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Former TPWW Royalty
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Dirtsheets sponsored by Kurt Angle channeling his inner Homer Simpson:
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Originally Posted by Observer
Even with the debut of Ronda Rousey and coming a day after a pay-per-view, Raw was down three percent last night to 3.16 million viewers ...
Rousey, whose segment (which included Triple H, Stephanie McMahon, and Kurt Angle) was saved for last, didn't change the usual pattern of a big third hour drop. The third hour drop was biggest in males 18-49 and those over 50. The latter is the usual pattern but the former is unusual and most weeks the third hour drop is female skewed. Male teens also dropped in the third hour, and they usually stay with the show until its completion better than any other demo ...
The three hours were:
8 p.m. 3.41 million viewers
9 p.m. 3.25 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.88 million viewers
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Found it interesting both Ronda's first RAW appearance and being a post-PPV show resulted in a lower number for this week.
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The company announced via the New Orleans Times-Picayune this morning that Jarrius "JJ" Robertson will be the 2018 Warrior Award recipient. Robertson is a 15-year-old fan who has battled biliary atresia, a rare liver disease, for his entire life and has undergone 36 surgeries, including two liver transplants.
Robertson underwent his first transplant when he was a year old and had the second transplant last year. He's also the face of "It Takes Lives to Save Lives," which is a charity that promotes organ donation.
“I can’t believe I have been chosen to be the 2018 Warrior Award recipient,” Robertson said. “Being honored by WWE means the world to me. I feel very blessed.”
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Link: https://www.f4wonline.com/wwe-news/w...cipient-252426
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NJPW has announced the lineup for the 2018 New Japan Cup tournament, which will set up a title match for Sakura Genesis in April.
The left side of the bracket has Michael Elgin vs. Tomohiro Ishii, Juice Robinson vs. Yujiro Takahashi, Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Taichi, and Bad Luck Fale vs. Lance Archer. The tour will be the first time Tanahashi has wrestled since January after being written out for a bit when he lost the IWGP Intercontinental Championship to Minoru Suzuki.
On the right side of the bracket, YOSHI-HASHI vs. Kota Ibushi, Tetsuya Naito vs. Zack Sabre Jr., Toru Yano vs. Davey Boy Smith Jr., and Chuck Taylor vs. SANADA are set. Taylor tweeted that he's a replacement for Trent Barreta, who was injured in a match with Taylor for PWG on February 16th.
The winner of the New Japan Cup will challenge for either the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. IWGP Intercontinental Championship, or NEVER Openweight title at Sakura Genesis on April 1st, with the storyline being that they get to choose which belt to go after.
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Link with show dates: https://www.f4wonline.com/japan/njpw...pan-cup-252421
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A match between Kenny Omega & Kota Ibushi and The Young Bucks appeared to be inevitable coming out of the NJPW/ROH Honor Rising tour, and now a date and location for it has been set.
Omega & Ibushi will face Matt & Nick Jackson at NJPW's Strong Style Evolved show at Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, California on March 25th. The announcement comes after The Young Bucks confronted Omega & Ibushi at Honor Rising night two, with the Bucks taking exception to Omega calling himself and Ibushi the best tag team in the world.
While confronting them, The Young Bucks also announced their move up to NJPW's heavyweight tag team division ...
Jay White defending his IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship against Hangman Page has also been confirmed for Strong Style Evolved. That match became apparent at Honor Rising night two as well, with Page pinning White in a six-man tag.
With the two additions to the card, there are now three matches official for Strong Style Evolved. Rey Mysterio vs. Jushin Thunder Liger was confirmed earlier this month when Mysterio appeared in a video at the New Beginning in Osaka and challenged Liger. The show will air live on AXS TV.
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The WWE Network will be uploading episodes of All-Star Wrestling, which was the WWWF’s television show in the 1970s and early 1980s, on March 5th. The shows are expected to be from 1976-1979, though WWE Network News notes that they’ll likely be scattered episodes and not the complete years.
Charlotte Flair wrote a tribute to Reid Flair yesterday on what would have been his 30th birthday.
Before the angle where she refused to accept Sasha Banks’ tag on Raw, Bayley spoke to The Mirror about her in-ring rivalry with Banks: “I really do think that we have such a great chemistry and it's just a natural bond, that it doesn't matter when it happens, we can pick it up anywhere. Not to sound cocky or anything, but I just think we have a really good connection. Whenever we have the time to tell that story, we would be able to. And last night after what she did, I think now is a good time! So I would love to start that up and get some payback.”
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Network: http://www.wwenetworknews.com/2018/0...date-included/ , Charlotte: https://www.instagram.com/p/BfrGaP0F...y=charlottewwe , Bayley: https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other...amber-12094015
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Originally Posted by PWI
As previously reported on PWInsider.com, the WWE Network's Vault section will be adding WWWF All-Star Wrestling next month, the first time that weekly series has been seen in decades. We are told 92 episodes total are planned to be uploaded the first week of March.
Collections for March are planned to be based around Chris Jericho and Becky Lynch.
PWInsider.com has also confirmed that the Network's current plan for additional vintage material is to add WCW Saturday Night episodes in April and in May, to upload all remaining episodes of Mid-Atlantic Wrestling TV.
Current plans for April Collections call for for them to be built around Ted DiBiase Sr. and Finn Balor.
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TV Asahi announced that New Japan World subscribers were up 40 percent ahead of the Tokyo Dome show in January, with the service up 80 percent internationally and 60 percent in the United States.
Flip Gordon teased that he’ll be in this year’s Best of the Super Juniors tournament.
EVOLVE announced the full card for EVOLVE 103, which will take place in New Orleans on April 6th:
* Matt Riddle vs. Daisuke Sekimoto
* Chris Dickinson vs. Travis Banks
* Jaka vs. Munenori Sawa
* Darby Allin vs. WALTER
* Keith Lee vs. Austin Theory
* AR Fox vs. DJZ vs. Jason Kincaid vs. Tracy Williams
* Timothy Thatcher vs. Dominic Garrini
There will be a “clusterf*ck match” at Joey Janela’s Spring Break for the second straight year. Session Moth Martina is the first announced participant.
Impact announced a partnership with the women’s promotion Rise Wrestling.
James Ellsworth is set to face Gillberg for IWC Pro Wrestling on March 17th in Elizabeth, Pennsylvania.
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New Japan World: https://twitter.com/reasonjp/status/968374901282344961 , Gordon: https://twitter.com/TheFlipGordon/st...76786459217921 , Janela: https://twitter.com/JANELABABY/statu...40335331106816 , Impact: https://twitter.com/RISEdtwa/status/968307463748571136 , Ellsworth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bx8xo-SFpU
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WWE Network continues to fill in the gap with World-Class Championship Wrestling episodes in the library. They've also added more videos to the WWE Shorts Collection including the old WWF "Slam Jam" music video from 1993.
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Twola Heads Entertainment, a company based in Southern California that has run several events, applied to trademark "Heroes of Lucha Libre" on 2/21. They claim they began using the name in October 2017. They applied to trademark the name for wrestling, movie and television purposes.
They also applied to trademark Mistico, Dragon Lee and Ocelot, which is extremely interesting given that those talents work internationally and are from CMLL in Mexico.
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GCW is proud to host THE GREAT SASUKE at WRESTLECON!
Take advantage of this rare opportunity to meet the legend in person! Sasuke will be available for autos & photo-ops. Exact times TBA.
Can't make it to NOLA? Mail Order is available. Email us now to make arrangements. pic.twitter.com/iyW67qaYTz
— GameChangerWrestling (@GCWrestling_) February 22, 2018
Japanese legend The Great Sasuke will be appearing at Wrestlecon over the course of Wrestlemania weekend in New Orleans, being brought in by Gamechanger Wrestling.
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Some other sheet news includes: - Besides Lesnar, Kane was also reported to have been originally planned to appear during last night's RAW according to PWI. Instead those plans were changed and he just visited people backstage during the show.
- Recent episode the Chasing Glory with Lilian Garcia podcast show had Stephanie McMahon as the guest talking about Ronda Rousey's signing and past issues of bullying in her life. https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...usey-more.html
- According to PWI, WWE is still uncommitted to which title Asuka will go after for Mania even though they currently leaning towards Asuka-Bliss. https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...ka-update.html
- Recent episode of Inside the Ropes podcast show had Rey Mysterio as the guest talking about his wrestling status, participating in this year's Rumble, and things he would have changed for his 2014 Rumble appearance. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...014-wwe-royal/
- Observer recently speculated Braun Strowman's lack of a path for Mania might be due to WWE wanting him as an emergency plan in case Lesnar-Reigns can't happen at Mania for various reasons. Strowman replaces Lesnar if his issues with the WWE deepen to the point it affects Mania and replaces Reigns if the roids situation becomes a bad PR issue for the company.
Some stuff from TPWW Frontpage:
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