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Tuesday, November 28, 2017

More on Gallagher documentary, Rock nominated for significant award, Y2J gets YouTube channel, how Starrcade ended up coming together, Rey working new lucha project, DDP Yoga profiled, McIntyre return update, Impact office move updates, new Impact signing, Impact taping at another indie show, another Goldberg role, Raw match changed, another way to watch ROH TV, and Questions on New Year's Raw in Florida, WWE's stance on kayfabe, worst and best angles, unlikely HoF inductions, and Grand Slam winners

Jack Gallagher's documentary got press in the UK. The man is definitely a character; I'd like to think he'd be able to do pretty well for himself even in WWE even if they didn't have 205 Live.

The Rock was nominated for an NAACP Image award. Glad to see him honored like that.

Chris Jericho has launched his own YouTube channel. I'm sure he'll use that to push his match with Kenny Omega for the U.S. audience.

WWE filmed Starrcade, so it could appear on WWE Network down the line if they so choose. Michael Hayes pitched to use that event name back in June upon realizing WWE had a live event in Greensboro around the time of previous editions of Starrcade. Hayes ended up putting the show together with an eye for promoting the event's history.

Rey Mysterio will be working the first Aro Lucha event on December 10 at the former TNA Asylum. Interestingly, a number of Lucha Underground talents are set for the show. We'll see how that ends up playing out for everyone.

Diamond Dallas Page was profiled in Atlanta for his yoga work. He's gotten a lot of mileage out of that line of work. I'm glad people are improving their lives with it.

Drew McIntyre is looking to return for April's Takeover event during Wrestlemania weekend. It's a real shame he's going to miss time; hopefully when he returns he can continue to build momentum  on the road to being a top WWE superstar.

Impact will tape footage from Universal Studios from January 10 through January 15 before returning to Canada for March tapings. These tapings will not be in Ottawa.

Impact's production offices will remain in Tennessee, but a lot of the rest of the company's staff will either be released, work from home, or move to Anthem's office in Ottawa starting next week.

Impact has signed Canadian talent Tony Cage. With Ed Nordholm and Scott D'Amore running things, there's understandably a focus on Canada. I don't expect them to completely drop the Impact Zone anytime soon, though.

Impact will tape more footage at a Border City Wrestling event this Sunday. Eli Drake vs. Alberto El Patron vs. Johnny Impact has been announced for the event, and Laurel Van Ness, Jimmy Jacobs, Sonjay Dutt, Petey Williams, and Braxton Sutter have all been confirmed as part of the show.

Goldberg will be on two episodes of "The Flash" this season, apparently for his son. He's doing pretty well for himself these days.

There had been plans for Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose vs. The Bar on the November 27 Raw, which suggests Ambrose's honeymoon was a pretty sudden move. That match will instead happen on the next edition of the show.

Ring of Honor's weekly TV show is now available on Stadium Network, another Sinclair co-owned station. Stadium also has apps for fans to watch content on. ROH is getting some pretty good reach at the local level under Sinclair.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. Ha! That would be really funny. I've never heard of that being the case, though.

2. I can't really add to their answer. Sometimes it's hard to "figure out" what's going on with Vince.

3. Two of the worst ones that come to mind are the legendary Katie Vick angle and AJ Styles' alleged infidelities with Dixie Carter and Claire Lynch. The first was just really uncomfortable and the latter two were just cringeworthy. They actually made me less interested in seeing the stories they were pushing because all the focus on the bad soap opera stuff. As for some of the best, I liked Brock's initial rise in WWE and most of what we got from Evolution as a faction.

4. I wouldn't expect them to induct Chyna anytime soon unless it's part of a group induction of DX. There's really no dancing around the things she did outside of the ring.

5. The list was just for WWE's current championships. Their title histories can be complicated with titles disappearing and coming back with different names, etc. 

More wrestling tomorrow.

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