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Old 07-13-2018, 04:55 AM   #2081
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Children and young people are not as fucking stupid as WWE thinks. They make the classic mistake of thinking that kids will fall for pantomime as if it is real. More kids were watching during the Attitude era when things were "cool." Good television should be their priority; not stupid television that they think will appeal to kids, but is really only watched by the people who formed their habits and fandom long ago.
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Old 07-13-2018, 09:37 PM   #2082
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All In has their broadcasting team set for the upcoming September event.

Their Twitter account today revealed that their broadcasting team will comprise of Impact backstage interviewer Alicia Atout, Impact and New Japan color commentator Don Callis, former WWE backstage interviewer and announcer Sean Mooney, ROH announcer Ian Riccaboni, PWG announcer Excalibur, ROH ring announcer Bobby Cruise and former WWE ring announcer Justin Roberts. It wasn't announced what roles each would have on the broadcast, though the Young Bucks did ask Don Callis to do announcing when they made him part of All In last month during a New Japan's Dominion event.

Cody Rhodes talked to Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio this past weekend about distribution methods for All In. Rhodes mentioned that there would be both internet streaming and pay-per-view options. Despite that, no specific details have been announced as of this writing.
Link: https://twitter.com/ALL_IN_2018/stat...76659180134406

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With four more wrestlers being announced today, the lineup for this year's Mae Young Classic continues to take shape.

As expected, Io Shirai will be one of the participants in the tournament. After it was reported that she was signing with WWE, Shirai departed Stardom in June and then made an appearance at a WWE house show in Tokyo, Japan, where it was announced that she would be joining NXT this summer ...

Nicole Matthews, an indie wrestler from Canada who was an alternate for the first Mae Young Classic, will be an entrant this year. She began her in-ring career in 2006 and has long been a regular for Shimmer in the United States and ECCW in Canada.

Jinny, who recently signed a United Kingdom-brand contract with WWE, will also be taking part in the Mae Young Classic. She's PROGRESS Wrestling's current Women's Champion.

Rounding out today's announcements, former "American Ninja Warrior" standout Kacy Catanzaro has been confirmed for the tournament. She made her debut at an NXT house show in April after signing with WWE in 2017 and reporting to the Performance Center this January.

Kaitlyn, Rhea Ripley, Shirai, Matthews, Jinny, and Catanzaro are the first six wrestlers to be announced for the tournament, which will be taped at Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida on August 8 and 9. There will be 32 participants in total.
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The 7/12 edition of Impact did 284,000 overnight viewers, up from last week's 304,000 overnight viewers.
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Anymore on why MVP was released from Major League Wrestling? Kind of a tough blow for him to be pretty much dominated in his feud against Sami Callihan then be released.

No one at MLW has been willing to comment on the situation.

When WWE performers appear at comic-cons, are they paid by the con or WWE?

Unless they have it in their contracts that they can make outside appearances, it usually goes like this: the third-party bringing in the talent books them through WWE, then pays WWE. WWE pays the talent.

When Smackdown goes to FOX, why are they saying it will be part of FOX Sports?

It will air on the FOX Network (the same network that airs the Simpsons, etc.) but they are being placed under the FOX Sports umbrella, nothing more.
From PWI's weekly Q&A articles.

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On Jim Ross’ podcast this week, he provided an update on his rib injury from this past Saturday at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. Ross bruised the left side of his ribs and lung, which also caused some issues for his sternum with concerns about contracting pneumonia. As a result, he missed two appearances this week with one scheduled Asheville, North Carolina for the Headlock for Hunger organization of which Ross is a spokesman. Ross was also scheduled to appear in Knoxville, Tennessee for Glen Jacobs’ mayoral race in Knox County. Josh Barnett was a guest on the show and felt they were being disrespected during the sequence with Jay White throwing Juice Robinson into the guardrail that led to the injury to Ross. Ross and Barnett confirmed that the two apologized afterward and were sincere, with Barnett added that he gave them a lecture. Barnett called the ring crew’s lack of care for the set up “a gross oversight” and cited the timekeeper who had the guardrail come down directly on his knee in a separate incident.
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Ring of Honor COO Joe Koff spoke to the New York Post on the promotion running Madison Square Garden over WrestleMania Weekend. Koff stated that there was “correspondence” between ROH and Madison Square Garden since the date was pulled last month. On the Garden’s change in stance regarding ROH running the building, Koff stated:

I think that’s a question better asked of Madison Square Garden because we were very aggressive in wanting that date and we thought we had that date, but we did what we had to do as a business. [MSG] did what they had to do as a business and I guess all of a sudden there was a phone call and we were able to work it out. That’s probably their story to tell because they made the call and said let’s get on the phone and see if we can work this out. They wanted us. They knew that we would be good promotion. I think they were just looking for a satisfactory outcome for all parties.
Link: https://nypost.com/2018/07/13/why-ww...enge-it-at-msg

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Lucha Underground saw an enormous increase this week with 156,000 viewers watching Wednesday’s episode on the El Rey Network, up from 88,000 the prior week. This week’s episode featured Mil Muertes defeating Cage for an Aztec Medallion, as well as The Mack and Ivelisse securing medallions. The closing scene featured the first appearance of Killer Kross, who instructed Paul London to murder Mascarita Sagrada, and he obliged so it appears the Mascarita Sagrada character has been written off.
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Impact Wrestling has added a 5150 Street Fight between the two versions of LAX as well as a singles match between Tessa Blanchard and Allie for the Slammiversary card next weekend in Toronto. Below is the updated card:
*Austin Aries vs. Moose for the Impact Wrestling title
*Su Yung vs. Madison Rayne for the Knockout’s title
*Matt Sydal vs. Brian Cage for the X Division title
*Tommy Dreamer vs. Eddie Edwards in a House of Hardcore Match
*Sami Callihan vs. Pentagon Jr. in a Hair vs. Mask Match
*LAX vs. LAX in a 5150 Street Fight
*Johnny Impact vs. Fenix vs. Rich Swann vs. Taiji Ishimori
*Allie vs. Tessa Blanchard
Links: https://twitter.com/IMPACTWRESTLING/...61242855096320 , https://twitter.com/IMPACTWRESTLING/...81895150985216

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A new Table For 3 episode with Eric Bischoff, JBL and Bruce Prichard will air on the WWE Network after Monday's RAW goes off the air. Below is the synopsis for the thirty-minute episode:

"Former adversaries turned allies Eric Bischoff, JBL and Bruce Prichard debate 'War' stories, trade insults, and pay respect to one another."
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WWE has a new poll asking fans if Ronda Rousey should get a RAW Women's Title with the winner of Sunday's Extreme Rules match between Nia Jax and champion Alexa Bliss. Rousey will be at ringside for the match. As of this writing, 64% voted, "Yes. Her first opportunity was interrupted, and she should get another chance." The rest went with, "No. She only got the first match so quickly because Nia challenged her, and she should work her way back up for the next one."
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WWE Hall of Famer Mark Henry and NWA owner Billy Corgan are wrestling stars that have been announced for the Concussion Legacy Foundation's inaugural National Advisory Board. WWE, Triple H and Stephanie McMahon have worked close with CLF, which was co-founded by former WWE Superstar Christopher Nowinski, and Triple H is a Board member. You can read more from CLF at the link below:

NEW: We're proud to introduce our inaugural National Advisory Board! Read up on @TheMarkHenry, @brandichastain, and the Hall of Famers, Olympians, Philanthropists, Business Executives and many more who are helping us lead toward a safer future: https://t.co/oNvQ3QNtUy pic.twitter.com/hLcTzb3xwX
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The top ten most-watched shows for the past week on the WWE Network were: 1. Table for 3 for Bliss, Stratus and Lita; 2. NXT from 7/4; 3. 2018 Money in the Bank; 4. Something Else to Wrestle with from 7/4 on Rock; 5. Ride Along with Kay, Royce, Rusev, English and Lana; 6. Hardys Woken; 7. 2017 Extreme Rules; 8. 205 Live from 7/3; 10. U.K. from Royal Albert Hall day one

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Old 07-13-2018, 10:37 PM   #2083
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So Paul London is a murder...the signs were always there.

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Old 07-13-2018, 10:39 PM   #2084
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I hope they don't fuck around with things too much and have Io Shirai take the Mae Young Classic. When they do the inevitable match with Kairi Sane, it'll have that story behind it.
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Old 07-17-2018, 10:02 PM   #2085
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Whether it was curiosity coming off the Extreme Rules pay-per-view, or more likely, over Brock Lesnar and the Universal title, Raw rebounded strongly last night to 2.86 million viewers, a 16 percent increase from last week even going up against the Home Run Derby, which traditionally has hurt Raw numbers ...

The three hours for Raw were:

8 p.m. 3.12 million viewers
9 p.m. 2.86 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.62 million viewers
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During an appearance on “Conversations With Maria Menounos,” Charlotte Flair said she expects to be cleared to return on July 31 after undergoing surgery for her breast implants rupturing. Charlotte worked through the issue before having surgery.
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Corey Graves tweeted that WWE Shop won’t be releasing the “Shut up, Saxton” T-shirt that they had already put up: “Sorry guys, no #ShutUpSaxton shirt. Out of my hands. We tried.”
Link: https://twitter.com/WWEGraves/status...79389789392897

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Indies Roundup:
The FIght Network, which Anthem Sports & Entertainment (the parent company of Impact Wrestling) owns, will have a daily block of programming on Showcase TV in the UK starting at 9 p.m. every night. That will include Impact airing on the channel at the same time as it does on Pop TV in the United States, along with replays on Friday and Saturday at 9 p.m. Impact’s UK and Ireland Twitter account tweeted that the show will still be airing on 5Spike as well.

PROGRESS Wrestling revealed that, due to his commitments with New Japan Pro Wrestling, Zack Sabre Jr. won’t be able to wrestle at their Wembley Arena show on September 30. Sabre had been scheduled to challenge for the PROGRESS Championship in the main event. NJPW’s Fighting Spirit Unleashed show will take place in Long Beach on September 30, and Will Ospreay also had to be pulled from the PROGRESS card because of it.

Jimmy Havoc vs. Christopher Daniels, Mark Haskins vs. Jonathan Gresham, Joe Hendry vs. Hangman Page, and Kip Sabian vs. Flip Gordon will be the first round matches in ROH’s International Cup tournament in Edinburgh and Doncaster next month. The winner will challenge for the ROH World Championship in London on August 19.

Marty Scurll vs. Kenny King, Karen Q vs. Jenny Rose, and Jay Briscoe vs. Christopher Daniels have been announced for ROH’s TV tapings at Center Stage in Atlanta this Saturday.

Evolve has announced for 8/4 in Philadelphia Matt Riddle vs. Shane Strickland for the Evolve title, Joey Janela vs. AR Fox in a non-title match, Darby Allin vs. Austin Theory and JD Drake vs. Jon Davis vs. Odinson vs. Josh Briggs.

Kotto Brazil vs. Myron Reed has been added to Thursday's MLW show in Queens, NY at the Melrose Ballroom.

Impact Wrestling has announced that Curtis Granderson of the Toronto Blue Jays will be appearing at Slammiversary this Sunday as the ‘title holder’ for the main event between Austin Aries and Moose. The co-promotion with the Blue Jays will also include John Hennigan throwing out the first pitch at this Sunday’s game against the Baltimore Orioles at the Rogers Centre.
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In major wrestling news since it involves ROH TV exposure, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said he has serious concerns about the Sinclair Broadcasting merger with Tribune Media and that the agency would not approve it. They felt that they had an issue with Sinclair selling a number of stations but retaining control of those stations. The decision surprised a lot of people. Those opposing the merger have the votes to keep it from happening. Had the merger gone through, Sinclair would have owned 215 stations in 102 markets, and would reach 59 percent of the country. The FCC has ruled that one company can only have local stations covering 39 percent of the country, so they were selling 23 stations to keep under that number, but the deal means they would still control the stations they were selling. The merger not being approved blocks ROH from television in places like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles unless things are amended.
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ROH updated their Honor Reunited lineup for 8/16 in Edinburgh, Scotland at the Corn Exchange:
*The Young Bucks & Marty Scurll vs. Punishment Martinez & The Briscoes.
*International Cup Quarter-Finals:
*Flip Gordon vs. Kip Sabian.
*Adam Page vs. Joe Hendry.
*Christopher Daniels vs. Jimmy Havoc.
*Also appearing are Tenille Dashwood, Viper, Mark Haskins, Jonathan Gresham, Kay Lee Ray, Chardonnay and more.
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And will he keep the same direction on where the company is going or will he have his own vision?

I have said MANY times that anyone that is expecting WWE to become NXT if/when HHH takes over will be very disappointed. That won’t happen. But, what I do expect to happen is for more logic to come to the product. I also expect that there will be more explanations to things, as opposed to now when we are often expected to just accept things that often make no sense. So I expect a tighter, more logical product, but one that stays within the kid friendly confines that they are in now. And you know what? That’s OK. The Simpsons has been on for years because kids like it and their parents do as well.
From a recent PWI weekly Q&A article.

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Christopher Jeter at FanSided has a piece on the WWE’s choice to get back into business with Hulk Hogan. Jeter looks at the many troubling portrayals of African-American performers in the past, as well as other minority depictions. In addition, there are the examples of others within the company using racist language either on camera or behind-the-scenes, with the Michael Hayes incident from 2008 one of the most prominent. During a WrestleMania after party, Hayes made a joke towards Mark Henry that included the n-word that was highly offensive and resulted in Hayes being suspended. Hayes also lost his title as an Executive but remained with the company.
Link: https://dailyddt.com/2018/07/17/wwe-...ng-infuriating

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This past Sunday’s episode of Total Bellas from Paris dropped 17% with 594,000 viewers watching on E! The show was based around Nikki Bella’s bachelorette party where they traveled to Paris. It was a sizable drop from the 719,000 viewers the week prior. While there was a WWE pay-per-view airing at the same time, the show didn’t experience any viewership drop last month on the night of Money in the Bank.
The Nikki-Cena breakup stuff has been mostly a dud in terms of interest for this season and probably not what WWE, E!, and/or the Bellas were expecting coming into the season. Probably didn't help that Nikki "spoiled" the story by getting back together with Cena right before the season started making the whole thing feel fake.

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WWE has a new poll asking fans if Ronda Rousey will honor the last week of her suspension in order to keep the SummerSlam match with RAW Women's Champion Alexa Bliss. As of this writing, 60% voted, "Yes. She won't risk her Raw Women's Title Match." The rest went with, "No. She wants to fight Alexa Bliss and won't be able to stop herself."
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WWE is looking at adding more episodes of Mid-South Wrestling, WWWF All-Star Wrestling, and WCW Saturday Night to the vault over the next few months, according to PWInsider. The plan is to add the rest of those series before they start adding other classic series. They are also planning on adding up to 75 hours of additional WWF Coliseum Home Videos from the 1980s and 1990s, mainly some of the old VHS titles that were focused on various stars. They originally planned to add 75 more hours of WCW Saturday Night to the vault this month but that was delayed for more episodes of Sunday Night Heat to be added.
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Above is a promo for new content on the WWE Network - Camp WWE, Ride Along, The Edge & Christian Show, Table For 3, Story Time, a WWE 365 special on WWE Champion AJ Styles, a WWE 24 special on Ronda Rousey, The Mae Young Classic, Elias Unplugged and more.
Link: https://youtu.be/XMyANfNPTyI

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There was speculation on James Ellsworth's WWE future after Asuka destroyed him following her loss to SmackDown Women's Champion Carmella at last night's WWE Extreme Rules pay-per-view. Dave Meltzer noted on Wrestling Observer Radio that Ellsworth is not currently signed to a WWE contract and is still booked for indie dates. Ellsworth was not offered a contract with the recent return at Money In the Bank.

Some other sheet news includes:
  • Recent episode of The Steve Austin Show podcast had Joey Janela as the guest. https://www.podcastone.com/episode/Bad-Boy-Joey-Janela
  • In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, today is the 7th anniversary of Money in the Bank 2011 event which saw CM Punk defeat John Cena for the WWE Championship in Chicago and "walk out" of the WWE.
  • In another "WWE Did You Know" type fact, today is the 30th anniversary of Bruiser Brody's murder in Puerto Rico at a wrestling event. During an interview with Hannibal TV earlier this year, Tony Atlas shared his memories of being backstage during this infamous incident. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...-brody-murder/
  • WWE recently denied reports of Hulk Hogan's recent apology backstage to the locker room being taped for a future WWE Network special.
  • For those interested, PWI recently released an article about Hogan's apology to WWE's locker room and why he shouldn't be quickly forgiven. Went into details on how Hogan can actually rehab his image besides just doing PR fluff. https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...k-yet.html?p=1


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Old 07-18-2018, 03:47 AM   #2086
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I feel bad for ROH but Sinclair is a sh*tty company that encourages actual fake news and misdirectives, so good.
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This is true. Fuck Sinclair
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Yeah, I don't feel bad for those folks.
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With a jump to 2.293 million viewers on Tuesday night, SmackDown ratings increased for the second straight week. The show was heavily promoted around Shinsuke Nakamura defending his newly-won United States title against former champion Jeff Hardy.

This week's number was up from last Tuesday's 2.183 million viewers and 14 percent higher than the low-water mark posted two weeks ago ...

SmackDown continues to show huge declines in the year-over-year ratings, however, as this week's episode was down 10 percent over the same week in 2017, the fifth straight week the show has had a double-digit decline.
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One of The Rock’s earliest matches in his pro wrestling career will be tomorrow’s WWE Network Hidden Gem upload.

WWE Network News reported tonight that tomorrow’s upload will be a dark match between Dwayne Johnson and Bodydonna Skip, also known as Chris Candido. The reported synopsis lists a March 11, 1996 date meaning this would be his second ever WWE match, with a dark match against the Brooklyn Brawler the day before at a WWE Superstars taping being his first.
Link: http://www.wwenetworknews.com/2018/0...r-highlighted/

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Daniel Cormier told Instinct Culture at the Sports Humanitarian Awards that Seth Rollins texted him “Congratulations, now go kick Brock’s ass” after UFC 226. Cormier said he's friends with Rollins, and Cormier famously celebrated in the crowd when Rollins cashed in his Money in the Bank briefcase to win the WWE title at WrestleMania 31.

During an interview with ESPN, Cormier joked that he’ll win the Universal title from Brock Lesnar.
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When asked about potentially wrestling in WWE, Travis Browne said he’s under contract with the UFC but would never say no to the possibility of wrestling. He said he’d love to work with Ronda Rousey and would want to be in a tag team with her. Browne is Rousey’s husband and said he’s never seen her happier than she is now.
Link: https://youtu.be/GO2ZAvnxlM4

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The latest edition of the NWA’s Ten Pounds of Gold series focuses on the build to Flip Gordon challenging for Nick Aldis’ title at ROH Honor for All on Friday.

Gordon vs. Silas Young is set for ROH's TV tapings at Center Stage in Atlanta on Saturday.

TMZ reported that David Arquette had a warm-up match in Tijuana, Mexico while wearing a mask before returning to the ring for Championship Wrestling From Hollywood.
NWA: https://youtu.be/nt57c9TlUGg , ROH: https://www.rohwrestling.com/news/fl...ficial-atlanta , Arquette: http://www.tmz.com/2018/07/17/david-...-match-mexico/

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Ayako Hamada has been placed under probation following her arrest for possession of methamphetamines.

Initially, outlets in Japan and the US reported that Hamada had been sentenced to eighteen months in prison. Sister Xochitl Hamada, however, told Mediotiempo in Mexico that Hamada had been sentenced to three years probation, and that if she were to violate her probation she could face eighteen months in prison.

In a statement to media in Japan, Hamada announced that she is retiring from pro wrestling due to the situation. She stated that she hopes to find work as a interpreter since she is fluent in both Japanese and Spanish.

Hamada, 37, was arrested back on May 13 for possession of a banned stimulant, in this case meth.
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The American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida began advertising WWE Universal Champion Brock Lesnar for the 7/30 Raw taping today.

The appearance would be Lesnar's first appearance on WWE programming since the Greatest Royal Rumble event back in April and would be the episode of Raw the week after his Summerslam 2018 challenger is determined.
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NJPW kicks off three straight days of G1 Climax at Korakuen Hall this morning. Day 4 will be live on NJPWWorld.com at 5.30AM Est/10.30AM UK with the following B Block matches:

*SANADA vs. Tama Tonga
*Zack Sabre Jr vs. Toru Yano
*Juice Robinson vs. Kota Ibushi
*Tetsuya Naito vs. Tomohiro Ishii
*Kenny Omega vs. Hirooki Goto
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Brian Fritz of Sporting News is reporting that a day after she officially reported to the WWE Performance Center, ROH and STARDOM alum Deonna Purrazzo is the latest entrant into the 2018 Mae Young Classic.

WWE also announced that Tegan Nox, Jessica Elaban and Reina Gonzales have been added to the tournament.

Already confirmed for the tournament are Rhea Ripley former WWE Divas Champion Kaitlyn, Io Shirai, Nicole Matthews, Jinny, former American Ninja Warrior star Kacy Catanzaro and Vernice Gabriel, a female star in the Philippines.

The tournament, in its second year, will be taped next month for the WWE Network.
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Ring of Honor will return this Friday 7/20 with "Honor For All" in Nashville, TN at the Municipal Auditorium which will air live for Honorclub subscribers, which you can subscribe to by clicking here.,

Announced for the event:
*ROH TV Champion Punishment Martinez vs. Scorpio Sky.
*NWA Champion Nick Aldis vs. Flip Gordon.
*Women of Honor Champion Sumie Sakai vs. Karen Q.
*ROH Tag Team Champions The Briscoes vs. IWGP Tag Team Champions The Young Buck vs. The Addiction - Non-title.
*Kenny King vs. Chris Sabin vs. Shane Taylor vs. Jonathan Gresham to determine top contender for ROH TV Championship.
*Cody vs. TK O'Ryan.
*Matt Taven vs. Marty Scurll.
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Austin Aires is set to defend his title at Slammiversary on this Sunday. Aries will put his Impact World Championship on the line against Moose in front of a sold-out Toronto crowd ...

The Belt Collector took part in a media call today where I had the chance to ask about other WWE Superstars who might not be happy and ready to strike out on their own. Aries said at this point there is such a vibrant array of options that it gives someone a world of possibilities outside of Vince McMahon and Company.

"I mean listen, if there's a number of men and women over there who feel they're in a position where they're spinning their wheels," Aries said. "Or maybe not getting the opportunities they feel they earned that are immensely talented. I'm not gonna name names but I think anyone in that position who wants to better themselves, I think Impact Wrestling provides a platform at least that's not gonna tie you down and lock you in and give you the opportunities to actually go and prove that."

While Aries declined providing specifics, he noted that talent have other options if they feel that they're not being utilized properly.

"They go and do that also independently across the world. So you know it's a unique opportunity. Listen, there's a lot -- they have a huge roster and there's a lot of talent on there. There's only so many spots and so many hours of television. So you know I'm sure there are people who feel like they're getting left out or they're not getting the shots that they want, and if they find themselves free and clear, it's cool. There's a nice vibrate professional landscape right now for people to go out and apply their craft."
Link: http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...underutilized/

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Christian recently discussed the reason for his finisher's name change during a Q&A episode of E&C's Pod Of Awesomeness. Captain Charisma said the reason for this switch-up came down to how dangerous he wanted the move to appear.

"The name The Unprettier kinda came as a joke between myself and The Hardys and Adam we would joke around," Chrisian said. "I don't even remember how we came up with it but I jokingly called it The Unprettier because I hate how it makes you feel so damn unpretty. We would jokingly talk about it behind-the-scene and somebody and somebody heard it, I think it might have been Michael Cole or somebody.

"He said it on the air and it kinda just stuck from there. But I never thought the name matched how dangerous the move was. So when I came back from TNA to WWE I kinda wanted to repackage a few different things, the name of my finish being one of them. I had a conversation earlier that first day back with Vince and I told him my feelings on it and what I wanted to name it and he went, 'no that's great. Do it.' So that's how it got changed."

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  • The Sporting News had a recent interview with Deonna Purrazzo talking about her recent signing with the WWE, this year's Mae Young Classic tournament, and more. http://www.sportingnews.com/wwe/news...n1d25bk6ertf7x
  • In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, yesterday was the 38th anniversary of Verne Gagne's 10th and final AWA Championship victory of his career. Gagne defeated then champion Nick Bockwinkel for the title.
  • In another "WWE Did You Know" type fact, yesterday was the 8th anniversary of the first ever Money in the Bank PPV in the WWE. Miz won the RAW brand case while Kane won the Smackdown brand case.
  • NJPW's official website held a recent interview with Tetsuya Naito talking about his issues with how NJPW picks wrestlers for the G1, facing Omega and Ibushi in this year's tournament, and his thoughts on facing fellow LIJ member SANADA in this year's tournament. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...imax-entrants/
  • During a recent episode of The Ross Report podcast show, Jim Ross revealed he currently expects to not be involved with this year's Mae Young Classic tournament. He stated WWE has yet to contact him for the event and also admitted he could have done a better job on commentary in last year's tournament.


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Taynara Conti defeated Vanessa Borne in a Mae Young Classic qualifying match at last night’s NXT TV tapings. Conti, who is from Brazil, was also in last year’s tournament and was one of the NXT wrestlers in the WrestleMania Women’s Battle Royal this April. Conti lost to Lacey Evans in the first round last year.

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On next week’s WWE Raw, Bobby Lashley will face Roman Reigns, with the winner moving on to face Brock Lesnar for the Universal title at Summerslam. According to cagesideseats.com, the current plan is for Roman Reigns to defeat Bobby Lashley and go on to win the Universal championship from Brock Lesnar at Summerslam.

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On this week’s episode of his Dinner with the King podcast, Jerry Lawler said he’s heard Howard Finkel is in really bad health and that, while he emphasized that he’s not sure of this, Finkel may have suffered a stroke.
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Bret Hart continued his public back-and-forth with Martha Hart, Owen Hart’s widow, by posting a lengthy statement on Facebook. Bret responded to the statement that Martha put out after he criticized her for not allowing Owen to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. Bret wrote that the Owen Hart Foundation is a wonderful charity, but he doesn’t think it should be the sole outlet to remember Owen and that his wrestling career should be acknowledged.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/25112331444...6642506929443/

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WWE unveiled Ronda Rousey’s first action figure and other new figures during San Diego Comic-Con.
Link: https://www.wwe.com/inside/mattel/ga...s#fid-40240931

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The G1 Climax continues at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo overnight/tomorrow morning, with Kazuchika Okada vs. Hangman Page headlining the show. The other A Block tournament matches are: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Bad Luck Fale, Togi Makabe vs. EVIL, Minoru Suzuki vs. YOSHI-HASHI, and Michael Elgin vs. Jay White. The show will begin at 5:30 a.m. Eastern time and will be available for free via the Japanese commentary live feed as part of “G1 Fan Appreciation Day.” Here’s the full card:

Kazuchika Okada vs. Hangman Page
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Bad Luck Fale
Togi Makabe vs. EVIL
Minoru Suzuki vs. YOSHI-HASHI
Michael Elgin vs. Jay White
Hirooki Goto & Yoh vs. Tomohiro Ishii & Sho
Kenny Omega & Chase Owens vs. Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa
Tetsuya Naito & SANADA vs. Juice Robinson & David Finlay
Kota Ibushi & Yujiro Takahashi vs. Toru Yano & Jado
Zack Sabre Jr. & Taka Michinoku vs. Toa Henare & Shota Umino
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Indies Roundup:
NJPW held a 10-bell salute for Masa Saito at Korakuen Hall at the start of today's G1 show.

Pro Wrestling: EVE announced Meiko Satomura vs. Toni Storm in a no time limit match for their Global Women Strike show in London on September 27.

Ayesha Raymond, who was in last year’s Mae Young Classic and lost to Toni Storm in the first round, will make her Women of Honor debut at ROH’s Honor Re-United tour show in London on August 19.

Due to a scheduling conflict, Juice Robinson is replacing Matt Riddle at OTT’s WrestleRama weekend in Dublin on August 18 and 19.

Stardom’s Mayu Iwatani tweeted that she wants to wrestle at ROH & NJPW’s G1 Supercard at Madison Square Garden in April 2019.
NJPW: https://twitter.com/MrLARIATO/status...74779292151808 , PWE: https://twitter.com/ProWrestlingEVE/...15104593661953 , ROH: https://www.rohwrestling.com/news/ay...h-debut-london , OTT: https://twitter.com/OTT_wrestling/st...38556867948544 , Iwatani: https://twitter.com/MayuIwatani/stat...47512506916865

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Two years ago today, I was the very last draft pick. From Ms Irrelevant to the FIRST ever Ms MITB & now SD Women’s Champion. A lot has changed in two years and I’m only gettin started! #MellaIsMoney #tbt ???????? pic.twitter.com/HZFVuI8IyF
— Smackdown Womens Champion (@CarmellaWWE) July 19, 2018
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The original plan for the show[Extreme Rules] was for the Iron Man match to open the PPV and for the last hour to feature AJ Styles vs. Rusev, Nia Jax vs. Alexa Bliss and to close out with Roman Reigns vs. Bobby Lashley, but the match order was shifted late in the day.
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Dreamer’s House of Hardcore promotion has collaborated with Impact, Billy Corgan’s NWA, and we’ve even seen Tommy Dreamer in Lucha Underground this year. According to Dreamer, however, WWE once offered him a lot of money to close his promotion. Dreamer commented on the matter during today’s Impact Wrestling media call.

“WWE asked me to sign a contract when I went back with the Wyatt’s,” Dreamer said referring to his brief 2015 run with the company. “They offered me a lot of money to close House of Hardcore and I refused.”
Link with more details and media call: https://www.sescoops.com/tommy-dream...e-of-hardcore/

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We have been able to confirm that the second ever female referee in NXT who worked the tapings tonight at Full Sail in Winter Park, Florida is none other than Aubrey Edwards.

Female pro wrestling referee out of Seattle, working all over the PNW Area.

She joins Jessika Carr as the two female referees for WWE’s developmental brand NXT.
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There have been a lot of rumors on Daniel Bryan's WWE contract status as of late. One rumor said Bryan turned down a contract extension and another claimed he signed an extension. Dave Meltzer noted on the Wrestling Observer message board that these reports are false. Meltzer wrote, "No extension has been signed or offered, as I had figured."
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Former TNA Knockout Chelsea Green, a.k.a. Laurel Van Ness, cancelled her upcoming dates for Chaos Wrestling and IPW. Green was at the WWE tryouts a few weeks ago, however she noted on Twitter that she was having Visa issues. IPW issued the following statement regarding Green:

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Due to unforeseen circumstances, which will become clearer in the next couple of weeks, Chelsea Green is unable to make her scheduled trip to the UK for Pro Wrestling Chaos & IPW.

We are working on a replacement at such short notice.

Chelsea does send her deepest apologies also..
Green also noted on Twitter that she is still planning on working the All In event on September 1st.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/IPWuk/posts/1790151401022641

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Charlotte Flair recently took part in ESPN Magazine's Body Issue. She was in her full birthday suit in the ring for the photo shoot with nothing covering her except the ring itself and the angles the photographer used. Flair recently spoke to Instinct Culture by Denise Salcedo at the Sports Humanitarian Awards where she discussed what it was like to be a part of the shoot ...

Flair admitted there were parts of the photo shoot that got a little awkward like when she had to do forty-five nude moonsaults for the camera. She said it was a nightmare come to life but the professionalism of the shoot soon removed her worry.

"Doing forty-five naked moonsaults was awkward. Which it's like a backflip in the air. I'm like, 'ah this is my worse nightmare.' You know when you wake up and you have forgotten you like shoes or something for work, I forgot my ring gear."
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NEW JAPAN G-1 CLIMAX TOURNAMENT LIVE AT 5:30 A.M. EASTERN SATURDAY MORNING FROM KORAKUEN HALL ON NEW JAPAN WORLD
  • Michael Elgin & Ren Narita vs. Yoshi-Hashi & Sho
  • Evil & Bushi vs. Bad Luck Fale & Tanga Loa
  • Jay White & Yoh vs. Minoru Suzuki & Desperado
  • Hiroshi Tanahashi & David Finlay vs. Hangman Page & Chase Owens
  • Kazuchika Okada & Gedo vs. Togi Makabe & Toa Henare
  • Toru Yano vs. Kota Ibushi
  • Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Seiya Sanada
  • Tetsuya Naito vs. Juice Robinson
  • Kenny Omega vs. Tama Tonga
  • Tomohiro Ishii vs. Hirooki Goto
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ROH has had interest in C.M. Punk returning, presumably for the MSG show, but we're told that is a long shot. But feelers have been sent.
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Titus O'Neil as a follow-up to what he wrote earlier in the week, wrote: "I'm nowhere near perfect, make mistakes as well as I have had to ask for forgiveness and give it as well. We can all grow in various areas of our lives. Accept full responsibility when you're wrong and in due season through actions, forgiveness and respect comes."
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Indies Roundup:
Impact announced Scarlett Bordeaux debuting with the promotion soon.

Destiny Wrestling on 8/25 at the Battlarts Academy in Mississauga, ONT with Sami Callihan vs. Josh Alexander in a cage match and Michael Elgin vs. Petey Williams.

Kagetsu vs. Viper for the World of Stardom title headlines Sunday's Stardom show in Osaka.

Chelsea Green pulled out of U.K. shows this month due to a working visa issue she has to get taken care of.
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Impact released the opening video for Sunday's Slammiversary PPV:

Slammiversary is the night where passionate fans from around the world come together.

To believe.

To celebrate.

And to dream.

Here's a #FirstLook at the Cold Open from this Sunday's Slammiversary LIVE on PPV and @FiteTV. This one is going to be for you. #SlamXVI pic.twitter.com/csxaZ38Tze
— IMPACT (@IMPACTWRESTLING) July 20, 2018
Link: https://twitter.com/IMPACTWRESTLING/...28660584652800

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According to the USADA website, Brock Lesnar has been tested once ince re-entering the testing pool in advance of a planned UFC return in 2019.

Lesnar's test was done sometime after July 11th.
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The 7/19 edition of Impact did 275,000 overnight viewers, down from last week's 284,000 overnight viewers.
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In regard to the teased WWE announcement this Monday, there’s been talk in the last several weeks of a women’s PPV featuring talents from the main roster coming out of a report from ProWrestlingSheet.com.

Several female performers in the company have confirmed to PWInsider.com that they were told recently it was something the company has been working on developing.

PWInsider.com has been told by one source the show would take place in September at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, Long Island. There are a number of Sundays open at the venue. WWE does not have any events currently listed for Sunday 9/30, so that could be the date. That said, WWE does not have any TV tapings scheduled for the Northeast and Monday 10/1, they are in Seattle for Raw, all of which obviously would make staging such an event a lot harder than usual.

Attempts to get WWE to confirm thus far have been unsuccessful. Stay tuned.
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ROH and MSG reached an agreement to drop legal action in exchange for getting their date back. The description was that MSG had no intentions of taking a lawsuit bullet for WWE. When asked by the New York Post how things changed, Koff said that MSG were the people to ask. Essentially after the legal situation got started, MSG called and offered them back the date.
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WWE is looking at promoting Hogan’s redemption by doing charitable things
Meltzer stated Hogan's recent Boys & Girls Club award was mainly due to WWE's efforts behind the scenes and less of Hogan being sincere on doing charity for non-PR reasons.

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While not shown on television, at the arena, they aired a video on the late Bruno Sammartino, all-time wrestling hero in Pittsburgh. The crowd cheered this video loudly, as one current wrestler after another sang the praises of the man who was the childhood hero to some, and their parents childhood hero to many others. Except when Reigns was shown. It didn’t matter what he said. The dye has been cast with Reigns. Daniel Bryan can endorse him and the fans will boo the guy they’d never boo. The Rock can endorse him and the same thing not only would happen, but already did happen.
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In the dressing room after the Cow Palace show, after both Juice Robinson and Jay White apologized to Jim Ross, apparently Josh Barnett spoke to both of them, White in particular about why he was so upset about what happened. Ross, who had Barnett on his podcast, didn’t say anything negative about Robinson and White and blamed it on the crew that set up the ringside area for not hooking the barricades together so that they wouldn’t tumble over on impact. New Japan’s timekeeper in another whip into the barricades during that match ended up with the barricades smashing his knee. Ross is doing better, but was in pain all week to the point he couldn’t sleep laying down in his bed and had to sleep in a chair for a few days
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Robinson had his broken left hand examined this past week and he hoped it would have healed. When he broke it, they said he’d need a cast for six weeks. That would be in a few weeks. He was told it was healing well, but slower than expected and he would probably need the hand in the cast until late September
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Jeff Cobb debuts for ROH on the 7/21 tapings in Atlanta. He’s got four dates, which would be Atlanta, the 8/25 tapings in Philadelphia and 9/28 and 9/29 in Las Vegas. The impression we have is that he’s chosen ROH over Impact because he loves working for New Japan and with ROH he can get off if New Japan wants him for a tour while if he signs with Impact, they won’t stop him from working with anyone, but Impact tapings would have to be his first priority
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According to those at Impact, the story that PCO was offered a contract and turned it down aren’t true. They claim PCO was just asked to come in for a taping to put Brian Cage over and that was all that was offered to start with
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Regarding a potential sale of WWE to FOX down the line, the bidding for much of FOX’s assets, such as cable stations like the regional sports networks and FX and its movie studios, looks to have been bid up to a $71 billion sale to Disney. Comcast had offered $65 billion but Disney came back with a higher bid and Comcast dropped out of the bidding, but Comcast is interested in purchasing Sky in the U.K. The point of this is the price got so high than FOX has far more cash then they expected to get out of the sale
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Charlotte is scheduled to start back on the road on 7/31. She explained her problems with her implants. She first got implants at the age of 21 and they were saline implants that leaked. She got them redone with silicon, and they also leaked, actually both of them. She didn’t know but she had started getting a lot of pain in her back and in different parts of her body. She didn’t know what was wrong because she couldn’t remember an injury. So she finally got checked and they included a mammogram which found that her pain came from her silicon leaking to other parts of her body, so she her breasts redone to prevent further leakage. Because of WrestleMania and being booked on Backlash, and shooting for the ESPN Body issue, she made the call to just work through it, get the surgery after Backlash, so she’d be back before SummerSlam
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Regarding Ellsworth, he is not under contract and just being used on a per date basis. Since this comeback, he has only been working TV dates and no house shows. This run has helped his indie bookings as there are very few guys featured on WWE television these days that indie promoters can use. But that also means they have no long-term plans for his role since if they had a long-term idea, he’d be signed
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Barbara Blank, 30, who was with WWE as Kelly Kelly from 2006 to 2012, is open for a return. She is currently working on a movie and a new clothing line. She left wrestling and married former NHL player Sheldon Souray, but the couple separated this past October. She was a regular castmate on the TV show “WAGS,” a realty show on E! about wives and girlfriends of sports stars (Brandi Runnels is on another version of that show currently) from 2015 to 2017, with her run with the show ending when she got separated. She is also working on a clothing line
Came from a recent interview Kelly Kelly had with website WrestlingNews.co: http://wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/2018...in-wwe-return/

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Matt Riddle pulled out of 8/18 and 8/19 dates with Over the Top Wrestling in Ireland and will be replaced by Juice Robinson. Interesting that coincides with SummerSlam weekend given the talk that WWE has reconsidered its position on Riddle after four months ago not even allowing him to work at Axxess. Time will tell.
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The ten most-watched shows of the past week on the WWE Network were: 1. Extreme Rules; 2. Table for 3 with Eric Bischoff, John Layfield and Bruce Prichard; 3. Extreme Rules postshow; 4. Something Else to Wrestle with on C.M. Punk; 5. Extreme Rules preshow; 6. NXT on 7/11; 8. Table for 3 with Trish Stratus, Lita and Bliss; 9. 205 Live on 7/10; 10. 2018 Money in the Bank
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Above is a preview for the "Elias: Live from Bourbon Street" special that will air on the WWE Network this coming Monday after Table For 3 goes off the air. This was filmed at Razzoo Bar during WrestleMania 34 Week in New Orleans and will air for thirty minutes.

WWE also announced that a "Walk With Elias: The Documentary" special will air on the WWE Network after RAW goes off the air on July 30th. Next week is a big week for Elias as his debut album is supposed to be released on Tuesday.
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WWE has a new poll asking fans which milestone they are most looking forward to for Elias. As of this writing, 76% voted for his first title run while the rest voted for his debut album, which is supposed to be released on Tuesday.

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Raw last night averaged 2.77 million viewers, down three percent from the prior week ...

An interesting note, which is very much the exception to normal patterns, is that the women audience was more loyal, and actually grew, while the male audience was the one less interested as the show went on.

In women 18-49, the first-to-third hour growth was 10 percent while the male drop was one percent. With teenage girls, the first-to-third hour growth was 15 percent while the male drop was seven percent.

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8 p.m. 2.82 million viewers
9 p.m. 2.82 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.70 million viewers
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205 Live will face competition from “Miz & Mrs,” which debuts on the USA Network tonight after SmackDown. The episodes of "Miz & Mrs" will be 30 minutes long.
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Paul “Triple H” Levesque spoke to ESPN.com about people saying WWE’s all-women’s Evolution PPV is happening because the women’s division wasn’t allowed to wrestle at the Greatest Royal Rumble: "Let's take the Saudi Arabia show off the table, and let's just say it never happened -- would anybody question that they deserve this opportunity? To me, it's a ridiculous statement, the timing of it. You cannot effect change in a region that, culturally, is trying to change, you cannot help them affect that change without being there."
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Ring Warriors will be airing on WGN America at 8 a.m. Eastern every Saturday morning starting on September 15. They’ll be taping TV at Sam’s Town Live in Las Vegas on August 8 and 9.

ROH announced that everyone who joins HonorClub by August 1 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern time will get access to the pre-sale for next April’s G1 Supercard at Madison Square Garden. The pre-sale is through Ticketmaster and starts at 10 a.m. Eastern on August 8, then tickets go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. Eastern on August 10. In the days before the pre-sale, a code will be sent to the email associated with your HonorClub account.

Though how serious he is about this remains to be seen, Chris Jericho posted tweets today teasing that he’d be open to wrestling for Impact Wrestling and potentially competing at ROH and NJPW’s G1 Supercard at Madison Square Garden. Jericho wrote Of course!” in response to a question asking if he’d ever consider going to Impact “and “Hmmm…” when asked about the MSG show.

PCW Ultra tweeted that Riddle is off their show in Wilmington, California on Friday due to “unforeseen circumstances”: “Due to unforeseen circumstances...Matt Riddle will not be performing at 'Sound The Alarm.' We will have a suitable replacement. Sorry for the inconvenience.”

David Arquette tweeted that he had two fractured ribs in his match against RJ City for Championship Wrestling From Hollywood.

Kenny Omega mentioned in this week’s edition of “Being the Elite” that he is working with a heel fracture in the G1 and has been getting by through adrenaline during his matches. He stated he injured the heel during his match against Cody at the Cow Palace earlier this month.
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WWN/EVOLVE provided an update on Matt Riddle’s status with the company amid speculation that he could be signing with WWE: “EVOLVE Champion Matt Riddle has been the subject of rumors. Riddle is confirmed for all four August EVOLVE events, where he will defend the championship at EVOLVE 108 against Shane Strickland in a Hardcore Rules Match on August 4th in Philadelphia. If Riddle is successful, he will defend vs. Darby Allin at EVOLVE 110 on August 11th in Chicago. Riddle is set for non-title action vs. Austin Theory at EVOLVE 109 in Melrose, MA and JD Drake at EVOLVE 111 in Livonia, MI. If Riddle is still EVOLVE Champion after August, he will be added to additional dates. Riddle is currently scheduled to miss the September weekend due to previously approved personal obligations.”
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TMZ reported that former WWE star "Grandmaster Sexay" Brian Christopher Lawler was arrested in front of his own for DUI on 7/7.

According to their reportl, authorities observed Christopher speeding and swerving around 1 AM. They attempted to pull him over, but Lawler failed to stop. He finally stopped and according to the police report, Christopher "reeked of booze" and had an open 12 ounce can in his car's center console.
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The Discovery Channel's Ronda Rousey Uncaged special on Sunday 7/22 brought in 2,249,000 viewers overnight.
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For those asking why some members of the Smackdown Women's roster were at Raw last night while others were not, WWE sent their corporate jet to pick up the women who were on the road for the Smackdown live events to bring them to Raw. We are told that it was a last second decision to include them in the segment, which is why the rest of the female roster wasn't there.

A few interesting things to think about regarding the 10/28 Evolution PPV: With the show be taking place in Long Island, NY, Monday Night Raw the next day is scheduled for Charlotte, NC. Traditionally, WWE holds PPVs in the same region as that week's TV to keep travel to a minimum, which won't be the case here. The next day, there will be a lot of production staff and wrestlers rushing from point A to point B. It should also be interesting to see if WWE decides to scale down the PPV show to use a smaller production model in order to allow the regular sets and production set-up staff to be in Charlotte to insure the usual set-up time for Raw. It's nearly an 11 hour drive with minimal traffic from Long Island to Charlotte, so the usual breakdown and set up for the next town schedule might not apply.
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The NXT UK brand will hold its first TV tapings this weekend on 7/28 and 7/29 at the Corn Exchange in Cambridge, England.

Advertised for the tapings are WWE UK Champion Pete Dunne, Mark Andrews, Trent Seven, Tyler Bate, Zack Gibson, Toni Storm, Joe Coffey, Jinny, Jordan Devlin, Mark Andrews and Charlie Morgan.

PWInsider.com has confirmed that Noam Dar, Rhea Ripley, Nixon Newell and Dakota Kai, among others, are also scheduled for the tapings.
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The timing of such a show could be interesting if the WWE has their rumored follow up show in Saudi Arabia in November, which was reported at the time of the first event this past April and stated that would likely run the next show in the capital city of Riyadh. I feel regardless of when the next Saudi Arabian event takes place, the same complaints will arise if the women are not part of that event. It is great they are promoting an all women’s show, but they have also entered a business agreement where they are heavily profiting from a Government that outright banishes female involvement on the shows.
Post Wrestling's John Pollock on the PR mess WWE is going to have going forward with the Saudi shows and the feeling of the all-women event only being done to lessen the backlash against them.

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Link: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/li...at-hbo-1129447


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  • According to the Observer, WWE currently considering the idea of both Alexa Bliss and Carmella dropping their Women titles prior to October's Evolution PPV. Apparently WWE officials have not been happy with the quality of their matches as champ and don't want to end the historic PPV with a bad match.
  • WWE recently released the trailer for AJ Styles upcoming DVD collection set. https://youtu.be/QbYnffZZKcw
  • Based on recent SEC filings, several of WWE's high ranking members recently sold off large batches of their stocks with Kevin Dunn selling the most shares. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...4078/triple-h/
  • In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, today is the 5th anniversary of Paige winning the NXT Women's Championship which is seen as one of the starting points of WWE's Women's Revolution and changing stance on women's wrestling. https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1021802558937944064?s=19


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It's absolutely the right move... But Jesus. Why have the title on someone you don't trust in that position in the first place.

It always annoyed me when they'd have a title change on the PPV before WrestleMania just to set up a WrestleMania-worthy PPV. Just have it on your top guy to begin with. It makes who holds the title just come off as more trivial and meaningless when you let someone hold it and then take it off of them because NOW it's important who the champion is.
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Not sure about Alexa but WWE put themselves in a bind when they kept delaying Carmella's cash-in and causing self-inflicted problems afterwards.

Carmella pretty much cashed in at the worst time possible and to make sure her reign wouldn't be seen as a fluke, they had to hurt Charlotte's star status and ruin Asuka's status right after Mania. Them needing to bring back Ellsworth to regain her heat should have been a huge red flag that they messed up big time handling Carmella's cash-in.
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They didn't need to do anything with Carmella though. It's their own fault. They gave her that stupid briefcase and held the Ladder Match in the first place. She should be nowhere near that sort of push. Nor should Bliss, for that matter. I'll believe the changes when I see them though.

WWE loves their duplicity, so it wouldn't surprise me if the women's PPV had Ronda vs. Natalya and Becky vs. Charlotte as your two title matches. Friends collide and cry and shake hands afterwards. Maybe they throw Asuka into the Becky and Charlotte match just because. It doesn't really matter. The belts don't really matter. They're on Alexa and Carmella, for crying out loud.
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They didn't need to do anything with Carmella though. It's their own fault. They gave her that stupid briefcase and held the Ladder Match in the first place. She should be nowhere near that sort of push. Nor should Bliss, for that matter. I'll believe the changes when I see them though.
They had the option to let her fail the cash in if after all that time, she still wasn't ready to hold a title. Wouldn't have been the first time a MitB holder failed and they had no problem having the first ever Women's Rumble winner fail at Mania.

Missed the boat not having her cash in while Ellsworth was originally around because they didn't want it to overshadow SummerSlam or Survivor Series Women's title matches. Then missed the window again because they didn't want it to overshadow the Women's Rumble and Asuka-Charlotte Mania match.

Then again, can probably just blame Vince for this mess since he originally wanted Ellsworth to win the case as one giant gag because he still isn't as receptive to women's wrestling in the WWE.
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The idea is just a shallow attempt to follow the men anyway. Money in the Bank itself is a bit tired as a gimmick, and doesn't really make sense anymore. Why give people that sort of lifeline as a title shot? The first Ladder Match between the women could have been built up as a big deal between two women having a deeply personal feud. Instead it was an arbitrary clusterfuck.

I mean, is Carmella even worthy of the main roster, objectively speaking, let alone being the star of the division, which they have been telegraphing since June of last year?
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Despite Raw's ratings on Monday being down, SmackDown was up for the fourth straight week, averaging 2.34 million viewers for Tuesday night's show.

The episode finished sixth for the night in total viewers on cable and fell from its usual number one spot in the 18-49 demo due to three separate shows celebrating Shark Week taking the top spots.

For the sixth straight week and the eighth in the last 10, SmackDown was down in the year-over-year ratings. It did manage to retain 84 percent of the Raw audience from the previous night.
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Triple H spoke to SKy Sports about WWE’s Evolution PPV and was asked about the concept becoming a mainstay: “It's a question to be answered down the road. Do we need to have a women's only event? No -- just like we don't need a men's only event or anything else. I think that the opportunity is there whoever is the best, the most prominent box office attraction that is the main event. It doesn't matter if that's Raw, Smackdown, NXT, Wrestlemania. So can they have their own event? Can it be a mainstay? Yes, and if our fans want it and it's the right thing then we'll give it to them. The WWE universe will dictate to us what the approach is."
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The WWE Network has added Coliseum Home Videos on British Bulldog Davey Boy Smith, George the Animal Steele, Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Bret Hart, Jake Roberts, The Hart Foundation, Ken Patera, Macho Man and Ms. Elizabeth, Bruno Sammartino, and Captain Lou Albano, along with two on Hulk Hogan.

The Poffo family is featured on this week’s additions to the WWE Network’s hidden gems section. The matches that have been added are: Angelo Poffo vs. Pat Patterson (Championship Wrestling from Florida, 1977), Randy Savage & Magnum TA vs. The Mongolians (Georgia Championship Wrestling, 1983), Lanny Poffo vs. Nick Bockwinkel (Pro Wrestling USA, 1984).
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After a few days off, the G1 Climax continues in Niigata overnight/tomorrow morning with B Block tournament matches. Here’s the card for the show, which will begin at 5:30 a.m. Eastern time:

Kota Ibushi vs. SANADA
Kenny Omega vs. Juice Robinson
Tomohiro Ishii vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
Tetsuya Naito vs. Tama Tonga
Hirooki Goto vs. Toru Yano
Kazuchika Okada & Gedo vs. YOSHI-HASHI & Sho
Hiroshi Tanahashi & David Finlay vs. Togi Makabe & Toa Henare
Jay White & Yoh vs. Bad Luck Fale & Tanga Loa
EVIL & BUSHI vs. Hangman Page & Chase Owens
Michael Elgin & Ren Narita vs. Minoru Suzuki & El Desperado
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EVOLVE announced that Stokely Hathaway will enter the ring to team with Chris Dickinsin to face Tracy Williams in a "career vs. career" bout at the promotion's 8/12 return to Livonia, Michigan, climaxing a major storyline that has taken place over the last several months..
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The Gamechanger Wrestling 'Janela Lost in NY' event on Friday 8/17 at the Melrose Ballroom in Long Island City, Queens will air live as an iPPV on Fite.TV.

The Summerslam weekend event features:
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*Nick Gage vs. Meng.
*Chris Dickinson vs. Teddy Hart.
*PCO vs. Matt Riddle.

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Carmella cashed in the briefcase in April, MITB 2018 took place in June. They could easily have run an angle where the clock was running out on her time to cash in, as she gets more and more desperate as June rolls around and the contract “expires”.
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The company [WWE]also has great interest in Juice Robinson. Robinson has started to appear the last few weeks as a cast member in Being the Elite, which seems to be the best avenue to raise the American profile for an independent wrestler. It didn’t work out for Robinson the first time he was there, but even then, in Dusty Rhodes’ interview classes he was considered the best. His current profile is the biggest it’s ever been by far based off the reaction to his interviews and his recent matches, particularly the Cow Palace match with Jay White and the reaction it got. A number of New Japan regulars actually aren’t under contract, similar to A.J. Styles when he was there, so legally WWE can approach them without it being tampering. Others it has to be more nuanced, but they are making plays right now.
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Juice Robinson did an interview last night after his match with Kenny Omega and said he's not only not going back to WWE but he's never going. We noted WWE had interest in bringing him back.
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While this isn’t a secret, on the 7/20 ROH streaming broadcast, it was outright said that the Young Bucks contract with the promotion expires after the Final Battle show in September. That is correct. It’s just interesting that they noted it.
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Another name that has been talked about once again, although they’ve [WWE] talked about him on-and-off-for years, and at first the hold-up was his Lucha Underground contract, is Angelico.
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Pro Wrestling Revolver on 8/3 in Dayton at the Rockstar Pro Arena with Santana & Ortiz vs. OWE in the main event plus tag champs Dezmond Xavier & Zachary Wentz vs. Neveah & Jessicka Havok, and Sami Callihan vs. Matt Palmer in a street fight.

PWA is doing a Will Ospreay vs. Robbie Eagles rematch on 8/11.

PCW Ultra tomorrow night on FITE TV from Wilmington, CA with Pentagon Jr. & Warbeast vs. Sami Callihan & OVE, Shane Strickland vs. Flip Gordon, Tessa Blanchard vs. Britt Baker, ACH vs. Dragon Lee, Brody King vs. ?, Hammerstone vs. Timothy Thatcher and Jake Atlas vs. Matt Cross vs. Rich Swann (if he's healthy).

Beyond Wrestling on Sunday in Worcester, MA has Joey Janela vs. David Starr in a no rope barbed wire match plus Matt Riddle & Tom Lawlor vs. Nick Gage & Matt Tremont, PCO vs. Brian Cage, Brody King vs. Josh Briggs, Tracy Williams vs. Wheeler Yuta, Jonathan Gresham vs. ?, Chris Dickinson & Jake & LAX vs. Jordynne Grace & Kimber Lee & Mia Yim & Skylar and Chuckie T & Orange Cassidy vs. Team Tremendous vs. Massage Force vs. Beaver Boys.

Tickets for the Major League Wrestling return to The Melrose Ballroom in Queens, NY on 10/4 are now on sale at www.MLWTickets.com. The event, which will feature the return of L.A. Park (the original La Parka) has been titled Fury Road and will be taped for MLW's weekly Friday night series on BeIN Sports.

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Tickets for the upcoming NJPW Fighting Spirit Unleashed event will be going on sale next week.

New Japan announced this morning that tickets will go on sale August 1, next Wednesday, starting at 10:00 a.m. PST. Prices will start at $50 and will go up as high as $300 for Arena Premium Gold seats. Those who who get Premium Gold or Silver tickets will receive a currently unknown limited edition gift.

This would be the third show New Japan has ran in California this year. They started with Long Beach back in March, where the Golden Lovers defeated the Young Bucks in the main event. Earlier this month they ran the Cow Palace in San Francisco where Omega defeated Cody to retain the IWGP title. Fighting Spirit Unleashed will be bringing New Japan back to Long Beach for the second time this year.

Fighting Spirit Unleashed will take place on September 30 at the Walter Pyramid.
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Another confirmation of one of pro wrestling's worst-kept-secrets is a Combat Zone Wrestling advertisement that just came out for the promotion's Saturday night New Heights show in Voorhees, New Jersey that is advertising, "Don't miss one of Matt Riddle's final indy appearances before going to WWE!"

Riddle has pulled out of a number of dates, most notably SummerSlam weekend and dates in September over the past week, including being replaced by Trevor Lee in PWG's Battle of Los Angeles.

It is widely expected WWE will announce Riddle at the NXT show in Brooklyn, or some time around that period and he will start in NXT imminently.
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Ring Warriors announced today that current Impact Wrestling Champion Austin Aries will be working their TV tapings on 8/8 and 8/9 in Las Vegas following a back and forth on social media that ended with Aries declaring he was coming to the tapings and wouldn't be alone:

Well @RingWarriorsNet, I have plenty Title Belts. What I really want? My own playground with its own TV show...say on @wgnamerica?

So I’m coming for more than the @RingWarriorsNet Grand Championship. I’m coming for it all...and I’m not coming alone.#TheTruth #TheGameChanger https://t.co/WmiEuVn29l
— Austin Aries (@AustinAries) July 26, 2018

PWInsider.com has confirmed, however, that Aries will be doing a lot more than just performing at the TV tapings. Aries will be working behind the scenes on both the creative and operational aspect of Ring Warriors, which will debut on WGN America this September on Saturday mornings.
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The WWE reported their second-quarterly report on Thursday, which covered the period from April through June, including WrestleMania 34. ...

As of June 30th, the WWE Network had a total of 1,787,000 worldwide subscribers with 1,742,000 of those paid subscribers (1,272,000 U.S., 470,000 International). To analyze their retention rate from WrestleMania, on April 9th the network had a worldwide total of 2,124,000 subscribers with 1,808,000 paid and 316,000 free subscribers.

For the entirety of the second quarter, they averaged 1,800,000 paid subscribers as compared to 1,634,000 for the second quarter of 2017.
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ROH is trying to book C.M. Punk for the Madison Square Garden show on 4/6. We’re told the chances of this happening are slim as he’s told those close to him that he doesn’t have any interest in doing pro wrestling.
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Harold Meij visited Hiromu Takahashi in the hospital this past week. Takahashi’s actual injuries still haven’t been revealed, but given it’s 18 days as of this writing after the match at the Cow Palace and he’s not home, that wouldn’t be a good thing
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The company currently has 24 full-time women on the main rosters, not including Stephanie McMahon and Nikki Bella. Stephanie McMahon didn’t answer directly as to whether or not she’d perform on the show. She did say that the rumored women’s tag team titles idea that went around during the week would happen, but not right now. Paul Levesque spoke to Sky Sports and said it was up to the fans if this would be a one-time thing, noting that they don’t need to do an annual women’s only or men’s only show, but can it be a regular show, he said it could be if the fans want it to be and they will decide based on the fan reaction. There are another 30 woman wrestlers under contract between NXT and the U.K. division.
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Due to TNA taping on 8/12 and 8/13, Don Callis won’t be there for the final three nights of G-1, so Kevin Kelly & Rocky Romero are going to be the broadcast team. Callis is expected back for the big shows going forward as the way the tapings work and New Japan big shows fall, there won’t be another date conflict for the rest of the year as things stand right now
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There are reports that Alex Shelley (Patrick Martin, 35) announced his retirement at the last tapings. He cut a promo saying what we had already reported, that he was taking time off to finish school and heal up. His contract here expires before he’ll be back in action so he’d be a free agent at that time. But ROH did bring him to television for a promo. There are wrestlers tweeting that thanked him for wrestling and acted like he is retiring, and those in ROH were of the belief he was retiring
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Chris Jericho, who at first said that he would never work in the U.S. for anyone (and turned down New Japan’s Long Beach and Cow Palace shows), but WWE, has teased the idea he’d be interested in doing the MSG show. He’s also teased he’d be open to work for Impact. Don Callis, who was the brains behind the original Jericho vs. Omega idea, since he was friends with both, may open the door and Jericho did love their PPV this past weekend. Callis and Jericho talk all the time
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The ten most watched shows of this past week on the WWE Network were: 1. Table for 3 with Ric Flair, Ricky Steamboat and Angle; 2. Extreme Rules; 3. Elias Live from Bourbon Street; 4. NXT from 7/18; 5. Table for 3 with Bruce Prichard, JBL and Eric Bischoff; 6. 205 Live from 7/17; 7. WrestleMania 2018; 8. Money in the Bank 2018; 9. Something Else to Wrestle With with Conrad Thompson and Bruce Prichard on C.M. Punk; 10. Greatest Royal Rumble

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  • Seems Jason Jordan is currently dealing with a "Daniel Bryan" type situation in the WWE. PWI reported he still has yet to be medically cleared from his recent neck injury even though he's already past WWE's timetable for his return. Rumor going around online is Jordan's doctors have cleared him but WWE refuses to do the same for unknown reasons.
  • According to the Observer, a deal between Matt Riddle and WWE is likely already done but similar to other recent contracts, WWE is keeping things quiet until they make the official announcement first.
  • Also according to the Observer, NJPW is likely going to make a strong push to sign Shinsuke Nakamura once his current WWE deal expires in a few months.
  • Based on some data from WWE's recent investor's meeting, WWE's Saudi deal is rumored to be worth in the range of $49 million per year. https://twitter.com/mookieghana/stat...62477643202560
  • Sports Illustrated had a recent interview with Chris Jericho talking about changing his character for NJPW, his new "goth" look, and the Alpha Club vs. Bullet Club match at his upcoming cruise event. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...er-in-wwe-and/


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The first trailer for WWE: Outside the Box, which is being produced by the team behind Robot Chicken and Camp WWE, was released
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Do you guys think it's a great idea to have the ROH/NJPW G1 Supercard at Madison Square Garden go head-to-head with NXT Takeover just across the river at the Barclays Center? That is some heavy competition right there. In my opinion, it would be better suited to that Friday instead where fans can attend all the big shows.

If it was my call, I would start the ROH/New Japan show at 2 PM Eastern on Saturday for several reasons. One, there’s no reason to split the audience with the NXT crowd. Two, it sets the stage for a show NXT has to beat from an in-ring perspective. Three (and most importantly) ROH likes to run long with their major events. They are going to be running a major league, union-run building and if they run late, it’s going to cost them an insane amount of money. The earlier they start, the more leeway they will have to go as long as they want. They won't run a three hour show and they don’t want to be running MSG until 1 AM, especially when it’s going to be the most expensive investment in the history of Ring of Honor.
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The latest episode of the National Wrestling Alliance's Ten Pounds of Gold was released this afternoon, covering NWA Champion Nick Aldis vs. Flip Gordon over the weekend in Nashville and the "All In" showdown between Aldis and Cody.

This week’s episode of Lucha Underground averaged 125,000 viewers on the El Rey Network featuring the Gift of the Gods Match. The show was down 10,000 viewers from the week prior. After seven episodes this season, the show is averaging 120,000 viewers in their Wednesday night timeslot.

After advertising that their show in Voorhees, New Jersey tomorrow will be “one of Matt Riddle’s final indy appearances before going to WWE,” CZW has changed it to just say that it will be one of Riddle’s final indie appearances.

Gail Kim posted a tweet in response to someone who said they wanted to see her on WWE’s Evolution PPV: “Happy for the women in the company but if I ever made. Return, it would only be for @IMPACTWRESTLING.” She then followed up on that when asked why she isn’t interested in returning to WWE: “Bc I’ve been there twice. I have never been happy there. Life is about happiness. Impact Wrestling is my happiness. It’s not about money sometimes.... people just don’t understand that.”

ROH announced Tenille Dashwood vs. Chardonnay and Punishment Martinez vs. Delirious for their Honor Re-United tour show in Doncaster on August 18.
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The G1 Climax tournament has hit the mid-way point following the first nine shows and return Saturday in Nagoya. Saturday’s card will be a B Block show and kicks off at 5 am Eastern on New Japan World with the following card:
*Kenny Omega (4-0) vs. Sanada (3-1)
*Tetsuya Naito (3-1) vs. Hirooki Goto (2-2)
*Tomohiro Ishii (2-2) vs. Kota Ibushi (2-2)
*Juice Robinson (0-4) vs. Toru Yano (1-3)
*Tama Tonga (1-3) vs. Zack Sabre Jr. (2-2)
*Kazuchika Okada & Gedo vs. Michael Elgin & David Finlay
*Hiroshi Tanahashi & Shota Umino vs. Yoshi-Hashi & SHO
*Minoru Suzuki & El Desperado vs. EVIL & Bushi
*Jay White & YOH vs. Hangman Page & Chase Owens
*Bad Luck Fale & Tanga Loa vs. Togi Makabe & Toa Henare
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The return of Brock Lesnar and Ronda Rousey last night led to Raw doing 2.90 million viewers on average, actually beating the final average on June 19 by 1,000 viewers. It was the best number for the show since April 30.

The big takeaway was that the audience grew strongly in hour two, and while it fell in hour three, the 2.82 million viewers for hour three was the best since April ...

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8 p.m. 2.88 million viewers
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Kazuchika Okada will return to Ring of Honor this September at Death Before Dishonor.

ROH announced this afternoon that he will be a part of a ten man tag team featuring stars from both Ring of Honor and New Japan. Okada will team with CHAOS teammates Baretta, Tomohiro Ishii, Rocky Romero and Chucky T against Bullet Club members Cody, Matt Jackson, Nick Jackson, Marty Scurll and Hangman Page.
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Sunday’s Total Bellas season three finale averaged 617,000 total viewers and a 0.29 rating in the 18-49 demo. While the rating was down, viewership was slightly up from last week. The finale was down from the past two years, but average viewership for the season was up from season two and only down slightly from season one.
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Indies Roundup:

A GoFundMe has been started to help with funeral expenses for Tracy Caddell, the father of Trevor Lee and a former wrestler and promoter. The campaign has reached more than its goal, with Lee writing that any extra will go to having a headstone made and to support Caddell’s fiancee.

LA Park has been announced for MLW’s War Games show in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on September 6.

Daisuke Sekimoto is set for Fight Club: PRO’s August 31 show in Wolverhampton, England.

The band Downstait are releasing the official theme song for All In this Friday.

Major League Wrestling is moving to sign a number of their talents to contracts, PWInsider.com has learned. Former MLW Champion Shane Strickland is confirmed to have signed a "long-term" contract.

PWInsider.com has confirmed that Ring of Honor has signed Joey Matthews (aka Joey Mercury during his time in WWE) to a deal to work for the company both as a trainer at their training academy but also as a producer behind the scenes. Matthews has always had a great mind for the business so this is a big positive for the company.

For those who have asked about the Ring of Honor/New Japan G1 Supercard next year at Madison Square Garden, it will be a Saturday evening event.

Ring Warriors announced today that DDT star Shigiro Irie has been added to their TV tapings next month at the Sam's Town Casino in Las Vegas for the promotion's debut this September on WGN America.

Jado has been out of action since July 20th due to a left foot injury and New Japan has announced he will miss the rest of the G1 tour. Jado had been working on the undercards of the G1 shows in tag matches. Jado last wrestled on July 20th at Korakuen Hall in a tag match with Yoshi-Hashi against Tetsuya Naito and Bushi.
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The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation stated they believe there was no foul play in the death of Brian Lawler, and nobody believed there was. Lawler was found hanging in the jail cell he was living in solitary on Saturday night. Corrections officers administered CPR until paramedics arrived. He was rushed to Regional One Medical Center in Memphis where he passed away.
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WWE Hall of Famer Scott Hall has been at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida this week, working in the ring with NXT and PC talents.

Beth Phoenix was at the PC last week.
Link: https://youtu.be/05ShjmogUO0

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We are told that the current plan is for Mauro Ranallo to be one of the lead announcers for the Mae Young Classic tournament next month.
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The current card for the WWE live event from Osaka, Japan on August 31 looks like this:

* Titus Worldwide vs. The Revival
* The Riott Squad vs. Ember Moon, Dana Brooke and Natalya
* Finn Balor vs. Jinder Mahal
* Elias vs. Bobby Lashley
* Braun Strowman vs. Baron Corbin
* Kairi Sane vs. Mickie James
* Ronda Rousey vs. Nia Jax with RAW Women's Champion Alexa Bliss as special referee
* WWE Cruiserweight Champion Cedric Alexander vs. Akira Tozawa vs. Drew Gulak
* Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins vs. Drew McIntyre and WWE Intercontinental Champion Dolph Ziggler
* Appearances by RAW Tag Team Champions The B Team, Sasha Banks, Bayley, Bobby Roode and Bray Wyatt
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No word yet on what kind of injury Mickie James is suffering from but RAW Women's Champion Alexa Bliss noted on last night's RAW that her best friend is currently out of action because she's injured. Mickie wrote the following on Twitter and told fans she will be back soon:

Thanks for all the love everyone. I'll be back soon. I tell ya what @AlexaBliss_WWE I couldn't have picked a better friend & ally myself than in @AliciaFoxy . You both looked and did so amazing last night! #FoxyLady ?? ??????? https://t.co/juBObMR0yc
— Mickie James~Aldis (@MickieJames) July 31, 2018
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WWE has a new poll asking fans if WWE Universal Champion Brock Lesnar is above authority after he hit the F5 on RAW General Manager Kurt Angle last night. As of this writing, 53% voted yes while the rest went with no.
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Brock Lesnar's behavior on Raw this week nearly cost Paul Heyman his job with WWE when The Beast Incarnate didn't want to leave his comfortable dressing room and appear in the ring. Lesnar is booked for one more Raw before SummerSlam to continue building toward his match against Roman Reigns.

Dave Meltzer noted on Wrestling Observer Radio that Lesnar is scheduled to be at the August 13th Raw in Greensboro, North Carolina. The Greensboro Coliseum Complex will host the go-home Raw before SummerSlam.

Heyman is scheduled to be at the Raw in Greensboro as well. Angle came close to firing The Advocate this week on Raw, but Lesnar's last-minute appearance saved Heyman's job, although Lesnar assaulted Heyman as well.

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Coming off the previous night's Raw posting a three-month high in the ratings, SmackDown followed suit with a three-percent increase from last week's number. This Tuesday's 2.401 million viewers was the highest total for the brand since the May 1 episode of the show.

The bad news is that the year-over-year ratings for SmackDown were down for the seventh straight week and 12th in the last 13.

SmackDown finished fifth for the night in total viewers on cable but topped the 18-49 demo with a 0.75 rating.

Miz and Mrs., which immediately followed SmackDown on the USA Network, had its ratings hold up fairly well from last Tuesday's season premiere. Episode two did 1.303 million viewers. It finished 12th for the night in total viewers and third in the 18-49 demo, much better than any of the non-WWE programming on USA.
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Another member of the New Japan Pro Wrestling roster is set for Ring of Honor's next pay-per-view.

ROH announced today that Jushin Thunder Liger will be wrestling at Death Before Dishonor in Las Vegas on Friday, September 28. Liger last appeared for ROH as part of their War of the Worlds tour with NJPW in May. He also wrestled against Rocky Romero at NJPW's event with CEO Fighting Game Championships in Orlando this summer.
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Tye Dillinger and Cedric Alexander have both issued apologies after old tweets where they joked about rape were uncovered. In 2011, Dillinger wrote “Its not rape if they’re sleeping.” He apologized for the tweet last night: “I have no excuse for my old tweets. I was a different person six years ago, and I’m beyond ashamed at what I considered ‘humor’ . I’m so damn embarrassed and I’m truly sorry to anyone I’ve offended.” In 2012, Alexander wrote “Its not rape if you yell SURPRISE!” and sent out another similar tweet later that year. He apologized today: “Six years ago I found ‘humor’ in bad jokes. At the time it was a harmless joke between friends. In those 6 years I've become a father, husband & grown into a much different man. I have offended and hurt many with my past and for that I am deeply sorry & apologize for my actions”
Tye: https://twitter.com/WWEDillinger/sta...99519340400641 , Cedric: https://twitter.com/CedricAlexander/...82126808174592

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It's worth noting that Cedric activated the @Tweet_Delete app on his account yesterday to delete all old tweets, with the exception of a re-tweet before making the apology.
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The WWE has not commented on either individual. The jokes were very tasteless and obviously, the subject of rape should never be joked about or to be made light of. The tweets were made years ago, and I feel the apologies for the jokes should be enough. That said, you cannot predict how the WWE will react to a story like this when the empowerment of women is such a major part of the promotion’s present image. This should also be a lesson for aspiring performers of properly using online media and understanding that what you send out to the world could have detrimental effects on your career years down the road.
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The general election to decide the next mayor of Knox County, Tennessee is taking place tomorrow. Glenn Jacobs (Kane) is expected to easily defeat Democrat Linda Haney.
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Kairi Sane and Akira Tozawa have been announced for WWE’s house show in Osaka, Japan on August 31.
Link: https://www.sportingnews.com/jp/wwe/...21krq8ah6fiaj8

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Indies Roundup:

After their last event at the venue sold out almost immediately, there are still plenty of tickets left for NJPW Fighting Spirit Unleashed at the Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, California on September 30. Tickets went on sale at 1 p.m. Eastern time today.

ROH announced that this month’s three Honor Re-United tour shows won’t be airing live on HonorClub. They’re being shown live exclusively on Fite TV, with ROH noting that they’ll be available on demand on HonorClub “at a later date.”

ROH World Champion Jay Lethal vs. Adam Brooks in a non-title proving ground match is set for the Honor Re-United show in Edinburgh on August 16. Brooks will get a future shot at the title if he wins.

beIN Sports, which is the TV home of MLW, has been taken off Comcast/Xfinity amid a carriage dispute between the two sides. MLW airs on the station on Friday nights and then uploads their TV shows on YouTube at 6:05 p.m. Eastern time the next day.

The build to Nick Aldis vs. Cody Rhodes at All In continued in the NWA’s latest video.

There were a lot of eliminations from the B Block after Wednesday’s G1 card. Kenny Omega remains unbeaten in the tournament after pinning Zack Sabre Jr. and moving up to 12 points and a 6-0 record. Omega, Tetsuya Naito, and Kota Ibushi are the only ones alive in the B Block. Zack Sabre Jr., Tomohiro Ishii, Sanada and Hirooki Goto were eliminated after today’s show and join Tama Tonga, Toru Yano and Juice Robinson in those that are out. The big matches for the B Block this weekend are Saturday in Osaka with Kota Ibushi vs. Tetsuya Naito and Kenny Omega vs. Tomohiro Ishii.
ROH: https://www.rohwrestling.com/news/ho...m-live-fite-tv & https://twitter.com/ringofhonor/stat...97442995970048 , Lethal: https://www.rohwrestling.com/news/ca...world-champion , NWA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YsCB4-lj-c

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You had no choice but to do what the company wanted. But then Kazuyuki Fujita refused to accept a match with Brock Lesnar for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship which was scheduled to be the main event. Given your previous track record, you were selected to take his place and be the challenger.

“Part of that was luck. But that match was seriously rough. First, Lesnar was saying all this stuff about how he respected New Japan, but it felt to me like that was just for show, that he didn't really respect the promotion. Like, somewhere, he was looking down on Japanese people. I lost the match, and that was the first time I cried at pro wrestling after a match.”

Why did you cry?

“It was the main event at Tokyo Dome. This was a pretty hallowed stage, and I knew I hadn't fought the way I imagined I would. And there was, like, this temperature difference between me and Lesnar. I didn’t get the sense he had any love for pro wrestling. It felt like he was just doing his job.”

Another match to defend the title was later canceled because of contract trouble with Lesnar. He was stripped of the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, but be never returned the belt itself; he ended up running off with it.

“I felt like this was too much; he was seriously scoffing at us. Lesnar won the championship and took the belt home, I told Simon if the company didn't get it’s shit in order, that belt was definitely going to get nicked. I didn't honestly believe that when we fought. But it ended up just like I feared. He has the physical stuff, plus a straightforward strength and a certain amount of flexibility, so there was a bit of the monster to him. But I didn't like his personality, you know? He might have made a real mark in UFC, but he didn't even seem to notice the audience booing. I was like, "Oh, this guy's a heel to the core."”
From Nakamura's recently released biography involving working with Lesnar in NJPW.

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WWE uploaded a few more "Home Video Classics" yesterday continuing what will be the classic content for the month of August on WWE Network. They added the following titles:

*1989 - Ultimate Warrior
*1989 - Demolition
*1992 - Ultimate Warrior
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WWE have applied to trademark Akam, Rezar, The Bludgeon Brothers, and Velveteen Dream.
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WWE stock fell to $77.60 today, down $1.51 from yesterday's number, but a couple more executives were able to sell off more stock before the dip in price.

Several World Wrestling Entertainment executives recently sold a combined $160,000 worth of company shares. According to SEC filings, Kevin Dunn and Michelle Wilson have sold even more units of WWE stock.

According to the documents, Kevin Dunn sold another 1000,000 shares of WWE stock at different prices on July 30th. He sold 55,496 at $78.586, 26,804 at $79.683, and 17,700 shares at $80.306. This netted WWE's Executive Vice President of Television Production $7.92 million. He previously sold 122,926 shares for $10.2 million in July.

WWE Co-President Michelle Wilson sold 140,000 shares of WWE stock on July 31st at a price point of $80.03 for $11.2 million. The number is in addition to the $12.1 million she made earlier in July when she unloaded 121,181 shares at $82.52.

Dunn has a remaining amount of 214,170 shares left, while Wilson has slightly more with 223,426 shares of WWE stock. If Dunn and Wilson elected to sell off the rest of their shares in WWE at the current price of $77.60, it would net them an additional $16.6 million and $17.3 million respectively.
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Mark Henry was really impressed by Brock Lesnar's performance on RAW this past Monday night. As Lesnar ended Monday Night Raw by not only attacking general manager Kurt Angle, but physically assaulting his long-time manager Paul Heyman, the "World's Strongest Man" took notice.

While appearing on SiriusXM's Busted Open on Tuesday morning, Henry not only complimented Lesnar, but he went so far as to say that it was his best promo ever.

"First of all, I'm going to go on record as saying something that I've never said about Brock Lesnar ever," Henry said. "Best promo he ever cut. When he grabbed Paul Heyman and he said you are not my friend, and he started ripping him. I was like he doesn't need Paul Heyman. That promo was fire. That's what Brock needs to do... I thought that segment was really good."

Henry didn't stop in his praise of Lesnar. He also complimented Heyman for his work, especially in the physical aspect of things.

"Paul Heyman was as spectacular as he always is, playing the role, not only that, but the physical part of it," Henry added. "Because you don't want to see Paul have any physical interaction and he did [on Monday] and he was tremendous. I'm just so happy we were blessed with that."
Link: https://twitter.com/BustedOpenRadio/...69772581007362


Some other sheet news includes:
  • In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, today is the 12th anniversary of the infamous Batista vs Big Show ECW Championship match at the Hammerstein Ballroom and the 5th anniversary of the infamous August 1st Warning reveal in TNA.
  • Recent episode of the Talk Is Jericho podcast show had both Mark Henry and Busted Open Radio's Dave LaGreca as the guests talking about WWE's legacy in MSG. https://omny.fm/shows/talk-is-jerich...wemsg-fullshow
  • Matt Riddle recently confirmed rumors of him being in talks with the WWE for a possible contract and leaving the indies very soon. Was revealed during a recent interview he had with Sports Illustrated. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...-wwe-and-njpw/
  • Void Magazine had a recent interview with Alicia Fox talking about her recent injury, thoughts on her current character, WWE's Women's division, and more. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...her-character/


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Had no clue Brock put his hands on Heyman on Raw. I wonder if when Brock leaves they pair Heyman up with a heel Roman Reigns in order to give Heyman something to do?
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Nah. No way they pair Heyman with Reigns or turn him.

I can however see Heyman turning on Brock and then coming out the next night on Raw just assuming Reigns is gonna take him on as his advocate now and then taking a spear.
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Yeah, that's more likely.
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While there are still five more wrestlers left to be confirmed for this year's Mae Young Classic, it doesn't look like one of those spots will be filled by Jazzy Gabert.

The 36-year-old Gabert wrote on Twitter today that she won't be returning for the 2018 tournament: "As you by now might know, I will not be at the #myc this year! The hope was high, I saw your tweets. Thank you for your support! Wishing all the fantastic girls on the Tournament lot of success and most of all FUN! I will be watching" ...

Last December, Gabert revealed that she was offered a WWE contract following the Mae Young Classic but was "disqualified" during medical testing due to having three herniated discs in her neck. She underwent neck surgery earlier this year and has returned to the ring.
Link: https://twitter.com/Jazzy_Gabert/sta...41485777711105

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Indies Roundup:
The ticket prices announced for the CMLL Anniversary show on 9/14 suggests that there will not be an L.A. Park vs. Rush mask vs. hair match as was originally scheduled. Tickets go on sale on Saturday at 11 a.m. Nothing has been announced. There are people in Mexico who are connected who told me earlier this week that the match was now off but they weren't with CMLL. The belief is if that match was happening, the prices would be higher than they are listed.

Matt Taven will be on Monday's CMLL show in Puebla. He was already announced for weekend shows. The top two matches on Monday, which does stream head-to-head with Raw, are Caristico vs. Volador Jr., and Atlantis & Octagon & Taven vs. Cuatrero & Forastero & Sanson.

AAW runs Saturday night in LaSalle, IL at the Knights of Columbus with ACH vs. Jeff Cobb for the AAW title, Mat Fitchett & Davey Vega vs. LAX for the tag titles, Kimber Lee vs. Jessicka Havok for the women's title, Trevor Lee vs. Myron Reed for the Heritage title, Eddie Kingston vs. MVP Scarlett Bordeaux vs. Allie Kat.

Defy Wrestling on 8/10 in Seattle at Washington Hall with Shane Strickland defending the Defy title against Brian Cage, Toni Storm vs. Nicole Matthews plus Trent Seven, Tyler Bate and guest ring announcer Melissa Santos.

Major League Wrestling announced the following: PENTAGON JR. & REY FENIX TO DEFEND MLW WORLD TAG TEAM TITLES AGAINST LA PARK & EL HIJO DE LA PARK OCTOBER 4 IN NEW YORK CITY
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Rumors all week are true that WWE has now decreed that wrestlers in the U.K. division are no longer allowed to take any bookings over a seven day prior period to a WWE U.K. event. Southside Wrestling noted that both Joseph Conners and Dan Moloney are off their 8/19 show due to that.
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As was noted in the latest Observer that this was likely, it is now official that Verizon Fios viewers will no longer have access to Bein Sports due to the inability to come to an agreement on carriage charges with the current contract expiring. Antonio Briceno, the station's USA Deputy Managing Director said that the station offered to extend the current contract with the same rate and terms but Verizon chose to drop the deal. He said Verizon falsely claimed they were trying to get a significant rates increase.
Huge hit to Major League Wrestling due to the amount of markets they have lost for the time being. Official statement from Bein Sports: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...-fios.html?p=1

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WWE announced a new book called "Creating the Mania: An Inside Look at how WrestleMania comes to life" by Jon Robinson will be released this coming Tuesday by ECW Press. This will talk about how the storylines were come up with and more.
More details: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...-week.html?p=1

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Kazem Famuyide, an MLW podcaster, has gotten a job with WWE on its writing team. He started earlier this summer on a three-month summer trial.
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The third season of WWE Story Time, which features animated retellings of superstar stories, will premiere on the WWE Network following SummerSlam August 19.
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WWE Network News revealed today's "Hidden Gem" that will be added to the streaming service will be another clip from OVW Christmas Chaos which happened on January 31, 2001 featuring Stone Cold Steve Austin.

OVW – 01/31/2001

“Raising Hell in OVW Stone Cold Steve Austin takes a rare trip to Ohio Valley Wrestling to leave a stunning impression on both fans and competitors.”

This is actually the second clip WWE has added from this Louisville Garden show recently. A few weeks ago, Kane versus Leviathan a.k.a. Batista was added which features a run in from Steve Austin.
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The following "Home Video Classics" have been added to the WWE Network yesterday:
1993: UK Fan Favorites 1993
1994 Paul Bearer--Hits From the Crypt
1995: Shawn Michaels
1997 : Sunny
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There has been no hinting on television regarding a John Cena vs. Undertaker match at SummerSlam, with two weeks of television left to take place. The match had gone around in certain circles including insider circles.

SummerSlam will probably have two or three pre-show matches and will go no less than five hours and could go as long as six hours.
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This is the last word anyone had heard regarding Hiromu Takahashi and it’s based on the belief from a few weeks ago. The New Japan doctors believe it will be nine to 12 months before he can return. The belief is that he suffered a broken neck, which sounds terrible and that’s why nobody has said anything public. The good news is that they had found no evidence of nerve damage so it’s all about the healing of the bone and making sure it can absorb the type of punishment in a New Japan ring. They were thinking he could get back to training and being athletic in six months, but were looking at the extra three to six months before letting him wrestle because of the type of style he works
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Here’s an amazing stat. From August 1995, when he returned to action after missing time after an operation to remove a brain tumor, until June 2018, Jushin Liger wrestled at least one match in every month, which covers 22 years and 11 months. He didn’t wrestle a match in July because he wasn’t booked on the G-1 tour.
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For what it’s worth, the fact that not only is Jay Lethal still wrestling, but there was no move to even take the title off him, tells you pretty clearly in this day and age that ROH management doesn’t believe the Taelor Hendrix claim that she was taken off television for not sleeping with him. Even if there is a little bit of doubt that it could be true, in a public company, with the charge out there, in this day and age, the very least they’d do is quietly remove him from shows
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A piece of trivia regarding however this ends up going down in the future. The reason Don Callis was brought in to run the company is because Leonard Asper of the Asper family, which owns The Fight Network, Impact and tons of things in Winnipeg (the old Winnipeg connection) had a conversation with Chris Jericho about how the company has lost so much money and all of its problems. Jericho told him that Impact had been run by snakes and that those type of people are only going to rip him off. He went so far as to say that he should hire Callis to run the company or fold the company
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There’s been a lot of talk regarding the shoulder programming that FOX is going to do in conjunction with WWE. Keep in mind that FS 1 and FS 2 is losing tons of hours of programming with the loss of UFC, and when we listed the decline in hours for UFC, that was only live fight programming, not the loss of hype shows before and after the events and all the endless hours of replays on both networks. The idea of NXT on FS 1 makes all the sense in the world, but those involved in the process told us it wouldn’t be happening. WWE is interested in keeping that as exclusive network property but FS 1 gives the show wider distribution and my belief is that distribution would also lead to larger crowds for the live events and more merchandise opportunities, plus it’s more programming WWE can sell and it’ll help FS 1 ratings.

What has been talked about are things like FS 1 doing pre-game shows every Friday night before Smackdown and post-game shows on Sundays after PPV shows. Richard Dietsch just reported on the Friday & Sunday ideas this past week. It’s already been reported they are looking at a weekly studio show, perhaps on Wednesday, the WWE version of UFC Tonight. The problem is FS 1 shows of that ilk are supposed to be journalism and not pure hype. One can argue UFC Tonight was more hype but they discussed issues like lawsuits and fighter pay that I wouldn’t expect a WWE show to do on its own. UFC fighters also are a lot more open on interviews because the winning and losing on their own merit and lack of media training leaves them more unfiltered

Those at FOX have said there are no announcements planned right now regarding any new programming and those involved in those deals have said the original FOX deal as far as in-ring wrestling programming goes only involved Smackdown and there was no talk of any other wrestling
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There’s been overtures to Fenix and Pentagon Jr., even though as far as I’ve heard both still have three seasons left on their Lucha Underground deals. But they are two of the key guys on the indie scene right now
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Another note regarding the 10/28 women’s PPV is that October is the annual Susan G. Komen month on WWE television
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Josh Thomson, one of Cain Velasquez’s long-time teammates, did an interview about Velasquez training last week at the Performance Center. Thomson said that Velasquez was looking to fight but he and UFC haven’t come to an agreement so he was looking at his options. Thomson thought that he could retire from fighting and go into pro wrestling, although technically both the UFC and WWE each have contracts that specifically forbid that. Even so, UFC did allow Rousey to do just that since she and Dana White are close, and also allowed Lesnar. C.M. Punk, on the other hand, needed to send legal threats to WWE after already being fired for WWE to not try and legally stand in the way of him fighting in UFC. This is not an athletic thing in the sense Velasquez is a great athlete, but he does come in with a lot of injuries and just turned 36 this past week. And I just don’t see him having a pro wrestling personality. As far as a young Velasquez with his drive, he’d blow everyone away in the drills, work harder than everyone and have more stamina than everyone, but the personality aspect would still be a challenge.

The one WWE should be looking at after he retires is Daniel Cormier as an announcer. Since the company has the doctrine they need an African-American guy in the same third wheel position on every show, Cormier would blow away Coachman on day one, blow away Saxton on day one, and fairly quickly surpass Watson. The only negative is that everyone knows Saxton is good but the role he plays makes him bad, and if they try to take Cormier out of his game and program him to announce WWE style, there’s a good chance he wouldn’t be good either
So if you ever wonder why WWE went with 3 man teams for commentary and why the 3rd guy was always an African American, turns out its because of a mandate from the WWE and not something by pure coincidence.

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Regarding the debut of Marina Shafir on 7/26, one person internally noted to us that “It’s really scary how natural these four women (Rousey, Baszler, Shafir and Jessamyn Duke) are in the ring. Just wait until you see Jess and Marina. All four are tremendous in their own way. Maybe recruiting women MMA fighters is going too be the future of the recruitment process.” I could definitely see the idea of WWE going after charismatic or very pretty MMA fighters, especially if they come from markets WWE is looking at recruiting from, in the future. They’ve already had interest in the past in Paige VanZant and while you never know how someone will adapt, she seems a natural with how well she did on “Dancing With The Stars” and the fact she’s unlikely to ever be a championship level MMA fighter, and going forward, WWE exposure is going to be so much more than UFC, that they can open up more doors for them outside of the ring/octagon.
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World of Sport did 937,000 viewers between ITV, ITV+1 and ITV HD, which meant that 8.6 percent of people in the U.K. watching television were watching the show. In the U.S. that would be unreal for a wrestling show to do that. Nothing like that has happened since the Attitude Era. A 10:50 a.m. Sunday morning replay did 155,000 viewers.
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Big E revealed in his recent TampaBay.com interview that they have looked into releasing some sort of branded pancake product. WWE previously released the BootyO's cereal for the group.

"We've definitely explored trying to do something in that vain," Big E said when asked if there will be New Day frozen pancakes coming soon. "Cereal is easier. Right now our cereal is at FYE and FYE.com. … We're talking to people in licensing for a way for this pancake nonsense to be available to our fans."
Link: https://www.tampabay.com/things-to-d...akes_170379590

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WWE has a new poll asking fans if Charlotte Flair stole Becky Lynch's thunder on this week's SmackDown. As of this writing, 80% went with yes while the rest went with no. As noted, Flair returned and defeated SmackDown Women's Champion Carmella in a non-title match, earning a spot in the title match at SummerSlam with Becky.

Some other sheet news includes:
  • In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, today is the 26th anniversary of Ron Simmons becoming the first ever African American to win a World Heavyweight championship in professional wrestling. Simmons defeated then champion Big Van Vader for the WCW World title.
  • WWE added a new collection set in memory of Nikolai Volkoff to the WWE Network earlier today. Entire list of contents in the set via PWI: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...ction.html?p=1
  • Website Fan Fest had a recent interview with Mick Foley talking about his career being associated the most with Hell in a Cell 1998, Owens homage to Foley at Extreme Rules, and his 1996 Boiler Room Brawl against Taker being one of his favorite moments. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...emembered-for/


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Impact Wrestling's positive momentum coming out of Slammiversary XVI hasn't translated to much ratings success.

Last night's Impact averaged 248,000 total viewers on Pop TV, along with a 0.05 rating in the 18-49 demo. That's the show's lowest audience of 2018 and down from last week's 299,000 viewers. There was a moderate post-PPV bump for last week's episode, with it up from the 275,000 that the Slammiversary go-home show did on July 19.

The previous low mark for Impact this year was 254,000 viewers for the episode that aired on June 28.

Impact was also down in the year-over-year ratings, with the August 3, 2017 edition of the show having done 276,000 viewers.

Impact did face competition from the NFL last night. The first preseason game of the year averaged 6.67 million viewers on NBC.
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All 32 wrestlers have been confirmed for this summer's Mae Young Classic.

The final five participants were announced for the tournament today, with Sienna, Xia Li, Rachael Ellering, MJ Jenkins, and Zatara rounding out the lineup. Tapings for the tournament will be held at Full Sail University next Wednesday and Thursday, leading into the finals taking place at WWE Evolution on October 28.
Link: https://www.wwe.com/shows/maeyoungcl...y-rachel-evers

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Almost all the women in the Mae Young Classic, which will be taped on Wednesday and Thursday in Orlando, are in Orlando now. Most were in yesterday and the rest were supposed to be in today. They are all there to spend the weekend practicing their matches.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Brian Lawler's funeral took place today in Memphis. Jerry Lawler noted that this was the saddest day of his life. Spellbinder Del Rios, Reggie B. Fine, Kevin Lawler, Tony Williams and other family members spoke at the funeral. Dave Brown led the ten bell salute. They played his entrance music. They had a little red wagon with photos on display stemming from a little red wagon promo he did early in his career in Memphis. Doug Gilbert was one of the pall bearers. Also in attendance were Scott Garland (Scotty 2 Hotty), Rudy Charles from WWE, Matt Riviera, promoter Bert Prentice, Jerry Jarrett, Koko B. Ware, Downtown Bruno and Bill Dundee.
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Originally Posted by Post Wrestling
CW30 in Memphis will have a special Brian Christopher tribute edition of “Jerry Lawler’s Classic Memphis Wrestling” this Saturday at 11 am. The visitation and funeral for Brian are today in Cordova, Tennessee and he will be buried at Memorial Gardens in Bartlett, Tennessee.
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Indies Roundup:
Michael Elgin suffered a right arm injury in his match with Kazuchika Okada on Monday in Takamatsu. He arm went out catching Okada on a move. There is no word on the severity of the injury but he's expected to get an MRI on it next week. He's still working through the tournament. While he was selling it as part of the story in his match with Bad Luck Fale yesterday, that was all selling and he was telling people it wasn't bothering him in the match.

Jeff Jarrett vs. Fenix for the AAA Mega heavyweight title is now official after last night's AAA TV tapings, for a TripleMania match on 8/25 at Arena Ciudad in Mexico City.

Northeast Wrestling has two major weekend shows, the first being tonight in Norwich, CT at Dodd Stadium with Rey Mysterio Jr. vs. Darby Allin and Jack Swagger vs. Flip Gordon, as well as Matt Riddle vs. Brad Hollister and also making appearances are The Young Bucks, Marty Scurll, Renee Young, Christian, Corey Graves, King Kong Bundy, Billy Gunn, Jimmy Hart and The Kingdom. They also run tomorrow night for what is annually one of the biggest indie events of the year, The Night Under the Stars at Dutchess Stadium in Wappingers Falls, NY with Mysterio Jr. vs. Gordon, Swagger vs. Gunn plus Robbie E, Tenille Dashwood, Young Bucks, Christian, Renee Young, Corey Graves, King Kong Bundy, Tito Santana, Jimmy Hart and Marty Scurll.

Smash Wrestling on 8/26 in Toronto at The Phoenix with Jeff Cobb vs. PCO vs. Brody King, Joey Janela vs. Tyson Dux for the Smash title and Tessa Blanchard vs. Vanessa Kraven.

Tickets for the 9/28 Ring of Honor Death Before Dishonor PPV event at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas as well as their 9/29 TV taping in the same venue officially went on sale at 3 PM Eastern via Ticketmaster.com.

Former Quebecer Pierre Carl Oulette will be working pretty much all the scheduled MLW events going forward, starting with the 9/6 return to Fort Lauderdale event, which will be headlined by Wargames.

This past Wednesday’s episode of Lucha Underground was down to 114,000 viewers, which was their lowest number since July 4th. After eight episodes, the current season is averaging 119,500 viewers per episode on the El Rey Network.
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The XFL was wanting to put a team in the Bay Area but isn't having much luck. Both the Oakland Coliseum and the Cal Stadium in Berkeley turned the league down. The Coliseum said the schedule would cause problems in getting the stadium ready for the Oakland A's opening games. Cal simply turned down the XFL's request to play there.
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According to sources, there is some backstage speculation that WWE may once again be ending their brand split in 2019 in order to keep their new deal with FOX. WWE officials are reportedly concerned that FOX could back out of the deal due to ratings.

As previously reported here on eWrestlingNews.com, WWE and FOX agreed to a five-year deal back in May that is worth $1.025 billion for SmackDown! to air live on the FOX Network beginning in October 2019. WWE officials, including Vince McMahon, are reportedly worried that FOX could back out of a long-term deal due to the ratings for SmackDown! Live. If this were to happen, WWE would more than likely panic and end the brand split.

It should be noted that the exact details of the FOX-WWE contract are unknown and it’s said that FOX likely couldn’t back out of a deal worth that much so easily. The worst case scenario is that WWE SmackDown! Live would be moved to FS1 if it can’t compete live on Friday night’s.
Link: https://411mania.com/wrestling/new-s...-due-fox-deal/

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Wrestling DVD Network confirmed that there will be a best of WWE 24 DVD release by the end of the year. It had been one of the potential releases we noted earlier in the year was on the planning board. It will likely have a December release.
Link: http://www.wrestlingdvdnetwork.com/b...hedule/158249/

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Originally Posted by PWI
Attorneys for World Wrestling Entertainment filed an application on 8/3 with the United States District Court of Connecticut, seeking to receive the attorney fees the court has ordered they are eligible to receive from attorney Konstantine Kyros following Kyros being sanctions by the court in regard to ongoing concussion-related lawsuits that have been filed against the company. WWE is seeking to be reimbursed for legal fees incurred in connection to the motion for the sanctioning ...

WWE is seeking a total reimbursement of $176,486.74, broken down to $154,745.50 in legal fees for K&L Gates LLP, $19,663 in legal fees for Day Pitney LLP as well as travel and lodging costs for Jerry S. McDevitt and Curtis B. Krasik in the amount of $2078.24 ...

Kyros has until 8/23 to respond to the court.
More details: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...suits.html?p=1

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Scheduled for the remaining first season episodes of Miz & Mrs. on the USA Network:
8/7 - "When Daddy Mike and The Miz's worlds collide, mother-in-law Marjo steps in to daddy duties."

8/14 "The big day arrives! But can Maryse convince her mom that the delivery room will be off limits?"

8/21 - "Mike, Maryse, Monroe, Marjo, and four pets make the move from LA to Austin. What could go wrong?"

8/28 - "Mike and Maryse trade designer shoes for cowboy boots as they embrace their new life in Texas."
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The election victory of WWE star Glenn "Kane" Jacobs in the race to become Mayor of Knox County, TN has received a LOT of mainstream media attention over the last twelve hours.

The former WWF Champion addressed his supporters last night in his acceptance speech:

Here’s a clip from his speech. pic.twitter.com/oeA85HefBp
— Travis Dorman (@travdorman) August 3, 2018

WWE issued the following:

Congratulations to @KaneWWE on being elected Mayor of Knox County, Tennessee! https://t.co/I4E5YQhYCC
— WWE (@WWE) August 3, 2018
Kane: https://twitter.com/travdorman/statu...94715258519552 , WWE: https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1025190178602864640

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Originally Posted by PWI
As previously noted on PWInsider.com, WWE Hall of Famer Scott Hall was at the WWE Performance Center helping with in-ring training of NXT and PC talents earlier this week.

PWInsider.com can also confirm that Hall was joined by Kevin Nash as well at the PC with the duo giving advise and assistance.
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Originally Posted by WrestlingInc
Cody Rhodes announced "All In" by Downstrait will be the official theme for the event. You can listen to it on iTunes, or hear a clip of it in the video below (12:55 mark).

Here it is! One of the official songs for @ALL_IN_2018 @DownstaitBand strikes again!

Here on iTunes: https://t.co/3OikpdGEyI pic.twitter.com/RBjOSkc75s
— Cody Rhodes (@CodyRhodes) August 3, 2018
Link: https://twitter.com/CodyRhodes/statu...88903455444993

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Originally Posted by WrestlingInc
Thursday marked the 20-year anniversary of Sunday Night Heat, which served as a supplement program to Raw as well as a preview show on pay-per-view nights. Heat holds a special meaning to Trish Stratus as she made her WWE debut on the show (on the March 19, 2000 episode). In honor of its 20th anniversary, Trish has counted down her top 10 Heat moments.

You guys, remember Sunday Night Heat?? Can u believe it premiered 20 years ago? Here's some of my Heat moments, including the kick off for my rivalry with @REALLiSAMARiE + number 1 is super special! https://t.co/tsBJyF86BI
— Trish Stratus (@trishstratuscom) August 3, 2018
Link: https://twitter.com/trishstratuscom/...56585437532160

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Originally Posted by WrestlingInc
Above is new video of Liv Morgan revealing the origin of her blue tongue - blue candy. Liv says she's been doing the blue tongue since coming to RAW with the rest of The Riott Squad, and it became a thing by accident but she likes it and no one has complained, so she hopes to keep doing it.
Link: https://youtu.be/3SedvdSnAxk

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Originally Posted by WrestlingInc
WWE SmackDown is scheduled to go to Friday nights on Fox beginning October 19, 2019, but it looks like there could be more WWE programming on the Fox networks.

There is said to be a very good chance that FS1 will air a SmackDown pre-show each Friday night, according to Richard Deitsch of The Athletic. There's also talk of FS1 hosting post-shows following major WWE pay-per-view events, such as SummerSlam.

Regarding on-air talents for the potential WWE pre-shows and post-shows on FS1, Deitsch noted that the talents would be hired by Fox but there would likely be some kind of approval from WWE.

It was reported earlier this summer that there was talk of doing a weekly WWE studio show on FS1, perhaps on Wednesday nights.
Link: https://theathletic.com/446290/2018/...rout-and-more/


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