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Former TPWW Royalty
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Dirtsheets sponsored by Rusev Appreciation Day:
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Originally Posted by Observer
Raw set its third non-football and non-holiday record low last night in the past four weeks, doing 2.61 million viewers on average for the show. The live episode actually did fewer viewers than the taped show from London two weeks ago, which set the previous seasonal record low of 2.68 million viewers.
It was a lock the numbers would be low given how many viewers the show has lost since the NBA playoffs started. However, both the NBA and NHL playoff numbers dropped from last week and Raw still declined five percent against easier competition ...
The key to the show is that there were the lowest number of viewers in the first hour dating back at least 20 years, even below shows on New Year's Eve, last year's show on July 4th (which is really scary when you think there were slightly more viewers at 8 p.m. on July 4th), and even the night of the Trump-Clinton debate last September.
The three hours were:
8 p.m. 2.66 million viewers
9 p.m. 2.76 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.43 million viewers
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Some key notes includes same show last year had around 650k more viewers and RAW is currently on a 4 week streak of being under 3 million. Worst is the streak happening before WWE starts their annual lull period usually after SummerSlam.
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Originally Posted by Observer
The legal situation surrounding the ownership of the "Broken Hardys" characters inevitably came up when Ed Nordholm (president of Impact Wrestling and Executive VP of Anthem Sports & Entertainment) sat down with John Pollock for an interview that aired on this week's episode of Live Audio Wrestling ...
Nordholm also had interesting comments regarding whether WWE is even interested in the "Broken Hardys" gimmick. He claimed that he'd be open to speaking with The Hardys and that they've been offered the opportunity to find an arrangement that would work for both parties, but said that he doesn't believe WWE is interested in their "Broken" characters.
"As far as I know, the WWE doesn’t want the gimmick, and indeed, from every conversation I’ve had with them, I’ve been told they have no interest in it," Nordholm said.
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According to the Observer, Nordholm was only telling half the truth since a big reason why talks stopped was due to Impact not actually willing to sell the gimmick and still demanding royalties for its use. PWI and others recently released portions of emails sent by Impact Wrestling trying to prove their side of the issue: http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...s-even-uglier/
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Originally Posted by Observer
This summer's WWE women's tournament officially has its name.
Triple H announced today that the tournament will be called the "Mae Young Classic." The name honors Young, who the company has long held up as a legendary figure in women's wrestling. She was 90 years old when she passed away in January 2014.
After being in the planning stages for a while, the tournament was announced at WWE's business partner summit in Orlando over WrestleMania weekend. WWE hyped that it will feature a 32-competitor field and that 17 different countries will be represented.
The Mae Young Classic will begin taping on July 13th and 14th at Full Sail University, with tickets going on sale this Friday at 10 a.m. ET. It is being taped to air on the WWE Network.
Jim Ross has confirmed that he'll be part of the announce team for the tournament, but no wrestlers have officially been revealed for it yet.
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PROGRESS Wrestling revealed that they're coming back to the United States for a show at the Elmcor Center in Queens, New York on August 12th. It will be a double-header with EVOLVE, which has a show taking place at the same building in the afternoon.
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What Culture Pro Wrestling announced that the weekly tapings for their "Loaded" shows will be canceled going forward starting on June 9th. WCPW noted that the model for the show is no longer sustainable due to a change in YouTube's policy where wrestling videos have been categorized as non-advertiser friendly. All of the company's other shows will go on as scheduled.
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In a video that WWE uploaded on YouTube, it was revealed that Vic Joseph will be joining Corey Graves on the announce team for Main Event going forward.
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Many people in WWE, including Triple H and Stephanie McMahon, have sent their thoughts to those in Manchester after last night's awful terrorist attack at the Manchester Arena. TMZ posted a statement from the company about the NXT house show that's scheduled to take place at the arena on June 6th: "WWE offers its heartfelt condolences to those affected by this tragedy. We are working with local authorities on the appropriate course of action as it relates to our event scheduled for Tuesday, June 6 at the Manchester Arena."
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Originally Posted by Observer
CMLL announced today that Maximo Sexy, La Mascara and Bobby Villa have all been fired. Mascara was under the impression yesterday he was only suspended. Maximo and La Mascara were fired for being on the scene when Ultimo Guerrero's car was destroyed in the Arena Mexico parking lot. Because the video tape of the incident came out, there was a significant amount of national media coverage of this. Bobby Villa was not in the video tape but somehow was implicated, but it should be noted that Ultimo Guerrero brought Villa into the promotion.
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Link with more details on the incident this past weekend: http://www.f4wonline.com/mexico/alva...ncident-235916
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Originally Posted by Observer
Ring of Honor announced today a second War of the Worlds tour, this time in the U.K., which they stated would be a joint effort between ROH, New Japan, CMLL, and Revolution Pro Wrestling.
The tour will have shows on August 17th at York Hall in London, which is Revolution Pro's Summer Sizzler 2017 event. It will follow with a War of the Worlds branded show on August 18th in London at York Hall, an August 19th show in Liverpool at the Olympia, and an August 20th show in Edinburgh, Scotland at the Corn Exchange.
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Originally Posted by Pro Wrestling Sheet
Pro Wrestling Sheet has learned WWE officials are planning to announce a women’s Money in the Bank match for next month’s event … and if all goes accordingly, we’ll be getting the first of it’s kind.
Sources tell us the SmackDown brand pay per view will not only feature the men’s MITB, but as it currently stands they’re planning to announce a women’s match as well in the next few weeks.
Thats right, 2017 is more than likely going to feature the inaugural Women’s Championship briefcase.
No word yet on participants, or if there is any added stipulations, but the fact they are having this match alone is just another large step forward in women’s equality in WWE.
This past October WWE stepped up and featured not only the first ever women’s Hell In A Cell, but also the first ever women’s PPV main event. And just this past Wrestlemania, #givesdwomenachance ended up moving those wrestlers from the pre-show to the main card.
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Originally Posted by PWI
The 7/7 WWE return to Madison Square Garden, which is a Raw brand event, has officially added a Smackdown match in the form of Dolph Ziggler vs. Shinsuke Nakamura. This will be Nakamura's official debut in the legendary "Mecca"
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Originally Posted by WrestleInc
While WWE has announced that Braun Strowman is expected to be out of action for up to 6 months after undergoing elbow surgery, PWInsider notes that officials expect him back much sooner. We mentioned last week that Dave Meltzer reported on Wrestling Observer Radio that Strowman is expected to wrestle Brock Lesnar at SummerSlam and will likely return in mid-July to start the build for the match.
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Some other sheet news includes:
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