The Wrestling Thread MUST End In Pinball Or Submission - - - - - Part 222

[Warhammer]

According to a recent Smackdown spoiler, [blackout]League of Nations is broken up.[/blackout] Wow, something eventful happened on Smackdown.

 

[Dr. Evil]

So looking forward to Zayn vs. Owens.

 

[Dr. Evil]

 

[OnTheAir]

WWE Superstars spoilers

Spoiler

WWE taped the following matches tonight in Hartford, CT for this week's Superstars episode:

* Zack Ryder defeated D-Von Dudley

* WWE United States Champion Kalisto defeated Tyler Breeze

http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/2016/0425/611108/spoilers-wwe-superstars-results/

WWE Main Event spoilers

Spoiler

WWE Main Event spoilers from tonight's tapings in Manchester, New Hampshire:

* Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson defeated Zack Ryder and Fandango

* Dolph Ziggler defeated Viktor

* They air a video on Sami Zayn vs. Kevin Owens for WWE Payback

* Kevin Owens defeated Jack Swagger in a really good match

http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news...poilers-wwe-main-event-tapings-for-this-week/

WWE SmackDown spoilers

Spoiler

WWE SmackDown spoilers from tonight's tapings in Manchester, New Hampshire:

* WWE World Heavyweight Champion Roman Reigns and WWE Intercontinental Champion The Miz with Maryse kick off SmackDown with an in-ring segment. It ends with Miz trying to attack and Reigns launching him out of the ring

* Sami Zayn, Cesaro and WWE United States Champion Kalisto defeated Sheamus, Rusev and Alberto Del Rio by count out. Rusev and Del Rio end up walking out on Sheamus as The League of Nations breaks up

* Natalya and WWE Women's Champion Charlottewill be on The Ambrose Asylum later tonight

* Baron Corbin squashed Damien Sandow

* Dean Ambrose comes out for The Ambrose Asylum with Natalya, Charlotte and Ric Flair. This was said to be a very entertaining segment to build to Payback

* Enzo Amore and Big Cass vs. The Social Outcasts is next. WWE Tag Team Champions The New Day came out first for a big pop. They joined commentary and made Byron Saxton sit on the floor. Big pops for Enzo and Cass' pre-match promos as well. During the match, The Vaudevillains came out to watch from the stage. Enzo and Cass picked up the win

* Apollo Crews defeated Stardust

* Roman Reigns faced The Miz in the main event that ended with Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson attacking Reigns. The Usos and AJ Styles also made appearances

http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news...spoilers-wwe-smackdown-tapings-for-this-week/

 

[Slushy]

Shame Wyatt and Harper got injured. The Leagues Of Nations Vs. The Wyatts would've been cool.


After 30 months,

Spoiler

Ethan Carter's "undefeated" streak finally ended after Mike Bennett pinned him. It only took a miracle!

 

[nite-owl]

Was that Shelly Martinez?

Yes. Here's the video of the full botch.

https://www.facebook.com/botchamania/?fref=ts

 

[Wheels]

Alberto is supposedly turning face. I don't see how that works but I'm willing to watch it play out.

 

[nite-owl]

The f**king state of TNA.

Spoiler

 

[Mani-Man]

Shame Wyatt and Harper got injured. The Leagues Of Nations Vs. The Wyatts would've been cool.

Yup, especially since they would have ripped apart the league of nations.
The stable was doomed from the beginning, so it would have been nice to see the Wyatt family end them.

And i must say that i really miss Bray Wyatt and his promos.
I complained before that they are pointless and all, since in the end they lost most of their important matches...but still...he has damn good promos.

 

[Slushy]

Alberto is supposedly turning face. I don't see how that works but I'm willing to watch it play out.

I enjoyed his last babyface run. Hopefully, they don't cut it short again.

 

[Wheels]

WWE uploaded a making of Camp WWE short on the Network. The show looks like a ton of fun.

 

[RetroNaz]

The f**king state of TNA.

Spoiler

I don't follow ?

 

[SpideyVille]

Is that a fan?

 

[NDX]

Mike Bennett's in the ring. Can't get any lower.

That is Bennett right? Hard to tell on my phone.

 

[enterthemadness]

Sooo...a TV Company may be in running to buy TNA...and the word is possibly...since they ''own'' mulitple stations...

Spoiler

Sinclair.

http://www.24wrestling.com/tv-company-reportedly-in-talks-to-buy-tna/

There are now reportedly three bidders in the running to buy TNA. Dave Meltzer reported on Live Audio Wrestling that he’s heard of two new bidders aside from Aroluxe, and one is “TV-based” and would run TNA in a way that could be compared to Turner and WCW. He didn’t mention the name of the company.

 

[TheCommissioner]

Sinclair doesn't have national coverage

 

[enterthemadness]

Sinclair doesn't have national coverage

You forget they dropped a cool $300M+ on buying the Tennis Channel recently. That is in 30M homes. Will be in 50M+ homes by end of year.

 

[TheCommissioner]

Ah, right...and it may fit because some cable systems have dropped the YES Network (the sports channel owned by the Yankees)

 

[TheCommissioner]

who does this?

can we stop with this?

I feel like it's the smark version of hipster art

 

[The Apocalypse]

Roman Regins was getting ripped on Twitter last night. This time, for his jeans.

http://uproxx.com/prowrestling/roman-reigns-terrible-jeans/

 

[TheCommissioner]

also

Chyna's brain is going to be donated for CTE research

 

[famicommander]

Raw just hit its lowest non-holiday rating in over 19 years

also

Raw and Smackdown ratings from February of the past few years

Raw
2013: 3.34 rating/4.60 million viewers
2014: 3.17 rating/4.51 million viewers
2015: 2.92 rating/4.01 million viewers
2016: 2.56 rating/3.62 million viewers

Smackdown
2013: 2.05 rating/2.92 million viewers
2014: 2.03 rating/2.89 million viewers
2015; 1.83 rating/2.52 million viewers
2016: 1.77 rating/2.48 million viewers

By this time next year Raw will be lucky to be scraping 2.0s

 

[famicommander]

Sinclair doesn't have national coverage

Comet TV is in over 60% of households nationwide now, very comparable to the number of homes Pop is in and way more than El Rey or AXS (the broadcasters of TNA, LU, and NJPW respectively)

Plus rohwrestling.com is worldwide and free

Plus Sinclair just bought Tennis Channel

That doesn't include any of the normal Sinclair stations/affiliates

Just because they don't have a single flagship station that everyone has doesn't mean they aren't nationwide. They work on a syndication model due to the way their business is set up.

 

[runawayboulder]

Ric Flair is being detained at Logan Airport for being drunk and disorderly. He also made a strange remark at last night's tapings when he told Natalya to kill herself, which will probably be edited out.

 

[Warhammer]

Naitch being Naitch.