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The 12/19 edition of Smackdown Live did 2,578,000 overnight viewers, well up from last week's 2,481,000overnight viewers.
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Three months after the end of their partnership with FloSlam, WWN has launched a new on-demand service.
The service, named "Club WWN," will cost $9.99 per month (with the first month free for subscriptions that begin by January 31st) and will include on-demand access to shows from EVOLVE, Shine, Style Battle, FIP, Dragon Gate USA, and other WWN promotions. The service doesn't include access to live iPPVs. Shows will be added approximately two weeks after they take place, and subscribers get a 50 percent discount on iPPV purchases.
When asked about the two-week delay, Gabe Sapolsky tweeted: "It is the best we can do as a small business at the $9.99 price. If we get a huge response, can consider other options, but right now it's impossible for us to give live iPPVs at that price. We are trying to follow PROGRESS [Wrestling's] model with this."
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Link to announcement: http://myemail.constantcontact.com/T...id=gg5V5f5tpDM , tweet: https://twitter.com/BookItGabe/statu...86466306850816
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AXS TV officially announced today that Jim Ross and Josh Barnett have signed new contracts and will continue to host New Japan Pro Wrestling on the station.
"I'm excited to be returning to AXS TV, and with my partner, Josh Barnett, we look forward to another exciting year with AXS TV and their NJPW programming," Ross said. "NJPW has some of the finest athletes in the world performing for them and it's an honor to be able to add a narrative to their bouts."
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WWN announced this morning to Sports Illustrated that Will Ospreay will be returning to the promotion and wrestle two dates over WrestleMania weekend.
Ospreay will be on the April 5th EVOLVE show and the April 6th WWN Supershow. Gabe Sapolsky told Sports Illustrated that on the latter show, he's 90 percent sure that he's putting Ospreay against Matt Riddle. Ospreay and Riddle had their first singles match against each other for PROGRESS Wrestling last year.
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Link: https://www.si.com/wrestling/2017/12...daniel-cormier
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A number of PWInsider.com readers have noticed that Will Ospreay is being announced for independent events outside of Ring of Honor for Wrestlemania week in New Orleans. The word is that when his ROH deal expires, he will begin taking independent dates again, as opposed to being exlcusive to ROH. Whether this means he has officially departed the company, I do not know. There are many cases of talents who continue working for Ring of Honor after their deals expire.
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In regard to the much discussed Cody Rhodes/Young Bucks self-financed event in a 10,000 venue, we are told the current plan is for it will be in the Chicago area.
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WWE sources have told PWInsider.com that after last night's Smackdown Live, United States champion Dolph Ziggler will not be appearing on upcoming Smackdown episodes but as of this afternoon, is still scheduled to be working live events. It appears that he will be off TV to sell last night's angle.
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Former TNA Director Michael Vedder has returned to the company and will be replacing Dave Sahadi, who was recently let go by the company, as the lead Director and Producer of television producer.
As noted earlier this week, tomorrow's Impact Wrestling will be a "Best of 2017" episode. Announced for the first Impact of the year, 1/4/18 is Impact Wrestling champ Eli Drake vs. Alberto el Patron, Impact Wrestling X-Division champion Trevor Lee vs.Taiji Ishimori and James Storm vs. Dan Lambert with the idea that Storm would leave Impact if he loses. I think we all know how that one will go.
Bill Behrens will be working with Impact going forward on getting contracted talents third party bookings.
There has been continued talk within the company that one of the goals for the new year is to try and rebuild their old relationship with New Japan.
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As noted, Dean Ambrose underwent successful surgery to repair a torn triceps on Tuesday but there's still no word yet on when he will be back in action. Ambrose is already being replaced on cards for upcoming WWE live events by Jason Jordan. Jordan is now scheduled to team with Seth Rollins to face RAW Tag Team Champions The Bar at the December 26th WWE live event at Madison Square Garden.
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WrestlingInc.com owner Raj Giri recently interviewed hardcore wrestling legend Tommy Dreamer and they discussed the fall of ECW, his time brief stint with TNA, his upcoming House of Hardcore show and much more.
When ECW folded in 2001, Dreamer had hoped the company would survive. He said Paul Heyman's relationship with Vince McMahon is what hindered them from continuing.
"I did think it was going to survive, there were opportunities for it to survive," Dreamer said. "The biggest thing is none of us knew that Paul was in Vince's pocket the whole time, so it couldn't have survived because of that."
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Link to the interview: http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...ul-heyman-was/
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WWE was doing some Virtual Reality testing at the Clash of Champions pay-per-view this past weekend. Justin LaBar, who hosts Chairshot Reality right here on Wrestling Inc., noted that WWE had some extra cameras on the top two ring posts and two outside of the ring for Virtual Reality testing being done.
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Pro Wrestling Sheet reported that only a few people knew that Stephanie McMahon would be announcing the women’s Royal Rumble on Raw and that the wrestlers in the ring weren’t told about it in advance.
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Link: http://www.prowrestlingsheet.com/wom.../#.Wjr4OVQ-cW9
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