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Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Steiner booked for Impact at Wrestlecon, Impact live event matches set, Japanese legend undergoing major surgery, Interview with Darren Young, more Raws booked, Cabana challenging for NWA Tile in China, ROH rolls out streaming service, Jarrett honored by WWE, Credible and DiBiase prreview documentaries, why HoFer was at Raw, first Manhattan Mayhem match set, more Impact tapings set, Slammiversary in the works, records broken on Raw, Dangerous Davis promotes autobiography, more top names getting autobiographies, and Questions on HHH/Stephanie promoting women, booking Finn vs. Brock, women headlining Mania, and Vince caring that fans know the WM34 ending

Scott Steiner will have a live, uncensored microphone at Impact Wrestling's Wrestlecon event, streaming live on Twitch. Oh I'm already sold on that.

Announced for Impact's March 4 event in Ontario:
- Alberto El Patron vs. Moose
- Allie vs. KC Spinelli

The Great Muta will be undergoing double knee replacement surgery next month. He intends to return to the ring afterward if doctors would clear him. I hope that makes walking easier for him; that's a heck of a price to pay for decades of wrestling.

Darren Young discussed his WWE release. I haven't seen anything about him wrestling since his last WWE match. I hope he's doing well.

Raw will tape on April 23 in Missouri, and New York on May 7.

Colt Cabana will challenge for the NWA World Championship in China this April. That's really cool!

ROH relaunched their website and officially rolled out HonorClub, their streaming service. That will be a big move forward for their business.

Jeff Jarrett will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame during Wrestlemania weekend, the first time Jarrett will be on a WWE broadcast since 1999. That's a very great move. I'm glad to see him honored in such a way.

- The Tennessee Titans, NWA, Triple H, Scott Hall, Pat Buck, the WWE Archivist, Bobby Roode, David Lagana, The Blue Meanie, Eric Young, Gail Kim, Rob Schamberger, NASCAR's Elliott Sadler, The Pope D'Angelo Dinero, X-Pac, Karen Jarrett, Allie, Grado, KM, Impact Wrestling, and Xavier Woods put over Jeff's induction. It's awesome to see people and companies from so many backgrounds celebrating his work. He's worked with a lot of people in a lot of places.

Justin Credible previewed his upcoming documentary. I hope he recovers and is able to put his vices behind him.

Ted DiBiase, Jr. teased returning to WWE. Him facing Cody on the indies would be cool. If that happens and goes well, we can talk about him going somewhere bigger.

Diamond Dallas Page was at Raw to do interviews for various upcoming WWE projects, including an upcoming Randy Savage DVD. He was not backstage for most of the day, arriving as Main Event was being filmed. There were no plans for him to appear on TV.

Cody vs. Flip Gordon has been set for ROH's March 3 Manhattan Mayhem event. Fans can choose whether the match will be a lumberjack match, a two-out-of-three falls match, or a match where Flip is booked for "All In" if he wins. That's a pretty clever way to promote the big September 1 show, which still doesn't have a venue announced.

Impact Wrestling will follow the Redemption event with TV tapings from April 23 through April 27 at Universal Studios in Florida. So, they'll be pretty busy that week.

Slammiversary 16 is currently planned for July 22. No word on where it will take place.

Raw's gauntlet match was the longest match in WWE history. Seth Rollins had the longest performance in Raw history by a single competitor. That was truly an amazing event.

"Dangerous" Danny Davis has a Kickstarter to promote his autobiography.

Vader and Sabu have autobiographies coming soon. Both have the potential to be really interesting.  

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. Triple H and Stephanie McMahon are largely behind pushing for the changing way women have been presented. It's worth noting WWE is in some ways mirroring a greater change in society. With the company wanting to reach more women fans, the move made sense. So, it could very well have come about at some point anyway.

2. Finn sticks and moves, striking when he gets an opening and not letting up. Brock looks to catch him and take him to Suplex City.

3. He could, but I think it's more likely he's somewhere else on the card. I could see him teaming with Anderson and Gallows against The Miz, Bo Dallas, and Curtis Axel going forward.

4. I certainly think it can happen at some point, and using Ronda makes sense as far as having a big star close the show. The key will be whether they can trust someone so new to wrestling to close the biggest wrestling show on the planet. The only way I'd do it this year is if we're not getting Cena vs. Taker and they do something like Triple H and Stephanie vs. Rock or Angle and Rousey. That way they have two people they know they can deliver in that environment.

5. It's been "common knowledge" among people who follow wrestling news sites, but that's not a big part of the greater wrestling audience, so I don't think Vince is that concerned. I do think the company is appealing to that group more and more as Triple H gains power, but Vince is still steering the ship for WM34. Also, we all knew the ending to "Titanic" and it made more than $2 billion.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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