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Originally Posted by Observer
Raw dropped ten percent from last week, doing its second lowest total of the football season with 2.75 million viewers on Monday.
For whatever reason, the key to the low number was both a low start, but also a much larger than usual drop from hour one to hour two ...
The October 16th show did 2.69 million viewers, the only Raw episode this football season to do a lower number. There were also four shows this year during the NBA playoffs that did lower numbers than Monday ...
The three hours were:
8 p.m. 2.96 million viewers
9 p.m. 2.72 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.60 million viewers
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Originally Posted by Observer
SmackDown ratings were up for the fourth straight week, with Tuesday night's episode on the USA Network averaging 2.68 million viewers.
That's in contrast to Raw's ratings this week, which were down 10 percent from the prior Monday and marked the show's second lowest viewership since the start of the NFL season.
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Originally Posted by Observer
While WWE's plans for Brock Lesnar at the Royal Rumble have yet to be made apparent, that should be changing over the next few weeks.
The Dunkin Donuts Center in Providence, Rhode Island announced on their social media accounts yesterday that Lesnar would be in the building for the December 18th episode of Raw. Lesnar hasn't appeared on television since defeating AJ Styles at Survivor Series and hasn't been advertised for next Monday's Raw in Los Angeles or for the December 11th show in Cleveland.
The night before Raw takes place in Providence, WWE will present their final pay-per-view of the year with SmackDown's Clash of Champions event in Boston. The build for the Royal Rumble should pick up around that time, with the following two weeks of Raw being live shows on Christmas and New Year's Day.
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Depending on prices and scheduling, might have a chance to go to this show.
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Originally Posted by Observer
WWE Studios announced that they’re expanding into television and digital content. Vince McMahon said in a statement: “Given the size of our fan base and their appetite for WWE programming well beyond our core in-ring shows, this is the ideal time to further establish the WWE brand with new genres across platforms. WWE Studios is open for business with this new TV and digital initiative.”
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Link: http://deadline.com/2017/11/wwe-stud...si-1202216228/
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Originally Posted by Observer
NXT is taping its next round of television episodes at Full Sail University tonight. With the first three tapings of 2018 set for Center Stage in Atlanta, this will be the last time NXT’s at Full Sail for a few months. Triple H said on his pre-TakeOver conference call that Full Sail is still their home and the tapings in Atlanta were due to logistical/scheduling issues with their regular venue.
In a rematch of what might have been WWE’s best match of the year, Pete Dunne will defend his WWE United Kingdom Championship against Tyler Bate at the tapings.
Matches taped at NXT house shows prior to TakeOver will air on tonight’s show. Those include Kairi Sane vs. Peyton Royce, Tyler Bate & Trent Seven vs. Pete Dunne & Mark Andrews, and The Street Profits vs. Tino Sabbatelli & Riddick Moss.
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Originally Posted by Observer
As noted, this week's WWE RAW saw Matt Hardy really crank up the "Broken" gimmick teases as his losing streak continued with a loss to Bray Wyatt. It appears WWE is moving forward with the gimmick change, which may see Hardy become "Awoken" instead of "Broken" like before.
Justin Barrasso of Sports Illustrated reports that WWE will be creating their own new character for Hardy and that it will not be labeled as "Broken", but it will be very similar.
Regarding the legal matters between Hardy and Anthem Sports & Entertainment over the ownership of the "Broken" intellectual property, SI reports that there have been no new negotiations between Hardy and Anthem's Ed Nordholm, and there have been no talks of revenue sharing over profits made off merchandise. SI reached out to Anthem for an update and Nordholm issued the following statement:
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Link: https://www.si.com/wrestling/2017/11...ardy-Ric-Flair
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Originally Posted by Observer
The former Ruby Riot’s name is now Ruby Riott on the main roster. Her, Liv Morgan & Sarah Logan are known as The Riott Squad.
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Reason appears to be due to WWE's trademark of "Ruby Riot" got opposed. https://twitter.com/TubbyEmu/status/935651690157608960
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Originally Posted by Observer
Cody Rhodes said his dream main event for the 10,000 seat show he and The Young Bucks are planning is him vs. Daniel Bryan for the ROH World Championship.
Rhodes also spoke to David Bixenspan for an article about the show.
Jeremy Botter, who was formerly with the company, tweeted that FloSlam was “officially killed off” earlier today.
David Bixenspan has the latest on the most recent documents Flo filed in their lawsuit against WWN, including financial details that WWN provided them.
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Rhodes link: https://soundcloud.com/siriusxmrush/...the-main-event , Deadspin interview: https://deadspin.com/cody-rhodes-is-...sho-1820809050 , FloSlam tweet: https://twitter.com/jeremybotter/sta...85309422161920 , FloSlam article: https://www.fightful.com/flosports-r...-court-filings
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Originally Posted by PWI
It's not exactly Christmas yet, but all Impact Wrestling talents will soon be receiving a gift from management - the rights to their characters and all everything that goes with them, lock, stock and barrell.
After digging in their heels on the ownership of the Hardys' "Broken Universe" for the last year, Impact Wrestling, under Anthem Media, has made a complete about-face on their position when it comes to ownership of characters. PWInsider.com has been told by several sources that going forward, all contracted Impact Wrestling talents will be given and retain complete ownership of their intellectual property ...
We are told this week's decision was one made by Ed Nordholm. There is no word yet what sparked the decision, but it opens the door for the company to try and mend fences with fans angered by the company's former stance against the Hardys ...
The move also appears to be made as a way to open things up between the company and its wrestlers in a way that has never been done before by a major, national promotion. It would allow the company to partner with its contracted talents to build characters and intellectual property together, as opposed to Impact claiming ownership of those characters if and when the talents move on at the end of their Impact run.
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Originally Posted by WrestleInc
WWE UK Superstar Wolfgang has been cleared to return to the ring from the injury he suffered during the WWE European tour earlier this month. He worked tonight's WWE NXT TV tapings from Full Sail University and defeated Kona Reeves in the dark match. Reeves had Chinese recruit Ming with him at ringside and Ming distracted Wolfgang early on to help Reeves get the upperhand. Wolfgang later took control and fought off another distraction from Ming to get the win with a senton.
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Originally Posted by WrestleInc
WWE officials are already talking about doing another Starrcade live event in 2018, according to PWInsider. Saturday's special live event in Greensboro, NC was a success as there was a huge bump from the previous live event in Greensboro. The show was written by WWE Hall of Famer Michael "PS" Hayes, who was the one that pitched the revival of the name back in June of this year. Vince McMahon ended up approving the event and it was announced a few months later. There are no plans for the event to air on the WWE Network. The event was never meant to be a TV program and was produced as a standard live event. WWE did film Starrcade with several cameras, as they often do at live events, so there is footage if they decide to air it at a later date.
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Originally Posted by WrestleInc
It looks like former WWE Champion CM Punk may be ready for his second fight in the UFC as UFC President Dana White noted at a media lunch in Las Vegas yesterday that Punk will be heading to Detroit for UFC 218 this weekend and he wants to talk to the boss, presumably about his next fight. White made these comments to journalists:
"CM Punk is coming to Detroit and wants to talk to me. I love the guy. We'll see what he's doing." - Dana White
— Adam Hill (@AdamHillLVRJ) November 28, 2017
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