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05-13-2016 10:04 PM |
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Originally Posted by PWI
WWE has announced the following cards for their July events in Tokyo, Japan:
Friday 7/1:
*WWE World Heavyweight champion Roman Reigns vs. AJ Styles vs. Kevin Owens.
*John Cena vs. Chris Jericho.
*WWE Tag Team champions The New Day vs. Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson vs. The Usos vs. The Vaudevillians.
*Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Bray Wyatt.
*WWE Women's championship Charlotte with Ric Flair vs. Natalya.
*Titus O'Neil vs. Baron Corbin.
*WWE NXT Women's champion Asuka vs. Becky Lynch.
Saturday 7/2:
*WWE World Heavyweight champion Roman Reigns vs. AJ Styles vs. Chris Jericho.
*John Cena vs. Kevin Owens.
*WWE Tag Team champions The New Day vs. The Vaudevillians.
*Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Bray Wyatt.
*The Usos vs. Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson.
*WWE Women's champion Charlotte with Ric Flair vs. Becky Lynch.
*Baron Corbin vs. Dolph Ziggler.
*WWE NXT Women's champion Asuka vs. Natalya.
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Unlike last year's Beast In The East event with Finn Balor having ties to Japanese wrestling, neither Nakamura nor Asuka are the main attractions for the shows. WWE used Nakamura's name to help sell out the shows but decided to not give him top billing status for the actual event.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Pop TV has, effective immediately, dropped the Saturday replay of Impact, so Impact now only airs at 9 p.m. on Thursday night. This is the same pattern that Destination America did with the cutting of shows.
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Took Pop TV around the same amount of time to sour on carrying Impact as Destination America did. PWTorch had a report on what a typical episode of Impact makes on average for ad revenue and it turned out to be in the $18k range. http://www.pwtorch.com/site/2016/04/...-night-replay/
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On training with Ultimo Dragon: “I am new school, but Ultimo Dragon taught me that wrestling is a fight. He taught me the importance of the fighting spirit in the ring. I started wrestling in Mexico, and then I came to New Japan. I tried to be different. I learned the Mexican style, the Japanese style and the American style. My dropkick is from Mexico, but my fighting spirit is from Japan. The TV and the entertainment is from the U.S., so everything combined. I was a young age, 16 years old, in Mexico. I traveled to these different countries, and I have the new style from Mexico and TNA. I wrestled two years in Florida, then back in Japan, and everything combined for a new style. It’s different. I was looking for old school wrestling that looked new. Dropkicks are old moves, but I wanted to make a new version of an old move.”
On TNA’s mishandling of him: “I learned in TNA that I needed more than just a good match–I needed a character. That’s how I became the “Rainmaker.” It was good for me. TNA didn’t use me, but I got hungrier to wrestle. The struggle made me better. I was always a good wrestler. I feel like I can wrestle anybody. Of course, I wanted to main event wrestling matches in TNA, but in their eyes, no, that would not happen. So I went back to New Japan. I took the timing and technique I learned in the U.S. back with me to Japan. When I was in TNA, somebody told me about the ‘Rainmaker.’ I thought it was a nice character. In Japan, there is no character–it’s fight, fight, fight. So I needed a character. When I was just a strong wrestler, TNA didn’t use me. I didn’t have a character, so I knew I needed one. That’s what the agents in TNA kept telling me, so I made this character and I took it to New Japan.”
On Shinsuke Nakamura signing with WWE: “I was very surprised he left for WWE. I was so surprised, but it’s no problem. That’s what he wanted–he wanted to go. There is more emotion in a match in New Japan. The matches here in the U.S. are so fast that sometime they lack emotion. It is move, move, move. When I lost last year’s Tokyo Dome [at Wrestle Kingdom 9], I almost cried. There is that much emotion, and that is a big difference in style.”
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From a recent interview NJPW's Okada had with Sports Illustrated. http://411mania.com/wrestling/kazuch...a-went-to-wwe/
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Originally Posted by Observer
New Japan made an announcement today regarding the Super J Cup, which is not the same as the Super Juniors tournament. The Super Juniors starts 5/21 and is a round-robin tournament. The Super J Cup will be a 16-man multi-promotional single elimination tournament. The first round matches will be 7/18 at Korakuen Hall, which will be eight bouts. The final eight move into a one-night tournament, similar to the old K-1 Grand Prix, on 8/21 at the Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo. They announced there would be four wrestlers from New Japan, (three regulars and one from Chaos, likely Will Ospreay), five from NOAH (three from NOAH and two from the Suzuki-gun side), plus one wrestler each from All Japan, Okinawa Pro, CMLL, ROH, K-Dojo, Dragon Gate and one more participant.
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Originally Posted by PWI
Rolling Stone has an interview with Damien Sandow talking about his time in the WWE and his release and future plans. He mentioned that is taking select wrestling dates as a "Thank you Tour" to the fans and he is going to start studying Shakespearean acting as most of the offers he has received are for film.
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http://www.rollingstone.com/sports/f...-tour-20160513
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Originally Posted by PWI
The 5/12 episode of Smackdown did 2,262,000 viewers, down from last week's 2,346,000 viewers.
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Originally Posted by PWTorch
PWTorch has learned from multiple sources that TNA is behind paying some production workers going back to January and March TV tapings.
After struggling to make payments on-time throughout 2015, TNA handed over the system to the Harris Twins through their production company Aroluxe, payable by TNA. Since then, payments have continued to be late. The situation has especially been exacerbated by TNA leaving their long-time office in Nashville and relocating to the merchandise warehouse.
Also, production workers have been met with resistance when inquiring about payments. PWTorch has also learned that some production workers have been told they will or might be replaced at the next tapings in June, likely in favor of independent production workers who do not have a history of late payments.
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http://www.pwtorch.com/site/2016/05/...slammiversary/
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Originally Posted by Observer
Konnan has a new Spanish language YouTube show and he’s been ripping on AAA since the split. He said that AAA keeps its talent through lying, intimidation and fear. Konnan is looking at doing something, but it’s going to be very difficult. Most of the guys in Lucha Underground, such as Jack Evans, Fenix, Pentagon Jr., Drago, Angelico and others were people Konnan brought to the promotion and under normal circumstances, may have gone with him to a new project, similar to how the people closest with Antonio Pena in 1992 quit CMLL to go with Pena. But the difference here is that it was made clear to everyone in Lucha Underground, that if they work in Mexico for anyone other than AAA, they would lose their LU jobs.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Bret Hart, when asked to do Payback, said he didn’t want to be there if Natalya was going to lose so was told not to worry that “the ending would be positive.” The plan was to do the Montreal finish and then Flair and Charlotte would try and run off, Bret would block the aisle and they’d end up back in the ring where Natalya would bounce them around. Bret came up with the double sharpshooter idea which Vince McMahon was surprised he’d physically do that much coming off the cancer surgery and the bad wrist.
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In regards to not wanting to be there just to see Natty lose, Bret in previous interviews did hint if it wasn't for Natty being the one making the request for his appearance, he'd rather just stay at home resting from his recent medical issues.
Some other sheet related news includes: - Suplex Apparel website had a recent interview with Zack Sabre Jr regarding being involved with the upcoming WWE Cruiserweight tournament. http://www.suplexapparel.com/blog/za...eight-classic/
- During an interview with PWI, ROH's COO teased rumors of Sinclair considering purchasing TNA are likely true. http://www.pwinsider.com/article/101...tling.html?p=1
- According to reports, the recently uploaded Eddie Guerrero RAW tribute show on the Network is not the original tv episode but instead an earlier taped episode. Main reason is due to music license reasons.
- Recent Observer newsletter revealed a big source for RAW's ratings decline for the past two years is due to their main tv audience, 18-34 males, dropping to New Gen levels of bad. The gains with female viewers because of Total Divas is nowhere close to making up the difference and even that has dropped by a lot. https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc...this_week_won/
- In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, El Torito of Los Matadores was actually the 2nd El Torito in WWE history. The name was previously used by a mini-wrestler in 1997 known as Espectrito outside of the WWE.
- In another "WWE Did You Know" type fact, a rest hold spot in the WWE once actually resulted in someone taking a nap during a match. Happened in 1983 at a house show involving a match between Andre the Giant and Big John Studd. https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc...u_didnt_know_1
- For those interested in possibly looking at the Rainmaker's wiener, reports from Japan state NJPW's Okada is going to be releasing a nude book soon. https://twitter.com/enuhito_eng/stat...90093325832192
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