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Sunday, September 10, 2017

Main Event Reax - 9/9/17, GFW musician passes away, Sasha special in NZ, Nia the model, WWE Network schedule notes, Kassius competing for UK promotion, STARDOM name working ROH, Karen thanks fans, and Questions on Rey's GFW status, working on holidays, future Network tournaments, Thunder on the Network, and the Broken Universe if WWE buys GFW

-- Main Event:
- TJP/Kendrick vs. Dorado/Mustafa:
Fine start. 

Good action as usual. 

Lots of flying around and double-teams. It's fun sometimes. 

I'm liking the teamwork.

Good work focusing on the arm.

I'm liking how everyone plays off each other here.

Pretty good action going on here.

Nice ending!

- Elias singing:
I'm glad we've got someone from NXT who's not already an established star. The roster needs lower-level people, too. 

- Kalisto vs. Elias:
I like Elias as a bully.

Kalisto outmaneuvering his bigger opponent here.

Wow. Kalisto's doing better than I expected.

Not bad! I liked how the ending came together.

James Storm remembered one of the musicians behind his theme song, who recently passed in a helicopter crash. That's very sad news.

Sasha Banks had a TV special in New Zealand. The Boss is worldwide. That said, where's Alexa's special? She's the champ more than Sasha is these days.

Nia Jax modeled in NYC recently, a callback to her previous career. I hope she's someone WWE can feature for years to come.

A MYC recap show will follow Raw on WWE Network, and there will be a marathon of the first eight episodes leading to the live finale Tuesday. 205 Live is scheduled for 10:30 that night.

Charlotte Flair will promote "Second Nature" with signings on September 21 in New Jersey, September 27 and 28 in Florida, and September 30 in Idaho. I wouldn't expect Ric to be part of those; he's not advertised at any rate.

Kassius Ohno will challenge for the ICW Championship on September 17. That's pretty cool. I wonder when we'll see more relationships with outside promotions, and of course, when they'll FINALLY announce Network tiers/ICW and PROGRESS on the Network. It looks like they've really been thrown for a loop with Network subscriptions not being what they hoped.

- WWE UK names will also be part of the show. 

STARDOM's Holidead will be part of Global Wars on October 14. That's pretty cool. I'm waiting for an WOH Title to be made, but clearly that's still on the backburner.

Karen Jarrett thanked fans for the response to Jeff taking time off from GFW. We'll see how this plays out; certainly everyone's putting on a positive face publicly.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. Rey can't officially sign anywhere until LU Season 3 ends, followed by a no-compete period of a few months. However, there was talk of LU letting him work GFW while still under that deal. From the looks of things, he's going to focus on working The Crash for now. We'll see what the future holds for GFW and The Crash with Jarrett out of the picture. Rey and Alberto were set for BFG, but with Jarrett gone, that's all up in the air.

2. That's got to be rough for the roster, although I doubt anyone consulted them before making the decision!

3. Tag teams seems like the next logical step. They could also do another market like Latin America or Asia, but those would be big investments to make. With all the budget cuts going around, any future big ordeals are likely on hold (as they should be).

4. I think the goal has been to rotate which areas of vintage content to roll out in order to appeal to different audiences. They give WCW fans a lot of content one month, then ECW fans, then WCCW, WWWF house shows, etc.

5. WWE buying GFW would include all GFW (Impact) trademarks, intellectual property, etc. The Hardys would be able to make use of everything GFW currently owns regarding their work there as long as they remained in WWE. If they were to leave WWE, the Hardys would have the same level of ownership they do now.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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