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Originally Posted by Observer
Monday Night Raw will be without its regular play-by-play voice on next week's episode.
WWE.com announced in an article today that Michael Cole would be missing Raw on Monday to attend his son's wedding. Tom Phillips will fill in for Cole on play-by-play alongside Corey Graves and Booker T, which means that Phillips and Graves will be on commentary for both Raw and SmackDown next week.
The article notes that it's only the second time in Cole's 20 years with WWE that he has missed a week of television.
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For this coming weekend's house shows, Brock Lesnar is working the Saturday night show in Winnipeg, but he's not scheduled for Raw on Monday. This is Lesnar's last date with the company for a while. John Cena is off the house shows this weekend and will be off for several more weeks. Randy Orton is not working any of the SmackDown house shows this weekend but he is scheduled for Denver on Tuesday.
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In the if you thought this was going to end quietly department, The Young Bucks have now come out with a Cease & Desist T-shirt. They are also auctioning off "Too Sweet" wrestling tights that were used in episode 47 of Being the Elite, with 100% of the sale price going to the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, which they visited a few weeks ago when doing the TV tapings at Center Stage. The auction, which was last up to $1,775, is up on Ebay. Because of legal threats by WWE, they have decided not to wear the tights any longer.
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Linda McMahon encouraged small businesses to be creative and innovative and that if they were, they could survive against the monster businesses. The irony of this coming out today is rich.
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Link to Linda's statement: https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/n...iness-can.html
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Judge Vanessa Bryant made a ruling earlier today regarding three different CTE lawsuits against WWE and Vince McMahon, saying the opposition lawyers have 35 days to amend their complaints and that she is requiring the opposing attorneys to submit affidavits from each plaintiff regarding the claims, under penalty of perjury. She said failure to comply will mean in 35 days she will dismiss all three suits.
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More details via PWInsider: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...-else.html?p=1
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Originally Posted by Observer
Kurt Angle did an interview with Fox Sports saying that he is being drug tested while in WWE, but he has not yet been asked to take a physical. He still believes he will be wrestling at some point.
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Link to the interview: https://www.foxsports.com.au/wwe/wwe...a5978b22774afc
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Rob Straus, who wrestled as Robbie E, has gotten his release from Impact Wrestling. He hasn't been used in a while and really the only thing he did of note lately with the company was represent TNA in a NOAH tag team tournament with Bram as his partner.
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ROH, which has sold out its 10/12 show in Buffalo (just over 900 seats), is opening up 100 standing room tickets. Besides ROH regulars, also on the show are Kenny Omega, Yoshi-Hashi, Lance Archer, Davey Boy Smith Jr., Kushida and Hiromu Takahashi.
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The 9/28 edition of Impact did 264,000 overnight viewers, down from last week's 277,000 overnight viewers
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While Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida has been the home for TNA/GFW/Impact Wrestling for much of its existence over the last 15 years, sources have indicated that while they may return there at some point, the company is focused on running other markets when they tape television. According to a well placed source, New York City, Toronto and Chicago are being eyed for future TV taping locations for 2018. At one point, Chicago was planned for a live event before the end of 2017 but the company decided to hold off on those plans.
John Gaburick has been taking the lead in recent creative meetings and conference calls with talent. Ed Nordholm has had a much less reduced role in the day to day running of the company, PWInsider.com has been told as another Anthem executive has been far more involved overseeing things. Nordholm is still involved in the legal affairs of the company and the Global Wrestling Network.
There will be a big push for Alberto el Patron when he returns.
The 12/9 WrestlePro event in Rahway, NJ will feature a lot of material being filmed for Impact, so expect a lot of talents on that show. Eli Drake and Alberto el Patron have already been announced. Sienna will also be on that event.
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More Impact details: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...-news.html?p=1
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Where did Nigel McGuinness disappear to this week? He wasn't on No Mercy or 205 Live.
In asking around, no one seemed to know except for one person who believed he had off for a personal commitment. It was weird timing, since the shows were in California, where McGuinness resides. If he's back on TV next week, it's a non-story. If he isnt, it's something we have to dig deeper into.
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From PWI's weekly Q&A articles.
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Originally Posted by PWI
PWInsider.com has confirmed with multiple sources that a decision was made to hold off on the WCW Thunder series being added to the WWE Network. We were not able to 100% confirm why but it is likely because of the ongoing legal issues with Buff Bagwell and Scott Levy suing the company regarding the company not paying royalties on WWE Network material for content that talents would receive royalties for if it was released via physical media, such as DVDs. I speculated on this in an article earlier this week and this morning, confirmed the company specifically made a decision to not release Thunder (which is 100% ready to go, we are told) and instead release World Class Championship Wrestling episodes instead. WCCW was already slated to be the October "classic content" and we are told that the Network will be promoting the WCCW drop with an "Everything Bigger in Texas" theme.
Sunday Night Heat, which was slated to be added before the end of the year, is also now on the backburner, we are told.
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Also coming in October is a Hell in a Cell WWE Network Collection and new "Classic Content". It's interesting to note that the original preview listed a collection "The Corporate Stooges: Brisco and Patterson" but now that is nowhere to be found.
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Some other sheet news includes:
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