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Thursday, September 29, 2016

Post-Smackdown dark match, Chinese name debuting for NXT, international cruiserweight updates, Rollins set for Los Angeles, new No Mercy match, more on Corgan-TNA, Bryan continues to push for doc release, Smackdown audience, and Questions on the post-Mania reboot, praising Miz, why TJP wasn't on the first Raw, WWE at the Emmys, and Nia vs. Tamina

After Smackdown, Randy Orton and Dolph Ziggler beat The Miz and Bray Wyatt. So, Cena didn't have a match at the taping. That's something of a surprise.

Bin Wang will be working NXT live events this weekend. I expect we'll see a number of Chinese names on live events in the months to come, then NXT TV and hopefully beyond.

Noam Dar and Gran Metalik are continuing to finish up dates from outside WWE. The international names WWE signed have to relocate to the U.S. before working regularly given WWE's schedule, so it's going to take some time before the division is firing on all cylinders.

Seth Rollins will be on Raw Monday despite his rib issues. He's been on both ends of some scary spots these past few months.

Randy Orton vs. Bray Wyatt has been added to No Mercy. Presumably it will actually go on this time.

Billy Corgan has stated he's seeking to purchase majority ownership, which presumably could leave Aroluxe Marketing, etc. owning stakes with Billy becoming the new head of the company.

- Corgan has spoken with Pop TV's president about Corgan's plans for the company. Corgan says Pop's president and the TNA talent are on-board with his vision for the future.

Daniel Bryan continues to push for WWE to release the produced documentary about his road to WM32. I'm not sure why they're not using it.

Smackdown's audience this week was 2.34 million viewers, a decent boost from the previous week. It does seem like their audience is low when Raw's is.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I think to some degree it makes sense to "reboot" things at Mania and the night after, but some feuds should have rematches at further PPVs and the like. I also don't like the rigid rules about NXT callups presented here. The draft show works best in the summer after all the Mania rematches and stuff are out of the way.

2. Miz is based. He's done a lot of great work over the years, and it's good to see him get a bigger role (and more recognition) after the brand split.

3. I can see the argument he should have been ringside, but I also like the argument they didn't throw away his Raw debut by having him do commentary or something. Instead, he got a showcase match the next week. The first episode was just about establishing his challenger.

4. They are, and they'd love to win recognition at that level.

5. I can see it happening. Tamina has to be cleared to return to the ring and be on the same brand as Nia first.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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