Various News: Interesting ‘Pope’ Quote, Lucha Libre USA

Source: Pwinsider.com

— As a reminder, I’ll be here until about 7EST when I’ll put the LIVE WZR Radio posts on the website. I’ll then leave here for the arena and then we’ll go live with WZR Radio at 8EST from inside the arena. I’ll come in after every match with the result. There will be silence (crowd noise) while matches are ongoing and then I’ll come back on for a few minutes at a time. It won’t be your normal WZR Radio broadcast. It’s very tough to do a show from inside a loud arena so we’re taking a new approach tonight.

— Audio of Pope D’Angelo Dinero on Right After Wrestling is available at http://radio.thescore.com/. Here is a highlight, featuring Pope discussing his promos… “TNA (script) says, ‘Pope walks in, Pope cuts a promo, Pope leaves’. It’s that simple. That makes it fun. It doesn’t say, ‘Pope enters, Pope says “I’m the Pope, who are you, this is why I don’t like you”… no! TNA says “go be Pope”. Can’t no 40 year old white dude write a promo on how a black guy from Harlem, New York is supposed to act! They never been in black skin! They don’t know where this gimmick has evolved from, so kudos to TNA for giving me that freedom.”

— The August 28th edition of Lucha Libre USA scored a 0.05 rating and 45,000 viewers. The show aired on a Saturday as opposed to the usual Friday night time slot.

— Lucha Libre USA managing director Steve Ship has confirmed that the current run of the show is finished on MTV2. The plan was always to do seasons of the show, like other MTV properties, and the 52-week agreement that they signed was not for 52 straight weeks.

— The September 9th event in Corpus Christi, Texas at Whataburger Field as well as other events scheduled will take place as planed. Content will be filmed at these events and used for the LLUSA website and MTV2’s website.

— The footage filmed in Charlotte over the weekend will be used as online content.

— For the next season of the show, they will tape from one location, ala TNA Impact, but that location has not been announced yet.

— Ratings for the series were what MTV expected them to be.

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