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Old 01-11-2018, 10:03 PM   #1645
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Originally Posted by Observer
There’s really not a lot new with the men’s Rumble. If the winner of the Rumble is getting a Mania title shot, and it’s not a storyline thing that will change, then it’s still possibly Roman Reigns (although his winning the Elimination Chamber match for a title shot also makes sense) or someone from Smackdown, with Shinsuke Nakamura and Randy Orton being the favorites and Baron Corbin being a longshot. John Cena wouldn’t be expected to win since he’s not getting a title shot.

Spoiler tags used since its related to possible Men's Rumble winners.

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Originally Posted by Observer
NXT talent has been told that nine women on the NXT roster will be in the Rumble but the decision on which nine hasn’t been made.
In regards to more possible surprise entrants
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Nikki and possibly Brie are planned to be in the match. Same for being involved in this year's Mania.


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Originally Posted by Observer
With Tessa Blanchard now pushing for indie dates for 2018, it’s pretty clear she’s not coming to WWE in any time imminently
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Originally Posted by Observer
Scott D'Amore and Don Callis at Impact did a press call this morning. They noted that there will be an Impact channel on Twitch including old and new content, behind the fourth wall and wrestlers not in a studio setting. Don Callis said the move to a four-sided ring was because the talent preferred it. Callis also said he has no plans to appear in front of the camera. They will be introducing new championship belts in April.
More details and highlights: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...erage.html?p=1

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Originally Posted by Observer
Regarding Moose, he suffered a torn lateral collateral ligament in his knee at the tapings last night. We're told he's not expected to miss the tapings the rest of the week. He said the knee was stiff but he'll be fine.
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Originally Posted by Observer
The Miz is replacing Samoa Joe in some bookings for a main event position including 3/16 in Madison Square Garden where he's in a three-way for the IC title against John Cena and champion Roman Reigns.

Both Sonya Deville and Mandy Rose are battling the flu.

The WWE will open Monday's show with another Martin Luther King Jr. package, which they do every year on MLK Jr. Day.

WWE Hall of Fame tickets go on sale a week from tomorrow, so expect the announcement of a major name on Monday.
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Brian Cage is in Orlando for Impact so he'll be debuting at this set of tapings. Tyrus also returned for the tapings.

The NWA is working with Impact because on Sunday they will be filming an empty arena match with Jocephus vs. Tim Storm from the Impact Zone in Orlando with the winner being top contender for champion Nick Aldis. The match will be filmed before the Impact tapings that night.

Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Tyler Bate takes place on 2/3 in Dublin for Over the Top Wrestling.
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Originally Posted by Observer
John Cena is returning to host this year's Kids' Choice Awards and has announced two other projects that he's working on with Nickelodeon.

After teasing that he'd be making a "major announcement" today, Cena and Nickelodeon revealed that he'll be hosting the Kids' Choice Awards for a second straight year, will be voicing a character named "Baron Draxum" in their upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series, and will be executive producing a game show called "Keep It Spotless."

The 2018 Kids' Choice Awards will take place on March 24th. Both “Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” where Cena's character will be a recurring villain, and "Keep It Spotless" are scheduled to premiere later this year.
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Originally Posted by PWI
Tyrus aka the former Brodus Clay just made his return to Impact Wrestling at tonight's TV taping.

Anthem Wrestling Exhibitions' first US trademark application 'Impact Grand Champion' which they filed for in October 2017 has been given an initial refusal for various reasons. The Goods and Services identification that Anthem applied for was "Belt buckles of common metal for use as awards"
Trademark: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...oiler.html?p=1 ,

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Originally Posted by PWI
When did the "Wooing" for Ric Flair chops begin?

To the best of my knowledge, it actually started in the original ECW. Fans used to do the "Woo" at Shane Douglas when he was nailing (or being hit with) chops to get under his skin, since he had ragged on Ric Flair so much. That evolved into fans doing it whenever there were chops and eventually, it moved over to fans watching other promotions doing the same, similar to fans doing the "One Fan" back to the ring announcers, which originated with UK fans.
Part of PWI's weekly Q&A articles on the possible origins of the "Woo" chant.

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Originally Posted by PWI
ESPN featured a story on WWE and their relationship with Ronda Rousey with a statement from Paul "Triple H" Levesque, answering speculation about a recent dinner between Rousey and the WWE executive in Los Angeles.

"We are talking to Ronda, as we've been for a while," said Levesque "She has a lot of things going on. We have a lot of things going on. But we have a great relationship with her, a very friendly standpoint for a long period of time now. It was great to catch up with her. We have nothing to announce at this time, but she's a huge fan of what we do and she's incredibly interested in what we do and the opportunities that lie there. We're fans of hers and incredibly interested in what those opportunities could be with us. But there's a lot of things to walk through. We're talking. We're having conversations."

Ronda Rousey was asked for comment by TMZ about the dinner, responding, "I like fine dining."

Hunter said he would love Rousey and WWE to work together.
Link: http://www.espn.com/mma/story/_/id/2...-possible-leap

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Originally Posted by Observer
As far as the numbers, this is the pattern for New Japan World, which is similar but much smaller than WWE Network. Last year, WrestleKingdom 11 saw the numbers increase over the week from 45,000 to 60,000. After, it dropped back to about 50,000, so most of the increase didn’t hold. It jumped back to 70,000 for the G-1 finals and hovered at that level most of the rest of the year. It was at 65,000 in December and jumped to 70,000 on 1/3 in the U.S. It was up to 82,000 a few hours before the show started, and between the show and New Year’s Dash the next day, it was at 95,000 after Dash ended and 97,000 by the next morning U.S. time. On the afternoon of 1/9,it had increased to 99,784, so it likely topped 100,000 by the end of that day. So the increase in subscribers last year for the show was 15,000 and this year was 35,000. It still pales compared to WWE numbers, but it’s amazing growth. The key is of those 35,000 newcomers, how many continue through February? Most probably won’t, but nobody was counting on most, just an increase from what was the previous long-term base.

In theory, it should have been slightly more difficult to grow this year than last because the service is a year older, but interest in New Japan is also up. It’s probably unfair to credit Jericho vs. Omega with 20,000 new subs over and above what they’d have gotten, but 15,000 is not a stretch at all, and that’s a $128,000 value alone let alone if it adds 5,000 to the base it’s worth another $484,000 for the year.
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Originally Posted by Observer
The Rumble will set the record for the most workers on a PPV show. With the 30 men and 30 women, and both title matches being with three men, two tag title matches, a U.S. title final and a cruiserweight title match, that would be 78 wrestlers. It is possible the cruiserweight title could be moved to the pre-show or even one of the tag title matches, but that’s still 72 to 76 wrestlers. There’s probably going to be at least one or two more pre-show matches since they do a two-hour pre-show for big cards, and probably one will be multiple person match. So the whole nearly six hour show will probably end with more than 80. The all-time record for a PPV main show up to this point is 60 wrestlers, held by the World War III show from WCW which had a 60 man Battle Royal once, and WrestleMania 30 which booked 60 people. This past year’s Mania had 33 on the main show but 37 on the pre-show, for a total of 70.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Stardom attendance increased 20 percent in 2017, which is pretty strong considering one year ago there was significant fear regarding the future with WWE after its top talent and both Io Shirai and Kairi Hojo looking at leaving and Yoko Bito looking at retiring. Shirai ended up not being signed due to medical reasons and returned to Stardom as its top star

Viper, Kay Lee Ray and other women from Stardom have gone on social media to ask people to buy merchandise from Kris Wolf to help her out with her being injured. Her injury was not been announced but she’s been out of action this past week
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Originally Posted by Observer
For what it’s worth, the people running the ITV World of Sport remake are claiming that the project is back on, that the plans are to restart over the summer (which would likely mean a rush by WWE to get its U.K. project up as well and sign up more talent) and that Anthem won’t be involved. Some talent has been contacted to be patient for the relaunch of a weekly TV show. My feeling is to be skeptical. I think that’s the feeling of much of the talent at this point
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Originally Posted by Observer
Stephanie also noted what is clearly obvious, that WWE is distancing themselves away from President Donald. She was asked why in a video they put out showing celebrities that have done WWE, that Donald wasn’t in it. She said that the company made a strategic decision to stay away from partisan politics. It was the only move they could make that makes sense. While Donald appointed Linda McMahon to a cabinet post, Donald is a very divisive character. He’s beneficial to the company in many ways. Donald has spearheaded legislation for tax cuts on businesses like theirs, which is one of the reasons the stock price has grown. But while they support him, their fan base leans heavily the other way, as WWE fans skew heavily Democratic, heavy Mexican-American and heavily low income and there is no logical point in doing anything to alienate your fan base.
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Originally Posted by Observer
A lot of the reactions of wrestlers finding out who their partners were in the tournament were legit. Some obviously knew. For example, the spot with Lynch & Zayn, obviously Zayn knew. Lynch was told to go outside as they wanted to film her signing autographs, and then hid Zayn as a fan for the reveal. The series is a test to see whether both companies can do more together going forward
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Originally Posted by Observer
The top ten most-watched shows of the week on the WWE Network were: 1. 2015 Royal Rumble; 2. NXT year-in-review show on 1/3; 3. Clash of Champions; 4. Royal Rumble 2017 5. Royal Rumble 2016; 6. Photo Shoot-Cesaro (this is the second week in a row the Cesaro feature beat Miz); 7. Survivor Series 2017; 8. 205 Live from Jan. 2; 9. WrestleMania 2017; 10. Photo Shot-Miz

Some other sheet news includes:
  • During a recent interview with The New Indian Express, Great Khali stated WWE's recent efforts to cater to the Indian market have been a failure. http://www.newindianexpress.com/spor...a-1749608.html
  • According to the Observer, WWE wants the basis for a new television deal to be done by this May instead of waiting till near the end of the current tv deal which expires in October 2019.
  • Recent episode of Inside The Ropes podcast show had Chris Jericho as the guest discussing becoming friends with Owens, original Mania 33 plans and why they got changed, and the Festival of Friendship. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...ania-33-plans/


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