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Sunday, February 26, 2017

Raw Talk returns, WWE hiring, another Finn update, interesting Angle-WWE note, new NXT signing, new wrestling special, ROH TPT Round 2 next week, and Questions on ROH's big anniversary, Silkin's role, Gabe as a booker, favorite ROH matches, Cena missing TLC '11, a Sheamus rumor, and booking Johnny K-9

Raw Talk will follow Fast Lane. They could very well be discussing Goldberg's Universal Championship win there.

WWE is looking to fill the following jobs:
- senior manager for financial planning and analysis
- broadcast studio engineer
- production assistant
-- Not everyone in WWE is there to do bodyslams! They're a big multimedia enterprise.

WWE is now selling Balor Club jackets, so Finn's return is coming up soon. They might save him for after WM33, but it's also possible he gets plugged in to replace Rollins if Seth can't compete that night.

Kurt Angle and Becky Lynch will be part of Wizard World in Cleveland. Wizard World booked them both through WWE, so Angle is back on-board in some capacity. It's possible he's just there as a WWE Hall of Famer, but they could easily put him back in the ring for a few big matches pending medical testing. Glad to see him coming home, and I hope he does have some big moments left in his wrestling career.

WWE has signed Olympic weightlifter Isabel Lahela to NXT. She's definitely got the tools necessary to make it as a wrestler. It will just be a matter of living up to her potential and adapting her skills to WWE.

Viceland is working on a series called Untold Stories in Professional Wrestling. That could be pretty interesting.

ROH will hold the semifinals of the top prospect tournament on March 4 in New York City. So, they should have a winner to that at either the 15th anniversary PPV or the TV taping the night after. It will be good for them to have a new member of the roster, and history shows we could see someone other than the winner join the ranks, too.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I'm guessing because they're going to do all their anniversary celebrations with the upcoming PPV.

2. That's a pretty sweet gig! It does look good from a public perspective to have him around.

3. Sometimes good booking is just putting talented people together and letting them do their thing! Less is more and all that.

4. In the brief time I've been watching, Dalton Castle vs. Silas Young and Steve Corino vs. BJ Whitmer immediately come to mind. Honorable mention to Hangman Page vs. Jay Briscoe. All were very physical contests that paid off a heated feud, which is the best of wrestling to me.

5. Cena said something to the effect of seeing how the fresh faces would do. This was at the height of people saying they wanted change in WWE booking. Punk, Bryan, and Ryder all walked out with gold that night.

6. I'M YER FATHER FELLLLLLAAAAAA!!!!!! Sheamus isn't missing any time for any movie role, Star Wars-related or otherwise.

7. He was well-liked and presumably his out-of-the-ring endeavors added to his credibility as a badass. Pre-publicly traded, PG wrestling was pretty wild.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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