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Sunday, October 23, 2016

NXT and ROH live event notes, where's Torrie Wilson now, and Questions on the status of TNA, jobbers being destroyed, running a big WWE PPV outside of the U.S., Rusev losing his accent, and WM34 in Boston

At an NXT live event in Florida:
- Lince Dorado beat Dan Matha
- Eric Young beat Noah Potjes in Young's first NXT live event match (and his only NXT match since the one-off against Joe in April).
- Tian Bin (formerly Bin Wang) beat Patrick Clark
- the teaming of Angelo Dawkins and Kenneth Crawford continued. They lost to Riddick Moss and Tino Sabbatelli.
- Cedric Alexander teamed with Shinsuke Nakamura and Tye Dillinger to beat Samoa Joe, Steve Cutler, and Wesley Blake. No Buddy Murphy on this show.

WWE caught up with Torrie Wilson. Perhaps unsurprisingly, she's still in great shape.

At an ROH show in Florida:
- BJ Whitmer and Punishment Martinez beat Mr. Wrestling 3 and Bull James. I'm a little surprised MW3 wrestled on a live event, but ROH's live shows are more important than, say, WWE's.
- The teams of Shaheem Ali/Leon St. Giovanni and Sho Tanaka/Yohei Komatsu lost to the team of Cheeseburger/Will Ferrara. Cheeseburger pinned St. Giovanni.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. Not yet! We'll have to see how things play out in the courtroom. They still have plans to run shows in January, although who will be paying for them and who will be in charge of the company by then is up in the air. As long as someone's willing to throw money at them to make their problems go away, they'll keep on existing.

2. That's kind of the point! They're paid to get thrown around and destroyed. It gets their foot in the door and some money in their pocket, so a lot of indie wrestlers are willing to go through with it.

3. I definitely think there's a chance of it happening, considering they've done Beast in the East and Takeover:London. Given how many PPVs there will be in the brand split era, I can easily see WWE testing the waters with one of those shows. If that goes well enough, there's a chance they go even bigger.

4. Some of his accent is a work anyway. Additionally, once you're around a lot of people who speak a certain way for years, you eventually pick up their accent instead of your own.

5. If they wanted to, they certainly could. We'll see what they have in mind as we get closer to WM33.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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