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Friday, April 28, 2017

Y2J-Fozzy notes, Smackdown airing in Southeast Asia, Interview with Miz, Bollywood Boyz renamed, Impact preview, Impact backstage update, Impact from India?, more on upcoming Impact tour, who wasn't at Impact this past week, NXT releases, Vince biopic script pitches, even more WotW matches announced, Rock profiled, Ryder return update, WoS tapings postponed, and Questions on Kevin Kelly's status, Khali in the Hall, live events on the Network, and two-out-of-three fall matches

Chris Jericho's Fozzy has tour dates set for most of May and some shows in June. We'll see what happens as far his WWE status outside of those shows; he currently isn't advertised for any WWE shows past Monday's Raw.

Smackdown will air in the Philippines beginning this week, thanks to a new WWE deal. That's good. WWE will want to expand there in the years to come.

The Miz talked to promote his WWE movie being out on DVD. Cool to see so many WWE names in it.

The Bollywood Boyz are now going by Sunil Singh (Gurv) and Samir Singh (Harv). They're getting a pretty big opportunity in making it through the NXT/205 Live level so quickly.

Advertised for next week's Impact Wrestling:
- Christina Von Eerie vs. Sienna for the GFW Women's Championship
- Eddie Edwards vs. Matt Sydal
- Alberto El Patron vs. Magnus for the GFW Championship
-- I expect Impact is going to merge the GFW titles with their own titles at Slammiversary, but in the meantime they're making use of them on TV.

The Impact issues between the Jarretts and Bob Ryder have been settled. Hopefully everyone works together going forward.

Impact will tape in India on May 30 and 31. These could be shows on the road to Slammiversary or just One Night Only content. We'll see. It will be good to have a change of venue at any rate.

Impact is expected to tour the U.S. east coast when they go on the road for live events. They have plans to eventually do shows in Canada in the UK, but they'll do some shows stateside first to test the waters.

Eddie Kingston, MJ Jenkins, and Aiden O'Shea were not at Impact's most recent tapings, so they might be totally out of the picture going forward. I expected Jenkins was just a special guest anyway. I'm a little more surprised about Kingston, since he had tried out for WWE before signing to Impact. 

NXT has released Chris Atkins and Theophilus Agbi. Agbi had never been on TV, nor do I recall him being on live events. Atkins hadn't really done much. I assume NXT is somewhat cleaning house for some new signings. It happens in sports when people just aren't working out for whatever reason and management wants to take chances on some fresh names instead.

The Vince McMahon biopic script has been passed around. PWInsider has a big piece on it that has to be read to believed. That sounds absolutely INSANE. No way would WWE greenlight that in the PG/family-friendly era, but it's really interesting to see what the pitches have been. I expect we'll get something a lot tamer with Vince looking like the big hero, which should be pretty fun in of itself.

More matches have been announced for War of the Worlds week:
- May 7:
-- Cody Rhodes vs. Will Ospreay
-- Tetsuya Naito and BUSHI vs. Matt Taven and Vinny Marseglia

- May 10:
-- War Machine vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi and Jay Lethal
-- KUSHIDA vs. Silas Young

- May 12:
-- The Young Bucks vs. Tetsuya Naito and BUSHI
-- Bully Ray and The Briscoes vs. Roppongi Vice and Hirooki Goto

--- ROH shows are definitely much bigger/more stacked when NJPW is involved.

The Rock was profiled by National Review. Cool to see him be so successful after so much hard work.

Zack Ryder is back in the ring training to return. I'm curious to see what him coming back will mean for Mojo. The two of them could have an interesting feud if they wanted to turn Zack heel for some reason.

World of Sport TV tapings have been postponed due to logistical issues. No word on new dates at this time. We'll see what that means for the potential revived UK TV show/promotion.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. Kelly still does commentary in ROH when it doesn't conflict with NJPW commitments.

2. I think so. WWE is really big in India and they're trying to expand there even further, as you see with the sudden push of Jinder and the Singh brothers. The Singhs went from being "not ready for 205 Live" to being part of a WWE Title feud. That's pretty impressive.

Nothing to add to 3. Weird that there's so much interest in him lately.

4. I don't think they're going to put full live events on the Network anytime soon, but I could see them doing some kind of special with moments from live events like they did with the "after the show" DVD.

5. I'm betting a lot of NWA matches were over in two straight falls.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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