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<p>Some WWN stuff this week</p><p> </p><p> Gabe Sapolsky has officially taken over as head booker of FIP.</p><p> </p><p> They also announced the creation of the WWN championship to go across all brands. Also the Style Battle tournament is being turned into it's own monthly tournament promotion though I wouldn't expect that to really be worth the hassle of adding as it's own thing.</p>

<p>Some Evolve notes after the weekend shows. Some spoilers included.</p><p> </p><p> - <span style="color:#FFFFFF;">Timothy Thatcher is out of action with a serious concussion. Early reports stated it could be over a month before he's cleared. Stokely Hathaway should be added as a manager for Thatcher as well as they have been together for a few shows now.</span></p><p><span style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></p><p><span style="color:#FFFFFF;"> Tony Nese is officially finished with Evolve as he was announced as signing a full time contract with WWE during the show.</span></p><p><span style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></p><p><span style="color:#FFFFFF;"> Drew Gulak is no longer part of the Catch Point stable or tag team with Tracy Williams as he announced he was done with the group at Evolve 73.</span></p><p><span style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></p><p><span style="color:#FFFFFF;"> Fred Yehi and Tracy Williams are the new Evolve tag team champions defeating Dustin and Chris Hero(replacing the injured Galloway), the Gatekeepers, and Drew Gulak and Tony Nese to win the titles.</span></p><p><span style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></p><p><span style="color:#FFFFFF;"> Don't think he was ever added anyway but just in case he was Joey Styles has been fired from Evolve, Beyond, and Chikara for comments made during the Evolve show.</span></p>

TNA has been dropped by Challenge TV in the UK. No replacement for them on TV there yet. And the ownership situation there is still a mess but it sounds like Anthem the parent company of Fight Network might be taking control. Will still depend on the lawsuit with Billy Corgan and whether he continues after losing his attempt at an injunction.

WWE officially announced the arrival of Big Damo, Tommy End, and Mary Dobson to the performance center.

<p>Some WWE stuff from today</p><p> </p><p> Mickie James and Roderick Strong are both officially with NXT now. Mickie probably is on a PPA deal while Strong is fully signed.</p><p> </p><p> Big Damo is expected to report to the performance center next week.</p><p> </p><p> Hideo Itami is out again with a neck injury. Expected to be out for a few months.</p><p> </p><p> Paige is expected to be out for 6-7 months if she has neck surgery which her doctors advised her to while WWE doctors say she doesn't need it. Can't imagine she'll be there much longer at this point.</p>

<p>Couple WWE notes</p><p> </p><p> Luke Harper officially on Smackdown rejoining Bray Wyatt</p><p> Paige suspended 60 days for second wellness violation.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="LazarN" data-cite="LazarN" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41205" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>A few things I noticed when I started game:<p> -Cedric Alexander and Rich Swann are still on NXT,they should be in WWE Raw Cruiserweight Division.</p><p> </p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> The WWE cruiserweights are expected to work both NXT and Raw though the cruiserweight division is just a Raw division. Both Cedric and Swann are officially announced as part of the Dusty Rhodes Classic which is a NXT tournament.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Fleisch" data-cite="Fleisch" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41205" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Neither do I so I went with what his gimmick works best with for now which was a heel. There won't be an update after Bound for Glory. This is because it's an October update so you'll play Bound For Glory yourself. Although I think it's later in the month in this data as I didn't go through the PPV year and set them to 2016 schedule.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> The Hardys are actually faces again now. Or for now anyway with the current Decay feud that might end tonight. It's TNA though so if the company is still alive in a week they will probably be heels again soon.</p><p> </p><p> One thing I noticed the Cruiserweight title was not assigned a brand in the new data. </p><p> </p><p> And some news/opinions.</p><p> </p><p> Sara Lee was released from NXT and apparently announced she is pregnant with Blake from NXT.</p><p> </p><p> For Evolve I do think Matt Riddle and Ethan Page should get a bit of a boost to their popularity. Both are being heavily pushed close to the main event scene with Riddle being set up to be the top face for the company now with Gargano gone. And I would consider removing the MMA crossover tag from Riddle. He's reportedly been actively turning down fight offers to focus on his wrestling career and trying to get to WWE.</p><p> </p><p> PJ Black will be out for some time now also as he broke both of his ankles in a basejumping accident.</p>

<p>At this point might want to extend the EVOLVE/NXT working agreement to include WWE itself now too.</p><p> </p><p> Drew Gulak and Tony Nese both worked Raw for the cruiserweight division last night and are listed on the Raw roster page at wwe.com but will also be remaining with EVOLVE going forward. Here's the blurb from WWN's news post on it.</p><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41205" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>WWN is very proud that WWN contracted wrestlers Drew Gulak and Tony Nese wrestled on WWE Raw last night in Cruiserweight Division matches. Both Gulak and Nese are now featured on the WWE.com Raw Roster section. This is another step in the building relationship between EVOLVE/WWN and WWE. We are very happy to say that Gulak and Nese will continue to wrestle in EVOLVE while they compete in the WWE Cruiserweight Division. Gulak is set to team with Tracy Williams to challenge EVOLVE Tag Team Champions DUSTIN & Drew Galloway at EVOLVE 70 on October 15th in Orlando, FL. The losing duo can never team again. Tony Nese returns to EVOLVE on November 12th in Queens, NY and November 13th in Joppa, MD.<p> </p></div></blockquote>

I'm still busy trying to catch up on some of the UK companies. Chikara is on my list now but have a few ahead of it.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="MHero" data-cite="MHero" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41205" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Isn't it Flex Rumblecrunch who is the other Gatekeeper?<p> </p><p> On the Blaster McMassive note, he's done with CHIKARA for the time being it seems.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Is it? I haven't seen the show yet and just saw it listed as Devastation Corp showing up as the gatekeepers. Guess I just assumed it was Smashmaster and McMassive.</p>

<p>Some Evolve notes.</p><p> </p><p> Joey Styles is officially with the promotion now in what seems to be an on-air authority figure role and part time commentator. Up to you obviously whether you want to bother adding him for that role now. He's also with Chikara doing commentary there at times.</p><p> </p><p> Blaster McMassive and Max Smashmaster are both in the promotion as the Gatekeepers working for Ethan Page.</p><p> </p><p> Jason Kincaid is working some of the upcoming shows and Jeff Cobb is also scheduled to begin working with them in the near future.</p>

EC3 is reportedly finished with EVOLVE due to TNA commitments for the time being. This is the second time that has been reported however so he'll probably show up again in two or three months.

Latest Raw cruiserweight division promo seems to indicate Metalik, Tozawa, and Gallagher are part of the division as well.

<p>Some stuff I've picked up on early in starting the game.</p><p> </p><p> EVOLVE</p><p> WWN Live broadcaster and broadcasting deal are missing.</p><p> Chris Hero missing from roster.</p><p> </p><p> PROGRESS</p><p> Pete Dunne and Trent Seven should be added to the roster and set as heel tag team British Strong Style.</p><p> Atlas title should really be set to Middleweight as the minimum. Setting it to lightweight allows guys like El Ligero, Jimmy Havoc, Morgan Webster and other wrestlers well under the limit to compete for it though they shouldn’t be eligible.</p><p> </p><p> WWE</p><p> Titles need to have brands adjusted as the following have no brand currently.</p><p> WWE World Title should be made exclusive to Smackdown.</p><p> WWE Womens Title exclusive to Raw.</p><p> WWE Tag Team Titles exclusive to Raw.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="NoLegsGaming" data-cite="NoLegsGaming" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41205" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Nikki Storm is now known as Nikki Cross, she even changed her Twitter stuff to Nikki Cross.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Doh yeah meant to type that when I posted</p>

<p>Some other reported news.</p><p> </p><p> Truth Martini is reportedly no longer with ROH.</p><p> </p><p> Dixie Carter is reportedly completely removed from TNA and Billy Corgan and Aroluxe are now fully in charge so it might make sense to put Billy as the owner of TNA and remove Dixie.</p><p> </p><p> Nikki Glencross/Storm is now known as Nikki Cross in NXT.</p>

And it turns out to be new Six Man Tag Team titles.

Just to be aware ROH announced that they are going to announce new championships(yes they used plural) tomorrow. I would expect one would be a title for the Women of Honor division.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Ping von Erich" data-cite="Ping von Erich" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41205" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I hope Dar, TJ, Alexander and the rest of the "bookmarked" CWC guys get to like... split their time between Raw and NXT? Especially Dar, who's what... 21? 22? I feel like he could do with a little of that "NXT rub" before becoming full time main roster.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> According to HHH during his Takeover conference call most if not all Raw cruiserweight competitors will also be working NXT and NXT live events and will be exclusive to WWE. No part time indy work for most of them.</p>

Might have been missed over the past couple of days but ROH has announced that Marty Scurll will be debuting with the promotion soon in a video released on twitter.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="GameBro" data-cite="GameBro" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41205" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Minor Change: You've probably already heard that Shawn Michaels has been hired to NXT as a trainer, but as well as that, Sara Amato & Adam Pearce have been promoted to the main roster.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Shawn Michaels isn't official according to HHH's conference call today. The offer is there but Michaels needs to decide if he wants to move his family from Texas to Florida to be a full time trainer there.</p>

I think the belief is Dixie still "owns" it provided she doesn't owe to much money to someone else for funding all their shows the past two months or so.

Sounds like it will be their new midcard title. The TNA Heavyweight Title is sticking around. And yeah no way this timed round matches are going to last long and the judges will be gone long before that. EDIT: Maybe not so midcard as Galloway is in the tournament for the new title. Sounds like Rex probably will be in it as well.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Idolized" data-cite="Idolized" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41205" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Oh my they had to one up WWE with crappy title names huh?</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> lol glad someone else thought so.</p><p> </p><p> Not sure how the rules work but someone posted something along the lines of three timed matches with judges at ringside in case the match goes the time limit.</p>