Dirtsheets sponsored by Daniel Bryan's silent quest to take out everyone important in the WWE until he makes his triumphant return as the Savoir of Wrestlemania 32:
Spoilers used since its related to possible Fastlane and Mania plans:
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Originally Posted by WhatCulture
Yesterday on the Wrestling Observer Live radio show, Bryan Alvarez indicated that he’d heard from a source within WWE that the plan is for Braun Strowman to square off with The Big Show at Fastlane and beat him, which will then set up a WrestleMania showdown with The Undertaker.
Dave Meltzer has spoken at length in his Wrestling Observer Newsletter about The Undertaker’s scheduled WrestleMania match with John Cena, which was scrapped due to Cena’s recent shoulder injury and surgery.
With a lack of top level opponents for The Deadman, it seems the choice has been made to go with the huge monster of the Wyatt Family.
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Originally Posted by PWI
Yet another top WWE talent is dealing with an injury, PWInsider.com has learned.
The injury bug has bit former WWE champion Alberto Del Rio, who is dealing with an issue with his lower back, sources tell PWInsider.com.
Del Rio wrestled at the 2016 Royal Rumble, losing the U.S. championship to Kalisto in a singles bout before performing in the Rumble match. During the Rumble, ADR was involved in the League of Nations' beat-down of Roman Reigns before officially entering the match at #26.
Del Rio did not wrestle on this week's Raw taping, instead appearing in the corner of Sheamus and Rusev during the main event. He did not appear on Smackdown and PWInsider.com is told he was not backstage at the Smackdown taping this past Tuesday. It should be interesting to see whether he works this weekend's live events. He is one of the top talents advertised for the Chattanooga, TN and Tupelo, MS dates.
Del Rio, 38, returned to WWE in October 2015 as a surprise to win the WWE United States championship from John Cena at the Hell in A Cell PPV.
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May or may not be the same guy the Observer teased as being injured along with Sheamus recently.
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Originally Posted by PWI
According to The Ricoh Coliseum website, the current advertised Main Event for the WWE Network Special "WWE March to WrestleMania" in Toronto on 3/12 will be headlined by Roman Reigns vs. Sheamus.
Brock Lesnar may most likely be wrestling Luke Harper.
Chris Jericho will be hosting the Highlight Reel and AJ Styles will be appearing as well.
It should be noted there is a Live Event in Atlantic City, NJ the same day as well so there will not be a full roster available for the Special.
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Originally Posted by PWI
Former TNA Knockouts champion Awesome Kong was sent home from the current UK tour on the first day following a locker room incident with Reby Sky, PWInsider.com has learned.
According to multiple sources, Kong took issue with Sky attempting to dress in the women's locker room and threw Sky's bag out of the room. There was apparently some issue on Kong's end with Sky, although I haven't confirmed what. We are told Sky left the room and when she returned to retrieve her things, Kong went after her for "not apologizing."
There are two versions making the rounds. One is that Kong tried to go after Sky but was stopped. The second version, which we've heard from FAR more people, is that Kong throttled Sky around the neck and assaulted her, before security and TNA Producer Pat Kenney restrained Kong.
What makes the entire situation worse is that Reby and Matt Hardy's son was right in the vicinity of the incident we are told.
The incident led to Kong being sent home by TNA. What this means for her long-term status with the company is probably undecided as of this writing.
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May or may not be related to a much older incident between both women involving a supposed "shoot" video Karma did in 2013 and Sky trashing her on Twitter afterwards.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Lucha Underground did 109,000 viewers on Tuesday night on El Rey for the live show and an impressive 85,000 for the immediate replay. Those were the best numbers the show has ever done, which makes sense, because they had more publicity going in than any episode to date, particularly the ESPN hit.
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Originally Posted by Observer
With Sheamus injured, the scheduled Roman Reigns vs. Sheamus house show main events are now Reigns vs. Rusev (who is now the one man League of Nation) for the WWE title.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Raquel of TNA, real name Gabi Castrovinci from Tough Enough, is now training in Orlando at the Team Vision Dojo. They've been filming her for a possible TV show.
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Some other sheet news includes:
- Recent interview Big E had with the Tampa Tribune dealt with how he learned the entertainment aspect of WWE's "sports entertainment" style of wrestling. http://www.tbo.com/events-tampa-bay/...ig-e-20160124/
- This week's Smackdown had a slight drop in viewers compared to last week (37k less). Last week had 2.757 million viewers and this week had 2.72 million viewers.
- WWE could be looking at having another Olympic gold medalist on their roster as NXT signee Adrian Jaoude will be competing in this year's Olympics in Brazil. http://www.wwe.com/shows/wwenxt/adri...6?sf19959532=1
- In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, Francesca #2 is the first ever 2nd generation trombone in WWE history. New Day has yet to press charges against Chris Jericho over the vicious murder of Francesca #1.
Some TPWW news includes: