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Sony Pictures Networks India and WWE have struck a five-year exclusive extension to their broadcast deal for WWE's weekly flagship programming and localized content in India and the Indian subcontinent. As part of the agreement, SPN will have the rights to air Raw, SmackDown, NXT as well as WWE pay-per-view specials…

CEO Vince McMahon has basically agreed to sell 15% of his stock in the company he founded, contributing to one analyst's decision to slap a "sell" rating on the shares Wednesday. WWE last year had promised a transformative deal, presumably selling the WWE Network to a large streaming company. The expectation was that…

UPDATED with Monday Night Raw news: WWE has become the latest major U.S. sports league to adjust live events as companies across the country race to slow the spread of coronavirus. After the professional wrestling organization moved Friday’s (March 13) SmackDown, which airs live on Fox, and canceled the live audience…

UPDATED with closing stock price. Saturday’s return of the XFL — an upstart pro football league being resurrected by pro wrestling impresario Vince McMahon — is being overshadowed by trouble at McMahon’s main company, the WWE. The wrestling and entertainment concern reported spotty fourth-quarter results Thursday…

In a management shakeup Thursday, just a week before its fourth-quarter earnings report, the WWE said Co-Presidents George Barrios and Michelle Wilson are immediately departing the company and its board. No details were provided for the ouster of the executives, each of whom had spent more than a decade at the…

Channel 5, ViacomCBS’s free-to-air network in the UK, has inked a deal to show highlights of WWE wrestling shows Raw and SmackDown every week. From February 2, Channel 5 will show hour-long highlights of SmackDown on Saturdays at 10:30AM, while Raw will air at the same time on a Sunday. It follows Comcast’s Sky losing…

Dwayne Johnson has posted a heartfelt tribute to his late father, professional wrestling hall of famer Rocky Johnson. “You broke color barriers, became a ring legend and trail blazed your way thru this world,” The Rock wrote on Instagram before offering a poignant hope: “I want you to rest your trailblazing soul…

The WWE is to hold its first ever women's wrestling match in Saudi Arabia. The wrestling federation is to host a fight between WWE Superstars Natalya and Lacey Evans at pay-per-view event Crown Jewel tomorrow night (October 31). The match is part of its Riyadh Season, which includes more than 100 events over…

Endeavor Audio held its inaugural upfront tonight at the Neuehouse in New York to discuss its upcoming podcast slate. Among the projects are a fictional series produced by Dick Wolf, a docuseries from Adam Levine’s 222 Productions and a WWE-produced podcast with Corey Graves. Among the projects discussed were Hunted…

Wrestling won the demo battle, but CBS won the total viewership in the network Friday night ratings wars. Fox’s two-hour WWE Smackdown had an 0.8 among adults 18-49 and 2.44 million viewers, handily the night’s demo winner. But the results marked a decline from last week’s 1.0, and are way down from the show’s debut…

WWE Studios and Thinkfactory Media are tag-teaming on Big Show vs. The World: A Giant Abroad (working title), a new adventure docuseries led by one of the pro wrestling outfit’s biggest stars. Through his extensive world travels with WWE, Big Show has collected a lifetime of unusual stories filled with unexplained…

Former Viceland International chief James Rosenstock is swapping hipsters for Hulk Hogan after becoming Executive Vice President, International for WWE. Rosenstock will be responsible for the management of all international operations at the wrestling group. He will oversee the company's eight regional General…