Jeff Jarrett, Ed Nordholm, and Jeremy Borash were in Mexico on behalf of Impact (and GFW in Jeff's case) this weekend. They attended AAA's Rey De Reyes event. Hopefully that means there's no heat on Impact for working with Konnan and CRASH. And maybe it could lead to Impact being able to use LU wrestlers (outside of their LU gimmicks).
- Impact and AAA now officially have a working agreement. Impact talent will now be able to work AAA, and AAA talent will now be able to work Impact. Impact's agreement with CRASH gives them access to a lot of Mexican talent now, and we could see AAA names and CRASH names work together in Impact despite the big issues between the two Mexican companies.
Mickie James and Apollo Crews were part of an after-school fundraising event in New York.
Maryse discussed getting back in the ring at Wrestlemania 33. I wouldn't assume she'll compete regularly.
Xavier Woods was hosting at the SXSW Gaming Awards this weekend. Xavier's over outside of the wrestling world, which is good.
Kenny King will be on the next season of The Bachelorette. I wouldn't expect that to conflict with his wrestling life, but we'll see.
Jeremy Borash is now Impact's senior vice president of international relations. That's pretty important sounding. It makes sense for him to get a big role after nearly 15 years with the company.
Former WWE live event coordinator Rafael Morfi will be working with Impact when they expand their touring. He's been part of Impact for about a year now, but of course touring hasn't gotten off the ground just yet.
For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I don't know if Heyman wants to do any of that anymore. I also don't know if anyone would be willing to give him the kind of control he'd demand! I don't think he'd come in just to get whatever talents over management asks of him; he'd want final say of who gets featured, what their gimmicks are, etc. They'd have to let him more or less be the Vince McMahon of the promotion.
2. Suspension of disbelief is key here. It just has to look "real-ish." There are much bigger issues in the world than whether glass breaking looks real enough.
3. I think they could have one award for inspirational non-wrestling personalities and one for behind-the-scenes personalities. I DEFINITELY would like to see an award for backstage employees, from seamstresses to camerapeople and everything in-between.
4. WWE could say it's an angle meant for the older audience that complains about babyfaces being too goody-goody. Sometimes antiheroes do questionable things. That's a lot of Batman's appeal.
5. Shane could sign him for one match at WM33 or just completely reinstate him if he wants. Let it play out on this week's Smackdown before assuming Creative doesn't know what they're doing.
More wrestling tomorrow.
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