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Originally Posted by Observer
SmackDown ratings were down for the second straight week on Tuesday night, though they didn't fall as sharply as Raw did this week. The show averaged 2.481 million viewers, down just 12,000 viewers from the previous Tuesday.
This was the first week in a long time that SmackDown finished outside of the top 10 in terms of total viewers on cable, with Tuesday being a particularly strong night for news channels due to coverage of the special election in Alabama. SmackDown was sixth in the 18-49 demo with a 0.71 rating. The show is usually either first or second in that demo on cable.
For the fourth straight week, SmackDown was up in the year-over-year ratings as they continue to hold up well since the WWE Championship was switched over to AJ Styles.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Hideo Itami will be arriving on 205 Live next Tuesday.
After a few weeks of hype videos, one final video was shown last night and announced that Itami would be making his debut next week. On commentary, Nigel McGuinness called Itami one of the most intimidating opponents that he's ever faced.
Itami has been wrestling on NXT house shows while waiting to debut on 205 Live, but he hasn't appeared on television since losing to Kassius Ohno in a no disqualification match that aired in September.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Though NXT aired on the USA Network tonight as part of WWE Week, Ember Moon and Peyton Royce’s non-title match is only going to be on the WWE Network version of the episode, which is likely due to time constraints.
Former WWECW roster member Colin Delaney made a cameo on SmackDown last night as he and Juan Francisco de Coronado from CHIKARA were squashed by The Bludgeon Brothers. WWE posted video of a brief interview with Delaney after the match.
WWE Shop is selling “Yep Movement” T-shirts after Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn wore them on SmackDown last night.
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Delaney link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er6-cnnuH0g, Yep Shirts: http://shop.wwe.com/kevin-owens-and-...rr=USD&start=1
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Tokyo Sports announced the winners of their annual awards today. Tetsuya Naito won MVP for the second straight year, Kazuchika Okada vs. Kenny Omega from the January 4th Tokyo Dome show won best match, Io Shirai won the top women’s award, and Katsuyori Shibata was honored with the Fighting Spirit award. Suwama & Shuji Ishikawa won tag team of the year and Yuma Aoyagi from AJPW won rookie of the year.
Rolling Stone interviewed Kenny Omega about his match with Chris Jericho at Wrestle Kingdom 12. When asked about using blood in the angle they did at the World Tag League finals, Omega said: “I've been lucky where I've asked for a little bit of trust from the company. When you put yourself in a situation like that, you either hit consecutive home runs or you're dead in the water, because there's a lot of money on the line, there's a reputation on the line. And a lot of times I really forced them to step out of their comfort zone. Between last year's G1 and now with Jericho, I have done a lot of things the company isn't necessarily comfortable with, but they're seeing positive growth from it. Drawing blood is a faux paus. They don't like it at all. Our parent company makes its money through anime and card games.”
MLW uploaded their Never Say Never show for free on YouTube. It features Matt Riddle vs. Tom Lawlor and Jimmy Havoc & Darby Allin vs. John Hennigan & Shane Strickland in a no DQ match.
ROH is hyping that there will be a major announcement for Women of Honor at Final Battle on Friday.
Zack Sabre Jr. will face Amazing Red for the first time at House of Glory’s show in New York City on Saturday.
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Tokyo Sports: https://twitter.com/STRIGGA/status/941053208369254400 , Omega: http://www.rollingstone.com/sports/f...ingdom-w514025 , MLW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHvgV4HhVuU , ROH: https://twitter.com/ringofhonor/stat...67497482092545 , Sabre: https://twitter.com/HOGwrestling/sta...35643775311872
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Originally Posted by PWI
Variety reported that Facebook is paying WWE for distribution of the new Mixed Match Challenge series. The series will air for 12 weeks and will be added to the WWE Network VOD section after a certain window has passed.
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Link: http://variety.com/2017/digital/news...ve-1202638949/
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Originally Posted by PWI
Dave Sahadi, who had worked for the last decade as a Director and Producer for Impact Wrestling, was let go by the promotion yesterday, PWInsider.com has learned. It was the latest cost-cutting move from the company under Anthem Media's ownership and came a day after Rafael Morfi, who worked as Impact's Live Event Manager, announced he had left the company as well.
Sahadi was responsible for crafting a lot of the video features and material that aired before PPVs and was considered an extremely talented Director.
Sahadi came to Impact in March 2006. He had previously held the post of Director of On Air Promotion for WWE and when he later joined TNA, it was considered a major hiring for the company.
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Originally Posted by PWI
The Screen Actors Guild Award nominations were revealed today with Netflix's GLOW receiving four nominations:
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series - Alison Brie as Ruth Wilder.
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series - Marc Maron as Sam Sylvia.
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.
Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Comedy or Drama Series
Should the cast win Best Ensemble, that may make Kia Stevens aka Awesome Kong the first professional wrestler to ever win a SAG Award.
The SAG Awards will take place on 1/21/18, airing on TNT and TBS.
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Originally Posted by WrestleInc
WWE has a new poll asking fans which brand has the stronger roster of Superstars competing in the new Mixed Match Challenge series that will premiere on Facebook Watch in January. As of this writing, 60% voted for RAW (RAW Women's Champion Alexa Bliss, Alicia Fox, Asuka, Bayley, Braun Strowman, WWE Cruiserweight Champion Enzo Amore, Finn Balor, Goldust, Nia Jax, Sasha Banks, The Miz, Samoa Joe) while the rest voted for SmackDown (Becky Lynch, Bobby Roode, Carmella, SmackDown Women's Champion Charlotte Flair, SmackDown Tag Team Champion Jimmy Uso, Lana, Naomi, Natalya, Rusev, Sami Zayn, Shinsuke Nakamura, and a Final Fan Vote to select a member of The New Day).
It's worth noting that the WWE website lists Samoa Joe, and no "Final Fan Vote" option, for the RAW brand but he was not announced earlier. It looks like they may have spoiled the "Final Fan Vote" for RAW, indicating that some of the voting in this competition is rigged.
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Originally Posted by WrestleInc
Zack Ryder noted on Twitter that he and former tag team partner Curt Hawkins may be starting a podcast on wrestling action figures soon. He tweeted the following:
.@TheCurtHawkins & I are starting a wrestling FIGURE podcast......maybe. Any good names for it? ??????
— Zack Ryder (@ZackRyder) December 13, 2017
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