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Regarding WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins possibly suffering a leg injury at tonight's WWE live event in Dublin, word going around backstage is that he tweaked his knee. One source noted to PWInsider that the severity of the injury was still unknown but another source believed it was just a regular in-ring accident that happens and that Rollins would likely tape-up and work the rest of the tour. Rollins was set to get the leg checked out, so they will likely have a better idea on his status later tonight or tomorrow.

Originally Posted by Observer Rollins was defending his title against Kane in the main event, and was doing a powerbomb spot out of the corner, which may started as a sunset flip, when his right leg gave out and he clutched at the knee. A table had been set up in the ring and Rollins looked to be getting ready to power bomb Kane through it. He did get up and continue the match, including doing the power bomb through the table, but had to be helped out of the ring.

Observer on when Rollins hurt his knee during the match.

Originally Posted by Observer Roderick Strong appears to be headed to Veracruz, Mexico on Saturday to work a show replacing Alberto Del Rio in the main event. It's looking more and more likely that Del Rio will ever return to Mexico to drop the AAA Mega title.

Originally Posted by Observer In a press release today highlighting its January premieres, USA Network announced the move of WWE Smackdown from the SyFy network. What was notable from this release is that despite rumours of a possible move to Tuesday nights, airing live, the premiere was announced for January 7th, a Thursday, meaning it’s likely that this means the show will stay in the same Thursday time slot it’s been in for the last year. This move is expected to increase audience viewership of the WWE’s #2 show, as the USA Network has a much higher average viewership than SyFy. Despite both networks being in virtually the same number of homes, USA averages about 1.6 million viewers in Prime Time (week ending Nov 1) vs about 770,000 for SyFy. Smackdown has consistently been the highest rated show on SyFy, averaging around 2.1 million viewers for the 2 hour show.

Observer had more about the history of Smackdown moving to new networks. While it usually provides a bigger number than whatever was shown before on a network, the "honeymoon" boost has usually been very short.

And whatever John Cena is doing during his time off, it's not resting up his body. A photo just got posted on the Hard Knocks South gym Twitter of him squatting 611 pounds, a personal record, down below parallel.

Follows the trend of past breaks he's had where he barely takes any real off time to rest.

Silence is golden … unless you’re former Lucha Underground champ Prince Puma — a.k.a. Ricochet — who has made the request this season for producers to finally allow his character to talk! Sources close to the situation tell us Ricochet recently asked the powers that be to let his character speak while discussing plans for the upcoming season — and now he’s scheduled for a meeting with execs later this month to talk about it more in depth, as well as other plans for the future. We’re told Prince Puma isn’t looking for long monologues, or anything like that — he’s just ready to show his worth on the stick this season, even if it’s in short bursts. Despite wrestlers Alberto Del Rio and Big Ryck dropping out of Lucha Underground before the second season starts, we’re told Prince Puma is locked into a 3 season deal and ain’t going anywhere.

http://prowrestlingsheet.com/prince-...-let-me-speak/

Originally Posted by Inquisitr.com On the most recent episode of Pro Wrestling’s Illustrated PWI Podcast, Senior Writers Al Castle and Dan Murphy revealed Nikki Bella as the top-ranked wrestler in this year’s PWI Female 50. The announcement comes a few days ahead of the digital release of the new issue of Pro Wrestling Illustrated, which will feature the complete list of female rankings for 2015. Nikki’s ranking as the No. 1 women’s wrestler is a bit controversial, as the female grappler has a fair share of detractors, particularly among the much-maligned “Internet Wrestling Community.” Addressing this, Dan Murphy compared and contrasted the work of other top female stars during the evaluation period, which spanned from October 1, 2014, to September 30, 2015. Murphy noted that the acclaimed NXT bout between Sasha Banks and Bayley fell outside of the aforementioned period and, while it was one of the better women’s matches in the recent past, it was not a factor in either woman’s ranking for 2015.

For some reference, PWI usually puts a lot of weight towards title holders especially WWE titles which is why Rollins is #1 for the year for men. http://www.inquisitr.com/2541716/wwe...pwi-female-50/

Later in the podcast, Dan Murphy and Al Castle discussed the other women in the top five slots of this year’s PWI Female 50. Paige, who was No. 1 last year, grabbed second place. Sasha Banks, who recently moved from NXT to WWE’s main roster, came in at No. 3 in the highest debut for a wrestler in the history of the magazine’s female rankings. Reigning NWA women’s champion Santana Garret was ranked No. 4, and TNA’s Gail Kim rounded out the crop at No. 5.

Rest of PWI's Top 5 Women wrestlers for the year.

Originally Posted by Deadline.com Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald have been ramping up their TV operation under new head of television Owen Shiflett, who joined four months agoParkes + Macdonald Lock-up. The company has sold two drama projects, Smoke Sex Magic to NBC and The Work to Fox ... The Work, through 20th Century Fox TV, is set in the world of professional wrestling. It was written on spec by Scott O’Connor, author of the novels Untouchable and Half World. The script was shopped to cable networks, with Fox stepping up to take it off the table. O’Connor has been interested in professional wrestling and penned an article about WWE star Brock Lesnar in New York Times Magazine in August.

Some other sheet news includes:

• Next episode for Table For 3 will have Natayla, Tamina, and Charlotte as the guests.
• Brock Lesnar was announced as one of the inductees for this year's Wrestling Observer Hall of Fame class. https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc...ling_observer/
• According to the co-executive producer for Lucha Underground, early taping and production for Season 2 started yesterday. Actual shows won't start until a few more weeks. https://twitter.com/chrisdejoseph/st...97776099147776
• For those interested or follow PWG, the company is currently having a 5 for $40 holiday sale for their DVDs.
• According to reports, Ticketmaster had serious issues regarding the pre-sale codes for Mania 32 seating that went on sale today. For those that struggled to get decent tickets, Ticketmaster's mobile app supposedly had a better time dealing with the server stress for orders.
• This week's episode of TPWW TLP podcast was released earlier today: http://tablesladderspodcast.podbean....st-128-110415/