Event: NEW "Year Three" (Night 2 - Pre Show VIP Match)
Date: 12/29/18
Location: CLB Armoury (St. John's, NL) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0o5qKBUHxQ
Tuesday, January 1, 2019
WRSTLING - A New Chapter | AAW Pro
WRSTLING - A New Chapter
by Rob Malinowski https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpG2gQv7qWY
Indy Promotions No Longer Airing Footage On TWITCH
Heel/Face Wrestling out of Texas who also own Sabotage Wrestling (previously it was operated by Thunder Rosa and her husband). Heel/Face has the popular Twitch channel that broadcasts Sabotage Wrestling, Inspire Pro Wrestling, and a couple other Texas indies. All shows were live and free, which was fantastic.
Going forward, neither Sabotage Wrestling or Inspire Pro will be airing on Twitch.Sabotage has a show on Saturday and Inspire Pro on Sunday. Inspire Pro is said to be shifting over to The Highspots Wrestling Network. There is no word on what Sabotage Wrestling’s future broadcast plans will be.
Tommy Dreamer’s House of Hardcore stopped doing live shows after their WM weekend event and now occasionally run old events on it. That leaves AAA Mexico as the big company left with Impact Wrestling also having live shows and their video library utilized.
CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING FROM HOLLYWOOD TO TAPE 400th EPISODE THIS WEEKEND
Championship Wrestling from Hollywood will tape their 400th show next Saturday 1/6 at the Oceanview Pavilion in Port Hueneme, CA announced at 3 PM. Scheduled for the taping is a United Wrestling Network World Tag Team Championship bout with Double Platinum vs. RockNES Monsters and Percy Pringle 3 Cup Tournament Quarter-Final bouts featuring Bateman, Brandon Cutler, Fidel Bravo, Danny “Limelight” Rivera, Steven Tresario, Adrian Quest, Daniel “D-Man” Parker, and Richie Slade
Trevor Lee Officially Done With Impact Wrestling
Former X-Division Champion Trevor Lee officially tweeted the following confirming his departure from Impact which I and a few other wrestling news sites broke several months ago:
Today I am officially a Free Agent.— Trevor Lee (@TLee910) January 1, 2019
I want to thank @IMPACTWRESTLING for all the friends I have made and knowledge I have learned. #ZNA
Sami Callihan vs Brody King - Final Battle - AAW Pro Wrestling
Sami Callihan vs. Brody King - Final Battle
by Rob Malinowski
The Windy City Classic XIV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8tVZc9LfTU&t=53s
Mat Memory- Kamala vs Jerry 'Crusher'Blackwell (Superclash 1985)
September 28, 1985. Chicago, Illinois https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhQY3iOYAVY&t=225s
Mat Memory- Bruiser Brody vs Kamala (Texas Lumberjack Match)
Very bloody lumberjack style texas death match involving bruiser brody & kamala from fort worth texas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyiVrYZmnlg
WWE'S ATTEMPTS TO TRADEMARK HALLOWEEN HAVOC NOT GOING WELL
WWE's application of the 'Halloween Havoc' trademark has been given an initial refusal due to a prior pending application that might prevent WWE from trademarking the name due to likelihood of confusion. Of course, the prior pending application is the one from KNB INC. which WWE what is trying to oppose to begin with. KBN's application was filed in June 2018 while WWE filed their's in September. WWE can provide arguments to support why there might not be any likelihood of confusion.
Halloween Havoc was, of course, an event held by Turner Broadcasting's WCW annually on PPV from October 1989 through October 2000. The event was discontinued when WCW was shuttered and sold to WWE in March 2001. WWE filed for a number of trademarks related to WCW-centric events last year as they utilize the WCW video library for DVD releases for material on the company's WWE Network streaming service.
WWE application was also refused by the USPTO for the following:
"The identification of services is indefinite and must be clarified because the nature of the services is unclear. Applicant must amend the identification to specify the common commercial or generic name of the services. If the services have no common commercial or generic name, applicant must describe or explain the nature of the services using clear and succinct language."
WWE had provided the following for their application of Halloween Havoc: "Entertainment services, namely, the production and exhibition of professional wrestling events; providing wrestling news and information via the Internet, a global computer network or a mobile app; the production and distribution of an ongoing series, featuring sports entertainment; production of programming; Entertainment services, namely, multimedia programs in the field of general human interest, distributed via various platforms across multiple forms of transmission media; providing entertainment information regarding ongoing programming via the Internet, a global computer network or a mobile app; entertainment services, namely, a production and distribution of programming featuring sports, news and current affairs rendered through the media of television, cable, satellite, radio, telephone and broadband systems, and via the internet and portable and wireless communication devices; providing information in the field of entertainment rendered via the Internet, and portable and wireless communication devices; Interactive entertainment services, providing personalized programming; providing online and on-screen guide to personalized and interactive television programming; production and distribution of entertainment and sports programming"
The USPTO provided the following modification which WWE may use if accurate.
“Entertainment services, namely, the production and exhibition of professional wrestling events; providing wrestling news and information via the Internet, a global computer network or a mobile app; the production and distribution of an ongoing series, featuring sports entertainment provided through {indicate broadcast medium, e.g., cable television, webcasts, radio broadcasts}; production of {applicant must specify the type of programming, e.g., television, radio} programming; Entertainment services, namely, multimedia programs in the field of general human interest, distributed via various platforms across multiple forms of transmission media; providing entertainment information regarding ongoing programming via the Internet, a global computer network or a mobile app; entertainment services, namely, a production and distribution of programming featuring sports, news and current affairs rendered through the media of television, cable, satellite, radio, telephone and broadband systems, and via the internet and portable and wireless communication devices; providing information in the field of entertainment rendered via the Internet, and portable and wireless communication devices; Interactive entertainment services, providing personalized {applicant must specify the type of programming, e.g., television, radio} programming; providing online and on-screen guide to personalized and interactive television programming; production and distribution of {applicant must specify the type of programming, e.g., television, radio} entertainment and sports programming”
GOLDUST HEADING TO UK
Inside The Ropes have announced an "Evening with Dustin Rhodes" UK Tour for March 2019, featuring Rhodes taking part in a discussion about his career, including a Q&A and autograph session:
ALL ELITE WRESTLING OFFICIALLY LAUNCHES, PROMOTION TO HOLD RALLY OPPOSITE FIRST SMACKDOWN TAPING OF 2019 IN FLORIDA
After months of speculation about where The Elite - The Young Bucks, Cody and Adam "Hangman" Page - would end up and trademarks revealing plans for a promotion tied to the ownership of the Jacksonville Jaguars, specifically Shad and Tony Khan, a special edition of YouTube series Being The Elite ended a countdown clock this morning to officially reveal that all four would officially be part of the launch of a new promotion - All Elite Wrestling.
The company will have a free rally on Tuesday 1/8 at 5 PM Eastern at TIAA Field, the home of the Jacksonville Jaguars to reveal additional information with Young Bucks, Cody, Brandi Rhodes, Page and all three members of SCU, Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian, and Scorpio Sky listed as advertised. For those talents working the Tokyo Dome, they would have to be traveling directly to Florida after Wrestle Kingdom.
The company will have a free rally on Tuesday 1/8 at 5 PM Eastern at TIAA Field, the home of the Jacksonville Jaguars to reveal additional information with Young Bucks, Cody, Brandi Rhodes, Page and all three members of SCU, Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian, and Scorpio Sky listed as advertised. For those talents working the Tokyo Dome, they would have to be traveling directly to Florida after Wrestle Kingdom.
Where this gets VERY interesting is WWE has a Smackdown taping scheduled for that date at the nearby Jacksonville Memorial Arena that evening at 7:30 PM, which means that fans arriving at the WWE taping will have to travel past the Stadium to attend Smackdown. That puts a LOT of eyeballs on the rally in the parking lot - and it's a shrewd maneuver.
The AEW announcement also officially unveiled plans for "Double or Nothing", an event that would play off the All In brand name following the September 2018 PPV event of the same title. While no date was announced, the event is believed to be set to take place in Spring 2019, allowing AEW lots of time to build to it. More details of the AEW Double or Nothing event will be released at the 1/8 rally in Jacksonville.
The expectation is that the Jaguars ownership, led by Tony Khan, will be aggressively involved in pursuing deals for the AEW promotion. Khan has been a lifelong fan of professional wrestling since childhood and has a number of friendships and ties to a number in the business, both inside and out of WWE. This is being planned as a major financial investment by Khan and will likely be the biggest financial push from anyone getting into the professional wrestling world in a long, long time, dating back to the end of World Championship Wrestling in 2001 when Turner Broadcasting sold that promotion to WWE in the wake of the AOL-Time Warner merger.
There are already plans to pursue a national TV dea with the idea of a Tuesday evening time slot, real estate WWE will be giving up when Smackdown Live moves to FOX this fall. many Wrestling Sources have been apprised of several potential outlets who have had conversations with the promotion already and there may be others as well. The Khan connection should be very helpful in opening doors to the promotion.
A few Wrestling sources can also confirm there have been discussions with several talents who appeared on "All In" about signing with the company, offering multiple year deals, which has led to a lot of speculation about how this promotion will change the financial table when it comes to money offers for talents, given that The Elite obviously had standing offers from WWE, but turned them down in favor of working to launch a promotion that they would have heavy involvement in behind the scenes as well as performing in front of the camera. There are some in the business who hope for that for the first time, realistically, since WCW went out of business in 2001, talents will now have several players to bounce back and forth off in order to raise their financial value and get more money for themselves. Time will tell whether that hope becomes a reality.
It is expected BJ Whitmer, who recently left ROH, will be working behind the scenes for AEW.
Back in October, All Elite Wrestling filed to trademark the following for wrestling, broadcasting and merchandising purposes:
*All Elite Wrestling
*AEW
*Double or Nothing (The promotion's first event)
*All Out (Likely the name of a future event)
*Tuesday Night Dynamite (the potential TV series name)
*Fight for the Fallen.
The LLC behind the filing was listed as having the same address as TIAA Bank Field, the home of the Jacksonville Jaguars, the same location as the rally on 1/8, so the Khans are, pun intended, "All In" here.
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Now that the countdown clock has ended and All Elite Wrestling has arrived, these and other questions will soon be answered with a major spotlight on all involved as they move forward. The Bucks, Cody and Page promised to "Change the World" when they left Ring of Honor - and we'll soon see, step by step, whether and how that can be accomplished. There will be buzz aplenty - there always is around the Elite - but to change the world, to truly change it for the better, there will be a lot of work that all involved will have to put in. That work begins today.
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