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Dirtsheets sponsored by Braun's RAW farewell present to Miz:

Originally Posted by Observer The Superstar Shakeup edition of Raw continued the show's strong numbers, doing 3.62 million viewers. While the number was down 11 percent from last week's Raw after WrestleMania, it was up six percent from last year's Superstar Shakeup show that did 3.42 million viewers ... Next week will be a strong gauge as to where things are really at, but based on trends, the record lows that took place last year during the NBA playoffs are not likely to be repeated this year, although ratings will decline as they get deeper into the playoffs ... The three hours were: 8 p.m. 3.63 million viewers 9 p.m. 3.75 million viewers 10 p.m. 3.48 million viewers

Originally Posted by Observer With The Miz moving back to SmackDown in the Superstar Shakeup, WWE has already announced a few matches where he'll be facing Daniel Bryan. Miz vs. Bryan is set for three house shows on WWE's tour of the United Kingdom next month. Those events are in Liverpool on May 16th, Newcastle on the 17th, and Sheffield on the 18th.

Link: https://twitter.com/WWEUK/status/986307692380729344

Originally Posted by Observer While he'll be using a different name this time, the former Chris Hero is headed back to PROGRESS Wrestling for one of their biggest weekend's of the year. PROGRESS announced NXT's Kassius Ohno as the latest entrant for this year's Super Strong Style 16 tournament today. It will take place at Alexandra Palace in London on May 5-7, with the winner receiving a future title shot. As Hero, Ohno also appeared in the 2016 edition of Super Strong Style 16. He lost to Tommy End (now Aleister Black) in the semifinals. This won't be the first time that Ohno has wrestled for a WWE-friendly promotion since returning to NXT. He made an appearance for ICW last September and was defeated by Joe Coffey. With one more entrant still to be announced, Pete Dunne, Keith Lee, Zack Sabre Jr., Doug Williams, Angelico, Mark Andrews, Flash Morgan Webster, Chuck Mambo, Chris Brookes, Jordan Devlin, Joey Janela, TK Cooper, David Starr, Tyler Bate, and Ohno make up the field for this year's Super Strong Style 16. Travis Banks won the tournament in 2017 and went on to win the PROGRESS Championship from Dunne.

Link: https://twitter.com/ThisIs_Progress/...04603347144704

Originally Posted by Post Wrestling Tuesday night’s HBO documentary on Andre the Giant did 931,000 viewers and was the most-watched HBO documentary in 15 years. The special has received lots of praise and I would imagine will open the door for more wrestling themed documentaries between HBO / Bill Simmons and the WWE for the right subject.

Originally Posted by Observer After he missed last week’s 205 Live episode and NXT television tapings, Nigel McGuinness revealed that his significant other gave birth to their daughter. McGuinness won’t return to TV until April 24th, and he thanked WWE for their support: “Thanks to everyone for the congrats and well wishes. And to everyone at WWE for their understanding and support. Feel truly blessed.”

Link: https://www.instagram.com/p/BhigV-JH...cguinnessnigel , https://twitter.com/McGuinnessNigel/...04233271066625

Originally Posted by Observer Dakota Kai wrote about Nixon Newell debuting for WWE at last night’s NXT house show in Venice: “Being sidelined for 10 months is something I can’t even begin to imagine, even more so when it’s stopping you from fully committing to a passion. I can’t wait to see what the future has in store for you and to do it by your side is the greatest feeling @NixonNewell #FlyKicks.” Newell teamed with Kai against Vanessa Borne & Reina Gonzalez and used her real name (Steffanie Newell) for the match. She was supposed to be in last summer’s Mae Young Classic but suffered a torn ACL before the tournament.

Link: https://twitter.com/DakotaKai_WWE/st...87875108114432

Originally Posted by Observer WWE put out an “unreleased entrance video” for former Raw Tag Team Champion Nicholas.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqq1ShFPdCA

Originally Posted by Observer After ROH posted a list of his five greatest matches for them, Daniel Bryan acknowledged it on Twitter and wrote that he was proud of them all.

Link: https://twitter.com/WWEDanielBryan/s...20452995866624

Originally Posted by Observer Rich Swann made a surprise return to CZW and entered their Best of the Best tournament tonight. Swann had previously canceled all of his scheduled bookings and hasn’t wrestled since his domestic battery arrest last December, though the charges were dismissed earlier this year due to it being determined that there was insufficient evidence to sustain a conviction. Swann and WWE “mutually agreed to part ways” after the charges were dismissed. With Nick Aldis retaining against Colt Cabana, the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship was defended in China for the first time. As expected based on what happened Thursday, MLW champion Shane Strickland will make his first title defense against Pentagon Jr. on the 5/3 TV tapings in Orlando at Gilt Nightclub. Their TV show debuts on Friday night on Bein Sports. Defy Wrestling on 5/4 in Missoula, MT at the MASC Studios has Flip Gordon vs. Matt Riddle.

Swann: https://twitter.com/Jocay19/status/985310340316581888 , NWA: https://twitter.com/nwa/status/985190743458299904

Originally Posted by Observer Two more wrestlers from Lucha Underground will be in action at Impact Wrestling's Redemption pay-per-view. Impact announced today that Aerostar vs. Drago is set for this coming Sunday, advertising it as being "brought to you by our partners Lucha Underground." Aerostar & Drago teamed with King Cuerno at Impact vs. LU in New Orleans earlier this month. defeating Andrew Everett, Dezmond Xavier & DJ Z in a six-man tag match. Cuerno (as El Hijo Del Fantasma), Xavier, and DJ Z will be involved in a six-way match at Redemption, which also includes Brian Cage, Taiji Ishimori, and Trevor Lee. Redemption takes place at the Impact Zone in Orlando, Florida on Sunday. Here's the updated card: Impact World Champion Austin Aries defending against Pentagon Jr. and Fenix in a triple threat match Knockouts Champion Allie defending against Su Yung Eddie Edwards, Moose & Tommy Dreamer vs. Sami Callihan & OVE (Dave & Jake Crist) in a House of Hardcore match X Division Champion Matt Sydal defending against Petey Williams Impact Tag Team Champions LAX (Santana & Ortiz) defending against Eli Drake & Scott Steiner Aerostar vs. Drago Brian Cage vs. Taiji Ishimori vs. DJ Z vs. El Hijo Del Fantasma vs. Trevor Lee vs. Dezmond Xavier

Link:http://impactwrestling.com/aerostar-...at-redemption/

Originally Posted by Observer Chris Jericho was on the StillRealToUs.com podcast and regarding New Japan, said: "Yeah, you know it was a good idea. It was good when it happened. We had a blast, but sometimes things just don't work out. New Japan was a lot of fun. Not to say that I wouldn't go back there again but as of right now, our relationship is pretty much finished at this point."

Link: http://stillrealtous.com/exclusive-c...-future-plans/

Originally Posted by Observer Jushin Thunder Liger will be returning to Ring of Honor next month. ROH announced on their website today that Liger will be a part of the upcoming War of the Worlds tour, the annual ROH tour where New Japan and ROH talent face off against each other. ROH said that Liger will be on all four stops of the tour. Along with Liger, all four members of Los Ingobernables de Japon (Tetsuya Naito, SANADA, BUSHI, EVIL and Hiromu Takahashi) have been signed for the tour. Liger hasn’t competed for Ring of Honor in North America since 2016, taking part in their Final Battle 2016 tour. He lost to Silas Young on that show and also lost to Jay Lethal in a match taped for television. War of the Worlds will start on May 9 in Lowell, Massachusetts. It will continue in Toronto, Canada on May 11, May 12 in Royal Oak, Michigan and will culminate on May 13 in Chicago, Illinois. No matches have been announced as of this writing.

Link: https://www.rohwrestling.com/news/ju...ar-worlds-tour

[QUOTE=PWI]Ring of Honor announced the following:

Sho and Yoh, Roppongi 3K, make their Ring of Honor return in Lowell, MA as part of the War of the Worlds Tour! The team spent much of 2016 and 2017 on a learning excursion in the United States with ROH and return nearly a year after achieving several career milestones and becoming one of the best teams in the world![/PWI]

Originally Posted by PWI Former WWE star Colin Delaney has opened a comic book store in Rochester, NY titled Pop Roc, located at 337 East Avenue. The location also has a coffee shop.

Originally Posted by PWI Several readers in Great Britain have noted that Impact Wrestling's weekly TV series, which airs on Spike UK, is not listed to air in that country in the coming weeks after a year of the series running on the network. In checking with Impact sources, PWInsider.com is told that the company is currently in negotiations to stay on the network. Negotiations were postponed due to scheduling issues on each side due to the recent MIP conference, so they are behind in completing the deal. Impact sources noted the discussions are expected to be completed shortly.

Originally Posted by PWI WWE Network News is reporting that the first episode of "Something Else to Wrestle With" with Conrad Thompson and Bruce Prichard will actually debut on the streaming service on demand this Wednesday. The first topic of the new show Wrestlemania 14.

Link: http://www.wwenetworknews.com/2018/0...opic-revealed/

Originally Posted by PWI AL.com has an interview with Conrad Thompson talking about "Something Else to Wrestle With" coming soon to WWE Network. On the series, Thompson commented, "It's going to go one of two ways. They're going to love us and renew us beyond the initial 13 weeks, and we'll be the hottest thing on the network besides the pay-per-view. Or we're going to go four episodes and they're going to can us because we're getting way out of our lane. And I'm OK with either one of those. The idea was never 'Let's start a podcast and maybe we can do a video version on the network.' The idea was always to do whatever we can to grow the podcast. It's all a way to grow the podcast. As crazy as it sounds, that's our goal here. We're not looking at this network video show as 'Hey, we made it,' some sort of weird validation. We're hoping that this becomes a feeder system."

Link: http://www.al.com/entertainment/inde...ng_conrad.html

Originally Posted by Post Wrestling Smash Wrestling also announced that Walter was coming for their July 15th show in Toronto at The Phoenix and Tessa Blanchard would be working for the group on August 26th. Matt Riddle is scheduled for their upcoming June 3rd series of shows as they will run an afternoon event at 3 pm and an evening show at 7 pm with a one-day tournament.

This was very interesting, because originally Asuka was going to win with a Carmella cash-in. Carmella was going to lose and the big match they were going to build to was Asuka vs. Ronda Rousey. Now you may have heard me promote that I believe personally the biggest match they could do is Ronda Rousey vs. Charlotte. And they finally came around to that opinion at some point in the past few weeks. I don’t know exactly when but it was around the time Asuka stopped using the armbar that they made the decision that Charlotte was going to go over and end the streak and be the person and Vince lost faith in Asuka as that top woman to face Ronda Rousey. So that’s essentially what happened.

From a recent episode of Brad Shepard's podcast show.

Originally Posted by Observer Ronda Rousey paid tribute to Roddy Piper on what would have been his 64th birthday: “Happy Birthday to the Legend, my Hero and Inspiration, Rowdy Roddy Piper. You are sorely missed and always remembered”

Link: http://www.wwe.com/overtheropes/arti...rthday-tribute

Originally Posted by Observer A press conference for All In will take place at Pro Wrestling Tees’ store in Chicago on May 13th at 1 p.m. local time. Cody Rhodes, Brandi Rhodes, The Young Bucks, Marty Scurll, Hangman Page, and Tessa Blanchard are featured on the imaging for the event, which will include “several talent/match announcements, surprises, ticket info, Starrcast info, and charity info.” The first 50 fans who arrive will be allowed to attend the press conference, with it streaming live on Twitch and Facebook for everyone else.

Link: https://www.instagram.com/p/BhrdZEXH...nnightmarecody

Originally Posted by PWI On 4/12, WWE applied to register "Woken Warrior" for merchandising purposes, obviously relating to the "Woken" Matt Hardy character. Also on 4/12, CMLL owner Paco Alonso applied for a US trademark for Mistico. This could be due to the "Heroes of Lucha Libre" promotion trying to trademark Mistico back in February.

Some other sheet news includes:

• Recent episode of the Edge & Christian podcast show had Aleister Black as the guest. https://art19.com/shows/ecs-pod-of-a...4-de48465d5939
• CZW is currently dealing with backlash from fans regarding their recent booking of Rich Swann and from their locker room regarding suddenly preventing them from for GCW and other similar promotions even though they get paid more there. Already Joey Janela and Sami Callihan have gone public about leaving the company.
• A new wrestling book called "Death of the Territories: Expansion, Betrayal and the War that Changed Pro Wrestling Forever" was announced to be getting released on September 8th. The book focuses on the rise of the WWF's national push and death of the Territory system. https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...ories.html?p=1
• Next episode of WWE Network's Ride Along series was revealed to involve Alexa Bliss and Braun Strowman. https://twitter.com/thenextblgthing/...92728235638784

Some stuff from TPWW Frontpage:

• WWE: Bryan & The Miz Tweet Each Other, More on Cena/Bella Breakup
• Apollo Crews Gets His Name Back
• More on the John Cena & Nikki Bella Breakup
• WWE: Brock Lesnar Update, Superstar Shake-up, Rock & Cena Box Office
• Various: Rusev Trolls, Ellering on AOP Breakup, Vader Out of Hospital