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Originally Posted by Observer A correction from last week: While it was the case that WWE wouldn't touch anyone from TNA, we're told that WWE is looking to find out what dates a few of the good workers in TNA's contracts expire because they are interested in TNA guys, but right now only for NXT. I think it's pretty clear that NXT is lacking good wrestler depth and they are selling it on both a few personalities like Enzo & Cass, and the women, but the key is the great workers and right now there are only a few of them. One person noted how scary it is when you look at how long so many have been around and how limited they still are. The fans themselves at the Florida house shows are very different than the Northeast, as they fully accept weak matches and have a good time no matter what, so it's a far better environment to work and build confidence, but it's also the difference between performing in front of 200 to 500 people and 2,000 people. They are doing far more with the television show in post-production. Add Johnny Gargano, Northeast Wrestling's Jimmy Preston and former TNA woman wrestler Taelor Hendrix to the list of people being brought in at the next camp which is next week. WWE is looking at adding more workers because they realize the NXT brand doesn't have the depth needed, particularly with the decision to pull Owens at the same time Itami and Zayn are injured. The negative is the guys NXT is supposed to be for, the guys actually trained from scratch, are falling farther and farther behind and are not progressing anywhere near as fast as they should.

In addition to Matthew Riddle and Biff Busick, indy wrestlers Drew Gulak and Chuck Taylor are also going to take part in the WWE tryout camp at the Performance Center in Orlando next month.

PWInsider notes that TNA Knockout Havok is at the WWE tryouts in Orlando this week, indicating she may be done with TNA this time.

Originally Posted by Observer An interesting what if, given the value of hindsight. Hiroshi Tanahashi did an interview on Samurai TV on 6/2 and said that in 2007, Gedo had an offer from WWE. He said that they wanted him to play a stereotypical sneaky Japanese character from the 70s so he decided to stay with New Japan, where his booking turned the company around

Originally Posted by Observer After recently having shoulder surgery, Sami Zayn is expected out of action until October. WWE has another NXT Takeover special tentatively scheduled for October 7th and more TV tapings on October 8th so Zayn could possibly return then.

Originally Posted by Observer As noted, Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman are being brought back to WWE TV after Money In the Bank to build to a match at the July 19th Battleground pay-per-view. The original plan was to do Lesnar vs. WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins at SummerSlam and that could still happen but so many creative changes have been made since that idea was first brought up.

As seen on this week's WWE NXT, Eva Marie spoke and said she wants in on the NXT Divas competition. She and Bayley have been teasing a match on Twitter so it appears that may be her first opponent since returning to the ring after training with Brian Kendrick.

ShowBuzzDaily.com reported in their Top 100 cable shows listing for Wednesday night that the initial 9:00 p.m. ET broadcast of Impact Wrestling was seen by 297,000 viewers. That's down 28% from 413,000 viewers for the final Friday night broadcast last week. Ring of Honor on Destination America was not on the list, which is sorted by rating (percentage of homes with the channel watching the show when it comes to cable ratings). The rating used was for the adults 18-49 demographic, and which means ROH did less than a 0.07 (lowest rating on the top 100 list) in the demo to TNA's 0.09.

In terms of numbers overall, numbers are a decent start for ROH considering they only providing past episodes will be shown for now while TNA didn't benefit at all with ROH as the lead in. In terms of live episodes, ROH does around 500,000 viewers on average while NESN hasn't been factored in yet. TNA's numbers get better if the replay done for the West Coast gets added in but still down compared to last week.

Magic.Even after a weeks worth of airbrushing I look like my nan after a night on the batter and a bottle of gin. pic.twitter.com/SVkPekNr2g

— William Regal (@RealKingRegal) June 4, 2015

Originally Posted by r/SquaredCircle John Cena has been beaten clean in a straight forward one-on-one match 10 times in 10 years without any interference or bullshit. Shawn Michaels, RAW, April 23, 2007 Great Khali, SNME, June 2, 2007 Triple H, Night of Champions 2008 Batista, Summerslam 2008 Big Show, RAW, March 30, 2009 Randy Orton, Hell in a Cell 2009 The Rock, Wrestlemania 28 Daniel Bryan, Summerslam 2013 Brock Lesnar, Summerslam 2014 Kevin Owens, EC 2015

Courtesy of r/SquaredCircle for the random fact. On a streak of one clean loss per year since 2012.


Some other sheet news includes:

• Recent PWPop podcast episode had Jeff Jarett as its guest with topics including his plans for GFW, mistakes learned from the launch of TNA, and how much a concern GFW has for piracy when they act as the provider for ppvs. http://pwpop.com/our-interview-with-...rce-wrestling/
• While no official announcement was made by the WWE, its assumed right now Tyson Kidd is out for most of the year because of the spinal injury he got from the Samoa Joe match.
• In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, the innovator of the drop kick learned the move from a kangaroo during a trip to Australia in the 1930s. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstrac...57C0A9619C8B63