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Originally Posted by Observer This may not happen, but the name that has been mentioned to me by a few people that they are debating bringing up imminently is Velveteen Dream. There are differing schools of thought on it.

Spoiler tag used since it could be a potential surprise for next week's Superstar Shakeup episodes.

Originally Posted by Observer Following a dip last Thursday, Impact Wrestling ratings were back on track for this week's episode. The show averaged 381,000 viewers on Pop TV and did a 0.11 rating in the 18-49 demo. That's up from last week's 294,000 viewers and 0.06 rating, which had competition in the first hour from a special on the greatest moments in WrestleMania history that aired on the USA Network.

Originally Posted by Observer A six-man tag match is set for the first of WWE's two United Kingdom Championship tournament shows at Royal Albert Hall in June. WWE revealed today that British Strong Style (Pete Dunne, Tyler Bate & Trent Seven) will be teaming together to face the Undisputed Era (Adam Cole, Kyle O'Reilly & Roderick Strong) on night one. Strong turned against Dunne at NXT TakeOver: New Orleans, joining Undisputed Era and allowing the group to retain their Tag Team titles.

Link: http://www.wwe.com/worldwide/article...hall-june-2018

Originally Posted by Observer Weiss Wrestling Promotions is putting some of the footage they have joint rights to on sale. The new owners will have the rights to sell the footage of license its usage. In some cases, some royalties, based on the original contract, will have to be paid to the original promoter. The matches they are putting for sale are Killer Kowalski vs. Luis Martinez, Verne Gagne vs. Mad Dog Vachon from the Montreal Forum and others.

Originally Posted by Observer All the Rusev stuff is storyline.

This is in regards to speculation about him being pulled from Taker match at the Saudi Rumble show.

Originally Posted by Observer IPW UK is running a women's show on 4/27 in Caterbury, England called GRL with Xia Brookside vs. Kay Lee Ray. Jim Cornette and IDW Limited are doing a 60 page graphic novel together with Cornette stories. There will be a Kickstarter fundraiser that starts on 4/17 to 5/10 for "Jim Cornette Presents: Behind the Curtain - Real Pro Wrestling Stories." Al Snow, Bully Ray and Velvet Sky were announced for the House of Hardcore tour of Australia in July. Pro Wrestling Revolver on 5/5 in West Des Moines, IA at he Val Air Ballroom with Penta 0M vs. Jimmy Jacobs, Tommy Dreamer vs. Jake Manning in a hardcore match plus Sami Callihan, Dave & Jake Crist and Shane Strickland.

Cornette: http://www.comicsbeat.com/jim-cornet...ies-to-comics/

Originally Posted by Observer Former UFC women's bantamweight champion and WWE breakout star Ronda Rousey will work four dates on the company's upcoming European tour. Announced by WWE on Friday morning, Rousey will wrestle on May 16th in Geneva, Switzerland, May 17th in Vienna, Austria, May 18th in Turin, Italy, and May 19th in Paris, France. Opponent(s) were not named. Even before WrestleMania, the 31-year-old was booked for the company's Madison Square Garden house show on July 7th. The entire WWE European tour will consist of 13 dates.

Link: http://www.wwe.com/worldwide/article...urope-may-2018

Originally Posted by PWI Wrestling DVD Network has reported that next month's release of WWE's Wrestlemania 34 DVD will not include the 2018 WWE Hall of Fame ceremony due to the long runtimes of both shows, but will include the day after Mania episode of Monday Night Raw. The Hall of Fame has been included in every Wrestlemania DVD release since Mania 21 in 2005. The website also reports tht the Mania DVD will feature all three matches from the Kickoff Show (which were missing from the United States version of the DVD last year) and the Blu-Ray version will contain material from the Smackdown after Wrestlemania as well.

Originally Posted by PWI Destiny Wrestling announced the following via their Twitter account: Breaking News - Sun June 3rd Destiny presents its next LIVE show Zero Fear and its an @IMPACTWRESTLING TV taping One Night Only and already signed the one and only @PENTAELZEROM more details coming soon! pic.twitter.com/eGcPjB1yy9 — Destiny Wrestling (@DestinyWrestle) April 13, 2018

Link: https://twitter.com/DestinyWrestle/s...85712077963264

Originally Posted by Observer They used Josh Matthews, Impact's lead announcer, with Matt Striker, Lucha Underground's lead announcer. The show drew 1,400 fans, a near sellout, and they were hot. At first the crowd was anti-Impact, as early mentions of Impact were booed and mentions of Lucha Underground were cheered. It's one thing for Matthews to be booed, since he plays a heel character even though he's the lead announcer (largely because efforts to bring back Mike Tenay didn't work out and Jeremy Borash left to work for NXT). But they also booed McKenzie Mitchell, Impact's backstage interviewer, since she was from there.

Originally Posted by Observer WWE was scouting Shimmer on 4/7 for the tournament and future signings. Tessa Blanchard was said to be the standout. She was one of the best women in the Mae Young Classic, so they know about her and obviously there is a reason they didn't sign her after initially showing interest last year. Blanchard even cut a promo on an indie show a few months ago and talked about attitude issues that people were saying. She's still young and at this point she has the look and charisma and real star potential, not to mention the last name and second generation aspects that they like. The other women who stood out on the show like Mercedes Martinez were also in last year's tournament

Originally Posted by Observer Basically, the decision to go with Cena vs. Undertaker was made months ago. At some point they realized that Undertaker couldn’t do a match of any length. That was the catalyst for the build being what it was, because they wanted everyone to know Undertaker would be there against Cena, but downplay the idea it was one of the biggest matches on the show as people would expect it to be with a normal build.

Originally Posted by Observer This may mean nothing so far in advance, but does indicate it was at least the plan at some point, but there is advertising already out in the Pittsburgh market for the 7/15 Extreme Rules PPV show listing Styles vs. Nakamura vs. Corbin as the main event for the WWE title. It should be noted that of all the non-main event talent in WWE right now, Vince is still highest on Corbin as a future major player. Then again, coming off WrestleMania last year, the idea was to give Corbin his new music and go heavy with him, and they didn’t pull that trigger.

Originally Posted by Observer Katsuya Kitamura, 32, the 2017 Wrestling Observer Rookie of the Year and a wrestler considered the Japanese version of Brock Lesnar, may no longer be with the company. Kitamura has been out of action for five weeks. His last match was on 3/4 in Tsukuba, teaming with Manabu Nakanishi, losing to Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano. He apparently suffered a concussion in that match and hasn’t wrestled since. There are reports that he’s out of action with a concussion and his career is over. Those within the company have said that the concussion is a cover reason and it was another as yet undisclosed reason why he is not expected back.

Originally Posted by Observer While FOX and NBC Universal are both well known for having interest in WWE, there is talk WWE could also end up with separate deals, like in the past when Smackdown was on UPN and later CW while Raw was on USA. The WWE package right now has far more interest than it did five years ago when the last set of negotiations took place. The timing of signing Ronda Rousey couldn't have been better because we keep hearing her name in regard to the talks. There would have been interest because WWE's ratings over the last year haven't declined (after big declines in prior years) and in television, that's considered a great product where television ratings are staying even.

Originally Posted by WrestleInc A new DVD set on WWE Champion AJ Styles is set to be released later this year, according to WrestlingDVDNetwork.com. There had been speculation on the set featuring a documentary but WDN notes that it will likely include a match compilation of AJ's best matches since debuting with WWE in 2016. As noted earlier this month, a WWE 365 special on Styles will be premiering on the WWE Network soon as well.

Originally Posted by WrestleInc WWE has a new poll asking fans which brand Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens should go to. As of this writing, 59% voted for NXT while 34% voted for RAW and 7% voted for SmackDown.

Originally Posted by WrestleInc WWE recently filed to trademark the "Colin Cassady" name. This is the ring name that Big Cass used before they shortened it, indicating a potential change for his return. Cass should be returning to the ring soon after undergoing knee surgery back in August of 2017. It was reported then that he would be out for 9 months.

Some other stuff includes:

• According to reports, WWE's Greatest Royal Rumble event will be the first ever sporting or entertainment event in Saudi Arabian history to not have men and women be segregated in the crowd.
• According to the Observer, Chavo Guerrero Jr. suffered a triceps injury during last week's Impact vs Lucha Underground event in New Orleans.
• CBS Sports had a recent interview with Emma/Tenille Dashwood talking about Daniel Bryan's in-ring return, how she got signed by ROH, and being involved in another women's movement in wrestling. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...leared-by-wwe/
• Recent episode of E&C's Pod of Awesomeness show had Christian talk about the lackluster crowd reaction to Styles-Nakamura and experiencing a similar occurrence during his feud with Randy Orton. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...mura-received/

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• Alberto El Patron Comments on No-Showing Impact Show and His Release
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