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Old 03-25-2019, 06:53 AM   #401
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Daniel Cormier said he wanted to go to WM and interfere costing Lesnar the title. He's also friends with Rollins.

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Old 03-25-2019, 10:45 AM   #402
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Honestly, that would be fucking awesome. If Cormier came to WWF to fight Lesnar instead of continuing in UFC. Haha, I would love it. Cormier is the man, he would be good as an Authority Figure for WWE or a commentator.
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Old 03-25-2019, 11:17 AM   #403
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Brock/Jones vs Rollins/DC
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Old 03-25-2019, 12:00 PM   #404
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Honestly, that would be fucking awesome. If Cormier came to WWF to fight Lesnar instead of continuing in UFC. Haha, I would love it. Cormier is the man, he would be good as an Authority Figure for WWE or a commentator.
He's not fighting Brock in WWE it's likely to help promote their eventual UFC fight which hasn't been agreed upon but if this happens there's a "reason" for the fight to happen as dumb as it is.
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Old 03-25-2019, 12:30 PM   #405
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FOX wants Cormier for commentary on SDLive supposedly when it debuts in the fall so never say never...Cormier said before WWE had approached him about him about working together

A Tom Phillips/Cormier team could be fun IMO (I'm a big proponent of Tom Philips r/n)
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Would fucking love that if it lead to a match just for the insanity of it all.
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Old 03-25-2019, 06:07 PM   #407
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Old 03-25-2019, 07:29 PM   #408
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Old 03-26-2019, 08:38 AM   #409
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https://www.ringsidenews.com/2019/03...estlemania-36/

So I guess WWE decided to throw their weight around to keep other shows from happening in Tampa next year..

Everyone go to St Petersburg!
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Old 03-26-2019, 09:35 AM   #410
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I can't see that being true.

My guess is they are hoping ROH/NJPW don't run the arena at USF that seats around 12k to repeat another MSG sellout...but even then -- part of the lure of hosting WM is all the $$$ brought into the city and decent chunk of $$$ is made from indy events and conventions. It would be both WWE and Tampa shooting themselves in the foot.
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Old 03-26-2019, 09:52 AM   #411
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ROH should run the Trop as long as the rays arent home, its in St. Pete
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Old 03-26-2019, 01:23 PM   #412
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Cody says AEW won't ever run WM weekend, which is in line with what he's said in the past. He'd rather run a show that draws a crowd on its own merit than capitalize on a bunch of people being in town for WWE.
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Old 03-26-2019, 01:58 PM   #413
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Just wait til WWE runs a show the same time as an AEW show
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As noted, Kurt Angle will have his final match with WWE at WrestleMania 35 this April, facing Baron Corbin one-on-one.

Although there have been rumors of Angle's opponent being reconsidered, the two are currently scheduled to collide on "the grandest stage of them all".

In the meantime, Angle will perform on both RAW and SmackDown, facing opponents from his storied career like AJ Styles, Rey Mysterio and, during last night's RAW, Samoa Joe.

On the latest episode of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer mentioned that these opponents Angle will be facing during the build to WrestleMania 35 were all personally hand-picked by Angle. Despite the storyline telling fans differently, the one opponent Angle had no input in choosing was his WrestleMania opponent for this year, Corbin.
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Though his return to action for ROH had been announced for Road to G1 Supercard: Baltimore, Flip Gordon won't be able to wrestle at the show.

ROH announced today that Gordon has re-injured his right knee and won't be appearing at the Road to G1 Supercard show on Sunday (March 31). Gordon tweeted yesterday that his knee was "completely locked up" the morning after wrestling for OTT Wrestling in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was able to fly home and had a doctor's appointment scheduled for this morning.

ROH wrote that there's "concern that Gordon may have suffered a 'bucket handle' meniscus tear, which would require surgery and keep him out of action for four-to-six months. The extent of the injury will not be known until the results of Gordon’s MRI exam are in."
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As of Tuesday afternoon, the women’s battle royal and a SmackDown tag title match are both scheduled for the WrestleMania card. If you included those two matches and the pending Daniel Bryan vs. Kofi Kingston announcement that brings the match total to 16.
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A small correction to make on our Allie reporting last week. Her contract expired in February, at which point she was informed Impact Wrestling was not renewing her deal. We had initially reported late January, but it was actually last month.

In following up on Eli Drake, PWInsider.com has confirmed his current deal expires in late May.

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Announced earlier today at a press conference, former two-time UFC Heavyweight Champion Cain Velasquez, 36, has signed with AAA.

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A Falls Count Anywhere stipulation has been announced for The Miz vs. Shane McMahon at WrestleMania 35. Miz challenged Shane to the stipulation on tonight's SmackDown and Shane accepted it.

In other WrestleMania 35 news, we noted before how Charlotte Flair shockingly won the SmackDown Women's Title from Asuka on tonight's episode. WWE has confirmed that Flair's title will not be on the line when she faces Becky Lynch and RAW Women's Champion Ronda Rousey in the WrestleMania 35 main event.
People speculated going all the way back to when it was rumored that Becky was going to face Ronda at Mania and rumors of Women's Tag belts existing that WWE would probably end Mania with all 4 Horsewomen having gold and embracing in the ring. If true, they did it in one of the dumbest ways possible after tonight's Smackdown.
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Old 03-26-2019, 10:03 PM   #415
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Old 03-27-2019, 03:05 AM   #416
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Jesus fuck, just unify the damn belts and have Becky beat both champs.
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Old 03-27-2019, 03:11 AM   #417
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They’ve got to be unifying the belts, right? And the only reason they haven’t announced an Evolution PPV is because they are planning a show.
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Old 03-27-2019, 03:16 AM   #418
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If they don't unify or have both the championships on the line, it makes the Smackdown Women's Championship come across as inferior. As someone suggested earlier, It's also quite daft to have Becky (potentially) score the pinfall or submission victory over the Smackdown Women's Champion in order to become the RAW Women's Champion.
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Also, it will be the first time a Smackdown brand specific champion will compete on Monday Night RAW since the creation of the Smackdown Women's Championship and Smackdown Tag Team Championship.
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So John Pollock on Post Wrestling's "Review a Smackdown" podcast said that the title change was suggested as a last minute curveball to add more stakes to the main event and Vince signed off on it.
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That’s what WrestleMania needs — last minute curveballs. It’s part Russo 2000 and part Russo 1998.

I don’t think they care about making the SD Women’s belt looking inferior. They get all these belts because Vince feels he needs to have champions on all these house shows, but then he devalues them.

I do think Becky is going to get the fall over Ronda. That’s the Triple H multi-match special. It’s how he dropped the belt to Benoit, and he did a similar thing with Sasha when she won the NXT title. You think the other challenger is losing the fall, but then the champ takes it to subvert your expectations. The whole thing is a mess though.
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Vince changed his mind this afternoon. He didn't want to put Asuka against whomever that nobody cared about in the 17th or 18th match on the show, and instead decided to add another title into the main event. Maybe they figured they had too many matches on the show and it was a way to get rid of one. All I know is it changed this afternoon. You want it to make sense. It doesn't. It can't when you change the story every week.
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Oney Lorcan is officially part of the 205 Live roster.

After Lorcan appeared on tonight's 205 Live episode, WWE uploaded a video where Drake Maverick announced that Lorcan has joined the cruiserweight division and will be wrestling on NXT and 205 Live going forward.

Lorcan was involved in the show-closing angle on this week's 205 Live. He came out before the bell rang for Cedric Alexander vs. Ariya Daivari and sat at ringside for the match. After Alexander hit a dive to the floor, he accidentally knocked Lorcan's jacket off of the announce table. Lorcan got mad at Alexander and yelled at him, leading to Daivari rolling up Alexander to win.
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Vince McMahon sold 3.2 million shares of WWE stock in order to raise $270 million in capital for his new company Alpha Entertainment, which will be re-launching the XFL football league in 2020.

WWE stock dropped 1% in after-hours trading as a result of McMahon's stock sale, according to SeekingAlpha.com.
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WWE issued an Email blast pushing the 2019 WWE Survivor Series pre-sale in Chicago, advertising the following match for the PPV:

*In a Survivor Series Elimination Match, Team Raw - Roman Reigns & Braun Strowman & Drew McIntyre & Finn Balor & Bobby Lashley vs. Team Smackdown - Kevin Owens & AJ Styles & Randy Orton & Samoa Joe & Rey Mysterio.
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AXS TV issued the following:

Los Angeles (March 27, 2019) – AXS TV—the exclusive U.S. broadcast home for New Japan Pro Wrestling—is proud to announce it will premiere a two-part special from the sold-out G1 SUPERCARD, a co-promotion between Ring of Honor and NJPW at Madison Square Garden, on Friday, April 12 and Friday, April 19 at 8pE/5pP.
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Matt M sent this. … Regarding the question about why the champs don't pin each other in a triple threat tag and leave:

Many, many years ago, there was a multi tag team match on Raw when the New Age Outlaws were champs. They did this exact finish and from then on, the commentators would always reference the Outlaw Rule and that you couldn't pin your partner.
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The Bella Twins are already teasing a comeback.

On the season finale of Total Bellas this past Sunday, Nikki Bella announced that she would be retiring from wrestling. Earlier this month, Brie Bella also informed fans that she would be stepping away from the ring as well. In the wake of their retirement, the twins announced that they would be starting a new podcast titled The Bellas Podcast.

On the premiere episode, Brie & Nikki revealed that would come back if it meant getting their hands on the Women's Tag Team Titles.

"Nicole and I did tell everyone that we are stepping away from the ring, which is true, we are. But we also said that before the WWE Women's Tag Team Titles came into place," said Brie. "This is the thing, for years we were begging for the Women's Tag Team Titles. Begging. We never thought it could truly be a reality. The fact that it is now, makes it extremely tempting for us to go back and fight for them because we're really the longest reigning, most authentic tag team."

Nikki added, "Overall, we are the only real, true blood, tag team."
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Try as they might, WWE won't be able to stop Joey Janela's Spring Break even if they take measures next year.

Janela's third offering of Spring Break sold out both nights quickly, to the point Janela and Game Changer Wrestling are already planning ahead. With unsubstantiated reports of WWE trying to limit independent shows surrounding their WrestleMania 36 show in Tampa, Florida next year, Game Changer wrestling was ahead of the curve.

"We have a contract locked up already. It's already been signed, so there's nothing they can do," Joey Janela told Fightful. "If they kibosh all the other indies that weekend, has nothing to do with me. Brett Lauderdale was ahead of the game. He was in Tampa last week. Deal is done, there's nothing they can do. We're expecting something special next year. It's going to be a wild crowd."
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WOR: “I’ve been told Ronda Rousey and Becky Lynch do very well in the quarter hour ratings, the best of anyone.”

Despite the numbers not being publicly available, Dave Meltzer said today that he was told Ronda Rousey and Becky Lynch do “very well” when it comes to quarter hour ratings, “the best of anyone” he claims.
Triple H did mention last year or so that women segments and matches have been a lot more consistent with generating high quarter-hour ratings compared to their men's stuff.

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It was confirmed this week that Joey Ryan, Thunder Rosa (Kobra Moon), Ivelisse Velez and El Hijo del Fantasma (King Cuerno) were released from their Lucha Underground contracts.

There's now speculation on King Cuerno possibly going to WWE in the near future. Dave Meltzer noted on Wrestling Observer Radio that Cuerno had an offer from WWE at one point. There's no word yet on if WWE still has interest in the former AAA World Cruiserweight Champion, but it was assumed that the offers still stand.

Cuerno was reportedly offered a spot in the WWE Cruiserweight Classic back in 2016, but Lucha Underground and AAA would not allow him to enter.

Regarding Velez possibly coming to WWE, Meltzer noted that she has had behind-the-scenes issues with people in WWE in the past, which is why she's not there now. There's been no recent talk of Velez possibly returning to WWE, but that could change as WWE looks to sign as many talents from the indies as they can ...

There's been rumors on Lucha Underground being done, but that's not official yet.
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WWE ring announcer JoJo announced on Instagram that she’s expecting a baby, who will be named Knash, in June.

Bray Wyatt also posted a photo of his arms holding JoJo’s stomach, with the hashtag “#Knash” on his Instagram. Wyatt and JoJo have been dating for a couple of years.

JoJo has been off of WWE TV all year for what were previously said to be “personal reasons.” In her Instagram post, she said, “Oh and WWE universe WE will be back when the time is right.”

* According to the Observer, Cena is no longer scheduled to appear at Mania 35 due to WWE recently dropped all of their plans for him. Ends up debunking an earlier report from Sports Illustrated that stated Cena vs. Angle was set for Mania 35 and Corbin vs. Angle was just a swerve announcement.
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Old 03-27-2019, 10:19 PM   #423
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First thing I thought of when I read of the baby's name was if one of them was a big Kevin Nash fan.
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Why the fuck would they not go Cena v Angle. Like, I can't wrap my head around the logic of it all.
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Old 03-28-2019, 01:08 AM   #426
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Is Cena ok to go? He missed Royal Rumble.
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Is Cena ok to go? He missed Royal Rumble.
He's busy with a lot of filming stuff this year which is why he missed that event and why it was always a slim chance of him being at Mania.

Apparently he won't finish this current round of filming until a few days before Mania and then after a short break, he's back working on another project.
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Bummer for Angle, really. That Corbin match is probably going to be the drizzling shits.
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I hope wherever Janela has his show in tampa is up to date on their codes lol
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What do you think they see in Corbin? He’s probably a “hard worker,” but what has he shown? This is like them really trying to push Chainz to the top. I don’t get it.
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I'm not as against Corbin as most people but I think he is being horribly misused. He does not need to be at the center of major storylines yet. He should be an upper midcard heel, maybe the top midcard heel, and he should not talk nearly as much. Should have kept his original gimmick just fleshed it out a bit more.
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Even if you’re not against him, aren’t there still quite a few possibilities that are far more interesting to you? For example, predictable as this story might be, wouldn’t Bobby Roode vs. Chad Gable be a far more interesting program?
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What do you think they see in Corbin? He’s probably a “hard worker,” but what has he shown? This is like them really trying to push Chainz to the top. I don’t get it.
Agile big man, not afraid to get heat. Belly button can wink.
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all of these things are true and I've seen him do half decent stuff.

However, he's not all that engaging and doesn't scream "big star" to me. I'd have no problem with him as a mid-carder who's somewhat featured and put over enough so it means something to beat him. Not a mid-carder who's literally all over every show and yet it still means squat to beat him.
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WWE announced that a seven-plus-hour livestream of the greatest modern-day WrestleMania matches will air on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube starting at noon Eastern time on Friday, March 29. The matches will range from WrestleMania XIX until today.
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Before he closed out Thursday's NXT conference call, WWE COO Paul "HHH" Levesque confirmed NXT is returning to San Jose, CA, on Saturday, June 8th.

Without explicitly saying it's a TakeOver event, WWE confirmed it will be.

The event will be at the SJSU Event Center where the brand has previously held TV tapings and house shows.
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World Wrestling Entertainment has locked in plans to return to Madison Square Garden, PWInsider.com can exclusively confirm.

WWE, which last ran the venue in December 2018, will return to MSG on 9/9 and 9/10 for back to back Raw and Smackdown Live tapings, we have confirmed with multiple sources.

The dates will be the first WWE TV tapings in the Garden since a Raw taping on 11/16/09.
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AAA will be holding a press conference next Thursday 4/5 at Madison Square Garden.

A press advisory issued regarding the conference noted AAA was coming to the United States in September 2019 and that the conference would include an opportunity for "AAA’s top executive share his vision for Lucha Libre’s next chapter."
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I read in This Day in History that Hogan fought as the Hulk Machine in the mid 80's. Why was this? Wasnt he WWF Champion and Hulkamania running wild at the time?

Yes, but he worked a few tag matches as "Hulk Machine" playing off the Machines tag team as a house show gimmick. They never hid it was Hogan and he would do a deal where he took the mask off to show the crowd it was him but pull it down in front of the referee. George Steele and Roddy Piper did some house shows as the "Piper Machine" and “The Animal Machine” as well. It was just a house show attraction, like “Juan Cena” a few years ago.


Is it true pro wrestling was once almost banned in NYC?

Not in NYC, but all of New York State. There was a riot on 11/19/57 following Argentina Rocca & Eduord Carpentier beating Dick the Bruiser and Dr. Jerry Graham in Madison Square Garden with fans damaging the building, storming the ring and even fighting with police. This led to $2,600 in fines (which was a lot of money back then), a November show being canceled and the State of New York actually coming close to banning pro wrestling. Oddly enough, the local press reported on the script going too far, so even back then, for all the talk of protecting the business, it was still being skewered for being a work by certain corners of the media.
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Sting has been announced as signing for Wrestlemania AXXESS on Sunday, which led to the vendor bringing in Sting at Wrestlecon canceling his appearance.. Fans who pre-paid for autographs and photo-ops at Wrestlecon have received refunds already. Wrestlecon is trying to step in and work out Sting appearing at another time next weekend but nothing has been locked in. It should be interesting to see if WWE requires any other talents who are scheduled for Wrestlecon to be pulled from the event.

Wrestlecon is among a number of entities having issues locking in venue in the Tampa area as WWE already has agreements locked in via their partnership with the city preventing competing pro wrestling events in certain venues in that market over Wrestlemania 36 week. WWN will obviously be running and will have no issues due to their relationship with WWE. We are told that Game Changer Wrestling has locked in Tampa plans. Everyone else is still up in the air.
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WWE announced officially that the Ronda Rousey vs. Becky Lynch vs. Charlotte Flair women’s match would be the main event on this year’s WrestleMania. The decision officially makes it the first women’s main event in WrestleMania history, a subject that was brought up one year ago when the idea was for Rousey vs. Flair to headline the show.That match changed forms multiple times over the past year, and the day after the announcement and the media publicity, did once more as to promote it as the biggest women’s match in WWE history, they are pushing a “Winner Take All” theme, or perhaps an “All On The Line” theme with both the Raw and Smackdown women’s titles at stake.

The decision was made on 3/26 according to multiple sources in creative, that McMahon had agreed to a major change, basically putting the Smackdown title on Flair, which happened later that night as she beat Asuka for that title at the Mohegan Sun Casino. The original plan for the show was to have Asuka defend the title against the winner of a match on the 3/26 Smackdown show with Naomi, Carmella, Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville. Rose was booked to win that match and have a rematch with Asuka, who had beaten her at Fastlane. The decision was made on a show already overloaded with matches to remove that match that really had little interest and instead make the main event stronger. There was no indication Rose was winning that match.

The plan is also to come out of this match with a clear direction for next year’s WrestleMania, whether that means Rousey returns for a singles match with Lynch, or Flair vs. Lynch. Granted this 2019-20 Vince McMahon, meaning it’ll probably change five times or more during the year, especially since all of the top three matches this year were determined by fans and circumstances and were change of the long-term ideas. The women’s match changed multiple times, from the death of Jim Neidhart, to the huge rise in popularity of Lynch and different angles and scenarios with Flair. The only constant was that it was probably going to be the first women’s main event, and the only constant in the story was it being the climax of Rousey’s one-year run.
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What “Winner Take All,” the theme we’ve heard from a few people as the probable tag line entails is not clear, although will be finalized on Raw on 4/1 in Washington, DC. The plan is not to unify or merge the championships, at least long-term.

As things stand, the idea seems to be that if Rousey or Flair lose, the person who beats them gets their title. It in theory is possible that Rousey or Flair end up with both belts, but the more likely scenario is Lynch can now win either the Raw or Smackdown belt. It is always possible that could change by Monday, but we’re told that is very unlikely as they do want each brand to have a separate champion. Obviously this decision comes down to whether this will be Rousey’s last match with the promotion for now. If Rousey finishes at Mania, the date that was the plan as her tentative final date for the last few months, then the scenario that makes the most sense would be Lynch over Rousey. If Rousey is staying longer, then Lynch can beat Flair and they could do Lynch vs. Rousey later, since it only makes sense for Rousey to lose once, in her final match for now, and for Lynch to be the one who beats her.
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As every WrestleMania shows, Vince McMahon often changes his mind, based on his thoughts on crowd reactions or even if he thinks too many people have the outcome pegged. If he believes the social media outrage on Flair is real heat, he could switch to her winning. If Rousey is convinced to stay a little while longer just because he thinks people think he’s leaving, we’ve seen enough Brock Lesnar finishes to know what could happen. Still, Lynch has to be the favorite to win. By making the announcement public, we’re now in a position that McMahon can’t change his mind as to what match to put on last.
Smart of WWE officials to push Vince into a corner for a decision so he couldn't screw things up again but also sad they couldn't keep it as a huge surprise for Mania. It would have generated a genuine monster pop once the crowd realized which match was last.

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Regarding the internal politics in New Japan regarding the Dallas and London dichotomy mentioned last week, the U.S. expansion to this point has been in the hands of Kaname Tezuka and Bushiroad U.S. Harold Meij’s team were hoping to promote the U.S. market. The Madison Square Garden show was more ROH but Dallas is pure New Japan promotion. Tezuka’s Bushiroad had been promoting the U.S. market and wanted to keep it, so it ended up as a territorial split where Meij’s team gets U.K. and Australia and Tezuka’s team gets the U.S. Basically from both sides is the Tezuka side has more experience promoting wrestling which the Meij side doesn’t, but Meij has done business all over the world and his team speaks English, with him having being educated in the U.S. and Michael Craven being from Canada
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The Labor Day weekend All In 2, as it’s being called, will be on 8/31 back at the Sears Center in Hoffman Estates, IL. That was hinted on BTE the last time The Young Bucks went to Chicago and they showed the plaque in front of that arena which talked about All In. It was known all along it would be in Chicago, just a question as to what building as they sold out the Sears Center instantly last year, and the Allstate Arena, the WWE’s main venue, is a little larger and the United Center is a lot larger. In theory it should be harder to draw for a traveling fan show when they’ve already done Las Vegas this year, although lots of theories about what draws ticket money have been blown out of the water already
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FOX’s Friday night lineup this past week averaged 3,418,000 viewers and that’s going up against a ton of NCAA basketball games
Even without sports competition, that is around the usual range FOX has been doing for Friday nights and why SmackDown is going to need some drastic changes made if it wants to come close to hitting those numbers even for the honeymoon period.

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WrestleMania 35 is just days away which also means NXT TakeOver: New York is also days away. NXT is Triple H's baby and The Game conducted an NXT media call ahead of the big event ...

Sullivan was supposed to debut on Raw along with other main roster call-ups such as Tommaso Ciampa. Ciampa had a brief run with the main roster before recently undergoing neck surgery and Triple H talked about what was known about Ciampa's injury prior to his debut.

"We knew about it. We knew it was going to be a necessity going forward," admitted Triple H. "The decision was still made to move him to the main roster and get him some exposure. Then he'll take the time off, get fixed up and be back better than ever.

"Unfortunately with the type of injury he had, it went from one thing to another very rapidly. It changed from something being manageable to being a risk we're not willing to take."
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Old 03-28-2019, 11:31 PM   #438
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Kind of dumb Becky can't come out Undisputed Women's Champion. If anything they could make her drop one the next night.
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Once I posted that I realized Vince will probably have her pin both and win both titles.
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Kind of dumb Becky can't come out Undisputed Women's Champion. If anything they could make her drop one the next night.
Assuming plans don't change, it just makes Charlotte winning the SD belt look even worse as a decision since its either a non-factor for Becky's win or makes Becky look bad if she comes out of Mania without the RAW belt.

If WWE doesn't want to merge the belts, can still have a duo champ be possible but just make future title defenses be restricted to a only a specific brand's belt.
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