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The President of Bushiroad (NJPW's parent company) Takaaki Kidani wrote this in a column discussing the business ventures of his company's projects, including New Japan. He made mention of the fact that New Japan, while having substantially grown, is still a long way off from where they want to be. Being able to compete with companies like WWE and Magic the Gathering (since Bushiroad makes TCGs) are their long-term goals.
But he mentioned this, which is likely referring to the rumors floating lately of business conversations between New Japan and WWE:
"One proposed idea would be for the WWE to show NJPW footage [on the Network], but this type of proposal just shows that they don't see us as competition.
Play NJPW footage on the Network, see if any of our wrestlers gain popularity, then buy that wrestler out; that's probably the extent of their thoughts on it.
It's a very obvious strategy."
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SI.com: If you could add a fourth member to The New Day, who would it be?
Big E: Sasha Banks, no question. She’s probably my favorite wrestler on the planet right now. The stuff she’s done with Bayley have been tremendous, both at Takeover: Brooklyn and the Iron Man Match. We’ve got a lot of respect for her, she’s on another level.
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From a recent interview Sports Illustrated had with Big E:
http://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2015...n-xavier-woods
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Originally Posted by Observer
The reason Rowan was brought back to TV for the six-man tag is because they had booked The Shield vs. Wyatts as the TV main event and Harper had a family issue come up that wouldn't allow him to be at TV this week. He's not injured and despite what has been reported that there was a creative decision for Rowan to replace him on the show, that was not the case. Rowan had been back training for a return. It seemed a little quick for Rowan to be back after a torn biceps in June and that's usually a six-month recovery period after surgery, but he was back in four.
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Monday's WWE Raw scored a 2.21 rating, down from the 2.33 rating the show drew last week. Raw averaged 3.356 million viewers, up from the 3.284 million average from last week.
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Update regarding RAW's ratings/viewership for the week. Also ends up being a new historic low for the 3 Hour Era according to PWTorch.
In regards to how much of an impact the NFL alone is having against RAW ratings this year compared to previous years.
https://twitter.com/JRHWriting/statu...70908271923200
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Originally Posted by Observer
WWE is the most viewed content creator on YouTube and those numbers keep going up as Raw ratings go down.
Something to think about.
Key segments are doing at least 450K views now. Main events over 1m. Top 10 Raw Moments 1.8m+.
Could it actually be siphoning TV viewers
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Possible theory on where the declining RAW viewership might be assuming they are not just quitting watching wrestling/WWE. Same could be true with social media being huge for the WWE but doesn't translate at all into viewers and/or revenue.
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Originally Posted by PWI
As we reported over the weekend, WWE has signed Patrick Clark from the most recent season of Tough Enough. PWInsider has also confirmed that the company has signed two additional cast members to NXT deals.
Starting yesterday at the WWE Performance Center was Mada Abdelhamid, a personal trainer who handled celebrity clients such as actor Jason Momoa, who had good size. Originally from Egypt, he was living in Los Angeles at the time he was cast in the reality series. He had shown some good potential when it came to promos.
Also starting was MMA fighter turned Tough Enough contestant Daria Berenato, who was also from Los Angeles and had showed a big passion for pro wrestling but ended up eliminated very early via fan voting.
That makes seven competitors from the most recent season who were signed to WWE deals - winners Sara Lee and Josh Bredl, finalists Zamariah "ZZ" Loupe and Amanda Saccomanno (who will soon be seen on Total Divas as Mandy), plus Clark, Abdelhamid and Berenato. That is the most signings coming out of any Tough Enough season, ever.
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Originally Posted by MMANews.com
Former UFC veteran Seth Petruzelli, famous for being the man to knock out Kimbo Slice in a fight he took on extremely short notice, has signed with WWE as a striking coach in their developmental system.
Petruzelli has joined the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida to help the developmental WWE talent with their striking, as that has become part of the training regimen for WWE hopefuls.
Petruzelli will be working for WWE three times per week at the Performance Center.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Story here about the retirement of Portia Perez at age 27 due to a neck injury that has been steadily getting worse for several years. Instead of the usual tearful goodbye, she instead cut a heel promo on the crowd telling them they suck.
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http://slam.canoe.com/Slam/Wrestling.../22564499.html
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