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Originally Posted by Observer
Last night's Raw did another strong number with 3.36 million viewers. It was the third best number for the show of the year, trailing the episode the day after the Royal Rumble and the 25th anniversary show.
It also held viewers better than usual as the third hour was the best third hour for Raw -- except for the 25th anniversary show -- dating back to August.
The pattern of second hour growth that goes back to the start of Daylight Savings time continued as well, with hour two averaging 3.55 million viewers ...
8 p.m. 3.40 million viewers
9 p.m. 3.55 million viewers
10 p.m. 3.15 million viewers
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Originally Posted by Observer
After Charlotte Flair underwent minor dental surgery for a mouth infection last Wednesday, WWE has pulled her from tonight's SmackDown and Mixed Match Challenge episodes.
WWE.com announced that Charlotte is "unable to compete on WWE Mixed Match Challenge tonight due to injury." A fan vote will decide who replaces her, with Becky Lynch, Carmella, and Lana listed as the three options. The winner will team with Bobby Roode against Finn Balor & Sasha Banks ...
Charlotte wasn't on any of this weekend's house shows after having the surgery. She's still scheduled to defend her SmackDown Women's Championship against Asuka at WrestleMania 34 on April 8th.
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Link: https://www.wwe.com/shows/wwe-mixed-...placement-vote
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Originally Posted by Observer
More of WCW's long running Saturday night program is coming to the WWE Network next week, a new report indicates.
Episodes from 1992 through 1994 will be uploaded to the Network starting on April 2, WWE Network News reports. It will be seperate from the World Championship Wrestling shows that have already been uploaded, which has episodes from 1985 through 1989. World Championship Wrestling was rebranded into WCW Saturday Night on April 4, 1992, so that may be the starting point. WWE Network News estimates that up to 100 hours of content will be uploaded.
Saturday Night was WCW's flagship show until 1995 when WCW Nitro was introduced and changed the wrestling world forever with a live program that rivaled WWE Raw for years. With the addition of WCW Thunder three years later, Saturday Night eventually became a meaningless "C-show" program that largely featured WCW's midcard and Power Plant trainees. The show continued to run until 2000, when it was turned into a recap show and ultimately cancelled altogether on August 19, 2000.
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Link: http://www.wwenetworknews.com/2018/0...ork-next-week/
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Originally Posted by Observer
MLW (Major League Wrestling) is coming to national television next month.
MLW announced via Sports Illustrated today that their new one-hour weekly series will debut on beIN Sports USA at 8 p.m. Eastern time on Friday, April 20th, with a replay set to air at 11 p.m. It was noted that MLW is getting a rights fee from beIN Sports as part of the deal.
“We’ve been in talks since the fall, and they were very impressed with our product,” MLW CEO Court Bauer told Sports Illustrated. “We offer a different presentation because we identify ourselves as a combat sport, but we have a lot more creative freedom than every other combat sport to give the most high-octane presentation" ...
The TV episodes will be taped monthly and then edited for the weekly show.
Bauer said that MLW has worked out an agreement with Lucha Underground and AAA for Pentagon Jr. and Rey Fenix to be regulars on the TV series. Tony Schiavone and Rich Bocchini (formerly known as Rich Brennan in NXT) will be the announcers for it.
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Link: https://www.si.com/wrestling/2018/03...ng-bein-sports
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Originally Posted by Observer
Ronda Rousey did a media tour of ESPN today and wasn’t very receptive to questions about her mixed martial arts career. She corrected Mike Golic and noted that she’s never said that she won’t fight again, then responded “There’s a possibility that I could go back in time? That’s your question to me?” when Golic asked a follow-up question about going back in time. The interview continued fine from there, with Rousey saying she thinks Floyd Mayweather competing in MMA is just talk. On “First Take,” Rousey questioned if Max Kellerman was hiding his own opinion when he asked her thoughts on people who claimed she was overrated after her losses. Rousey also appeared on “Get Up!” with Mike Greenberg, Michelle Beadle, and Jalen Rose, with a segment about her armbar being better than the Figure Four and Sharpshooter.
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Originally Posted by Observer
WWE Shop has released a “Fight for Your Dreams” t-shirt, with this being Daniel Bryan’s first new merchandise since he was cleared to return.
WWE posted Bryan vs. Batista vs. Randy Orton from WrestleMania 30 for free on YouTube.
Curt Hawkins again tweeted that he wants to be Braun Strowman’s partner at WrestleMania.
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Bryan: https://shop.wwe.com/daniel-bryan-fi...5_color=Silver , Mania 30: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-NEE_8Q2uE , Hawkins: https://twitter.com/TheCurtHawkins/s...32000418861057
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Originally Posted by Observer
ROH officially announced that Six-Man Tag Team Champions SoCal Uncensored will defend their titles against The Young Bucks & Flip Gordon in a ladder match at Supercard of Honor in New Orleans on April 7th. The Kingdom were originally announced to challenge for the titles, but the angle is that they’ve been “barred from participating” in the show.
Impact Wrestling revealed their streaming schedule for WrestleMania weekend, which includes Twitch Casts with Josh Mathews and Sonjay Dutt and videos following their wrestlers around events in New Orleans.
PROGRESS Wrestling Champion Travis Banks defending against Shane Strickland, Timothy Thatcher & WALTER vs. David Starr & Jack Sexsmith, and Pete Dunne vs. Flash Morgan Webster vs. Mark Andrews have been confirmed for PROGRESS’ show in New Orleans on April 6th.
Fred Yehi is set to debut for Revolution Pro Wrestling against Martin Stone at their Epic Encounter show on March 11th.
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ROH: https://www.rohwrestling.com/news/yo...d-ladder-match , Impact: http://impactwrestling.com/impact-wr...ursday-sunday/ , RevPro: https://twitter.com/RevProUK/status/978650035326943233
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Originally Posted by Observer
While sending a tweet to Wendys, Braun Strowman confirmed that he and Alexa Bliss are filming an episode of Ride Along: “.@Wendys you’re killing me. Three times in two weeks have stopped for grilled chicken and they don’t have any ready @AlexaBliss_WWE is trying to keep me calm while we’re filming #RideAlong I wait I’m starving and someone might #GetTheseHands”
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Link: https://twitter.com/BraunStrowman/st...82101466673159
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Originally Posted by PWI
Since we have gotten a number of emails about this, the women who portrayed Asuka's opponent last night, Jamie Frost, was independent talent Brittany Rae Steding.
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More details: http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...night-wwe-raw/
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Originally Posted by PWI
On 3/21, WWE applied to trademark "Talking Snack" as the title for what looks to be a series based on cooking and fitness ...
As PWInsider.com has previously reported, WWE has a new official cookbook coming out later this year.
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More details about the trademark: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...eries.html?p=1
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Originally Posted by PWI
Lucha Underground applied to trademark "Octagon", so that looks to be a new character for the next season. At this point, it's unknown if the trademark would be related to the original AAA star Octagon or a new character.
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Originally Posted by Post Wrestling
The George Tragos / Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame has announced their 2018 induction class with the following scheduled to be inducted over the weekend of July 26-28th in Waterloo, Iowa:
*Booker T. will receive the Lou Thesz Award
*Bruiser Brody will be posthumously awarded the Frank Gotch Award
*Ben Askren will receive the George Tragos Award
*Koji Miyamoto will receive the Jim Melby Award
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Originally Posted by Post Wrestling
One of the larger stories attached to the Saudi Arabia show is the representation of female talent, which will not take place on the show. The WWE did issue a statement to reporter David Bixenspan stating that women and children will be allowed to attend the event, but no female performers will be part of the show. While an optimist can hope that in future shows, women will be welcome on the cards, to me it’s a hard part to overlook for this show that women are not welcome to participate. At a time when the WWE has been so steadfast in their promotion of the women’s movement within the company, being presented on par with the men and using the example of Sasha Banks vs. Alexa Bliss having a match in the UAE, it seems contradictory to underplay this element of their lucrative deal with the Government of Saudi Arabia through the Vision 2030 program. It’s a massive deal for the WWE, although no terms are public yet, but for all the praise the company has received for the elevation of the women, I feel equal criticism is justified in this instance, even if not a WWE call but rather entering a business arrangement that does present restrictions, at least for the first show of the new deal. If this were a case of certain wrestlers being denied participation based on race or sexuality, there would be enormous backlash and gender should be included in that grouping.
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Post Wrestling's John Pollock on lack of WWE women wrestlers at the Saudi show and why that goes against WWE's PR for the Women's Revolution/Evolution.
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