Title match set for Impact, Interviews with Natalya/Sheamus, Impact audience, Punk on WM30 merchandise, WWE press, WWE live event notes including a return and Questions on TNA Creative, Punk vs. Bryan, the WWE Network, Orton holding two titles and Divas at WM30

Next week's Impact Wrestling will feature The Bro-Mans defending the TNA Tag Team Championship in a three-way tag match featuring The Wolves and the team of Sanada and Tigre Uno. I wouldn't be surprised to see another title switch.

Natalya talked about "Total Divas" and fans. Nothing really groundbreaking.

Impact hit 1.21 million viewers this week. Not outstanding, but they did get a bump after Lockdown.

Everything else from yesterday is after the break.

WWE is selling two WrestleMania 30 shirt designs featuring C.M. Punk, which likely means he's coming back to feud with Daniel Bryan in the biggest work of the century the designs were submitted a while back and it's too late to change them. I wouldn't be holding my breath on Punk coming back for Mania.

Sheamus was interviewed ahead of a Smackdown taping. I'm guessing he might end up in the Andre battle royal unless they're setting up a big gimmick match with Christian.

Some pretty nice photos were snapped at Smackdown. I'm really impressed with the quality.

For some WWE live event notes:
- Darren Young beat Titus O'Neil with a rollup. Titus wanted a rematch and lost with a rollup again. While live event matches don't usually count for much, it's clear WWE doesn't know which PTP member they want to get behind. It doesn't look like they had much of a plan for them after splitting given their lack of TV presence lately.

- Layla returned to the ring, teaming with Alicia Fox in a loss to Eva Marie and Natalya. Hopefully she's back on TV soon. I wouldn't mind her taking the title from AJ at WM30. WWE hasn't given up on Eva Marie (or JoJo in NXT) as far as wrestling goes.

- Bad News Barrett beat Kofi Kingston. He still wrestles as well.

- John Cena's still limping from his injury. I hope he can still deliver in the feud with Wyatt. He doesn't need to compete too often outside of the big PPV match(es) with Wyatt.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. They've definitely made changes in the creative approach, with new stars being pushed, new stars being signed and some other names returning to the promotion. TNA is in a rebuilding stage and they're aware of this. There are definitely still head-scratching booking decisions, but I don't see how this is as bad as Bash at the Beach 2000, Judy Bagwell on a pole, Goldberg going off script, the World Title changing hands every few weeks, etc. Samuel Shaw with a blowup doll would fit right in with that era, but I think this is really a flawed comparison.

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I think the IWC needs to fire ITS Creative team. With so many fans complaining that Bryan needs to win the WWE Title at Mania, this is one of the last things they should do. Punk vs. Bryan is a notable step down from Bryan as WWE Champion. If Punk's coming back to face Bryan, there are better ways to get to it. Bryan could make the challenge to Punk, saying Punk's earned the right to feud for the title or something. If Punk has to rain on Bryan's parade, save it for Bryan's celebration the next night on Raw. I think they can get a PPV rematch or two from Bryan vs. Batista leading to Bryan vs. Punk at Payback if Punk does actually come back. Punk and Bryan are two of my favorites, but I don't think that plan works as well as it looks on screen.

Nothing to add to 3. WWE has to crawl and walk before they can run at full speed.

4. I see the situation as pretty similar to Jericho's in 2001-2002. He's one unified champion with two physical championships. They likely will either drop the physical World Championship and have Orton just carry the WWE Title or they'll get a new physical title to fit the new logo. Either way, I don't see any going back to two World Titles and two brands any time soon.

5. If they didn't already have a battle royal, they could do something like that for the Divas' Title. I don't see there being all that much interest in a one-on-one title defense between AJ and a cast member given how she's beaten pretty much everyone.

More wrestling tomorrow.