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Originally Posted by Observer A day after announcing that he would be wrestling on the show, Ring of Honor has confirmed Austin Aries' opponent for Best in the World. Aries vs. Kenny King has been added to the lineup for the June 29 pay-per-view in Baltimore, Maryland. The match stems from an angle that took place following Aries' last appearance for ROH ... Here's the updated card for Best in the World: ROH World Champion Dalton Castle defending against Cody Rhodes and Marty Scurll in a triple threat match ROH Tag Team Champions The Briscoes defending against The Young Bucks ROH Television Champion Punishment Martinez defending against Hangman Page in a street fight ROH Six-Man Tag Team Champions The Kingdom (Matt Taven, TK O'Ryan & Vinny Marseglia) defending against SANADA, EVIL & BUSHI Jay Lethal vs. KUSHIDA Austin Aries vs. Kenny King Bully Ray vs. Flip Gordon Sumie Sakai, Mayu Iwatani, Tenille Dashwood & Jenny Rose vs. Kelly Klein, Hazuki, Kagetsu & Hana Kimura

Link: https://www.rohwrestling.com/news/ar...one-best-world

Originally Posted by PWI Cody and The Young Bucks have released a documentary style video explaining the story of how "All In" came to be this afternoon. It's a very well done piece that is well worth checking out. I think it will do a lot towards raising the awareness of the origins of the show beyond the storylines that were run over the course of the Being the Elite Youtube series:

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-UOUryWijY

Originally Posted by PWI MLW issued the following: JOHN HENNIGAN VS. TEDDY HART SET FOR MLW’S JULY 12 ORLANDO FUSION TV TAPING ORLANDO – John Hennigan will make his return to Major League Wrestling this summer. Major League Wrestling today announced John Hennigan vs. Teddy Hart (of the Hart Foundation) as officially signed for MLW’s July 12th card in Orlando at Gilt Nightclub.

Originally Posted by Observer David Arquette will be wrestling on the 7/15 tapings for Championship Wrestling from Hollywood.

Originally Posted by Observer McMahon fired Big Cass at a meeting in Toledo prior to Smackdown. The reasons given were the 5/1 incident, as well as blowing off a rehearsal for a promo that Kevin Dunn has asked for and then going long on the live version of that promo. There was a lot of heat regarding the promo that Vince McMahon hated, and he fired the writer of it a few weeks ago. There was also an incident that happened on the European tour where he locked himself in the tour bus bathroom and then destroyed the bathroom and broke down the door when he couldn’t get out, because the lock malfunctioned and he believed he was being pranked. Because the door was knocked down, it meant the other wrestlers could not use the bathroom the rest of the trip in privacy, not to mention the damages it caused. There were said to be other issues regarding his behavior on the European tour. He also had enemies from years back from vociferously defending The Donald while in an argument with Sami Zayn about treatment of Muslims that ruffled many people’s feathers, although had nothing to do with his being fired. There was also negativity from other producers that dated back to the feeling that the Big Show vs. Big Cass feud, which took place before his knee injury, didn’t go well and he took the brunt of the blame. There was also negativity of his work in the recent Bryan feud, but not performing up to par was also not the reason for someone to get fired in the manner that he did. We were also told the 5/1 incident was not the key incident in him getting fired, as the reaction to that was going to be done by changing his storyline, which would mean the two submission losses. What is notable is that a lot of independent promoters are already looking at reuniting Enzo (Eric Arndt), now calling himself Real 1, & Cass, who won’t be able to use that name going forward. However, the two had a major real-life falling out but that doesn’t necessarily mean they won’t work together for the right price.

Originally Posted by Observer Bryan being announced at the WWE Australia show is not a sign that he has signed a new contract, as he has not. It is certainly possible, perhaps even likely, that he will. He also could go independent and do appearances with the company on shows like this, similar to what Rey Mysterio Jr., has done so far this year. The difference between he and Lesnar is that Lesnar would be extremely unhappy about being announced for a date he’s not agreed to and it would give him a lot of leverage at that point. With Bryan, it’s not going to be the same situation.

Originally Posted by Observer When Chris Jericho was talking about offers he had been getting, last year, as the Jericho vs. Kenny Omega Tokyo Dome build was going strong, Tony Condello, the veteran Winnipeg promoter, came to Omega and told him he had $100,000 in backing to run a rematch between the two in Winnipeg. But Condello went to Jericho and asked how much it would cost to get the match, and Jericho said $250,000, so that was the end of the discussion

Originally Posted by Observer The George Tragos/Lou Thesz Hall of Fame in Waterloo is doing its induction ceremony on 7/28, with Dan Severn and Owen Hart being inducted into the Hall of Fame ... Ben Askren is getting the George Tragos award which goes to someone with wrestling background who achieved success in MMA. Bruiser Brody is getting the Frank Gotch award. Booker T is getting the Lou Thesz award. Koji Miyamoto is getting the Jim Melby Award. Miyamoto definitely deserves this award. He’s one of the great historians in wrestling and there is a ton of very important information we’d have never known, particularly about the early days of Japan, but U.S. history as well, that would have gone lost forever without his research

Originally Posted by Observer Based on a listing from Fite TV, and this may be just for streaming, the price of Slammiversary on 7/22 is listed at $19.99. The prior PPV show, Redemption, was priced at $39.99. We’re told that price is only for iPPV and is not the television PPV price

Originally Posted by Observer Reigns, in a an interview with the ESPN U.K. web site, said that there’s no point in turning heel since people boo him anyway. But he did say he’d love to work heel and feud with Bryan. He said that for him, it’s not about being cheered but the audience making a lot of noise. That’s the funniest part of the vociferous booing of Reigns, in the sense that there are times the crowd is cold, most crowds give you the feel he’s the biggest, or at least one of the biggest stars on the brand

Originally Posted by Observer Hotel house cleaner Portia Williams is under investigation in the theft of $500 in cash and a Sony Digital Camera from the room of Miroslav Barnyashev (Rusev) and wife Catherine Perry (Lana) on 6/11. Rusev said he left his room at 12:30 p.m. that day, and returned at 1:10 p.m. and the items were gone. Police believed that Williams entered the room, even though it had a Do Not Disturb sign on it. Williams claimed she found the wallet inside a chicken box and returned it, but there was no money in it

Originally Posted by Observer Ahmad al-Khatib, who was the chief of the Saudi Arabia General Entertainment Authority, was removed from his position due to criticism of his bringing in a Russian circus that featured women performers who wore tight costumes. The two key takes are that unlike with WWE, for whatever reason, they did allow women to perform in tight costumes, but in allowing it, it got enough of a backlash to cause the guy who approved it to lose his job. The General Entertainment Authority was looking at bringing in more than 5,000 festivals and concerts to the country. In addition, since the WWE left, the government has been cracking down on women’s rights activists with dozens arrested and detailed, some of which have were later temporarily released

Even though its not directly wrestling related, felt it was worthy to include due to WWE's ties with the government and their BS claims of also doing the deal to bring social change to the country.

Originally Posted by Observer Just for a clarification of the matches over the weekend at Money in the Bank, the women’s Battle Royal was completely rehearsed with T.J. Wilson and Fit Finlay in charge of putting the match together, mostly Wilson. They took all the women off the road this weekend to get in several days of work. Similarly, the Rousey vs. Jax match was laid out completely and practiced over the weekend before the show. Finlay put together the lay out of the match. Asuka vs. Carmella was not practiced ahead of time. That tells how the value of that. Old school would consider doing this as cheating, but really, if it makes matches that much better, it sounds like a good thing to me

Originally Posted by Observer Ashok Moore, an ESPN producer, has left to take a job with WWE

Originally Posted by Observer WWE has confirmed that Ronda Rousey will be appearing at Monday's Raw event in San Diego. They did not confirm she would be on the television show, only that she would be there. She is also scheduled for the Extreme Rules show in Pittsburgh in come capacity. However, she has been pulled from the Raw events upcoming in Boston and Buffalo.

Originally Posted by Observer I don’t know that anything will happen with this idea, given it’s now been years since Progress and ICW were talked with about being added to WWE Network and Vince has changed his mind on it after they even said at a conference call it was happening, but there is another independent show idea internally for 2019. This idea is a network special featuring talent not under contract to WWE. There would have to be a reason for it, but one would think it would be as a way to try and open doors to talent in other companies and use the relationship with WWN, ICW and Progress and perhaps others to use their talent.

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