Interviews with Flair/Cena/Goldberg, fallout from Flosports suing WWN, new Network collection, big honor for Konnor, The Funker vs. The King, No Mercy Kickoff match, Raw live event notes, and Questions on Thunder coming to the Network, Impact names working in Canada, ROH's interest in Bryan, Adam Pearce, and Starrcade on the Network

Ric Flair discussed his time in the hospital and more. He went through an incredibly scary ordeal. Alcohol abuse can be really dangerous. I am glad he's out of the hospital; I hope this is the last time he has to deal with something like this.

WWN released a response to the FloSports lawsuit, basically burying FloSports. "Fake news! Failing FloSports! Sad!" I mean, I certainly didn't expect them to say they're guilty!

- PWInsider has a big piece on the lawsuit. It definitely has big implications for the future of WWN as it relates to being associated with WWE.

- WWN is alleging breach of contract by Flosports, citing lack of payment for events from July on. So, WWN is on the hook for a lot of expenses from all the shows they've been putting on in the last few months.

- Flosports' contract with WWN has an option to end the agreement set for near the end of 2018. Some believe Flosports' lawsuit is an effort to get out of that contract or get WWN to take a lesser deal. As has been said previously, Flosports has sunk a lot of money into their wrestling service, and alleges WWN has misled them in a way that cost Flosports hundreds of thousands of dollars.

- WWN's defense is that when negotiating with Flosports, they were moving from one website hosting service to another, as the previous company went out of business and deleted their servers. So, WWN had some difficulty getting relevant information to Flosports.

- WWN claims they weren't aware of any problems with Flosports until they were informed the lawsuit had been filed.

John Cena appeared on Edge and Christian's podcast, confirming he's not going to work a full-time schedule in his forties. He's definitely earned a selective schedule after so many years on the road. Cena has wrestled more than 2100 (!) matches for WWE.

Flosports pulled plans to air this weekend's EVOLVE events, and informed Flosports employees not to go to the shows. This might be the end of WWN content on the service.

- EVOLVE booker Gabe Sapolsky responded to this decision. The worst part of this is that wrestlers and wrestling fans caught in the crossfire of the dispute, and there's not much they can really do to affect its outcome.

- WWN indicates Flosports initially wanted to continue featuring WWN content, but then made the decision to pull this weekend's EVOLVE shows from the service.

- WWN decided to air the EVOLVE events on their website, with Flosports subscribers getting a discount. That might become a regular thing going forward.

- Flosports has officially announced they will no longer feature upcoming WWN events. With HOH also gone from the service, they're going to be really starved for new content. I expect they'll be seeing a lot of cancellations of accounts as a result of this.

WWE Network has launched a Bobby Heenan collection. They completely skipped his WCW days! 

Konnor celebrated the birth of his first son. That's a really big milestone for him.

Terry Funk promoted an upcoming six-man tag with Jerry Lawler. There's only one Funker.

Goldberg is willing to get back in the ring for WWE. He's theoretically owed a rematch from WM33 if they want to go that route. I'd be open to it if it puts over someone like Braun or Roman.

Apollo Crews vs. Elias will take place on Kickoff before No Mercy. So, no title matches were bumped for the show this time. That's a mixed bag, since more people would likely watch a show if a title's on the line.

At a Raw live event in California:
- Darren Young teamed with Dash Wilder and Curt Hawkins to lose to Goldust, Rhyno, and Heath Slater. So, he's temporarily a heel while Dawson is injured. I wouldn't assume that will stick when he returns to TV; they just needed a heel on the card more than they needed a face. Goldust is officially a face again, too.

- Alexa Bliss retained her championship against Sasha Banks, Bayley, and Mickie James. Curiously, no Emma or Nia Jax there.

- Matt Hardy beat Karl Anderson in a singles match. No Jeff or Gallows. I wouldn't have pictured those two teams not being at No Mercy. WWE has a lot of talented people to put on the show when they can afford to not use those duos.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. They only have the resources to upload so much content at once. So, they focus on one batch at a time.

2. I imagine a good number of them already have such paperwork, but, yes, as far as I know, they'll need visas to work there.

3. No, because he was just expressing interest to work with Bryan. Unless he tries to enter in negotiations with Bryan while Daniel is still under contract to WWE, he's in the clear.

4. The two have actually met in the ring a number of times, so Pearce knows what Kevin's capable of.

5. I expect it to be given all the hype it's gotten.

More wrestling tomorrow.