Dirtsheets encased in a block of ice since its freezing here:
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Due to live event reports online, there has been some confusion over whether or not WWE United States Champion Rusev was finally pinned by Roman Reigns in the non-title main event of Sunday's WWE live event from Beaumont, Texas. Reigns did win the match but he won by disqualification when Rusev hit a low blow. Rusev still has not been pinned.
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Originally Posted by PWI
The TNA Impact taping live was plagued by a number of long breaks last night caused by TNA having issues with the production equipment. The company was using their staff but The Manhattan Center's production equipment. There were several technical issues with the equipment, leaving to delays where the crowd had to watch Jeremy Borash stall for time on the mic or just sit there with the Impact theme playing over and over. The EXACT same thing happened when Steve Karel's Urban Wrestling Federation filmed their first PPV there and this is one of the reasons ROH didn't run Final Battle at the venue last month ...
Beyond the technical issues, there were also delays due to the show being "live to tape" so they had to wait for pre-tapes to run within the context of the broadcast, etc. before they could go to the next in-ring segment. If you saw the show, there were obviously issues with the direction missing shots as well. I don't know who directed the show, but it was not David Sahadi, who had been directing the shows. It was obvious there was a lot of "ring rust" production-wise, which considering the promotion hasn't produced a live to tape show since June of 2014, you almost have to expect. As I reported Monday in the Elite section, after last night's episode, TNA will be post-producing all of their episodes in Nashville as opposed to cutting the shows live at the tapings.
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Originally Posted by PWI
Around 450-500 fans attended last night's Impact Wrestling tapings at the Manhattan Center in New York City.
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Originally Posted by Observer
TNA officials were unable to secure a new Canadian TV deal in time for the relaunch for the Destination America premiere this week.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Before this week's Wrestle Kingdom 9 pay-per-view event that was promoted by Jeff Jarrett's Global Force Wrestling, New Japan World had 1,000 subscribers from the United States. New Japan World is NJPW's new version of the WWE Network. In Japan, they had around 10,000 subscribers before WK9 and hoped for 40,000 after. New Japan is working at having English language broadcasts on World and at least one announcer is having talks with them. The company has wanted to attract more fans outside of Japan for some time now. Due to the launch of New Japan World, the country has been working hard to get their content removed from the internet.
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Originally Posted by Observer
We noted before that TNA officials wanted Alberto "El Patron" Del Rio to make his debut on tonight's live Impact Wrestling on Destination America. It doesn't look like Del Rio will be debuting because as of two days ago, the two sides weren't even close to signing a deal.
Del Rio signing with TNA may be a long shot because he's receiving so many offers and some would likely conflict with TNA, including Lucha Underground. People close to Del Rio have advised him that TNA is a sinking ship and does nothing but hurt the careers of talents who go there.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Monday's Raw did 3.75 million viewers. While that is along the lines of what the show has been doing the past few months and well up from the prior week, it is a very bad number.
Usually the first week after football has a major bounce back, and no such thing happened. This also came on the show the week after Daniel Bryan (people didn't know he wouldn't be on the show) and with the return of The Authority, so the idea ratings were down because of The Authority being gone was blown up.
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Being considered as really bad since the bump was around5% and usually the post-MNF week(s) has a 10% or more boost. Next week could be really bad depending on how the Oregon vs Ohio State title game goes.
Some other sheet news include NOLA's interview with Bryan included him wanting to face Lesnar at Mania this year and getting a stinger against Orton on a RAW episode was the reason why he needed surgery.
http://www.nola.com/festivals/index....althy_and.html