Main Event Reax - 5/5/17, Alicia milestone, Interviews with Titus/Koff, more on WOS postponement, women's tournament dates likely set, Impact audience, Impact trademarking Broken IP, WWE trademarks, New Day in India, NXT title design notes, and Questions on 10 counts vs. 20 counts, the Broken Hardys in WWE, eating well on the road, and Tony Chimel

-- Main Event:
- Gulak promo:
Intentionally getting a town's name wrong is always a great heel move. 

- Gulak vs. Dorado:
I'm getting burned out on 205 Live. The matches are good, but because we see the same people so often, it's not special anymore.

I'm liking the action so far. They're playing a good game of agility vs. technique.

Fine work so far.

I'm liking the submissions.

Heck, I'm liking the flips, too.

WHOA. I'm surprised he got a tapout win.

- Axel vs. Hawkins:
I'm glad to see new matchups on this show.

Axel's a pretty good "soldier" to have matches at this level.

Hawkins is fine as a guy to work some basic action like this.

Axel can be a solid worker. I wouldn't mind him being part of a team again or something.

Not bad at all.

Alicia Fox celebrated 11 years in WWE. That's really impressive. Glad she's done so well there.

Titus O'Neil talked to USA Today. He's got a lot of good things going his way. I could see him staying with WWE for a good while like Goldust and R-Truth.

Fight Network, owned by Anthem, is reporting WOS tapings were postponed due to logistical issues related to Impact filming things in India around the same time. Basically Anthem's crew would be busy in the UK and India during the same week and they presumably don't want to to do that kind of thing. WWE has a much bigger staff and a lot more experience, so it's not a problem for them. Notably, Anthem will have the ability to shop the show outside of the UK. That could be good for the project's lasting power.

- Of course, previous outside reports are citing issues about how much money Anthem and ITV respectively will put into the venture as why tapings aren't happening. It could easily be a mix of the reasons.

Joe Koff talked ROH vs. WWE and more:
- Really?? Koff would rather have "good wrestling" than make hundreds of millions of dollars??? Is Sinclair OK with that philosophy?

- Dude. ROH is in the same business as WWE. They're absolutely competitors.

- Well, no one's paying ROH to do a weekly three-hour TV show and another two-hour one, so it's kind of a moot point.

- ROH could use some more discipline with its matches so there aren't SO many people doing superkicks and dives. Some of that falls on the bookers, though.

- Again, there's not the demand for ROH to have the schedule WWE has. They're a pretty niche product. Although I suppose it's fair to say there's demand for a lot of those stars to work a fuller schedule with dates from other promotions.

- Yeah, there's still the grind when you're an indie wrestler, but you can get time off more easily when you book your own dates.

WWE's women tournament is expected to begin taping in July and conclude with a live special at the end of August, with a total of between eight and ten episodes. It will likely be taped at Full Sail Live and be added to the Network a few episodes at a time as opposed to being a weekly series like the cruiserweight classic was. As with that event, there's a big focus on international talents competing. WWE and NXT could use more female talents, and this could very well lead to more names hired for spots on Raw, Smackdown, and the WWE Performance Center.

Impact Wrestling drew 260,000 viewers Thursday. With only getting 255,000 last week, that's a disappointing one-two punch for their new approach. They've really got their work cut out for them in not fading away and being classified as OBSOLETE in the wrestling world. We'll see what Pop thinks of those numbers when it's time to see if they'll pick the show up for 2018.

Impact has filed trademarks for "Broken Matt," "Brother Nero," "Broken Brilliance," and "Vanguard 1." With the Hardys first using those ideas on Impact shows, Impact might have a legal right to all of them. Hopefully WWE can just cut them a check and tell them to piss off so everyone involved can move on to other things.

WWE has trademarked the names HoHo Lun, Tyler Bate, Mustafa Ali, and TJP, in addition to "The Maharajah" for Jinder Mahal.

Kofi Kingston and Big E will promote WWE in India from May 10th through May 12th. I expect more Indian signings going forward. We could very well see an Indian worker in the women's tournament.

NXT might be using their previous championship designs on live events in order to sell the remaining replicas of them at those shows. The new designs don't have replicas available for sale yet.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. The count is "at the referee's discretion," and they can stretch it out to give more leeway or speed it up if a star's actions are illegal.

2. The narrative is that WWE is building up to the Hardys going full-on Broken because they think it will sell a lot of merchandise. As for a "lawsuit," it was actually just cease-and-desist letters. No lawsuit at this time, and it's expected everyone will come to an agreement to where the Hardys can do pretty much what they did in Impact. And I don't see the Hardys being upset as long as they get to do some fun stuff themselves. If they can't be Broken for some reason, they're still having a pretty good nostalgia run to presumably write a final chapter of their wrestling careers.

3. As was said, once you're outside of the events, you're on your own. There aren't a ton of options in some town for the hours they have available to eat, etc.

4. It's a cosmetic business at times. A lot of aspects of life are these days.

5. ECW is very close to Mike's heart, so all involved are willing to let him do those shows as long as he gets all his PWInsider duties done, too.

More wrestling tomorrow.