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Originally Posted by Observer
The Monday, May 23rd edition of WWE Raw was up slightly this week to 3.26 million viewers, up three percent from last week ...
The three hours were:
8 p.m.: 3.36 million viewers
9 p.m.: 3.33 million viewers
10 p.m.: 3.12 million viewers
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In terms of weekly stuff, Thunder-Warriors game did more damage to last week's RAW numbers than yesterday's Cavs-Raptors game in terms of sports. Last week's first hour was stronger but yesterday didn't have the big 3rd hour drop last week had.
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Originally Posted by Observer
The Friday replay of Monday Night RAW from May 16th did 467,000 viewers on SyFy with no promotion whatsoever.
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Originally Posted by PWI
According to an interview with Sports Illustrated, Director Rory Karpf has stated the 30 in 30 documentary on the life and career of Ric Flair will be in the 90-120 minute range and is currently being edited. We are hearing the aim is to debut the documentary in August but that could change. Vince McMahon, Undertaker, Tully Blanchard, Arn Anderson and a ton of others have been interviewed for the piece.
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It was noted on Wrestling Observer Radio that despite losing to WWE World Heavyweight Champion Roman Reigns at Extreme Rules, WWE does have big plans for AJ Styles.
No word yet on what they have planned now that Reigns has apparently moved on to Seth Rollins.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Smackdown in Canada will air on Thursday this week because of the Memorial Cup on Wednesday. It will also replay on Friday.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Pop TV President Brad Schwartz did an interview with PW Insider giving TNA a vote of confidence, saying what station would cancel its second highest rated show. Well, that's actually happened quite a number of times to wrestling shows including TNA last year. Schwartz did the interview no doubt because of all the stuff about canceling the replay on Saturday after just four weeks and no mentions at all in the upfronts in March about TNA when plugging shows. Schwartz claimed when they started on the station they wanted to give as many people as possible a chance to find it, so they premiered it and repeated it, but now repeats don't make sense with VOD and DVR's and people watching when they want to anyway. The problem is Pop is not a staggered network like most entertainment networks so prime time means 6 p.m. on the West Coast, which is why Destination America would do the midnight replay, so they have a prime time showing. He tried to give the idea that it was the plan to do so for a few months and then cut down to one airing, which makes zero sense because why do the time slot change just a month ago if the plan was to dump it? He did explain about growing up watching wrestling on Saturday mornings, but again, if that's the case you don't dump it in four weeks. He noted they never marketed the Saturday show and the plan was always to have one two hour broadcast. He claimed repeats don't work, although that's notable because Pop's highest rated show is a repeat.
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Basically POP TV trying to downplay them getting rid of Impact replays and their relationship with TNA souring recently.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Ted DiBiase on Twitter mentioned to say prayers for George Steele who was going through some health issues. Best of luck to him in his current situation. He's beaten some major health issues in the past.
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Steele mentioned on Twitter his rehab is going to take at least 5 weeks assuming no serious setbacks.
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Originally Posted by Observer
WWE hired a new announcer named Austin Romero, who started on Friday working the NXT tour using the name Mike Rome.
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New Japan's top star Hiroshi Tanahashi has joined The Young Bucks on the injury list for the current Best of the Super Juniors tour due to a broken left shoulder ...
New Japan announced the injury and said he will be out the rest of the tour. They want him to heal up for one of the company's signature events of the year like the June 19th Dominion show at Osaka Jo Hall where he is set to face Omega in a ladder match.
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Got hurt during the recent ROH-NJPW tour in the US.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Joey Ryan won DDT’s Iron Man Heavymetalweight championship today. He is the 1,073rd champion in the illustrious history of the hottest potato championship in wrestling. Former champs include a ladder, a curry, a camerman, a Yoshiaki Fujiwara and the belt itself.
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Originally Posted by PWI
Kevin Owens and Tyler Breeze raised almost $71,925 in their crowdfunding campaign to help the families affected by the Fort McMurray wildfires that ravaged Alberta, Canada a few weeks ago. The Canadian government stated that they would double any donations made that at least means $143,850 will be given for relief in that area. For details on how you can assist and donate, click here.
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Link to the charity fund for those interested in donating:
https://www.gofundme.com/22vqm7w
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