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Raw fell four percent from last week's 3.10 million viewers to 2.98 million ...
The third hour, built around a long women's gauntlet match, held up better than usual, with hour three staying even in the 18-34 demo, although it did fall with viewers over the age of 35 and particularly with women.
SmackDown, with a women's Money in the Bank match and a full card advertised, should do a strong number tonight, at least in theory. If it drops from last week, it would be a sign that the Raw rating has a great effect on how SmackDown the next night does.
The three hours were:
8 p.m. 2.89 million viewers
9 p.m. 3.09 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.95 million viewers
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Originally Posted by Observer
The segment with LaVar Ball and the Ball family that nearly went off the rails wound up with LaMelo Ball, with a live mic, at one point saying, "Beat that," and followed with the N word, while his father was running around going crazy teasing that he wanted to fight The Miz.
LaMelo is the youngest of the three Ball sons, and is a high school basketball star at Chino Hills High School in Southern California. He's committed to UCLA as part of the program's 2019 basketball recruiting class.
As you can imagine, backstage was chaos.
WWE immediately responded to the Los Angeles Times saying, "The inappropriate language used by a guest during the Miz TV segment was not scripted, nor reflects WWE's values."
According to one person backstage, the key people, notably Kevin Dunn and Vince McMahon, were very unhappy backstage when the word was audible to the crowd.
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WWE ended up putting an edited version of the segment on their official Youtube channel after having no replays of it during last night's show.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Torrie Wilson, Sharmell, Christy Hemme, and Candice Michelle were backstage at Raw in Los Angeles last night.
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Link to the instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/BV1Deb6B...iewilson&hl=en
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Originally Posted by Observer
While appearing on Hot 104.1 in St. Louis recently, Randy Orton explained the comments that he made criticizing dives. He clarified that he doesn't have a problem with dives if they mean something, but said there's no longevity in throwing yourself to the floor without any purpose
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Link to the interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL7bUOG9B38
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Impact Wrestling announced during a YouTube special hyping Slammiversary that MMA fighter "King Mo" Muhammed Lawal will be in Bobby Lashley's corner for his main event against Alberto El Patron on Sunday. El Patron's father (and pro wrestling legend) Dos Caras will be in his corner. Both Lashley and Lawal are fighters with Bellator, but Lashley hasn't fought since last October. Lawal is a big pro wrestling fan and has been involved with Impact in the past.
To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the company, the city of Orlando has declared July 5th as "Impact Wrestling day in Orlando." Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer will present a proclamation before the July 5th Impact tapings and will serve as a special guest ring announcer for two matches.
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The company sent out another fan survey today to former WWE network subscribers. They are looking for info on their fan base on how loyal a fan they are, how familiar they are with current storylines, how much you like storylines, asking fans if they know who the current WWE champion is, the name of he next PPV, who are the members of New Day, if you watch Raw or SmackDown on Hulu, television, on-line, Facebook or YouTube, visit web sites to get info and ask why they aren't signed up at this point and why you signed up in the first place, if you'd sign up with a longer free trial period and many other things.
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WWE has revealed some more details about this summer's Mae Young Classic.
In an article that was posted on WWE.com today, it was officially confirmed that Jim Ross and Lita would be calling the tournament. Dave Meltzer reported last month that they were rumored to be the commentary team after Ross announced his involvement.
The first four episodes of the Mae Young Classic will be made available on the WWE Network on August 28th. The next four episodes will be released on September 4th. Those shows will be made available on demand as WWE hopes that viewers will binge watch them.
A bracketology special previewing the Mae Young Classic and profiling its participants will air on the Network after SummerSlam on August 20th.
The winner of the tournament will be crowned at a live special on September 12th in Las Vegas, Nevada. That will air at 10 p.m. ET after SmackDown, which is also scheduled to take place at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas that night.
The Mae Young Classic tapings will begin on July 13th and 14th at Full Sail University.
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In an interesting political move, Impact Wrestling will have members of warring Mexican promotions in the same tag team title match.
The company today announced for Sunday's Slammiversary pay-per-view from Orlando, that LAX would defend the Impact tag titles in a four-way match. One team announced today is Drago & El Hijo del Fantasma, who both work for AAA, the very heated rival promotion of The Crash, which Konnan, who heads the LAX group, is the booker of.
Drago's name had been bandied about since Konnan brought it up on his podcast.
At first, when Impact opened up a working relationship with AAA after already doing so with The Crash, a very unique political situation, the idea was that the talent from the two companies would never interact, but obviously that has changed. In Mexico, neither promotion allows its talent to appear on a show with anyone from the other promotion. In the U.K., there was a situation where AAA pulled a power play to force Pentagon Jr. off a show because that show was using rival talent.
Another note is that Drago and Fantasma (who is King Cuerno in LU) are both under contract to Lucha Underground exclusively for U.S. television, meaning Lucha Underground for the first time is allowing its talent to appear for another wrestling promotion on television.
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Two more Madison Square Garden shows have been added to the WWE Network:
November 23, 1981: Bob Backlund vs. Greg Valentine cage match for WWF title, Pedro Morales vs. Don Muraco for IC title, Dusty Rhodes vs. Angelo Mosca, Mil Mascaras vs. The Executioner
December 28, 1982: Bob Backlund vs. Superstar Billy Graham lumberjack match, Pedro Morales vs. Don Muraco for IC title, Jimmy Snuka vs. Ray Stevens, Buddy Rose vs. Ivan Putski
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For the second time since the title was created, WWE's United Kingdom Championship is set to be defended outside of the company.
Insane Championship Wrestling announced today that Pete Dunne would defend his title on July 29th at the first night of their "Shug's Hoose Party 4" weekend of shows. Dunne's challenger will be decided at an ICW show prior to that, with WWE UK's Wolfgang facing the winner of a four-way (which includes Davey Blaze, Kenny Williams, BT Gunn, and Gabriel Kidd) in a number one contender's match.
Dunne's match won't be the only WWE representation on the July 29th show, with it having been previously revealed that Noam Dar would return to ICW to team with Sha Samuels against Grado & Joe Coffey.
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As we reported exclusively in the PWInsider Elite section last week, WWE is preparing to add a ton of World Class Championship Wrestling episodes to the VOD section of the WWE Network later this summer.
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Eva Marie did an interview with Too Fab discussing The Rock's influence and advice on her movie career. She also discusses her role in the upcoming Nick Cage movie, "Inconceivable" opening this Friday in theaters, dying her hair and more.
On whether she would ever be willing to return for a WWE event: "Oh, my goodness, for sure. WWE, for me, is where it all started. You never know, I could show up on a Monday Night Raw, I could come down to Smackdown Live and snatch that title real quick. Never leave me out, you never know what's creeping around the corner, if you know what I mean."
On a possible return to "Total Divas": "You never know. It's definitely a possibility. I love that show and I think everybody needs a little bit of Natalie Eva Marie in their life, so why not spread it everywhere."
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Originally Posted by WrestleInc
.@NiaJaxWWE isn"t like most girls... WHY? Because she"s BIONIC! #WWERideAlong @WWEGraves @TomPhillipsWWE @WWENetwork pic.twitter.com/R7225BxeTB
— WWE (@WWE) June 27, 2017
- Above is video from last night's WWE Ride Along with Nia Jax, Corey Graves and Tom Phillips. Nia talks about how she was a plus-size model before signing with WWE and how her cousin The Rock suggested she work a tryout at the WWE Performance Center. Nia was in a car accident before the tryouts after she and her aunt were hit head-on by a drunk driver. She now has a metal plate in her clavicle due to the wreck.
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Originally Posted by Pro Wrestling Sheet
Pro Wrestling Sheet has learned Tyson Kidd, aka TJ Wilson, is making his return to wrestling … however, it won’t be in the ring — he’ll be working in a non-wrestling capacity.
According to sources, Kidd is currently being transitioned into a non-wrestling role. Since it’s still fresh, one source says it’s too early to define whether it’ll be behind the scenes — like a producer/agent — or if he’ll be used in some sort of on-air role that doesn’t require wrestling.
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Some other sheet news includes:
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