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New Japan Pro Wrestling will be crowning the first IWGP United States Champion when the company comes to Long Beach, California in July.
The announcement was made in the ring prior to tonight's co-branded ROH/NJPW War of the Worlds pay-per-view at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City. There will be a round robin tournament held over the two nights in Long Beach to determine the first champion.
Jay Lethal was confirmed as the first entrant in the tournament.
The shows in California will take place on July 1st and 2nd. Aside from initial announcements about which NJPW wrestlers will be appearing, this is the biggest news that has been revealed about them so far. The cards should take shape after NJPW's Dominion PPV on June 11th.
Both shows will air live on NJPW World. Jim Ross also posted that AXS TV is set to announce their broadcast plans for the events on May 18th. Ross wrote that fans will like what they hear.
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Originally Posted by PWI
Brock Lesnar, who is slated to return to defend his WWE Universal Title after a three month post-WrestleMania beak and the Great Balls Of Fire PPV on July 9, is scheduled to appear at the following RAW TVs:
June 12 - Lafayette, LA
June 26 - Los Angeles, CA
July 3 - Phoenix, AZ (Go home to Great Balls of Fire)
Jul 10 - Houston, TX (Post-Great Balls of Fire)
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According to the schedule listed on the website, the first special of the UK Championship TV Tapings from Norwich last weekend will stream on WWE Network on May 18th from 8 pm to 9:30 pm ET.
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Matt Hardy tweeted the following, which is a point that I made as well many times on Elite Audio recently.
If @Billy had got TNA, company/talent would've been great.
Instead, a naive @EdNordholm is now funding GFW into existence at TNA's expense. https://t.co/2ajD3OhmJr
— I AM MORE (@MATTHARDYBRAND) May 12, 2017
I have to agree with Matt, and myself, here. Perhaps Anthem has a vision for TNA that I don't comprehend but from the outside it looks like since they bought the company less than six months ago they have:
Let talent that the TNA fans loved go in The Hardys, Drew Galloway, Maria Kanellis and Mike Bennett, Jade and others.
Had their booking team denigrate the TNA brand that they had just purchased from Dixie Carter as if it wasn't worth promoting, or even watching.
Pushed a company in Global Force Wrestling, which has little-to-no national following, no television and frankly hardly any history, above the product that they just bought, which does have all of those things.
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Article PWI had in regards to the feeling Anthem is blundering with putting too much focus towards GFW instead of putting all the focus on rebuilding Impact.
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The 5/11 edition of Impact on Pop brought in 309,000 viewers, up from last week's 260,000 viewers.
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WWE Shop's latest sale is "Buy one T-Shirt, get one for $1." No code is needed for the discount. There are some exclusions that apply: Pre-order, Schamberger Art Print T-Shirts, Homage Tees, Junk Food Tees, and Clearance Items. The sale runs until May 12 at 9:59pm EST.
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Originally Posted by WrestleInc
We noted before that Zack Ryder recently returned to the ring at the Performance Center to begin training for his return to SmackDown action. Ryder has been out of action since December with a knee injury. Ryder noted on Twitter that he was training with WWE NXT Superstar Oney Lorcan this week.
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It was noted that the backstage segment on this week’s WWE Smackdown Live, which saw Charlotte acting a bit more like a heel towards Naomi and Becky Lynch, may be a tease to once again turn her heel. Meltzer speculated that this may lead to an eventual Naomi versus Charlotte feud with Charlotte taking the heel role even though she’s designated as a babyface right now. It was said that people within the company were opposed the babyface turn in the first place, and Charlotte’s recent actions aren’t unlike her father’s face turns where he still acted a bit heelish.
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