The reported attendance for the final night of the WWN’s tour of China was 10,500.Even if that was inflated (and this is wrestling so there’s a very good chance it was) that’s a far cry from the average turn out for an EVOLVE, Shine or FIP card. Even on WrestleMania weekends the company comes nowhere close to attracting even half of that number. So in terms of opening up a fresh market and getting a good attendance number the WWN tour’s final offering was a success.

WWN’s third Chinese supershow once again kicked off with Johnny Gargano. Opposite him was Chuck Taylor, who had headlined the previous two shows. Yep, a battle of former Ronin teammates was considered a good way to kick off this show. In fairness it was. Both men are experienced enough to work an exciting opening match and big enough names (in regular wrestling circles, at least) to draw the crowd into the show early on. 

WWN’s second Chinese supershow kicked off with the ring announcer introducing Johnny Gargano to the ring with a series of yips. More wrestling shows should start in this way. For that matter more EVOLVE shows should feature the talents of Jody Kristofferson, Gargano’s opening match opponent on this show. His Stan Hansen tribute act is just the right level of bad to be entertaining.

I don’t think it would be unfair to say that the WWN venture struggled to remain relevant in 2014. Visa issues brought an end to Dragon Gate USA, which had initially been the streaming service’s jewel in the crown, and while EVOLVE never failed to produce a show that was good it was also a promotion that spent much of the year looking noticeably smaller than other companies operating on a similar level (most obviously ROH and CZW). Meanwhile FIP and Shine, the other major new content providers, remained regional promotions running shows once every few months. Things just didn’t come together for them.

This Saturday was the debut episode of Unlocked on Destination America. I first heard Dixie describe the idea of Unlocked being a “Director’s Cut” version of Impact and, I was greatly intrigued. When they announced Tenay would host, I was fully on board. I’m still invested in this concept for TNA’s newest show, but I feel there are some key things that TNA should think about (and I feel they will) to get more people returning to the program weekly.

This was one of the best regular episodes of NXT in some time (which is not to downplay the show’s usual high quality). Bálor versus Kidd and Zayn versus Neville both would have been acceptable main events and the women’s match and Bull versus Baron both would have been logical inclusions on the next special. Basically we were spoilt, and this is an excellent episode for people to start out on the show with.

Tyson Kidd v Finn Bálor

Tweet 1:
November
X-ray
Tango
India
Mike
Echo
SHIELD!!
Tweet 2: Roar of the crowd and so forth.
Tweet 3: Charles Robinson looking confused. Great opening shot.
Tweet 4: Calgary, dramatic pause, Alberta, Canada.
Tweet 5: Bálor versus Kidd as the opener. I'm down with this.
Tweet 6: Bálor is wearing trunks made from Christmas wrapping paper.
Tweet 7: A-Ry's changed his tune on Bálor. It's almost like he's been told off for running down a guy clearly going places.

CATS!

It’s time for RAW and I wish Iha nothing to do tomorrow and a lot of alcohol because it looks like Booker T is doing commentary again tonight while Jerry Lawler is absent due to medical reasons.

If I could be absent from life due to medical reasons I’d play the Booker T Drinking Game since I brought the old article back prior to tonight’s RAW.  Also make sure to buy things from Amazon.com using the links on the front page oe to me via PayPal at the address jasonrivera@gmail.com or there may not BE a site in 2015.  If you like what I’m doing every bit of support helps keep the doors open.

Trippy dreams and the Giant Nose of Mark Harmon end the last few minutes of NCIS.  Mark Harmon is like a really, really, not-as-cool Liam Neeson. 

Third in the "WrestleMania installment", Rob Schamberger paints iconic moments from WrestleMania XIV.

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Second in the "WrestleMania installment", Rob Schamberger paints iconic moments from WrestleMania 24.Want to own a piece of WWE art? Visit http://auction.wwe.com/ or http://shop.wwe.com/. Also be sure to check Rob out on YouTube -https://www.youtube.com/user/robscham...http://auction.wwe.com/iSynApp/showPa...http://shop.wwe.com/on/demandware.sto...

Time is relative. Time is too slow when waiting and time paces too fast for a moment you don’t want to end. Time is the one commodity in life that we can never replenish. I know; heavy stuff for wrestling websites, but its truth. These last 3 weeks has been a mixture. Time has sped by due to spending it with family, which is amazing. However, the time that I have been away from writing has crawled because I’ve been building up opinions for what is going on within Impact Wrestling. Their time away from providing new weekly content has also given me this craving desire to see what will be the next chapter for Impact Wrestling. With the time that we’ve had from the last “normal” episode of Impact, these are a few points that have really kept my interest.

The first in the "WrestleMania installment", Rob Schamberger paints iconic moments from WrestleMania 22.

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This season of British Bootcamp has proven to be a successful venture from a Television show stance. Jeremy Borash recently spoke with Dixie Carter in a great interview. One of the things that Dixie stated was that the numbers for Bootcamp 2 surpassed the expectations and results from the first season. She also made note of a few key facts that the 3 finalists are facing; most notably is Rockstar Spud element. His success is such a high bar to attempt to reach, but that means that Dixie must be very wise in her decision as to who will be this year’s winner. Here’s my view of the three finalists she has to choose from.