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Originally Posted by Observer
Hiromu Takahashi is coming to Las Vegas for Ring of Honor's 16th Anniversary pay-per-view.
After Dave Meltzer reported earlier this month that Flip Gordon would be facing a wrestler from New Japan Pro Wrestling at the PPV, ROH confirmed today that it will be Gordon vs. Takahashi. Gordon faced Takahashi and KUSHIDA in a triple threat match on the first night of the Honor Rising tour in Tokyo last weekend and got the pin on his Anniversary show opponent. On the second night, Gordon teamed with Ryusuke Taguchi against Takahashi & BUSHI and took the fall.
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Link to the announcement and more details for the show: https://www.f4wonline.com/ring-honor...ary-ppv-252596
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Originally Posted by Observer
With John Cena returning to the brand after a six-month absence, SmackDown saw a ratings increase for the second straight week.
Last night's episode averaged 2.692 million viewers, which was up from 2.613 million the previous week ...
It was also the second straight week that SmackDown was up year-over-year. The last episode of February in 2017 did 2.566 million viewers.
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Originally Posted by PWI
Sports Illustrated writer Richard Deitsch reported today that a number of FOX Sports executives, including FOX Sports President Eric Shanks, FOX Sports Producer Jacob Ullman and even broadcast personality Colin Cowherd, who has always knocked professional wrestling fans (but also admits he grew up watching Don Owens' Pacific Northwest promotion) were all at last night's Smackdown Live taping at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Obviously, as WWE continues to map out future plans and work on securing its next major partnership with a broadcaster, FOX has been speculated as one of those in the race for WWE's rights.
FOX is still attempting to negotiate a new deal with UFC, but should the MMA company move on, FOX will be in a position to need a replacement franchise, as UFC makes up a good portion of its programming on FOX Sports 1. Obviously, WWE would certainly fill the loss of the MMA flagship if it comes to that.
It should also be noted that UFC owner IMG-WME also represents WWE, so it's not out of the question that they could offer a package deal for both entities to FOX or another broadcaster. There is a great history of the two genres pairing up well from their time on SpikeTV.
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SI Link: https://twitter.com/richarddeitsch/s...64415281025026
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Originally Posted by PWI
Billy Corgan's Lightning One, Inc. company, which is the production company attached to the National Wrestling Alliance, applied to trademark 'The Dumont Network' for wrestling purposes.
The Dumont Network was the name of the first television network that broadcast professional wrestling, operating from 1946 through 1956, a rival at the time to CBS and ABC.
Last month, they had applied to trademark 'The Dupont Network," which appears to have been an error.
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Originally Posted by PWI
The WWE Network has added a new Collection, "The NXT Takeover Collection" featuring all 19 Takeover specials to date
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Originally Posted by 411mania
WWE is planning on doing at least one more match between Bray Wyatt and Matt Hardy soon and the speculation is that they may do a Wyatt vs. Hardy match from Hardy’s compound in North Carolina, similar to what TNA did with Total Nonstop Deletion and The Final Deletion. Matt has also been teasing it on Twitter
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Link: https://411mania.com/wrestling/wwe-n...-upupdowndown/
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Originally Posted by PWI
Matt Hardy is promising the Ultimate Deletion is coming, perhaps teasing something being filmed at the Hardy Compound as part of his feud with Bray Wyatt:
By ABSORBING part of Bray Wyatt's ESSENCE, it has allowed my #BROKENBrilliance PASSAGE into both the LIGHT and the DARK..
It shall be needed to obtain VICTORY in #TheGreatWar.
THE ULTIMATE DELETION is coming. pic.twitter.com/2QkFc7Vspy
— #WOKEN Matt Hardy (@MATTHARDYBRAND) February 28, 2018
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Link: https://twitter.com/MATTHARDYBRAND/s...24006047555586
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Originally Posted by PWI
Wrestlecon announced this afternoon that WWE Hall of Famer Steve Austin will be signing for the first time ever at their Wrestlemania weekend gathering. Austin will be appearing on Wrestlemania Sunday 4/8.
He's been at the very top of our most wanted list since we started @wrestlecon and today we announce that @steveaustinBSR will be doing an appearance on Sunday April 8th, just hours prior to WrestleMania pic.twitter.com/uE0b5ZzCsY
— WrestleCon (@wrestlecon) February 28, 2018
Austin will be signing and taking photos with fans.
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Link: https://twitter.com/wrestlecon/statu...42969981194240
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Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network reported that New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski, who the WWE has been interested in, is expected to return to the NFL next season and leave his pursuit of acting/pro wrestling until after his football career. After that news was reported, Gronkowski wrote “#clueless” with the shrugging emoji on Twitter. Gronkowski's website ran an article earlier this week about his friendship with Mojo Rawley and Gronkowski's father helping Rawley get into wrestling.
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Bayley visited Big Time Wrestling, where she got her start in pro wrestling, to film material for an “upcoming WWE documentary.”
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Link: https://www.instagram.com/p/BfumlGaj...gtimewrestling
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Tomohiro Ishii vs. Jeff Cobb is set for the WrestleCon SuperShow on April 5th.
Tenille Dashwood will appear at ROH’s Manhattan Mayhem on March 3rd and team with Deonna Purrazzo against Sumie Sakai & Jenny Rose.
ACH is replacing Tom Lawlor in MLW’s World Heavyweight title tournament and will face Matt Riddle in a semifinal match on April 8th.
CZW announced Juice Robinson vs. David Starr for their show in New Orleans on April 7th. Rich Swann will also face Joe Gacy for CZW in Voorhees, New Jersey on March 10th and wrestle at the WrestleMania weekend show.
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WrestleCon: https://twitter.com/wrestlecon/statu...34940303855616 , ROH: https://www.rohwrestling.com/news/wo...nhattan-mayhem , MLW: https://mlw.com/2018/02/28/ach-vs-ma...ls-on-march-8/ , CZW: https://twitter.com/combatzone/statu...55774540017664
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Originally Posted by WrestleInc
TV By The Numbers has an article on how NBCUniversal will be cutting back on the number of commercials that viewers see in primetime in 2018-2019. The change is scheduled to begin in the fall of this year. Shows across NBCU's various channels, including the USA Network, will feature around 20% fewer ads along with a 10% reduction in commercial time. It was noted that viewers might see 2 or 3 longer commercials instead of 5 thirty second ads during a break. NBCU is also promoting a "Prime Pod" for advertisers - a 60 second ad break in the first or last commercial of a show, which will be sold to one or two advertisers. It was also noted that a 10% reduction in commercial time could mean an increase of 2-4 minutes in episode length.
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Link: http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/mor...r-commercials/
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WWE has a new poll asking fans who is the favorite heading into the Six-Pack Challenge at WWE Fastlane. As of this writing, 55% voted for WWE Champion AJ Styles while 34% voted for John Cena, 7% for Dolph Ziggler, 2% for Baron Corbin, 1% for Kevin Owens and 1% for Sami Zayn.
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