Due to filming commitments for "American Grit," John Cena will miss Survivor Series. He could also easily miss TLC. Smackdown's got its work cut out for it with him off TV for two months or more.
Vince McMahon is back on the road after his injury and surgery. He was at No Mercy and this weekend's live events. Even when not physically there, he still stays in contact with those going over the show.
The next Takeover special after Toronto will almost definitely be in San Antonio the night before the Royal Rumble. Using the "big four" PPVs as anchors for big NXT shows is a good idea to draw big crowds and make the brand look major league.
Big Damo is starting at the WWE Performance Center after finishing up outside commitments.
CMLL's Zeuxis was also part of the most recent WWE tryout. I'd think it's too early for anyone to have been offered a deal.
Gran Metalik is now set to work in CMLL through November before starting full-time in the cruiserweight division. I'm excited to see more of him, so I hope he gets everything sorted out soon as far as coming to the U.S.
Due to Michael Elgin's injury, Jay Lethal will replace him against Tetsuya Naito at the November 5 NJPW event. That should be a solid match.
AJ Styles discussed his rise to the top of WWE. I hope he's champion going into WM33.
NXT will film footage for the WWE Network during its tour of Australia. I'd like to see a special episode of NXT TV or two filmed between there and Japan.
Mick Foley responded to the impression of Seth Rollins as an unsafe worker. It's a shame Bret's bitter ramblings get the amount of attention they do in 2016.
- Bret Hart apologized for recent comments regarding Triple H, Seth Rollins, and the Freebirds. It's probably time to stop commenting on the wrestling business.
-- This follows Michael P.S. Hayes firing back at Hart's comments in a series of Tweets here, here, and here.
Samoa Joe will get his rematch with Shinsuke Nakamura for the NXT Championship at Takeover in Toronto. I expect another really great match.
Nancy Grace walked out of an interview after being challenged on her previous reports on wrestling.
Hideo Itami has suffered another injury. He was unable to compete at NXT's most recent taping. That's very unfortunate, since he had more or less just come back and gotten in the groove of things. Hopefully he's not out long; I was looking forward to him facing the likes of Aries, Roode, and Joe.
Billy Corgan has filed a lawsuit against TNA, Dixie Carter, Dixie's husband Serg Salinas, and TNA Chief Financial Officer Dean Broadhead. There had been friction between Corgan and Carter at the post-BFG TV tapings, with Corgan turning down the invitation to be part of a meeting with talent alongside Carter.
- Filings for the lawsuit have been sealed "until further notice," but a hearing is set for Thursday, October 20. So, we will hopefully learn more then. A costly lawsuit could be the death knell for TNA. The very state of the company could easily be in the balance here.
TNA's former production company also sued TNA, Aroluxe Marketing, Aroluxe's Ron Harris, and Dean Broadhead. This lawsuit was filed on September 27 and seeks $223,000 plus interest and post-judgment costs for breach of contract, fraudulent inducement on behalf of Harris and Broadhead, tortuous interference by Aroluxe and all defendants violating Virginia code.
- This lawsuit stems from Audience of One Productions being approached for production work for BFG 2015 due to Broadhead being unhappy with Aroluxe's work in that department. The allegation is that Broadhead and Harris more or less led AO1 to believe they were in for a long partnership when they only did a few shows, then once Aroluxe was able to take a stake in TNA, requests to pay money owed to AO1 for producing BFG were either ignored or drawn out as much as possible.
Entrance music for Mike Bennett and DJ Z was pulled from the airing of Impact Wrestling this week. This is believed to be due to rights issues with composer Dave Oliver, and is unrelated to the Billy Corgan lawsuit. TNA's issues are really starting to snowball with all these legal issues.
For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I wouldn't be shocked if the Hardys pitched using that land themselves. They're well enough off financially they don't really need to charge TNA to use it; they're probably just glad they're getting that much leeway in their angle.
2. I'm under the impression they pretty much steer the ship of how they're used.
3. King Maxel is part of the Hardy family. What's crazy to us is probably normal to him and his experience.
4. I can't disagree with what they're saying. If/when Kurt Angle and Jeff Hardy are back in WWE in some form, you can make collections for them, too.
5. I wouldn't be surprised in the least if Vince sides with Trump in all his fiascoes given their history. He likely agrees the leaked tape was just "locker room talk all men engage in." WWE not getting involved in anything political this year is probably as far as they'll go in distancing themselves from the Trumps.
More wrestling tomorrow.
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