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Old 06-16-2018, 07:11 PM   #1
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Raw last night, getting the PPV bump from Money in the Bank, was up six percent to 2.90 million viewers.

It was the best number the show has done since April 30, although it's also lower than every episode from the end of football season through April 30 ...

The three hours were:

8 p.m. 3.00 million viewers
9 p.m. 2.98 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.73 million viewers
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With it being 6/19, today was declared “Rey Mysterio Day” in San Diego. Mysterio said he’s possibly getting ready to go back to WWE and indicated that it would be a three-year contract if they come to terms. Mysterio also mentioned that he has more dates with NJPW scheduled.

Mysterio tweeted about being honored today: “Honored & grateful with the city of SD 619 for officially naming today 6/19/Rey Mysterio Day! A Sincere Thank U to my fans [worldwide] for the support & unconditional love given through out my 28 yrs of career & please understand that without your support I would not be who I am now!”
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Cena and Ford settled out of court after Ford sued Cena for selling an exclusive car that he got the chance to purchase. Ford had claimed that Cena wasn’t supposed to resell the car as part of the agreement.
Link: https://www.autoblog.com/2018/06/19/...ip-settlement/

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Triple H said that Jinny suffered a concussion at yesterday’s United Kingdom Championship tournament show at Royal Albert Hall. She got hurt when catching Isla Dawn on a dive, and the planned fatal four-way match was started again as a triple threat with Toni Storm, Killer Kelly, and Dawn. Jinny tweeted about the injury: “Heartbroken? Yes. Seriously hurt? No. I'm so grateful to have the people I have in my life, friends and family checking up on me. And, thank you to all the fans who wished me well #YassQueen”
Links: https://youtu.be/y2LYJbobjOs , https://twitter.com/JinnyCouture/sta...17990661566464

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Bobby Roode celebrated the 20th anniversary of his pro wrestling debut: “June 19 1998 was my very first pro wrestling match. It’s been an amazing 20 years in this business. Thank you to everyone who has helped me get to where I am today! #Glorious”
Link: https://twitter.com/REALBobbyRoode/s...30262171672577

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Indies Roundup:
PCO, perhaps better known as former WWF Tag Team Champion Quebecer Pierre, is the first announced participant for this year’s PWG Battle of Los Angeles tournament. The 50 year old has had a lot of buzz on the indies lately, especially since his match against WALTER at Joey Janela’s Spring Break II over WrestleMania weekend. BOLA 2018 will take place at the Globe Theatre in Los Angeles from September 14-16.

PCO has also been added to MLW’s 40-person Battle Riot match in Queens, New York on July 19, joining Johnny Mundo, Pentagon Jr., ACH, Kevin Sullivan, Davey Boy Smith Jr., Teddy Hart, Rich Swann, Barrington Hughes, Jake Hager, and Jimmy Yuta.

Pentagon Jr. & Fenix defending their Tag Team titles against ACH & Rich Swann has been added to MLW’s TV tapings in Orlando on July 12.

Jay Lethal vs, BJ Whitmer, Christopher Daniels vs. Delirious, Marty Scurll vs. Rhett Titus, Silas Young vs. Flip Gordon, Mark Briscoe vs. Will Ferrara, Hangman Page vs. Frankie Kazarian, Cheeseburger vs. Beer City Bruiser, and Jay Briscoe vs. Kenny King will be the first round matches in the Sea of Honor tournament on Chris Jericho’s Rock ‘n’ Wrestling Rager at Sea cruise. The winner will receive a future ROH World Championship shot.

The new episode of Being the Elite is built around the Elite vs. New Day E3 video game thing from Thursday and other shenanigans. There is a big tease at the end for a match between the two sides.

Io Shirai had her farewell match to Stardom on Sunday at Korakuen Hall. Shirai teamed on the show with Mayu Iwatani defeating Kagetsu & Hazuki. Shirai also came out after the main event where Momo Watanabe retained the Wonder of Stardom title over Jungle Kyona and Shirai put Watanabe over to the audience as the big star of the promotion.

Punishment Martinez won the ROH Television title on Saturday at the promotion’s ‘State of the Art’ card from Dallas, Texas. Silas Young was facing Martinez, Cheeseburger, Hangman Page, Scorpio Sky, and Jonathan Gresham in Proving Ground match, where Young would have to defend the title immediately if he lost the match. Martinez pinned Cheeseburger to receive the automatic title shot and defeated Young to win the title. Martinez is scheduled to face Hangman Page at the ‘Best in the World’ pay-per-view on June 29th in Baltimore.
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The first Kenny Omega vs. Kota Ibushi match in New Japan Pro Wrestling will be taking place this summer.

After announcing the participants for the tournament on Sunday, the blocks for this year's G1 Climax were revealed today ...

The G1 will begin on July 14 and conclude with three straight nights at Budokan Hall from August 10-12. Each wrestler will face everyone else in their block along the way, with the person with the most points advancing to the finals and facing the winner of the opposite block. Whoever wins the tournament, if it isn't the IWGP Heavyweight Champion, will receive a briefcase to challenge for the title at the Tokyo Dome next January. The title shot is usually defended a couple of times in the lead-up to the Tokyo Dome show.

For this year's G1, every show will air live on New Japan World with English commentary available. Here are the full blocks for the tournament:
A Block --
  • Togi Makabe
  • Michael Elgin
  • Hiroshi Tanahashi
  • Kazuchika Okada
  • Jay White
  • YOSHI-HASHI
  • Bad Luck Fale
  • Hangman Page
  • EVIL
  • Minoru Suzuki

B Block --
  • Juice Robinson
  • Hirooki Goto
  • Tomohiro Ishii
  • Toru Yano
  • Tama Tonga
  • SANADA
  • Tetsuya Naito
  • Zack Sabre Jr.
  • Kenny Omega
  • Kota Ibushi
Link: https://www.f4wonline.com/japan/part...nounced-259821

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The Celebrity Undercover Boss episode featuring Stephanie McMahon brought in an audience of 4,087,000 overnight viewers. It was the most watched network TV program in the 8 PM hour on Friday 6/15.
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AXS TV has announced a deal with WOW (Women of Wrestling) to begin shooting episodes later this year and premiere on AXS in 2019. WOW was revived by Jeanie Buss, Mark Burnett, and David McLane. McLane, who was heavily involved with GLOW, formed WOW alongside Buss in 2000. The promotion staged an infamous live pay-per-view in February 2001 that was built up through their syndicated television series. The promotion went dormant and was revived in 2014 with digital episodes produced for YouTube and their website, which has the 10-episode fourth season available for free at www.wowe.com. WOW will join New Japan Pro Wrestling as the two wrestling properties on AXS TV.
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WWE has a new poll asking fans whose Spear is more effective - Roman Reigns or Bobby Lashley. 61% of fans have voted for Lashley as of this writing.

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Old 06-21-2018, 12:15 AM   #6
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A source in WWE indicated to BodySlam Managing Editor Brad Shepard that the internal list of Brock Lesnar’s scheduled dates in WWE going forward is blank.

The source is presuming that Lesnar will be at Summerslam but says that wasn’t concrete as of last week. This past week on Raw, a multi-person match was announced for Extreme Rules with the winner to face Brock Lesnar for the Universal Championship, at a date yet to be named.

The source indicated that Brock will obviously return, but the fact that his dates going forward aren’t known yet is unusual and would seem to indicate something else is going on.

- Bodyslam.net

I noticed Brock's disappeared from the most recent SummerSlam promo material as well, from Barclay's Center's website:



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Old 06-21-2018, 10:51 AM   #8
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This week's WWE NXT episode opened with a graphic noting the passing of Leon "Big Van Vader" White. The Network's programming feed also ran a crawl noting Vader's passing with a number of comments from those within WWE about his passing.

I expect WWE will announce a Vader Collection will be added to the WWE Network at any point.
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Coming off Sunday's Money in the Bank pay-per-view, SmackDown viewership was up six percent this week, posting its best numbers since May 1. The show averaged 2.315 million viewers on the night ...

It wasn't all good news, however, as the show was down eight percent year-over-year and retained just under 80 percent of the Raw viewers from the previous night. Raw was also down year-over-year, so again the biggest factor in SmackDown viewership seems to be whatever the Raw audience was the night before.
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Two new title matches help round out the card for NJPW's G1 Special in San Francisco on July 7.

It was officially announced this evening that Hiromu Takahashi will next defend the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship against longtime rival Dragon Lee at the Cow Palace ...

Also announced for the show was a NEVER Openweight Championship match pitting new champion Hirooki Goto against Jeff Cobb ...

Here is the full card for the event:

IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kenny Omega defending against Cody Rhodes
IWGP United States Heavyweight Champion Jay White defending against Juice Robinson
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Hiromu Takahashi defending against Dragon Lee
Kazuchika Okada & Will Ospreay vs. Tetsuya Naito & BUSHI
IWGP Tag Team Champions The Young Bucks defending against EVIL & SANADA
NEVER Openweight Champion Hirooki Goto defending against Jeff Cobb
Hiroshi Tanahashi & KUSHIDA vs. Hangman Page & Marty Scurll
Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano vs. Minoru Suzuki & Zack Sabre Jr.
YOSHI-HASHI, Gedo, Rocky Romero, SHO & YOH vs. Haku (Meng), Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa, Yujiro Takahashi & Chase Owens
Link: http://www.njpw1972.com/tornament/26145?showCards=1

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Pro Wrestling Sheet has learned Big Cass doesn’t seem to have been fired for one certain reason, instead it was a mix of multiple things — the most noteworthy happening on WWE’s European tour.

As we first reported, Cass went against a directive from Vince McMahon last month during a segment involving a little person. We’re told this is when things began to go south for him.

According to Sports Illustrated, Big Cass was apparently drinking during the European tour which took place a week later and allegedly had “attitude issues.” They also claim “being intoxicated in public” is one of the underlying reasons for his firing.

Multiple sources tell us one of the incidents which rubbed people the wrong way happened in private, however, on the WWE bus chauffeuring talent.

We’re told the bathroom lock was apparently broken, but Cass didn’t realize it and thought he was being pranked. After being stuck inside for too long, a claustrophobic/angry Cass broke down the door. This meant people had to embarrassingly use the bathroom afterward with no door.

This, obviously, made some of the riders on the bus unhappy. It’s worth noting that some understood his frustration though and weren’t as angry as others.

Both of these incidents in such short time — coupled with 1-2 additional unverified incidents that we’re working to confirm with sources — seem to have been the final straw.
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To answer every independent promotion that has asked, PWInsider.com has confirmed Big Cass has a 90-day no compete clause following his release from WWE this past Tuesday.
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Indies Roundup:
Matt Riddle vs. PCO has been announced for Joey Janela’s Lost in New York in Queens on August 17.

KUSHIDA vs. Jonathan Gresham is set for ROH’s TV tapings in Fairfax, Virginia on June 30.

Impact announced World Series Wrestling in Australia as a partner for their Global Wrestling Network service.
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Austin Aries will again be wrestling for Ring of Honor later this month.

ROH announced Aries for their June 29 Best in the World pay-per-view in Baltimore, Maryland today. An opponent for Aries wasn't revealed, but potential programs with Kenny King and Silas Young were set up coming out of his last match for the promotion ...

Here's the updated card for the PPV:
  • ROH World Champion Dalton Castle defending against Cody Rhodes and Marty Scurll in a triple threat match
  • ROH Tag Team Champions The Briscoes defending against The Young Bucks
  • ROH Television Champion Punishment Martinez defending against Hangman Page in a street fight
  • ROH Six-Man Tag Team Champions The Kingdom (Matt Taven, TK O'Ryan & Vinny Marseglia) defending against SANADA, EVIL & BUSHI
  • Jay Lethal vs. KUSHIDA
  • Bully Ray vs. Flip Gordon
  • Sumie Sakai, Mayu Iwatani, Tenille Dashwood & Jenny Rose vs. Kelly Klein, Hazuki, Kagetsu & Hana Kimura
Link: https://www.rohwrestling.com/news/au...ore-best-world

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As I mentioned on PWInsider.com Elite audio during our Takeover: Chicago post-game show Saturday evening, the first several minutes of Velveteen Dream vs. Ricochet was a move for move tribute to the opening moments of Hulk Hogan vs. The Rock at Wrestlemania X8.
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Undertaker is now the focus of Madison Square Garden's advertising for the 7/7 WWE return, including his face being shown in rotation on the digital screen outside the venue.
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WWE Network News is reporting that today's "Hidden Gem" that will be added to the streaming service this morning will be from Smoky Mountain Wrestling: "SMW 01/27/1995 – Skip to my Boo. Before making their mark on ECW, the rivalry between Chris Candido and Boo Bradley comes to a fever pitch in this rarely seen contest.” The gem will feature promos leading to their bout as well.
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Pro Wrestling Guerrilla released the following updated list of competitors for the 2018 Battle of Los Angeles Tournament:

* Robbie Eagles.
* Joey Janela
* Puma King
* PCO (Pierre Carl Oulette)
* Brody King
* Jody Fleish.
* Ilja Dragunov.

Some other sheet stuff includes:
  • In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, this week was the first time in WWE history that a both RAW and Smackdown opened their shows with their Women's champion.
  • In another "WWE Did You Know" type fact, Seth Rollins recently passed John Cena for 3rd highest PPV win percentage following his victory at MitB. Cena has won 59% of his PPV matches while Rollins has won 59.3% during his career. https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc...elias_at_mitb/


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A day after announcing that he would be wrestling on the show, Ring of Honor has confirmed Austin Aries' opponent for Best in the World.

Aries vs. Kenny King has been added to the lineup for the June 29 pay-per-view in Baltimore, Maryland. The match stems from an angle that took place following Aries' last appearance for ROH ...

Here's the updated card for Best in the World:

ROH World Champion Dalton Castle defending against Cody Rhodes and Marty Scurll in a triple threat match
ROH Tag Team Champions The Briscoes defending against The Young Bucks
ROH Television Champion Punishment Martinez defending against Hangman Page in a street fight
ROH Six-Man Tag Team Champions The Kingdom (Matt Taven, TK O'Ryan & Vinny Marseglia) defending against SANADA, EVIL & BUSHI
Jay Lethal vs. KUSHIDA
Austin Aries vs. Kenny King
Bully Ray vs. Flip Gordon
Sumie Sakai, Mayu Iwatani, Tenille Dashwood & Jenny Rose vs. Kelly Klein, Hazuki, Kagetsu & Hana Kimura
Link: https://www.rohwrestling.com/news/ar...one-best-world

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Cody and The Young Bucks have released a documentary style video explaining the story of how "All In" came to be this afternoon. It's a very well done piece that is well worth checking out. I think it will do a lot towards raising the awareness of the origins of the show beyond the storylines that were run over the course of the Being the Elite Youtube series:
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-UOUryWijY

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MLW issued the following:

JOHN HENNIGAN VS. TEDDY HART SET FOR MLW’S JULY 12 ORLANDO FUSION TV TAPING

ORLANDO – John Hennigan will make his return to Major League Wrestling this summer. Major League Wrestling today announced John Hennigan vs. Teddy Hart (of the Hart Foundation) as officially signed for MLW’s July 12th card in Orlando at Gilt Nightclub.
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David Arquette will be wrestling on the 7/15 tapings for Championship Wrestling from Hollywood.
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McMahon fired Big Cass at a meeting in Toledo prior to Smackdown. The reasons given were the 5/1 incident, as well as blowing off a rehearsal for a promo that Kevin Dunn has asked for and then going long on the live version of that promo. There was a lot of heat regarding the promo that Vince McMahon hated, and he fired the writer of it a few weeks ago. There was also an incident that happened on the European tour where he locked himself in the tour bus bathroom and then destroyed the bathroom and broke down the door when he couldn’t get out, because the lock malfunctioned and he believed he was being pranked. Because the door was knocked down, it meant the other wrestlers could not use the bathroom the rest of the trip in privacy, not to mention the damages it caused. There were said to be other issues regarding his behavior on the European tour. He also had enemies from years back from vociferously defending The Donald while in an argument with Sami Zayn about treatment of Muslims that ruffled many people’s feathers, although had nothing to do with his being fired.

There was also negativity from other producers that dated back to the feeling that the Big Show vs. Big Cass feud, which took place before his knee injury, didn’t go well and he took the brunt of the blame. There was also negativity of his work in the recent Bryan feud, but not performing up to par was also not the reason for someone to get fired in the manner that he did. We were also told the 5/1 incident was not the key incident in him getting fired, as the reaction to that was going to be done by changing his storyline, which would mean the two submission losses. What is notable is that a lot of independent promoters are already looking at reuniting Enzo (Eric Arndt), now calling himself Real 1, & Cass, who won’t be able to use that name going forward. However, the two had a major real-life falling out but that doesn’t necessarily mean they won’t work together for the right price.
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Bryan being announced at the WWE Australia show is not a sign that he has signed a new contract, as he has not. It is certainly possible, perhaps even likely, that he will. He also could go independent and do appearances with the company on shows like this, similar to what Rey Mysterio Jr., has done so far this year. The difference between he and Lesnar is that Lesnar would be extremely unhappy about being announced for a date he’s not agreed to and it would give him a lot of leverage at that point. With Bryan, it’s not going to be the same situation.
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When Chris Jericho was talking about offers he had been getting, last year, as the Jericho vs. Kenny Omega Tokyo Dome build was going strong, Tony Condello, the veteran Winnipeg promoter, came to Omega and told him he had $100,000 in backing to run a rematch between the two in Winnipeg. But Condello went to Jericho and asked how much it would cost to get the match, and Jericho said $250,000, so that was the end of the discussion
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The George Tragos/Lou Thesz Hall of Fame in Waterloo is doing its induction ceremony on 7/28, with Dan Severn and Owen Hart being inducted into the Hall of Fame ... Ben Askren is getting the George Tragos award which goes to someone with wrestling background who achieved success in MMA. Bruiser Brody is getting the Frank Gotch award. Booker T is getting the Lou Thesz award. Koji Miyamoto is getting the Jim Melby Award. Miyamoto definitely deserves this award. He’s one of the great historians in wrestling and there is a ton of very important information we’d have never known, particularly about the early days of Japan, but U.S. history as well, that would have gone lost forever without his research
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Based on a listing from Fite TV, and this may be just for streaming, the price of Slammiversary on 7/22 is listed at $19.99. The prior PPV show, Redemption, was priced at $39.99. We’re told that price is only for iPPV and is not the television PPV price
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Reigns, in a an interview with the ESPN U.K. web site, said that there’s no point in turning heel since people boo him anyway. But he did say he’d love to work heel and feud with Bryan. He said that for him, it’s not about being cheered but the audience making a lot of noise. That’s the funniest part of the vociferous booing of Reigns, in the sense that there are times the crowd is cold, most crowds give you the feel he’s the biggest, or at least one of the biggest stars on the brand
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Hotel house cleaner Portia Williams is under investigation in the theft of $500 in cash and a Sony Digital Camera from the room of Miroslav Barnyashev (Rusev) and wife Catherine Perry (Lana) on 6/11. Rusev said he left his room at 12:30 p.m. that day, and returned at 1:10 p.m. and the items were gone. Police believed that Williams entered the room, even though it had a Do Not Disturb sign on it. Williams claimed she found the wallet inside a chicken box and returned it, but there was no money in it
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Ahmad al-Khatib, who was the chief of the Saudi Arabia General Entertainment Authority, was removed from his position due to criticism of his bringing in a Russian circus that featured women performers who wore tight costumes. The two key takes are that unlike with WWE, for whatever reason, they did allow women to perform in tight costumes, but in allowing it, it got enough of a backlash to cause the guy who approved it to lose his job. The General Entertainment Authority was looking at bringing in more than 5,000 festivals and concerts to the country. In addition, since the WWE left, the government has been cracking down on women’s rights activists with dozens arrested and detailed, some of which have were later temporarily released
Even though its not directly wrestling related, felt it was worthy to include due to WWE's ties with the government and their BS claims of also doing the deal to bring social change to the country.

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Just for a clarification of the matches over the weekend at Money in the Bank, the women’s Battle Royal was completely rehearsed with T.J. Wilson and Fit Finlay in charge of putting the match together, mostly Wilson. They took all the women off the road this weekend to get in several days of work. Similarly, the Rousey vs. Jax match was laid out completely and practiced over the weekend before the show. Finlay put together the lay out of the match. Asuka vs. Carmella was not practiced ahead of time. That tells how the value of that. Old school would consider doing this as cheating, but really, if it makes matches that much better, it sounds like a good thing to me
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WWE has confirmed that Ronda Rousey will be appearing at Monday's Raw event in San Diego. They did not confirm she would be on the television show, only that she would be there. She is also scheduled for the Extreme Rules show in Pittsburgh in come capacity. However, she has been pulled from the Raw events upcoming in Boston and Buffalo.
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I don’t know that anything will happen with this idea, given it’s now been years since Progress and ICW were talked with about being added to WWE Network and Vince has changed his mind on it after they even said at a conference call it was happening, but there is another independent show idea internally for 2019. This idea is a network special featuring talent not under contract to WWE. There would have to be a reason for it, but one would think it would be as a way to try and open doors to talent in other companies and use the relationship with WWN, ICW and Progress and perhaps others to use their talent.

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Slammiversary still listed at $39.99 on my FITE TV app. Plan on buying at either price though.
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Haven't bought one in a while as the past few years they've ended up airing them on TV a couple weeks later. They have some direction now and I like what they are doing so I'm going to buy Slammiversary.
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Taker was rumored as wanting to wrestle Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania in 2014...hmmm
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Taker was rumored as wanting to wrestle Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania in 2014...hmmm
If WWE wants to get really absurd, should let him face and defeat Lesnar for the Universal title at SummerSlam.

Not only does it solve the Lesnar issue but also gives the chance for someone to out lazy Lesnar in appearances as champ.
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I think if Taker squashed AJ Styles or Daniel Bryan in 2 minutes the internet would be very grumpy.
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Phenomenal Forearm reversed into Chokeslam at :59 second mark of match.

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Would love to see Taker vs. AJ and Taker vs. Bryan before he hangs it up. Taker vs. Cesaro would be a good tv match as well.
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PWInsider reported that a decision was made on Wednesday for William Regal not to come to last night’s NXT TV tapings. He hasn’t appeared since before WrestleMania due to a medical condition.

Tucker Knight also wasn’t at last night’s tapings due to his family welcoming the birth of their daughter.
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Wrestling DVD Network revealed some of the matches that will be included in the Shawn Michaels unreleased matches DVD that is being put out this October:

The Rockers vs. The Orient Express (London, Ontario, Canada, April 29, 1990)
Piper’s Pit segment with Michaels (Syracuse, New York, April 29, 1992)
Michaels, Diesel & The Undertaker vs. Sycho Sid, Tatanka & Kama in a six-man elimination match (Evansville, Indiana, July 25, 1995)
Michaels vs. Vader for the WWF Championship (State College, Pennsylvania, September 29, 1996)
Michaels vs. Brooklyn Brawler for the WWF Championship (Madison Square Garden, November 15, 1997)
Michaels vs. Batista vs. Chris Jericho for the World Heavyweight Championship (Atlanta, Georgia, November 17, 2008)
Link: http://www.wrestlingdvdnetwork.com/f...ed-dvd/156399/

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A Vader collection has been added to the WWE Network.
Content listing: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...ction.html?p=1

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Indies Roundup:
ROH announced that this year’s Death Before Dishonor pay-per-view will take place at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas on September 28. The show had taken place at the smaller Sam’s Town Live over the past couple of years. ROH will also have TV tapings at the Orleans Arena on September 29.

Konnan will be wrestling for the first time in five years as part of MLW’s 40-participant Battle Riot match in Queens on July 19.

Pete Dunne vs. WALTER is set for wXw’s show in Cologne on July 22.
ROH: https://www.rohwrestling.com/news/de...urns-las-vegas , MLW: https://mlw.com/2018/06/22/konnan-en...e-battle-riot/ , wXw: https://twitter.com/wXwGermany/statu...92634969378817

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The updated lineup for the 7/7 WWE return to Madison Square Garden is:

*The Undertaker & Roman Reigns & Braun Strowman vs. Elias & Baron Corbin & Kevin Owens in Undertaker's first MSG appearance since 2010.

*WWE Intercontinental Champion Dolph Ziggler vs. Finn Balor vs. Seth Rollins.

*Nia Jax vs. Ronda Rousey with WWE Raw Women's Champion Alexa Bliss as the guest referee in Rousey's WWE debut in MSG.

Also advertised for the event are WWE Raw Tag Team Champions Bray Wyatt & Matt Hardy, Jinder Mahal, Bobby Lashley, Bayley, Natalya, Bobby Roode and more.
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The 6/14 edition of Impact did 262,000 overnight viewers, down from last week's 276,000,overnight viewers.
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After speaking with numerous sources this morning, we are told that AAA still has two holds on MSG in the Fall of 2018, including 9/16 and a back-up date as AAA was also looking at running Las Vegas on 9/16. Initially, we had heard that the second date was 9/23 but we were told this morning it is actually later in the Fall.

We are told that AAA is working on strategies for running this Fall but have also considered pushing back their debut until early 2019 as they want to maximize it and not waste the time, money and effort going into the debut.

So, while ROH has lost their date, AAA's holds on Madison Square Garden remain, at least as of this writing ...

If any promotion does end up running Madison Square Garden, they will become the first pro wrestling company to run the legendary "Mecca of sports-entertainment" outside of the McMahon Family dating back to 1961, when Vince McMahon’s father, Vincent J. McMahon took over running pro wrestling in the Garden. The McMahon-MSG relationship dates back, however to 1925 when Vince McMahon's grandfather Roderick “Jess” McMahon became the matchmaker for both professional wrestling and boxing in the venue. Both Vince McMahon and his father Vincent J. have been inducted into the Garden's "Walk of Fame."

AAA ran the Theater in Madison Square Garden in July 1994, headlined by Konnan & Cien Caras & Perro Aguayo vs. Eddie Guerrero & Art Barr & Jake Roberts. WCW (once in 1993 and once in 1996) and the original Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling also ran the adjacent Theater in the MSG complex but no promotion outside of WWE has ever booked a date in the 20,789-seat Garden.
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Add Randy Orton, currently recovering from knee surgery, to the list of WWE talents seen in Birmingham, Alabama of late.
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I'm catching up on ECW on the WWE network and am confused by something. On Hardcore TV Episode 24 it's mentioned ECW is now affiliated with the NWA and Bloodfeast 1993 is promoted as an NWA show. However according to online sources ECW was already an NWA territory or already affiliated with them upon launching in 1992? Which one is it?

ECW was not affiliated with the NWA upon launch. Tod Gordon decided to become a NWA member to lend credibility to the promotion towards the end of 1993. ECW maintained that relationship until August 1994 when doublecrossed the NWA and Shane Douglas tossed down the NWA title, declaring the ECW belt a World championship. At that point, ECW transitioned into the Extreme name and was done with the NWA.
From PWI's weekly Q&A articles discussing ECW's history with the NWA prior to breaking away.

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WWE announced the following:

The 2018 United Kingdom Championship Tournament concludes this Monday on WWE Network, but if you’re looking to catch up on all the action that’s transpired so far, the ultimate primer — the U.K. Championship Tournament First-Round Marathon — is on its way!

Starting today at noon ET, the WWE Universe will be able to catch all eight First-Round Matches in their entirety as they stream back-to-back-to-back on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.

Catch the likes of acclaimed Irishman Jordan Devlin, “Liverpool’s No. 1” Zack Gibson, technical wizard Jack Gallagher, “Kiwi Buzzsaw” Travis Banks, “Iron King” Joe Coffey and more as they vie for the opportunity to challenge WWE United Kingdom Champion Pete Dunne for the title at the NXT U.K. Championship special, streaming this Tuesday on WWE Network.
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The first ten participants for this year’s PWG Battle of Los Angeles have been revealed.

The most interesting name announced was the first: Pierre Carl Ouellet. The former Quebecer Pierre has had something of a career revival as of late, putting on a memorable performance at this year’s Joey Janela Spring Break event against WALTER.

Other international talent announced include longtime British indy star Jody Fleisch, WXW Unified Champion Ilja Dragunov, CMLL star Puma King and Chris Brookes, also from the UK wrestling scene who has wrestled for RPW and IPW, as well as CZW in the United States ...

Here are the full list of participants confirmed for the tournament so far, which takes place on September 14, 15 and 16 at the Globe Theater in Los Angeles, CA:

PCO
Brody King
Jody Fleisch
Ilja Dragunov
Robbie Eagles
Joey Janela
Puma King
David Starr
Rey Horus
Chris Brookes
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As noted, female Superstars were held off last weekend's WWE live events so they could be in Chicago for Money In the Bank rehearsals. The women's Money In the Bank Ladder Match was rehearsed with Tyson Kidd and Fit Finley as the agents in charge, mostly Kidd, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

The Ronda Rousey vs. Nia Jax match at MITB was also completely rehearsed in Chicago before the show with Finlay laying the match out. The Asuka vs. SmackDown Women's Champion Carmella match was not practiced ahead of time.

Regarding Money In the Bank going so long that they nixed the post-show on the WWE Network, people were still being told that the show would end at 10:30pm as late as the week of the show. The show ended up going until 11:20pm, almost an hour longer than they planned. The plan during the week was to close the show with Rousey vs. Jax and Alexa Bliss cashing in to win the RAW Women's Title but the decision was made to go with the "happy ending" of Braun Strowman winning the men's MITB Ladder Match.

Some other sheet news includes:
  • Recent episode of Talk Is Jericho podcast show had the Observer's Dave Meltzer as the guest. https://omny.fm/shows/talk-is-jerich...ltzer-fullshow
  • Recent episode of the Edge & Christian podcast show had Rhyno as the guest. https://player.fm/series/ecs-pod-of-...champion-rhyno
  • In a "TPWW Did You Know" type fact, searching "Ref Bump Gif" in Google Images brings up this thread on the second row of results. The image shown is from page 46 and is a gif from WCW where Dustin Rhodes gives a running bulldog to a ref during a match.

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WrestlingNews.Co reporting an exclusive that what caused Big Cass's release was manhandling Carmella backstage & The Uso's and Erick Rowan stepped in to remove him. It was 'the final straw' for Vince.


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Last night's Raw ratings had both good and bad news.

The bad news is the final number, of 2.67 million viewers, which would be the lowest the show has done in the modern era except against the NFL or NBA playoffs. It was an eight percent drop from last week's show which was boosted by coming the day after the Money in the Bank PPV ...

Ironically, the last time the third hour was the highest rated of the show was 52 weeks ago, on June 26, 2017.

Before that, you'd have to go back to March 14, 2016.

There is no television explanation for this. There was nothing that did big numbers on the networks -- and cable numbers weren't strong either. Raw was fifth on cable, trailing only news shows.

The explanation is the show itself.

What this means is there was lower than usual level of interest in the show, however, the show itself was good, in fact by current standards when it comes to keeping the audience, it was the best in a year. This caused the usual viewership tune-out not to happen. The lesson of the show was that, at least for this week, the idea of a nearly 30-minute main event was a huge ratings success.

The three hours were:

8 p.m. 2.60 million viewers
9 p.m. 2.68 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.71 million viewers
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Just a few hours before it was supposed to happen, WWE announced that the Jeff Hardy vs. Shinsuke Nakamura United States Championship match that was scheduled to headline tonight's SmackDown has been pulled from the show.

While offering few other details, WWE put out a video this afternoon noting that Nakamura suffered an injury last night and won't be able to compete today. Nakamura didn't work SmackDown's Monday night house show in Bakersfield, California, and Dave Meltzer has confirmed that Nakamura was bit in the leg by a police dog at the Rabobank Arena in Bakersfield yesterday.

Whether or not Nakamura will be able to wrestle at WWE's house shows in Japan this weekend is uncertain at this point.
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According to what we were told, a law enforcement dog was being brought around the building as part of a pre-show security check. The dog was brought past Nakamura. We are told the dog sniffed Nakamura and then, without provocation, proceeded to bite him on the leg.

As a medical precaution, WWE pulled Nakamura from last night's live event, where he was slated to work a main event Fatal Four Way bout. The Bakersfield live event was headlined by Jeff Hardy defeating Samoa Joe, Rusev and Shelton Benjamin instead.

WWE has not yet cleared Nakamura for action. We are told Nakamura is backstage at tonight's Smackdown Live taping in Ontario, CA but his leg is still very sore from the incident.
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WWE officially announced what had been widely reported on for the last month: SmackDown will be moving to Fox in October of 2019, while Raw will remain on the USA Network.

The company put out a press release today officially announcing the five-year agreement. SmackDown will air on Fridays starting on October 4, 2019 on the FOX network. It will remain a two-hour broadcast ...

Meanwhile, WWE concurrently announced that Monday Night Raw will continue on the USA Network in what is also a five-year deal with NBC Universal. It will start in October 2019 ...

These agreements increase the average annual value (AAV) of WWE’s U.S. distribution to 3.6 times that of the prior deal with NBCU.
Link: https://www.f4wonline.com/wwe-news/w...ackdown-260476

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The official announcements of WWE's new television deals for Raw and Smackdown Live led to a big rise in the company's stock and it's still rising.

After closing at $66.62, the stock continues to rise in after-hours trading and is currently trading at $77, which would be an all time record for the stock, the highest since WWE went public in 1999.
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Indies Roundup:
Kevin Harvey noted that Rise [Wrestling] was in trouble. He said the 6/29 show in South Gate, CA will go on as will the 7/7 and 7/8 shows. He said he doesn't want to cancel 10/19 in Berwyn, IL but ticket sales have been pulled. He said those who have tickets will be refunded if the show is canceled. Harvey said it's a real possibility that the 7/8 tapings in Naperville, IL could be their last show.

New Japan has put up the legendary Stan Hansen vs. Big Van Vader match from the Tokyo Dome for free on New Japan World in honor of Vader.

The 7/12 House of Hardcore show in Adelaide, Australia has been canceled. The rest of the tour is still happening. Bully Ray & Craven & ? vs. Spirit Squad was announced for a tables match on their show on 7/11 in Perth.

The 7/19 Major League Wrestling BattleRiot event in New York City will air on BeIN Sports as a two hour special, MLW announced today. We are told the negotiations for the special closed earlier today just before the announcement was made. There had been an offer on the table to make the show a taped PPV event, but MLW owner Court Bauer felt that making the show a special on broadcast TV would be a stronger play towards getting attention for the brand and getting the product in front of fans. The special will air on 7/27.

Here’s the updated lineup for the Battle Riot match: John Hennigan (Morrison), Pentagon Jr., ACH, Kevin Sullivan, Davey Boy Smith Jr., Teddy Hart, Rich Swann, Barrington Hughes, Jake Hager (Jack Swagger), Jimmy Yuta, Pierre Carl Ouellet, Lance Anoa’i, Swoggle (Hornswoggle), Konnan, Sami Callihan, Joey Ryan, Jason Cade, and Tom Lawlor.

Anthem issued a press release today announcing the hire of Peter Einstein as the new Chief Operating Officer of Anthem Sports & Entertainment, which includes Impact Wrestling. We are told that the hiring does not mean any changes to the Impact management team, headed by Ed Nordholm, Don Callis and Scott D'Amore.

Nick Gage vs. Meng is the second match to be revealed for Joey Janela’s Lost in New York in Queens on August 17, joining Matt Riddle vs. Pierre Carl Ouellet on the card.
NJPW: http://njpwworld.com/p/o_original_0075_61 , MLW: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...-27th.html?p=1 , Anthem: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...nment.html?p=1 , Janela: https://twitter.com/JANELABABY/statu...12155781050368

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MLW announced the following:

JOHN HENNIGAN VS. LOW KI SIGNED FOR MLW’s JULY 19TH NYC CARD; “FILTHY” TOM LAWLOR ENTERS BATTLE RIOT

NEW YORK – Major League Wrestling’s biggest show ever is coming to New York City this summer and the card just got bigger. On July 19th in New York City Low Ki vs. John Hennigan (formally John Morrison) has been signed.
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The Big Van Vader autobiography is still scheduled to be released later this year. It was originally slated to be released around Wrestlemania time, but Vader kept going back to add additional material to the book, which kept pushing it back. It will still be released with Jesse White’s involvement, but there is no timeline for its release as with Vader’s passing, the book is being updated once again.
More details: https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...-card.html?p=1

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Based on their appearances at the end of the WWE UK Championship Tournament Finale broadcast, it would appear the following talents will be part of the NXT UK roster going forward:

Mark Andrews
Travis Banks
Tyler Bate
Joe Coffey
Mark Coffey
Joseph Conners
Noam Dar
Eddie Dennis
Jordan Devlin
Pete Dunne
Jack Gallagher
Sam Gradwell
Saxon Huxley
Amir Jordan
El Ligero
Dave Mastiff
Trent Seven
Ashton Smith
Tyson T-Bone
Flash Morgan Webster
Wild Boar
Kenny Williams
Wolfgang
Isla Dawn
Jinny
Killer Kelly
Charlie Morgan
Nina Samuels
Toni Storm
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Eric Arndt (formerly Enzo Amore and now going by ‘Real1’) was a guest on the Steve Austin podcast on Tuesday and went in-depth over his firing by World Wrestling Entertainment in January following allegations of sexual assault ...

The firing occurred the day after the Raw 25th-anniversary episode in January. Enzo said he became aware of the allegations on that day when the accuser publicly tweeted about it. In the interview with Austin, Arndt did clarify that a friend of his contacted him in December and the friend’s girlfriend did receive an email from someone stating they were an investigator (but not identifying themselves as a police officer) and a woman had made a claim against a wrestler (not stating Arndt’s name). Arndt was made aware, contacted his lawyer, who in turn reached out the Phoenix Police Department and asked if Arndt was being charged and was told no charges had been laid. Arndt went about his business until the day of Raw 25 in Brooklyn and once the tweets came out, he immediately contacted his lawyer and then went to Mark Carrano, a WWE lawyer, and WWE official Adam Hopkins before meeting with Vince McMahon.

Enzo was scheduled for several segments throughout the episode of Raw. He was supposed to be part of the APA poker game and a series of backstage segments were to be shot with Enzo losing his Cruiserweight title in the game to Ted DiBiase, leading to Nia Jax winning the title back herself and handing it back to Enzo. Enzo was also scheduled for a match with Goldust on the show that would culminate with The Dudley Boyz appearing and putting Enzo through a table.

After meeting with Vince McMahon, Enzo was sent home with McMahon noting the timing of these allegations when they are promoting the women’s Royal Rumble match that weekend and the “Me Too” movement. As soon as Enzo left the meeting with McMahon, he was informed by Adam Hopkins that he had been suspended a statement had just been released by the company with Enzo responding, “I won’t forget about this” and was furious that the company didn’t have his back. Enzo proceeded to drive from Brooklyn to his sister’s house in Delaware while recording himself for the entire drive and is holding onto that audio until he thinks of what to do with it ...

The way his storyline with Nia Jax was scheduled to go, was that Enzo would be caught with Alexa Bliss and revealed that he was using Jax as his “heater” to keep the Cruiserweight title while hooking up with Bliss.

He confirmed in the interview that he was dressing by himself backstage and came off as having a dismissive attitude toward the culture of the wrestling locker room, with certain outdated traditions such as Wrestler’s Court not appealing to him and refusing to participate in them.

Regarding a return to the WWE, he stated he can’t wrestle due to sciatica right now, adding that he broke his back for a company that didn’t have his back in the end. He has also blocked out all the numbers with a “203” area code in his phone, which is the Connecticut area code.
Link: https://www.podcastone.com/episode/Real1-fka-Enzo-Amore

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Due to an injury in the middle of the match, the WWE had to edit around Monday’s multi-person women’s match on the UK Championship Tournament show. It was originally a fatal four-way match with Toni Storm, Killer Kelly, Isla Dawn, and Jinny. During the match, Jinny is believed to have suffered a concussion and they removed her from the match and redid it as a three-way, which is what you saw on Monday’s broadcast. The lone slip up was that the announcer introduced the match at the beginning as a “fatal four-way match”, which was a minor issue but one that I figured someone would have caught in post-production. Jinny has since come out stating she wasn’t seriously hurt and thanked those that checked in on her.
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The WWE is running local ads in the New York market to promote their July 7th house show at Madison Square Garden that state, “Ronda may be banned from Raw, but she is not banned from Madison Square Garden.”
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Rey Mysterio has not signed a new WWE deal as of Monday, according to Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio. It's believed that a deal will be finalized soon but Rey's involvement in the WWE 2K19 video game as the first pre-order bonus Superstar led to some speculation on his contract status. It was recently reported that the two sides were negotiating a three-year deal.
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WWE's Raw this week featured a main event that set the arena off, and Fightful.com was able to learn who produced all of the matches from the show.

It should come as no surprise at this point that the main event of Monday's show was produced by Tyson Kidd, real name TJ Wilson. The match was an Intercontinental Championship rematch that saw Seth Rollins looking to regain his title against new champion Dolph Ziggler. The match received high marks by our own ratings system, as is often the case with Seth Rollins matches in general, but certainly seem to be the trend when Kidd is assigned to them.

Tag team great Michael "PS" Hayes helped put together the opening match of the evening, which saw the Revival take down the "superteam" of Bobby Lashley and Roman Reigns. The barely existing match between Matt Hardy and Curtis Axel was assigned to D-Von Dudley, and Scott Armstrong was given producer duties for the Authors Of Pain's match.

WCW veteran Fit Finlay and Sarah Stock split the women's matches, with Finlay getting Natalya vs. Alexa Bliss, and Stock taking care of the six-woman tag match. While there wasn't actually a Mojo Rawley vs. No Way Jose match, Dean Malenko was listed as the producer for the segment. To round things out, Jamie Noble was given the Braun Strowman and Kevin Owens vs. Constable Corbin and Finn Balor match.
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WWE has a new poll asking which is worse for Kevin Owens - 55% voted, "Being Braun Strowman's enemy because he threw Owens off a ladder." The rest went with, "Being Braun Strowman's friend because he flipped over Owens' car."
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As noted, Wednesday's "Something Else to Wrestle with Bruce Prichard" podcast on the WWE Network will feature a discussion on The Undertaker's "American Badass" and "Big Evil" days. Below is a preview for the show with Prichard and co-host Conrad Thompson.

"In Taker's mind it was, if we make this change we can never go back," Prichard said of The Dead Man switching gimmicks.
Link: https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1011437393470111745

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Becky Lynch was a part of a Q&A session at the Ace Comic Con, facilitated by Lillian Garcia. Among a series of questions, Lynch was asked what is the first thing she would do if she became the CEO of WWE.

After jokingly stating that she would "fire James Ellsworth," she stated that she would book a match against Finn Balor and Shinsuke Nakamura. She then stated that she would have a women's tag team championship division.

Lynch was asked a follow-up question on whether she would have just one set of Women's Tag Team Champions, or if she would have them for both Raw and SmackDown Live.

"So right now, numbers-wise, I don't think we have enough women to have one on each brand," said Lynch. "So, what I think would be pretty cool, is if they were traveling, and not just between Raw and SmackDown, but NXT too. And then you'd have a huge, huge range of women that you'd go against and so many possibilities. And I think that would get people excited to watch any of the brands, because you wouldn't know when people would be showing up [on] either Raw or SmackDown because it'd all be traveling."

Garcia asked Becky if she pitched this idea to WWE already. "Yep. Been pitching it for a year," said Lynch. "Maybe two." Lynch stated that she knew that WWE had a women's tag team division before, but she would bring it back.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45lgJCakgSM


Some other sheet news includes:
  • In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, yesterday was the 42nd anniversary of the famous Muhammad Ali vs. Antonio Inoki match in Tokyo, Japan that went to a 15 Round draw.
  • Developer Spike Chunsoft revealed the PS4 cover of Fire Pro Wrestling World features Kenny Omega, Kazuchika Okada, Tetsuya Naito, and Hiroshi Tanahashi. https://twitter.com/SeanRossSapp/sta...rc=twsrc%5Etfw


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Coming off a night where Raw had an unusual ratings pattern and did the lowest number of modern times that wasn't against major sports competition, SmackDown followed suit with its lowest number of 2018, averaging just 2.135 million viewers. And, aside from Halloween night in 2017, it was SmackDown's lowest total in over a year.

The number was down eight percent from last week and down a whopping 18 percent year-over-year, which is the largest year-over-year drop the show has done since the brand split.

SmackDown finished seventh for the night on cable in terms of total viewers but did once again top the 18-49 demo with a 0.64 rating.
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Bakersfield police have commented on the dog attack that has put Shinsuke Nakamura on the shelf.

They have issued the following statement:

“On Monday, June 25, 2018, officers of the Bakersfield Police Department Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) Team were conducting a protective sweep of the Rabobank Arena in preparation for the WWE Live Summerslam Heatwave Tour" the statement says.

“During the sweep, the EOD Team, which consisted of an explosive detection trained canine team and bomb technicians entered an area of the arena where an employee of the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) was present. The canine entered the room to sweep for the presence of any explosive material. As the sweep took place the WWE employee was accidentally bit by the canine. The employee sustained an injury to his lower left leg. Medical aid was immediately summoned to the scene and the employee was transported to a local area hospital for medical treatment.”

It was reported yesterday afternoon that Nakamura was bitten by a police dog, rendering him unable to compete in a planned match against Jeff Hardy for the United States championship on SmackDown. His status for this weekend’s shows in Japan is also currently up in the air. There is no current timetable for a return.
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Though Will Ospreay set up a match with Jimmy Havoc for PROGRESS Wrestling’s show at Wembley Arena on September 30, he won’t be able to work the event. PROGRESS put out an interview with Ospreay today where he said NJPW has booked a show in Los Angeles on or around that date that he’ll be wrestling on. NJPW hasn’t officially announced the show.

NJPW is releasing an English version of their mobile game on iOS and Android this summer.

MLW added Kotto Brazil to the lineup for their 40-man Battle Riot match that will take place in Queens next month.
PROGRESS: https://youtu.be/zHU-Xr54z-Y , NJPW: https://www.njpw1972.com/30764 , MLW: https://twitter.com/MLW/status/1012042269929680896

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Finn Balor showed off the following bruise suffered on Monday Night Raw:

Thanks Constable Corbin....
But even when I bruise I’m Bálor Club pic.twitter.com/tsjiR4NNMX
— Finn Bálor forEVERYone (@FinnBalor) June 27, 2018
Link: https://twitter.com/FinnBalor/status...95466102444032

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The Rock took to Twitter to respond to Shane Helms about the night The Rock put Hurricane over on Raw:

Dude always a pleasure working with you. Never an ego and always down to do whatever it took to entertain the fans. And to be honest, I only did “the job and put you over” because you paid me in hamburgers. https://t.co/8wsHGmYlxI
— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) June 27, 2018
Link: https://twitter.com/TheRock/status/1011953548970614784

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WWE is going patriotic with this week's "Hidden Gem":

WWF All-Star Wrestling- February 4, 1981
American Pride
Two of WWE’s most patriotic Superstars collide when the militant Sgt. Slaughter faces off against Hacksaw Jim Duggan.

Note: WWE Network News reports that the footage is actually WWF Championship Wrestling with means it's probably from January 31, 1981 Cobra Clutch Challenge.
Link: http://wwenetworknews.com/2018/06/27...rk-hidden-gem/

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It is a big test for both the WWE and Fox as SmackDown moves to a weekly network prime time slot. Unlike in 1999, when SmackDown became a shining light on the fledgling UPN, in 2018 they are going onto a major network that is paying a reported $205 million per year so the standards are significantly higher than in 1999 in terms of what is deemed a success.

In 2018, SmackDown Live is averaging 2,515,000 viewers on the USA Network, which is a very respectable viewership average on cable but falls below the network average for Fox. From October 2017 – February 2018, Fox averaged 5,892,000 viewers for their prime-time programming and were trailing NBC, CBS, and ABC. Unlike Raw, SmackDown will find itself in a position where they will need to grow their audience to maintain the status of a prime-time network show on Fox. It is also a new type of product that Fox is going to have to go out and sell to make back their big investment. We saw the lengths that NBC Universal has gone to since the last contract negotiation in 2014 to sell the product, by integrating the WWE with examples like John Cena regularly appearing on the ‘Today Show’, various campaigns they have run and what has led to the WWE having a higher status among advertisers and programmers.

The upside of the Fox deal far outweighs any concerns, as this will provide the WWE with their largest platform they have ever had for a weekly program. The ability to cross promote on Fox Sports programming and receive the promotional muscle that Fox wields could prove extremely effective in creating further awareness of their content and serve as a star-making vehicle ...

The structure of SmackDown won’t likely be addressed until much closer to the start date on Fox, which will air its first episode on October 4th, 2019. I cannot imagine SmackDown in its current form is the product you see in 16 months. Whether these deals signal the end of the brand split, it makes no sense to have major stars like Ronda Rousey exclusive to one show and the company needs to go all out for their debut on Fox. The move to Fox also coincides with the 20th anniversary of SmackDown (premiering in August 1999) and could easily build to a Raw 25 type of show for the Fox launch.
Post Wrestling's John Pollock on the expectations and struggles FOX will have with Smackdown. Same article also compared the differences FOX had when they carried UFC and why NBC is going to have a much easier time with RAW. Pollock also thinks the brand split era likely is going to end by the time the new contracts take effect. https://www.postwrestling.com/2018/0...o-fox-in-2019/

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During the conference call, they confirmed that the digital rights to Raw and SmackDown Live were included in these deals so there will not be separate digital rights deal for those two programs. The episodes will continue to be added to the WWE Network 30-days after they air on USA and Fox. They did cite the potential for other digital distribution deals with the Mixed Match Challenge brought up by one investor as a possibility.

Some other sheet news includes:
  • Website Wrestling DVD Network recently revealed the entire content listing for WWE's upcoming Shawn Michaels DVD set. https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...s-dvd.html?p=1
  • Youtube channel So Catch by Hal had a recent interview with Adam Cole talking about evolving as a wrestler and his thoughts on the Young Bucks winning the IWGP Tag titles at NJPW Dominion. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...mself-and-the/
  • In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, today is the 19th anniversary of Billy Gunn's King of the Ring 1999 victory. WWE's attempt to use the victory as a springboard for bigger stardom for Gunn ended up failing miserably after a few months.
  • In another "WWE Did You Know" type fact, today is the 7th anniversary of CM Punk's pipebomb promo on RAW.
  • NJPW held a recent media call with Cody as the guest talking about issues with WWE's Creative process, differences between WWE's and NJPW's locker rooms, thoughts on New Day vs Elite Street Fighter V match at E3, and more. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...new-day-at-e3/
  • For those interested, PWInsider has highlights of the investors conference WWE held today in regards to their TV deals. https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...-call.html?p=1


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Repeating this for accuracy: Reigns wins title at SS, Braun cashes in and murders him. WWE sends everyone home super psyched.
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That makes sense given the current landscape. I get the impression from what I've heard recently that they're trying to make it sound like Brock is leaving with the belt? This is an attempt to heel him and get Reigns cheered (which is ridiculous at this point). They can go with Reigns winning the belt at SummerSlam, which will get booed, and then they can call the audible and have Braun cash in when it doesn't work and make it look like a master-plan.

This also explains why they tried to push Brock so hard as a heel that was leaving heading into Mania and pulled the plug on Reigns winning -- they didn't have the MITB fail-safe this time.
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It would make sense to go all-out with SmackDown on FOX. But thinking about things more clearly, FOX probably knows exactly what they bought. Their statement seems to be expectant of the SmackDown audience and not anything significantly larger. Meltzer said that Ronda Rousey was important in negotiating these deals, but it wouldn't surprise me if the deal is just on the WWE general product.

Honestly, I don't think much will have to change. Which pisses me off to no end, don't get me wrong -- but the goal for Vince is probably to get as much money for as little effort as he needs to put in. I imagine that there will be a big main event, lots of stars and maybe a new look when they debut, but I don't think they are going to put in any appreciable effort into changing the product or that they have to.
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It won't work, re: Roman "the hero"...it will probably just piss people off and the live crowd will shit all over it (again).

Braun cashing in would get a massive pop but I feel like they'll tease Braun cashing in for a while.
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Maybe. I don't see why they just don't do what they want to do. This whole arrangement is very weird. Logically, you'd think they'd have cut bait on Reigns as champion, otherwise he'd had won the belt at either Mania or in Saudi. But I guess it doesn't really matter, and maybe surpassing Punk was something they wanted to do?
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I think they are advertising Roman vs KO for HIAC in San Antonio a few weeks after SummerSlam so I don't think Roman will lose the belt right away...but I could be wrong and plans change
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The WWE released information that the total worldwide value of its television deals, which were $215 million last year (this includes both U.S. and the rest of the world), increases to $235 million this year. In 2019, with the big deals kicking in for the last three months, it would be up to $314 million. The combination of the FOX and USA Network deals would be $435 million in 2020, $462 million in 2021, and escalate past $470 million in 2022. Right now the company is estimating $79 million for television rights outside the U.S. in 2020 and $80 million in 2021, but those numbers because of the various deals that haven’t come due, can change, meaning a projection of $542 million in 2021. The company should shoot past the $1 billion revenue mark by 2020.
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Really, this is the make-or-break week for Lesnar and UFC. If he doesn’t enter the USADA testing pool by 6/29, he won’t be able to fight the winner of the 7/7 Stipe Miocic vs. Daniel Cormier heavyweight title match on 12/29, or fight Jon Jones if somehow they can figure out a way to retain a smidgen of credibility for their drug testing program and somehow give Jones less than two years on a positive steroid test ... If Lesnar doesn’t enter the testing pool, as he needs six months of clean testing before he can fight in UFC, it would indicate the whole leaving for UFC is a leverage negotiating play. Cormier, who is on friendly terms with Lesnar, said in an interview this past week with Ariel Helwani that his plan is to beat Miocic, defend against Lesnar and then end his career with another match with Jones.
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Regarding AAA and Madison Square Garden, it is notable that WWE did not attempt to block their date. AAA still has a hold on 9/16, but it’s not going to happen as Konnan said that they won’t be ready. They were looking for a TV deal and a sponsorship deal where the chances of success would be better. If they ran with no television and no sponsorship, it would not be successful so there would be no point. But they are hoping to run MSG in 2019. It’s pretty clear WWE isn’t against anyone else running MSG as much as blocking people who they feel would be successful running MSG.
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The 7/7 Cow Palace show is listed for four-and-a-half hours live on AXS after the eight hour Bullet Club marathon that starts at Noon Eastern time with wrap-arounds by the Young Bucks & Cody ... Cow Palace ticket sales are a little over 5,000 at ths point. However, almost all the tickets sold are the most expensive, so it is likely already the largest gate in the history of the building. One reader who regularly goes to Japan town in San Francisco said they’ve seen no advertising or publicity anywhere except for one poster at a super market, which lists no matches and only four names, Okada, Omega, Tanahashi and Naito. I’ve seen nothing anywhere and there’s no local awareness of the event from anyone outside the hardcore wrestling fan base. Most area fans have no clue there is a show.
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Vice TV will be doing a series of weekly pro wrestling documentaries starting on 10/19. There will be ten of them in total on subjects that include Gino Hernandez, Dino Bravo, The Von Erichs and Bruiser Brody. From what I understand, the Hernandez one will have a ton of stuff that has never been reported. Hernandez is a subject that most modern fans aren’t familiar with since he died more than 30 years ago and was only 28 at the time of his death from a cocaine overdose. When he was around, there were guys like Ric Flair and Roddy Piper who had similar roles of being the good looking arrogant top heel and were better at it. But by today’s standards, with no Ric Flair’s or Roddy Piper’s in the business today, Hernandez’s out of the ring stuff, his promos, and his arrogance and presence comes off even more impressive because there is no heel remotely like him.

I’ve seen the Brody trailer, which focuses on Tony Atlas, and it’s riveting. There are some really interesting things that will come up in all of them, but the Hernandez story is one that will be amazing with the many different paths it takes because unlike most of the stories that they are doing, which have been done in detail multiple times, the Hernandez death was one that happened, a million rumors came after, but nobody really did any investigation on it past the cocaine overdose aspect of the death. Kevin Von Erich said that he never opened up as much as he did as the crew came and spent several days with him and his family on Maui, where the entire family lives in a group of homes all together and raises fruit.
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Just to clarify, the ROH contracts with the Young Bucks & Cody all expire at the end of this year. This is going to be one of the biggest stories to the year to follow because of the timing of all three, as well as Kenny Omega being due. All have indicated in different interviews that they are not looking at going to WWE, with Cody adamant about not wanting to go somewhere where he can’t write his own music. New Japan made a big move with the Bucks and Omega at Dominion and they are keys to their international expansion. But WWE can afford to put on paper terms that nobody else in wrestling can meet. These guys are the exceptions in the sense they can all make big money in wrestling away from WWE, and work their own programs, as has been shown in both ROH and New Japan, as well as have far more control of their matches and their schedules. They all work far less dates than WWE talent. They are also a lock to be in top positions outside of WWE, while there is no guarantee how WWE would use them ...

They will also likely be at the peak of bargaining power after All In, because don’t think for a second that WWE wants any doors opened to the idea that somebody else is significant in promoting wrestling in this country like happened when Hot Topic, a major chain, picked up the New Japan/Bullet Club merchandise and then it greatly outsold WWE merchandise, and all in was in many ways probably the third hottest pro wrestling ticket of the year behind WrestleMania and Royal Rumble and probably the second hottest traveling ticket. It’s early to speculate on how this goes down, as there are three different key acts involved, and there are a lot of landscape changes going on. New Japan’s expansion makes New Japan top talent that much more important for WWE to take. The MSG situation is likely to put WWE and Sinclair into a battle and these are Sinclair’s prime wrestling talents. There also could be someone on the periphery starting up, or joining in.
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In something that may have significance down the line, Lightning One Productions, which is the company owned by William “Billy” Corgan as well as the parent company of the NWA, is producing “All Us,” which will be a series of videos promoting the “All In” show on 9/1 in Chicago. At minimum, the NWA is working with the show given the probable Nick Aldis vs. Cody NWA title match (as the storyline goes, Cody first has to win the ROH title, he’s getting a shot in a three-way with Marty Scurll and champ Dalton Castle on the 6/29 PPV show in Baltimore), that is pretty much the only match that’s been talked about publicly for the show.
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Regarding Rey Mysterio Jr., the announcement of his return in the video game has led to expectations of a return. But this is like all the video game announcements of talent which are separate negotiations from WWE, but the historical track record with Sting, Bill Goldberg and Ultimate Warrior is that it ends up opening the doors and the deal is made. In this case, those doors were already opened a long time ago. Mysterio has met with Paul Levesque. At this point no deal has been agreed to but I expect to happen, maybe even going so far as to say I strongly expect it to happen in relatively short order. Really, it’s been pretty much more of a when than if since the reaction at the Royal Rumble and how well he was moving opened up strong interest from WWE. It’s a matter of working out the money and dates but my impression is they are close on both. This is one of those situations where WWE will likely announce it as soon as the deal is done because they very much want to break the announcement themselves. As far as what that means with All In, that I don’t know.
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Cass has a 90-day non-compete in his contract ... Still, a ton of promoters, particularly overseas, would likely pay well for Enzo & Cass as a team. And the issue is the two of them hate each other right now. Enzo has clearly not gone headfirst into the indie scene and is looking at making it as a rapper. Before he was fired, he had openly talked of potentially leaving and trying to do other entertainment work, but his merchandise money was so big that he probably never would have made that break. Him saying basically that on a phone call that other wrestlers heard was essentially the reason he was kicked off the bus on that European tour.
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Ric Flair will be undergoing surgery on 7/9. This is the last operation he’s scheduled for related to his bad health problems last year.
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Almost all signs are that this upcoming version of the XFL will be every different from the first one. Oliver Luck, who was hired by Vince McMahon to be both CEO and commissioner of the new league, said he got assurances the league would be completely different from the original. Vince is also very willing to spend money because the Sports Business Journal reported that Luck’s multi-year contract guarantees him $20 million and it could grow to more than $30 million if the league is successful. Luck was considered the heir apparent to the position held by Mike Emmett as President of NCAA Football so it took that kind of an offer to take him out of that future ...

This is a league that will either succeed or fail based on one metric, which is media rights fees. The idea is Vince will pump money into it for years until it gets a foundation and then it can get those rights fees. Luck said that they have a long-term goal including spending big money to hire name coaches. The other difference is that Vince himself is in so much better financial state. He has readily said he expects to lose more than $100 million getting it started. The other difference is the competition, because as noted, there are a number of leagues planning to start, with Charlie Ebersol’s AAF being the most serious of them since it already has a deal with CBS and CBS Sports Network. The AAF also has announced Birmingham, San Diego, Atlanta, Orlando, Memphis, Salt Lake City and Phoenix as cities for its teams, which would make those markets very difficult for the XFL.
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If Vince McMahon had known this was coming he’d have surely waited to sell so much stock.

In December, he sold 3,340,000 shares at $28.68 per share to raise $95,791,200 for the XFL start-up. If he sold those shares today at market value (and if he did sell, it would actually be at slightly below market value) he’d have raised $236,672,400 so had he just sat right for six months he could have retained far more stock while raising far more money, and funded a ton of XFL early losses. But either way, he’s at the stage where he can afford however large the losses will be at first. It’s just a decision of giving up or not giving up on the belief it’ll make it long-term. It’s long past the point that money will ever be an issue with him or the XFL.
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MLW will be crowning a Middleweight Champion at their Battle Riot show in Queens, New York next month.

The promotion announced today that Joey Ryan will face Maxwell J. Friedman (MJF) at the Melrose Ballroom on July 19 to decide the inaugural champion. This will be MLW's third active title, joining their World Heavyweight and Tag Team Championships. Those are currently held by Shane Strickland and Pentagon Jr. & Fenix, respectively.
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Besides the ROH show tomorrow night, there is the Kenny Omega promoted New Japan show in Daytona Beach on Twitch and Bellator on Paramount Network.

PCW Ultra on 7/27 in Wilmington, CA on FITE TV has Penta 0M & Warbeast vs. OVE & Sami Callhan, Shane Strickland vs. Flip Gordon for the light heavyweight title, Tessa Blanchard vs. Britt Baker for the women's title, Matt Riddle vs. Brody King, Rich Swann vs. Matt Cross vs. Jake Atlas, Dragon Lee vs. ACH and Hammerstone vs. Timothy Thatcher. Jake Roberts will also be a special guest.

MCW's annual Shane Shamrock Cup is 7/13 and 7/14 in Joppa,MD. 2 Cold Scorpio will be on the show. Mark Henry, Danielle Moinet (Summer Rae), Milena Roucka (Rosa Mendes) will be making appearances on the 7/13 show.

Beyond Wrestling Americanrana on 7/29 in Worcester, MA at the White Eagle has PCO vs. Brian Cage, Brody King vs. Josh Briggs, Matt Riddle & Tom Lawlor vs Nick Gage & Matt Tremont, Tracy Williams vs. Wheeler Yuta, Jonathan Gresham vs MJF and more.
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How come guys from Impact are allowed to work companies with nationally broadcasted TV shows? You see Aries working ROH & MLW; along with Callihan & Konnan?

Impact allows that because they simply can’t afford to pay the talents a full-time salary that keeps them exclusive to Impact and Impact alone. So, the talents work wherever they want, making sure Impact has the priority for TV taping dates. Until Impact Wrestling is in a different financial position, that’s how its going to be.
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Variety reported that Dwayne Johnson's sequel to last year's "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle" now has a release date of December 13, 2019. That is an extremely interesting date as it sets the film, the sequel to the biggest movie in Sony history, on a direct path with Disney's Star Wars Episode IX, which will be released the following weekend. While Star Wars has traditionally been a juggernaut, the divisive reaction to the franchise's Episode VIII and the lackluster success of the most recent film Solo: A Star Wars Story puts the Jumanji sequel in a position to, for the first time, be a film that can undercut the success of a Star Wars movie, something that would be unthinkable even a few years ago.
Ignoring debates on the quality of the films and diversity/SJW complaints online, Disney seriously damaged the box office power of the Star Wars series by making it an annual thing. Was a big shock last year Jumanji managed to be a big box office hit but if Rock does it again next year against Star Wars, would just cement his status as a big box office drawing machine for Hollywood.

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According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, the Jax vs. Rousey Raw Women's Championship match was discussed to be the main event of the evening, with the major emphasis being Bliss cashing in the briefcase and winning the title heading into Raw to next evening ...

The WON noted that media was told Money in the Bank was going to end at 10:30 p.m. EST, with enough cushion for an overrun to end before 11:00 p.m., as the goal is for only the "big four" pay-per-views – Rumble Rumble, WrestleMania, SummerSlam, and Survivor Series – to potentially run over 11:00 p.m. Early in the show, producers realized that the 10:30 p.m. finish was not going to happen, and the show ended at about 11:20 p.m. EST.

While the feeling was that it would have been a risk main-eventing Rousey in just her first singles match and second match overall, Rousey's performances has caused WWE to be much more comfortable with headlining her in the final match of the card on future events.

Some other sheet news includes:
  • According to Pro Wrestling Sheet, an official announcement regarding NXT's future is expected to be made very soon. Current rumors are the show going to Fox Sports 1 as part of WWE's new TV deals. https://twitter.com/ryansatin/status...42234472370177
  • According to the Observer, WWE is currently considering suing the Bakerfield PD due to Monday's incident involving Shinsuke Nakamura. Main reason is due to Nakamua's return status is currently unclear and it affecting their plans for this weekend's tour of Japan.
  • Also according to the Observer, AXS TV currently has plans for their Women of Wrestling show to start next year.
  • In a "WWE Did You Know' type fact, today is the 20th anniversary of the famous Mankind-Taker Hell in a Cell match. Not only did the match end up as one of the most famous and influential matches in WWE history, it also cemented the legacy of the Cell and Foley's stardom status in the WWE. Post Wrestling recently released a retrospective of the famous bout. https://www.postwrestling.com/2018/0...-a-cell-match/


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Matt Cappotelli has passed away after his second battle with brain cancer.

Cappotelli's wife, Lindsay, wrote on Facebook: "Hey Team Capp...I’ve been struggling with what to say and how to say this, and I’ll probably end up rambling, but here goes. Today my love-my strong, sweet, beautiful love-took his last breath at 3:30 a.m. and went Home to be with Jesus...exactly one year after his brain surgery. You think you can be prepared for this when you know it’s coming, but you just can’t. The only person who’s comfort I want right now is the one who can’t give it to me. I miss him so much. I know where he is now is so much better, but it doesn’t change how much I miss him."

Cappotelli was 38 years old.

Last June, Cappotelli underwent surgery after being diagnosed with a grade four glioblastoma brain tumor. Ninety percent of the tumor was able to be removed, but the remaining portion was too close to his brain stem. Lindsay wrote last month that they met with Cappotelli's neuro-oncologist and it was decided that he was at the point where they should discontinue treatments.

Cappotelli, who appeared to be universally well-liked by those who knew him, was one of the winners of season three of WWE Tough Enough. He was an up-and-coming star in OVW until his first brain cancer diagnosis in 2005 led to the end of his in-ring career.

John Hennigan (John Morrison), the other winner of Tough Enough season three, posted about Cappotelli's passing: "My first best friend in the wrestling business and to this day one of the best people I’ve ever known Matt Cappotelli has passed on. I’m gutted about this news. Matt inspired everyone around him especially me early in my career. He is loved and will be missed."
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A number of college athletes and independent wrestlers were a part of the latest WWE tryouts held at the WWE Performance Center this past week ...

Here is a list of the more notable names that were a part of this tryout camp:

Jake Kasper, a two time All-American from Duke University. The article noted that Gerald Brisco compared him to a young John Cena.

Chelsea Green, formerly of Impact Wrestling as Laurel Van Ness who also competed in the Tough Enough 2015 reboot.

Terrell and Terrence Hughes, twin sons of D-Von Dudley who made a few appearances in Impact Wrestling earlier this decade.

Rob Strauss, also known as Robbie E. Former Impact wrestling star and also a competitor on the reality show Amazing Race.

Rory Gulak, brother of Drew Gulak. He has an amateur wrestling background and has competed in places like CZW and CHIKARA.
Link with more details: https://www.f4wonline.com/wwe-news/w...tryouts-260671

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The current plan for Ronda Rousey's official return from her "WWE suspension" is for it to happen on the Raw in Buffalo, NY the day after the Extreme Rules PPV.

Rousey will be working all of her currently advertised live event appearances including a 7/7 bout against Nia Jax at Madison Square Garden and a 7/8 Bridgeport, CT tag team bout teaming with Jax against Alexa Bliss and Mickie James.
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In some interesting news, The Wales Comic Con announced that WWE Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels would not be able to attend their December 2018 event, but that WWE would be sending Dolph Ziggler, Cesaro and Sheamus to appear instead. What is interesting about this is that Ziggler's current WWE deal was expected to expire this summer, so the booking could be a sign that they have come to terms on a new deal or that both sides are working under the agreement that a new deal is expected to be signed.
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ESPN is reporting that Vince McMahon has told people close to him that he expects to spend in the area of $500 million when he relaunches the XFL in 2020.

Initially, the number being reported that he would spend would be around $100 million. Of course, since that announcement WWE's stock has more than doubled and they announced TV deals where they will be making 3.6 times more in programming fees in the US alone starting next October.

Suffice it to say, he has more money to spend now than he did when the deal was announced.

With a half billion being committed to the projected, the chances of attracting name players has gone up. And players are what will draw eyes to the product, in my humble opinion.
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Major League Wrestling today announced 5 additional participants known as the “fearless 5” for the first-ever Battle Riot match on July 19th in New York City. Jimmy Havoc, Brody King, Low Ki, Head Shrinker: Samu and ½ of the World Tag Team Champions Rey Fenix will all vie for a world title shot as they compete in the 40 wrestler Battle Riot at the Melrose Ballroom in Queens, NY.

Impact Wrestling has announced a four-way match for Slammiversary with Johnny Impact vs. Rich Swann vs. Rey Fenix vs. Taiji Ishimori, as well as confirming the Hair vs. Mask match between Pentagon Jr. and Sami Callihan for the show on July 22nd in Toronto.

Wednesday’s episode of Lucha Underground averaged 99,000 viewers on the El Rey Network that featured the three-way Grave Consequences Match. Their number was up by a small margin from 96,000 the week prior.

WWN announced that all events will be put up for VOD on their subscription streaming service within 72 hours instead of the prior two weeks, and noted last weekend's shows were up within 24 hours.

David Arquette, who was at the Bar Wrestling show last night, will face RJ City on 7/15 at the Oceanview Pavilion in California.
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How is the All In event being distributed? Is it gonna be on IPPV? Will they have a distribution deal?

Nothing has been made official yet, but the show will air. I have heard AXS TV has made overtures about carrying the show, but we haven’t heard there is a deal in place.
From PWI's weekly Q&A articles on current status of ALL In's broadcast plans.

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Ryan Satin of Pro Wrestling Sheet reports that there have been discussions of putting NXT on FS1. Satin says the announcement is “imminent”

Brad Shepard of Bodyslam.net confirmed the news as well, claiming that the deal was done last week, and the announcement should be made no later than next week

This is huge news for NXT, which will now be available to a much larger audience should the news prove to be true. It should be interesting to see what kind of success the program has on FS1.

It should also be noted that Shepard teased the return of Saturday Night’s Main Event to Saturdays on FOX.
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The National Labor Relations Board region has ruled that the claims by Leslie Smith have merit and will be filing a claim against UFC that the fighters are not independent contractors, but are employees. Obviously if the complaint goes through, this strongly relates to WWE in particular. This would also lead to a claim that UFC was discriminated against for being released for her out of the ring unionizing activities. Lucas Middlebrook, the attorney for Smith, told MMA Fighting that the complaint would be filed in one month. It would eventually end up with a hearing before an administrative law judge in Philadelphia. A very good story on this is here. In the big picture, this is a massive story.
Going to lead to some massive fallout on the WWE if Smith manages to win.

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I'm not sure if this is the case for Brooklyn, it likely is, but it is definitely the case for November in Los Angeles, that NXT Takeover shows are permanently being moved up one hour to 7 p.m. starts on Saturday night. The NXT Takeover live events will start closer to 6 p.m. I was told the idea isn't longer shows, but that's probably what will wind up happening. Right now the directive is that the shows will be less than three hours in length, when before they were just over two hours, and then lengthened to close to two hours and 30 minutes.
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Steve Austin recently appeared on Talk Is Jericho where he discussed how his adrenaline-pumping anthem was created thanks to the incredible talents of Jim Johnston. Austin said he was previously coming out to a much slower song from his Ringmaster gimmick and he needed a change. This is when The Rattlesnake went to Johnston with a CD and an idea of how they could make his music fit the new and edgier Stone Cold gimmick.

"I went down to the studio and back in the day you know Chris I was pretty hands-on you gotta be," Steve Austin said to Chris Jericho. "So I walked in there and I had a CD and I hand it to Jim Johnston and go, 'it's called Bulls On Parade by Rage Against The Machine' and I played it.

"He got it," Austin continued, "and so I don't think my entrance music sounds anything like it but it was inspired by that and man I tell ya what the way he came up with that glass breaking I don't know how he came up with that idea when he looped in that siren, I don't know how or why he put that in a stroke of genius or luck or whatever it was that happened, magic?
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