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Originally Posted by Observer The condition of Tommaso Ciampa is up in the air, but all things considered, the news was positive as X-rays showed he didn't suffer a broken ankle last night. During the match in Highland Heights, Kentucky, with Ciampa & Johnny Gargano vs. Alexander Wolfe & Eric Young, Ciampa suffered what appeared to be a left ankle injury about four minutes into the match. Paul Levesque, on this morning's WWE conference call, said that Ciampa suffered a sprained ankle and was feeling a lot better today. He said that as of this moment, the plans for tomorrow night's Ciampa & Gargano vs. Authors of Pain ladder match in Chicago for the NXT tag team titles are still on. But he said that it's up to the medical side if they will clear him tomorrow. Levesque said that right now they don't have a specific backup plan in place.

Originally Posted by Observer For the 7/1 live show on AXS TV, it is scheduled from 8 p.m. to midnight, but if the show goes long, it's not an issue and there is no specific time cue to hit. If need be, the show can go as long as five hours as they have scheduled to replay the Kenny Omega vs. Kazuchika Okada match from Osaka at Dominion at midnight that night, and then replay the Long Beach show at 1 a.m. The Saturday night show will be geoblocked live on New Japan World, but will be available on the service the next day. The 7/2 show will be available live on New Japan World, and air on AXS from 8 p.m. to midnight on the following Friday.

Some updates to recent G1 Climax Special news.

Originally Posted by Observer Sean Waltman took a polygraph test live on Afterbuzz TV. Based on the results of the test, the administrator said that Waltman passed saying he did not having any meth on him and the pills taken were not meth when he was arrested at the Los Angeles airport, that he has lied previously to cover things up and talk his way out of trouble but has been completely truthful on what happened at the airport, and that he had never sold drugs or was not looking at selling anything that he had on him.

Update to recent X-Pac arrest news.

Originally Posted by WrestleInc As noted, WWE Hall of Famer Jim Ross did the commentary for the UK Championship Tournament and will also be calling the UK Championship match between Tyler Bate and Pete Dunne at Takeover this Saturday. JR confirmed to Busted Open Radio today that he will also be calling the WWE Women's Tournament this summer. .@JRsBBQ confirms on @BustedOpenRadio he will be calling the WWE Women's Tournament this summer on the WWE Network! pic.twitter.com/316uktvFza — SiriusXM Busted Open (@BustedOpenRadio) May 19, 2017

Originally Posted by WrestleInc Impact Wrestling Creative Consultant to Head of Creative Dutch Mantel, Matt Hardy and Matt's wife, Reby, were involved in a Twitter spat this afternoon. It started with the message below with Mantel quoting a tweet that read, "If Matt knew he had a case he'd be trying to get this in front of a judge ASAP. If Anthem was avoiding court, Reby would let us know."

Link with more tweets and arguments between the sides: http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...xecutive-over/

Originally Posted by PWI The 5/18 edition of Impact on Pop brought in 272,000 viewers, down from last week's 309,000 viewers.

Originally Posted by PWI How far in advance does WWE plan out their programming, their creative and the touring of their live events? We are told they have WWE Network plans, at least tentative plans for original content they will create and add, mapped out 6-9 months in advance. WWE touring schedules are usually locked in at least 12 months in advance, if not more. Creative is week to week with a tentative long-term outlook that changes as often as Vince McMahon blinks. Everything can change on a dime based on Vince's call in all aspects of the company.

From a recent Q&A article PWI does weekly about how the WWE plans things out.

Originally Posted by PWI Wrestling DVD Network reported yesterday that WWE will release a "30 Years Of Survivor Series" DVD this November, featuring a countdown of the top 30 Survivor Series moments as voted by fans via an online poll.

Originally Posted by PWI Andrew Everett, who was seen working the Ultimate X match last night on Impact Wrestling, noted he's been working with a torn meniscus, writing on Twitter, "Best time as ever... I've been performing on a torn meniscus for 7 months. Time to fix it and come back better. See you at Slammiversary."

Originally Posted by PWI H was excited to see who the first caller would be. Of course, it was Mike Johnson! H said Adam just gave H ten dollars. Mike asked for his cut. H said that he should have negotiated in advance. Mike asked about this being Itami’s biggest match in the US. If this match doesn’t go well for him, is this the end of line for him? H said if this match doesn’t work out, he doesn’t know. He will decide then. He said that he likes to look at things from a positive point of view. Itami went from being a big star in Japan to having a lot of setbacks. Part of it was Itami finding his way in NXT. It happens at times. It’s a confidence and comfort thing. But he is a good guy and has worked hard so when he got injured he felt bad for Itami. H thinks he is a big player and he will rise to the occasion. If he doesn’t, they will discuss it and he will see what Itami wants to do and they will go from there.

From Triple H's recent NXT media call hinting at Hideo Itami's future in the WWE. Link with more highlights: http://411mania.com/wrestling/triple...ritories-more/


Some other sheet news includes:

• Recent episode of the Busted Open Radio podcast show had Chris Jericho as the guest talking about originals plans for the Owens-Jericho feud and his last run in the WWE. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...rsal-title-at/
• USA Today had a recent interview with Becky Lynch and topics including debunking rumors of her joining Total Divas and the Ellsworth feud. http://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/05/beck...down-charlotte
• Recent episode of the Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling podcast show had Earl Hebner as the guest and topics including the Montreal Screwjob and chance of being in WWE's Hall of Fame. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...hof-induction/
• In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, WWE's Creative once had the idea for Christian to parody The Rock and go by the name of The Lock before getting shut down by Vince who thought the idea was really stupid even by WWE standards. https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc..._christian_to/
• Recent rumor going around the next involves WWE considering the idea of Kurt Angle's first wrestling match back in the company being at Mania 34.