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Former TPWW Royalty
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Dirtsheets sponsored by Nakamura's Artistic Interpretation of Cena:
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Originally Posted by PWI
The dark match from last night's Smackdown taping saw Jinder Mahal defend the World Title against John Cena. In ended in a disqualification when The Singh Brothers intervened. Cena made his own save.
The Great Khali was NOT with Mahal.
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Spoiler tags used since it might be related to the results for next week Cena-Nakamura match and current status of Khali in the WWE.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Coming off of Sunday's poorly received Battleground pay-per-view, SmackDown ratings essentially remained even with last week's number. The show averaged 2.535 million viewers, down very slightly from last week's 2.548 million.
The episode was third for the night on cable, trailing the Rachel Maddow Show and Tucker Carlson Tonight, both of which aired opposite SmackDown. In the 18-49 demo, it fell to second this week with a 0.77 rating, trailing Sharks and the City on the Discovery Network.
With a full year having passed since the brand split and the move to a live format on Tuesday nights, the year-over-year comparisons are relevant again, and SmackDown was down about eight percent from this week in 2016, about the same as Raw has been doing.
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The edition of 30 for 30 that ESPN has been producing on Ric Flair finally has its air date.
ESPN announced today that "Nature Boy," a documentary on Flair's life and career in pro wrestling, will premiere on Tuesday, November 7th at 10 p.m. ET. The project is directed by Rory Karpf and has been in the works since 2015.
Triple H, Hulk Hogan, Ricky Steamboat, Baby Doll, Tully Blanchard, The Undertaker, Arn Anderson, Shawn Michaels, Sting, and Road Warrior Animal are listed as being interviewed for the 30 for 30, along with Flair's first wife, his children, and others close to him.
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Brock Lesnar isn't doing anything to quiet rumors about a potential return to the Octagon.
Speaking with the Associated Press, Lesnar responded to comments that Jon Jones had made on a Facebook Live session on Tuesday. Jones said that he would love to face Lesnar and called the matchup a massive draw, but noted that he didn't think Lesnar would take a fight against him ...
Speculation about Lesnar fighting in the UFC again became rampant last week, with reports of him entering back into the USADA drug testing pool in anticipation of an eventual return ...
Lesnar is currently under a one-year suspension from USADA for drug test failures stemming from his win over Mark Hunt at UFC 200 last July. The suspension was frozen when Lesnar "retired" from MMA in February, and it's believed he would have to be tested for at least five more months before being allowed to fight again.
That would place a UFC return at late December at the soonest but more likely in early 2018.
Lesnar is currently under contract with WWE through next year's WrestleMania after signing a three-year deal in 2015, and the company would have to give him approval to fight while under contract. There has also been speculation that, in part, Lesnar is using a possible UFC return to gain more leverage in contract negotiations with WWE.
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Reby Hardy has continued to tweet about The Hardys' legal situation with Anthem over ownership of their "Broken" characters, including her claiming that Matt Hardy has taped all of his phone calls with Ed Nordholm and saying that Nordholm is lying about the situation. That was in response to a Sports Illustrated interview with Nordholm, where he said that Anthem is moving on after trying to reach a resolution and said that Matt is "prepared to tell falsehoods" about the contract that he had with TNA. Matt Hardy also wrote that he had the entire conversation with Nordholm recorded and said that Nordholm lied to defame him.
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Link with the Sports Illustrated interview: https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/201...orce-wrestling
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Originally Posted by Observer
After SmackDown last night, Daniel Bryan tweeted video of the debut episode of "Smacking Talk," which is the "rogue edition" of Talking Smack that he had been tweeting about. Renee Young was the co-host of the show and Chad Gable was the guest. WWE.com posted an article about it, with Bryan responding: "After 5,000+ retweets and 15,000+ likes, @wwe finally acknowledged #SmackingTalk, then called it 'bewildering.' #YesMovementPart2 is coming!"
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The state attorney's office in Florida confirmed that no arrest warrant has been issued for Paige after false reports claimed that one had. No decision has been made on whether she'll be charged for the airport domestic violence incident with Alberto El Patron.
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Supposedly a website called Pro Wrestling Times got outed as the source for the fake arrest warrant story. They have ties to a former writer from Sportskeeda who was known to pass off fake wrestling news from time to time. Also has ties to a wrestling podcast show that got outed for selling stolen designs and bootleg wrestling merch.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Shawn Michaels announced that he'll be on the road with NXT and working backstage at their house shows in Milwaukee, Green Bay, and Minneapolis this weekend.
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What Culture Pro Wrestling clarified that the return of their "Loaded" series doesn't mean that YouTube has changed the restrictions on wrestling promotions being able to monetize their videos.
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Link to the announcement: https://twitter.com/wcpw/status/890205031135313920
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Originally Posted by Observer
ROH announced that Brandi Rhodes will make her Women of Honor debut at their TV tapings in Concord, North Carolina on Saturday. She'll team with Sumie Sakai against Mandy Leon & Jenny Rose.
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According to a WWE social media posting on Twitter, Thea Trinidad's WWE NXT name is officially Zelina Vega. There have been some other variations of the name making the rounds since she made her official debut on TV, but that's the official name and spelling.
Trinidad, a former TNA Knockout, was signed after picking up a role pretty much playing the role of AJ Lee in the forthcoming WWE Studios film Fighting With My Family, based on the documentary of the same name on the family of WWE star Paige.
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I guess WWE felt the need to confirm the status for the future of Renée Young. They have a post on WWE.com saying that she will all be working both on Raw and Smackdown from here on out.
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During a currently ongoing media conference call with GFW's Dutch Mantel and Bruce Prichard, the pair were asked about Alberto el Patron.
Mantel noted that Patron has been cleared as a suspect in the 7/9 Orlando airport incident, but the company has continued its own internal investigation and when that is completed, they will "release their findings." So, it appears that is why Patron remains suspended despite the Orlando Police stating he is not a suspect nor is he being charged.
When Bram was suspended following a domestic violence related arrest several years back, his suspension from the company ended four days after it was publicly announced that the charges against him had been dropped. Obviously, that was a different management team and ownership, however.
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Some other sheet news includes: - WWE will be releasing their second quarter fiscal report tomorrow along with answering questions from investors at 11AM EST.
- Northeast Wrestling announced Chris Jericho will be making an appearance for their August 27th show in Wappingers, NY. Rey Mysterio and Cody were also announced to be on the card for the show. https://twitter.com/newwrestling1/st...35671717322752
- 2K Games currently teasing details regarding the collector's edition of WWE 2k18 will be revealed tomorrow.
- The Sporting News had a recent interview with James Storm talking about Impact's DDC storyline, Impact/GFW doing house shows again, and why he didn't stay in NXT for the longer term. http://www.pwinsider.com/article/111...n-nxt.html?p=1
- Smackdown producer Road Dogg currently lashing out on fans who were upset over WWE Battlegrounds and Nakamura-Cena match being thrown away on a regular Smackdown show. Been blocking people who were supporting the #FireRoadDogg hashtag on Twitter. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...-blocks-users/
- Kenny Omega recently responded to comments made by Lance Storm and Davey Boy Smith Jr who were upset at the comedy match he had against Yano at the G1 tournament. Storm quickly backtracked when Omega asked him what was better, being successful at comedy wrestling or failing at serious wrestling. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...dic-wrestling/
- Recent episode of the Steve Austin show with Jim Ross as the guest had Austin complain about WWE's poor booking and handling of Nakamura on Smackdown. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...suke-nakamura/
- In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, Kofi Kingston is currently the most decorated champion in WWE history to not win a WWE, World, or ECW championship (includes variants of WWE title). https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc...ated_champion/
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