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Originally Posted by Observer
For whatever this is worth, there was so much money bet yesterday on Samoa Joe to win on Sunday that he was taken off the board at Paddy Power. Paddy Power has been getting a lot of smart money bet this year but Thursday is usually early since Vince often doesn't make up his mind until the day of the show. But in this case, with Brock Lesnar being the opponent of the winner and McMahon having Lesnar's stuff usually detailed out way in advance, it is possible this is legit.
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Assuming this and recent rumors regarding Great Balls of Fire are true, a potential Joe-Lesnar feud would be really short and rushed.
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Originally Posted by Observer
There will be a Bruno Sammartino compilation and a Ladder match compilation video that will be coming out Monday on the WWE Network.
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Though the main event for the show was already known, New Japan Pro Wrestling has revealed the full card for the Best of the Super Juniors finals.
That main event will have Block A winner Will Ospreay taking on Block B winner KUSHIDA in the tournament finals. The two have faced each other before, with KUSHIDA winning both times. As defending Best of the Super Juniors winner, Ospreay looks to both repeat as tournament champion and get his first win against KUSHIDA.
The winner of that match will likely get an IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship shot against Hiromu Takahashi at Dominion on June 11th ...
The show will take place on June 3rd and will air live at 4 a.m. ET on New Japan World, complete with English commentary. The full card is: - Will Ospreay vs. KUSHIDA to determine this year's Best of the Super Juniors winner
- Kazuchika Okada & Gedo vs. Kenny Omega & Marty Scurll
- Tetsuya Naito, SANADA, EVIL, BUSHI & Hiromu Takahashi vs. Satoshi Kojima, Juice Robinson, Ryusuke Taguchi, Ricochet & Dragon Lee
- Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI vs. Minoru Suzuki & Taichi
- War Machine, David Finlay & ACH vs. Guerrillas of Destiny, Bad Luck Fale & Yujiro Takahashi
- Volador Jr., Tiger Mask IV & Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Taka Michinoku, El Desperado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru
- Hirai Kawato, Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Togi Makabe vs. Jado, Toru Yano & Tomohiro Ishii
- Syota Umino, Tomoyuki Oka & Yuji Nagata vs. Tetsuhiro Yagi, Katsuya Kitamura & Manabu Nakanishi
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Originally Posted by PWI
Earlier today, WWN announced talents for their ongoing Style Battle promotion, which features a series of tournament with competitors from different "styles" facing off at each event, with the winners moving on to a final tournament at the end of a "season." Announced for the tournament on 6/16 in Ybor City, Florida were Anthony Henry, Matt Tremont, Shlak, Maxwell Jacob Friedman and Teddy Stigma. Many of the same talents were also announced for the 6/17 FIP event in the same venue.
The inclusion of Shlak, who has worked for CZW and is competing in their Tournament of Death next week in Delaware, led to immediate complaints on social media, as fans had uncovered photos of him posing with white power band members and a photo of him giving a Nazi salute. WWN's Gabe Sapolsky (who is Jewish) immediately stated he wasn't aware of the situation and was going to investigate. In speaking to PWInsider.com, Sapolsky said that Shlak had been booked based on multiple recommendations and was going to drive down to the event as part of a contingent traveling together from the Northeast. Before Sapolsky had a chance to investigate the situation, however, Flosports (which has a deal with WWN to stream their events as part of their subscription service) informed the promotion that they had received complaints as well and would not be allowing Shlak's matches to be streamed on their service. All of this led to the promotion unbooking him. As you might imagine, Sapolsky wasn't happy about this scenario taking place at all.
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EVOLVE referee DA Brewer was signed by WWE and started with NXT this week as an official. He's a damn good referee.
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The 6/1 edition of Impact on Pop brought in 287,000 viewers, down from last week's 305,000 viewers.
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Originally Posted by WrestleInc
This past Monday's episode of RAW on Memorial Day averaged 2.613 million viewers and was the least watched episode of the year. The final rating of the show was just a 1.75.
Dave Meltzer reported in The Wrestling Observer Newsletter that it was the second lowest rated episode in the history of the show. He also noted that only one episode of WCW Monday Nitro, the December 11, 2000 show, ever did lower than a 1.75.
The rating is based on the percentage of homes that get the USA Network, so cord cutting doesn't factor into the rating. It was also noted in the Observer that the USA Network is available in 91.8 million homes, while it was available in 92.7 million homes a year ago, a drop of 1%. This year's RAW rating was down 19.1% from last year's Memorial Day episode, which scored a 2.19 rating with 3.222 million viewers.
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Some more details regarding yesterday's "WWE Did You Know" fact regarding WCW Nitro and RAW. Meltzer also went into more details regarding this situation recently: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost...&postcount=284
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Mark Henry’s most notable moment over the last few years since his Hall Of Pain run in 2011 was the fake retirement speech he gave on Raw in which he wore an orange suit and worked everyone into it ...
He said that he wore the orange suit simply because he thought it was cool, and he wanted people to remember that moment.
However, he had no idea that the response would be as it had been. He said that he had gotten messages from several people appreciating him and his suit, but none more memorable than that of The World's Largest Athlete, according to Henry.
“I guess the Big Show’s message was the best. He left me a message and said he is going to kill me, that he was sitting on the couch with his wife, crying, and said, that’s how you do me? You used me. You used my feelings, and I said, oh my bad.”
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Wacky Mark Henry story from back in the day regarding fooling Big Show enough to mke him cry. Link to the memorable segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSMu_VU_OOg
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