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Former TPWW Royalty
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Dirtsheets sponsored by Lesnar channeling his inner Taker:
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Originally Posted by Observer
Even with the toughest competition of the winter, with the college football playoff semifinals, Raw was up six percent on Monday night to 2.86 million viewers.
Raw was 10th for the day on cable, but every show that beat it was on ESPN and was related to the football doubleheader and this number has to be considered a major success ...
The three hours were:
8 p.m. 2.97 million viewers
9 p.m. 2.91 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.71 million viewers
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Hour rankings ended up being #10, #14, and #15 with Love & Hip Hop being the only non-football related show to outrank RAW.
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Originally Posted by Observer
New Japan Pro Wrestling's biggest show of the year takes place overnight as the Tokyo Dome hosts Wrestle Kingdom 12.
The annual January 4th event will air live on New Japan World and will have options for English (with Kevin Kelly and Don Callis) and Japanese commentary. The pre-show begins at 2 a.m. Eastern time with the New Japan Rumble, which is a Royal Rumble-style battle royal featuring surprise entrants from the past and members of the NJPW roster who aren't otherwise booked, before the main card kicks off at 3 a.m. Eastern time.
Mr. Lariato on Twitter has some time zone conversions:
Wrestle Kingdom start times:
Japan: 5PM (4PM pre-show)
Europe: 9AM (8AM pre-show)
UK: 8AM (7AM pre-show)
Atlantic: 4AM (1AM pre-show)
Eastern: 3AM (2AM pre-show)
Central: 2AM (1AM pre-show)
Mountain 1AM (midnight pre-show)
Western: Midnight (11PM pre-show)#NJPW #njwk12
— LARIATOOOO!! (@MrLARIATO) January 3, 2018
For those not watching live, Wrestle Kingdom will be available on New Japan World shortly after it ends. AXS TV will also be showing a three-hour special of the top matches on Saturday at 8 p.m. Eastern.
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Card and more details: https://www.f4wonline.com/japan/njpw...me-more-249191
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Originally Posted by Observer
Daniel Bryan told Sports Illustrated that he assumes he won’t be wrestling with WWE at all if he doesn’t wrestle at WrestleMania. Bryan said about the process of potentially being cleared: "It’s not a black and white answer. There are a lot of issues with me getting cleared by WWE. They have a very strict protocol, which is a good thing, but the timeline of all that happening was not the best for me. It’s an interesting situation that will develop."
After being shown in the crowd on SmackDown, Basketball Hall of Fame member Karl Malone got into the ring and did the “Glorious” pose with Bobby Roode following last night’s post-show dark match. Malone was also interviewed by Dasha Fuentes and spoke about wrestling for WCW in 1998. Roode teamed with AJ Styles & Shinsuke Nakamura against Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn & Jinder Mahal after SmackDown and 205 Live went off the air.
Maria Kanellis-Bennett wrote a blog post about her reaction to private photos of her that were leaked online.
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Bryan: https://www.si.com/wrestling/2018/01...yan-wwe-future , Malone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPW5bTJgf7Q , Maria: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialMar...44194292278836
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Originally Posted by Observer
It was announced at NJPW’s pre-Wrestle Kingdom 12 fan festival that the company is partnering with Spike Chunsoft, the development company behind Fire Pro Wrestling, in time for Fire Pro Wrestling World’s release on PS4. The game will be out on PS4 before the 2018 G1 Climax and the NJPW collaboration will include some licensed characters and a story mode where you start as a young lion with the goal of winning the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.
Also at the fan festival, Yuji Nagata revealed that there had been 32,600 tickets sold in the pre-sale for tonight’s Tokyo Dome show before walk-ups are accounted for.
In a piece on the Players’ Tribune, Jericho named Ultimo Dragon, Dean Malenko, Shawn Michaels, Rey Mysterio, and Kevin Owens as his five personal favorite opponents throughout his career and wrote about facing Omega.
Jericho re-posted a fan-made drawing of Jericho with Eddie Guerrero and Chris Benoit behind him that said they're back in NJPW. Jericho, who has gotten criticism for posting the image, wrote that he really liked the fan art and that he's dedicating his match with Omega to "the fallen brothers."
Will Ospreay mentioned entering NJPW’s heavyweight division as a future goal of his.
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Fire Pro: https://twitter.com/reasonjp/status/948395689867804672 , WK 12 tickets: https://twitter.com/reasonjp/status/948476555155537926 , Jericho's favorites: https://www.theplayerstribune.com/ch...estle-kingdom/ , Jericho Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/BdfXpUjl...isjerichofozzy , Ospreay: http://www.mandatory.com/wrestlezone...njpw-news-more
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Originally Posted by Observer
In addition to Mayu Iwatani, Hana Kimura, Kagetsu, and HZK from Stardom will be in ROH’s tournament to crown their first Women of Honor Champion.
The Crash Lucha Libre hyped that a collaboration with Dragon Gate is coming soon.
In a match that was originally scheduled for last month, Pete Dunne will defend his WWE United Kingdom Championship against Joseph Conners for PROGRESS Wrestling in Birmingham on January 14th.
The Young Bucks, Marty Scurll, and Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Ranch were the top three merch sellers on Pro Wrestling Tees in 2017.
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ROH Women's Title: https://twitter.com/we_are_stardom/s...03739601649665 , Crash Lucha: https://twitter.com/TheCrashLuchas/s...13823370674177 , PROGRESS: https://twitter.com/ThisIs_Progress/...31357391032320 , ProWrestlingTees: https://twitter.com/OneHourTees/stat...47278113378308
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Originally Posted by PWI
If Vince does move forward with reviving XFL, will Hunter take over booking Raw/Smackdown?
No, I don’t see that happening. Vince IS the WWE product right now and I don’t see him giving up control of the direction of the product.
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From PWI's weekly Q&A articles on the possibility Vince gives up booking of WWE in order to focus on XFL's revival.
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Squared Circle Sirens is reporting that Former Lingerie Football player Susan Cashdollar is scheduled to be a part of the next WWE Performance Center tryout next month. The Ohio native has had a look from the company before in 2014 at the same tryout as Liv Morgan Aliyah, and Zahra Schreiber. According to their article, she has been recently training with AIW.
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Originally Posted by WrestleInc
Although Enzo Amore was the only wrestler sent to the hospital at RAW this past Monday night, Wrestling Inc. has learned that there were many other wrestlers that were sick backstage and several were given an IV. It wasn't confirmed if they had the flu or some other illness, but many wrestlers also skipped going out on New Year's Eve the night before because they were sick.
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Some other sheet news includes: - ROH announced their upcoming streaming service will be called "Honor Club."
- In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, Jim Ross celebrated his 66th birthday today.
- Recent episode of The Ross Report podcast show had John Morrision/Johnny Impact as the guest talking about Impact's six-sided ring, issues with wrestling in a six-sided ring, and wanting to work in NJPW in the future. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...estling-today/
Some stuff from TPWW Frontpage:
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