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Saturday, June 3, 2017

New Network collections, Impact preview, ROH title match booked, Miz gets press, Impact audience, Interviews with Jinder/Swagger, indie star pulled from bookings, and Questions on Brie's in-ring future, Jarrett pulling Anthem's strings, WWE being a monopoly, Nia as champion, and live event merchandise,

Bruno Sammartino and ladder matches are getting collections on WWE Network Monday. Kurt Angle and The Godfather will have their own collections soon, too.

Advertised for next week's Impact Wrestling:
- Gauntlet match for Sony Six Invitational Cup
- Trevor Lee vs. Braxton Sutter
- Rosemary vs. Laurel Van Ness
- Davey Richards vs. Vinaash Verma
- Low Ki vs. Caleb Konley

Young Bucks vs. Matt Taven & Vinny Marseglia for the ROH Tag Team Championship is official for ROH's June 4 event. ROH really doesn't have enough depth for two sets of tag titles, but it is what it is.

The Miz was put over by USA Today. He's only 36, so hopefully he's still got some big runs coming his way.

Jinder Mahal was profiled by GQ. This is the kind of publicity WWE wants with the big push.

Impact Wrestling drew 287,000 viewers for Thursday's show headlined by the big EC3/Alberto El Patron cage match. I'm curious how the Indian shows will do.

Jack Swagger discussed leaving WWE and working with Zeb Colter/Dutch Mantel:
- Zeb/Alberto was disappointing. There had to have been a better association they could have done. I love Zeb/Dutch, but it just didn't fit.

- It was time for Swagger to go. There was no way he was going to be a credible top guy again after so many false starts. Now, maybe he can pull a Drew Galloway or something and come back as a new guy worth pushing.

- Oh my God imagine staying there another five years without moving on the card.

- Eventually he became one of the guys they use to get others over. It happens.

- It is all about making money, but sometimes it's time to change where you're taking bumps.

- So much to learn from Dirty Dutch.

- He's got a point about working his size. That's now what many big guys want to do nowadays.

- Zeb's Tea Party gimmick was AMAZING. One of my favorites ever. I wish more gimmicks were that timely and authentic-sounding.

FloSports and WWNLive canceled a booking for a wrestler who was found to have associations with white nationalism. Fans flooded both sides with complaints. That could have further repercussions for his career if he doesn't drastically rehabilitate his image quickly.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I can see Brie getting another match or run, even if it's just to get a storyline for E!

2. Jeff and Nordholm are going to have a company on the pole match at Slammiversary with the Broken Hardys at ringside. It's all been a work.

I think it's predominantly Anthem's side being upset at the Hardys leaving. I definitely don't think Jeff's angling to take over, since Nordholm's the one putting so much money into the company and letting Jeff make all the moves he wants to make.

3. WWE argues they're in the entertainment industry, so their competition is everything from UFC to Disney. I don't know how it would play out in court, but I also don't think there's any serious effort to challenge them at that level.

4. It's certainly possible! Especially if she turns face/tweener and challenges Alexa. The biggest barrier is WWE wanting Alexa as Raw's top female heel. There can only be one woman in that spot at a time.

5. It could be that they only have so much space at merchandise stands, so they stick with a few big sellers. Almost everyone who could want merchandise from WWE's website would have access to it at this point. They don't necessarily need as much of a physical presence at events now.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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