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Dirtsheets sponsored by Daniel Bryan's happiest day of 2018:
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Originally Posted by Observer
After being cleared to return to the ring by WWE, Daniel Bryan will be appearing at the start of tonight's SmackDown.
Bryan announced the news while making his first comments about returning: "Saying goodbye to the ring was one of the hardest moments of my life. But thanks to the amazing people supporting me, I was able to keep fighting for my dream. This moment feels surreal and I'm glad to be able to talk to you all at the beginning of #SDLive tonight."
Bryan was scheduled to return to television tonight to address Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn's attack on Shane McMahon from last Tuesday. As Dave Meltzer reported, Bryan & Shane vs. Owens & Zayn has been the plan for WrestleMania 34 if Bryan were able to get cleared. |
Spoiler tag used since its related to potential Mania plans.
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Originally Posted by WrestleInc
Regarding Bryan's in-ring status, he is currently free and clear to wrestle as much as WWE wants to use him and as much as he wants to work. There's no word yet on if Bryan wants to work a full-time schedule. Meltzer stated that Bryan had talked about wanting to work somewhat a limited schedule, perhaps around 60 dates instead of 200 dates, but that was referring to working outside of WWE.
It was also noted that Bryan has had more testing done than any WWE talent in history and possibly more than any fighter in history. Bryan has seen many doctors while trying to get cleared and all doctors that he's seen in the last 23 months or so have cleared him.
Bryan's WWE deal expires in September and it's believed that he will not be looking to go to the indies now that he's been cleared.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Raw had another big number last night with 3.31 million viewers, down slightly from last week's 3.35 million, but aside from last week, it was better than all but a few episodes since the fall of 2016.
The big question regarded the Ultimate Deletion segment in the third hour. The show dropped 11 percent from hour two to hour three, which is a big number, but hour three still topped three million viewers, which has only happened a handful of times in recent months. Given how last week's show did, it did not hold the viewers as well as last week did, but you can't call it a notable ratings success or failure ...
The second hour being the most-watched hour once again is due to the changing patterns during Daylight Savings time.
The three hours were:
8 p.m. 3.43 million viewers
9 p.m. 3.47 million viewers
10 p.m. 3.08 million viewers
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Originally Posted by Observer
Episodes of WCW Thunder were added to the WWE Network this morning.
So far, WWE has uploaded most episodes of WCW’s secondary show from the start of the program on January 8, 1998 through September 1999. Some episodes during this time period are still not up as of this writing, but more may be added by the end of the day.
WWE Network News originally reported that episodes of WCW Thunder would be added on March 19. It was theorized that the reason why it had taken so long for the show to appear on the network was due to the lawsuit against WWE by Buff Bagwell and Raven over royalty fees associated with the WWE Network. That lawsuit was dropped back in December.
WCW Thunder ran for a little over three years, ending its run on March 21, 2001. It was the final wrestling program on TBS, which had broadcasted professional wrestling for 29 years before a regime change cancelled all professional wrestling on Turner networks.
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Some details regarding incorrect episode numbers on the Network: http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...e-wwe-network/
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Originally Posted by Observer
Ring of Honor has announced the Tag Team title match for their WrestleMania weekend show.
It will be The Briscoes defending their titles against Hiroshi Tanahashi & Jay Lethal. This will be the first defense for The Briscoes since they defeated the Motor City Machine Guns at ROH's 16th Anniversary pay-per-view earlier this month to begin their ninth reign with the belts.
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Link with more details: https://www.f4wonline.com/ring-honor...nor-xii-253886
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Originally Posted by Observer
While their medical situations are different, Paige took the Bryan news as a sign of hope about her own situation: “Congrats @WWEDanielBryan overcoming what looked like a career ending injury to being fully cleared and ready to compete again! Real life super man. Gives hope to a lot of people to never give up on your passion! Inspiring. @WWE”
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Link: https://twitter.com/RealPaigeWWE/sta...08256929599489
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Originally Posted by Observer
The Ultimate Deletion wasn’t included in the Hulu version of Raw this week. Hulu support responded to someone who asked about the decision: “Sorry for the disappointment, Shannon! We have the rights to stream a pre-formatted 90-minute special of Raw, and no edits are done on our end. We'll share your feedback with our team.”
Jeff Hardy (as Brother Nero) made a cameo near the finish of the Ultimate Deletion match. The appearance was filmed before his DWI arrest earlier this month but wasn’t edited out.
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Link: https://twitter.com/hulu_support/sta...00739004149761
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Originally Posted by Observer
The main event for the Impact vs. Lucha Underground show in New Orleans on April 6th will be announced on Facebook Live at noon Eastern tomorrow.
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Impact-LU: http://impactwrestling.com/the-main-...a-underground/
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Originally Posted by Post Wrestling
MLW has announced that Matt Sydal will debut with the promotion against Low Ki at their “World Championship Finals” event on Thursday, April 12th, at the Gilt Nightclub. The show will feature Matt Riddle vs. Shane Strickland in the finals of the MLW title tournament, and they have also announced a match between Priscilla Kelly and Santana Garrett.
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Originally Posted by PWI
The US Marshals on Raw last night were local Texas wrestlers Kristopher Haiden, Brad Sanders and Ricky Starks.
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Originally Posted by PWI
The announced Rey Mysterio co-ownership of Aro Lucha appears to be a marketing move by the company with the idea of pushing fans into personally investing into the company the way Mysterio "has."
Part of Aro Lucha's strategy, according to The Tennessean's report on the Mysterio co-ownership over the weekend is to offer fans a chance to buy into the promotion, using rules relaxed by President Barack Obama that would allow Aro Lucha to potentially raise $1 million via sales of stock to non-credited investors.
PWInsider.com was told today by multiple WWE sources that the company is still moving forward with plans to speak with Mysterio about a potential new deal going forward.
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Originally Posted by Observer
The New Japan Cup finals takes place very late Tuesday night, 2 a.m. Eastern start and 11 p.m. Pacific in Nagaoka, with Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Zack Sabre Jr. Sabre Jr. is on fire in the tournament on a murderers row run submitting Tetsuya Naito, Kota Ibushi and Seiya Sanada in a row. The complete card for what is a Wednesday Japanese time show is listed in the schedule section above. Expect a lot of angles at the show because they have to set up matches both for Long Beach on Sunday and for Sumo Hall on 4/1 with almost no lead time. Really, it's amazing they cut it this close, but evidently there are things that have to happen Wednesday in the stories they are telling before the two big cards can be announced.
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Originally Posted by Post Wrestling
A vote is going to be held on Tuesday among owners of the Trump Parc Stamford condominiums in Connecticut. This is where Vince McMahon owns a penthouse suite, which he purchased for $4.1 million in 2009, but has since depreciated and is now valued at $1.98 million, although McMahon did buy the suite for $1 million above what it was initially appraised at. The controversy stems from many of the condo owners upset that their units have been devalued because of the association to President Donald Trump. Tuesday’s vote will elect a homeowners’ board and will determine if the new board will proceed with hopes of dropping the association with Trump. The average unit price at Trump Parc has dropped from $1.05 million in 2015 down to $881,563 in 2017 based on the units sold.
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Originally Posted by Post Wrestling
Bill Apter spoke with Joyce Grable regarding last week’s story involving the Fabulous Moolah and the allegations that were brought back to light after the announcement of the battle royal. Grable worked for Moolah for 13-years, beginning in 1971 and lasted until 1984. Grable said the women knew upfront in the contract how much money Moolah took a percentage and it wasn’t hidden. Grable asked for a raise at the end, was denied it by Moolah and she gave her notice and left. Grable outright denied any of the allegations of Moolah pimping out the women and sending any men to the women’s rooms. Grable specified an incident where Moolah was approached by a German promoter to bring Grable over where they had the women wear two-piece suits during the match and the loser would have their top removed. Grable said she wouldn’t do it and Moolah didn’t proceed further with the promoter.
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Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji2GzootPdg
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Originally Posted by WrestleInc
WWE recently filed to register a trademark for "WWE Brawl," which appears to be for some sort of video game use.
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Originally Posted by WrestleInc
We noted before how WWE recently filed to trademark the "Samoa Joe" name. That registration was filed on March 9th but WWE later abandoned the trademark on March 16th.
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