VoW actually had them listed as #4 but made the mention that MLW has a stronger claim to being the real #4 due to them outselling ROH in the Chicago market and look to do the same in another major market in Dallas. Also their average ticket sales per show being very good for an indies company and on the rise this year.

ROH pretty much needs to take a page out of Impact and starting booking their shows in smaller venues to scale the crowd atmosphere and visual to a better level. NXT only fits a few hundred at most for tv tapings but still maintains a great crowd atmosphere and lacks the embarrassing visual of empty seats everywhere like with WWE's main roster shows.

Ticket sales = Draw

WON are saying that WWE are tentatively planning for a two hour weekly live show for NXT on Fox Sports 1.

Well, it was a good run.

Apparently Paige managed to find a new boyfriend who is a way bigger loon and PR mess than Alberto Del Rio ever was for her.

If she ends up in hot water with WWE again, it won't be a surprise at all based on some of the stuff her boyfriend has been spewing on social media and not backing down from any of it.

As long as Vince keeps his hands off, I don;t think much will change.... Lots of names at the PC and not enough TV time on hour-long shows for everyone....

Such as?

Things like downplaying white supremacy being a growing issue in this country in wake of the recent El Paso Walmart shooting. Also parroting far right conspiracy stuff when it comes to the media reporting on crimes and shootings by white people.

Then you have stuff involving him recently making transphobic and homophobic slurs and doubling down on them when he got called out on it.

Then you have non-social media stuff like a supposed rape accusation still open against him and doing prison time related to a past assault incident.

Paige pretty much went all in defending his image by claiming everything against him is a lie and the good stuff he does in private outweighs all those supposed issues.

People rip on Impact (and rightfully so), but the crowds at their tapings are awesome. They tape in my city and both times that I went to a taping it was a riot. Had so much fun and the crowd was loud. They fit 1500 in our local college gym. Tickets sold really well.

I highly recommend this weeks Impact which they taped in my city. Check those crowds out.

Good for Corgan and the NWA. I can see them shooting ahead of ROH and TNA really fast. I’d give them a chance if they cut Eli Drake.

Replace him with Fandango.

She's dating Tucker Carlson?

I'm not surprised RE: the Paige stuff

there's plenty enough out there to suggest she's mentally unstable at best, a total asshole at worst

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Oh, that’s who it was.

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Randy Orton keeps going up in my books.

I was just in Windsor last week. Ate at a place called The Twisted Apron. It was fucking delicious especially for Canadian food which is usually dog shit.

Canadian food is very nice. Their bars have odd names though, The Velvet Elvis was one I remember cause a gay guy tried to pick me up and then a straight guy looked like he wanted to fight me but it turned out he just liked my accent.

May have been a gay bar in retrospect.

He must have a mandingo dick.

While I have never seen a bad NXT Takeover I have a feeling that will soon change. When NXT ends up on FS1 I am guessing that means more involvement and input from Vince since it's a cable network. And THAT will be the worst thing possible for NXT.

NXT about to turn into Vince's reboot of ECW

Who's in charge of NXT now?

HHH

He oftens says Vince never really watches NXT or Takeovers at all, which would explain why the majority of main-roster call ups lose everything about them that got them over in NXT.

Ah, cheers.

Didn't know HHH had the brains for this. I've mostly heard good things about NXT.

Sixx did u see this post from the other day...

Hah, no, but I like it.

According to Lucha Blog, AAA might be cancelling both of their US shows this year.

Basis for the rumor is ticket sales for both events are still very abysmal with the MSG show being way short of 1,000 tickets sold as of mid-July and the company hasn't tweeted anything about either show since late June.

Also Fite.TV doesn't have the MSG show currently listed on their schedule despite AAA previously announcing them as the streaming provider for the show.

Currently watching GCW's Joey Janela Escape from LA show and if Shane Mercer was a few inches taller, he'd legit be Vince's ideal image for a top star. He's already very appealing to modern wrestling fans and their preference for athletic wrestlers.

Also the show itself has been pretty enjoyable soo far despite the audio issues. Either GCW didn't mic the place properly or something broke and they can't fix it.

Yeah they're going to cut the biggest free agent they've ever signed. Eli Drake is the future of the NWA and yeah with him they could easily pass ROH and Impact but that depends on this TV deal.

Sasha has discovered the secret to getting a push in WWE


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She looks really pretty in that picture.

Hope she keeps the hair color.

FTFY

But wrestling is cool again, right?

I kinda like Miho....

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Rey/Andrade didn't even make it into the Hulu cut of RAW this week some how.

The best match left off the 90 minute version is a weird tradition for RAW that I repeatedly don't understand

HHH eating Mike Johnson of PWInsider alive at 6:40 and rightfully so


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