Jerry Lee Lewis' attorney talked to WWE regarding the Great Balls of Fire PPV. Apparently WWE didn't clear using that name with Lewis, who owns the rights to the song and its title. However, the two sides talked it over and the show will go on as planned.
WWE addressed talents on cybersecurity at Raw and Smackdown after the recent wave of leaked material, including amending their social media policies. Hopefully those in attendance will be more careful in the future given the relative ease of making private material public in 2017.
Mick Foley discussed Cactus Jack. Dude Love is always neglected.
Seth Rollins talked to promote WWE's upcoming Singapore show. Notice WWE has deliberately called it a kendo stick lately. I don't think this is a coincidence.
Smackdown drew 2.35 million viewers Tuesday, even with last week's edition.
John Cena discussed WM33 and more:
- Those promos were AMAZING because they played off real emotions people had.
- I think a lot of talents want to play it really safe and be on Management's good side. That probably plays more into it than not wanting to offend Cena.
- Cena does work really hard, but sometimes he's not given much to work with.
- The "burying" thing is so stupid. You can pretty much only go down the card from a John Cena feud; that's not any indication of Cena playing politics or whatever.
- WWE wants everyone to play it really safe and be squeaky clean. Only a few people will risk crossing lines like Cena and Miz did.
WWE asked for feedback on the following DVD possibilities:
- Unreleased Shawn Michaels matches
- Unreleased Warrior matches
- Unreleased Randy Savage matches
- The best of Shotgun Saturday Night
- The best of Trish Stratus
- The best of Andre the Giant
- The best of Rick Rude
- The best of Bruno Sammartino
- The Wyatt Family <------- I'd love to see this one, especially if they do a lot of vignettes
- Bayley
- Sasha Banks
- Women's revolution
- NXT's greatest matches, volume 2
- Takeover specials
-- I'd think certain options doing well would bode well for their WWE futures.
Lilian Garcia made a surprise appearance at an NXT live event in the UK to sing their national anthem. That's pretty cool. I hope she's doing well.
More on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I wouldn't hold my breath for a clean win by Joe at GBOF. I doubt he wins the title then, either. Summerslam in Brooklyn would definitely be a big night to have Joe win it, but that would be a big shakeup. I assume Roman going over Brock for the title is still the plan at Mania, and Brock being champion for a year would give Roman a BIG rub to follow beating Taker. I personally think it's worth a shot to have Joe be champion and the full-timers go after the title; they can always change things back to Brock at either Survivor Series or the Rumble. We'll see if Vince agrees. If Joe does win and ratings tank, I hope Vince has a big backup plan because that would be another sign HHH's direction isn't a hit with the TV audience.
2.a. To build frustration between Titus and Crews before the two sides face off at some point. It looks like Tozawa could be involved in the feud, too.
b. So Dolph losing the big one all the time is bad, but him getting an important win is also bad apparently. This is the problem with pushing so many IWC favorites. Someone has to do the job, and that's going to be seen as a burial. I thought it made sense to shake things up with Ziggler winning, but no way should he be pushed as AJ's level long-term.
3. God forbid the people in the match actually try to win the match when they can just do a bunch of moves! Jesus. And it was explicitly stated the only way to win was to go over the top.
Nothing to add to 4.
5. Pro Wrestling Tees is working on it. I imagine they're harder to make than printing T-shirts.
More wrestling tomorrow.
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