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Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Cena toys makes a wish, WWE UK TV home restructures channels, Cena online Q&A, WWE has big social media week, JR preparing for MYC, international name to miss MYC, Raw audience, MYC preview coming, Kelly fully done with ROH, and Questions on title matches on Kickoff, Paige at Slammiversary, WWE/NXT releases, length of title reigns, and WWE losing replays

John Cena is getting a specially-designed action figure through Make-A-Wish. That's pretty cool.

WWE's UK TV partner is splitting into various other channels on July 18. That sounds like an absolute mess.

John Cena responded to fan comments online. He can be really, really funny.

WWE GBOF, Raw, and Smackdown were in the top ten socially-active events this week. So, they got a lot of people online talking this week. I hope that means good things for them.

Jim Ross has spent time at the WWE Performance Center preparing to call the Mae Young Classic. I'm glad he's familiarizing himself with the new workers. He's got a LOT of wrestlers' backgrounds to try to get over in the course of the tourney.

Nixon Newell will miss the MYC due to an ACL injury. She had not been officially announced for the event, but that would have been the perfect place to use her for the first time. So, she'll probably show up on NXT at a later date.

Raw drew 3.01 million viewers Monday, something of a boost from weaker numbers post-WM33.

The Mae Young Classic will get a parade of champions on July 13 on WWE's Facebook and YouTube to introduce all the competitors in the tournament. I look forward to seeing who all will be involved.

Kelly Kelly has left ROH in order to focus on NJPW and other opportunities. This wasn't entirely unexpected with him already cutting back on ROH dates and working more with NJPW. As NJPW expands further into the U.S., I think it's a real possibility more ROH personnel decide they'd rather be part of that emerging entity. Of course, some names are going to try to work for both, but if NJPW continues to grow their presence in the U.S., they might be the more appealing option for some workers.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. It means WWE trusts you to warm the live crowd up and potentially drive people to watch Kickoff to see your match. Someone has to start the night off, and they want people to check out Kickoff as well as the main show. Plus, not nearly as many people watch 205 Live as Raw.

2. I'm sure WWE's not thrilled at the reports of Paige attending those events. It's not like the two sides are on great terms as it is! WWE has the big Paige movie coming up, they don't want her to go wrestle elsewhere, and she's technically still injured, so apparently they're willing to give her a lot of leeway.

3. So far, Fish has just had the one appearance for WWE. There's been no word of him signing, although a lot of people expect him and Kyle O'Reilly to do so. I think we could definitely see names cut from the Performance Center, as we periodically do, but they usually only do "spring cleaning" of main roster talent to cut expenses these days.

4. It definitely has to do with when it aired on TV. As far as WWE's concerned, the title changes didn't "happen" until they were shown on TV.

5. We'll see if any further replays are announced, although my hunch is they want more people to watch the shows as they air.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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