Dirtsheets sponsored by Ceasro channeling his inner Stephanie McMahon:
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As noted, ratings for last night's WWE RAW will be delayed until Wednesday due to the Christmas holiday.
However, Deadline reports that the Cincinnati Bengals vs. Denver Broncos Monday Night Football game scored a season-high 10.5 overnight rating. The MNF season finale also drew a huge 44.2 overnight rating in the Cincinnati market and a 42.0 in the Denver market. It will be very interesting to see how Vince McMahon, John Cena and WWE World Heavyweight Champion Roman Reigns did up against big competition from the NFL.
It will also be interesting to see what WWE announces for the January 11th RAW from New Orleans. RAW will face huge competition that night as the College Football National Championship game airs on ESPN at 8:30pm EST.
As noted, WWE announced Sheamus vs. Reigns with the title on the line and Vince as special referee for next week's RAW from San Antonio.
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Probably won't be a good number for RAW especially with how the start and first hour was handled unlike two weeks ago with the Vince and Reigns stuff.
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Originally Posted by TMZ
Vince McMahon triggered a bunch of calls to the NYPD after he appeared to get arrested Monday night on "Monday Night Raw."
Cops began fielding calls after some really bad acting, where Vince stepped in to protect his daughter from some rent-a-cops. Things got heated at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Vince got aggressive and the cops hooked him up and read him his Miranda rights.
It seemed real enough for viewers to call police ... presumably to either express their displeasure or lobby to have the book thrown at him.
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Originally Posted by F4W
Brock Lesnar's next opponent in WWE will be Sheamus as things are advertised.
A Lesnar vs. Sheamus match has been announced for a 1/8 house show at the Toyota Center in Houston. It is one of two Lesnar house show appearances thus far announced for this year, with the second one being on 2/16.
Lesnar is advertised for a Raw return on 1/11 in New Orleans, which will likely be the night that his role in the Royal Rumble show will also be announced.
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After taking a nasty bump to the outside, Sin Cara was checked on by trainers. He was able to finish the match, but got further medical treatment once he returned backstage.
He later confirmed on Twitter that he suffered a dislocated shoulder.
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Add Sin Cara to the growing heap of wrestlers injured now in the WWE.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Shinsuke Nakamura was announced today by ROH as appearing on its anniversary weekend shows on 2/26 and 2/27 in Las Vegas at Sam's Town. The 2/26 show, which will feature a number of New Japan stars (Kushida and Gedo have been announced, the Observer has also listed several other names) will be on PPV.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Kevin Doane talks to the Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling. On the Spirit Squad gimmick and trying to make the main roster: “Eventually The Spirit Squad started coming about and they started liking it. They flew us into one of the Carolinas and they weren't sure about it then. So we all came up with this idea that we are going to wait in Vince's office and when he comes in we are going to blow the air horn in his face and do a cheer. We thought you either going to get fired or it will work. We don't want to be in developmental so he was stuck in the production meeting for quite a while so we said let’s find him and break in. So we bust into the production meeting and blow the air horn, we did a big cheer and we just kind of stopped in our position and Vince looked up and he said ‘great, you will be on RAW next week.’”
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Semi-Wacky Vince story from back in the day.
Some other sheet news includes:
- ROH recently announced NJPW's Tomohiro Ishii will be making his debut for the company during the upcoming ppv event in Las Vegas. http://www.rohwrestling.com/news/tom...ebut-las-vegas
- Dana Brooke might be dealing with her own "Seth Rollins compromising images" situation within the WWE soon due to recently leaked photos of her.
- According to the dirtsheets, WWE is rumored to be working on a deal with The Rock's movie studios to get him insured and approved for a possible match at Mania. Ever since the Cena series, movie studios have refused to approve a match or cover insurance for him in the WWE.
- For those interested in NXT, next two weeks will just be Year End recap type shows with the next set of actual tapings occurring on January 7th and starting on the 13th.
- Titus O'Neil will be this week's guest for ESPN's WWE segment with Coachman.
- Gawker recently filed a motion to get their lawsuit by Hogan tossed due to claims of fraud against the court by Hogan's side regarding more tapes exisiting and recent allegations against Hogan. http://www.f4wonline.com/news/figure...lawsuit-204541