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Originally Posted by Observer
A lawsuit filed by Marcus "Buff" Bagwell and Scott "Raven" Levy against WWE attempting to open the door for wrestlers to get royalties for appearances on the WWE Network was dropped officially yesterday in an agreement between the lawyers for both sides.
WWE had filed a lawsuit against Levy claiming he had made false statements about a prior lawsuit, where Levy and several other former wrestlers had sued to attempt to get employee status for wrestlers claiming they were not independent contractors. In that case, it was thrown out due to the statute of limitations from when the deals were in place to when the lawsuit was filed having expired. Levy, on a Chris Jericho podcast, had apparently said that Vince McMahon had paid off a judge.
The agreement was made between lawyers that both lawsuits were to be dropped. However, in the settlement agreement, WWE retained the rights to refile the lawsuit against Levy if he were to ever sue WWE again on any contractual matters.
After recent depositions by WWE of Bagwell and Levy, their lawyers opened up settlement talks regarding dropping of the case.
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Originally Posted by Observer
New Japan World will be carrying a press conference on Monday night at 1 a.m. to announce the full card for the Tokyo Dome. It will be free even if you are not a subscriber.
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Originally Posted by Observer
The Nashville Tennessean has a story on Aro Lucha. The story notes Jason Brown, head of Aroluxe, saying the goal is to do a family friendly product and get it on regular and digital television and do house shows. Konnan is mentioned as booker. As for the obvious comparisons with Lucha Underground, Ron Harris said, "We're trying to do it on a much bigger level and build it into a much bigger company." The show Sunday will be taped for marketing use and also to get new investors into the project. Vince Russo's involvement, which we had written about for months, was released by the company earlier today. He was to be the assistant writer.
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Link: http://www.tennessean.com/story/mone...lle/930770001/
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Originally Posted by Observer
They are advertising Roman Reigns vs. John Cena for the IC title as the new main event for the 12/26 show in Madison Square Garden.
The company announced today at its show in Abu Dhabi the signing of Nasser Airywayehi, first person from Kuwait ever signed by WWE.
WWE will be doing both Raw and Smackdown on 2/20 and 2/21 in Phoenix. Tickets go on sale a week from today.
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Originally Posted by PWI
The 12/7 edition of Impact did 226,000 overnight viewers, well down from last week's 255,000 overnight viewers.
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Originally Posted by PWI
Why haven't we seen Darren Young since his WWE release?
I know Young has been asking for, what I believe, to be a pretty hefty appearance fee for someone who wasn't a top name in WWE. I've had a few promoters tell me that Young's reps have sent word he wasn't going to do jobs on the independents either, which isn't a reasonable request either. My guess is that sooner or later, we'll see him pop up wrestling again.
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From PWI's weekly Q&A article about the lack of news about Darren Young's post-WWE career.
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Originally Posted by PWI
Entertainment Weekly has named Netflix's GLOW as the best television series of 2017, describing the series as "The silliest, smartest, greatest TV event of the year. Creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensche went to TV history for inspiration, returning to the golden age of syndication to conjure up the pop epic for our streaming age."
The series, which been renewed for a currently shooting second season, is based on 1980s women's promotion The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.
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Link: http://ew.com/tv/best-and-worst-show...t-and-worst-tv
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Originally Posted by PWI
New Japan Pro Wrestling issued the folllowing:
Tanahashi suffers injury to right knee; will miss remaining World Tag League tour dates.
Due to an injury suffered to his right knee, New Japan Pro Wrestling has come to the decision to remove Hiroshi Tanahashi from December 7’s Yamaguchi card. Further, Tanahashi will be out of action for the remainder of the World Tag League tour, which ends December 11 in Fukuoka ...
At the present time, precise details on the condition of Tanahashi’s knee are unknown. Tanahashi is currently undergoing a thorough medical assessment, and when more details become clear, a decision will be made as to his future appearances.
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Originally Posted by WrestleInc
WWE has a new poll asking fans which match they're most looking forward to at Clash of Champions. As of this writing, 31% voted for Randy Orton & Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Sami Zayn & Kevin Owens with Shane McMahon as special referee while 24% voted for The New Day vs. Shelton Benjamin & Chad Gable vs. Aiden English & Rusev vs. SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Usos, 21% voted for Jinder Mahal vs. WWE Champion AJ styles, 14% voted for Dolph Ziggler vs. Bobby Roode vs. WWE United States Champion Baron Corbin and the rest voted for Natalya vs. SmackDown Women's Champion Charlotte Flair in a Lumberjack Match.
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Originally Posted by WrestleInc
WWE's DVD set for the RAW 25th Anniversary can now be pre-ordered on sale from Amazon at this link. The three-disc set will feature the entire RAW 25th Anniversary episode that airs on January 22nd plus a compilation of greatest matches & moments from the show. The set will be released on April 3rd, 2018.
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Link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...c4dd15cbc9b6a3
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Originally Posted by WrestleInc
Adam Pearce, who works the weekly WWE 205 Live TV shows, revealed on Twitter that he will be producing the upcoming 205 Live non-televised live events in January. He tweeted:
I'm honored to produce these inaugural #205Live events. Join me as another block of the cruiserweight foundation is laid. You won't regret it! https://t.co/GEBzTbNrB3
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Some other sheet news includes: - Hulk Hogan recently signed a deal with online retailer ProWrestlingTees to sell Hogan related merch at their online store.
- NWA recently released a new episode of their 10 Pounds of Gold Youtube series focusing on champion Tim Storm's appearance this weekend at CZW. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwNY9oTJAWc
- In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, Micheal Cole celebrated his 49th birthday today.
- WWE recently released a video on their official Youtube channel focusing on 5 wrestlers they would like to see back in 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FdBQB4CzKk
- Rolling Stones had a recent interview with Chris Jericho talking about his upcoming cruise, his non-WWE projects next year, and if he is currently on a part-time deal with the WWE. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...-a-wwe-return/
- ESPN had a recent interview with Tito Santana talking about his favorite match during his WWE career, life after he retired, and transitioning from wrestler to teacher. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...is-wwe-career/
Some stuff from TPWW Frontpage:
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