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Wednesday, January 10, 2018

More Brock dates, win Raw event tickets, Enzo stitched up, NJPW touring Australia, Bullet Club member gets local press, NJPW team gets YouTube channel, WWE makes VR announcement, Henry booked for indie show, indie booker dropped from promotions, more on UK promotion's TV show, surprising Raw 25 guests, HOH name's recovery profiled, HOH returning to Australia?, MMC team changed due to injury, WWE name doing cartoon voice, new Knockout coming, another way to watch GWN, Knockout gets Impact merch, WWE star opening school, more Jeff Hardy concert dates, Raw audience, Taker update, and Questions on how the women's Rumble will go, where Velveteen Dream is, making WWE appeal to adults, and how WWE is booking Kane

Brock Lesnar is set for Raw live events on March 9, March 16, and March 30. Those could be his last dates on the road.

Raw's March 3 live event has a promotion for tickets. WWE hasn't run that venue in decades, so they're making the most of it.

Enzo Amore got stitches after Raw. It's been a rough new year for him.

NJPW is touring Australia from February 16 through February 19. That's pretty cool. They're about to do their annual tour in Mexico soon.

Chase Owens got press in Tennessee for working WrestleKingdom 12. It's definitely a big career milestone for a lot of people.

The Guerrillas of Destiny have started their own YouTube channel. Good to see them promoting themselves like that. 

WWE has announced VR content coming from select events in 2018. That should be interesting. I'm curious how it will play out.

Mark Henry will appear for Northeast Wrestling at their March 2 event. I don't know if WWE sent him as an ambassador or if he's taking bookings on a legends deal, but I'm glad he's getting to be part of independent wrestling. He could be a good resource for the talent working the card.

North Carolina independent booker Brad Stutts has been released from multiple promotions for inappropriate behavior. CWF Mid-Atlantic put forth a pair of statements on the situation, but no one is going on the record regarding anything further. Suffice to say it's serious enough to lead to him being dropped left and right.

Five Star Wrestling is planning to do a three-hour live broadcast every Thursday, which will lead to an edited one-hour version that can be shopped around internationally. That's definitely a bold vision.

The Dudley Boys and Brother Love have all been booked for Raw's 25th anniversary. Interesting that Bubba Ray/Bully Ray is able to appear on WWE TV despite working in ROH so recently. I was under the impression he was still working there behind-the-scenes; it's possible ROH gave him permission to appear on the show with it being such a major milestone. As for Brother Love, I'm a little surprised to see him, too, given how he worked in Impact management and on Impact TV in recent years.

Vik Dalishus' recovery was profiled. He's got a lot of hustle to work that many jobs; it's a shame he's struggling to make ends meet.

House of Hardcore is looking at returning to Australia in July. The promotion's doing pretty well for itself, and seems to have found its niche.

Samoa Joe was chosen as Bayley's partner in the Mixed Match Challenge. However, due to Joe sustaining an injury, Elias will be her partner instead. That should be pretty interesting. Poor Jason Jordan being in third place with the voting, though.

- Joe injured his right foot during Raw. I hope that doesn't keep him out of action long. A Cena feud could produce some really good matches.

Samoa Joe is providing a voice on a "Transformers" cartoon. That's pretty cool; I'm glad he's able to do something like that.

Su Yung is booked for this week's Impact tapings. I hope she does well with that opportunity.

The Global Wrestling Network is now available on Apple TV. Impact has done a good job promoting it on TV. Anthem really values that tape library.

Laurel Van Ness has a new shirt at Impact. I wonder how far in advance that was planned given the talk of her finishing there soon. She's made the most of her character.

Shinsuke Nakamura will team with Natalya in the Mixed Match Challenge, while Sami Zayn will team with Becky Lynch. I like seeing pairings we wouldn't see otherwise; this is a pretty good concept.

Luke Gallows is opening a wrestling school. That's big for an active wrestler, although he does have a good deal of experience in the business.

Jeff Hardy has scheduled more concert dates in the Carolinas. I'm glad he's able to do something fulfilling while he's not able to wrestle.

Raw drew 2.76 million viewers against the national college football championship drawing more than 27 million viewers.

The Undertaker was backstage at Tuesday's Smackdown taping. That will get people talking about what he could be doing at Wrestlemania. I'm OK with one last match against Cena to finally wrap his career up.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I could see Alexa attacking Asuka before the match to prevent her from winning in order to do a less-expected ending. Rousey is the other strong candidate to set up her facing Charlotte.

2. He just returned to live events. I'm not sure why he was taking time off, but he should be back in the mix soon.

Nothing to add to 3.

4. Basically the two squads will be so focused on each other that none of them will win, leading to Absolution vs. The Riott Squad at Mania.

5. A great performer doesn't need curse words to get over. Other than that, it's MMMUUUUUUUUCCCCCCHHHHHHH easier to write that much TV well in theory than in practice.

Not much to add to 6, other than there have been plenty of times over the years when Kane wasn't booked as a vicious monster. In fact, that was some of his best work. His versatility as a performer inside and outside the ring has served him really well.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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