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Thursday, February 15, 2018

Foley hosting Mania party, Interviews with Shelton/Tebow, Titus honored, Cass training to return, how NWA can use Impact footage, HoFer content on WWE Network, Braun signing set, Castle gets big role on Jericho cruise, Golden Lovers U.S. bound, Smackdown audience, WWE signs former Impact name, podcast notes, and Questions on Booker and Graves working the dirtsheets, Nigel missing commentary, selfie promos in WWE, and Nordholm vs. Reby Hardy

Mick Foley is hosting a Wrestlemania viewing party in Chicago, so he won't be on the show itself. That's not a huge surprise.

Shelton Benjamin discussed finding a gun in his rental car. That could have been a really scary situation.

Tim Tebow discussed potentially playing in the XFL. I'm going to try to keep football news to a minimum on a wrestling blog. Unless it relates to WWE in some way, of course.

Titus O'Neil got an honorary membership to the National Society of Leadership and Success. That's really cool. He's been a great public face of the company.

Big Cass has been working out at the WWE Performance Center. He isn't believed to be cleared to train in the ring yet, but is walking without assistance. I hope he can be a real player when he returns.

Impact's parent company has met with the NWA on how the two sides can work together. There are some working agreements in place between Anthem Media and Billy Corgan after the two sides settled their lawsuit regarding money Impact owed Corgan. That's not surprising, as Corgan is meeting with a lot of companies, but this is why NWA can use Impact footage to promote Nick Aldis.

WWE Network is putting together a collection honoring this year's Hall of Fame class. That should be an interesting combination of footage.

Braun Strowman will be at Funko's headquarters on February 24 before Raw's event that day. They've really hit on something with the Pop! figures. 

Dalton Castle will be the "cruise director" of Chris Jericho's big October event. Nice to see Castle getting that kind of prominent role. ROH is going to benefit from partnering with Y2J there.

Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi will team in the United States for the first time ever at Wrestlecon's Supershow, taking on the Best Friends. That should be pretty cool.

Smackdown drew 2.45 million viewers this week, a small drop from last week.

WWE has signed the former Mahabali Shera, best known for his work in India. He does have some experience under his belt, so maybe he'll be able to get something going for himself in WWE.

Edge and Christian are on Stone Cold's latest podcast.

Will Ospreay is on Chris Jericho's latest podcast. Now THAT would be a match!

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. Basically, Booker and Graves were upset no one tried to contact either man in any way to confirm there was real tension between the two. So, it was pretty easy for the two to create their own narrative. For what it's worth, Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer seems to have done some digging on whether Booker was booked for anything going forward. One would think if WWE thought he was actually going to fight Corey, WWE would make sure they weren't booked to be in the same town, etc. Other outlets pretty much just reported what he said and moved on. As always, I'm pretty much just a news collector. I don't have any contacts in the business. So I go with what's on other sites.

2. Thankfully he's back now. Percy's not a great fit so far.

3. It started with Mixed Match Challenge trying to appeal to the Facebook crowd. I think the text-on-screen thing is terrible, but I can see why they're trying new things. I strongly doubt it's Vince's doing, though.

4. Yeah, that definitely didn't paint Nordholm in the best light, especially as the head of an important company. If he was in a more prominent company, there would be some serious flak headed his way.

5. It's a CONSPIRACY! I assume he's with the Illuminati or something? Honestly, I have no idea.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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