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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

More on CMLL on Fight Network, what happened after Raw, Bret buries Payback, remembering Mahoney, Raw audience, new War of the Worlds match, Titus returns to the ring, and Questions on Graves' commentary, Y2J winning so much, Harts vs. Flairs, how Vince bought WCW, and how WWE is using Shane

The weekly CMLL show coming to Fight Network is expected to be the promotion's Friday night Arena Mexico event. I hope CMLL does well on Canadian TV.

After Raw, Chris Jericho and Kevin Owens attacked Roman Reigns. Dean Ambrose came out to even the odds and run off the heels to end the taping. 

Bret Hart basically threw his Payback appearance under a bus. I'm sure he's a blast at parties.

Memorial services for Balls Mahoney will take place on Saturday in New Jersey. I'd love to hear that a big steel chair brawl breaks out in his honor, complete with entrance music.

Raw's audience Monday was 3.13 million, the lowest mark in almost five months. That's very disappointing given how people have enjoyed the show lately.

Tetsuya Naito vs. Kyle O'Reilly has been added to ROH/NJPW's War of the Worlds event.

Titus O'Neill returned to the ring for WWE in a dark match before Smackdown, defeating Tyler Breeze. I'm curious as to where he and Darren Young go from here.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. He's definitely great in his role. Corey replacing Lawler or JBL would be great given how tired their performances are. Lawler in particular clearly stopped caring a long time ago.

2. It now means more when Ambrose beats him. Styles pinned Jericho the next night on Raw to make it to the WWE Title match at Payback, so he's definitely rising. We'll see what the future holds for Zayn, who's just starting out his WWE career. Wins and losses don't mean all that much in the long run; it's all a matter of momentum.

3. Uggghhhhh.... this is a rematch from Charlotte winning NXT's Women's Championship with the same stipulation. Charlotte's the dirty, dastardly heel. We're supposed to boo her for always having her dad's help. It has nothing to do with "not empowering women" and everything to do with using legends to enhance their feud. It's Bret Hart's niece vs. Ric Flair's daughter. Of course they're going to play into that, especially after Bret's recent health scare.

4. Vince's inside man just pulled the plug on something that was already declining, at a time when the company was getting rid of divisions left and right. They did a good job burying themselves without a Trojan horse.

5. That's really silly. No, they're using a name who's over with casual fans to introduce new characters and presumably a brand split. There's no conspiracy or anything.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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