{"id":3729,"date":"2015-11-21T04:02:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T10:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=3729"},"modified":"2015-11-21T04:10:50","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T10:10:50","slug":"sat-torch-today-huge-night-of-wrestling-storm-to-wwe-angle-qa-benoit-hbk-brocks-ssp-disappearing-ppv-odds-new-rumble-favorite-dibiase-speaking-at-church-tv-ratings-shift-njpw-kicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2015\/11\/21\/sat-torch-today-huge-night-of-wrestling-storm-to-wwe-angle-qa-benoit-hbk-brocks-ssp-disappearing-ppv-odds-new-rumble-favorite-dibiase-speaking-at-church-tv-ratings-shift-njpw-kicks\/","title":{"rendered":"Sat. Torch Today &#8211; Huge night of wrestling, Storm to WWE?, Angle Q&#038;A &#8211; Benoit &#038; HBK &#038; Brock&#8217;s SSP, disappearing PPV odds, new Rumble favorite, DiBiase speaking at church, TV Ratings shift, NJPW kicks off World Tag, AJPW star leaving, Dick the Bruiser, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2672653703\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p><strong>TORCH TODAY &#8211; Saturday, November 21<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The countdown to Survivor Series is one day away. Oddly-enough, there are no betting lines for the PPV. Perhaps because of the tournament, unknown opponents for <strong>Undertaker &amp; Kane<\/strong>, and mystery traditional five-on-five match. However, the Royal Rumble market is moving. <strong>Brock Lesnar<\/strong> is now the favorite to win the Rumble at -125. <strong>Kevin Owens<\/strong> and <strong>John Cena<\/strong> are the next closest. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wweleaks.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thanks to correspondent David Taylor<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Before Sunday, there is another huge night of pro wrestling on Saturday. NXT wraps in Florida, the Hardys have\u00a0OMEGA in N.C. with\u00a0<strong>Trevor Lee <\/strong>vs.<strong> Ethan Carter III <\/strong>vs.<strong> Matt Hardy<\/strong> for the OMEGA Title, <strong>Ric Flair<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Ricky Steamboat<\/strong> are scheduled for Big Time Wrestling in Virginia, the <strong>NWA Title<\/strong> is on the line at NWA Smoky Mountain, <strong>WSU<\/strong> and <strong>CZW<\/strong> have a double-header in New Jersey, <strong>OVW<\/strong> has a huge card at Louisville Slugger Field with <strong>The Wolves<\/strong>, <strong>World&#8217;s Greatest Tag Team<\/strong>, and more stars. Plus, more indies running before Thanksgiving. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2015\/11\/20\/weekend-events-center-1120-21-nxt-in-florida-roh-in-nashville-flair-steamboat-at-the-scope-credibles-loaded-retirement-show-hardys-at-omega-nwa-title-match-ecwa-iwf-pro-uwc-clash-more\/\">Full Weekend Events Center<\/a>) (<em><strong>Reports Wanted<\/strong> to pwtorch@gmail.com<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Plus, there is the case of <strong>James Storm<\/strong>. Storm wrestled at WWE&#8217;s\u00a0NXT TV taping Thursday night in Florida. He then <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesStormBrand\/status\/667704770099027969\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted Friday that he was back in Nashville<\/a>. No, he did not appear at the Ring of Honor show on Friday night.\u00a0Storm then travels to Chatsworth, Georgia for an independent show on Saturday night. <a href=\"http:\/\/show\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RCWWrestling\/\" target=\"_blank\">RCW is advertising<\/a>\u00a0the show as Storm&#8217;s &#8220;final trip to RCW before becoming full-time with the WWE.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Also on Saturday, New Japan kicks off their World Tag League tournament with a big main event of IWGP World Hvt. champion <strong>Kazuchika Okada<\/strong> &amp; <strong>YOSHI-HASHI<\/strong> vs. <strong>Tanahashi<\/strong> &amp; ROH star\u00a0<strong>Michael Elgin<\/strong>. (<a href=\"http:\/\/puroresuspirit.net\/2015\/11\/njpw-event-cards-for-november-december-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">Full Event Line-ups via PuroresuSpirit.net<\/a>) (<a href=\"http:\/\/njpwworld.com\/feature\/schedule\" target=\"_blank\">Tournament Viewing on New Japan World<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; WWE NETWORK HIGHLIGHTS: A new episode of &#8220;This Week in WWE&#8221; premieres at 3:00 p.m. EST. WWE is also running &#8220;<strong>Undertaker<\/strong> Week&#8221; content from earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Notes from <strong>Kurt Angle&#8217;s<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/triplempromotions.co.uk\/kurt-angle-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Golden Truth&#8221; Tour<\/a> Friday in Cardiff, Wales: Angle once again took credit for telling <strong>Brock Lesnar<\/strong> to do the Shooting Star Press at WrestleMania 19. &#8230; Angle ranked his 2003 Royal Rumble match against <strong>Chris Benoit<\/strong> as his &#8220;greatest ever match.&#8221; &#8230; Angle described <strong>A.J. Styles<\/strong> as the best wrestler he&#8217;s ever faced. &#8230; Angle said his epic WM21 match against <strong>Shawn Michaels<\/strong> was called on the fly, as opposed to preparing an entire week beforehand. (Thanks to PWTorch reader Ali Al-Mufti)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <strong>&#8220;Million Dollar Man&#8221; Ted DiBiase<\/strong> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com\/story\/news\/local\/2015\/11\/18\/ted-dibiase-speaking-zanesville\/75726750\/\" target=\"_blank\">speaking at a local Ohio church throughout this weekend<\/a>. DiBiase is sharing his testimony, talking about his wrestling sons, and appearing at a wrestling show at Newton Fire Hall in Zanesville, Ohio.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-2469623893\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>&#8211; There was an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2015\/11\/fox-live-same-day-ratings-stop-1201631918\/\" target=\"_blank\">interesting development in the TV industry on Friday<\/a>. <strong>Fox<\/strong> announced that it will no longer publicly report live+same day TV ratings and viewership for most programming. Fox believes the more accurate figure is live+3-day DVR or even live+7. <a href=\"http:\/\/tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com\/2015\/11\/20\/fox-is-quitting-same-day-ratings-tv-by-the-numbers-is-not\/\" target=\"_blank\">TVBytheNumbers<\/a>, which has tracked ratings for years, countered that live+same day is still a good indicator of performance, even as people\u00a0change their viewing habits, because the bump from DVR viewing is\u00a0&#8220;largely in proportion to the same-day ratings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10153784483411098\" target=\"_blank\">A big story in Japan<\/a> is\u00a0<strong>Yoshinobu Kanemaru<\/strong> leaving All-Japan Wrestling to become a freelance wrestler. This follows <strong>Kotaro Suzuki<\/strong> announcing his departure from All Japan. Kanemaru ends his AJPW run on December 15 in Tokyo. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10153785041746098\" target=\"_blank\">More Japan News &amp; Notes<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; A new wrestling comic book, &#8220;<strong>Ringside<\/strong>,&#8221; is scheduled for release next week. The series from Image Comics is focusing on behind-the-scenes activity set in pro wrestling.\u00a0&#8220;The book is really about what happens outside of the ring,&#8221; said writer Joe Keatinge in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\/living\/index.ssf\/2015\/11\/new_wrestling_comic_book_rings.html\" target=\"_blank\">an interview with AL.com<\/a>. &#8220;It&#8217;s how this industry affects a number of lives and what people&#8217;s relationships are with it. There actually is not a lot of in-ring stuff at all throughout the whole series. It&#8217;s more about people who are affected by it &#8211; people who are wrestlers and people who are the writers and people who watch it. How all their lives interact. It&#8217;s more of a drama than anything else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Finally, the Indianapolis Star <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/news\/history\/retroindy\/2015\/11\/19\/dick-bruiser-worlds-most-dangerous-wrestler\/75993686\/\" target=\"_blank\">published a brief biography<\/a> on territory era wrestling legend\u00a0<strong>Dick the Bruiser<\/strong>, who was from Indiana.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-2882131530\"><div id=\"pwtor-3874845388\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>TORCH TODAY &#8211; Saturday, November 21 &#8211; The countdown to Survivor Series is one day away. 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