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Originally Posted by PWI If Corgan does not get his injunction, it appears what will happen, based on Corgan's discovery, is this: Anthem pays off Corgan and he exits the picture. Anthem takes 85% of the control of the company, as Corgan's attorneys learned through their discovery. Aroluxe takes a secondary ownership stake of 10%, setting up their own CEO Jason Brown as the CEO of Impact Ventures for at least three years. Dixie Carter retains a small ownership stake at 5%. Anthem would then fund the company going forward and for the short-term, the company would tape TV 3-4 times a year and that would be it. What will be interesting to follow is this: if Corgan ends up out, that's the exit of someone who was extremely well liked within the locker room while Carter would remain in some capacity. Corgan had a lot of communication with the talents in comparison to the other parties involved in current ownership, including Dixie Carter, and was seen as a babyface in the scenario by a lot of (but not all) of the wrestlers. If Carter retains her power, going forward, she then has to deal with the fact that she told the locker room she would not let WWE buy the company, when court documents revealed that not only was she willing to let that happen, but there were talks of a sale all the way back to June of this year. Just a few days before her locker room talk, WWE submitted a non-binding offer to purchase the company's library and assets - which means that unless WWE was going to take all the talents (we are told by a WWE source that they believe that was not the case), everyone involved would have been out of a job. Carter told talents on 10/3 she wasn't letting a sale happen. On 9/25, Dean Broadhead was sending WWE documentation that was requested to help WWE follow through with due dilligence. That is quite the bridge Carter is going to have to mend with the locker room.

Recent update to the Corgan-TNA lawsuit and the potential aftermath if Corgan loses the lawsuit. Link with more details: https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc...de_post_since/

Lesley Floyd, a lawyer in the state of Tennessee, cited to Fightful.com Tennessee Code Ann. 45-151-1005, which she says could very well destroy Corgan's case. According to this, you're not able to make a title pledge loan in the state of Tennessee without being registered. Corgan isn't registered, and it very well could ruin the case for him. Floyd notes that unless Corgan got licensed under an entity name, it's quite possible that he could walk away with nothing. That statute that Floyd cites could mean that he also may have forfeited the rights to repayment from Dixie Carter and TNA as well. Chancellor Hobbs Lyle will rule on the matter Monday, but TNA has a bevy of lawsuits to handle outside of Corgan's.

Some recent details regarding Corgan's lawsuit against TNA. Link with more info: http://fightful.com/exclusive-tennes...ding-repayment

Originally Posted by PWI The 2016 Survivor Series PPV on 11/20 in Toronto is being expanded into a four hour PPV broadcast. The PPV itself will begin at 7 PM and run until 11 PM. There will be a Kickoff broadcast starting at 6 PM. WWE expanded Summerslam into a four hour PPV starting with the 2015 edition. Yesterday, Ticketmaster began informing ticketholders that the start time for the live event is now 6:30 PM.

Originally Posted by PWI The 10/27 "Treat of Delete" edition of Impact Wrestling did 363,000 viewers, up a bit from last week's 353,000 viewers.

Originally Posted by Observer The official word from WWE is that Austin Aries has not been medically cheered to perform as a precautionary measure regarding the rest of this weekend's NXT shows. Aries, whose left eye was stitched up and swollen badly, looking like someone who has an orbital bone fracture, although there is no diagnosis of the injury, took to a kick to the eye on Wednesday night from Shinsuke Nakamura in Fresno, the opening night of the NXT tour.

Originally Posted by Observer WWE stock fell $1.10 to $18.07 per share today, a major drop coming off the investment call yesterday. Usually the drop comes the day of the call, and there was a big drop at first, but the stock came back as the network subscription number being disappointing and earnings being blow most analysts projections was warded off by the meme that they would have $100 million in OIBDA in 2017. But today, Wells Fargo, KeyBanc Deutsche Bank and Pacific Crest all downgraded the stock, leading to the drop.

Originally Posted by Observer The company's 10-Q filing released yesterday included several notes, including that the WWE's financial stake in Flo Sports is $1 million, so they are a very small percentage owner and as part of the deal are silent partners meaning they have no input. There are a lot of people who have speculated that the Flo Sports channel is a WWE experiment to see if there is value in adding indies to the WWE Network, but the two are very much competition that the WWE initially was not happy about.

A new 10-Q filing from WWE shows that a "wrestling contract extension" between WWE and Stephanie McMahon was recently signed. The contract extension will see Stephanie stay with the company at least through October 7th, 2019. The deal will then be extended yearly until either party gives a 90-day notice prior to the termination date.

Originally Posted by PWI Former ECW World champion Sabu, 51, underwent a successful hip replacement surgery on Tuesday 10/25 in Marietta, GA. He had been raising money for the surgery via a GoFundMe campaign for some time.

Originally Posted by PWI WWE announced the following this afternoon: Get your tickets for #SDLive from @CdnTireCtr in Ottawa on Nov. 22 to also see a special taping of @WWENXT! Tix: https://t.co/POzy6weE3q pic.twitter.com/Mx74aBOALF — WWE NXT (@WWENXT) October 28, 2016 The episode will follow the 11/19 Takeover: Toronto special and will mark the first time NXT, in its current incarnation, has been taped at a WWE TV taping, as opposed to its own tapings.

Originally Posted by Observer Jack Evans has been fired by AAA, essentially, if you read his interview that he did, for being honest. If you read everything in context, there was nothing he should have been fired for, but he said that the company was far better off when Konnan had power and was still there. His knock of La Parka wasn’t bad in context. He said there’s so much to learn from him because he gets over everywhere even though he’s a terrible wrestler. I mean, that’s pretty much the truth. AAA is already losing a ton of talent.

Might have been fired from just AAA but gets to stay or finish whatever commitments he has with Lucha Underground. Fenix is another who left AAA but got to stay on LU although rumored he might have to leave LU as well due to some demands AAA recently made.

Originally Posted by Observer Scott Norton, 55, on Twitter has been teasing returning to NJPW. I could definitely see Norton in the Battle Royal at the Tokyo Dome. Norton worked on-and-off here from 1990 to 2006 and was a two-time IWGP heavyweight champion and was either one of the top foreigners or the top foreigner during his entire run.

Originally Posted by Observer TNA are going to start filming the one or two Hardy shows for 12/15 and 12/22 this coming week. It’ll be filmed at different times on different dates on a very small budget with the filming scheduled to be completed on 11/17. However, there is a snag. Dates for the tapings had been moved because TNA claimed they couldn’t book travel due to the restraining order by Billy Corgan. The restraining order regarded selling assets, not locking them up from booking travel for a taping, so this sounds like one of those TNA excuses. One person close to the situation regarding the Hardy tapings noted to us that they have no idea what is and isn’t real because both sides are trying to sell everyone on their particular spin, and it’s maddening.

Originally Posted by Observer MMA Junkie reported that Lesnar could be in significant trouble with the Nevada Athletic Commission over his two positive tests for Clomiphene. Howard Jacobs, the noted attorney that everyone with money hires to defend them before the Nevada Commission, and no matter how good or bad his case is, they then suspend the guys longer because they hired Jacobs, wrote to the commission that they tested all of Lesnar’s supplements and couldn’t find any of them tainted with Clomiphene, which is not a good sign. He then wrote that they still needed to test his eye medication and foot cream. The problem is, when Lesnar filled out his medical form on if he was taking any medication prior to his fight with Mark Hunt, actual question being “any medication, drug, cream, inhalant, intravenous infusions, or injection, whether prescription, over-the-counter, from anyone or anyplace, in the last month,” Lesnar responded, “No.” Right there alone could be viewed as lying on his commission medical form, which is a suspendable violation if he was taking something, since the medical forms are considered legal documents, which would add a new count against him. Lesnar did claim to be using multivitamins, creatine and protein powder when asked what nutritional supplements he had been using. Lesnar remains on the temporary suspended list meaning in the states that do license pro wrestlers, Lesnar would not be allowed to perform, and he’s facing potential suspensions from both USADA (which wouldn’t apply to pro wrestling in his case because contractually he’s exempt from the company’s Wellness policy, although as the Billy Gunn precedent showed, if it was someone else, they could suspend or fire him for the positive test) and separate discipline from Nevada (which would be a suspension from pro wrestling in every state that still licenses pro wrestlers, which isn’t many and Lesnar doesn’t wrestle many matches so it’s may not come into play at all).

Originally Posted by Observer Ryback and WWE are battling over the trademark of “Feed Me More.” Ryback tried to trademark the phrase for pro wrestling on 8/1, but WWE also attempted to trademark it in January. Ryback won’t be able to get the trademark unless WWE abandons it or gives up on trademarking it. However, Ryback had attempted to trademark it himself for a clothing line in July 2015.

Some other sheet news includes:

• ESPN had a recent interview with Sasha Banks, Charlotte, and Becky Lynch: http://www.espn.com/espnw/culture/fe...men-revolution
• Baring any late changes, F4W is reporting Sasha-Charlotte will not be the real main event of Hell in a Cell ppv due to Vince refusing to drop his stance on not wanting it to go last.
• Update to recent Kevin Dunn hating Becky Lynch's accent rumors as Becky recently tweeted a response to the rumors regarding her accent. https://twitter.com/BeckyLynchWWE/st...52352019116033
• According to the Observer, WWE flubbed some of their numbers from the recent fiscal report and investors meeting. WWE claimed they made $100 million in profits for the quarter when in reality they made $11 million in profits plus another $9 million for dividends. In terms of actual cash reserves, they lost around 34.8 million compared to last year ($102.4 million to 67.6 million).