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Thursday, March 5, 2015

Stewart puts WWE over, old HoF ceremonies on Network, more criticism of DeMott, Interviews with FBI/HHH/Blue Pants, more Andre battle royal entrants, WWE HQ guest, next NXT Title match set, and Questions on Rock working with Roman, WWE pay vs. the indies, Sting vs. HHH, Goldust vs. Stardust, and Rick Rude in the Hall

Jon Stewart put WWE over at the beginning of "The Daily Show" following Raw. His appearance has been very well received.

WWE put together looks back at the 1994, 1995, and 1996 Hall of Fame ceremonies, as well as the induction of Andre The Giant in 1993, for the Network. There's only so much they could do with that old footage, so this is pretty much what we're getting. I'm glad to see it.

Former NXT talent Brandon Traven released a letter he wrote in 2013 criticizing Bill DeMott. There has certainly been a lot of heat on DeMott's training based on all the negative talk of it by people who were there.

Chris Jericho put out a Tweet endorsing Bill DeMott, but deleted it. Interesting.

Ethan Carter III, who worked in NXT as Derrick Bateman, also put out a Tweet on the situation. This definitely sounds like something worth investigating by an outside agency.

Everything else from yesterday is after the break.

Little Guido and Tony Mamaluke were interviewed about the FBI reuniting. Can we get these two in NXT at some point? I'd like to see some veterans cycled in for brief runs here and there.

Triple H put over Seth Rollins in a Muscle & Fitness interview. Rollins as WWE Champion in 2015 needs to happen.

PTP have been added to the Andre the Giant Battle Royal. I was expecting them to be in a tag team title match at WM31, but maybe that's being saved for another time.

Jerry Springer visited WWE HQ this week. His show tapes in the area. I wonder how much overlap there is between wrestling fans and Springer fans. Or Springer guests for that matter.

WWE.com interviewed "Blue Pants" from NXT. It's pretty funny that name caught on. I hope we do see her again, either in WWE or TNA.

Kevin Owens is set to defend the NXT Championship against Finn Balor on the March 25 episode. That should be amazing.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I think it would backfire on some level if they tried to use Rock to put Roman over any more.

2. You have to hustle a lot more on the indies. A top indie name might make more than someone on the low end of the WWE totem pole, but generally WWE names do a lot better.

3. The popular theory is of WWE saving Sting vs. Taker for next year in what would be both men's final match. For that reason and for what was mentioned in their answer, I can see why we're getting the matches we're getting this year.

4. That's absolutely what I want to see: a big Rhodes family moment to wrap up Dustin's career and put Cody over in the process. You'd think that'd be a no-brainer.

5. Time to get that rumor train rolling! Put the Freebirds in next year, too.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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