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Wednesday, October 4, 2017

WWE breast cancer campaign, Russell remembered, Interviews with Rosemary/McIntyre/Gargano/Stephanie/Bayley, Flair public appearance set, Cesaro injury shirt, Cena at DWTS, November Network collections, WWE convention appearances, Mickie honored, next KFC commercial star, EVOLVE plays off rumors, WWE signs top MYC name, more Global Wars matches, Raw audience, Raven/Bagwell change lawsuit, more Fashion Files coming, and Questions on NXT commercial breaks, Rock/Rousey vs. HHH/Stephanie, Khali's whereabouts, Reigns turning on Dean & Seth, and Enzo's booking

WWE is teaming with Susan G. Komen for a big campaign. I expect that to get a lot of promotion on WWE TV.

Lance Russell passed away at the age of 91 after suffering a bad fall this past weekend. He was a major part of the Memphis wrestling scene. 


Rosemary was part of a podcast with Lance Storm and Don Callis. I hope we're in for great things from her in the future.

Ric Flair has booked a convention appearance in Atlanta on November 18 in what could be his first public event since his hospital stay. We're very lucky he's going to be back in good spirits.

Cesaro has a new T-shirt based on his No Mercy injury. That's HILARIOUS. Well done.

John Cena was at Dancing with the Stars. I expect more WWE names to be there in the weeks to come if Nikki keeps advancing.

Ric Flair, AJ Styles, Bret Hart vs. Shawn Michaels, and Tribute to the Troops will all have WWE Network collections in November. I hope WWE doesn't go overboard with Montreal Screwjob references for the 20th anniversary.

Pete Dunne will be at MCM London Comic Con along with a lot of WWE artifacts being on display. That's pretty cool.

Drew McIntyre talked in Miami. He's really driven to succeed in WWE.

Johnny Gargano discussed WWE 2K18. I'm glad he and Ciampa have made it to the stage they're at.

Mickie James will be inducted into the Native American Music Awards Hall of Fame on October 14. I'm glad she's able to be a wrestler and a recording artist at the same time.

Stephanie McMahon discussed Ronda Rousey coming to WWE. I expect we'll see it.

Kurt Angle filmed a commercial for KFC. That should be fun.

Bayley discussed potentially turning heel and more. I'd be open to Nia turning face and Bayley turning heel to change things up. And it's sad some "fans" make incredibly rude comments. There's a difference between "you suck" and really sexist comments. It says more about the people making those comments than the performers, honestly.

EVOLVE released an odd video to play off speculation regarding the loss of their deal with Flosports.

Shayna Baszler has signed with WWE and begun training at the WWE Performance Center. No real surprise there. I hope she does well.

ROH and New Japan have announced new matches for Global Wars:
- October 12: Cody/Marty Scurll vs. YOSHI-HASHI/Toru Yano; Hangman Page vs. KUSHIDA; Rhett Titus/Will Ferrara vs. LSG/Shaheem Ali
- October 14: Minoru Suzuki, Davey Boy Smith, Jr, and Lance Archer vs. Will Ospreay, YOSHI-HASHI, and Toru Yano
- October 15: Kenny Omega vs. Flip Gordon

Raw drew 2.77 million viewers Monday, a drop from last week and not a stellar number by any means.

Raven and Buff Bagwell have withdrawn some of the class action lawsuit against WWE. The class action lawsuit will only apply to individuals under a WWE booking contract between January 1,1999 and January 1, 2004. A conference call on the case is coming on Friday.

Breezango have filmed material for a "Pulp Fiction" edition of The Fashion Files. I assume we'll see that at HIAC. It's a shame we got Ziggler's terrible entrances and Jinder's awful promos instead of those two these past few weeks.

Braun Strowman, Finn Balor, Big Cass, and Alexa Bliss will be at Ringsidefest on October 29 in New York City. That's a pretty big event for WWE each year.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. It also gives them an easy opportunity to edit things if there's part of the match they want to skip.

2. That would definitely be a really big night for WWE. There's a lot of history involved with everyone.

3. I can't say I'm disappointed by that decision. I don't think Khali would be able to work a regular schedule.

4. I think fans would boo that booking. It's honestly probably not worth trying to win over the beachball crowd that's going to turn on pretty much anyone WWE pushes just to "stick it to Vince" and because it's not cool for "smarks" to admit they like WWE.

5. Raw's loss is 205's gain. WWE knows Enzo is over, and they want to make the most of that while still trying to send him a lesson for who he is when he's not on TV. It's an odd predicament.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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