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Originally Posted by Observer Even though the football competition was down, Raw fell five percent from the prior week last night, to the lowest rating the show has done since June 12th, during the NBA finals. The episode did 2.77 million viewers, the sixth lowest watched show of 2017 ... The three hours were: 8 p.m. 2.95 million viewers 9 p m. 2.76 million viewers 10 p.m. 2.62 million viewers

Originally Posted by Observer EVOLVE released a video teasing that their next two shows would be the end, with it saying that “everything evolves to dust.” Various images of destruction were mixed in with the video and Matt Riddle and Keith Lee’s faces were crossed out on today’s WWN Alerts, likely meaning that it’s leading to an angle.

PROGRESS Wrestling revealed that all three days of next year’s Super Strong Style 16 tournament will be taking place at Alexandra Palace, which was the venue that hosted their biggest show of the year this year. SSS16 will take place on May 5-7 in 2018. Wolfgang will make his PROGRESS in-ring debut in an Atlas title match against WALTER on October 29th. Revolution Pro Wrestling announced Tetsuya Naito vs. Marty Scurll for their November 9th Global Wars UK show at York Hall in London. Their show in Walthamstow the next day will have Toru Yano vs. Zack Gibson.

PROGRESS announcement: https://twitter.com/ThisIs_Progress/...60495397089281 , Wolgang debut: https://twitter.com/ThisIs_Progress/...10539588456448

Originally Posted by Observer Confirming what had been expected, WWE officially announced today that Shayna Baszler has signed with the company. The news was revealed in an article on WWE.com, with it noting that Baszler has begun training at the Performance Center. Baszler, a 37-year-old former UFC fighter, made her WWE debut in the Mae Young Classic after starting a career in pro wrestling in 2015. “I’m looking forward to getting out there and twisting limbs off and breaking bodies,” Baszler said in an interview with WWE.com. “I can't wait.”

Originally Posted by Observer The pro wrestling world lost one of its most treasured voices this morning. Lance Russell passed away at 91 years old after complications from a fall. He was hospitalized after breaking his hip in a fall on Friday, which was the second time he had fallen last week. Russell's daughter also passed away on Friday after battling cancer. We all send our thoughts to the Russell family during this difficult time. Aside from being the host and voice of Memphis wrestling, Russell was considered one of the nicest people to ever be part of the pro wrestling business. He was also a television program director, putting wrestling in its Saturday morning time slot in Memphis where it had tremendous success. Russell worked for WCW and Smoky Mountain Wrestling towards the end of his career as well. Jerry Lawler first announced Russell's passing on Twitter and the Russell family then confirmed the news. They thanked everyone for their thoughts and prayers and wrote that Russell was surrounded by family when he passed.

Originally Posted by Observer Kenny Omega's first stateside defense of the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship will be available to watch live on iPPV. Ring of Honor announced today that they would be broadcasting Global Wars: Chicago on ROHWrestling.com for $19.99. That show will take place on October 15th, with Omega putting his US title on the line against YOSHI-HASHI as the most heavily promoted match. The main event of the Chicago show will be the Bullet Club team of Cody Rhodes, The Young Bucks & Hangman Page facing Motor City Machine Guns, Jonathan Gresham & Jay White. Marty Scurll vs. Hiromu Takahashi is advertised as well.

Originally Posted by Observer The New York Daily News reported today that Shane McMahon had filed a lawsuit last year that accused the owner of a company based in growing marijuana of duping him out of $500,000. The gist of the story the way it was reported was that the son of Linda McMahon, the head of the Small Business Administration, had put up $500,000 for a large stake in EnviroGrow, which was a company developed to sell prefabricated modules for growing marijuana in states where pot is legal for medicinal and recreational use ... McMahon's lawsuit accused Palmieri of misleading him about the state of the company. The lawsuit said Palmieri told McMahon that the modules were the state-of-the-art in growing marijuana. McMahon invested in the company and went to Fort Collins, Colorado, to their manufacturing plant and according to the lawsuit, found it virtually nonexistent, and demanded a return of his investment money, and Palmieri refused.

Link to the report: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.3535458

Originally Posted by Observer PWInsider reported that Bradley Cooper has been offered the role of Vince McMahon in “Pandemonium,” which is the biopic on Vince’s life that is in development. The offer was apparently made weeks ago and it isn’t known if Cooper was open to the idea.

Link to the report: https://pwinsider.com/article/112622...iopic.html?p=1

Originally Posted by Observer Charlotte Flair told ESPN that she wants to face Ronda Rousey in the main event of WrestleMania next year. “I hope that's the main event of WrestleMania," Charlotte said. "That's my dream. I hope we can make it happen. She really opened the doors for a lot of women. Having that opportunity would be huge. I don't know what her goals are, but it's just cool that she wants to be a part of our world."

Link to the interview: http://www.espn.com/wwe/story/_/id/2...a-ronda-rousey

Originally Posted by Observer DualShockers interviewed Breezango about how their team came together, their future in the SmackDown tag team division, and WWE 2K18. When asked about the team’s beginnings, Tyler Breeze said: “ Yeah, it had been brought up a couple times and it was one of those things where he was doing nothing; I was doing nothing; we were just tossed together to see what happens. I don’t even know if they were banking on us clicking the way we did. Especially stumbling upon something like Fashion Files that took off and people really enjoy it. It was, kind of, a lot of luck and one of those things you try real hard at.”

Link to the interview: https://www.dualshockers.com/wwe-2k1...iew-breezango/

Originally Posted by Observer The Young Bucks’ “Cease and Desist” shirt, which played off of the cease and desist letter that WWE sent them, is already the top selling shirt on Pro Wrestling Tees for the month of September.

Originally Posted by Observer Following the departure of some of WhatCulture's key staff members, What Culture Pro Wrestling will also be undergoing some changes before the end of the year. The promotion announced today that they would be rebranding as Defiant Wrestling in December. The first show under the new name will be a live iPPV called "WeAreDefiant" on December 4th at the O2 Academy in Newcastle, which will air on their new Access Defiant on-demand service and will be available on the FITE app. Stu Bennett, who was formerly known as Wade Barrett in WWE, was revealed to be the promotion's new on-screen general manager after former authority figure Adam Blampied was among those to leave WhatCulture earlier this month. Bennett will open their Refuse to Lose iPPV broadcast on October 2nd, which will be the last show branded as a WCPW event.

More details: http://www.f4wonline.com/indies/wcpw...-new-gm-243751

Originally Posted by Observer After 25 years between matches in the United States prior to challenging Cody Rhodes for the Ring of Honor World Championship at Death Before Dishonor earlier this month, it won't be quite that long until Minoru Suzuki's next trip back to the US. ROH announced that Suzuki would be on all four stops of their Global Wars tour next month. His matches will be: October 12th in Buffalo, New York teaming with Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr. vs. War Machine & Mark Briscoe. October 13th in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in a singles match against Silas Young, which comes off an angle that was taped on the post-PPV television tapings in Las Vegas. October 14th in Columbus, Ohio, teaming with Archer & Smith Jr. vs. Toru Yano, Will Ospreay & YOSHI-HASHI in a Suzuki-gun vs. Chaos match. October 15th in Chicago teaming with Archer & Smith Jr. vs. Jay Lethal, Kenny King & Mark Briscoe. In addition to that, ROH revealed that KUSHIDA would be challenging for Cody's title at the Global Wars stop in Columbus and that Kenny Omega would be teaming with The Young Bucks in a six-man tag against The Kingdom in Buffalo.

Originally Posted by PWI Some updates on the lawsuit Scott "Raven" Levy and Marcus "Buff" Bagwell in regard to their allegations that WWE owes them royalties from usage of material featuring their work in matches and segments from WCW and WWE on the WWE Network, allegedly breaching their contracts by failing to pay direct sales royalties as well as WWE allegedly not paying within a 90 day window following the end of each financial quarter. On 9/29 attorneys representing Bagwell and Levy filed a notice with court that the pair are withdrawing certain claims that they alleged in the most recent version of their lawsuit. After information was exchanged between the parties, Bagwell and Levy stated that they would not be pursuing claims as a class action on "behalf of individuals who are parties to the following contracts and are part of the following alleged subclasses in this matter: (1) Titan Sports, Inc. d/b/a World Wrestling Federation Booking Contract fromthe signing period of January 1, 1993 until December 31, 1993; and (2) WCW, Inc. Booking Contract from the signing period of March 24, 2001 until January 1, 2004."

A couple more details: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...t-wwe.html?p=1

Originally Posted by WrestleInc As seen on last night's episode of WWE Monday Night RAW, Bray Wyatt teased finally introducing Sister Abigail, who was believed to be dead in storyline. Pro Wrestling Sheet reports that WWE will NOT be introducing a female character, but rather Bray Wyatt will wrestle at TLC as Sister Abigail. Wyatt will reportedly wear a different outfit, similar to Balor having a different look for The Demon gimmick.

Link to article: http://www.prowrestlingsheet.com/sis...ut-bray-wyatt/

Originally Posted by WrestleInc WWE is emailing some former Network subscribers a promotion where they would get the Network free for three months, which would allow them to watch the remaining WWE pay-per-views for 2017 at no cost. This includes Sunday's Hell In A Cell pay-per-view, WWE TLC on October 22nd, WWE Survivor Series on November 19th, and WWE Clash of Champions on December 17th.

Current Network numbers must be well below what the WWE wants if they are giving away the rest of the year for free.

Today, I woke up to no less than 150 tweets asking me if I'm Sister Abigail.

RUN @WWEBrayWyatt #RAW

— Mika Rotunda (@MikaRotunda) October 3, 2017

Some other sheet news includes:

• Mickie James was announced to be getting inducted into the Native American Music Awards Hall of Fame later this month. In terms of ancestry, she is part Powhatan. https://www.nativeamericanmusicawards.com/news
• UK's Metro held a recent interview with Bayley talking about her shoulder injury, if she's ambitious, and possible heel turn in the future. http://metro.co.uk/2017/10/03/wwe-st...offee-6974136/
• AV Club had a recent article trashing the WWE for rewriting Ultimate Warrior's hateful past and expanding the Warrior brand into more of their charitable works. https://www.avclub.com/on-raw-wwe-co...ocialMarketing
• Will Ospreay‏ was recently hit with a cease & desist order from the WWE regarding two of his shirts being sold. https://twitter.com/WillOspreay/stat...27586233618433
• According to the Observer, former WWE announcer Kyle Edwards (Arda Ocal) was at the site of last weekend's Las Vegas shooting but was unharmed during the incident.
• Also according to the Observer, both Dean Ambrose and Renee Young were in the city for the weekend but left prior to the shootings taking place.
• According to PWInsider, the site's Dave Scherer was also in the city at the time of the shooting but in a different location and unharmed from the night's events. He currently lives in the city.