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Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Raw attendance note, UK promotions at AXXESS, Vince has accident, TV title match set for SCOH, DDP inductor, Interview with Charlotte, Raw audience, Broken Matt on Impact issues, Mauro note, WWE scouting in Dubai, more WWE 24 coming, WWE legends merch coming, Impact execs globetrotting, Impact drops teaser, new Raw PPV set, and Questions on Janettys, booking AJ and Owens, Impact authority figures, turning Seth and Y2J, and a new women's wrestling promotion

Monday's Raw was a legitimate sellout. Brooklyn is always a hot market for WWE.

WM33 AXXESS will feature superstars from PROGRESS and Scotland's Insane Championship Wrestling in action alongside names from the UK tournament, NXT, and 205 Live. That's huge! Big opportunity for all the talents involved ahead of PROGRESS and ICW's shows presumably beginning to air on WWE Network soon.

-  Jimmy Havoc, TK Cooper, Travis Banks, Dahlia Black, Toni Storm, and Jinny will all be debuting in a WWE ring at the event.

- The Vaudevillains and The Ascension will also be working AXXESS as well, which should tell you about where they stand on the WWE hierarchy right now. Damn. They might as well head back to NXT at this point.

Vince McMahon had a minor traffic accident involving another car Tuesday close to WWE headquarters. He was up and walking around afterward, so it thankfully wasn't bad. I know a lot of people want change in WWE, but it would be absolutely devastating to lose him in such a fashion.

- There were no injuries involved on either side, which is good.

Marty Scurll vs. Adam Cole for the ROH TV Championship has been added to Supercard of Honor. Wow, Cole got demoted. I wonder if they're just biding time until he decides to head to WWE this summer.

Eric Bischoff (!!!) will be inducting Diamond Dallas Page into the WWE Hall of Fame. Not Cornette level of surprising, but still something a little out of the ordinary considering how long it's been since he worked with WWE and the fact he was competing against them via Impact not that long ago. Bischoff should go into the hall himself someday.

Charlotte Flair gave a big interview discussing a potential match with Ronda Rousey and more. I'm very glad she's doing so well after the careers of David and Reid.

Raw drew 3.05 million viewers Monday, a drop of about 200,000 from the previous week. Not a strong number going into Wrestlemania. WWE's got its work cut out for it in getting big numbers with no Brock, Goldberg, or Taker around.

Matt Hardy commented on his issues with Impact Wrestling regarding ownership of the work he did there.

Mauro Ranallo missed Tuesday's Smackdown taping, reportedly due to illness. I hope things are OK with him.

WWE will scout talent in the United Arab Emirates at the end of the month. Man, Triple H has some really busy weeks ahead. I hope they continue to select a talented, diverse roster.

WWE 24 will have episodes with Goldberg, Kurt Angle, and Finn Balor soon. Those are three important names for the weeks ahead.

WWE now has a partnership with Puma and Footlocker for a WWE Legends shoe collection and some shirts as well. Stone Cold, Ultimate Warrior, Randy Savage, Ric Flair, Andre the Giant, and Undertaker will all be in the first set of designs. That's all pretty cool!

Top Impact officials headed to India to meet with their TV partner there ahead of what they'll be taping in May. I don't think they'll be taping episodes of Impact; instead the plan seems to be to use Impact talent and local talent in a new "Ring Ka King" style event.

Jeff Jarrett is headed to the UK this weekend as part of Impact-related business. We could see more European talents on Impact in the months to come.

Impact teased something for their April 6 show. There are even more talents debuting and returning in the coming weeks.

Raw will have the Bad Blood PPV on July 9 in Connecticut. There hasn't been an edition of that event in more than ten years.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. Generally people use it to mean the member of a group who's less successful once the team breaks up. Ted DiBiase, Jr. would be the Janetty of his team with Cody, for instance.

2. Umm, AJ and Owens are in two of the most featured matches on the card. And they should feel great as long as there's big pay involved. It's each man's second Wrestlemania; HHH was wrestling Goldust in a non-title match at his second Mania and Taker's second Mania match went less than seven minutes.

3. They showed Bruce in the booking committee discussing what to do with the tag team titles, and they had already established new management was in charge. The new Impact has been good so far, but as always, people's desire to be "smarks" means they criticize even when things make sense.

4. If they would have made Rollins and Jericho into goody-goody fan favorites, people would have complained. WWE can't win with some people, even when giving a less black-and-white product as people have said they've wanted.

5. I haven't seen any additional info, either. It could have been a case of them seeing how much work would be involved and either getting stalled or just changing course entirely.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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