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Originally Posted by Observer Partially, if largely due to going head-to-head with the Democratic National Convention, Raw had its fourth lowest ever overall average viewing audience last night and tied for its fourth lowest number in 18-49. Raw averaged 1.64 million viewers and an 0.48 in 18-49. The audience was down five percent from last week, but the key demos saw 18-49 up two percent and 18-34 up 27 percent. The first two hours did decently well by the standards of the last month, but there was a big third hour drop going against convention coverage that had nearly 14 million viewers between the various stations. The 13 percent first-to-third hour drop was a little larger than usual. The third hour was the second least watched hour of Raw on a Monday night in history, beating only the third hour of the July 27 show. As compared with the same week last year, Raw was down 35 percent in viewers, 41 percent in 18-49, and 51 percent in 18-34 ... The three hours were: 8 p.m. 1.73 million viewers 9 p.m. 1.70 million viewers 10 p.m. 1.50 million viewers

Originally Posted by Post Wrestling Every key demo fell in the third hour by double digits led by females 12-34 (36 percent), adults 18-34 (27 percent), and adults 18-49 (15 percent). Adults over 50 had the smallest drop by 12 percent but it was the continual pattern since Raw Underground began as adults over 50 watched the first two hours and tuned out in the third. The 12-34 audience losses are notable because that is the audience that Raw Underground did best with during Week 1 on August 3rd. Those audiences grew by 18 percent with men and 12.5 percent with women on August 3rd and fell by 16 percent and 36 percent respectively this week, and that cannot be attributed entirely to the competition.

Originally Posted by Observer New details have emerged in the attempted kidnapping of WWE wrestler Sonya Deville, real name Daria Berenato. Deville filed and was granted a petition for a temporary injunction against stalking violence on Monday, further detailing her incident with alleged stalker and would-be kidnapper Phillip Arnold Thomas II early Sunday morning at her Lutz, Florida, home ... A hearing will be held on August 27th to discuss putting a more permanent injunction into place. In the petition, Deville said that after she went to bed, she was awakened by a security alarm and alerted that a sliding door that led to her lanai was open. She then awakened her house guest, Amanda Saccomanno, better known as Mandy Rose. Deville went to check on the sliding door and said that as she was ensuring the door was locked, she looked up and saw Thomas. Deville said that she asked him, “What are you doing, what do you want?” at which point he began walking toward her. “That is when I realized this person was not here to rob me, he was there to hurt me,” Deville's petition said. According to a Tampa Bay Times report, Thomas was armed with a knife and pepper spray when he approached Deville. Deville then told Rose, “There’s a man in the house, we have to go,” before they fled the home and called 911. Deville said she later saw on home security footage that Thomas had followed her into the house, "but he thought I ran up the stairs, leaving me and my friend just enough time to escape.” Sheriff's deputies gave Thomas's name to Deville, who then searched her social media accounts for messages from him of which she found hundreds. “The nature of the messages from this account were obsessive, suicidal, idolizing, saying, ‘You are the only person I will ever love,’ " according to Deville's petition. She also described a second account that also appeared to belong to him which sent similar messages. One such message read, "I found your home address.” She said she received a message from the second account Sunday at 12:16 a.m., just hours before the incident at her home. Deville says that the last message read, “Look outside, baby, by your pool. I’m here. I’m gonna kill that little b---- you have inside with you.” Deville also described receiving messages from the second account that included threats of decapitating her friends and family, describing individuals by name. Deville wrote that she received explicit messages and one graphic sexual photo from the account.

Originally Posted by Observer Live English commentary is returning for NJPW's next major show. For the first time since the promotion resumed events, there will be live English commentary for Summer Struggle in Jingu on Saturday, August 29. NJPW announced that Kevin Kelly and Chris Charlton will be on commentary for the show

Originally Posted by PWI The Associated Press reported today that the United States Federal Government is seeking to seize the $1.5 million Madison, MS home of former WWE star Ted DiBiase Jr., the son of WWE Hall of Famer The Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase. This stems from an audit into the Mississippi Department of Human Services after arrests were made in February 2020 in one of the largest embezzlement scandals ever in the history of that office, a scandal that saw direct connections the DiBiase wrestling family. Former WWE developmental talent Brett DiBiase (DiBiase Sr.'s son, DiBiase Jr.'s brother) was among those indicted several months ago as part of the scandal, which saw the former director of Mississippi's state welfare agency and five others charged in one of the biggest embezzlement scandals in the history of the office. While DiBiase Jr. is not accused of a crime, federal agents stepped in to prevent him from selling his home with today's AP article stating that sale was a week away from being completed. As PWInsider.com reported at the time, it was alleged that Brett DiBiase was given funds to go to a drug treatment facility in Malibu that was earmarked for Mississippi's welfare programs. According to documents, DiBiase was allegedly given the money as payment for classes that he didn't teach for drug abuse. The Associated Press later ran a follow-up story on the DiBiase family connection based on a revelation that WWE Hall of Famer Ted DiBiase's non-profit religious organization, Heart of David Ministries had reportedly received more than $2.1 million in welfare from the state of Mississippi after his son Brett began working for the State. The organization had received just $5,000 in grants in 2013, but pulled in $271,000 in welfare money, the same year Brett was hired as a senior official at the Mississippi Department of Human Services. DiBiase’s group received as much as $900,000 one year ... Where DiBiasel Jr.'s home may play into this is that the AP reported that the Mississippi Community Education Center also paid Brett DiBiase’s brother, former WWE star Ted DiBiase Jr., to provide training to human services employees in late 2018 and early 2019.

Link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fe...4wH?li=BBnbcA1

Originally Posted by Post Wrestling El Phantasmo joined Tama Tonga on his ‘Tama’s Island’ podcast ... In the early portions of the interview, El Phantasmo talked about his career in editing and being well-versed in various types of software. He worked for EA Sports and edited cartoons that were going up on the Netflix service. Phantasmo stated that he was making more money than some of the talents in NXT. “So I was so excited to do that, to go do Ring of Honor dark shows with them [Established Canadian wrestlers] and stuff while they were all killing it. So I gotta pretty bummed out when I couldn’t get across the border. It was like a gray area where it was like I wasn’t doing anything illegal but I couldn’t prove to them that I was coming back to Canada. So that kinda bummed me out with wrestling and then I ended up getting a job editing cartoons, and I did that for like seven years. Like making cartoons for Netflix and we worked on a couple Emmy-award winning shows which was cool, and my whole big thing was I was making more money than guys in NXT or anything like that. So it was really hard at that point to leave that to go literally live on someone’s couch in St. Louis or something, or however you wanna make it.”

Originally Posted by Post Wrestling The following note is from Fightful’s ‘Fightful Wrestling Weekly’ column concerning Matt Hardy’s reaction to Sammy Guevara after Guevara threw a chair at his head which opened a wound on Hardy’s forehead: “We’re told the scene was ‘chaotic’ two weeks ago following the errant chair throw from Sammy Guevara. Nobody in AEW that we spoke to thought that the spot was intentional, but many thought that it was reckless. We heard that a usually mild-tempered Matt Hardy was heated after the incident and felt lucky that it wasn’t worse than it ended up being. There was heat on Guevara afterwards, even though he apologized, as the show was taped and the spot could have been done a number of different ways.”

Originally Posted by Post Wrestling Both Colby Corino and Brandi Lauren were featured on Monday Night RAW on 8/17 as a part of RAW Underground.

Originally Posted by Fightful Tony Schiavone has given the details regarding his AEW contract. Schiavone signed a multi-year deal with AEW in August, though terms of the deal were not disclosed. Speaking to Ron Funches on Gettin' Better, Schiavone revealed the terms of the contract. "Right now, my life is great. I can't imagine, had I not signed with AEW, what my life would be like right now because I wouldn't have baseball, I would have to wait until football started to get some sort of revenue stream. It's saved me on a financial level, but also rekindled my love of professional wrestling that I never thought I would get back again, but it has. I started with them in September of 2019, I signed a three-year deal, which can go up to five years, with two more years added on to that. We signed an extension with WarnerMedia, and we're gonna be on another four years," he said.

Originally Posted by Fightful Cody revealed on Twitter recently that Madusa will be presenting AEW Women's Tag Team Tournament trophy. The finals will take place on the August 22 episode of Dynamite.

Originally Posted by Fightful Chris Jericho says Bray Wyatt understands the secret to longevity in show business. Chris Jericho is somebody who has survived 30 years in wrestling because of his ability to adapt and evolve his character along the way. From Lionheart, to Y2J, to Le Champion, Chris Jericho has continued to change with the times and he says that is how you survive in wrestling. On his way to Saturday Night Special Q&A session, Chris Jericho was asked about how he feels about “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt. Chris Jericho would say that he really enjoys seeing the character change and called Windham Rotunda, the man behind the character, a very smart man. “I love 'The Fiend.' I love Windham Rotunda, it's kind of a mouthful of a name. He’s such a great guy and super smart, creative. I think that is why he reminds me a little bit of me, he'll never be the same guy twice because that's the true secret of having longevity in show business. You can't be the same guy. Look at David Bowie or any great actor.”

Originally Posted by PWI There's been a lot of talk about the status of Ethan Page over the last few days after he tweeted out he was preparing to "print money" in January 2021. In asking around, we are told that his current deal expires towards the end of 2020, so he would be free come January. Obviously, like any other wrestler, he's going to see what he could command on the open market, but this doesn't necessarily mean he's exiting Impact as there's lot of time to come to a new deal. The belief is that Josh Alexander's current deal runs well into 2021, so if Page does exit, it would mean the end of The North, who have been one hell of a team.

Originally Posted by PWI The word is the Good Brothers' Talkin' Shop A Mania PPV did really well on FITE, so don't be surprised for a second one.

Originally Posted by WrestlingInc Since it's inception, AEW has shown that former WWE stars of varying levels of success are welcome in the company. This includes their current World Champion Jon Moxley, their current TNT Champion Cody Rhodes, Chris Jericho, FTR, and numerous others. Interest in AEW from current WWE stars may be more common than fans previously thought. It's being reported that "virtually everybody" on the WWE roster has reached out to AEW in some fashion to discuss a potential future with the company, according to Dave Meltzer of Wrestling Observer Radio. He notes that this includes whether or not the company has interest in the particular WWE superstar and, if so, how much money that person could make signing with AEW. Of all the top WWE superstars on the roster, it was noted that Roman Reigns is the sole person that has never inquired about AEW's interest.

Makes sense a bunch of WWE talent would reach out to AEW especially in regards to money since that would help explain some of the deals WWE has been offering to certain talents solely to keep them in the company like your Riddick Moss and at the time, Anderson & Gallows team. Orton's teases of possibly joining AEW helped land him a very favorable and rich new deal with WWE.

Originally Posted by Fightful WWE Raw Underground has been a major talking point of the last couple weeks as WWE tries to change the complexion of its longest-running weekly episodic television series. Fightful has learned new information regarding the first round of tapings for the new concept. As of 1 AM EST during the first Raw tapings to feature the gimmick, WWE was still filming content for WWE Raw Underground. We're told that there were other hosts besides Shane McMahon suggested, and the "Underground" name had been thrown around for other projects in the past years. Much of the main roster had no idea what was even being filmed the day of.

Originally Posted by Post Wrestling Justin Kendall has a story on the recent sale of the rare Greg Valentine Rhythm ‘n’ Blues figures designed by Hasbro. A collector from Wales named Marc Reynolds recently purchased one of the three known figures of Valentine from Mark Bushey. Reynolds didn’t reveal the purchase price for the figure but noted that it topped his previous high mark of $13,000 for a figure while falling under the eBay price listing of $30,000 for the Valentine figure. Of the three known figures of Valentine, Matt Cardona owns one of them and detailed the history of this rare figure on The Major Wrestling Figure Podcast.

Link: https://wrestlingfigurenews.com/2020...sed-collector/ , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7hL_hMQ31U


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