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Tuesday, July 30, 2024 Issue #7304
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//->> OPENING WORDS FROM THE EDITOR

Looking forward for NXT tonight, should be a good show with The Great American Bash. I wish they bring more old WCW pay-per-view names to be used for NXT. Starrcade is, I think, a name which they should be using yearly.


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JESSE VENTURA "BACK HOME" WITH WWE

- WWE Hall of Famer Jesse Ventura attended his first WWE live event in 15 years, being a guest of the company at Raw in his home state of Minnesota. The show was held in St. Paul. Ventura, who was Governor of Minnesota for five years between 1998 and 2003, was shown on Raw arriving at the arena and being greeted by WWE COO Paul "Triple H" Levesque. On commentary, Michael Cole welcomed "The Body" back home. "Welcome home, Jesse Ventura," added Triple H on X. "Honored to have one of the all-time greats back to #WWERaw tonight." Ventura replied to WWE's post showing the video from Raw saying, "Yes, it's true. The Body is back home. Thank you @TripleH and the whole @WWE family." He then wrote, "@CMPunk looks like hell froze over... again!" Ventura also posted a photo shaking hands with CM Punk, writing that he came back for moments like these. A few months ago, Ventura said that he has started dialogue again with WWE and he had a contract offer in hand, presumably a Legends deal. He admitted that this was only happening because of the change of direction in the company and the removal of Vince McMahon from his position. You can see the video at .

BAD BLOOD NEARLY SOLD OUT

- The October 5 Bad Blood premium live event is just 500 tickets shy of a sellout according to ticket tracking service @WrestleTix. The State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia has been configured for 13,800 seats and WWE has 13,300 seats out so far with the show still over two months away. Tickets went on sale on July 19. While there will be a stage for this show, seats behind the stage were opened up as well, ensuring maximum capacity. WWE announced the return of the show after an absence of 20 years. There have only been three Bad Blood shows – in 1997, 2003, and 2004 – and this 2024 version will take place on the same day of the first-ever Bad Blood which had Shawn Michaels vs The Undertaker in a Hell in a Cell match and the introduction of Kane.

GIULIA TO WRESTLE FINAL MATCH IN JAPAN NEXT MONTH

- Japanese star Giulia announced during today's Marigold show that she only has five matches left in Japan and will wrestle her final match on August 19. Giulia, who has signed a WWE deal, will soon be reporting to the WWE Performance Center where she will be part of the NXT brand for the time being. Her last match will be against Mai Sakura at the Korakuren Hall. Giulia appeared at NXT Stand & Deliver during WrestleMania weekend along with Marigold chief Rossy Ogawa. The NXT women's division is going to get a huge shot of adrenaline as apart from the arrival of Giulia, Chilean star Stephanie Vaquer and Australian star Delta are also starting very soon.

WYATT SICKS IN-RING DEBUT NEXT WEEK

- The Wyatt Sicks will have their first match as a faction next week on the post-SummerSlam Raw in a six-man tag team match. Last night on Raw, Erick Rowan, Dexter Lumis, and Joe Gacy unmasked themselves on the show, attacking The Creed Brothers after Nikki Cross took out Chad Gable. Lumis and Gacy first hit a double uranage on the brothers and then Rowan ended them with a cross body block. The match next week will pit Rowan, Lumis, and Gacy against Gable and The Creeds. Lumis last wrestled on the March 29, 2023 episode of Main Event, Gacy had his last match on April 20, 2024 during an NXT non-televised event, and Rowan was last in the ring on February 24, 2024 for a promotion called WFC. His last WWE match was on March 9, 2020 on Raw against Drew McIntyre.

THREE-HOUR PRE-SHOW FOR SUMMERSLAM

- SummerSlam is going to be a long, long night for those working it and those watching on television as WWE announced that the pre-show this Saturday will run for a whopping three hours. A start time of 4PM ET is being advertised for the Countdown to SummerSlam, which will air on WWE's social media properties, Peacock, and WWE Network for free. It will be followed by the premium live event at 7PM ET. The longer pre-show might have something to do with AEW's Collision which was moved to 5PM ET to avoid going head-to-head with SummerSlam. Now, Collision will have the Countdown show head-to-head, with WWE's broadcast having a one-hour head start. Meanwhile, The Miz was selected as the host of this year's show since it will be taking place from his hometown of Cleveland.

SMACKDOWN RATING

- As predicted, Smackdown went down big in viewership this past Friday as it went head-to-head with a delayed viewing of the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics. Smackdown drew 2,058,000 viewers for its taped episode, down 255,000 viewers from the prior week. This was the second least-watched episode of the show of 2024. The show had a 0.52 rating in 18-49, down a big 0.13 from the previous week and ties the lowest for the year. It was #2 on the chart behind the Olympics. The Olympics ceremony had a combined audience of nearly 30 million viewers, more than 10 million viewers extra than the Tokyo Olympics. (Ratings credit: Programming Insider)

NXT PREVIEW

- The first night of The Great American Bash takes place on SyFy tonight as the show is moved from USA due to the Olympics coverage. The broadcast will be headlined by an NXT Women's title match featuring Roxanne Perez defending her gold against Thea Hail. Alba Fyre and Isla Dawn put their WWE Women's Tag Team tiles on the line against Lash Legend and Jakarta Jackson while Tony D'Angelo also defends the NXT Heritage Cup against Tavion Heights. A six-woman tag team match was also announced yesterday with Karmen Petrovic, Sol Ruca, and Lola Vice versus Jacy Jane, Jazmyn Nyx, and Fallon Henley. Plus, TNA star Joe Hendry will be in the house for his live concert!

DANIELSON FILES TO TRADEMARK YES! YES! YES!

- Bryan Danielson has filed to trademark the phrase Yes! Yes! Yes! with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The filing was done by attorney Keith White of Keith White Law in Brooklyn, New York, with a date of July 29. It was filed under entertainment in the nature of wrestling contests, production of podcasts, TV, media, video, film services etc. The Yes! Yes! Yes! was a big part of his WWE persona and recently he also started using it while in AEW. WWE never applied for such trademark in the past although they did own a Yes Movement trademark, which was abandoned in 2017.

RAMPAGE RATING

- Rampage on Friday night drew 306,000 viewers, up 22,000 viewers from the prior week. The show did a 0.10 rating in 18-49, the same number from the previous show. No cable rankings are available. (Ratings credit: Wrestlenomics)

SKYE BLUE UNDERGOING SURGERY

- AEW star Skye Blue is undergoing surgery after suffering an ankle injury on the July 20 episode of Collision. She got injured when Hikaru Shida went for a crossbody from the second rope to the outside and landed on Blue's right ankle. The match was immediately stopped after the referee noticed the injury. It's unclear how long Blue will be out for. Kyle Fletcher posted a photo of Blue sitting on a bench outside of a hospital with her right leg in a cast and crutches on the side.


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