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Friday, May 20, 2016

More on Owens/Breeze charity, Stevie back in ROH, big Goldust milestone, Andre birthday, more WWE tryouts, top team debuts in NXT, WWE Rule Book incoming, Interview with English, TNA execs to India, Impact audience, NXT dark matches, NXT name change, and Questions on sendoff feuds, Roman attacking Rock, music videos, the fly-on-the-wall camera style, and Punk in UFC

Kevin Owens and Tyler Breeze have raised $60,000 to assist victims in the aftermath of fires in Canada. They hope to keep raising money.

Stevie Richards will work the June 3 ROH live event. I'm assuming this is a one-time thing for now, but I'd love to see him work there more in 2016.

Goldust recently celebrated eight years of sobriety. That's really great. I'm proud of him for that accomplishment, and I hope this time this year he's celebrating nine years.

Andre the Giant got publicity on what would have been his 70th birthday. Worth reading if just for the brilliant photo caption at the top of the page.

WWE is having a set of tryouts this week. Footage was posted on the NXT page.

- Van Stokes talked about trying out. I hope we see some solid recruits from this tryout week.

The team formerly known as The Mighty Don't Kneel has debuted in NXT as TM61. The T is a reference to Shane Haste's new ring name, Shane Thorne, the M is for Mikey Nicholls' new name, Nick Miller, and 61 is the Australian area code. I like the dynamic of these two just from that promo. Funny stuff.

WWE is releasing an official Rule Book in January, describing the difference between a Hollywood Backlot Brawl and a Brooklyn Street Fight among other things. That's pretty funny.

Aiden English promoted Extreme Rules. I hope the Vaudevillains make the most of their opportunity for the tag team titles.

Top TNA executives, including Dixie Carter and John Gaburick, are heading to India this wekend to talk to meet with the heads of Sony 6, who air TNA there. This could relate to an upcoming tour of the country.

Impact Wrestling's audience this week was 311,000. So they might have gotten something of a boost with the advertised World Title match.

Dark matches from the most recent NXT taping:
- Manny Andrade* vs. Tino Sabbatelli
- American Alpha vs. The Authors of Pain (Gzim Selmani and Sunny Dhinsa)
- Adrienne Reese vs. Nicola Glencross
- Finn Balor and Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Samoa Joe and Tye Dillinger

-- So, some of those names could make the jump to NXT TV in the upcoming weeks and months.

The former La Sombra, previously known in NXT as Manny Andrade, is now known as Andrade "Cien" Almas. Cien Almas is Spanish for 100 Souls. We'll see how that name pans out once he finally debuts on NXT.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I also enjoy "Loser Leaves The Company" matches. Jeff Hardy vs. C.M. Punk was done well with that stipulation. As for Barrett vs. Sheamus, it's obvious Wade wanted to get out of there as soon as possible. Why give him a big spotlight on the way out when he wasn't motivated to do a big feud? It makes more sense to use more TV time for people who are going to be sticking around in important roles?

2. It's obvious WWE isn't going to go that route. If for some reason they do change course, though, Roman vs. Rock would definitely be an interesting feud.

3. Where the heck is Piledriver II? Come on, WWE Music Group! We need a new album with that theme.

4. I think unless the wrestlers are directly addressing the camera, we're seeing something they're not aware of. In other words, while fans can tweet Nick Nemeth about what's happening on the show, Dolph Ziggler the character isn't aware others can see what's going on. It's like other genres, really, when viewed in that way.

5. He continues to train toward an eventual debut following his surgery. He's just not really being hyped right now because it doesn't look like that debut's coming up yet.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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