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The 10/4 edition of Impact did 183,000 overnight viewers down from last week's 190,000 overnight viewers. Obviously that is not the way they want the numbers to go.
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Originally Posted by Post Wrestling
Viewership for Impact Wrestling has taken a big hit since July with their last 11 weeks of programming averaging 227,000 viewers going back to July 26th. In the 11-week period prior to that, the show was averaging 283,000 viewers and dropped 20%. While the return of Thursday night football can explain the audience being down to a degree, the plunge began in August prior to football. It’s a mystery what led to the decline because buzz for the product was its highest in years following Slammiversary but after a one-week grace period, the audience dropped dramatically.
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Indies Roundup:
On the newest edition of the National Wrestling Alliance's YouTube series, Jim Cornette discusses the legacy of the NWA title, Cody vs. Nick Aldis for the championship next weekend and more leading into the NWA 70th Anniversary event, which will air live on Fite.TV
The [MLW] promotion is finalizing the location of its 2/2 Superfight which will see Low Ki vs. Tom Lawlor headline for the MLW Championship. The plan is to make this a major marquee event for the company, running Superbowl weekend every year. We are told that the first event will not be held in NYC. They are looking at venues in the Northeast and Mid-West. The hope is to officially announce the market and venue in early November.
[MLW] Management absolutely loves Marko Stunt and are planning for him to be used regularly by the company. There’s even been early discussions of building an entire division around him.
Bar Wrestling has a show on 10/17 called Breastlemania. The show will benefit the Susan Love Foundation for breast cancer research and has Tessa Blanchard vs. Brian Cage, Penelope Ford vs. Shotzi Blackheart vs. Heather Monroe vs. Indi Hartwell, Scarlett Bordeaux & Katrina vs. Ruby Raze & Sage Sin and Nicole Savoy vs. Diamante.
AAW will be running a card tonight at 9 pm Eastern from Austin, Texas and will be streaming it live on Twitch with the following card: Brody King & Jimmy Jacobs vs. Sami Callihan & Darby Allin, ACH vs. Eddie Kingston, Trevor Lee vs. Rich Swann for the Heritage title, Aaron Solow & Ricky Starks vs. Mat Fitchett & Davey Vega, Myron Reed & AR Fox vs. Dezmond Xavier & Zachary Wentz, Thunder Rosa vs. Kylie Ray, Laredo Kid vs. Jason Cade, Steven Wolf & Pacu vs. Curt Stallion.
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NWA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEuc25IpREk , AAW: https://www.twitch.tv/aawpro
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Originally Posted by PWI
BREAKING: Father James Mitchell will induct @TherealAbyss into the IMPACT Hall of Fame as it streams TOMORROW live on Twitch.
MORE: https://t.co/z9BI6KbMln pic.twitter.com/dyq4EjMqFD
— IMPACT (@IMPACTWRESTLING) October 12, 2018
Impact Wrestling will live stream their Hall of Fame induction of Abyss tomorrow night on their Twitch channel, it was announced this afternoon
Jim Mitchell, Abyss' storyline father and long-time manager, will be officially inducting the former NWA Champion into the company's Hall of Fame at the ceremony, which will take place tomorrow night at McHale's Pub in NYC. |
Link: https://twitter.com/IMPACTWRESTLING/...32828827226114
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Originally Posted by PWI
The 12/26 WWE Live Event at Madison Square Garden, which was advertised as a Smackdown Live has been changed to a Raw brand show..
The new lineup for the traditional day after Christmas event features:
*Roman Reigns vs. Braun Strowman in a Steel Cage match for the Universal Championship
*Seth Rollins & Dean Ambrose vs. Dolph Ziggler & Drew McIntyre for the RAW Tag Team Championships
*Ronda Rousey vs. Mickie James for the RAW Women's Championship
Also advertised to appear are Finn Balor, Kevin Owens, Bobby Lashley, Elias, Jinder Mahal, Alexa Bliss, Bayley and more.
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Originally Posted by Observer
NEW JAPAN SUPER JUNIOR TAG TEAM TOURNAMENT STARTS TUESDAY AT 5:30 A.M. EASTERN FROM TOKYO KORAKUEN HALL ON NEW JAPAN WORLD
Toa Henare & Shota Umino & Ren Narita vs. Ayato Yoshida & Yota Tsuji & Yuya Uemura
Hiroshi Tanahashi & Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma vs. Kota Ibushi & Yujiro Takahashi & Chase Owens
Kazuchika Okada & Toru Yano & Baretta & Chuckie T vs. Jay White & Bad Luck Fale & Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa
Taiji Ishimori & Robbie Eagles vs. Jushin Liger & Tiger Mask
Ryusuke Taguchi &ACH vs. Volador Jr. & Soberano Jr.
Kushida & Chris Sabin vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Desperado
Bushi & Shingo Takagi vs. Sho & Yoh
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Originally Posted by Observer
Several major media sources including Viacom, The New York Times and Los Angeles Times have pulled out of a Saudi Arabian media conference and Fox Business is examining the situation. This puts more pressure on WWE because it makes it look like they can't make a moral stand and it will be a very bad reflection to the pubic of the image of WWE as a company.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Regarding the tweet where Khabib Nurmagomedov said he was in talks with WWE, officials at WWE say that is not the case. Nurmagomedov is under contract to UFC and UFC contracts prohibit talent from doing pro wrestling without clearing it with the company.
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Link: https://twitter.com/TeamKhabib/statu...39801769058305
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Triple H believes that WWE chief Vince McMahon has never watched a full episode of his own developmental brand NXT.
The revelation will come as little surprise to fans who have criticised Vince and WWE for the treatment of NXT stars once they’re called up to the main roster.
Triple H made the comments in London while announcing the debut of NXT UK – which airs on the WWE Network next Wednesday October 17.
But Triple H also says that Vince’s outsider view of NXT is a good thing – and helps him see the brand and its superstars objectively.
He said: “I don’t know that he’s ever even watched a full episode of NXT start to finish. He’s busy.”
But “The Game” says he’s always amazed by how much insight Vince has on the product and superstars from watching just snippets.
Triple H said: “He will pick up a lot from bits and pieces from what he sees. To me it’s always amazing – his insight of things.
“I realise he just saw a snippet but what he will say about that snippet is a bigger overall arc to the entire product, and I’m like, ‘That’s really right.’ I think it’s great that he doesn’t see all of it because it gives him a different perspective. It gives him an outsider view on it.”
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Link: https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/74774...ce-mcmahon-nxt
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Originally Posted by WrestlingInc
A return to WWE has been rumored for Rey Mysterio since he was a surprise entrant in the 2018 Men's Royal Rumble Match in January and it will finally happen next week.
WWE announced this week that Mysterio will square off with United States Champion Shinsuke Nakamura in a WWE World Cup Qualifying Match on next Tuesday's historic 1000th episode of SmackDown LIVE in Washington D.C. Mysterio is advertised to wrestle twice on the show as WWE revealed tonight in an email to those in the D.C. area that he will also compete in a tag team match.
In updated advertising for the event, Mysterio is slated to team with WWE Champion AJ Styles and Daniel Bryan against Randy Orton, The Miz, and Nakamura. A match pitting Styles and Bryan against Samoa Joe and Miz was previously advertised.
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Originally Posted by WrestlingInc
On the debut episode of Vince Russo: Truth with Consequences with Matt Koon on the Westwood One Podcast Network, Vince Russo discussed his booking philosophy, time with WCW and more. You can check out the podcast on iTunes, they sent us these highlights ...
The decision to book himself winning the WCW World title:
"The week of the show in the creative meeting the decision was made. The people in the booking meeting all thought the same. The goal is to get as many eyeballs as possible on the show. Everybody on the creative side was looking at it as TV show rather than a wrestling show. I put the WWE title on [Vince] McMahon, the WCW title on [David] Arquette, another WCW title on [Eric] Bischoff. Why? We are looking to create stories and not for the wrestling fan, for the casual wrestling fan."
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More highlights: https://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/20...-world-646684/
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Jeff Cobb spoke with the Baltimore Sun on recently winning the ROH World TV title, his top career moments, picking ROH over other promotions, and if he had any offers from other companies. Here are some of the highlights ...
Picking ROH over other companies:
"I definitely want to wrestle more in New Japan. Ring of Honor has that great relationship with them. New Japan guys are on ROH TV, and ROH guys are out on New Japan shows. The schedules don't conflict that often. That's definitely a big factor that made me want to sign with Ring of Honor."
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More highlights: https://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/20...act-in-646682/
Some other sheet news includes: - For those interested, PWI had a recent article detailing WWE's current dilemma with their Crown Jewel event and Saudi contract following the recent embassy controversy. PWI's Mike Johnson looked at the situation from both a business and journalistic perspective. https://www.pwinsider.com/article/12...-what.html?p=1
- Update on recent NJPW low locker room morale news as NJPW's president debunked the Observer's claims of morale being near an all-time low and the person mentioned in the report being a big cause of the controversy. Meltzer responded to criticism stating it was none of the Elite guys who were his sources nor was it just a ploy to increase certain guys value in NJPW. Origin of the controversy seems to be based on Kevin Kelly blurting out Craven's name during a broadcast which some assumed was likely a simple mistake by Kelly. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.red...the_wrong_guy/ , https://www.resetera.com/threads/oct...#post-13739697
- Recent rumor going around the net hints WWE is already planning to hold separate Takeover events for their NXT UK brand.
- According to ShowBuzz Daily, this week's episode of Lucha Underground drew around 84k viewers.
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