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Dirtsheets sponsored by Dana Brooke displaying her exceptional skills as a statistician:
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Originally Posted by WrestleInc
As noted, WWE announced that Ronda Rousey has signed a full-time deal with the company following her debut after last night's women's Royal Rumble match.
The current plan is for Rousey to face Triple H and Stephanie McMahon in a mixed tag match at WrestleMania 34, according to F4Wonline.com. It was believed that Rousey's handshake with Stephanie was to squash their storyline beef but apparently not.
No word yet on Rousey's partner but there had been rumors all week of WWE trying to put together Rousey and The Rock vs. The Authority. It's unknown whether or not that match can happen as Rock hasn't been able to wrestle a significant WrestleMania match due to movies he has had to film during recent WrestleMania seasons.
It's believed that Rousey has signed a multi-year deal with WWE.
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Spoiler tag used since its related to potential Mania plans for Ronda Rousey.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Last night's Raw did 3.38 million viewers, down 25 percent from last week's 25th anniversary special.
There was no way the show would have come close to last week's numbers, but a better comparison would be last year's episode the day after the Royal Rumble, which did 3.61 million viewers, or a six percent year-to-year decline. In television today, that's considered neither bad nor good.
What is notable is that the first hour of Raw after the Rumble, at 3.66 million viewers, beat last year's first hour of 3.63 million. The difference is that last year the audience stayed through the show, with only a 1.5 percent decline in audience from hour one to hour three. This year's decline was 16.4 percent from the first hour to the third hour.
Also notable is that the male audience was much higher by percentage than for a normal week of Raw, with a 65/35 split, which is more in line with several years ago. That's notable because it indicates that if there were curiosity viewers regarding Ronda Rousey, they were far heavier male. Last year's day after Rumble show did a 60/40 male/female split ...
The three hours were:
8 p.m. 3.66 million viewers
9 p.m. 3.46 million viewers
10 p.m. 3.06 million viewers
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Originally Posted by Observer
Following last night's women's Royal Rumble, the WWE women's division is already set for another first-ever match.
Stephanie McMahon opened Raw tonight and confirmed that Alexa Bliss would be defending her Women's Championship in an Elimination Chamber match on February 25th in Las Vegas. None of the other participants have been revealed yet, but there will be five challengers for Bliss' title ...
The T-Mobile Arena, which will be hosting the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view, had been indicating that there would be two Chamber matches in their advertising for the event. And the Sporting News reported earlier today that the women's Elimination Chamber would be happening.
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Originally Posted by Observer
WWE posted a behind-the-scenes video from Raw 25. It’s over eight minutes long and features an out-of-character appearance by The Undertaker.
Mick Foley tweeted about Sasha Banks’ dive from her Raw match against Asuka: “I really don’t want to see Sasha try that dive again. Too many close calls. Time to take that item off the menu.”
Ten of the Coliseum Home Videos coming to the WWE Network next week have been revealed. They are:
Bloopers, Bleeps, and Bodyslams
Most Unusual Matches
Villains of the Squared Circle
Brains Behind the Brawn
Funniest Moments
Mega Matches
Wrestling’s Greatest Champions
Battle at the Royal Albert Hall
World Tour ‘92
Invasion of the Bodyslammers
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RAW 25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMuiD4Oxg0A , Foley: https://twitter.com/RealMickFoley/st...78931500290048 , WWE Network: http://www.wwenetworknews.com/2018/0...ey-be-labeled/
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Originally Posted by Observer
Lance Storm will be the special guest referee for Tenille Dashwood vs. Rachael Ellering at Wrestling Has A Tomorrow in Providence on February 11th. Storm trained both wrestlers at his school.
The main event of Joey Janela’s Spring Break 2 in New Orleans on April 6th is set to be Janela vs. The Great Sasuke.
Minoru Suzuki has been announced for Revolution Pro Wrestling’s WrestleMania week show on April 6th.
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Storm: https://twitter.com/WHATomorrow/stat...99427324018689' , Janela: https://twitter.com/JANELABABY/statu...53849977606144 , Rev Pro: https://twitter.com/RevProUK/status/958411224168980480
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Originally Posted by PWI
According to ESPN's Ramona Shelburne, Ronda Rousey was brought to Miami via a private charter plane from Colombia, where she was filming a movie on Saturday and then traveled to Philly (I am guessing on the WWE jet) and was hidden until right before she walked out on stage at the Royal Rumble last night. As we reported this morning, basically no one not named McMahon knew Rousey was walking out.
Shelburne also noted that Rousey has been training secretly at the WWE Performance Center for months, which we've noted previously in the Elite section of PWInsider - that she was training there late at night when no one was in the facility beyond her a select few others.
Rousey has filed a number of trademarks on the term "Rowdy Ronda Rousey" so she, not WWE, will own that name and moniker.
The company acquired permission to use Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation" last night, and if they were smart, they would acquire the rights going forward if they haven't already
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Originally Posted by Observer
The reason so many women from the past were booked, more than originally planned, was because they were filming a documentary on women's wrestling. They are going to heavily push women, even more so than before, since at least right now the company's biggest mainstream star is a woman.
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There is also talk of pushing the Andre Battle Royal harder this year because the HBO special coming out on Andre will be on the Tuesday after WrestleMania. WWE realizes that if they get a good rating and showing on HBO for that, then it could lead to more projects involving wrestlers of the past, especially since Bill Simmons, the guy behind the project, is a longtime wrestling fan.
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Originally Posted by PWI
The Jeremy Borash hire was a Triple H call and according to numerous sources, he will be working in the developmental/NXT system going forward. It does not appear he was brought on board to take part in the Matt Hardy storyline, but there's always a chance he could be tapped to work on that. There's no word when Borash officially starts with WWE but one would think he would be at the NXT tapings in Atlanta, GA this week. There's also no word as to where he will appear on screen.
Borash's departure will change Impact Wrestling plans tremendously, at least in terms of their announcing plans. Sources within Impact state the initial plan was to move Josh Mathews into more of a character on the show, positioning him with Matt Sydal as Sydal's "spiritual advisor." That happened at the last set of TV tapings. Their plan for announcing had been to put Borash and Don Callis together as the announcing team, but obviously that is out the window.
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New Japan Pro Wrestling have applied to trademark the following U.S Trademarks: Strong Style, King of Sports, and Strong Style Evolved. They applied all three for clothing purposes.
They are also applying 'Strong Style Evolved' for the following:
"Educational and instruction services relating to arts, crafts, sports or general knowledge; arranging, conducting and organization of seminars; arranging, conducting and organization of conferences, lecture meeting, workshops, symposiums; production of radio or television programs; Production of videotape film in the field of education, culture, entertainment or sports (not for movies or television programs and not for advertising or publicity); organization, arranging and conducting of sports competitions; organization, arranging and conducting of martial arts; booking of seats for show; presentation of live show performances; presentation of magic performances; direction or presentation of plays; presentation of musical performances"
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Ring of Honor announced that STARDOM competitors will be announced all throughout the week for the Women of Honor Championship tournament. The first competitor announced is Kagetsu. PWInsider.com has confirmed there will be four stars from Japan announced.
ROH commentator Ian Riccaboni tweeted the following teasing an announcement for later today regarding Supercard of Honor:
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Originally Posted by PWI
As we reported last night on PWInsider.com, currently, the Rey Mysterio return was just a one night appearance, although the monster pop he received certainly caught the attention of WWE management.
WWE and Mysterio have had off and on talks about a return over the last year, but the main bone of contention has been that WWE has wanted Mysterio back full-time while Mysterio, 43, would rather work a part-time schedule.
Mysterio appeared on the third season of Lucha Underground, but his deal with that series has expired. He has had talks with Impact Wrestling and at one point, a deal to debut at the last set of Impact tapings brokered by Konnan was so close that travel arrangements had been made before the conversations ended without a deal. Impact had been working on the idea of trying to get Mysterio to debut at their April tapings with the idea of debuting him at the 4/22 Redemption PPV.
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Originally Posted by WrestleInc
We mentioned last week that last Monday's RAW 25th Anniversary show was apparently rewritten three hours before going live. Justin Barrasso of Sports Illustrated reported that there were plans for backstage segments with several legends, including the stars that were involved in the general manager segment, with Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon.
According to sources within WWE, any of the changes that were made on the show had nothing to do with Fallon. Fallon was rumored to have caused the re-writes because he had arrived late to the show. Sources noted that the re-writes were nothing out of the ordinary, as the development of RAW is an iterative process.
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Originally Posted by WrestleInc
Some of the names backstage for Sunday's WWE Royal Rumble pay-per-view were The Undertaker, WWE Hall of Famer Pat Patterson, WWE Hall of Famer Nikolai Volkoff and Paige, according to PWInsider. The Undertaker was there to see wife Michelle McCool work the women's Rumble and gave no real indication to what his WrestleMania 34 plans are. Patterson, the creator of the Rumble match, was there to lend his expertise and advise. Volkoff was just visiting and came in from nearby Baltimore where he lives. Paige was backstage but not used due to her injury. Several WWE NXT Superstars were also backstage for the whole show while some left after finding out they weren't needed.
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Some other sheet news includes: - Edge revealed Johnny Gargano will be this week's guest on the Edge & Christian podcast show. https://twitter.com/EandCPod/status/958467155217059842
- In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, Becky Lynch celebrated her 31st birthday today.
- Rumor going around the net implies the reason why the Bellas were in the Final 3 and Nikki eliminating Brie was only due to Total Divas wanting a big Rumble storyline for an upcoming season and it had to involve the Bellas.
- USA Today had a recent interview with Triple H talking about signing Ronda Rousey, Rousey's star potential for the WWE, and backstage reactions to Ronda's signing. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...-new-audience/
- For those interested in a nice laugh, Cageside Seats held their annual Royal Rumble Dumbest Ass Award revealing the nominees and winners fof this year's Rumble. Sasha took the award for being the dumbest in the Women's Rumble and Sheamus in the Men's Rumble. https://www.cagesideseats.com/wwe/20...-chris-jericho
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