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08-23-2018 09:55 PM |
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Originally Posted by Observer
In what is being reported as an end result of a power struggle, Michael Luisi is out as president of WWE Studios.
Deadline reported this morning that Luisi is out following a clash with Michelle Wilson, who is co-president of the WWE alongside George A. Barrios. The report didn’t indicate that the clash was about. In the interim, the studio will be headed by Wilson.
Luisi had been part of the studio for the last eight years as WWE has continued to finance and produce films, mostly for the home viewing market though several of their films have also been released in theaters. He had previously served executive positions at New Line Cinema, Miramax and the Weinstein Company.
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Link: https://deadline.com/2018/08/michael...on-1202451189/
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Originally Posted by PWI
The locally advertised main event for the 10/15 Monday Night Raw in Philadelphia is The Shield vs. Dolph Ziggler & Drew McIntyre & Baron Corbin, so there are no apparent plans for the Shield reunion to also be a heel turn.
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Originally Posted by PWI
The WWE Network today added a near-complete card for the Big Time Wrestling Star Wars '81 event from the Reunion Arena in Dallas, Texas to their Hidden Gems area in the VOD component of the Network. Big Time Wrestling was the precursor to World Class Championship Wrestling, which officially kicked off when their TV series of the same name debuted.
The Star Wars '81 card, which took place 2/21/81, features:
*Mil Mascaras vs. Tim Brooks
*The Great Kabuki with manager Gary Hart vs. Fritz Von Erich: Texas Death Match.
*Kerry Von Erich challenges Harley Race for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.
*David and Kevin Von Erich challenge Hercules Ayala & Ali Mustafa for the World-Class Wrestling Association Tag Team Championship.
*Battle Royal.
Missing from the card is an undercard match featuring Bruiser Brody defeating Chan Chung.
The event was acquired by WWE from Kevin Von Erich as part of the World Class video library. It would be, to date, the oldest material featured from that territory on the WWE Network.
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Teaser trailer released by the WWE: https://youtu.be/jiohpSsYXZI
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Originally Posted by PWI
The Giant Bomb video with Jack Gallagher in the message above is a great chat with the cruiserweight star. He discusses the origin of the Gentleman character, his origins and professional wrestling, living in Florida, WWE travel schedule and much more definitely worth a look.
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Link: https://youtu.be/ii6XlJbIko8
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Originally Posted by PWI
On 8/17, New Japan Pro Wrestling applied to register US trademarks for G1 Climax, G1 Supercard and G1 Special.
Over the past few weeks, WWE applied to register the following
Mike Kanellis
Sarah Logan
Mandy Rose
Sonya Deville
Killian Dain
Alexander Wolfe
Shayna Bazler
Bobby Lashley
Corey Graves
Kairi Sane
Kyle O'Reilly
Bobby Fish
On 8/13, they also applied to register a new ECW trademark but for clothing purposes.
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Originally Posted by Post Wrestling
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) has stated that it will be several weeks before a final report is released into the investigation over the death of Brian Lawler. Jerry Lawler has been speaking publicly about the investigation and stories that have been relayed from inmates in the prison. The Memphis Commercial Appeal reported this week that an inmate had been using Brian’s social security number to make outgoing calls with an affidavit filed last week accusing the inmate of identity theft. This included a call made on Saturday, July 28th (the day before Brian died) to Brian’s mother to alert her that her son had suffered a concussion during a fight inside the jail and to let Jerry know. Jerry’s lawyer, Ted Hansom, in unaware who filed the affidavit as this case continues to bring up many questions with few answers while the TBI continues to investigate.
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Originally Posted by Post Wrestling/Observer
Indies Roundup:
Lucha Underground did their lowest number of the season this week with an average of 94,000 viewers on the El Rey Network. It was a drop from last week’s viewership of 97,000.
WWN has announced the cards for their next weekend of EVOLVE shows on September 7th in Joppa, Maryland and September 8th in Queens, New York. Below are the cards for each night:
*EVOLVE 112: Joey Janela vs. Austin Theory for the WWN title, Chris Dickinson vs. AR Fox, Josh Briggs vs. Jon Davis, Jaka vs. Trey Miguel
*EVOLVE 113: Shane Strickland vs. Tracy Williams for the EVOLVE title, Chris Dickinson & Jaka vs. The Skulk for the tag titles, AR Fox vs. Austin Theory, Joey Janela vs. Trey Miguel in a non-title match, Darby Allin vs. Josh Briggs
While not yet announced, with the 5 p.m. Pacific (8 p.m. Eastern) start time, the NJPW Long Beach show, like the previous New Japan shows in California, will air live on AXS. We’ve been told that is scheduled right now but no official announcement has been made.
Week four of World of Sport on ITV did 545,000 viewers, which was up from last week, but still bad. It had a new lead-in as instead of the game show “The Chase,” they put in the movie “Scorpion King” starring Dwayne Johnson. ITV rarely runs Saturday afternoon movies but it appears they were using a Johnson movie to help the lead-in. Scorpion King from 3:15 to 5 p.m. did 609,000 viewers.
On his podcast this week, Jim Ross said that he thinks Josh Barnett will be unavailable for NJPW’s Fighting Spirit Unleashed show in Long Beach, California on September 30. Ross said one of Barnett’s fighters has a fight in Japan against Bob Sapp for Rizin and he’s not sure if Barnett will be back in time to call the show with him on AXS. Ross said it’s still being worked on, but they have a pretty good plan in place.
Michael Elgin, The Briscoes, Flip Gordon, David Finlay, Dark Magic, Okumura, and El Mesias will be the international team for CMLL’s Gran Prix on October 5.
PROGRESS announced that Jimmy Havoc and Will Ospreay will face off in a two-out-of-three falls, no DQ match at their show at the Electric Ballroom in Camden on Monday. Paul Robinson will be the referee. If Havoc wins, he advances to the main event of PROGRESS’ show at SSE Wembley on September 30. Tyler Bate vs. Mark Haskins is also set for Monday’s show, with the winner getting a spot in the Wembley Arena main event for WALTER's PROGRESS Championship.
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Ross: https://omny.fm/shows/the-ross-repor...ick-and-matt-j , CMLL: http://www.thecubsfan.com/cmll/2018/...t-title-match/ , PROGRESS: https://twitter.com/ThisIs_Progress/...05349793587200
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Originally Posted by Observer
I’ve been asked my a number of independent promoters about Rey Fenix and Penta 0M. The main thing is that both are not taking any dates in 2019, which is usually a sign of going to WWE. At the same time, the expectation is Fenix winning the AAA world title, and AAA has already been burned in the past when Alberto was champion years ago and then told them at the last minute (like a month after agreeing to the deal but a little before his secret WWE return) and vowed to come back and lose it and fulfill his remaining dates, only to do none of that ... But two different promoters in recent weeks when asking me about them said essentially that when it comes to going to WWE, that the American wrestlers are professional about it and work with them as best they can to make things right and tip them off, but that this is more mysterious. It is not clear they are going for sure, but once they became evasive on date and questions, the belief is it must be the case because if they were going to New Japan, and really New Japan is overloaded with talent at this point so that wouldn’t be likely, they’d have plenty of dates to work around the schedule. Impact and Lucha Underground don’t run full enough schedules to where they wouldn’t take any dates. Then they both worked in Mexico on 8/19 and we’re told Penta wasn’t outwardly showing signs of any back injury. Granted, things heal and all that. But the nature of missing the shows here combined with everything has people very skeptical right now. The question also regards Lucha Underground, as they would be under contract there until six months after the conclusion of the current television season
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Originally Posted by Observer
The lead idea for the Evolution main event on 10/28 at the Nassau Coliseum is Rousey vs. Nikki Bella, with the idea you are headlining with the two biggest mainstream women stars in the company. That was the match we heard as the scheduled main event last week and they seemed to start the tease at SummerSlam with the Bellas watching Rousey win the title and sharing in her celebration with Rousey and Natalya. It’s also not at 100 percent locked in as many think about Rousey vs. Charlotte for WrestleMania. It’s certainly an idea on the boards, but there are a number of ideas . They announced Bliss vs. Trish Stratus for the show over the weekend. This is probably a dream match for Bliss who internally has been patterned after the heel version of Stratus. Another match confirmed is the Mae Young Classic final , and obviously both the Smackdown and NXT women’s titles will be defended on the show.
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Spoiler tag used since its related to this year's Mae Young Classic finals.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Another note regarding Tegan Nox and her knee injury, it was very much not a lock that was going to win the tournament and Nox was actually the probable winner. was the scheduled Evolution match and Mae Young Classic final before Nox got hurt. But Nox was said to be in consideration for winning the whole thing
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Once again spoiler tags used since its related to the MYC finals.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Lisa Riddle, Matt’s wife, on 8/12 did an interview where she acknowledged his signing (which was supposed to be a no-no, even though everyone knew as such a thing is hard to keep secret when one of the top indie guys stops taking dates). She said in June that Matt had gotten an offer from New Japan. When WWE found out about the offer as Matt told Gabe Sapolsky, who he was under contract with at WWN about it, and Sapolsky also works behind-the-scenes at NXT, so shortly after he told Sapolsky, Matt suddenly got a call from Paul Levesque. After a 30 minute discussion, Levesque offered a contract.
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Originally Posted by Observer
In Saudi Arabia, they said WWE would be coming back in November, while George Barrios at the investors call said it would be an annual thing.
The date that had been agreed on originally, at least the Saudi Arabian government believed and we’ve also heard this date is 11/2, the Friday immediately after the Evolution PPV
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Originally Posted by Observer
There is at least talk of Heyman being kept as a television performer. In a sense, he’s too good not to be. There has always been talk of Heyman and Rousey to be put together if Lesnar leaves, and actually it was something discussed before Lesnar extended his contract. I don’t think it’s time for Rousey to be a heel, and for a lot of reason, who knows when it will be the time. Plus if Rousey is going to work with Stephanie again, it’s hard to see where Heyman would fit in
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Originally Posted by Observer
What was expected to be the biggest match in Mexico of the year, a hair vs. mask match with Rush vs. L.A. Park, is not happening.
The story behind it is sketchy, because Park (Adolfo Tapia) came to Arena Mexico on 5/25, immediately started up a feud with Rush that had been hot in several independent matches around Mexico in recent years ...
Still, Park and Rush continually challenged each other to a hair vs. mask match whenever Park worked at Arena Mexico, which were five shows since late May, including a double count out in a heated singles match on 6/22.
The first sign was when Anniversary tickets went on sale a few weeks ago and they were less expensive than expected. The appearance is that CMLL is not interested in Rush losing his hair, which would be the way out of this match even if the whole thing started with Park being willing. Park has pushed that he is willing to lose the mask, but whether the payday wasn’t good enough, or more likely, his career being revitalized over the last three months at a level none expected made him feel, and correctly so, that the time wasn’t right.
Park is now in great demand all over Mexico, the hottest he has been in years and perhaps drawing the best he has in a long career. Park is scheduled to be one of the key players going forward with MLW, and he needs the mask to be at that level. There is also talk of interest from other U.S. promotions, notably Impact.
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Originally Posted by WrestlingInc
Recently on The Steve Austin Show, WWE Hall Of Famer Steve Austin weighed in on SummerSlam weekend. Specifically, Austin shared his thoughts on Kevin Owens getting "steamrolled" by Braun Strowman at SummerSlam. Also, Austin talked about the main event between Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns.
On the subject of Owens vs. Strowman, Austin claimed that the match was "a lot shorter than [he] anticipated" before explaining that he did not appreciate Owens getting squashed.
"I hope Kevin Owens can claw his way back to where he was. Hopefully, they're booking him to get back to where he was. I'm a big fan of both guys. I'm friends with both guys, but, man, with Braun, Braun is a big guy. And Kevin has been in the picture for a lot of titles, held a lot of titles, and I just thought, 'man, he didn't get s--t in, so, eh, I just wasn't a fan." Austin continued, "yeah, I just didn't think Kevin Owens needed to get steamrolled because he's a top guy. And, obviously, Braun Strowman is still green, but he's a top guy. They're grooming him for bigger and better things, but KO didn't need to get squashed in the process."
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Link: https://www.podcastone.com/episode/N...ummerSlam-2018
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Originally Posted by Observer
Road Dogg responded to a fan on Twitter who said the story they’re telling on SmackDown between Becky Lynch and Charlotte has been Lynch fighting and struggling for a title shot while Charlotte was handed an opportunity and took away a moment from Lynch: “That’s not the story you were told, that’s the story you wanted to hear. She had to do the exact same thing as Charlotte did, beat Carmella! They both climbed the exact same mountain”
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Road Dogg tends to get really pissy online whenever someone complaints or takes issue with the way he helps books SmackDown. https://twitter.com/WWERoadDogg/stat...13048161370112
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Originally Posted by Observer
WWE.com has a poll asking fans whether they supported Lynch the entire time that she was trying to win the SmackDown Women’s Championship.
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Link: https://www.wwe.com/polls/did-you-su...n-womens-title
Some other sheet news includes: - According to the Observer, the finish for the NXT title match at Brooklyn IV was indeed the original plan for the match based on his sources. Also stated Gargano's injury is part of an upcoming angle Triple H has planned for NXT.
- Also according to the Observer, there have been recently talks of ROH getting a new parent company due to several outside companies are currently interested in purchasing Sinclair.
Some stuff from TPWW Frontpage:
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