of the classic Jeff Jarrett theme (or was that the Real Double J's song?) "Be With My Baby Tonight" are being donated towards Connor's Cure, which raises awareness and funds for pediatric cancer research, in partnership with The V Foundation and Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.

Jarrett commented:

This is awesome...who would have thought #WithMyBabyTonight would be raising money for @ConnorsCure !!? @WrestleMania @WWE @WWERoadDogg @WWEPR @WWEMusic https://t.co/kcUNpMXY2u
— Jeff Jarrett (@RealJeffJarrett) April 3, 2018
Link: https://twitter.com/RealJeffJarrett/...71706671878144

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Variety is reporting that Universal is really doing everything they can to advertise John Cena's R-rated comedy "Blockers" to television audiences with an estimated $6.55 million in television ads in the last week for the film which opens this Friday. That makes It the number one film in terms of television advertising spending, well ahead of "A Quiet Place" at $5.01 million
Link: http://variety.com/2018/film/news/bl...ng-1202741540/

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The 4/7 Ring of Honor Supercard of Honor event at the UNO Lakefront Arena will sell out. There are just a few hundred tickets left as of this writing, so if you wish to attend the show, do not wait. The show will easily destroy the ROH attendance record with attendance expected to be in the 5,000-6,000 range. You can find complete ticket information at www.ROHWrestling.com.

The announced lineup for the show:
*Cody Rhodes vs. Kenny Omega for the first-time ever.
*ROH champion Dalton Castle vs. Marty Scurll.
*ROH Tag Team champions The Briscoes vs. Jay Lethal & Hiroshi Tanahashi.
*ROH Six Man Tag Team champions So Cal Uncensored vs. Flip Gordon & The Young Bucks.
*Tomohiro Ishii vs. Punishment Martinez.
*Adam Page vs. Kota Ibushi
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The WWE is heavily promoting that new subscribers to the WWE Network can sign up and receive this Sunday’s WrestleMania for free. The strategy is to inflate the overall network number in time for Monday’s announcement of the latest figure. Last year’s figure they reported the day after WrestleMania 33 was 1,661,00 paid subscribers and 288,000 free subscribers for a total of 1,949,000. This was the second year of the free experiment for WrestleMania with 370,000 free subscribers in 2016 and a drop in free subs in 2017.

This year’s show feels like it is a better-promoted show with Ronda Rousey and Daniel Bryan as the two big needle movers for the show. The major question is how many non-WWE fans are signing up for the service to watch Ronda Rousey participate in a pro wrestling match, and how many of those people are going to keep the service? That all depends on their interest level in Rousey doing pro wrestling and if they need to see her more than once. The gains year-over-year at WrestleMania are positive but not overwhelming for the WWE, which is why Rousey is a big investment. The unique nature of Rousey’s drawing power in the UFC is that she was able to attract pay-per-view buyers, who would only buy her fights and were not UFC fans by nature. If you are of the belief that the WWE has a finite fanbase that is willing to sign up for the network, Rousey could represent an ability to hit a new audience that is untapped for the service, but that is still up for debate until the numbers come later this year to see her effectiveness.
Right now it seems any real benefit WWE is getting from Ronda is negligible at best. She didn't really provide a big boost in viewers for RAW or ticket sales for Mania unlike Bryan.

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WWE has a new poll asking fans which RAW champion is most likely to retain their title at WrestleMania 34 on Sunday. As of this writing, 32% voted for WWE Intercontinental Champion The Miz vs. Seth Rollins and Finn Balor while 25% voted for RAW Women's Champion Alexa Bliss vs. Nia Jax, 25% voted for WWE Universal Champion Brock Lesnar vs. Roman Reigns and the rest voted for RAW Tag Team Champions The Bar vs. Braun Strowman and his mystery partner.
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The Blast has a story here about David Otunga helping his niece, Kylee, get a heart transplant. Otunga had devoted his time to find Kylee a heart, which she recently secured. Otunga told The Blast that Kylee's recovery has been amazing, and that she is now walking and responding "like she has fresh life breathed into her." While she has a long road ahead of her with her recovery, Otunga said that she is in great spirits and positive about getting better. Kylee was diagnosed with congestive heart failure last September and had been kept alive with the assistance of a machine and a continuous IV. She was bumped to the top of the list to receive a transplant because her condition had been rapidly deteriorating.
Link: https://theblast.com/wwe-david-otung...ece-new-heart/


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  • According to Post Wrestling, WWE's ticket sales for both the Hall of Fame event and Smackdown After Mania show are selling at a lot slower pace than in previous years.
  • For those interested in Cena butt discussions, recent episode of The Late Show with Seth Myers included Cena's butt as a topic. https://youtu.be/IupnlXFFZHw
  • NJPW recently revealed the cards for Wrestling Dontaku series of shows. https://www.f4wonline.com/japan/okad...ku-tour-254776
  • New York Post had a recent interview with Paul Heyman talking about if Mania 34 will be the last time Lesnar will be in the WWE and the possibility of CM Punk going to NJPW or ROH after his MMA career ends. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...-going-to-ufc/
  • New York Post also had an interview with Shinsuke Nakamura talking about his WWE Championship match at Mania, connecting with fans despite the language barrier, and potential of a dream match with Daniel Bryan. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...pite-language/


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A lot of people have contacted the site asking what is the status of John Cena vs. The Undertaker for WrestleMania. Here is what I can tell you as of right now.

WWE has gone through this week’s TV with no official announcement of the match for Sunday. According to many people I have spoken to, the feeling and understanding is that Undertaker will be at WrestleMania on Sunday. There has been no official confirmation, but people I have spoken with believe Taker will be there.

It’s expected that there will be some kind of interaction between him and Cena at the event. If they decide to do a match, we will get that but it’s also very possible that the two men will simply “face off” in a non-official capacity.

If that is how WWE plays it out then all of the people that attended last year’s WrestleMania, and thought they saw what was Taker’s last match, will then still be able to say that they did indeed see the final bout in his legendary career.

I have been told to expect something between Cena and Undertaker on Sunday. He is scheduled to be there and no one I spoke to in WWE believes that they would have had Cena do the promos that he has if there weren’t going to be a payoff.

This is just a theory but it would not shock me to see them have Kid Rock play Taker’s old theme, leading Taker to come out and confront Cena. Again, that is just a theory.
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There was reportedly an idea to have a musical segment with The Rock, Elias, Jeff Jarrett and a few others at WrestleMania this Sunday, according to Justin Barrasso of Sports Illustrated. The idea was for it to be a take on the "Rock Concert" segments that have been done in the past.

According to the report, The Rock was not able to give a firm commitment for the show, so the segment was scrapped. It was added that The Rock is not slated to be a part of WrestleMania this Sunday "unless there were renewed discussions."

Spoiler tag used since its related to potential Taker-Cena plans and a supposedly scrapped plan for Mania.

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After mostly good WWE ratings for the last several weeks leading up to WrestleMania, this week's SmackDown viewership tumbled an additional four percent from last week's already low number. Tuesday night's go-home show garnered SmackDown's second-smallest audience of 2018 with just 2.476 million viewers.

It's actually the second-smallest number since October 31st of last year ...

Next week should be up again as the post-WrestleMania Raw and SmackDown are usually the highest rated episodes of the year.
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Impact Wrestling has added four matches to the card for their WrestleMania week show with Lucha Underground.

It had been known that Scott Steiner and Teddy Hart would be appearing at the event, and Impact revealed today that they'll be teaming together against Dave & Jake Crist. Brian Cage vs. Eli Drake, Trevor Lee vs. Famous B, and Matt Sydal vs. Caleb Konley vs. Moose vs. Chavo Guerrero Jr. vs. Jack Evans vs. Matanza Cueto (Jeff Cobb) in a six-way have also been announced for the card.

The theme of the show is Impact vs. Lucha Underground. It's taking place at The Sugar Mill in New Orleans on Friday night and will air live on Impact's Twitch channel at 10 p.m. Eastern time.
Link: https://twitter.com/IMPACTWRESTLING/...91838762131456

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After confirming that their Greatest Royal Rumble in Saudi Arabia would be airing live on the WWE Network, WWE announced today that there will be a one-hour pre-show before the event. The pre-show will begin at 11 a.m. on Friday, April 27th before the main card starts at noon, which is 7 p.m. local time in Jeddah.
Link: http://www.wwe.com/worldwide/article...and-start-time

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Sonya Deville supported Finn Balor’s “Balor Club is for Everyone” shirt campaign. Twenty percent of proceeds through the end of June go towards GLAAD.
Link: https://twitter.com/SonyaDevilleWWE/...86961151512577

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ROH uploaded Mayu Iwatani vs. Deonna Purrazzo from the second round of the Women of Honor Championship tournament.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFaIwtlalDg

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Nick Aldis and Tommy Dreamer’s title match is the subject of the NWA’s latest Ten Pounds of Gold video.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDqTgAUjkdU

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It looks like WWE Universal Champion Brock Lesnar is headed back to the UFC.

UFC President Dana White appeared on Fox Sports' UFC Tonight show earlier today to promote UFC 223 and was asked about The Beast returning to the Octagon.

"Yeah," Dana responded. "Brock Lesnar's coming back. I don't know when but yes he is."

Lesnar's current WWE contract expires after WrestleMania 34 on Sunday, where he will face Roman Reigns in the main event. There's been talk of WWE working on signing Lesnar to a new contract but that has not been confirmed.
There has been some conflicting info coming out from PWI about Lesnar's post-Mania status but they couldn't confirm it due to Lesnar being a lot more secretive backstage in recent years. Link to Dana White's comments (7 min mark): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8FdvWRbdEU

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Ronda Rousey appeared on ESPN's Get Up today. She was asked who she has liked working with the best in WWE so far. She said Kurt Angle. When asked show she would like to work with she said CM Punk, though she said she didn't think it would happen (due to obvious reasons).
Link: https://twitter.com/Get_Up/status/981521852379095040

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ROH tweeted that Chuck Taylor versus Jonathan Gresham will open SuperCard of Honor:

JUST ANNOUNCED: @TheJonGresham vs @SexyChuckieT will kick off #ROHSupercard!

Watch LIVE & FREE for ALL #HonorClub members THIS Sat April 7 at 830e/730c!https://t.co/vS7fcMBTTh
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— ROH Wrestling (@ringofhonor) April 4, 2018
Link: https://twitter.com/ringofhonor/stat...85987561230336


Some other sheet news includes:
  • WWE recently released the brackets for the series of Axxess Invitational tournaments. https://www.f4wonline.com/wwe-news/w...naments-254931
  • WWE also recently released the updated list of participants for both the Andre and Women's Battle Royale matches. https://www.f4wonline.com/wwe-news/u...-royals-254516
  • During a recent episode of the Busted Open Radio podcast show with Jonathan Coachman as the guest, Coachman revealed he does not want Hogan to come back to the WWE. His main reason is him hearing Hogan likely won't be sincere for his apology and also likely asking for a lot of money to return. He also feels it will only be a matter of time before Hogan wants the spotlight on just himself instead of giving the rub to others. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...bringing-back/
  • Yahoo Sports had a recent interview with the Miz talking about his IC title match at Mania, Vince and others support in him as a big star in the WWE, and the impact of social media in wrestling. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...-wrestlemania/
  • WrestlingInc had a recent interview with Jimmy Hart talking about creating memorable entrance themes, the origins of his "Mouth from the South" gimmick, and fond memories of Bobby Heenan.


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Cena vs. Undertaker has been planned for WrestleMania for months, and Undertaker has been training for the match. Undertaker will obviously be in New Orleans to confront Cena. The last word we got, which was on 4/3, is that from Vince McMahon's standpoint, the belief is that the audience knows he's going to show up and this is the "story" that brings him back to "kick Cena's ass". They are also of the belief announcing Taker in advance won't compel anyone to purchase the network, as anyone inclined is getting the network for the show anyway. This is Vince McMahon's story and he seems very happy with it. I think part of it is that Vince McMahon can say, `people are invested in the mere chance Undertaker will show up!"' If that means a match, or just a confrontation to build to a match next year, is hard to say, past that it was always scheduled as a match dating back several months.

Spoiler tags used since its related to potential Taker-Cena Mania plans.

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With Low Ki out of the main event, a big replacement has been lined up for Matt Riddle's Bloodsport.

Game Changer Wrestling announced tonight that Minoru Suzuki is replacing Low Ki and will be facing Riddle at tomorrow's (Thursday) show. No reason was given for Low Ki no longer being on the card.

This will be the second time that Suzuki and Riddle have faced each other, with Suzuki having defeated him at Revolution Pro Wrestling's Global Wars UK show in Walthamstow last November. Suzuki will be in action at RevPro's event in New Orleans on Friday as he takes on Jeff Cobb.
Event aired earlier today but supposedly Low Ki claimed having a "neck injury" as the excuse for why he couldn't make it today. Speculation around the net is the real reason is due to him getting wasted and/or forgetting to board his flight on time.

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Edge tweeted:

Tomorrow on @EandCPod it’s kind of a big one. For #Wrestlemania we have The Hardy’s @MATTHARDYBRAND & @JEFFHARDYBRAND Suffice it to say we have A LOT of ground to cover with this one. Enjoy Hosers pic.twitter.com/TZIIwrVoMU
— Adam (Edge) Copeland (@EdgeRatedR) April 5, 2018
Link: https://twitter.com/EdgeRatedR/statu...95218588327936

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The 2018 WWE Hall of Fame Legacy Wing inductees are:
*Former WWWF champion Stan Stasiak.
*Lord Alfred Hayes.
*Dara Singh.
*Cora Combs
*El Santo.
*Jim Londos.
*Rufus R. Jones.
*Sputnik Monroe.
*Boris "The Great" Malenko.
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For the third year in a row, The Taz Show, hosted by former WWE and ECW star Taz will be broadcast a live, three hour special following Wrestlemania 34. The show will air from 11 PM - 2 AM Eastern.

The show will be syndicated across a number of CBS Sports Radio stations including WFAN 660 in New York City, 670 The Score in Chicago, 93.7 The Fan in Pittsburgh, 97.1 The Ticket in Detroit, 560 WQAM in Miami and 106.7 The Fan in Washington, DC. We should have a full list of stations shortly.

For the first time ever, the show will also broadcast live on SiriusXM Radio channel 206 and of course, will stream live at www.TazShow.com.
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On SiriusXM’s MMA Tonight yesterday, host Miesha Tate commented on former UFC Bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey’s MMA losses being brought up as part of her Wrestlemania 34 storyline, noting, "I am so shocked that Ronda allowed that to happen. I just for some reason picture her having such a problem with that being in the script and knowing that that was going to be said ahead of time, I really feel like that deep down has to burn her cookies, but for whatever reason she’s not in the same position to pull as much weight around as she was in the UFC being she’s just starting her WWE career. So she probably just had to suck it up and allow for that to be said. But I guarantee you she did not like that at all.”

Tate, also a former UFC Bantamweight champion followed up, "I still think if she had enough say-so, she wouldn’t have let it happen. I really know that she has a problem with this but I don’t think she had a choice.”
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The Ring of Honor App, featuring the ROH Honorclub streaming service, is now officially available Android phones and Android TV.

The ROH app for iOS as well as the ROH Channel for Apple TV and Roku channel remain in the review process by those respective platforms. They will be released as soon as possible but most likely not before Saturday's Supercard of Honor event.
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Former wrestler and manager Johnny Valiant / “Luscious” Johnny V (Thomas Sullivan) was killed on Wednesday morning after being struck by a truck.

The accident occurred early in the morning in Ross Township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

News of the accident was reported by WPXI on Wednesday morning, stating that Valiant ran across the middle of McKnight Road around 5 am when it was still dark out and raining. McKnight is said to be a busy road and Valiant opted not to use the crosswalk section.
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WWE tweeted the following:

WWE is saddened to learn that WWE Hall of Famer “Luscious” Johnny Valiant reportedly passed away this morning at the age of 71. https://t.co/vNfhyVo3Pb
— WWE (@WWE) April 5, 2018
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Even though Angelico has been in Europe and wasn't used for the recently-completed season, he asked for his release and was turned down. Jack Evans also asked for his release but he was expecting to get it. It's notable that Evans & Angelico loved Lucha Underground when it started. Some of the people who signed the seven season contract were told that they would be doing two seasons per year, so they figured it was like a three-and-a-half year deal and they'd be working constantly as opposed to a seven-year deal with little work.
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With 5,843 tickets sold, ROH’s Supercard of Honor XII show on Saturday night is now sold out.
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ROH has booked the Patriot Center in Fairfax, VA for a 6/30 show. I don't know if this is it, but there are plans to shoot for another big number this year with a loaded up show. There is a goal of doing a big show with the idea of beating 6,700 paid (which would be the most paid attendance for a non-WWE branded show in the U.S. since the death of WCW, which was the March 10, 2013, TNA Lockdown PPV show at the Alamodome in San Antonio, which was headlined by Bully Ray vs. Jeff Hardy for the TNA title in a cage match)
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As of press time, the feeling is that Lesnar is finishing up this week. Until the decision is final, I don't consider anything in a situation with Lesnar done no matter how many times you get told he's really going to UFC. Part of this is a TV angle to get him booed where they all but told everyone he was leaving and even did a deal where they portrayed it like Heyman was talking to somebody in UFC. Besides, I think everyone knows that if he goes to UFC, it's only for a few fights and I can't imagine he won't be back because will be back. The Heyman situation is up on the air, although him saying that he and Lesnar won't ever be on Raw again if Reigns wins the title was a pretty strong statement indicating either they may change the finish (which, after three years, I'd be surprised, but then again, nothing should be a surprise), or he believes he's gone.

Rousey does want Heyman to be her spokesperson and there is the political issue we've described as to why that probably won't happen because it doesn't fit their big picture narrative on why Rousey is there. The idea is for Rousey to be the babyface antagonist of Stephanie, and while Lesnar ended up a babyface, and not by design, with Heyman, the Heyman role is more of a heel. A lot of people think the fan base will turn on Rousey at some point, but she's also there because to the outside world, she's the biggest star in the company and she had incredible drawing power with women. The funny part of this is that based on the limited stats we have, on the Raw she's been on, younger men viewing is way up and women viewing is not
Supposedly Lesnar's actual WWE contract doesn't end till a few months later although Mania 34 is his last confirmed date for the deal.

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As is the custom, on 4/9, WWE will be announcing updated WWE Network numbers. The key to this number is that it's heavily inflated by all of the $9.99 or less offers for three months, so actual paid should be way up, but that's not necessarily indicative of anything past lots of people signed up at the best time of the year when at the same time the price was lowered greatly. On TV, they were pushing like crazy you could see Mania free so I think the 4/9 headline will be the idea of topping the 2 million total subscriber mark and having people think that's a paid number.

The actual comparison of the revenue up until a week before the show will be out probably in early May, which will give a lot better impression of how the network is really doing than the cold number and even the paid number because of all the bargain prices. The actual revenue comparison for Mania season and the churn won't be out until early August, by which time the Mania numbers (like the real attendance) are yesterday's news story. The real WrestleMania attendance number won't be out until August either, but the usual inflation is about 10,000, although the AT&T Stadium inflation was told to me by stadium itself as 8,000 but the police records and turnstile count indicate the attendance announced was exaggerated by 20,000
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Dave Bautista was saying that he had been talked with about being Rousey's partner, which does make sense given the spot was originally earmarked for Dwayne Johnson
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Drew McIntyre was shown in a video bench pressing 400 pounds a few weeks ago, which is more than he could ever do before, which indicates his arm has healed up from the torn biceps suffered in his Takeover match back in November where he lost the NXT title to Andrade Cien Almas. He is pretty much ready to return, and it's just a question of when and how they want to introduce him. Actually with the time off, he's probably healthier than he's been in years because all the regular nagging injuries heal up when you're off
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WWE stock closed on 4/3 at $35.50 per share, giving the company a market value of $2.739 billion
For some comparisons, UFC was valued at $4 billion when it was sold to new owners last year.

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With nothing major new except the in-ring, the 205 Live show on 3/27 with a four-way main event was the second most-watched show of the WWE on the WWE Network, notable because the prior week with the Ali vs. Gulak match to determine who went to Mania, it wasn't even top ten. The top ten this week were: 1. NXT on 3/28; 2. 205 Live on 3/27; 3. Mixed Match Challenge from 3/27; 4. Photo Shoot: Kofi Kingston; 5. NXT from 3/21; 6. Fast Lane 2018; 7. Royal Rumble 2018; 8. WWE 24: Empowered; 9. WrestleMania 33; 10. WrestleMania 30
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WWE has a new poll asking fans who will steal the show at WrestleMania 34. As of this writing, 27% voted for Daniel Bryan while 25% voted for WWE Champion AJ Styles, 18% for Ronda Rousey, 9% for Seth Rollins, 5% for Finn Balor, 5% for Asuka, 5% for Mustafa Ali, 3% for Cedric Alexander, 2% for SmackDown Women's Champion Charlotte Flair and 2% for SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Usos.
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On WWE’s poster for the WrestleMania 34 matches, John Cena vs. The Undertaker is listed with a question mark asking if Undertaker will accept his challenge. It says they can’t guarantee that the match is happening.
Link: https://twitter.com/kimberlasskick/s...42094796386305

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With today marking eight years since the match took place, WWE uploaded The Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels from WrestleMania XXV for free on YouTube.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdM5lGZZJ54

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After meeting with the Louisiana athletic commission about WrestleMania week, Gabe Sapolsky tweeted that piledrivers are the only moves that will be an issue: “Just met with commission, all the ‘banned’ moves beyond piledrivers is much ado about nothing. We are going to tear the house down at the WWNLive Experience!”
Link: https://twitter.com/BookItGabe/statu...43020328247296

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In a feature done by ESPN, Matt Riddle opened up about potentially signing with a bigger company: “Right now I think we're at a time where we don't need one main company to be our backer. I do know if I was at a bigger company I would be seen by more people, but at the same time would they present me the way I want to be seen? Can I be Matt Riddle? Can I be the King of the Bros? Can I be that guy, or do you want to change me? I'm not really trying to change. I like who I am. I like being me."
Link: http://www.espn.com/wwe/story/_/id/2...s-wrestlemania


Some other sheet news includes:
  • In honor of Wrestlemania 34, Psyonix studio and WWE are partnering together on a new WWE themed DLC for Rocket League. Content update for the game will arrive this Sunday prior to the start of Mania 34. https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...unday.html?p=1
  • Also in honor of Mania week, Pro Wrestling Tees is currently holding a 20% Off sale starting today and lasting till April 9th. https://www.prowrestlingtees.com/
  • Website NOLA.com had a recent interview with Paul Heyman talking about his relationship with Vince, ECW, and his One Man show in New Orleans tonight. https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...-nola.html?p=1
  • According to the Observer, Vader's recent heart surgery lasted around 7 hours with 10 clogged arteries discovered by doctors.
  • Fox Sports Australia had a recent interview with Buddy Murphy talking about being frustrated over the direction of his NXT career and being hesitant on joining 205 Live. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...ed-in-wwe-nxt/


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A week after posting their second-best numbers since debuting on Pop TV, Impact Wrestling viewership was down big for Thursday night's episode.

Last night's Impact averaged 294,000 viewers, down from the previous week's 399,000. The reason for the drop was most likely due to competition from WWE programming. WWE's special on the greatest moments in WrestleMania history aired on the USA Network opposite the first hour of Impact and did 746,000 viewers.

The WWE special garnered a 0.24 rating in the 18-49 demo, with Impact doing a 0.06. WWE finished 26th for the night on cable and Impact was 128th.

The last time Impact faced competition from WWE, their viewership fell to 161,000 against Tribute to the Troops last December.
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Ahead of Sunday's Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, five more wrestlers have been added to the lineup for the match.

Kane, Shelton Benjamin, Chad Gable, Aiden English, and Curt Hawkins were the latest names announced for the battle royal. This will be the first time that Benjamin has wrestled at WrestleMania since 2010. Kane is also returning to WrestleMania after not competing on last year's show.
Link with updated participants in both Battle Royale matches at Mania: https://www.f4wonline.com/wwe-news/w...e-royal-255136

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To follow up on Adam Cardoza's report earlier today, Darby Allin has been diagnosed with a concussion and is being held overnight for observation at a hospital in New Orleans.

We hope he has a quick recovery.
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Janela is in. Roaring elbow to Theory. Dive to each side on each opponent. Darby and Janela going at it. Corkscrew splash for near fall. Janela sat down in a chair. Darby with long dive, hits back of head on floor and he’s ragdolled. This looks bad.

Cobb is in. Face off with Parrow. They start competing with each other at beating on everyone else. Ring is cleared. Darby still down. Refs and medics at ringside. This is worrying.
What caused the injury to Darby Allin during the PROGRESS Chapter 66 show earlier today.

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The Facebook page for Ohio Valley Wrestling noted that Al Snow has bought the company. They promise more news on that later.
Link: https://clips.twitch.tv/GentleSmoothLegPeteZarollTie

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The following press release was issued this morning by GoFundMe in regard to a new charity campaign being hosted by the fundraising website in partnership with former WWE star April "AJ Lee" Mendez to support the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
Link: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...lness.html?p=1

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In a move that worked out as it ended up timed perfectly with this weekend's Wrestlemania 34 hype, Universal Pictures' new comedy Blockers, which stars John Cena, officially hits theaters today.

The comedy revolves around three parents who stumble upon their daughters' pact to lose their virginity at prom, launching into a covert one-night operation to stop the teens from sealing the deal.

We are told that the film has one bonus scene during the credits.

The film and Cena in particular have gotten great advance reviews and currently stands at 91% at Rotten Tomatoes.
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The Wrap is reporting that William Morris Endeavor has brought in a second agency, Creative Arts Agency (CAA) to work on World Wrestling Entertainment's current TV rights negotiations for WWE with the idea that since WME-IMG now owns UFC, they felt there could be a conflict of interest that could jeopardize a potential TV deal worth as much as $400 million rights deal for WWE.

CAA is being brought in so there was a system of "checks and balances" set up to protect the interests of all involved.

When contacted by The Wrap, a WWE spokesperson stated the company would continue a “longstanding partnership with WME as well as working relationships with other agencies and strategic advisors around the world.”

The article also noted that WME are still dealing with issues in regard to selling a new UFC TV deal to cable networks. The UFC deal is estimated to be worth around $200 million, half of what WWE is currently estimated as being worth.
That last line is really interesting since WWE and UFC want something around $400 million for a new deal and while WWE would be happy to get $200 million, them getting less than their current deal would be a huge blow. Link: https://www.thewrap.com/caa-joins-ww...ict-exclusive/

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All six of the XFL trademarks that Alpha Entertainment applied to register a few months ago have been given an initial refusal by the USPTO due to a likelihood of confusion arising from similar XFL trademarks being held by World Wrestling Entertainment.
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Natalya revealed on Twitter that she's filming a "Table For 3" episode with Nia Jax and WWE Hall of Famer Beth Phoenix in New Orleans. As noted, WWE will be filming several specials for the WWE Network this weekend. Natalya tweeted:

?? #TableFor3 @NiaJaxWWE @TheBethPhoenix pic.twitter.com/jGubavirW3
— Nattie (@NatbyNature) April 6, 2018
Link: https://twitter.com/NatbyNature/stat...92607500894208

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WWE veteran Goldust tweeted the following praise for the current locker room this week:

In my years being in this wonderful business, I have seen locker rooms that were not so kind. Right now, I am proud to say that our roster and locker rooms are the very best I've ever seen. All talent, stepping up and working together as a team. #JustAVeryProudVeteran love ??
— Dustin Rhodes (@Goldust) April 5, 2018
Link: https://twitter.com/Goldust/status/981704194984955914

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With WWE announcing that a mystery wrestler would be playing at the venue, Elias performed at Razzoo on Bourbon Street last night.
Link: https://twitter.com/KOTR_Podcast/sta...85903312039937

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Edge teased that the Edge & Christian show is coming back to the WWE Network for a second season. Matt Hardy also took part in a Table for Three taping today. A lot of content for the Network is being filmed this week.
Edge: https://www.instagram.com/p/BhMqHLXAECI/ , Matt: https://twitter.com/MATTHARDYBRAND/s...38895655456768

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Following up on this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter report about Dave Bautista having had talks with WWE about teaming with Ronda Rousey at WrestleMania, Pro Wrestling Sheet noted that WWE didn't tell Bautista that they were going with Kurt Angle instead before announcing it.
Link: http://www.prowrestlingsheet.com/dav.../#.Wsfsi9PwYQl

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Kurt Angle vs. Randy Orton vs. Rey Mysterio from WrestleMania 22 is today’s WWE free match on YouTube.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9oeLenS_Cg


Some other sheet news includes:
  • NBC Sports had a recent interview with Adam Cole talking about his transition to NXT, NXT crowds, HBK, and more. http://sports.nbcsports.com/2018/04/...he-microphone/
  • According to those at WWE's Axxess event, WWE scrubbed out more of Moolah's impact and legacy for their Women's Evolution display. Instead of the 80s being associated with Moolah, they now consider it as the Wendi Richter Era. Also included a note of the real first ever Women's Battle Royale match that occurred at Mania and admitting it was a mistake to have a man (Santina Marella) win it.
  • USA Today had a recent interview with Micheal Cole talking about his prep work for shows, if wrestlers give feedback on his commentary, and working with Corey Graves. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...-wrestlemania/


Some stuff from TPWW Frontpage:
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