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Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Impact name working EVOLVE, Sapolsky-WWE update, WWE appearances, Smackdown and NXT matches, Interviews with Sasha/Cesaro, another WWEPC guest coach, December Network collections, former Knockout pregnant, more on Homicide's wrestling school, WWE trademark update, Neville-WWE update, former WWE name signs with MMA group, Paige update, NXT taping outside of Full Sail, and Questions on Wrestlecon vs. AXXESS, Vince on commentary at Raw 25, Jordan pulling a Rocky Maivia, WarGames in NXT instead of Survivor Series, and heels saving a face GM

DJ Z is booked for EVOLVE's December 9 and December 10 shows. He's still considered part of Impact Wrestling, so right now I'd just assume they're letting him work those events rather than being done. Z has not appeared for Impact since March.

William Regal will be at EVOLVE's December 8 seminar, presumably scouting for future NXT stars.

Gabe Sapolsky will be at Takeover:Wargames this weekend as a consultant. He continues to try to get a full-time job in WWE. It will be interesting to see what happens to WWNLive if he does end up there.

Roman Reigns appeared at his alma mater's football game.

Sheamus had a signing at a Cricket Wireless store before Raw. Charlotte Flair will have one of her own before Smackdown.

Natalya vs. Charlotte Flair for the Smackdown Women's Championship and Baron Corbin vs. Sin Cara for the United States Championship are set for Smackdown.

Lars Sullivan vs. Raul Mendoza is set for this week's NXT. I think we know who's going to win that one.

The Hardys and Bayley will be at Wizard World in Texas this weekend.

Sasha Banks promoted Raw coming to India. I think we're some time away from women headlining Wrestlemania. That's a really hot card to close given who else will be working it.

Rob Conway is a guest coach this week at the WWE Performance Center. An interesting choice, but I hope his work there was helpful.

WWE Network collections for December will focus on match of the year candidates, Shinsuke Nakamura, and Sami Zayn. The service is also set to upload the "seasons" era of NXT in December.

Cesaro talked before WWE's show in the United Arab Emirates. That injury to his teeth sounds even worse than it did initially. OUCH. As for future WWE Network specials, it could definitely be cool to do them internationally, although it's questionable whether that will lead to increased subscriptions.

The former Taylor Wilde is expecting a child. Congratulations!!

Homicide and Nick Gage are holding an open house at their training school on Thursday. Is it wrong to assume they'll be training people how to blade and bump into barbed wire?

WWE's trademark application for "He Hate Me" is not related to the XFL player. That could be a cool gimmick name, but I don't know who would get it.

Neville has been in talks to return to the ring in WWE, and he could do so by the end of the month. I'm glad the two sides are back on good terms. 205 Live is expected to get some new faces, too, which makes this news even better.

The former Jack Swagger has signed with Bellator MMA to have a bout as a heavyweight in 2018. That could be pretty interesting!!

- Bellator confirmed a multiple-year deal. I wish him well in that endeavor. I'm curious if we'll see him wrestle in Impact or somewhere else at some point.

Paige was backstage at Raw. WWE opted not to have her join Raw's female Survivor Series team. I think we could see her the night after that event instead.

Kenny King vs. Chris Sabin for the Television Championship and Dalton Castle vs. Frankie Kazarian have been set for ROH's November 19 event. I'm enjoying Dalton's push.

NXT will be taping TV in Atlanta on January 4, February 1, and February 2. That's pretty cool. I like the idea of branching out from Full Sail to other similarly-sized venues so they can sell tickets and the like, although obviously Full Sail has been very good for them as far as having students there available for media work.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. Wrestlecon will have a LOT of talents you won't be able to see on WWE TV. Whether you want a WWE-centric experience or not should be a top factor.

2. I'd think Vince would want to run things behind the scenes that night. There will be a LOT to handle with two venues having shows at once. Plus, I'd think fans might focus more on Vince than the action.

3. It's possible he'll get more comfortable in the charisma department as time goes on, but I'd imagine he had plenty of opportunity to show signs of it at the WWEPC. Jordan was recruited for his amazing college athletic background. Not everyone has everything WWE is looking for in a star, but a good number of prospects have enough to do decently for themselves. WWE needs people to fill the cards as well as people at the top.

4. The WWE audience at large isn't as accustomed to WarGames as they are with the Survivor Series elimination match, so NXT's trying it with the niche hardcore crowd as something of a test run before potentially attempting it with Raw or Smackdown.

5. OH MY GOD. Even Dolph stepped in to address how off-the-mark critics are with all of this. A significant number of Americans didn't like Presidents Bush (43) and/or Obama, but if either man had been assaulted by a representative from another country while visiting there to try to broker peace, I'd like to think most citizens would see that as an attack on America itself and worthy of retaliation. The United States and the Soviet Union had hundreds of thousands of soldiers willing to die on the same side as long as it meant defeat for the Axis Powers. I mean, HOLY SHIT this concept is thousands of years old. People are just looking for something to bash WWE for at this point.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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