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06-10-2015 10:28 PM |
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Lana breaking up with Rusev in the WWE Universe to manage Dolph Ziggler has been a hot topic lately on the F4WOnline audio shows. Dave Meltzer, Bryan Alvarez and others are suggesting that Vince McMahon broke them up on-screen to facilitate a real-breakup, with Vince feeling that someone like Rusev shouldn’t be able to get a girl like Lana.
Normally when a real-life couple that is paired on-screen breaks up in kayfabe, history has shown that life may imitate art. It’s also common for the “new squeeze” to become the real life “new squeeze.” It’s an occupational hazard in both Hollywood and pro wrestling.
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Transcript from a few shows regarding the past instances when an onscreen split lead to a real life split and vice versa of a onscreen pairing leading to a real life couple happening: http://officialfan.proboards.com/thr...kup-lana-rusev
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The World of Sport TV pilot, designed to bring that European brand of professional wrestling back to TV on ITV, will not be going forward on it's former home as the network has decreed that professional wrestling no long fits it's broadcast strategies. Jon Chapman, who was responsible for producing the pilot, has placed the nearly 2 hour episode online for all to see.
The hope is that by releasing the pilot, it could show ITV that idea of relaunching World of Sport is a sound one. Obviously a long shot, but either way, for those of who have asked about the revival, you can now see the pilot episode above.
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Originally Posted by PWI
Eric Tompkins and Simon Edwards, who worked in the video department as producers and editors, each gave notice to the company that they will be leaving. Tompkins was considered one of the better editors the company had and had been with the company for a long time after starting as an intern. Edwards had been with TNA for about a decade and will be leaving for a position with a fantasy website we are told.
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WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley underwent surgery on Tuesday, presumably another procedure on his back. Foley underwent back surgery back in September 2014 and noted that it was a minor procedure that they hoped would produce major results. He also wrote at the time that the operation was the first of several minor procedures that would have him walking around in less pain. In regards to the operation he had done on Tuesday, Foley wrote the following on Facebook: EAT, SLEEP, BACK SURGERY, REPEAT - I'm really hoping that today's minor procedure will provide major relief. I wonder how a guy like me ended up with a bad back. Hmmm... You can learn about this week's signings in #Philadelphia #SixFlags New Jersey and #EternalCon on #LongIsland at realmickfey.com
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Originally Posted by Observer
There were some people internally at the top very unhappy when the word came out about ROH and Figures Toy Company releasing the Kevin Steen action figure, with the idea a non-WWE company is going to be first to the marketplace in releasing an action figure of WWE's hottest new star, or for that matter, anyone that is on Raw in a featured role. The other is that the look and character of the ROH Kevin Steen and the WWE Kevin Owens are essentially the same.
The doctrine is to keep this from happening again. So now the pressure is on Paul Levesque and that department to get guys who have potential to some day be big players into NXT and signed to merchandising deals before they go to a company (ROH or TNA) that has merchandising deals and national cable deals in North America, and create a pipeline to find the ones with potential before ROH & TNA. A lot of indie talent, including the names noted in the past few weeks, had signed five-year deals with Figure Toy Company, so that company has the right to market Kevin Steen merchandise for nearly five more years while he may be pushed as one of WWE's biggest stars.
And WWE doesn't want this to happen again. For this reason, the doctrine is not to sign talent from ROH or TNA now for the main roster, and get the word out to young talent that if they have WWE aspirations, not to sign with either TNA (which most of the top young guys had heard) or ROH (which is new).
One person noted to this that all this came about because the Figure Toy Company deal and the Destination America deals for ROH came down at about the same time, and WWE had no knowledge of either of them. There will always be exceptions made to that rule, as with every rule. They may not have this doctrine for NXT given the idea WWE could be interested in some talent whose contracts are expiring from TNA for NXT, since that's not WWE Raw and people wouldn't have merch rights for guys on Raw every week.
WWE absolutely is trying to keep talent with potential away from ROH in particular for this reason and also because of the ROH getting those deals as well as the feeling ROH and NXT are competition for a similar customer base. The new concept of NXT that is no longer developmental is to deliver something somewhat similar as far as athletic talent on top that ROH does, and cater to the same fan base. This is actually a pretty major story right now.
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We noted before that on Steve Austin's latest podcast he downplayed the speculation on a possible WrestleMania 32 match with Brock Lesnar and said he was not trying to set up a match with the Paul Heyman exchange on their recent WWE Network podcast.
The Wrestling Observer Newsletter notes this week that the match will not be happening. Apparently reasons the match is not happening have to do with issues between Austin and Vince McMahon but The Observer wouldn't speculate on what those issues are. Vince was reportedly not happy with how the podcast ended because Austin vs. Lesnar is not in their current WrestleMania 32 plans.
Vince did not know Heyman and Austin were going to do the bit they did and immediately felt they were creating major interest in a match that was not happening. There was reportedly some sort of discussion between Austin and Vince after the podcast where Vince wanted the story to go away quickly and quietly with Austin addressing it once and then moving on.
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For those who have asked about rumors regarding WWE and their developmental system working with WWN, the parent company of EVOLVE, Full Impact Pro and the now-defunct Dragon Gate USA, PWInsider.com has learned from WWE sources that there has been communication between the two sides about working together and that communication was initiated by WWE about a week ago or so ago.
That's about when Ring of Honor landed on national cable TV with their Destination America timeslot, so whether that was a factor I can't say 100%, but it looks like it could be. EVOLVE released a video thanking TNA for working with them around the same time.
In regard to stories making the rounds (some attributed to me) that WWE is buying WWN or that it will be a new "OVW" style promotion assisting developmental, there's nothing to those stories at this time - we are told that whatever this deal is, and it's not a done deal by any means, it's all still being worked out and that no "official deal" has been set in stone.
PWInsider reached out to WWN's Sal Hamaoui and Gabe Sapolsky but they did not return requests for comment. WWE has not responded to official requests for comment as of this writing, either.
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Observer hinted if a deal is done, it won't be for good reasons and instead more for the petty reason related to the WWE not wanting other promotions to run events during Mania week. Also as a way to get a better foothold in China since WWN has a bigger presence there than WWE.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Thank you everyone for sending me positive thoughts and wishes. My pride was hurt more than my ankle. ICE does miracles !</p>— LANA (@LanaWWE) <a href="https://twitter.com/LanaWWE/status/608604198528090112">June 10, 2015</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">So does clapping. I once clapped a lady's torn Achilles' tendon back to health. Required a few private sessions. <a href="https://t.co/m779HEhTxh">https://t.co/m779HEhTxh</a></p>— Epsilon (@WWEBigE) <a href="https://twitter.com/WWEBigE/status/608628341030137856">June 10, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Some other sheet news includes: - Book detailing the history of New Japan Pro Wrestling in English is currently being planned for crowdfunding with the goal to start the fundraiser next month and release the book (e-book type) by November 2015. http://www.lionspridebook.com/about-the-book/
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