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Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Impact meetings?, Impact-UK relationship going well, new Network show in the works, Interviews with Club/Sheamus/Stephanie/Austin, WM33 DVD drops, Corgan talks to NWA affiliates, Emma sent home for testing, Raw audience, Vince plugs Batista, Braun update, and Questions on the Demon King returning, why ROH sold to Sinclair, the House of Horrors, psychoanalyzing Steph, and Impact vs. the Internet

Jeff Jarrett is headed to Los Angeles for meetings presumably related to Impact Wrestling. He's definitely putting in a lot of effort to rehabilitate the company.

Impact and Spike UK are very happy with how the show is performing there. Hopefully the brand can continue getting TV revenue and staying alive so wrestlers will be able to make money there.

R-Truth will be hosting a game show on WWE Network in either late summer or early fall. That could be part of why he and Goldust are suddenly getting more TV time. I can easily see both men moving into ambassador roles once they're done taking bumps, and this would be in line with that. A any rate, this could be a pretty fun project.

The Club talked to Sam Roberts. Southpaw Regional Wrestling was much more entertaining than they've been on WWE TV as generic tough guys.

Sheamus talked about teaming with Cesaro and more. Pairing them up was the right move to end the seven-match series.

Stephanie McMahon was on a UK morning show. She's going to be a prominent face in WWE for the foreseeable future.

Wrestlemania 33 is now available on DVD and Blu-Ray. It's going to be remembered as a big night for the business.

Stone Cold Steve Austin gave a long interview. Here are highlights:
- Oh, yeah. Roman's going to do pretty well for himself if they don't try to appease the people who are going to complain about EVERYTHING.

- See, the Attitude Era roster was made of a lot of people who had spent significant time in WCW, ECW, etc. Also, everything came together in the perfect storm as far as the right writers and commentators and everyone hitting their stride at once.

- It's definitely a different mentality being a regular part of the business vs. having a life not built around getting in the ring four times a week.

- Communication is definitely very important, but I can see how Steve got so burned out that he just left.

- Great advice from Vader.

- I'd love to see him do some stuff at the performance center.

- Imagine Austin having to do some of the stuff they've had Ambrose do or Reigns say.

- Wow. Who would have thought Austin would have been shy given his WWE charatcer?

- I liked the "I'm THE guy" thing.

- Roman vs. Braun was GREAT!

- Cool that Bischoff and Austin get along well now.

Billy Corgan recently held a conference call with NWA promoters as he looks to finalize the purchase of the company. I look forward to seeing what he can do with the once-prominent promotion. I mean, they can pretty much only grow from where they are now.

Emma was sent to the U.S. for medical testing after being injured on the ongoing European tour. I hope she doesn't miss much time and is able to finally get some momentum going on Raw.

Raw drew 2.70 million viewers for a taped show. Of course this is being used to take shots at WWE Creative even though taped international shows ALWAYS see drops in viewership as people read spoilers.

Vince McMahon put Batista over on Twitter. You know they'd love to have him back. I'd watch the hell out of Brock vs. Batista, but I don't know if Dave would want to work with WWE again.

With Braun Strowman out of action, Bray Wyatt is being advertised to face Roman Reigns at Raw's July 7 live event in Madison Square Garden. It will be interesting to see what they do with Finn in that case. It's a shame Braun will miss time, but he should still be able to work Summerslam. I'm curious to see what that will mean for the Universal Title picture.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. Finn isn't top contender because he's tied up with Bray. He's got to deal with Wyatt first! And yes, the Demon vs. the Eater of Worlds makes perfect sense. I can only imagine what WWE will cook up for that battle.

2. Both of those. Their goal is to make money and put on a product a lot of eyeballs can come across. With Sinclair's purchase of Tribune Media, it might turn out to be a really big step up for the company. Heck, just getting on Destination America for six months was a big platform for ROH. No matter what we think of the booking, Sinclair is looking to expose ROH to a bigger audience and that's good news for wrestling fans.

3. That kind of thing isn't for everyone, just like 30 minutes of superkicks, dives, and finisher kickouts isn't for everyone. I will say it seemed pretty campy in places, but it seemed to be intentionally playing off the Broken Universe in that regard.

4. A lot of times superiority complexes are rooted in insecurities. It's POSSIBLE she feels like she's in her dad's and husband's shadows, so she puts on a confident facade to show she can make it in the "man's world" of WWE.

5. I think they feel like they have to fight back against all the negative coverage they get and accusations of incompetence. They're hardly the only ones doing that these days.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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