Jon422002 Wrestling

In 2020 WWE signed a multi year deal with TNT Sports (BT Sport at the time) to air WWE programming WWE Raw, WWE Smackdown and WWE NXT.  Channel 5 also airs highlights of WWE RAW and WWE Smackdown but on a week delay - Channel 5 is a free to air channel here in the UK.  Last week I received an email as a WWE Network subscriber here in the UK to inform me that I could now watch WWE NXT every week on WWE Network from 3rd Jan 2024. So this email got me thinking - is the WWE/TNT Sports UK TV deal coming up soon? it looks possible. Looking at the original story of the deal being made in 2020 multiple sources claim that it is a "multi year deal" See below  ( https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a28113145/wwe-smackdown-raw-watch-uk-tv-bt-sport/)     I could not find how many specific years that was., However I thought i'd give my opinion on where WWE Raw and WWE Smackdown could end up in 2024, The rights fee's obviously are alot less than there are in ...

WWE UK Championship Tournament and New  WWE Network UK Weekly TV Show WWE Announced today the formation of the WWE UK Championship Tournament and their intent to have a weekly UK produced TV show on WWE Network. At 02 Arena WWE held a press conference With Triple H, Michael Cole, William Regal, Nigel Mcguiness and Finn Balor. You can check out video clips below Triple H announces WWE UK Championship and Weekly UK Wrestling Show on WWE network Finn Balor on WWE UK Championship Tournament Nigel Mcguiness is coming to WWE UK Championship Tournament! WWE then brought out all the talent involved in WWE UK Championship tournament see all the 16 competitors below WWE UK Championship Competitors Trent Seven Tyson T. Bone   Jack Starz Tiger Ali Wolfgang   Roy Johnson Sam Gradwell James Drake, Jordan Devlin Pete Dunne Tyler Bate Joseph Conners HC Dye...

WWE network and wwe2k15 - delays and disappointments As always what is written below is my opinion as a wrestling fan I'm not an'wrestling expert and don't proclaim to be one, just giving my opinion. With that said hope you enjoy the blog!!! :) I have been really disappointed by WWE recently first I hear that wwe 2k15 is being delayed for the ps4 and Xbox one due to 2k sports the game developer needing more time to make the game 100% as It needs to be. It's frustrating as this game is really anticipated and the announcement of new game mode my career sounds great, it's an annoyance for me but it's something I can understand. A statement in ign.com read "WWE 2k15 has been delayed on PS4 and Xbox One to November 18 in North America and November 21 in Europe, 2K has announced. The next-gen installment in the popular franchise was originally expected on October 28 in North America and October 31 in Europe. The PS3 and Xbox 360 versions will still ...

Dolph Ziggler - is Flair the key There are lots of rumours and questions out there at the moment regarding Ric Flair and WWE. There is lots of talk (no evidence as of yet) that Ric Flair will be making a return to WWE in a non competitive capacity maybe as a manger or some have even speculated that Flair may return as GM of RAW. Personally I like the idea of Ric Flair coming back to be a manger I think Flair with Evolution as their manager was great and really helped all 3 men he managed Triple H, Orton and Batista. I believe Flair helped those men get better and gave those superstars some added presence and credibility with him  beside them. I would like to see Ric Flair manage Dolph Ziggler, I am a massive Dolph Ziggler fan and feel that Doplh never really has got the opportunity he should have had or did get with the World Heavyweight Championship after getting his concussion to me it will always be one of those “what if “ moments What If Dolph didn’t get that concu...

WWE Release 11 Superstars June 2014 Yesterday 12 June 2014 saw 11 releases made from WWE, There were recent reports that WWE weren’t going to Release anyone from their contracts and merely let contracts run down, it seems now that those reports were very wide of the mark and WWE decided to release talent. Below is the official statement from WWE.com WWE has come to terms on the release of the following Superstars as of yesterday, June 12, 2014: •    JTG •    Drew McIntyre •    Jinder Mahal •    Aksana •    Curt Hawkins •    Theodore Long •    Camacho •    Brodus Clay •    Evan Bourne •    Yoshi Tatsu •    Marc Harris (referee) For me I was surprised by a few of these releases for me most notable was Drew Mcintyre, Brodus Clay, Evan Bourne and Aksana. I feel that all 4 of these are great talents and B...

WWE Lose $350 Million, Is Vince losing his Touch? This blog is inspired by Pro Wrestling Report and their conversation on Pro Wrestling Report Primetime regarding WWE business please see video below. As always all views expressed here are my own I'm not a "wrestling expert" and I don't proclaim to be one I am a wrestling fan with an opinion and my opinion is expressed below please read and enjoy Thanks :) @jon422002 Business Touch Over the last week  Vince McMahon lost over $350 million dollars due to investors in WWE (as WWE is a public traded company) losing confidence in McMahon following release of WWE Network subscribers numbers which reportedly are well below what was promised to investors. Also add in a new announcement of a TV for rights for WWE programming in USA being considerably less what WWE Promised investors also.WWE signed a Deal with NBCU for a 25% rise in TV rights, however this was not enough to please investors and WWE share price pl...

  State of WWE - 5 Months into 2014 Instead of doing a half year progress report like many others do I thought I would buck the trend, be different and a bit out of the box and do a WWE 5 month 2014 progress report, my opinion and what I think the state of the WWE is up to May 2014. below are the top stories for each month with my opinion on what took place January 2014 CM Punk From Royal Rumble to Going Home WWE kicked off 2014 in fine fashion with one of my favourite pay per views of year the royal rumble. I am a huge fan of the rumble and have been since I was a child. 2014 ppv offering was a mixed bag it was highlighted by the return of Batista to the royal rumble match (a match he would eventually win. Also CM Punk went from number 1 in the rumble and was eventually eliminated by Kane to came to ringside and eliminated CM Punk before chokeslamming him through the announce table. We would not know this at the time but this turned about to b...

Jeff Jarrett - Its coming April 7th 2014 As always everything I write as my opinion as a wrestling fan, I'm not a wrestling 'expert' and nor do I claim to be one or want to be one for that matter,just a guy that loves wrestling with that said please read on and enjoy :) Remember you can follow Jeff Jarrett on Twitter  @realjeffjarrett and Karen Jarrett at @karenjarrett and link to the video website is http://vimeo.com/88529224  (you can also see videos below) As many of you wrestling fans are aware and for those of you who are not Jeff Jarrett was the founder of TNA Impact Wrestling Jeff and his father Jerry founded the company in 2002 and took a huge risk getting the company of the ground. In a big shock to me Jeff Jarrett decided to leave TNA Impact Wrestling on 6th January 2014, Jeff hadn't been seen on TV in quite some time and I was always a fan of Jeff Jarrett on TV and really liked his character of being "the king of Mexico" and being u...

Hulk Hogan is back in WWE & hosting Wrestlemania 30 Hulk Hogan finally made his return to WWE in Green Bay  after being in TNA Impact Wrestling since 2010. Hulk Hogan is returning to WWE at the perfect time for the company and also for himself. Hulk Hogan finished up with TNA a few months ago and there were lots of rumours around whether Hogan would return or not, Hogan stated recently in an interview with wwe.com regarding his return "Over the last couple years, there’ll be texts between Vince and I. “Happy birthday brother!” on August 24th, his birthday. Christmas, Thanksgiving. We’ll touch base like that. And then I guess the word got out that I was jobless. I didn’t know what I was going to do. I was thinking of going back to playing music or something. On a Tuesday, I was officially out of work. And Friday morning I was drinking my coffee and I hear my cell phone. And it was Triple H. “Hey brother, just checking on you.” I’m like, “Hey, dude, I’m just contemp...