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When lockdowns rippled across the country last March, many experts speculated that couples cohabitating together would be more apt to have sex and therefore procreate. There is precedent for this speculation: a month-long blackout in Zanzibar in 2008 in which many were forced to stay home more frequently, just as one might during a pandemic caused a mini-baby boom nine months later.
Yet predictions of a pandemic baby boom did not take into account how the loss of jobs, income, childcare services and an overburdened healthcare system fighting a highly contagious coronavirus would take a massive mental and emotional toll on women and families across the country. Monthly birth data shows that being confined to one house with your significant other doesn t make for primed conditions to bring another human being into this world, even if popular Etsy baby-wear emblazoned with Mommy and daddy didn t practice social distancing suggests otherwise.
Our lead story in this week s Observer covers WWE finances. We look at the direct numbers of WWE, revenue, profits, value of the company on Wall Street, what was up and why, what was down and why, exactly how much WWE took in on TV rights, network and merchandise. We look at what the company s top priorities are for 2021, why the stock price is down, plus Vince McMahon, WWE President Nick Khan, CBO Stephanie McMahon and CFO Kristina Salen comment on the company.
They talk the Peacock deal, the Indian and Latin American markets, new television products, how much COVID cost the company in revenue and costs of the Thunderdome set-up as compared to the old way of doing things.
The Rock On Him and His Family Getting COVID-19 Last Summer Posted By: Dustin Frisch on Feb 10, 2021
The Rock did an interview with Cigar Aficionado, and he had discussed his family and himself ending up getting the virus. The Rock had it this past summer, and said that the virus just spread so quickly throughout.
“In a 24-hour period, it had spread so quickly to our nanny, our nanny’s teenage kids, her husband. Myself and my two-year-old daughter, we were the last ones standing until the very end, but of course we both tested positive. We were on the fortunate end for something that has been so traumatic to the world. We got through it.”
Kenny King Signs New Contract With Ring Of Honor Posted By: Dustin Frisch on Feb 10, 2021
Ring of Honor issued a press statement and said that they have resigned Kenny King to a new contract.
KENNY KING RE-SIGNS WITH ROH
Ring of Honor is pleased to announce that Kenny King has re-signed with the company.
The announcement comes on the heels of King’s fellow La Faccion Ingobernable members RUSH, Dragon Lee and Bestia del Ring signing new ROH contracts.
Smooth in the ring and on the microphone, King has long been one of ROH’s most complete competitors.
King is a two-time former ROH World Television Champion and former ROH World Tag Team Champion. He won the Honor Rumble at G1 Supercard in 2019 before a sold-out crowd at Madison Square Garden.
WWE Superstar Erik (fka Raymond Rowe) took to Twitter on Tuesday to announce that he and former WWE star Sarah Logan had officially welcomed their first child. Erik wrote, Raymond Cash Rowe, 8lbs 11oz 21.75 After 44hrs of labor both mama and baby are happy and safe. He s perfect. Logan, a former [.]