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Originally Posted by Observer According to The Wrestling Observer Newsletter, there has been a big change at the top of the food chain at Destination America. Mark Etkind, who had been the station’s General Manager, moved to take a similar role with The Science Channel a few weeks ago. Jane Latman is now the new General Manager and is currently evaluating all programming on the network. At this time, ROH’s run is set to end in December, when their deal ends. TNA will reportedly be off of the network in January. Recently, an advertiser was looking at buying time on the network in early 2016 specifically on the wrestling shows and was told at the time (before Etkind left the GM position last month) that they would not be having any wrestling on the station. Because both wrestling shows do well above the station average, a new person in charge could change the futures for both TNA and Ring of Honor. More on the story as it develops.

No guarantees the new GM of Destination America will reverse the decisions regarding TNA and ROH's future on the network.

Originally Posted by WWE Rusev sustained a proximal bicep tendon rupture during his match with Neville at the WWE Main Event tapings Tuesday night, WWE.com can confirm. The match was called due to the injury, and the former U.S. Champion's recovery time is currently slated at three to four weeks.

Originally Posted by F4W The situation with Alberto Del Rio and AAA is no longer looking good as WWE has confirmed that Del Rio will be working Monday's Raw in Denver, as well as Smackdown on Tuesday in Colorado Springs, before going on the entire European tour, working on the Roman Reigns half of the tour. AAA was under the impression that Del Rio would be fulfilling most of his advertised dates with the promotion, starting with a TV taping on Monday in Nuevo Laredo, and would be missing Raw. The other taping date he was advertised was November 15 in Ciudad Juarez, and he is booked the day before in Minehead, England, and traveling to Greenville, SC, from there, so it would appear very difficult to reroute him to Mexico. At this point it appears AAA will be lucky to even get one date with him to drop their Mega heavyweight title.

Some much for the potential special deal AAA implied they had with the WWE in regards to Del Rio.

As of right now, World Wrestling Entertainment still haven’t managed to legally trademark ‘Halloween Havoc’. The promotion do own the rights to prior Havoc events, which are shown on the WWE Network library, but the patent on the name still eludes them. This past Summer, the juggernaut applied for the rights to the Halloween Havoc name, but they’re still waiting. Many fans likely assumed that Vince McMahon simply swallowed up all of WCW’s event titles upon purchasing the ailing organisation in March, 2001. It appears that only some of the event trademarks were included, which explains why WWE have to apply for trademark on them in 2015. Further to that point, the company have been trying to secure the rights to the name for years.

http://whatculture.com/wwe/10-things...en-havoc.php/2

On Bryan’s injury issues: “Daniel Bryan has his style of wrestling and he’s his own worst enemy. When he goes out to the ring he puts everything on the line especially his body. When you’re a wrestler you are not meant to be harming yourself but Daniel Bryan seems to be doing harm to himself whether he’s doing an offensive move or if someone is doing a move on him. Daniel is always bumping, his high running knee he takes a bump, when his flying through the ropes he’s taking a bump but that’s his style and he’s not going to change the way he wrestles, he’s going to wrestle like that until the day he retires. I just hope he gets another chance to get back in the ring and finish his career the way he wants to before he retires.”

Part of a recent interview Kurt Angle had with Cult Of Whatever website. https://www.cultofwhatever.com/2015/...-nxt-and-more/

January - BEST PPV MATCHES 2015 [MATCH COMP] (DVD) February - THE BEST OF RAW & SMACKDOWN 2015 [MATCH COMP] (DVD) March - THE BEST OF NXT [MATCH COMP] (DVD/Blu-ray) April - DUDLEY BOYZ [DOC] (DVD/Blu-ray) May - SHANE MCMAHON or BEST OF THE US TITLE [MATCH COMP] (DVD/Blu-ray) June - ERIC BISCHOFF [DOC] (DVD/Blu-ray) July - SCOTT HALL [DOC] (DVD/Blu-ray) August - [???] [MATCH COMP] (DVD/Blu-ray) September - WWE HARDCORE [MATCH COMP] (DVD/Blu-ray) October - [???] [DOC] (DVD/Blu-ray) November - OMG! ECW’S TOP 50 CRAZIEST MOMENTS [DOC] (DVD/Blu-ray) December - TRUE STORY OF ROYAL RUMBLE [DOC] (DVD/Blu-ray)

Current planned 2016 WWE DVD lineup according to WWEDVDNews. A new Brock Lesnar dvd set is currently rumored to be taking one of the two ??? spots.

Geographies – India, Germany and Japan: The Company will make WWE Network available across the Indian subcontinent (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives and Afghanistan) on November 2nd, as well as Germany and Japan in January 2016

Next expansions planned for the WWE Network according to the recent WWE financial report.

Wednesday's edition of Impact Wrestling drew 266,000 viewers on Destination America, which was up on last week’s 264,000 viewers. The replay was also up to 98,000 viewers on last week’s 63,000 viewers. Ring Of Honor which follows Impact drew an impressive 227,000 viewers which was a huge increase on last week's 132,000 viewers, making it their best one hour broadcast on Destination America yet.

Young Bucks announcement may or may not have played a role in the huge spike for ROH.

Originally Posted by Observer On the upcoming WWE European tour, Randy Orton has been pulled, leaving the Roman Reigns part of the tour’s top matches as Reigns vs. Bray Wyatt and Dean Ambrose & The Usos vs. Erick Rowan, Braun Strowman & Luke Harper. There’s our answer on when the Usos would be back healthy again.

The other important driver of future growth is the Network segment, which on September 30th had 1.233 million paid subscribers and 73,000 free subscribers. That's up from the 1.15 million at the end of June, but down from the 1.33 million at the end of March. It's pretty clear the network business looks to be big increases in the first quarter of the year due to the Royal Rumble and WrestleMania, and trying to hold those increases for the rest of the year.

Observer on the recent WWE financial report. Stocks took a big dip mostly because of the hype going in, Live show and merch revenue went up but because they ran more shows compared to last period, overall revenue and profits are up but also lower than original predictions. MSG Network special ended up being the most watched show in Network history while its being implied Tough Enough is done as a series. http://www.f4wonline.com/wwe-news/ww...-number-200596

Originally Posted by Observer Recently, live WWE ratings have been their lowest levels since 1997. Yet, WWE’s television rights agreements are not tied to weekly ratings. Still, there are several reasons that ratings still remain a relevant component in evaluating the WWE business model. First of all, NBC Universal does care about their television ratings. They’ve earmarked hundreds of millions of the dollars to pay WWE with a relationship largely built on the history that WWE can deliver large weekly audiences and in turn, a boosting of value for cable channels such as USA Network and SyFy Network. Indeed, NBCU is planning to move WWE’s SmackDown from SyFy to the USA during Q1 of '16. If Raw stops being able to deliver the eyeballs, the WWE’s value to NBCU’s portfolio may greatly diminish. Second, advertisers care about ratings. One of the interesting elements in today’s Q3 press release was a note that “37 new advertisers were secured for WWE programming following NBCUniversal’s upfront”. Largely, this advertising money would not be going directly to WWE, but rather NBCU. In some cases, WWE may directly benefit as advertisers may decide to integrate the advertising into the WWE programming (such as sponsorship of PPVs or in-program ads) ... Lastly, in order to gain and retain subscribers for the WWE Network, WWE needs to create new fans, create new superstars, and monetize their audience. Declining ratings demonstrate diminishing interest in the WWE.

Observer on ratings and while its not hurting the WWE itself right now, it has the potential to be a huge thorn within the near future.


Some other sheet news includes:

• WWE announced Brock Lesnar will be wrestling at the December 19th house show in Los Angeles. Could end up getting the Network treatment like past Lesnar house shows.
• In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, today is the 30th anniversary of Dusty Rhode's famous "Hard Times" promo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4MmynUrze8
• William Regal announced he's out till December due to recent neck surgery. Recent CAT scan showed his neck was getting in bad shape and also to deal with some nagging issues from his last surgery.
• Lucha Underground currently opened sign ups for seats for the second season taping. Only 300 seats per taping and only a few dates are available.
• Newest episode of TPWW TLP podcast was released today: http://tablesladderspodcast.podbean....st-127-102815/
• WWE recently released a Halloween themed video on the official website dealing with Bray Wyatt and ghost stories. http://www.wwe.com/videos/bray-wyatt...ories-28124330