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WWE Network will soon feature content from Scotland's Insane Championship Wrestling, as WWE has signed a multiple-year deal to show programming from the promotion. The expectation is ICW's weekly Fight Club show will soon air on demand on the Network. Other top events from the promotion could soon follow. This is expected to be part of a new pay tier of WWE Network. This is a groundbreaking move by WWE, and means a big change in wrestling as a whole.

- UK's PROGRESS Wrestling is expected to follow at some point, as the two sides are in talks. PROGRESS is working with WWNLive during WM33 weekend, and a PROGRESS vs. EVOLVE event could take place, streamed on Floslam. PROGRESS signing on to be part of the WWE Network means they wouldn't be able to air any more shows on Floslam.

- It's entirely possible Tyler Bate defends the UK Championship in select indie promotions while WWE works out plans for a weekly UK series of their own.

- Ireland's Over the Top Wrestling could be in the mix, too, as their promoter was in attendance the first night of the UK title tournament. However, there has been no confirmation of a deal being discussed.

Matt and Jeff Hardy are expected to remain in TNA, but could still end up working ROH on the side. With Anthem owning the network ROH airs on in Canada, it's more likely TNA would approve the team appearing there.

Jeff Jarrett is expected to join TNA in an important position before the next tapings in early March. It will be interesting to see what changes he makes. I think it's entirely possible we see Dutch Mantel return as part of Creative if/when Jarrett returns as an executive of some kind. As noted, Jeff will not be abandoning GFW, regardless of what happens with his status in TNA.

The April 4 Smackdown has sold out. This will be the first edition of that show to follow WM33.

Hideo Itami has been cleared to return to the ring, so we could see him at the next NXT taping. I hope he makes a splash in 2017; he's had a number of setbacks now.

UK Championship Tournament competitors will be unable to appear on content streamed on rival services to the WWE Network (Floslam, for instance). So, they'll be able to work for WWE and other promotions that sign deals to be part of the WWE Network, but they can't appear for promotions airing elsewhere. That move will definitely have ripple effects for wrestlers there.

 - Pete Dunne and Joseph Conners have been pulled from appearing on UK-based broadcasts they had already been booked for due to their new WWE contracts. I hope for their sake they still get a lot of work/pay out of this.

Smackdown drew 2.65 million viewers, a good boost from last week. That's good news for a show headlined by a women's cage match instead of, say, John Cena, Randy Orton, etc.

AJ Styles had money and possessions stolen during Monday's Smackdown live event. Very sorry to hear that. I'd like to think the person or people responsible really needed the money and they get to a place where they don't need to take from others in order to make ends meet.

Hangman Page and Bobby Cruise have signed new ROH contracts. I hope page has a breakout year in 2017.

Donovan Dijak isn't booked for ROH past their February TV taping. It's believed WWE is interested in him; he would seem to be a no-brainer for them to pursue. WWE is shying away from offering ROH names contracts until they are 60 days removed from being part of ROH in order to avoid accusations of contract tampering.

Keith Lee could work a few more dates with ROH in order to finish up the angle his team has with The Briscoes. I'm very curious to see how ROH uses Shane Taylor without him.

The Hardys will face the Young Bucks at ROH's April 1 live event. It's currently unknown whether the Hardys will be able to appear on ROH TV or the Bucks will appear on Impact Wrestling; this could just be for the live crowd.

Seth Rollins mentioned Kenny Omega as a potential Royal Rumble surprise in a WWE.com feature; the feature was edited shortly thereafter to exclude those references.

At an NXT live event in Florida:
- Lana defeated Kimberly Frankele, formerly Kimber Lee. Lana worked as a face. I'm curious to see if they'll book Lana that way on the main roster at some point. I'm glad she's getting work in the ring at any rate.

- Aleister Black is back using that name after being Tommy End on recent UK shows.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
Nothing to add to 1.

2. I assume it would have just been a clustermess that allowed Mae to pin Stephanie after the rest of the women interfered on her behalf. I wouldn't have expected her to take any serious bumps.

3. One thing we haven't gotten to factor in much yet is debuts. In the first brand split, John Cena spent three years climbing up the ladder on Smackdown before moving to Raw and having a whole new slate of opponents. He didn't have to worry about being overshadowed as much by people they were pushing on Raw, notably Batista and Orton. When we finally did get Cena vs. Batista and Cena vs. Orton, it meant something because they had all had success and never faced off before. Similarly, now we're getting to see some people get more screen time than they would have otherwise. Alexa Bliss doesn't have to compete with Charlotte and Nia for the top heel spot, for instance.

4. What we got was pretty good. No complaints.

5. Each summer, they should have a few people switch sides. Once the Mania rematches are done, they can move people around and set things up for Summerslam. For instance, I'd move either Charlotte or Sasha to Smackdown given how much they've fought already. That way, one of them will have a whole new batch of opponents and those opponents will all have an established, talented act to do fresh things with. Additionally, names who are just kind of lost in the shuffle could get another chance to break out on the other show.

More wrestling tomorrow.