Total Pageviews

Sunday, May 28, 2017

Jinder press, Impact in India press, new WWE trademarks, live event note correction, and Questions on Floslam's woes, WWE promotional planning, meeting wrestlers at events, Corny breaking bread with Bischoff, and GLOW's creator in the WWE Hall

YouTube star Lilly Singh commented on Jinder Mahal's WWE Championship win. It's a very big moment for diversity in wrestling.

Impact got press in India for its upcoming tapings. I'm very interested to see how those go.

WWE has applied to trademark "WWE Rockstars," believed to be in relation to Shinsuke Nakamura. He's already got a number of new nicknames unrelated to strong style. That makes sense, because WWE is trying to get him over with the sports entertainment fans. He's already over with the fans who know him for his work in Japan.

- WWE has also applied to trademark the name Bruiserweight for Pete Dunne. That's good news for his future there.

In a correction to a previous report, Heath Slater was in his team's corner as part of Raw's live events this weekend.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. It's very difficult for anyone to have a service at the level of WWE Network, given all the money and resources WWE can put into such an endeavor. Especially for an upstart in the early going. It's going to be tough for anyone to compete with WWE in that kind of environment.

2. As alluded to in the previous answer, WWE is a big entertainment corporation and is going to have things in place as soon as they can. They didn't get where they are by being haphazard.

3. Pretty much what they said. The best bet for all involved is meeting them at a time where they're advertised for a fan event. Sometimes you'll catch talent at the airport or something, but remember they're as likely to be jetlagged or otherwise not in the mood to meet a bunch of strangers as anyone else would be.

4. As far as I know, they were able to get along. Both men were in town to honor good friends of theirs, so I think they were able to be cordial. It's also important to keep in mind it's been a long time since WCW went under; I'd like to think they'd be able to have dinner together without Michael Hayes having to keep the peace or whatever.

5. If the new show is a hit and/or WWE buys the GLOW video library for the Network, I can see it happening. Otherwise, I don't know of any interest.

More wrestling tomorrow.

No comments:

Post a Comment