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January 8, 2012
Recap from ROH Baltimore Taping
Ring of Honor taped four episodes of television in Baltimore Saturday evening. The episodes will air through February 11 on Sinclair broadcast stations. A standing room only crowd of about 500 filled Baltimore's Du Burns arena.
ROH did everything in their power to be good to the Baltimore crowd. They often referred to Baltimore as a new home for ROH (huge applause for that and "Welcome Home" chants), and offered everyone in attendance coupons for $10 off the next show, which will be on Saturday, February 4th.
After the show, Nigel McGuiness hung around to talk to some fans at ringside and Mark Briscoe, Davey Richards, and Kyle O'Reilly chatted with fans and stuck around for pictures in the main lobby.
Click here is you want the spoilers.
source: pwinsider.com
This Day in Wrestling History
Wayne "Big" Munn wins the linear (Gotch-Hackenschmidt) World championship from Ed Strangler Lewis in Kansas City, MO. This is the beginning of a promotional war with Lewis claiming to have been fouled when thrown over the top rope by Munn. The whole war was a booking angle to reunify the two titles in a big money match scheduled for May. However a shoot double cross by Stanislaus Zbyszko and promoter Tony Stecher (brother of Joe Stecher) messes things up on Apri 15. The two World titles end up being reunified anyway in 1928.
January 8, 1925
WCW debuts its second weekly show called "Thunder" on TBS.
January 8, 1998
The Monday Night War continued in its final months. WWF RAW is WAR's 4.8 rating more than doubled WCW Monday Nitro's 2.1 rating, its second-lowest in nine months (1.8 on April 3 and December 11, 2000).
January 8, 2001
January 7, 2012
Antonio Cesaro Debuts
Antonio Cesaro (Claduio Castagnoli) debuted for the WWE main roster during last night's WWE house show in Jackson, MS. Cesaro teamed with Michael McGillicutty to lose to Mason Ryan & Alex Riley.
Top 25 Most Followed Professional Wrestling Personalities on Twitter
1) The Rock 1,802,746
2) John Cena 1,276,365
3) Randy Orton 765,844
4) CM Punk 547,312
5) Steve Austin 492,296
6) Chris Jericho 477,016
7) The Miz 444,839
8) Shawn Michaels 459,062
9) Zack Ryder 442,707
10) Kelly Kelly 370,233
Tommy Dreamer Discusses Life on the Road
As a professional wrestler, you spend most of your days travelling to different cities to entertain the fans. When I was with World Wrestling Entertainment, a typical work week would start on Friday, which included flying from your home to wherever the first show was.
This flight is usually the first one available that day, in case of delays. Once you land, you are responsible for renting a car.
Normally, you eat, go to the local gym, eat, go to arena, wrestle, eat and drive to the next town. If you are too tired to drive, you get a hotel room in the first town, sleep, wake up, go to the gym, eat, drive and repeat the cycle. The venues are typically anywhere between 200 to 300 miles apart (some 300 to 500 kilometres for my Canadian friends).
Anything more than that and the company will usually fly you to the next town. These non-televised, live events are a lot of fun because the matches are longer as there are no TV commercial restraints. They are a much different event than your typical televised affair, and usually a completely different experience for the fan.
Your work week ends on Tuesday night, once you finish filming televised events. You fly home on Wednesday morning, giving you essentially enough time to do your laundry, say hello to your family and get ready to go back out on Friday.
If you think that is a bad schedule, it really isn't. I have heard many stories from veteran wrestlers of the 1980s, who say they would spend 27 days on the road, return home for two and then go back out for another 27 days.
The Five Series That Made up 30% of Broadcast TV Social Buzz Last Fall - WWE Raw #1
The top five regular, non-special-event shows -- on both broadcast and cable TV -- that captured the most social buzz last fall (from the start of September through the end of December).
"WWE Raw" (the World Wrestling Entertainment show) on USA Network captured 7% SOV surrounding cable shows last fall, with AMC's "The Walking Dead" not far behind at 5%. Like "The X Factor," "WWE Raw" benefits from having a huge number of "hooks" to chatter about. Any given "X Factor" or "WWE Raw" episode tends to be packed with plenty of triumphs, let-downs, drama, controversies and assorted little pleasures and annoyances that motivate fans to react on social media. Both shows also have plenty of brands-within-the-brand -- the celebrity judges and wannabe celebrity contestants on "The X Factor" and the "superstars" of WWE, many of whom have sizable cult followings.
Each of the five shows in the pie charts above do well for their respective networks, but it's worth noting once again that nobody in the TV business expects social buzz to have a strictly linear relationship to ratings.
source: adage.com
WWE 2012 Pay Per View Schedule
Royal Rumble: January 29
Elimination Chamber: February 19
WrestleMania XXVIII: April 1
Extreme Rules: April 29
WWE Over The Limit: May 20
TBD: June 17 (Rumored to be WWE Bragging Rights)
WWE Money In The Bank: July 15
SummerSlam: August 19
Night of Champions: September 23
Hell in a Cell: October 28
Survivor Series: November 18
WWE TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs: December 16
This Day in Wrestling History - "Just In Case You Forgot Who The Hell I Am..."
After a grueling eight-month rehab from a torn quadrciceps muscle, Triple H made a triumphant return at Madison Square Garden.
January 7, 2002
Five years later he would tear the right quad muscle during the New Year's Revolution pay per view.
January 7, 2007
This Day in Wrestling History
Nicole Bass sues the WWF(E) for sexual harrassment
January 7, 2000
ECW's last pay per view prior to the WWE revival, Guilty As Charged, takes place in New York City.
January 7, 2001
Oderint Dum Metuant: Let Them Hate As Long As They Fear
