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Monday, November 21, 2016

Interview with Natalya, Foley promotes Survivor Series, Fish misses ROH show, ROH attendance note, another ROH title change, Cody's match at Final Battle set, producer returns, and Questions on Raw vs. Smackdown, Taker not working Survivor Series, changing characters from NXT, promotions working together, and the AMAs

Natalya talked about WWE's different women's divisions and more:
- I'm glad WWE is getting more behind the women. They have a lot to give.

- Smart answer about taking any opportunity she's given. WWE likes that kind of attitude.

- Natalya's great at the PR role. I can see her being associated with WWE for quite a while, like Lita is now.

- Smackdown is definitely the underdog division with no Charlotte, Sasha, or Bayley.

Mick Foley appeared in Toronto's Santa parade before Survivor Series. He's a BIG Christmas fan.

Bobby Fish missed the final date of ROH's UK tour due to "unforeseen circumstances." At least we know it's not health-related. I hope everything's going well with the now-former TV Champion and we'll see him again at Final Battle.

ROH's Leicester show in the UK drew around 600-650 fans. Was that a success, given the costs of running there?

Marty Scurll defeated Will Ospreay to become the new ROH TV Champion after Ospreay won the title the previous night. I'm REALLY curious what ends up happening to the title situation at Final Battle. Scurll vs. Ospreay vs. Lee (vs. Fish)?

Cody (Rhodes) vs. Jay Lethal is official for Final Battle. I expect we'll see a good number of big matches for Cody in ROH.

Jamie Noble has returned to working backstage for WWE. That's good news. I hope things are going well for him.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. It happens in other sports (and real life) all the time. That person you like is now on a different team? They're the enemy! Hell, families killed each other in the U.S. Civil War. That said, I think WWE did a pretty good job not having everyone be best friends at Survivor Series.

2. OK, I'm totally going to make a stretch for this one. Either Taker's not "back" until the fallout of Survivor Series, or Shane doesn't want to potentially upset a man who put him through hell at WM32 by forcing him into a match with so little notice. Or maybe Shane was so cocky or confident he didn't think he needed Taker? Or they already had a plan together and he didn't want to risk it? There are some potential explanations there.

3. It's something of a case of the WWE writers not being the ones who cultivated her in NXT. I think it's like someone new coming on a script that's already been started and not getting the characters just right because they want to take it in a different direction. That's kind of how things happen sometimes.

4. It really depends on the situation. If NJPW has been building someone as an absolute unbeatable monster, they want them to be booked similarly in ROH. Some names they're a little more lenient on. It's a surprise promotions are able to work together at all given how complicated it could be.

5. That could definitely be it!

More wrestling tomorrow.

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