THE DIRT SHEET THREAD: THE LATEST FROM MELTZER AND MORE (10TH

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> The medical report on Hiroshi Tanahashi torn right biceps is essentially what was reported. It was noted that in most cases with a distal biceps tendon rupture that one would opt for surgery to repair the arm. Tanahashi said that he couldn’t be out of action for the six months after surgery. The belief was that his brachialis muscle can compensate for the function of the torn biceps so the decision wasn’t that bad

> Katsuyori Shibata wrote that his doctor is very surprised about how well his recovery has gone. He also talked about being very depressed because it doesn’t feel like summer to him without being in the G-1 tournament

> Jesse Ventura got assurances from Russian President Vladimir Putin that his television show, “The World According to Jesse,” would not be censored at all. Ventura’s show will air on Russia TV, a station that is funded by the Russian government. He had done a show called “Off the Grid” in 2015 with RTV’s American affiliate. The show will debut on 9/8 and air on Friday nights at 7:30 p.m., Eastern, and replayed at 10 p.m

> Sara Lee, who won the women’s side of the last “Tough Enough” based on fan voting, much to the chagrin of WWE officials who felt Mande Rose was the better prospect (and she was) is back training to be a wrestler. Lee was cut by WWE after getting pregnant (Cory Weston, aka Wesley Blake, was the father

> As a cost cutting measure, GFW are doing the next set of tapings from 8/17 to 8/22, taping 12 weeks of television in six days (they are likely to be doing afternoon and evening tapings on 8/19 and 8/20), so they’re doing everything through 10/26, or all shows leading to Bound for Glory next week

> DJZ, who has been out of action for several months after suffering a ruptured colon suffered working on a show for The Crash promotion in Mexico, has gotten full clearance to return. He’s also been dealing with post-surgery panic attacks

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> While everything with the Hardys and GFW looks to be dead, there was one issue this week. Impact Wrestling, publicly on twitter, wrote to Jimmy’s Famous Seafood restaurant, which does business with a lot of wrestlers in WWE including the Hardys and Strowman, and wrote, “Would love to talk to you guys about some potential partnership opportunities. Please let us know. The restaurant, owned by Demetrios “Jimmy” Minadakis, then wrote them back, “When you release the Broken Hardy rights, we will set up a call.” The restaurant’s twitter went after me for reporting the Karen Jarrett/Braun Strowman story, which was humorous, claiming it was all made up by Jeff Jarrett, which is so far from off base it’s not even funny, since multiple people have confirmed it and everyone in wrestling has known the story for weeks. Jimmy’s prepares meals for Strowman which explains their loyalty

> Sports Illustrated also reported more on Enzo and his issues. It should be noted, like with the Mauro Ranallo situation, that when WWE talked about all the heat Enzo had with the locker room and acknowledged him being kicked off the tour bus a few months ago, that “Bring it to the Table,” is planned out in advance. It’s not scripted word-for-word like a television interview, but the subjects are chosen in advance, they know the direction they are going and Kevin Dunn oversees and approves everything on the show. So everything they talked about was approved by management, which was also the key in the Ranallo thing in that it was management, not JBL, which approved of the knocking him, although obviously JBL as his broadcast partner could have said no, just like Graves and JBL could have said no. They reported that Enzo had heat also for bringing “questionable guests” into the locker room and was filming and taking photos of wrestlers (I guess without asking them) and that he should not have done that. He also said that Amore has been venturing into the music business

> Lawler and Bill Dundee filmed a pilot for a proposed new television show called “Jerry Lawler’s Classic Memphis Wrestling.” The attempt to is sell it to a local station as a nostalgia show, since Memphis Wrestling was a television institution there from the 60s through the 90s, and particularly big from 1969 to 1987. Lawler talked about how he’d like the show to air on the WWE Network after it first has its run on Memphis television. He said he’s got a lot of the footage and claims that he owns it, although the ownership of the tape library has been in question for decades since Lawler sold the promotion and its IP, but the owners went bankrupt and nobody bought its IP in bankruptcy court

> For people asking about Josh Bredl, the winner of the last Tough Enough season, he is still under contract to WWE but has not wrestled in 13 months due to issues related to concussions. He was using the name Bronson Matthews

> The reason the Hardys were off all the shows this weekend was because they couldn’t fully clear up whether Jeff Hardy would be able to cross the border given his felony drug conviction from years ago. They were working on it and time ran out, and he had to be pulled from the shows. Originally Matt Hardy was going to be in Toronto for Raw to shoot an angle with The Revival for their match, but with Scott Dawson’s injury, that was pulled from the show. The expectation right now, while not a certainty, is they’ll be able to clear it up in time for the next Raw Canada swing

> Nia Jax did an interview with Metro in the U.K. and noted that she and Bliss were best friends in real life

> There have been reports of Ronda Rousey training with Kendrick. The company is very high on the Horsewoman vs. Horsewoman idea, and most figure the next chapter will be on the 9/12 show in Las Vegas. Because it’s live TV, Shayna Baszler and Kairi Sane will be heavily working on their match, and they have worked together in the past in Japan. We’ve seen photos of Jessamyn Duke training with Kendrick in recent weeks, so the Rousey story is more than plausible and that is the story going around. Rousey has teased that she has a big announcement coming up

> Sports Illustrated reported that WWE had passed on Rey Mysterio because of issues with his management team, citing Konnan in particular. While they had talked, we’d heard the Mysterio talking with WWE was overblown in the first place and that he was looking at GFW because it would allow him more freedom to do side projects and Mysterio at this stage of his career isn’t going to be able to work the WWE schedule. When the stories first broke of Mysterio talking with WWE, we were told it was GFW he was talking with (which we had already reported) and there wasn’t anything significant to WWE. Unless WWE offered him a deal for very limited dates, at this stage of his career he is unlikely to want and his body is unlikely to want a WWE schedule, and if it’s a non-talent public relations position, it isn’t going to pay what he could earn as talent working indies and doing autograph shows and the like.

> Another aspect is Mysterio had a very good contract with Lucha Underground, and the fact he’s looking elsewhere when he was the biggest name in that company, is not a strong sign for Lucha Underground as you’d think they’d want to keep their biggest name and not have him sign with GFW. Mysterio had a great deal with LU, working a minimal number of matches and a deal that would have made him one of the higher paid wrestlers in the world, although the offer he signed was less then the numbers offered when he was first told about their interest, but was far more than he could get anywhere else and he could still work indies and such with that deal. But after a couple of years with no movie (never promised but it was part of the pitch), no house show touring, long delays between tapings, no merchandise to speak of and money issues in getting what he signed for, it looks like the money isn’t there for him to be able to be offered what his prior deal was. It looks like both sides are parting ways and that’s where the GFW talks came from

> Regarding the Sports Illustrated story, Konnan said he had not negotiated for Mysterio when it comes to WWE. The way the story was reported was that WWE had rebuffed Mysterio stating they had problems with his management team, specifically Konnan, although that story stated it was for Konnan not coming to WWE to do Max Moon after they spent all that money on the gimmick. That was 25 years ago and almost nobody except Vince who was in the company then is even in the company now. Konnan said that if Mysterio was wanting to go to WWE, and anyone in WWE saw his involvement as a negative, that he’d stay out of it and Mysterio would negotiate for himself

> WWE announced its first over-the-air television partner in Colombia, a deal with Canal 1, which starts on 8/19. The station will air a one-hour edited version of Raw at 3 p.m. Saturday, followed by a one-hour edited version of Smackdown at 4 p.m., and air WWE Experience on Sundays at 3 p.m

> WWE has canceled plans for a SummerSlam Blu Ray, apparently due to lack of sales of Blu Rays of late. SummerSlam will still be released via regular DVD

> Hooked on Events in the U.K. will have having SummerSlam viewing parties throughout the country, with events in Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, Cardiff, Birmingham, Nottingham, London, Sheffield, Derby, Reading and Bornemouth, bringing in wrestling personalities at several of the cities

> Wong Yuk Lun, 30, known as HoHo Lun, was released on 8/3. He asked for his release to return home to Hong Kong to help take care of his mother, who is having health issues. He was brought in as the Hong Kong, China rep for the cruiserweight tournament last summer and signed to a deal

> WWE officially announced Kyle O’Reilly as having signed, even though his appearing at the last TV tapings confirmed it. They didn’t make the announcement until his first match with Aleister Black aired. As for Adam Cole, even though Cole & Britt Baker won the Wrestle Circus tag titles from Rocky Romero & Trent Baretta on 8/5 in Austin, TX, Cole is headed here. It’s just a question as to how and when they introduce him. I don’t know that it’s happening at Takeover Brooklyn, but that’s certainly possible.

> Multiple sources within Global Force Wrestling have confirmed to PWInsider.com that as of this morning, GFW champion Alberto el Patron remains suspended from the company due to the 7/9 Orlando incident. That places the company in an interesting situation as they are advertising Patron for the main event of a live episode of Impact Wrestling for this Thursday 8/17, defending the championship against Low Ki in the headline bout of "Destination X."

> Patron has not appeared (and according to some sources, been paid) by the promotion since the decision was made to suspend him, pending an internal investigation into the airport incident, which saw Patron investigated for potential domestic battery abuse charges. As it turned out over the course of the investigation, instead it was Patron's girlfriend WWE star Paige who authorities determined could instead face those charges - a matter that has not yet been decided.

> Should the company not utilize Patron at their TV tapings this week, the company's top paid star would not appear in any of their storylines leading into the 11/5 Bound for Glory PPV, traditionally their biggest event of the year. It would also likely mean that the company would have to craft a storyline to remove the belt from Patron and crown a new champion after declaring him the unified champion by virtue of Patron, the GFW champion, defeating Impact champion Bobby Lashley at the Slammiversary PPV earlier this summer. GFW is set to introduce new championship belts, including a new GFW World championship belt, at this week's TV tapings, which are set for 8/17-8/22 at Universal Studios Florida.

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>The Dirty Sheets podcast is reporting that WWE officials haven’t pushed Mike Kanellis too hard because he arrived at the company in “less than stellar physical shape.”

>Kanellis, who formerly wrestled on the independent circuit and in TNA as Mike Bennett, debuted at Money in the Bank without much fanfare. Many fans have questioned the booking of Kanellis since his debut, with some even branding Kanellis a “jobber.” WWE execs are just not high on Kanellis because of the shape he arrived in, especially after he convinced them to put him on the main roster instead of NXT.

>Behind the scenes, Kanellis is perceived as lazy and complacent. One person in WWE told Dirty Sheets, “Mike signed two months before he came in and it looks like he just sat on his couch. The company doesn’t get it. He’s one of the guys who said it’s his dream to be here and he doesn’t even get in shape for it.”

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based mike working the wwe suits into a shoot

>WWE has announced what will be a six-hour plus presentation for SummerSlam, a two-hour pre-show that starts at 5 p.m. and a main show from 7 p.m. until probably around 11:30 p.m. It’s almost a lock that a lot of the post-show talk will be regarding how the show went too long.
What the FUCK is their FUCKING problem? Put on a good 2.5 hour show before you do all-day affairs.

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>He asked for his release to return home to Hong Kong to help take care of his mother, who is having health issues.
Damn, hope his ma is doing better than Ric

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>> Nia Jax did an interview with Metro in the U.K. and noted that she and Bliss were best friends in real life
did they?

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>>3007898
>unironically /wooo/-posting by copying their dirtsheets thread
Cringe, no wonder weeaboos are in here now, you all came from there

God I wish Ronda would fuck off

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>bad writer
>manlet
>weeb
>Jew
>adored by reddit and /wew/
>cried about The Young Cucks
>thinks charging $11 for a newsletter is a sustainable business model in 2017
>hoarder with a cramped, filthy work space
>dead father
>still uses a computer from 1995
>hasn't had an accurate scoop in years
>compensates by just fantasy booking
>occasionally gets it right and gets called a genius for it
>ruined his own rating system and completely devalued past five star matches because he had to let the world know what a giant Omega mark he was
>never worked for any wrestling promotion or been involved in the business in any way
>balding
>used to have a mullet
>dresses like a friendless teenager
>obsesses over muh workrate spot monkeys that don't draw
>Hillary voter
>employs Bryan Alvarez
>no journalistic integrity, gives better ratings and coverage to guys who kiss his ass
>tries to cover MMA, routinely gets BTFO by better journalists
>worked into a shoot by Baron Corbin
>worked into a shoot by Kevin Nash
>worked into a shoot by The Simpsons
>wrong about Mauro
>wrong about Punk
>wrong about Macho Man's arm, proceeded to get BTFO on national television by the most famous wrestler in the world
>only respected in pro wrestling because he has literally no competition
>stammers
>throws a fit when he's even slightly criticized
>plans change

>bad writer
>manlet
>weeb
>Jew
>adored by reddit and /wew/
>cried about The Young Cucks
>thinks charging $11 for a newsletter is a sustainable business model in 2017
>hoarder with a cramped, filthy work space
>dead father
>still uses a computer from 1995
>hasn't had an accurate scoop in years
>compensates by just fantasy booking
>occasionally gets it right and gets called a genius for it
>ruined his own rating system and completely devalued past five star matches because he had to let the world know what a giant Omega mark he was
>never worked for any wrestling promotion or been involved in the business in any way
>balding
>used to have a mullet
>dresses like a friendless teenager
>obsesses over muh workrate spot monkeys that don't draw
>Hillary voter
>employs Bryan Alvarez
>no journalistic integrity, gives better ratings and coverage to guys who kiss his ass
>tries to cover MMA, routinely gets BTFO by better journalists
>worked into a shoot by Baron Corbin
>worked into a shoot by Kevin Nash
>worked into a shoot by The Simpsons
>wrong about Mauro
>wrong about Punk
>wrong about Macho Man's arm, proceeded to get BTFO on national television by the most famous wrestler in the world
>only respected in pro wrestling because he has literally no competition
>stammers
>throws a fit when he's even slightly criticized
>plans change

>>3007954
MEMELTZER BTFO

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RAW RATINGS PLUMMET

Raw started higher and fell more last night than in previous weeks, ending up at 3.22 million viewers, which was a one percent drop from last week's number. Last week's rating was the best for the show since April 17th.

Raw remained the most-watched show on cable, with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC second at 2.86 million viewers. Raw's 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. hour was the second most watched show during that period on television, trailing only Midnight Texas, on NBC, which did 3.19 million viewers vs. 2.99 million for Raw. When you factor in the coverage area for NBC and USA, the reality is Raw would have been the actual highest rated show by a significant margin in hour three.

The first two hours were fourth in the time slot behind ABC, CBS, and NBC programming.

There were significant drops in every demo, even the male demo that usually stays strong.

My feeling on this is the huge first hour was curiosity regarding what would be said about Ric Flair, which was covered early and it was clear it wouldn't be talked about again. Even in males 18-49, which usually has its best hour in number three, it dropped 11 percent from one to three.

In addition, during the summer, it's hour number two that is usually the highest rated hour and every demo except males 12-17, which was closer to usual patterns, saw the audience decline in hour two and three.

The three hours were:

8 p.m. 3.42 million viewers
9 p.m. 3.29 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.99 million viewers

>>3009395
FUCKING BIG DOG KILLING THE RATINGS

>>3009395
Based Brocketty working the viewers into falling asleep