Sami Zayn, Enzo Amore, Colin Cassady, Scott Dawson, and Dash Wilder are all scheduled for WWE's March to Wrestlemania event. Whether they'll appear on the Network broadcast is unknown, but it's cool they'll be part of the show. I think Zayn, Enzo, and Cass could be main roster bound shortly after WM32. We'll see about Dash and Dawson. My gut says they'll stay in NXT for now considering they're fairly new as a team down there, but WWE has surprised me in that regard before (Kevin Owens and Becky Lynch come to mind).
WWE will begin distributing Spanish-language DVDs in Spain later this year. If they can make good money from DVDs internationally, that's great! DVD and Blu-Ray sales in the States aren't doing so well.
Everything else from yesterday is after the break.
Billy Corgan was the subject of a wrestling-related mini-documentary by Rolling Stone. I've liked the changes we've seen since he joined TNA. The show has been pretty consistently solid. There's only so much to be done about talents leaving, a smaller budget, etc. They're making the most of what they've got.
Drew Galloway was interviewed by BBC Sport. He's been really great in TNA; he's worth checking out there.
TNA is looking to tape TV in Florida next month. They've only got a few more episodes of fresh content left "in the can" from the UK, so they need to announce something soon.
"Total Divas'" audience this week was 808,000, pretty much what it was last week. Since its decline in ratings has pretty much evened out, it's not really newsworthy at this point. Until there's word on the status of Season Six, I probably won't report much on the series.
Impact Wrestling's audience this week was 273,000, with a replay drawing 87,000. The audience for the show thus far on Pop has been underwhelming. I like the show and want the company to succeed, but its profile has really fallen since the Spike days.
Sunny gave an update on her health status; she has been discharged from the hospital following a battle with pancreatitis. She may need her gallbladder removed. I hope she mends well and gets her life together.
WWE is adding episodes of ECW on TNN alongside more episodes of Hardcore TV. I'm interested to see what their next priority will be once all of ECW is uploaded. There's still a lot of old WWF and WCW TV to get to. We're not there yet, though; there are still early episodes missing and they're not quite all the way through to the final episodes.
Some noteworthy happenings at NXT's live event in Philadelphia:
Billy Corgan was the subject of a wrestling-related mini-documentary by Rolling Stone. I've liked the changes we've seen since he joined TNA. The show has been pretty consistently solid. There's only so much to be done about talents leaving, a smaller budget, etc. They're making the most of what they've got.
Drew Galloway was interviewed by BBC Sport. He's been really great in TNA; he's worth checking out there.
TNA is looking to tape TV in Florida next month. They've only got a few more episodes of fresh content left "in the can" from the UK, so they need to announce something soon.
"Total Divas'" audience this week was 808,000, pretty much what it was last week. Since its decline in ratings has pretty much evened out, it's not really newsworthy at this point. Until there's word on the status of Season Six, I probably won't report much on the series.
Impact Wrestling's audience this week was 273,000, with a replay drawing 87,000. The audience for the show thus far on Pop has been underwhelming. I like the show and want the company to succeed, but its profile has really fallen since the Spike days.
Sunny gave an update on her health status; she has been discharged from the hospital following a battle with pancreatitis. She may need her gallbladder removed. I hope she mends well and gets her life together.
WWE is adding episodes of ECW on TNN alongside more episodes of Hardcore TV. I'm interested to see what their next priority will be once all of ECW is uploaded. There's still a lot of old WWF and WCW TV to get to. We're not there yet, though; there are still early episodes missing and they're not quite all the way through to the final episodes.
Some noteworthy happenings at NXT's live event in Philadelphia:
- Sami Zayn defeated Alex Riley, so Riley's working the "A-loop" for NXT for the time being.
- Austin Aries teamed with Finn Balor to beat Baron Corbin and Samoa Joe. So, it looks like Aries is locked in to be a big talent going forward. I'm not sure why he's just now starting to work live events, but I'm very glad he is.
For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I can believe that. Brock's schedule is very much a case of him getting in, then getting out. Bryan's retirement was sudden, so I can forgive everyone involved for not thinking to have a Plan B.
2. It could be a case of enough time having passed for him to be forgiven, and/or the desire to see WWE live overruling any negative feelings on the issue.
3. It's pretty interesting he'd come do a WWF movie considering he wasn't going to come there to wrestle.
4. That's a really good point! I had never really thought of it like that. WWE is definitely a TV product first and foremost.
5. Heels ragging on newbie face announcers is, for better or worse, something of a tradition.
More wrestling tomorrow.
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