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02-25-2016 09:44 PM |
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Originally Posted by Observer
The original Lesnar plan was for Bray Wyatt to cost him the title at Fast Lane and face him at WrestleMania, following up on the Royal Rumble. The decision was made to instead go with Ambrose. The idea is that Lesnar is there to take Ambrose to a higher level. That doesn’t mean Lesnar loses. I’d be surprised if he does, although him destroying Ambrose so strongly in every angle so far would make you believe he’s going to. But the problem is as much as the crowd likes Ambrose, Lesnar is the one guy with the dynamic that cuts through the cartoon and tinges with reality. He’s the guy they are really behind.
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A segment with Austin for WrestleMania as been apparently been decided on. Johnson’s role doesn’t appear to have been. It’s far from a lock he’s in Reigns corner to offset Vince McMahon. In fact, if Vince McMahon has an involvement now, it’s feels more likely it would in the build for Undertaker vs. Shane. With Johnson, he has tremendous input on what he’s going to do because he’s doing it for fun, in the sense he doesn’t need to do it and he doesn’t need the money, but he loves coming in and having fun. I’ve heard two different scenarios discussed for Michaels, neither of which involves him wrestling in a match. The original plan for Reigns vs. HHH would be to have a special referee who has a history with HHH, to stack the odds against Reigns. It’s noted that Dave Bautista was asked and turned down that role at least the first time he was asked a few weeks ago. We have not heard Bautista’s name mentioned in the last week in conjunction with the show, and he has been very critical of the company of late because of how they’ve treated Titus O’Neil, who is a close friend of his.
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There was also a bunch of commotion regarding the Raw the next day, on 5/23 in Baltimore, where it was billed as Raw vs. WWE, which made people think there was going to be a post-WrestleMania brand split. While we haven’t heard that, and even though it seems like the depth isn’t there for such a move at this time, they are getting Cena, Rollins, Cesaro and Orton back soon, plus there are a lot of top level talent they could elevate from NXT if they want. However, WWE officials said that the Raw vs. WWE tag was something typed incorrectly by Ticketmaster. Even if there is to be plans like that, they would be kept secret and the people in charge of advertising working with Ticketmaster would not know about it for fear it would get out.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Lucha Underground set another new record on 2/17 doing 152,000 viewers. They are making significant weekly increases, although perhaps some of that is from Spanish viewers who used to watch on Unimas and not find the English version is the only one available. But they are now doing great numbers as compared with everything else on El Rey.
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Evolve and WWN have announced these shows in Dallas for WrestleMania weekend which will also be iPPV events. On 4/1 at 4 p.m. Central time (5 p.m. Eastern), will be Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Will Ospreay, Chris Hero & Tommy End vs. Drew Gulak & Tracy Williams plus also appearing are Timothy Thatcher, Johnny Gargano, Drew Galloway, Ricochet, Sami Callihan, TJ Perkins, Marty Scurll, Caleb Konley, Anthony Nese, Matt Riddle, Ethan Page and Fred Yehi. On 4/2 they are running a Noon show with Ricochet vs. Ospreay, Sabre Jr. vs. Riddle and Gargano & Galloway defend the tag titles against Gulak & Williams. On 4/2 at 8 p.m. there is a WWN Super Show with Thatcher vs. Callihan for the Evolve title, and Hero vs. Sabre Jr
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The 3/25 show in Madison Square Garden has been announced as “Daniel Bryan Appreciation Night.” He will be added to the show. Also announced thus far are Reigns vs. Sheamus, who will be managed on this night only by HHH, Ambrose vs. Owens for the IC title in a 30 minute Iron Man match, the MSG debut of Styles, Show vs. Wyatt, Kalisto vs. Del Rio for the U.S. title as well as an appearance by Ric Flair. It’s possible they are doing that in more than one city as Bryan is also being advertised for house shows on 3/26 in Trenton and 3/27 in Washington, DC
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There have been major changes in WWE on television in Japan with the advent of the network, and for the WWE fan base there, it hasn’t been for the better. Before, Raw aired live in English, aired ten days later with Japanese subtitles, there was a first run Smackdown in English and a replay ten days later with Japanese subtitles, NXT aired ten days after the U.S. with Japanese subtitles, the PPVs aired live on the Internet, two days later on regular PPV and ten days later with Japanese subtitles. Now they only have the 90 minute Raw on a two day delay and the 90 minute Raw with Japanese subtitles, Afterburn and Afterburn with Japanese subtitles. So they’ve lost the live Raw and complete Raws, Smackdown, all NXT, no more PPV on television.
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Network itself is reported to be plagued with issues at the moment which isn't making things better for Japanese WWE fans. The biggest being that nothing is translated in Japanese making it hard for people to use it there.
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Recently on WOOOOO! Nation with Ric Flair, 'The Nature Boy' interviewed Bruce Prichard. During the podcast, Flair claimed that nothing could be done to save TNA.
"They've had their opportunity. It's not going to be there again, in my opinion." Flair continued, "Sting is gone. Kurt Angle is gone. AJ Styles is gone. I mean, I'm not by any means demeaning the talent that's there, but I don't even know who's there anymore."
Later in the show, Flair stated that Vince McMahon does not feel that WWE has any competition anymore and elaborated on the idea that being a true competitor to WWE is prohibitively expensive.
"I can remember when I was there, when [McMahon] told me, and I'm sure Bruce [Prichard] heard it long before I did, that he didn't have any competition in the [professional] wrestling business [and] that his only competition was Disney. That's what he said to me one time. And now, he doesn't feel like he had any competition. And the rumor went around that Rupert Murdoch was going to go against him and, you know what? They estimated, and this was 10 years ago, the estimated price would cost Rupert Murdoch back then to open up against Vince, and this was 10 years ago now [or] 15, take a guess. $450 million. That's contracts, equipment, I mean, if you look at what the company [has now], the company has 22 eighteen-wheelers. Are you kidding me? And the hotels on a Monday or a Sunday have 230 or 280 people in them. That's a lot of overhead, guys."
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"So this is the story of the birth of the “This is Awesome” chant. It was actually done for the first time during a bad match with Abyss vs. Money Brown vs. Raven at the TNA Victory Road PPV in Orlando. When it was done, it was a mocking chant, started by MLW podcast host and wrestler Mister Saint Laurent (MSL), done sarcastically. The chant as a positive started soon after, at FIP shows in Central Florida, and that was by people who had been at the TNA show. It garnered popularity when it spread to ROH, particularly the October 1, 2005 match in New York between Kenta Kobashi and Samoa Joe"
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Some other sheet news includes: - Tommy Dreamer's House of Hardcore promotion recently signed a deal with Japan's NOAH promotion for talent exchanges.
- Jeff Jarrett announced GFW has recently signed a tv deal for New Zealand with 13 episodes set to air starting next month. Next tour for the company was revealed to be occurring next month in England.
- Iron Shiek was announced as the last inductee for this year's George Tragos/Lou Thesz wrestling Hall of Fame class. Hall of Fame ceremony will occur between July 21st and July 23rd.
- According to reports, Davey Richards' knee surgery ended up being a success and will be out till at least August for TNA. He suffered an ACL tear during TNA's recent England tour.
- According to a recent Ric Flair podcast episode, Flair hinted Randy Orton suffered a setback with his shoulder recovery and can't wrestle for Mania while Sting can't wrestle at Mania either due to current health problems.
- The mayor of Orlando recently hinted the city has a strong chance of hosting next year's Mania with worst case scenario being 2018.
- According to the Observer, the WWE is going to ramp up their advertising of the Tapout brand starting after Mania.
- WWE is currently looking at several wrestlers in Mexico to be on their Cruiserweight tournament show with Garza Jr as one of the rumored wrestlers to participate. Garza Jr might also be getting a NXT/WWE deal as part of the talks.
- Tyson Kidd is rumored to have retired from wrestling based on a recent Instagram post by Natalya. https://www.instagram.com/p/BCKCiP8y1Hd/
- Bleacher Report had a recent article about how the WWE has ruined the Wyatt Family as a credible stable due to their booking habits. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2...redible-stable
- Observer had a long report on WWE's struggles trying to get Reigns over as the next mega star, why its not going to work but the WWE doesn't care, and why the WWE doesn't care about the negative reactions towards Mania 32. https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc...estlemania_32/
- According to the Observer, the reason the WWE ran an injury angle with Reigns this week was because he actually needed some time off to deal with a legit injury that's been nagging him for a while.
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