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Saturday, November 12, 2016

Superstars Reax - 11/11/16, Big WWE lawsuit dismissed, Tributes back on Network, Best Friends on live Talk is Jericho, Reigns leaves WWE tour, WOH departure, another ROH name on the way out?, UK names officially joining ROH, HHH conference call, Corgan and TNA settle issues, WWE promotes EVOLVE shows, JR book update, Cutting Edge guests, TNA audience, and Questions on magazines disappearing, Goldberg's future, more libraries for WWE, and who should have been WWE Champion

- Superstars:
- Neville vs. Titus:
Good start to establish Titus as the bully.

I like Titus shutting Neville down. He doesn't need to be fancy to be dominant.

Titus' arrogance is great.

I'm liking this.

That was pretty good for what it needed to be. We didn't get to see all of Neville's MOVES, but they told a nice story.

- Bo vs. Darren:
Ahhh I love Bo. He's such a goof.

Bo's doing more for his character in this match than we've seen from Neville in months.

Darren's a solid talent. I wonder how he'd do somewhere like ROH where he'd get to do more wrestling than "sports entertaining."

Darren's pretty impressive here. He's got the technical part of wrestling down well.

I like the chicken wing being sold like death.

Nice fire from Darren.

That was pretty good!

A Connecticut court has thrown out the lawsuit brought against WWE by the families of the former Viscera and Doink the Clown, and went so far as to call out the attorney responsible for filing the lawsuits for the unprofessional manner in which the case was put together. They were very close to sanctioning him for his "misleading, deceptive, and baseless allegations." They had to spend a lot of time and resources to comb through a ridiculously long filing with little potential merit. They have every right to be pissed, and the taxpayers of Connecticut should be pretty upset at this as well.

WWE's Tribute to the Troops collection has returned to the Network with every special from 2003 through 2015.

Kevin Owens will be replacing AJ Styles on Chris Jericho's live Talk is Jericho podcast on November 20 due to a last-minute change in Styles' WWE schedule. That should be a pretty fun edition of the show.

Roman Reigns has left WWE's European tour due to a family matter that required him to return home to the U.S.. Big Cass will replace him in facing Rusev on the rest of the tour. I hope things work out for the U.S. Champion.

Veda Scott has left ROH after giving notice last week. That's a little surprising since the company was starting to do more with the women's division. I'm curious what that means for her future.

There's speculation Lio Rush will be finishing up in ROH in early 2017, as he's taking outside bookings for that time frame. Do people still care about him or have they moved on to another young flippy guy?

UK stars Marty Scurll and Will Ospreay have officially signed deals with ROH. The company should get them for Final Battle if they can.

Triple H did a conference call to promote Takeover: Toronto:
- The "consolation prize" reference is to WWE being unable to get Trish Stratus for the show. I'm more than OK with Mickie facing Asuka, and hope Mickie becomes a trainer if they're not going to use her in the ring more.

- There's definitely a LOT of WWE content out there now.

- People being able to watch the shows they want when they want is a big deal. Things are going to move more and more in that direction in the years to come, but TV isn't going away just yet.

- Doing NXT every week live would be a big expense. Unless it would really increase viewership and subscribers, I don't see any reason to rush into doing it.

- So HBK hasn't replaced Bloom, but he'll be helping out in Orlando.

- Part of what makes NXT great is talents generally don't have time to get stale with being called up, new names coming in, etc.

Billy Corgan and Anthem/TNA have settled their legal issues. That's presumably good news, as now everyone involved can move on. Hopefully this leads to TNA finally being able to get out of some of the muck they're in.

- Anthem commented on the settlement. We'll get more in the way of specifics next week. Anthem will likely not comment further, as they'll focus on what the future holds for TNA. That's likely the right move.

WWE put over this weekend's EVOLVE events, teasing Tony Nese or Drew Gulak could appear on Raw with the EVOLVE Championship. That would be pretty interesting. I can't even say surprising at this point given the changes we've seen in WWE lately.

Jim Ross' autobiography, fittingly named Slobberknocker, is due out in fall 2017. I can't wait to read about pet coons, government mules, and a LOT of insight into the wrestling business.

Randy Orton, Bray Wyatt, Shane McMahon, Dean Ambrose, and AJ Styles will be the guests on Tuesday's Cutting Edge for the 900th episode of Smackdown. That makes sense. Hopefully there's some levity with James Ellsworth instead of just "we're going to beat Raw and show how great The Blue Brand is, then beat each other."

Impact Wrestling drew 319,000 viewers this week, down a bit from previous weeks. Anthem has their work cut out for them revitalizing the TNA brand in 2017.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. Magazines still exist in something of a niche market.

2. It will depend on how Survivor Series goes. If there's potential for him to do something else after that, I'm sure the two sides will consider it. I would think Royal Rumble and WM33 would be options for further big matches. As for outside of the ring, I can see him being added to AXXESS and Comic Cons and that kind of thing.

3. I'm sure they're always looking. It's not out of the question to see them license the ROH library if they think people will watch it.

4 is specific to them, so nothing to add there.

5. Piper's the go-to answer here. I would have liked to have seen Christian, Wade Barrett, or Mark Henry get that honor in more recent times.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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