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Originally Posted by Observer
Raw got a bump from coming the day after Survivor Series, doing its best numbers since football season started with an average of 3.06 million viewers last night.
As would be expected, the show did a strong first hour, but held up well in hour two. The third hour had the usual big drop, but it was still the most-watched third hour since August ...
The three hours were:
8 p.m. 3.24 million viewers
9 p.m. 3.19 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.79 million viewers
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Even though recent weeks have been higher than same period last year, probably still end with a lower year average because of how poor the numbers were in the first half of the year.
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Originally Posted by Observer
It doesn't appear that Brock Lesnar vs. Finn Balor will be happening at the Royal Rumble.
Dave Meltzer noted on Wrestling Observer Radio last night that Lesnar vs. Balor for the Universal Championship was originally scheduled for the pay-per-view, but WWE changed their plans yesterday as they decided to move away from that match. Meltzer mentioned that Vince McMahon thinking Balor wasn't over enough to face Lesnar right now was one of the reasons behind the decision.
Meltzer also speculated that McMahon may have made up his mind prior to the official change of plans given how Balor was positioned in the men's elimination tag match at Survivor Series. It isn't clear who will be challenging for Lesnar's title at the Royal Rumble at this point in time.
Balor lost to Samoa Joe by referee stoppage due to passing out in the Coquina Clutch on Monday's episode of Raw. After defeating AJ Styles at TLC, Balor lost to Kane on Raw the next night and was laid out by him the following week. The idea was apparently to build Balor back up prior to the Royal Rumble.
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Originally Posted by Observer
In another milestone for his career, Roman Reigns won the Intercontinental Championship for the first time on Monday's episode of Raw ...
Now that he's Intercontinental Champion, Reigns has completed WWE's Grand Slam of title wins. He's previously held the WWE, United States, and Tag Team titles in his career.
With no Raw-exclusive pay-per-views scheduled before the Royal Rumble, Reigns could be Intercontinental Champion heading into that PPV. Dave Meltzer has reported that Brock Lesnar vs. Reigns for the Universal Championship is tentatively scheduled to main event WrestleMania 34.
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All Rollins needs is the IC belt for every member of the Shield to become WWE Grand Slam Champs.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Pro Wrestling Sheet reported that WWE is in talks with Facebook for the test run of a new weekly in-ring show that would air on Facebook Live. If it were to happen, it would be filmed after SmackDown on Tuesdays and would possibly feature Raw and SmackDown wrestlers, with mixed tag matches reported as a possible theme. WWE applied to trademark “WWE Mixed Match Challenge” earlier this month. Pro Wrestling Sheet mentioned that 205 Live taking place before SmackDown has been discussed if the new show comes to fruition.
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Link to the report: http://www.prowrestlingsheet.com/fac.../#.WhS0Z7Q-cW9
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Originally Posted by Observer
The implosion of the Georgia Dome, which hosted WrestleMania 27 and Goldberg winning the WCW title from Hollywood Hogan in 1998 (among other Nitro episodes), took place yesterday. The Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta opened as the Georgia Dome’s replacement earlier this year.
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In a bit of a LOL moment, Weather Channel tried to air live feed of the demolishing but picked a bad spot to do it since it was a bus stop and a bus showed up right as it started blocking the entire view of its collapse.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Christopher Daniels responded to some of the criticism he’s received for the flaming table spot he was involved in against Cody Rhodes for ROH over the weekend: "When people criticize me or my decisions with moronic comments (not valid critique), I fight the urge to draw attention to a vocal minority of fans, but I will say this: 1) Our business is up, 2) My paychecks are fine, & 3) My career won't be 1 day shorter. NOT. ONE. DAY.”
NWA Champion Tim Storm accepted CZW’s invitation to appear at this year’s Cage of Death show on December 9th.
MLW announced that their first show of 2018 will take place at GILT Nightclub in Orlando on January 11th. Matt Riddle is the first wrestler confirmed for the event.
Punishment Martinez won the six-way Survival of the Fittest ROH match in Oklahoma City last night, meaning he should get a shot at the ROH championship shortly.
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Dainels link: https://twitter.com/facdaniels/statu...08161304223744 , NWA link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvrbz6cta6Y
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Originally Posted by Observer
Both Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian were injured at Ring of Honor events in Texas this weekend.
Kazarian took a bad bump taking the Indytaker move, a spike piledriver, during the finish of Friday night's main event in San Antonio, a match with The Young Bucks, Kenny Omega, Cody Rhodes & Stephen Amell vs. Daniels, Kazarian, Scorpio Sky & Flip Gordon. Kazarian didn't work last night in Dallas, and flew back home to California before the show. It was thought on Friday to have been a possible stinger.
Daniels suffered mild burns last night in Dallas from a spot where he took a powerbomb through a flaming table. Cody defeated Daniels in a Texas Death Match to retain the ROH World Championship at the show.
Those at ROH believe the injury to Kazarian is not serious, but he won't be on tonight's (Sunday) show in Oklahoma City. The belief is that Daniels will be able to work tonight's (Sunday) show.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Regarding the term "Superkick" party, Matt Massie (Matt Jackson) registered the term for clothing in 2015. That doesn't prevent WWE announcers from using the term, like Byron Saxton did last night. It only means they can't merchandise the term for clothing.
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Originally Posted by Observer
WWE sent out an email to current Network subscribers offering them their first month free. They later issued a correction noting that the email was sent in error and apologized for any confusion, saying they hope you’ll enjoy Survivor Series.
Another WWE Network offer sent to some people advertised that you could buy Survivor Series as a one-time purchase and access Network content through Monday for $24.99. With the first month being free to new subscribers and it being $9.99 to anyone else, that wouldn’t seem to be much of a deal. Much of the appeal of still offering traditional PPV is to reach people without good internet connections, but you’d need one to watch Survivor Series with this option anyway.
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Originally Posted by PWI
Last night's WWE Intercontinental championship change, with Roman Reigns defeating the Miz, was done, due to the Miz taking time off to film a movie, PWInsider.com has confirmed.
One source believed Miz would be going to film the latest installment of WWE Studios' The Marine movie franchise. There have been five films thus far in The Marine franchise, with The Miz starring in the last three. We are told that there is no current timetable for Miz's return and last night was his final appearance until filming is completed.
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Originally Posted by PWI
Some updates on the lawsuit Flosports, Inc. brought against EVOLVE parent company WWNLive Inc. back in September.
The lawsuit, seeking $1 million in damages, was originally filed in the United States District Court of Travis County, Texas revolves around allegations that WWN, run by Sal Hamaoui and Gabe Sapolsky, had "robbed Flosports" by provided false information that led to the streaming provider paying inflated prices for WWN content.
WWN filed a motion on 11/13, requesting the lawsuit being dismissed, citing that the suit was filed in a venue (Texas) that lacks jurisdiction over WWNLive. Flosports had argued the case should be heard in Texas since they were doing business with WWN in that State. In their 22-page filing, WWN argued that their business was based in Florida, as are its business records and bank accounts ...
WWNLive also argued that Flosports has failed to actually state a claim regarding their allegation there has been "negligent misrepresentation" on the part of WWNLive. Flosports' lawsuit alleges that "WWN negligently or otherwise misrepresented the number of fans purchasing pay-per-view and video-on-demand access to their fighting events. When pressed for the data that backed up WWN’s spreadsheet of viewership, WWN originally claimed it had lost or deleted that information. Ultimately, WWN sent records listing many subscribers more than once and including purchasers of DVDs instead of broadcast services. Even with that artificial inflation of viewership, the numbers WWN attempted to account for were far less than those represented in its initial spreadsheet." Thus, "WWN induced FloSports to pay it hundreds of thousands of dollars based on data that was not only inaccurate and unreliable; it was just plain false."
WWNLive responded by denying there were any falsehoods in the Spreadsheet data Flosports received from WWN, noting, "That data was pulled from and compiled by a now-defunct third-party company named Fineline Hosting that was based in Florida." WWN is arguing that since the data was compiled by a Florida company (one that is now defunct) and was emailed to Flosports from Florida, there is no actual merit to claiming "negligent misrepresentation" in the state of Texas - even if there was indeed inaccurate information ...
Flosports alleged that they have "Invested time and money that it will never recover in the market" noting, "since viewership drives FloSports’ subscription-base and its advertising revenue, WWN’s misrepresentations robbed FloSports..." WWN responded to that, citing, "Texas law is unequivocal, however, that benefit of the bargain damages are not recoverable for a claim of negligent misrepresentation" and claim that Flosports' own language in the lawsuit admits such, therefore the negligent misrepresentation count should be dropped.
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Some more details: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...wsuit.html?p=1
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Originally Posted by WrestleInc
ESPN has a story here about some of the charity work that WWE did over Survivor Series weekend in Houston. It was noted that Booker T and NXT tag team The Street Profits worked with Habitat for Humanity on a house for a family in need, AJ Styles and Mark Henry helped out at the Houston Food Bank while Samoa Joe, Finn Balor, Sasha Banks and Alicia Fox worked with Americares to hand out medical kits hours before last Sunday's pay-per-view.
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Link: http://www.espn.com/wwe/story/_/id/2...ston-food-bank
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Originally Posted by WrestleInc
WWE has apparently dropped the Network series Bring It To The Table, according to PWInsider. While there has been no official word on it being cancelled, Mike Johnson noted that the set was put in storage and there are no plans for future episodes. The series usually featured JBL, Corey Graves and Peter Rosenberg, although Paul Heyman filled in for Graves on a couple of occasions. It hasn't aired since JBL announced his WWE departure in September, with the last episode airing in late July.
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