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The Wrestling Post: Ventura wins defamation case

July 31, 2014 by Jason Cruz 1 Comment

On Tuesday this week, a Minnesota jury found in favor of former governor and professional wrestler Jesse Ventura in a defamation case against the estate of a former Navy SEAL that wrote in his best-selling book about a fight with Ventura. The jury awarded Ventura $1.8 million. Ventura won $500,000 for his defamation claim as […]

The Wrestling Post – 05.30.14

May 30, 2014 by Jason Cruz Leave a Comment

Before we head into one of the bigger combat sports Saturdays in a while, we welcome you to another edition of the Wrestling Post. In a bit of bad timing for the WWE, this Sunday its Pay Per View event, Payback in Chicago will now go up against Game 7 for the Chicago Blackhawks as […]

WWE in damage control after disappointing TV deal

May 21, 2014 by Jason Cruz 4 Comments

The WWE conducted a special conference call on Monday in order to mitigate some of the damage that occurred with the announcement of its deal with NBC Universal. Although terms of the deal were not divulged, investors took the news as bad and the stock has tumbled. The conference call did not reveal anything new […]

WWE reports 2014 Q1 Earnings

May 2, 2014 by Jason Cruz Leave a Comment

On Thursday, the WWE announced its First Quarter earnings for 2014. Despite a loss of $8 million ($0.11 per share) due to the WWE Network, it beat analyst expectations by 0.05. This quarter in 2013, the WWE saw net income of $3.0 million or $0.04 per share. The most notable news was the lack of […]

The Wrestling Post – 04.18.14

April 18, 2014 by Jason Cruz Leave a Comment

Welcome to another edition of The Wrestling Post. In this edition we write about a new PPV announced, DirecTV plays hard ball and the latest ratings from Total Divas. Ring of Honor tries PPV Sunday June 22nd This week Ring of Honor announced that it would be holding its first PPV ever for the company […]