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Former TPWW Royalty
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Dirtsheets sponsored by Dropkick Appreciation Day:
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Originally Posted by Observer
Raw dropped four percent from last week to 2.75 million viewers, but considering the competition, that's got to be considered a healthy number ...
The Raw audience should start its seasonal increase with next week's show, and the 25th anniversary show in two weeks is likely to be the highest rated episode of the year.
The three hours were:
8 p.m. 2.99 million viewers
9 p.m. 2.78 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.50 million viewers
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This week also had some Good/Bad news with the good being it didn't get as hammered for the demo rankings and the bad being it still suffered a sizeable drop compared to same week last year.
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Charlotte Flair and Bobby Roode are calling their Mixed Match Challenge team the “Robe Warriors.”
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Link: https://twitter.com/MsCharlotteWWE/s...38996219830277
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Chris Jericho teased sticking around with NJPW for a while in a post on Instagram.
NJPW has a subtitled video of post-match comments from the main event of New Year’s Dash. It includes Tetsuya Naito responding to Jericho attacking him.
NJPW’s Leo Tonga is now known as Hikule’o and Shota Umino is going by Shota Unno.
Travis Banks will defend his PROGRESS Wrestling Championship against Chris Brookes in Birmingham on Sunday. Banks and Brookes are stablemates in CCK.
Candice LeRae will face Joey Ryan for Bar Wrestling in the Los Angeles area on January 18th. (thanks to reader Jake Koch)
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Jericho: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bdutd97lJNP/ , NJPW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNns8zItiSs , Tonga: https://twitter.com/reasonjp/status/950662970983399424 , PROGRESS: https://twitter.com/ThisIs_Progress/...14496569942016 , Bar Wrestling: https://twitter.com/BarWrestling/sta...76466835619840
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Originally Posted by Observer
After more than a year of talking about it, New Japan Pro Wrestling suddenly announced a four-city tour of Australia for February.
While it was known they would tour in 2018, particularly after the great reception Kazuchika Okada got in his appearance with Melbourne City Wrestling for his match with Slex, it was a surprise it would come before the next United States date.
"New Japan Fallout Down Under" will consist of four shows, a February 16th date at the Adelaide Titanium Arena, a February 17th date at Festival Hall in Melbourne, February 18th in Sydney at the Quay Centre, and February 19th in Perth at HBF Stadium. All four shows will be configured for crowds of less than 5,000 fans. Festival Hall is best known as the weekly home of World Championship Wrestling during the heyday of pro wrestling in Australia.
Wrestlers announced for the tour are Okada, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Minoru Suzuki, The Young Bucks, KUSHIDA, Cody, Tomohiro Ishii, EVIL, SANADA, Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa, Juice Robinson, Bad Luck Fale, and Lance Archer. Will Ospreay is also booked for Sydney and Perth.
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Originally Posted by Observer
The first WWE vs. NJPW singles champion match in 24 years will take place on 1/17 in Milton Keyes, UK for the IPW promotion as WWE UK champion Pete Dunne will face IWGP jr. champion Will Ospreay.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Brad Stutts, the booker and TV announcer for the CWF Mid Atlantic promotion, and who was The Scribe in the TNA version of Matt Hardy's broken universe, was let go by the promotion for what the promotion said was "what we believe is inappropriate behavior."
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According to Voices of Wrestling, the reason this remained a silent story until recently was due to worries about exposing the sources and getting them blacklisted from wrestling if it was reported earlier. https://twitter.com/voiceswrestling/...01344180387841
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Originally Posted by PWI
There has been more fallout from CWF Mid-Atlantic firing Brad Stutts as booker of the promotion. Charlie Armstrong's Modern Vintage Wrestling, a promotion that also runs North Carolina that shared Stutts as booker, canceled their scheduled 1/20 event after a number of talents, many of whom were CWF regulars, publicly announced they would not be appearing on the show, which was scheduled to be headlined by appearances by Tommy Dreamer and Ricky Steamboat. After a number of the cancellations were announced, the decision was made to drop the show. Last night, MVW announced that Stutts had stepped down as booker and would also no longer be involved in Gimmick Tree Entertainment, a related business that brought talents in for conventions.
Nova Pro Wrestling in Virginia would also later announce that they were no longer working with Stutts.
Sources close to CWF have noted that the company felt so strongly about the Stutts situation that storylines were being changed specifically to break away from direction that may have been associated to Stutts' work.
CWF released the following statement on their social media yesterday: "We want to thank the tremendous outpouring of support for CWF Mid-Atlantic in this difficult time. CWF Mid-Atlantic had no choice in this matter. We have standards that we all must adhere to be in a position to represent our company. Our locker room is strong and united over this and we intend to not only persevere, but grow stronger with the dedication of all our team. We ask that our fans stick with us as we move forward. Thank you again for your support!"
Of course, the major question obviously in your brain if you are reading this is, "What the hell did Stutts do?" The reality is that there are a lot of stories that have made the rounds related to Stutts and Charlie Armstrong over the last 48 hours, but no one has been willing to go on record with the situation, so until someone does, it's not going to come out beyond whispered allegations. I can report that most of the stories center around alleged inappropriate communication with a staffer for CWF. That's about all I feel comfortable writing currently. Stutts, who finally responded to PWInsider.com last night, declined to comment and as noted, no one else has gone on record.
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Originally Posted by PWI
Former WWE star Serena Deeb was spotted in Pittsburgh, PA today.
In checking with WWE sources, we are told there has been interest in bringing her back to the company of late. It appears she was in the Steel City for the usual pre-signing medical testing.
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Squared Circle Sirens is reporting that Su Yung is booked for this week's Impact Wrestling tapings.
Impact Wrestling has announced their Global Wrestling Network is now available on Apple TV.
Impact are now selling a new Laurel Van Ness T-shirt.
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Su Yung: http://squaredcirclesirens.com/su-yu...mpact-tapings/
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Impact Wrestling will begin taping much of its weekly television leading into the 4/22 Lockdown PPV starting tomorrow at 6 PM in Orlando, Florida at Universal Studios. The promotion will be running every night starting 1/10 through 1/15 with doors opening at 5:30 PM.
The current plan is to hold tapings in March in Canada leading into the PPV itself.
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Northeast Wrestling announced last night that former WWE World champion Mark Henry will be appearing at their 3/2 Wrestlefest XXII event in Waterbury, CT, which is one of the company's big cornerstone events of the year.
Henry will be appearing before the show for autographs and photos. He will obviously not be wrestling but will be appearing over the course of the event as well. The former Emma, Tennille Dash will face Deonna Purrazzo on that event with Rey Mysterio and Flip Gordon also already announced. Rey Fenix and Penta 0M had been slated for this date but were pulled to work Lucha Underground TV tapings.
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Some other sheet news includes:
Some stuff from TPWW Frontpage:
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