Impact cancels UK party, WWE names at another comic convention, New Day update, Orton missing time, Corgan on Anthem vs. Hardys, Smackdown audience, big women's gimmick match in the works?, Tanahashi+Emma injury updates, Backlash attendance note, and Questions on Orton's indie rant, Great Balls Of Fire, why Otunga does commentary, Mathews vs. Borash, GFW titles on Impact, and who's in charge at Impact

Impact canceled its viewing party in Manchester following the recent bombing in the city: Tweet 1 Tweet 2 Tweet 3. Very unfortunate the festivities are called off, but obviously the city has much more important priorities right now.

The Hardys, Bray Wyatt, Enzo Amore, Big Cass, and Alexa Bliss are all set for Wizard World Philadelphia. Cool to see WWE get that kind of exposure.

New Day was present at Tuesday's Smackdown taping, appearing on Talking Smack.

Randy Orton is not advertised for the next two weeks of live events, so it looks like he'll be getting some time off. It's possible he asked to drop the title to get some time to rest, but I don't think that would have been the sole factor in pushing Jinder.

Billy Corgan discussed the Anthem/Hardys issues and more:
- Corgan working with the two sides is nice, since he worked with the Hardys on the "Broken Universe."

- Oh, yeah. The Hardys situation has overshadowed pretty much everything Anthem has done to try to revitalize the Impact brand.

- I do think there's point to be made about giving credit to the "sweat of the brow" of how much work the Hardy side put into the creation of the Broken Universe.

- I'd like to see the Hardys get to use the Broken stuff, but I think Anthem/Impact should be able to get royalties from it.

- The Bully Ray situation is pretty interesting. I assume he learned his lesson with losing the Dudley names to WWE, and decided to get ahead of things with copyrighting things himself, where Impact just got to make use of the character for a time.

- The Hardys/Impact split was definitely not an ideal situation.

- This could get really problematic from a legal standpoint, costing a lot of time and money when everyone involved could be focusing on putting on quality wrestling.

- So, Impact could have actually gone bankrupt had Anthem not stepped in. Wow.

- If Anthem wanted to get really, really petty, they could have other wrestlers work as "Brother Nero" and "Broken Matt." I don't think it would go over well with anyone, though.

- I'm very interested to see what plans Corgan has for "the new NWA." I hope it's different from ROH, and everything else from the "indies."

Smackdown drew 2.33 million viewers, presumably getting a boost from Jinder's title win and Backlash as a whole.

A women's Money In The Bank match has been pitched for Smackdown's upcoming PPV. The idea had been floated for last year's show, too. I don't know if they have a deep enough roster for that, unless they put the champion in it as well. Just because Naomi holds the title now, they might need to use MITB some other time in the next 12 months!

Hiroshi Tanahashi is expected to return from his biceps rupture for the June 11 NJPW show. Not having surgery is brave, but I don't know how wise it is for his long-term health.

Emma should only miss a few more weeks from the ring. That's a relief. I hope she has good things ahead of her after all the false starts.

Backlash drew 9,800 fans, not quite selling out the venue. WWE always does really well in Chicago.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. HAHAHAA. Orton's been paying dues for 17 years and has more than 2,000 matches to his name. He was recently world champion for the top promotion on the planet. If anyone "gets" the business, it's him. The arrogant, disrespectful ones are the guys flipping around to get ****+ from Meltzer thinking five years working in front of the same 400 people makes them knowledgeable veterans.

2. I'm guessing that song brings him the feelings of excitement and energy he wants families to experience at WWE events. I'd love to hear the reaction of people in the room when he pitched it.

3. I'm guessing it's because Otunga has more of a connection to the casual mainstream audience than one of those rasslin' commentators.

4. The heel didn't honor his side of the deal. What a dastardly deed! Presumably Karen or someone will step in and make Josh leave the desk for real if he loses at Slammiversary. Maybe ace attorney Joseph Park will be able to enforce that.

5. I expect the GFW titles to merge with the Impact titles at Slammiversary. At least, I hope so given the size of the roster and number of titles there are.

6. Bruce Prichard, Dutch Mantel, and Karen Jarrett are all part of "Impact Management" and can all book matches, etc. Instead of just one commissioner or whatever calling the shots, it's a team effort and any member can go out and make a ruling on behalf of that team.

More wrestling tomorrow.