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Dirtsheets sponsored by ROH's 16th Anniversary Gif:
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Originally Posted by Observer
Last night's Raw increased nine percent over last week in the ratings and did the best number since the post-Royal Rumble episode, averaging 3.35 million viewers.
What's noticeable is that despite the fact that there was no real advertised main event, the third hour held up much better than usual. It was the highest rated third hour since the Monday after WrestleMania last year.
The show opened with 3.351 million viewers for hour one and increased to 3.429 million viewers for the second hour. This was the first week of Daylight Savings Time, and the second hour has traditionally been the highest rated in recent years once DST kicks in. The third hour only dropped to 3.275 million, which was just 2.3 percent down from hour one, the best such audience retention since July of last year ...
Another notable aspect is that the overrun only ran three minutes -- as opposed to most weeks where it is anywhere from seven to 15 minutes. It's possible that more of their audience is leaving during that overrun than is realized ...
This was the fourth week in the last five that Raw has been up year-over-year.
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The good news was the bait & switch worked for the WWE but they run the risk of pissing off fans the longer they do it like WCW in the past. Also depending on the state, WWE could also be breaking laws due to doing it deliberately.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Women's wrestlers from Raw, SmackDown, and NXT will be taking part in a battle royal at WrestleMania next month.
A video aired on Raw tonight paying tribute to the Fabulous Moolah and portraying her as a pioneer of women's wrestling. It announced that the first-ever Fabulous Moolah Memorial Battle Royal will be taking place at WrestleMania on April 8th, with the Raw, SmackDown, and NXT women's divisions all represented ...
Naming the match after Moolah will bring WWE plenty of criticism given her history. David Bixenspan detailed some of that in an article for Paste last year, writing that "It’s long been wrestling lore that her Girl Wrestling Enterprises booking agency was, if not outright a scheme to pressure trainees into prostitution, then dangerously close to one."
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Besides online backlash, several women wrestlers who wrote tweets in praise of Moolah later deleted them and WWE is already getting negative mainstream press about the announcement and backlash (Forbes & UK's Mirror so far).
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Originally Posted by Observer
Mad Maxine, who got her start in wrestling through the Fabulous Moolah, issued a statement to Pro Wrestling Sheet about WWE announcing the Fabulous Moolah Memorial Battle Royal for WrestleMania. In the statement, she writes about how Moolah treated women that she trained: “The Fabulous Moolah was a real-life heel. A lot of women paid to train at her school and then went out on the road. They risked life and limb in their matches and she repaid them with the worst kinds of abuses. She skimmed their money, she ignored women who were badly hurt, she pimped women out to creepy men and on and on.”
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Link: http://www.prowrestlingsheet.com/moo.../#.WqhSn5PwYW-
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Originally Posted by Observer
Kevin Owens tweeted about Shane McMahon being shown backstage when Roman Reigns confronted Vince McMahon on Raw: “Glad to see our #SDLive commissioner has his priorities in order. His crew is at a live event in Dayton, yet he’s sitting by daddy at #Raw in Detroit. Lovely!” Owens also mentioned Shane being at Raw instead of at SmackDown’s event in Dayton at last night’s house show.
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Link: https://twitter.com/FightOwensFight/...65017159651328
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Originally Posted by Observer
Mike Kanellis thanked everyone who has supported him as he reached eight months sober: “As I sit here before #SDLive I feel the need to thank all the @WWEUniverse and all my fans before I got here, who have,over the last 8 months, tweeted me their encouragement and support. If you guys want to know what keeps me going, it’s you guys!! Thank You #WWE @WWE”
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Link: https://twitter.com/RealMikeBennett/...30682885951490
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Originally Posted by Observer
In conjunction with All In, “Starrcast” was officially announced for Labor Day weekend in Chicago. It’s a convention with wrestling podcasts and wrestling guests that will be joining them. Cody Rhodes, The Young Bucks, and others who will be on All In are also scheduled to appear.
Andrew Everett, Dezmond Xavier & DJZ vs. King Cuerno, Aerostar & Drago is the first match announced for the Impact Wrestling vs. Lucha Underground show in New Orleans on April 6th.
Penta El Zero M vs. Nick Gage is also set for Joey Janela’s Spring Break II on April 6th.
Kimber Lee will be returning to CHIKARA and teaming with Los Ice Creams at this year’s King of Trios. Beyond Wrestling announced that she’ll be wrestling at their show in New Orleans on April 5th as well.
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Starrcast: https://twitter.com/ALL_IN_2018/stat...94589758492673 , Impact-LU: https://twitter.com/IMPACTWRESTLING/...72425004544000 , Janela: https://twitter.com/GCWrestling_/sta...56393754447872 , CHIKARA: https://twitter.com/CHIKARApro/statu...78238796959745
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Originally Posted by PWI
As it turned out, Impact only announced the one match for their 4/6 Lucha Underground vs. Impact event on 4/6 in New Orleans yesterday.
Las Vegas' Future Stars of Wrestling teased they would be working with Impact, announcing, "Coming off the heels of the hugely successful Mecca II, FSW is in talks for a huge event in Jun/July, that we believe will truly make a huge IMPACT on the business and wrestling in Vegas"
Next up for Impact are a pair of live events promoted in conjunction with Kirk White's Big Time Wrestling on 3/23 in Newark, CA and 3/24 in Salinas, CA.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Vader tweeted last night that he was going in the hospital this morning for heart surgery: “Going in the hospital in the Am for heart surgery wish me luck and my Dr a good night's rest”
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Link: https://twitter.com/itsvadertime/sta...83617379520513
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Though an official announcement has yet to be made, it looks like CM Punk will be returning to the Octagon at UFC 225 in Chicago on June 9th.
While responding to someone on Twitter who asked when we'd see him cry in the UFC again, Punk indicated that he'll be fighting at UFC 225: "June nine, after I win and lock eyes with my beautiful wife, embrace my coaches and shout out my entire team."
TMZ Sports also reported that June 9th will be the date for Punk's second mixed martial arts fight. An opponent hasn't been named, but the UFC was discussing booking Punk vs. Mike Jackson for Chicago as of last month. Jackson's only pro fight was in a loss to Mickey Gall in February 2016, which set up Gall as the opponent for Punk's debut.
Gall submitted Punk with a first-round rear naked choke at UFC 203 in September 2016. Punk has continued to train at Roufusport since then.
UFC 225 will take place at the United Center in Punk's hometown. Alistair Overeem vs. Curtis Blaydes, Joseph Benavidez vs. Sergio Pettis, and Claudia Gadelha vs. Carla Esparza have already been announced for the show.
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Originally Posted by PWI
Although she was advertised for every Monday Night Raw leading into Wrestlemania, former UFC Bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey missed this past week's Raw.
PWInsider.com can confirm that Rousey missed the date because she was traveling to the Northeast to prepare for her Wrestlemania showdown against Triple H and Stephanie McMahon.
Rousey and Kurt Angle were both in Stamford, CT yesterday working on the match, one of the headline attractions for the 4/8 Wrestlemania 34 event in New Orleans.
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MATT RIDDLE VS. SHANE “SWERVE” STRICKLAND SET FOR APRIL 12TH CLASH IN ORLANDO TO CROWN NEXT WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION
ORLANDO – History will be made on Thursday night April 12th as the next MLW World Heavyweight Champion will be crowned in Orlando at Gilt Nightclub. After dominating top ranked wrestlers in the opening round and semi finals, Matt Riddle vs. Shane “Swerve” Strickland is set for the MLW: The World Championship Finals.
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Link: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...pion-.html?p=1
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Originally Posted by Post Wrestling
The New Japan Cup takes a break on Tuesday and will resume with a show on Wednesday in Shizuoka and Thursday at Korakuen Hall. Below are the four quarter-final matches that will take place on those two shows:
*Michael Elgin vs. Juice Robinson
*Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Bad Luck Fale
*Kota Ibushi vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
*Sanada vs. Toru Yano
The semi-finals take place on March 16th and 18th and the finals are set for Wednesday, March 21st with the winner receiving a title shot of their choosing at Sakura Genesis on Sunday, April 1st.
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Originally Posted by Post Wrestling
Taiji Ishimori announced in a press conference on Monday that he is leaving Pro Wrestling NOAH in order to wrestle freelance with the goal of eventually making it to the WWE. Ishimori began his career in 2002 after being trained in the Toryumon system and bounced around promotions, including working for NOAH as a freelancer beginning in 2006. Ishimori became a full-time member of the NOAH roster in 2008 and went on to become a three-time GHC junior heavyweight champion and six-time GHC junior heavyweight tag champion. He was well known because of his representation of NOAH internationally where he represented the group in AAA, Ring of Honor, New Japan, and most recently for Impact Wrestling, where he became the X division champion (he dropped the title to Matt Sydal, which just aired last week on POP TV). Ishimori is 35-years old and cited Shinsuke Nakamura and Hideo Itami as examples he wants to follow of achieving success in the United States and figured now is the time to make a move or else he would have regretted not attempting to.
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Originally Posted by WrestleInc
The woman who wrestled as Joan King on last night's WWE RAW in Detroit for the squash loss to Nia Jax was local wrestler Shayla Hyde, who goes by the name The Wicked Witch. She tweeted the following after the loss:
Todays been so eventful. Filled with amazing possiblities and amazing experience.#blessed#JoanKing pic.twitter.com/MuTJrTTH9v
— Shayla Hyde (@likablemshyde) March 13, 2018
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