Professional Wrestling Discussion

>9pm EDT / 2am BST in http://taima.tv/r/wooo - AAA Heroes Inmortales XIII in Spanish (official feed https://www.twitch.tv/luchalibreaaa)
>9pm EDT / 2am BST in http://taima.tv/r/woooalt - AAA Heroes Inmortales XIII in English (official feed https://www.twitch.tv/Luchalibreaaa_En)

>Watch Impact Prelude to Glory on Friday at 7pm EDT / 12am BST in /wooo/tube 3 - http://taima.tv/r/wooo3 and /wooo/alt 2 - http://taima.tv/r/woooalt2 and All Glory on Saturday at 7pm EDT / 12am BST in /wooo/tube 2 - http://taima.tv/r/wooo2 and /wooo/alt 2 - http://taima.tv/r/woooalt2

>Prelude to Glory - Friday @ 7pm EDT / 12am BST

>Card:

>Watch the AJPW 47th Anniversary Tour with Day 8 - Zeus Festival in Osaka EDION Second Arena on Sunday at 4am EDT / 9am BST, Day 9 - GROWIN' UP vol. 22 on Tuesday at 6am EDT / 11am BST, and Day 10 on Thursday at 5:30am EDT / 10:30am BST all in /wooo/tube - http://taima.tv/r/wooo

>47th Anniversary Tour: Day 8 - Zeus Festival in Osaka EDION Second Arena - Sunday @ 4am EDT / 9am BST

> Watch WWE Main Event and SmackDown in http://taima.tv/r/wooo and http://taima.tv/r/woooalt
> Before WWE SmackDown at 8pm EDT / 1am BST, watch WWE Main Event at 7:40pm EDT / 12:40am BST with the following matches

• Mojo Rawley vs Zack Ryder with his tilt-a-whirl powerslam
  
• Sarah Logan vs Dana Brooke by submission
  

> Watch the third hour of SmackDown with the cruiserweights on WWE 205 Live at 10pm EDT / 3am BST in http://taima.tv/r/wooo3 and http://taima.tv/r/woooalt2 (will return to normal tubes next week)

> Sami Zayn brought his bark to Twitter Thursday morning, and The Big Dog took notice. After Shinsuke Nakamura fell to the third round of the WWE Draft, Zayn took exception and spouted off on social media about the disrespect for the champion. Zayn’s tweet entered The Big Dog’s yard, and Reigns responded that he was ready to place the Intercontinental Championship back on his shoulder. Nakamura accepted the challenge from his own Twitter account and invited Reigns into his own yard. Can The King of Strong Style continue cashing the checks that Zayn’s mouth writes? Or will Reigns end Nakamura’s reign and begin his own championship run to kick off the new era of SmackDown?

> Bayley with the new hair is ready for her closeup. Fresh off debuting a new look, slashing down her Bayley Buddies and reclaiming the SmackDown Women’s Championship from Charlotte Flair, Bayley has plenty of questions left to answer following the explosive victory and ensuing celebration. The Miz is ready to roll out the blue carpet and give the championthe opportunity to clarify what inspired last week’s torrid outburst. Will Bayley share her true intentions, or will she continue to lash out at the WWE Universe after last week’s two-word antagonizing refrain?

> The depth of the SmackDown Women’s division will be on full display in a loaded Six-Pack Challenge Match. Carmella, Nikki Cross, Dana Brooke, Lacey Evans, Sonya Deville and Mandy Rose all square off for the opportunity to face Bayley for the SmackDown Women’s Title. Carmella enters with the experience of a former champion, but all of the competitors are hungry to make a big impression on the blue brand. Who will emerge to challenge the reinvented Bayley, and is the winner destined for a similar fate as the Bayley Buddies?

> With all of WWE’s top twosomes on a collision course for tag team supremacy at Crown Jewel in the largest Tag Team Turmoil Match in history, SmackDown’s premiere tag teams will clash on Friday Night. The New Day team up with Heavy Machinery as The Power of Positivity meets “The Power of Colossal Creativity” in a matchup against SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Revival and the glorious pairing of Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode. Who will position themselves as the class of the new SmackDown division? Can these teams coexist, or will the upcoming Tag Team Turmoil showdown cause the match to devolve into chaos?

> Drew Gulak, The Lucha House Party, Akira Tozawa, Humberto Carrillo and even Drake Maverick have all been drafted away from WWE 205 Live, leaving a vacancy for new and remaining Superstars to prove they have what it takes to reach the pinnacle of the Cruiserweight division. Tonight, WWE 205 Live veterans Oney Lorcan, Tony Nese and Ariya Daivari will collide in a Triple Threat Match. While the bout does not guarantee a title opportunity, each Superstar hopes to prove they have what it takes to challenge Lio Rush for the NXT Crusierweight Championship.

>NWA Power airs on Tuesdays at 10pm EDT / 3am BST in /wooo/tube - http://taima.tv/r/wooo. Replays air on Wednesdays at 12pm EDT / 5pm BST in /wooo/tube.

>NWA will be integrated into the AEW/Impact/MLW/ROH thread once a new thread is made for that.

> After the second WWE Smackdown episode on FOX and completion of the draft, Eric Bischoff was fired by WWE and was replaced by Bruce Prichard as the Executive Director of Smackdown.

> The idea still remains to have Raw and Smackdown be separate entities with the idea that the Executive Director, and their wrestlers, would be in competition with the other brand when it comes to things like television ratings, live events and other business measurements after the brand split goes into effect. Still, it’s hard to be in real competition when Vince McMahon’s fingerprints and the WWE system is still in place with both brands with at best only minimal changes. Bischoff and Paul Heyman were hired to head up Smackdown and Raw in late June. Heyman, who had been with the company for years, started immediately and Bischoff started a few weeks later after moving to Stamford, CT.

> While Wall Street was pleased with the hiring of two men who had run companies during the late 90s wrestling boom to run the separate brands, there were obvious red flags. Bischoff had worked for TNA in the interim and there were no fond memories from anyone in that company regarding his tenure. Privately, a number of people who had interacted with him during those days that are now working for WWE were completely stunned by the move and predicted failure.

> The biggest and most obvious issue was that the late 90s were two decades ago in a business that has changed rapidly since that time. Talent is different. Fans are different. The entire business model has changed to trying to drive as much money as possible from a smaller but more hardcore fan base, but the real money is no longer from customer spending but from television network spending. Bill Watts, who was a pro wrestling genius, who left the business in 1987 and returned in 1992, was out of touch with talent and fan changes, and that was five years where things had changed very little as compared to how rapidly wrestling and technology and fan taste changes related to wrestling have changed in the past few years, let alone two decades.

> Bischoff was unfamiliar with the talent and many of the business changes when he arrived. In very short order, it had become more how the company would make the inevitable move and handle it publicly after pushing so strong to investors about the value of the hiring. When Ryan Ward burned out as the head writer of Smackdown, and Ed Koskey from Raw was moved over, a lot of people expected Bischoff to be the next casualty.

> Ironically, it was Prichard, who McMahon had hired several months earlier, who had pushed for Bischoff in that position. Prichard, like Bischoff, was a product of the pro wrestling of the 80s and 90s. He also had a reputation, most noted during his brief period with MLW, of being dated in his approach to wrestling. It was noted to us by MLW officials how much more in tune with current wrestling and relating to modern talent that Jim Cornette was than Prichard was when both performed similar duties in that company.

> But Prichard has a long-time relationship with McMahon, first working with the company in 1987 after being in open communication with McMahon while he worked for the other side, Mid South Wrestling and Houston Wrestling, during a heated wrestling war. He had been fired twice during the period, once in May 1991, but returned in September 1992, believed to be because he was about to take a job with WCW and WWF didn’t want that. He was fired a second time in December 2008 after issues with Stephanie McMahon. During that interim period, he had worked with …

>Watch Dragon Gate: The Gate of Victory 2019 Day 10 at 5:30 AM EST/10:30 AM BST in http://taima.tv/r/wooo2

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y'all wanted your NJPW women's division, well there it is