WWE announced a multi-year TV contract in Portugal, which will include Portuguese commentary in the market for full and abridged versions of Raw and Smackdown starting next week. WWE's international TV deals are important drivers of revenue.
ROH will return to Philadelphia on December 16 for the post-Final Battle TV taping. I'm interested to see what big events go down that weekend.
ESPN's Ric Flair documentary will air November 7. That should be wild.
KM will be on CBS sitcom "Kevin Can Wait" next week. That's pretty big exposure for him.
Charlotte Flair was on Lilian Garcia's podcast, discussing previous relationships and more. I'm glad she's in a good place now and has become successful.
Alexa Bliss promoted joining "Total Divas." I'm glad she's using her stage to be a role model for such a serious issue.
The Miz and Maryse's proposed WWE reality show is currently called "The It Couple" and will include Ryan Cabrera. That could be pretty cool.
WWE has trademarked the term "Immune to Fear," presumably for Jeff Hardy merchandise.
Raven has been deposed in the ongoing lawsuit against WWE for royalties.
WWE Network's collections for November will feature Bret Hart vs. Shawn Michaels (of course), AJ Styles, and Ric Flair.
WWE is considering a Mid-Atlantic TV section to the vault as they continue to go through their archives.
Kevin Owens' wife thanked fans for their recent support. I hope everything is resolved now.
Bobby Roode vs. Dolph Ziggler was originally set for this week's Smackdown, but the match was pushed back to next week in a two-out-of-three falls encounter. That could get plenty of time next week.
Raw drew 2.95 million viewers Monday night, so they got a pretty good boost after TLC.
Dolph Ziggler fired back at "experts" complaining about the siege angle on Raw. Even though Dolph and Bobby aren't friends, they were willing to stay out of each other's way in order to get the jump on Raw. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" is literally thousands of years old, but some people will do anything to try to look smarter than Vince.
AJ Lee talked about leaving WWE, bipolar disorder, and more. It's a shame she's no longer part of wrestling, although I definitely see why she isn't.
For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. Uggggggghhhhhhhhhhh. Just because one side wants to beat the other, that doesn't mean they're not going to have any business relationship. Maybe Smackdown pays Raw for air time/promotion and vice versa? And they are both in the same company, so it makes sense that just because one side wants to succeed, they want the other show to succeed, too (just not as much as their own show, of course). As for AJ appearing on Raw, Kurt worked something out with Shane. Maybe he paid Shane a ton of money to get AJ to appear or something? Sheesh. They shouldn't have to spell every little thing out for fans.
1. Uggggggghhhhhhhhhhh. Just because one side wants to beat the other, that doesn't mean they're not going to have any business relationship. Maybe Smackdown pays Raw for air time/promotion and vice versa? And they are both in the same company, so it makes sense that just because one side wants to succeed, they want the other show to succeed, too (just not as much as their own show, of course). As for AJ appearing on Raw, Kurt worked something out with Shane. Maybe he paid Shane a ton of money to get AJ to appear or something? Sheesh. They shouldn't have to spell every little thing out for fans.
2. No way would they take breaks like other shows do. That would mean a lot of lost revenue. I suppose they do have "seasons" in a sense with big shows like Mania being the season finale, but I don't see them going the part-time schedule route unless they get a better offer to do that than to go every week, which seems like an unlikely option.
3. It wouldn't shock me if Karl and Luke came up with some of that stuff themselves. A lot of their success in NJPW was due to being two big American-style workers. That was unique there, but is cliche in WWE. They're not big enough to be at the Kane or Braun level, and they don't otherwise stand out enough to be invaluable players. Furthermore, a Club of two people just doesn't work. If they were being led by AJ or Finn or someone, they might be able to make something happen, but I definitely don't think WWE is missing the boat on them.
4. Umm, fans weren't watching highlights on YouTube 15 years ago because there wasn't YouTube 15 years ago. There's access to so much more content than there was in the VHS/DVD days. If you wanted to watch Japanese wrestling in 1999, you needed a friend with access to tapes of the events in question. In 2017, you can watch it live online. I absolutely think being able to watch thousands of hours of other footage on WWE Network hurts getting people to sit and watch a three-hour episode of Raw they can keep track of on Twitter.
5. People who are booing Roman are going to boo him as long as he's "Vince's guy," because even though they're at a WWE event watching WWE superstars, they're way too cool to actually LIKE WWE.
More wrestling tomorrow.
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