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Old 09-22-2016, 10:27 PM   #328
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Originally Posted by Observer
Matt Hardy has gotten feelers from intermediaries that HHH wants him when his contract expires, which would be next spring. The problem is that he’s got pretty much creative control of his character here in TNA, plus can make his own schedule and he does extremely well on the indie scene, particularly when you throw in merchandise. With WWE there’s the killer schedule which probably isn’t the best thing for him physically right now. Granted, if something happens to TNA, that equation changes because he’s loaded with ideas for his character and he would need television to get them over
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Originally Posted by Observer
As expected, Cody Rhodes has signed with TNA. He tweeted the following about joining the promotion.

When I released wwe I had no idea the opportunities & places I was bound for...#BoundForGlory https://t.co/hN3J7AbQO8
— Cody Rhodes (@CodyRhodes) September 23, 2016
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Originally Posted by Observer
The political situation with Alberto El Patron is that at least for now, he’s debuting in the main event of the 10/2 Heroes Inmortales show. AAA is apparently the only promotion in Mexico that was willing to pay $4,000 per appearance as CMLL simply isn’t going to pay anyone that much. Elite was paying bigger money to AAA guys to jump, but with the limited capacity of Arena Naucalpan, where they are now running, it just makes no sense to pay that much for one guy. The problem is that working here dooms Alberto for New Japan. New Japan made him an offer for a schedule similar to that of A.J. Styles when he was there, but he’d have to work CMLL in Mexico. He wasn’t interested in being in Japan that much anyway.
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Originally Posted by Observer
This may not happen, especially since it would be months away if it does happen, but there’s been a pitch for Benjamin, Swagger and Ziggler as a Varsity Club/shooters type group on Smackdown. The thing is from an international standpoint, the most accomplished wrestler on Smackdown would be Gable, who went to the Olympics, although Benjamin, who placed third in the nation as a senior would be the most accomplished NCAA wrestler on the brand. Gable in NXT at one point headed up a shooters group and it was dropped because of the idea that Vince hates those kinds of gimmicks and it would hurt everyone involved
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Originally Posted by Observer
Talent has been told over the last week or so that New Japan is looking to expand into new international markets. This may lead to more of the foreigners getting contracts, similar to Kenny Omega, Bad Luck Fale, Rocky Romero, Tama Tonga and Michael Elgin where they are New Japan as their home group. .. Expect Adam Cole & Young Bucks to work together as a trio more going forward as key players in the trios division.
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Originally Posted by Observer
TNA has announced a Bound for Gold match for the 10/2 Bound for Glory PPV. Essentially it's a Royal Rumble match with the winner getting a title match.
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Originally Posted by 411Mania
According to The Wrestling Observer Newsletter, it doesn’t look like Ricochet will be heading to WWE like many thought. The reports says that he is looking at staying with New Japan for the foreseeable future. Lucha Underground also made him a very good offer, and he may choose to keep working there and filling the rest of his dates with indie and NJPW dates. He recently posted, “Think I just got some great news. 2017 may just be my best year to date! Not WWE,” on Twitter, which the WON says is in regards to his NJPW opportunities.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Ryback has legally changed his name to Ryback Allen Reeves, in his attempt to continue using the Ryback name for wrestling and other marketing ventures after WWE claimed ownership of the name.
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Originally Posted by 411Mania
John Cena’s hiatus that beings midway through next month for the second season of American Grit will be over by the end of the year. Wrestling Inc reports that Cena, who will likely work Survivor Series in the middle of his hiatus, is scheduled for the December 26th Smackdown house show in Madison Square Garden in New York City. This is about on par with when he returned last year.
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Originally Posted by PWI
Former WWE and TNA talent Kia Stevens, best known as Awesome Kong and Kharma, has joined the cast of Netflix's forthcoming comedy "GLOW", based on the 1980s female wrestling league The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, which aired for several years and even did a national tour based on the success of the series' syndicated TV series, according to Deadline.com.
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Originally Posted by Observer
There really isn’t much of an update on the future of TNA in regards to a sale. Billy Corgan is the President as is running the company, and Dixie Carter is largely out of decision making power. She still owns about 70 percent of the company but is looking to sell because the company needs money to continue and she doesn’t have it, and the company is heavily in debt, which is a key. Corgan is said to be the most likely buyer.
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Originally Posted by Observer
The Dudleys may not be doing a lot of indie stuff as there is talk of Devon taking a job as an agent with WWE while Bubba would continue to work as a single on the indies, and both would continue to co-own their Florida wrestling school
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Originally Posted by Observer
Ryan Reeves (Ryback) did an interview with Sports Illustrated, and gave some clues as how he was able to keep his physique in a drug tested environment. For years several in WWE would bring up to me how guys weren’t happy because he was allowed to keep his physique, so to speak. I always thought that meant he just had access to stuff that you couldn’t catch, but in actuality he was given a testosterone use exemption because he had burned out his own system by taking steroids. He said that he had low testosterone, saying he used steroids when he was younger, his natural production was shut down and it never came back. He said he was given an allowance for TRT. WWE had banned usage of TRT for its talent in 2007 except for those who they had already given approval to before that time. In theory, that makes sense, because if you allow people usage of TRT, the theory is the body becomes dependent on it and won’t function well without it.
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In Chael Sonnens latest podcast he has Chris Jericho as his guest and Chael asks Chris how he feels about guys like AJ Styles who not only makes it into the WWE, but winning the title as well. Chris goes on to say he feels prideful that he got to introduce the audience to AJ and getting the styles clash unbanned from WWE. Apparently the move was banned before AJ got there. Also claims to hook viktor from ascent up with a job. It's on ep.128 of "You're Welcome with Chael Sonnen" around the 41:00 mark
Source is from r/SquaredCircle

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Originally Posted by 411Mania
Bleacher Report writer Jason King, the author or “The Great Fall of Chyna,” was recently on X-Pac 1,2,360. During his appearance, he spoke about working on the article and revealed that Chyna left WWE over a contract issue. King shared the information, which came from Chyna’s sister, Kathy…

“Getting ahold of Kathy [Hamilton, Chyna’s sister] to me was the key to the whole story. She and Chyna’s mom had never really spoken much to the media and there was just a lot of questions about what was Chyna really like before she became a wrestler. And not only that Kathy and her were still very close during the time she was in the WWE and that was obviously when she was dating Triple H, and that was when she had the contract issues. And you know Chyna had kind of pushed a narrative once she was no longer in the WWE that she was let go or fired or however you want to call it, or didn’t get her contract renewed, and that wasn’t entirely true. According to her sister she was offered $400,000 a year to renew the contract and she turned it down. She wanted a base salary, downside of a million.”
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Originally Posted by Observer
From sources in Germany, Tele 5 had enough of WWE. WWE is attempting to set up a bidding war for rights since both Raw and Smackdown deals are about to expire. ProSieben told WWE that the shows produce adequate ratings but are net money losers due to them not being able to sell advertising inventory. In Germany, nobody except WWE licensees have showed a lot of interest in advertising on the shows, even German subsidiaries of companies that advertise on the USA Network. A lot of the deal was based on ProSieben getting PPV revenue from WWE shows, but with the PPV revenue dead, there was no economic incentive. The feeling is if WWE loses broadcast TV and goes back to Sky (pay TV) in Germany, they’ll be back to half houses.
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Originally Posted by PWI
So, I am watching old WCW on the WWE Network. Can you explain to me WHY Robocop appeared at Capital Combat? Was he in storylines? Why did they subject the great Gordon Solie to silly vignettes? WHY?

The appearance was a promotional appearance to help promote the Robocop 2 film, which was about to be released theatrically. He appeared on the PPV and a few commercials with Sting but that was it. It was beyond silly.
WCW story from back in the day from a recent Q&A report by PWI.


Some other sheet news includes:
  • WWE's website recently had an interview with Mark Henry about his 20 year career in the company. http://www.wwe.com/article/mark-henr...w?sf36666376=1
  • According to PWI, Paul London is currently an agent for Lucha Underground.
  • In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, Dean Ambrose currently has wrestled the most matches in 2016 with 146 matches according to website cagematch.net. Wrestled 3 more matches than Isami Kodaka who is #2 and 8 more matches than Owens for closet WWE wrestler. https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc...tled_the_most/
  • Update to recent Rico health issues news as the GoFundMe fundraiser set up to help fund Rico's medical costs likely is a scam due to Rico's manager revealing they are not involved with it nor did the person in charge ever contact them.
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