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Saturday, September 24, 2016

Interview with Chris Harris, more top UK names for ROH, WOH continuing to grow, ROH office name leaving, El Santo honored, GFW title defended, Dorado-WWE update, catching up with Kozlov, Regal works indie show as GM, and Questions on HHH stealing Cedric's thunder, The Shield reuniting, and Cedric in ROH vs. WWE

Chris Harris/Braden Walker discussed his career and future in the business:
- I hope with his health issues and the like he's got steady income outside of wrestling. There are more important things in life than performing for the crowd.

- Early TNA has something of a special place in my heart, with the whole "before it was a big deal" factor and all.

- Storm vs. Harris was quite the feud. It's a shame Harris fell off the map after that.

- I can see the argument of Storm really being underutilized.

- Hindsight bias coming into play as far as his jump to WWE.

- Braden Walker was such a flop. He did have a backstage segment or two, but not much to show why we should care. He was just "wrestler guy from place looking to win matches." Somehow that's en vogue now, but they at least get hype packages instead of just showing up backstage.

Will Ospreay is set for all three nights of ROH's November UK tour. I'm sure they'd like to use him more than that.

ROH plans on using Marty Scurll beyond the UK tour. So, presumably he'll end being a regular.

ROH also plans to focus on the Women of Honor division more. That part of the company is growing and could lead to contracts for some talented people who haven't been picked up by NXT/TNA.

ROH's Jeff Jones (formerly Judge Jeff Jones of ECW) has left the company after five years. He had been handling travel and social media there among other duties. Kevin Kelly's taking over many of his duties, since Kelly's now a full-time guy.

Google celebrated El Santo's 99th birthday, which is REALLY cool. I'd like to see him honored in the WWE Hall of Fame via their legacy award.

GFW champion Nick Aldis (Magnus) defended the championship for CWE in Canada. I like the initial idea of GFW being kind of an alliance between smaller promotions.

Lince Dorado has indeed signed a WWE deal. Like others in the cruiserweight division, he'll be working NXT and the main roster.

WWE caught up with Vladimir Kozlov. Sounds like he's doing pretty well for himself. I kind of miss him, honestly.

TNA's audience this week was 377,000, their highest viewership since the move to Thursdays. They're not fading away and classifying themselves as obsolete just yet, thank goodness.

William Regal was the surprise guest general manager at a Chaotic Wrestling in Massachusetts. He was there scouting talent on behalf of WWE. I'm a little surprised WWE was OK with that, but it could mean good things for both sides if the promotion is seen as a training ground for future WWE stars.

For my take on yesterday's PWinsider.com questions:
1. Yeah, that one's a stretch, since HHH did sign him.

2 and 3. I'd definitely like to see The Shield vs. The Club at Survivor Series, which could also involve Rusev, Owens, Cena, and another babyface (Zayn? Cesaro? Y2J?). The opportunity's there if they want to do it. Also, Ambrose is getting his rematch on Smackdown, so that plot point will be resolved by then.

Nothing to add to 4.

5. I think he was a lot more motivated to join WWE. ROH was in a tough position where they didn't want to push someone too hard who was pretty openly trying to go to WWE. So they featured him here and there in case he did re-sign, but didn't really get behind him.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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