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Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Tatsu update, Matt Hardy's training, live Impact next week, new backstage roles for two ROH stars, ROH sells out WM32 weekend, TNA sets TV tapings, ROH-Philly change and additions, NXT book in the works, next HoFer announced, more NXT live events, WM33 location set, remaining 2016 HoFers set, Foley on WWE TV, World Series champs get their belts, and Questions on older WWF material on the Network, what WWE cuts for Raw on Hulu, Sting as a draw, Cena vs. Taker, and how WWE will book Reigns vs. HHH

Yoshi Tatsu will be cleared to return to the ring next month after suffering a broken neck against AJ Styles. He's seeking bookings in the U.S. It's a shame his English isn't very good. It would have been fun for him to come back for a brief run to play off AJ inuring him.

Matt Hardy released a great video about his training/maintenance. His character has been amazing. I don't know how he got that number of matches. Cagematch lists him at a still really impressive 1,862.

Next week's Impact Wrestling will be broadcast "live"-ish a few hours after it's taped. Hopefully that provides a boost to ratings.

Daniels and BJ Whitmer have been working behind-the-scenes in ROH.I think both of them would be great at assisting the workers in how to tell a good story in the ring.

Everything else from yesterday is after the break.
ROH's events in Dallas during Wrestlemania weekend have all sold out. That's good news for them, with so many fans already set to go to Takeover: Dallas.

TNA has officially set TV/One Night Only tapings for March 15 through March 19 in Universal Studios. No surprise there. I expect this will get them halfway to Slammiversary. Further tapings in late April or early May will set that show up.

Kenny Omega is unable to make ROH's return to Philadelphia, so instead ACH will challenge KUSHIDA for the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship.

Also added to ROH's return to Philly:
- BJ Whitmer/Cedric Alexander vs. Adam Page/Jonathan Gresham
- Joey Daddiego vs. Will Ferrara. Where on earth is Donovan Dijak? After he turned on HoT, I expected him to either go elsewhere or feud with them.

WWE is starting work on a book chronicling the development and rise of NXT. It's set to release in April 2017. NXT has turned out to be a really big addition to WWE.

CBS Sports announced Big Boss Man going into the Hall of Fame. Good of WWE to get a mainstream outlet to cover it. Wrestling news sites have a smaller audience that already keeps up with this kind of thing. I kind of hope Big Show inducts him. Show's feud with Boss Man was INSANE.

In addition to running April 22 in Rhode Island, NXT will have shows April 21 in Massachusetts and April 23 in New York. So, they've got a nice little Northeastern loop set up.

WWE has officially announced Wrestlemania 33 will be in Orlando on April 2, 2017. Minneapolis' loss is their gain.

- The Orlando Sentinel talked to Orlando's mayor about the big get. I can definitely see Florida being a pretty regular location for Wrestlemania.

WWE's Wrestlemania 32 magazine revealed Stan Hansen and Jacqueline Moore will round out the Hall of Fame class. Both are worthy additions. I'll be somewhat surprised if there's no celebrity addition this year.

Mick Foley is expected to be at next week's Raw, presumably to promote Shane vs. Taker in HIAC. He'll be on Stone Cold's podcast on the Network around the time of WM32.

The Kansas City Royals received their WWE World Heavyweight Championship replicas. I like the custom nameplates.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I imagine they will at some point. They have a HUGE library to digitize, so they prioritize things that will have larger audiences.

2. To WWE, the matches aren't as important as the storylines. There are plenty of less-than-legal ways to watch the full matches online the day after. WWE can't stop all the YouTube links, etc.

3. There's being a draw, then there's being a top draw. He's definitely made money where he's worked, but isn't considered a top-level draw like some of the other names he's worked with.

4. I'd absolutely love to see that! Or even Kurt Angle vs. Undertaker. However, it's looking more and more likely we actually see Shane in the ring that night.

5. I think they'd do a big rub for Reigns by him winning clean and getting revenge. Honestly, he's earned it after everything HHH has thrown at him to keep him from the WWE Title. Changing the WWE Title a few weeks before Wrestlemania is a pretty risky move. 

More wrestling tomorrow.

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