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Former TPWW Royalty
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Dirtsheets sponsored by Tower of 205 Live Doom:
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Originally Posted by Observer
Monday night's Labor Day edition of Raw on the USA Network did just 2.916 million viewers, down 12 percent from the previous week. In addition to the holiday, Monday marked the first week of the season against big competition from football ...
Hour one opened with 3.069 million viewers and both hours fell from there, which buckles the recent trend of hour two usually being the highest rated.
Raw fell to 2.975 million viewers for the second hour and hour three, with an 18-minute overrun, fell all the way to 2.75 million.
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For some comparisons, last year's Labor Day week show had 3.063 million viewers for the average.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Kenny Omega will miss most of the upcoming Destruction tour with a left meniscus injury, but he won’t miss the tour entirely.
New Japan made the announcement early this morning that he would be out for a majority of the tour. They didn’t mention any further details regarding the injury, but did mention that his IWGP United States title defense against Juice Robinson is still scheduled for September 24th in Kobe.
Leo Tonga is set to take his place in the upcoming tour. He is the brother of both Tama Tonga and Tanga Roa, as well as the son of Haku.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Yesterday, Global Force Wrestling announced that Jeff Jarrett, who was running the wrestling end of GFW and is part owner of the company, was taking an indefinite leave of absence from the company to deal with personal issues.
According to those close to the situation, the personal issues aspect of the story is legitimate and the public story is accurate.
It was clear that the decision was not something he knew about in advance because he sent out a tweet that morning talking about going back into the office to start a day of work. He was scheduled to host a party for the company staff at his home that day, which ended up being canceled.
However, others in the company were aware of the decision for at least a week.
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Confirmed the reports from PWI about what caused Jarrett to step down from the company at least for the near future.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Justin Barrasso of Sports Illustrated reported Wednesday that with Anthem losing significant money, sources close to the situation say Anthem is ready to pull out of running a wrestling company and is ready to sell. Sources in the company denied that, but that type of story is also always going to be denied until it happens for the obvious morale reasons, and also because even those at the top would not be in the loop on a sale.
As noted in the Observer Newsletter last week, the company's inability to get a new U.S. television deal is hurting them because it’s clear the company can’t grow financially while on Pop TV and their current situation doesn’t appear to have any other way to make money. After testing the waters with three house shows in the Northeast (one of which was canceled and neither of the others drew well), no future house shows are on the schedule, nor is anything past the television tapings in November after Bound for Glory.
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Link to the Sports Illustrated report: https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/201...orce-wrestling
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Originally Posted by Observer
On the same day as the Sports Illustrated report about Anthem being ready to exit the wrestling business, GFW sent out a press release today touting a few broadcast initiatives, including their plans to launch the Global Wrestling Network (an on-demand service), plans to launch a channel on Pluto TV, a deal with 7Sports to bring Impact back to screens in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland via ran FIGHTING, and the announcement that they’ve extended their deal with Pop TV to carry Impact.
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Link to the GFW announcement: http://impactwrestling.com/global-fo...n-initiatives/
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Originally Posted by Observer
Booker T is doing a live show in Los Angeles prior to No Mercy with all proceeds benefiting victims of Hurricane Harvey.
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Link to the announcement: https://twitter.com/BookerT5x/status/905559613596200961
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Originally Posted by Observer
On his podcast this week (which also included an appearance by Bret Hart), Jerry Lawler said that WWE didn’t contact him about joining the SmackDown commentary team on a full-time basis when JBL left. Lawler noted that it would have been a difficult decision to make if they did.
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The Kingdom will be facing The Briscoes & Bully Ray in a match at ROH’s Death Before Dishonor pay-per-view, with the winners going on to challenge The Young Bucks & Hangman Page for the six-man tag titles later in the night. Jay Lethal vs. Silas Young in a last man standing match is also set for the PPV.
PROGRESS Wrestling revealed that there will be an eight-man scramble match at their Alexandra Palace show on Sunday. Mark Andrews, Eddie Dennis, Zack Gibson, James Drake, Jack Sexsmith, Chief Deputy Dunne, Strangler Davis, and Flash Morgan Webster will be involved in it.
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Originally Posted by PWI
73-year old former NWA and ECW World champion Terry Funk is returning to the ring later this month. Funk is being advertised for the 9/23 and 9/24 events being run by Big Time Wrestling in Raleigh, NC and Charleston, SC.
Funk will team with former NWA World Tag Team champions The Rock N' Roll Express for the first time ever to face the Memphis-themed trio of Jerry Lawler, Doug Gilbert and Brian Christopher.
Funk has not made any appearances in months after a health issue led to him leaving a House of Hardcore event in Philadelphia, PA earlier this year.
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Originally Posted by WrestleInc
GFW has announced that footage from AAA's TripleMania event from late August will air on this week's GFW Impact episode. As noted, Thursday's show will also feature Allie & Gail Kim vs. Taryn Terrell & GFW Knockouts Champion Sienna plus DJZ's return and Matt Sydal vs. GFW Global Champion Eli Drake in the main event.
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Originally Posted by WrestleInc
Emma and Nia Jax teamed up on this week's Raw to defeat Sasha Banks and Raw Women's Champion, Alexa Bliss. Along with the win, Nia and Emma were added to the No Mercy Women's Title match between Sasha and Alexa. On Twitter, Emma let it be known Nia should be thanking her for a title opportunity that she doesn't deserve. Nia shot back, reminding Emma about her never-ending Emmalina vignettes that she never capitalized on.
.@NiaJaxWWE should be thanking ME for getting her a match she doesn't deserve. This is about me. @ #WWENoMercy it'll be #EmmaNewWomensChamp
— EMMA (@EmmaWWE) September 5, 2017
?? did you thank Vince for the 6 month vignette push you had but never capitalized on? How much MORE do you deserve ?? https://t.co/JbPQXx3PPC
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