Professional Wrestling Discussion

>Watch Qatar Pro Wrestling Super Slam II Friday starting at 12pm EST / 5pm GMT in /wooo/tube 3 - http://taima.tv/r/wooo3
>Watch Impact Wrestling Outbreak on Friday starting at 7pm EST / 12am GMT in /wooo/tube 3 - http://taima.tv/r/wooo3

>Lineup:

>http://taima.tv/r/wooo2 at 9:30p Eastern / 2:30a UK

>Watch GCW Run Ricky Run tonight starting at 8pm EST / 1am GMT in /wooo/tube - http://taima.tv/r/wooo and also in /wooo/alt - http://taima.tv/r/woooalt
>Watch Warrior Wrestling 8 tonight starting at 8pm EST / 1am GMT in /wooo/tube 2 - http://taima.tv/r/wooo2

>Card:

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>We went a whole year without a new thread. RIP Hiromu thread

>Puro Tube is on Tuesdays at 3pm EDT / 8pm BST in /wooo/tube -http://taima.tv/r/wooo and mainly shows promotions outside of Dragon Gate and NJPW. Join in as everyone argues why their favorite fed is superior and Yanopost, Anopost, CIMApost and dance like Keita until your tummy is full from all that snackpine.
>DG Tube is on Thursdays at 8pm EDT / 1am BST in Mondai Night Ryu -http://taima.tv/r/mondainightryu and features the latest and classic Dragon Gate shows. Other stuff is featured here from time to time as well. (like cheesy 80s films or the mega marathon before Kobe World and recently OWE)

>THE MAJOR FEDS:

>WOW - Women of Wrestling, when in season, airs weekly on Wednesdays at 10pm EDT / 3am BST in /wooo/tube - http://taima.tv/r/wooo. Replays air on Thursdays at 10:50am EDT / 4:50pm BST in /wooo/tube.
>Joshi Tube airs on Saturdays at 4pm EDT / 9pm BST in /wooo/tube - http://taima.tv/r/wooo and is a great way to discover what joshi is all about. People in the chat will be able to answer questions as you ask them, as we do on this thread.
>But if you're ever in the mood to watch joshi outside of Joshi Tube, there is joshi wrestling channel for streaming live events such as TJPW and Stardom - http://taima.tv/r/joshi. Furthermore, there is also a non-joshi women's wrestling channel - http://taima.tv/r/wooomens

>Useful links:

> WWE officially announced on 2/10 that the 37th WrestleMania will be coming to the new SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, CA, just outside Los Angeles, on March 28, 2021. The date is a week early because April 4, which would usually be the date, is Easter Sunday.

> It had been expected Los Angeles to be the home of the show, and both sides had agreed more than a year back on that aspect. The city wanted it in 2021 as a way of preparing the city and the stadium for a major tourist event before they hosted the 2022 Super Bowl. WWE wanted to follow the Super Bowl, largely to make an attendance announcement that would include noting that they beat the Super Bowl attendance number. They will likely announce a number larger than the Super Bowl would be able to fit, even if it would also likely not be a real number, but they couldn’t claim to have beaten the Super Bowl until after the Super Bowl,

> The company also announced the Hall of Fame, Smackdown, NXT Takeover and Raw will take place at the Staples Center. Given the size of the market, there is a good chance that at least the final three of those events would sell out. In addition, with the number of different venues that have housed independent wrestling, there will likely be one of the highest number of independent shows ever, in particular Lucha Libre style events and possibly a PWG involvement for the first time on that list. SoFi Stadium, which is scheduled to open in July and be the home of both the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers starting with the upcoming football season, is listed with a capacity of 70,240, but it can be expanded for another 30,000 seats and the Super Bowl is legitimately expected to draw 100,000. WWE will also likely announce six figures, likely announcing a larger number than their public company record of 101,763 set for WrestleMania 32 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX on April 3, 2016.

> The Arlington police department later reported that 80,709 fans was the actual turnstile count for that event. If they expand the stadium, and likely will, this can break what is the legitimate largest crowd in WWE history. “Many people are more excited about us hosting WrestleMania than the Olympics,” said James T. Butts, the mayor of Inglewood, to the Los Angeles Times. “I was surprised at how popular the WWE [is].”

> At the press conference, Stephanie McMahon mentioned she hoped Ronda Rousey, who is from the area, would be on the show, saying it’s not if but when, as far as Rousey returning to WWE at some point. Rousey signed a three-year deal with WWE, promised them a full year leading to WrestleMania, and then was going to take time off to try and start a family. Roman Reigns was also there, and pushed the idea of a match with The Rock, saying this would be the right time and right place for such a match.

> New Japan Pro Wrestling made two major announcements and a few minor ones on 2/9 at the New Beginning in Osaka show. The big one is that New Japan World Pro Wrestling will return to prime time in April, with a weekly show at 8 p.m. on Friday nights on BS Asahi, the satellite channel of TV-Asahi. The announcement was made calling back to the glory days of television in the 70s and 80s with Antonio Inoki, Tatsumi Fujinami, Abdullah the Butcher, Hulk Hogan, Stan Hansen, Andre the Giant, Tiger Mask and Dynamite Kid as some of the leading stars.

> From its inception in 1972, until 1987, 8 p.m. on Friday night was the traditional New Japan television time slot. When ratings declined in 1987, it was moved first to Tuesday, and then to Monday, also at 8 p.m. In 1988, it was moved to Saturday afternoon at 4 p.m. and then after that, as has been the case for the last 30 plus years, the show has aired post-midnight, first a 60 minute show, and then cut to 30 minutes, around 2:30 a.m. early Sunday morning. Even with the bad time slot, New Japan did tremendous business in the 90s, before declining badly from 2000 to 2010, and then slowly climbing back to strong levels starting around 2011 with stro…

>MLW Fusion airs on Mondays at 7pm EDT / 12am BST in /wooo/tube - http://taima.tv/r/wooo. Replays air on Tuesdays at 11am EDT / 4am BST in /wooo/tube.
>Impact! airs on Tuesdays at 8pm EDT / 1am BST in /wooo/tube. Replays air on Wednesdays at 1:30pm EDT / 6:30pm BST in /wooo/tube.
>Impact Xplosion also airs on Tuesdays at 10pm EDT / 3am BST in /wooo/tube. Replays air on Wednesdays at 1:20pm EDT / 6:20pm BST in /wooo/tube.
>ROH Wrestling also airs on Tuesdays at 10:10pm EDT / 3:10am BST in /wooo/tube. Replays air on Wednesdays at 12:30pm EDT / 5:30pm BST in /wooo/tube.
>AEW Dark airs on Tuesdays at 7pm EDT / 12am BST in /wooo/tube 2 - http://taima.tv/r/wooo2. Replays air on Wednesdays at 7pm EDT / 12am BST in /wooo/tube - http://taima.tv/r/wooo and /wooo/alt - http://taima.tv/r/woooalt.
>AEW Dynamite also airs on Wednesdays at 8pm EDT / 1am BST in /wooo/tube and /wooo/alt. Replays air on Thursdays at 2:20pm EDT / 7:20pm BST in /wooo/tube.
>AEW Live Specials/PPVs, Impact Plus/Twitch/PPV events, MLW Live Specials/PPVs, and ROH TV Taping/On Tour/PPV events will be shown when scheduled in the tubes.

>All Elite Wrestling

>Impact Wrestling

>Monday’s Raw drew an average of 2,437,000 viewers on USA Network, up from last week’s 2,337,000 viewers.

>That’s Raw’s highest number so far this year, mostly due to a relatively strong first and second hour. The third hour saw a huge drop, which brought the average down.

>Raw was #1, #2 and #4 on cable for the day with a 0.79 average rating in the 18-49 demographic, slightly down from last week’s 0.8 rating.

>This time last year, the February 18, 2019 Raw drew 2,771,000 viewers. The February 19, 2018 Raw drew 3,283,000 viewers.

>Hourly breakdown:

>How's it going everybody Bryan Alvarez and Filthy Tom Lawyer here as you can see Tom has still got his internet situation taken care of

>Tom spends 10 minutes ranting about how this was all Bryan's fault for making him switch Internet Providers all because Bryan's service is consistently awful but somehow blames this on Tom like he was the problem

>Tom spend another 10-15 minutes talking about how amazing being a Professional Wrestler is because people pay him to beat up other people spends an additional 5-10 minutes talking about how much Bryan is missing out because he keeps using "my wife and child" as an excuse

>30 minutes have now gone by and the show hasn't even started yet

>Show finally starts Tom spends like 15-20 minutes on segments that Bryan only really wants to spend 2-5 minutes on because he wants to go on a tangent that Tom doesn't care about or completely no sells

>Creates a new weekly gimmick for the podcast that he doesn't even know the rules for and then delegates Bryan to do it for him despite the fact he doesn't even know what the purpose of what Tom's segment is suppose to accomplish but waste more of Bryan's time

>Would rather talk about ANYTHING other then Smackdown and even when he talks about Smackdown would rather use Smackdown as a segway to bring up things that are unrelated about what the review is suppose to be about

>this happens every single week