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Originally Posted by Observer For the impending TakeOver show in Toronto, Paul Ellering will be hung above the ring in a shark cage for the Authors of Pain vs. TM 61 Dusty Rhodes Classic final, Evidently, somebody watched a tape of the Tommy Rich vs. Buzz Sawyer match from 33 years ago where they put Ellering in a shark cage above the ring, and decided to do it again.

Spoiler tag used since its related to upcoming Takeover Toronto stuff.

Originally Posted by Observer ESPN announced in a press release on Thursday morning that an edition of their 30 for 30 documentary series focusing on the XFL would premiere on February 2nd at 9 p.m. ET. The project -- titled "This was the XFL" -- was previously announced by Jonathan Coachman on an edition of The Ross Report with Jim Ross last May. It seems that Vince McMahon will be heavily present in the documentary, with ESPN's press release touting that it will feature both McMahon and NBC executive Dick Ebersol. Director by Ebersol's son Charlie, the documentary will focus on McMahon and Ebersol's friendship as they attempted to build the failed football league.

Apparently Sasha gained heat with Vince after the match, as the planned finish was for Sasha to go through the table and then get a natural selection for the finish, but as the table didn't break (because basically Sasha is not a 200lb+ guy that can easily break a table with his weight), the finish ended up being odd for the arena viewers. Most of the people in the creative meeting tried to defend Sasha and explain to Vince the finish didn't worked out because people was pissed that Charlotte won clean (if Charlotte would have pulled the tights or the referee would have called an audible maybe the story would be different), but Vince was 100% convinced that his idea of Sasha losing clean in her hometown was the right move. Meltzer also said that some people argued that if that was his plan all along, he should have moved the match to the middle, so people would not have to go home right after seeing Sasha losing her title.

Originally Posted by PWI TNA issued the following: ... What started with “The Final Deletion” and evolved to “Delete or Decay,” and most recently “The Great War,” at Bound for Glory, something special has been happening on IMPACT Wrestling from the Broken Brilliance of Matt Hardy. Now, on December 15, 2016, from Cameron, NC at The Hardy Compound, the world will witness “Total Non-Stop Deletion!”

Originally Posted by CageSideSeats If you’re the Hulkster himself, you get on your buddy Eric Bischoff’s podcast and try to squash that stuff. Hulk Hogan was on MLW’s Bischoff on Wrestling show and said no one has contacted him about working WrestleMania 33 in Orlando next year - and the story Brooke told TMZ about discussions between himself and WWE was a fabrication on her part: Brooke’s running around on TMZ and made the statement about me and wrestling and WrestleMania. For the record, she needs the big boot to the head. I haven’t talked to anybody about WrestleMania. I just need to put that to rest. I asked Brooke, “What are you doing?” She goes, “Oh, well, I’m just starting it up.” I said, “Thanks Brooke.” It was kind of funny. I said, “No harm. No foul.” It was all in good fun.

According to other reports, WWE scrapped plans to bring Hogan back anytime soon after it was revealed he's involved in more lawsuits related to the tapes of his racial slurs being made public.

Originally Posted by PWI EVOLVE announced that William Regal will be appearing for the live crowd at this Sunday's event in Joppa, MD as he is "on assignment" for WWE and that will have the crowd "buzzing." Regal will only be appearing for the live crowd, not for the Flosports stream of the show.

Originally Posted by PWI The 11/9 season finale episode of Total Bellas on E! garnered 663,000 viewers, well up from the previous week's 536,000 viewers. The average audience for the series' premiere season was 640,000 viewers.

Originally Posted by Observer On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Vanessa Bryant dismissed wrongful death lawsuits against WWE filed by Michelle James, the girlfriend of Matt Osborne, and Cassandra Frazier, the widow of Nelson Frazier Jr. Osborne, best known as "Maniac" Matt Borne and the original Doink the Clown, passed away on June 28, 2013, in Plano, TX, from an accidental opiate overdose at the age of 55. Frazier, who wrestled as Viscera, Mabel and Big Daddy V among other names, passed away due to a heart attack at age 43 while in the shower at his home on February 18, 2014. In both cases, the lawsuit was a claim that both men suffered brain injuries while working for WWE that in some form led to their early deaths. In both cases, neither wrestler's brains were examined after death to see if there was an issue with CTE. Bryant ruled that James didn't provide facts that would indicate that Osborne had CTE or his overdose death was in any related to that CTE. Frazier was cremated without an autopsy ... With Frazier, the case was dismissed because the planitiffs failed to allege a plausible casual relationship between his death and any wrongful acts by WWE. Bryant noted that the lawsuit stated that "upon information and belief" both Frazier and Osborne had CTE, but neither lawsuit contained any information where such a belief could be derived. With no diagnosis of either man, she wrote that it was impossible to plausibly allege, much less prove, that either man developed CTE from their tenure working for the company. She also noted that the complaint failed to establish any link between CTE and Frazier's heart failure, and the allegation that Frazier could have survived the heart attack if he didn't have CTE was "another bald and baseless allegation, which the court deems unworthy of the barest measure of credibility." While Bryant wrote that lawyer Konstantine Kyros' "false and misleading statements" were "highly unprofessional," she did deny the WWE's request to take sanctions against him regarding these cases.

Originally Posted by Observer WWE is planning on utilizing Heyman and Layfield more on the network with a variety of different programming ideas, including a show as a takeoff on ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption (in which Pete Rosenberg as their pro wrestling reporter was also under consideration for the spot) and trying to bring back a lot of the ECW characters to look back at that era, including Taz, The Dudleys, Dreamer, etc.'

Originally Posted by Observer AAA has gotten a lot of heat with former wrestlers as they’ve beaten guys to the punch and registered names like Rey Fenix and Sexy Dulce, which are names they’ve never used. They also registered El Patron and are trying to get full rights to Octagon to prevent the original Octagon and El Hijo de Octagon, from using the name on indies. At least with Octagon, it was a gimmick Antonio Pena came up with, although Octagon started and became a star first in CMLL before AAA even started. Sexy Dulce is the name Sexy Star started using after leaving AAA and Rey Fenix is the name Fenix started using after quitting the promotion. They also registered Cero Miedo, which is the catch phrase of Pentagon Jr. Pentagon Jr. is still with the promotion but since his brother (Fenix) quit and he earns a lot more working in the U.S., there’s the fear he could leave

Originally Posted by Observer Leon “Vader” White, 61, was in a bad auto accident this past week. He described it as near fatal, and that he was unconscious and trapped in the car upside down for about 35 minutes. His head ended up completely misshapen, being badly elongated and his face was badly bruised up, including two black eyes

Originally Posted by Observer Drew Galloway won’t be given clearance to wrestle until 11/16, so his matches this coming weekend are off. He was to face Tomoaki Honma on the 11/11 Revolution Pro Wrestling/New Japan joint show in London. That’s a bad break for him because he’s a guy who could be a real star in New Japan, but the timing had never worked out. With his TNA contract expiring soon, he’d be free to go in 2017. He’s also off the Evolve shows on 11/12 in Queens, NY and 11/13 in Joppa, MD.

Originally Posted by Observer It’s going to be very interesting in ROH because most of the key players in the promotion are under one-year contracts that would expire at or around 12/31, including The Young Bucks, Bobby Fish, Kyle O’Reilly, Jay Lethal, Ray Rowe, Hanson, Kenny King, Steve Corino and B.J. Whitmer. The question becomes which on those list would have viable alternatives. It’s a weird situation because of the New Japan relationship. Some of the talent likes the ROH/New Japan mix because they get the Japanese bookings, although Michael Elgin for one has a New Japan contract and works ROH between tours and through New Japan, while the names on the aforementioned list work New Japan through ROH. Nobody knows how much of a factor TNA would be, particularly since the one person in TNA most knowledgeable about ROH and who pushed to sign ROH guys, David Lagana (who used to work for ROH), is no longer with TNA. At least some would be good additions for NXT, but the question is would WWE pay the same or more of what key guys make in ROH and New Japan combined, plus there is far more freedom in these companies to do what you want and wrestle how you want than there would be in WWE. Of course, if you hit it big in WWE, like many former ROH guys like Owens, Zayn and Rollins, you’re in a completely different stratosphere, but NXT contracts are generally the same or substantially less than the key ROH deals, depending on the person, and that’s not even figuring the New Japan money and the merchandise money (since ROH talent keep a far higher percentage of merchandise money than WWE talent does, although obviously if you’re pushed on WWE television, the difference makes that merch money night and day in favor of WWE). However, anyone of the names on this list, if WWE truly wants them, they can get them because they can afford to pay much more if they want them, and WWE will constantly need new real talent for its NXT tours when the current headliners move up

Originally Posted by Observer With the network subscription numbers declining in September even with going with two PPVs, they are going to make another change when it comes to PPV. It hasn’t been completely worked out but the last word was there would be a few less shows in 2017 than were originally planned

Originally Posted by Observer Cena is returning from filming the second season of “American Grit” after Christmas. He’s been scheduled for the 12/26 show in Madison Square Garden, which is the first Smackdown brand house show of the holiday week, and traditionally the company’s best drawing U.S. house show of the year.

Originally Posted by Observer The situation with Io Shirai and Kairi Hojo reported here originally, where both were contacted by WWE and told the Stardom office they were going to leave around the spring of 2017, has changed again. Shirai, whose leaving was believed to have been a definite the way she told the company, is reconsidering. Hojo, who had gone back-and-forth on the decision before last week saying she was going, is also reconsidering. Both received new offers to stay and are thinking that they have sure things in their home country if they stay, and if they leave, it’s a shot in the dark and uncertainty. The big picture is that NXT is going to need some quality women wrestlers to work with the less experienced wrestlers, unless they never bring up Asuka (and at first Asuka was not brought in for the main roster, but simply to have her in NXT). Shirai and Hojo are both pretty, and are excellent wrestlers, smoother technically than almost anyone, men or women, now on the roster. But they still may leave. The situation is also that there is the sense of loyalty in Japan to their company. They realize if both leave, the popularity of Stardom will fall greatly because there are no replacements. Shirai and Asuka also have past heat and Shirai has had people tell her that Asuka being in NXT will limit her upward mobility since Asuka got there first and is already a star, with the idea Asuka may be going nowhere, and that WWE isn’t going to push two Japanese women to be dominant on a roster at the same time. Shirai is a lot younger than Asuka, which works in her favor, and wrestles well, but doesn’t project the badass aura that Asuka is so good at getting over even though Asuka is not very big

Originally Posted by Observer It’s interesting that Vince didn’t have them follow up on it because he loved the term sparklecrotch. On the show where it was used, he was laughing like a maniac every time Rollins said it which is why he had Rollins say it over and over again. But he didn’t order it scripted after the first week

Originally Posted by Observer Mascara Dorada will be moving to Orlando soon as well. He did an interview where he said CMLL wasn’t on board with his doing the cruiserweight tournament, but he did it anyway. He said they didn’t seem unhappy about his going to WWE, probably because they figured at that point it was inevitable. He said that he and his wife went to a WWE live show in Mexico City many years ago and at that point decided he wanted to go there. He credited Balor for opening the door for him. He also said that WWE wanted him to take off his mask, but he was adamant about not doing it

Some other sheet news includes:

• According to a report from Metro US, Vince and the WWE are currently distancing themselves away from Donald Trump since his election victory even though Vince previously donated to his campaign. Nobody knows the exact reason why considering they like to latch onto people who had ties with the WWE and become very successful elsewhere. http://www.metro.us/boston/wwe-vince...-uyI31diKVZwE/
• Triple H will be holding his traditional NXT Takeover Q&A session tomorrow instead of next Friday.
• For those interested, Walmart will be having WWE 2k17 on sale for $27 for this year's Black Friday sales.
• According to the Observer, Roman Reigns has been pulled from the rest of the current European tour due to non-serious family related issues.
• Also according to the Observer, TNA is currently behind paying Billy Corgan the money he was legally due to collect as the requirement to force him out of the company. He was owed the money on November 1st while Fight Network and TNA are trying to get the due date changed and/or amount legally reduced.