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Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Upcoming HoFer on Twitter, Ivory gets respect from peers, NJPW vs. ROH card announced, NXT name gets press, UK Champ working Australia, another Titus speech, NXT signing mistaken for pop band, YouTube name on trying out for WWE, Jordan on getting injured, HOH Australian dates set, Raw audience, Impact execs in India, Impact seeking indie bookings, Edwards-Impact update, Impact HoFer getting DVD, Smackdown dark matches, and Questions on WWE cutting pyro, more NJPW World platforms, the purpose of squash matches, why WWE chooses HoF inductors, and commemorative titles

Ivory has joined Twitter, shortly after being announced for the WWE Hall of Fame. Good to see her back in the picture again.

- The Rock, Triple H, Beth Phoenix, Natalya, Hurricane Helms, Charlotte Flair, and Todd Grisham all put over Ivory's induction. I'm also glad to see her being honored.

NJPW and ROH announced the cards for Honor Rising 2018, featuring the first matches from the reunited Golden Lovers of Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi. Here's the card for the February 23 show, and here's the card for the February 24 show. We'll see what comes out of those events.

Billie Kaye got press for her first action figure. I hope Raw or Smackdown get the Iconic Duo right after WM34.

Pete Dunne will be part of PWA X PROGRESS in Australia this April. He's getting a good deal of work, which is great.

Titus O'Neil gave a speech Tuesday night. I'm glad to see him getting those opportunities.

NXT signing Warbeard Hanson is being tagged in posts meant to advertise the band Hanson. Poor guy.

YouTube star MegSquats put together a video on trying out for WWE. It's telling how tough competition is to get into NXT when someone in such great shape didn't get signed.

Jason Jordan commented on missing Wrestlemania. I hope he can get something going once he's able to wrestle again. 

House of Hardcore will have further shows in Australia from July 11 through July 15. They're doing a good job at building a good niche for themselves.

Raw drew 3.11 million viewers Monday night. That's an OK milestone for the show in 2018.

Impact management met with Indian business partners recently. India is one of their biggest TV markets.

Impact is publicly soliciting indie bookings for its talents. That will hopefully get their workers enough dates where they'll want to stay with the company.

Eddie Edwards is believed to have signed a new deal with Impact, as had been expected. He can be a great workhorse for them.

Gail Kim is getting a DVD from Impact. She's definitely been a major player there for her tenure.

Tye Dillinger defeated Mike Kanellis before Smackdown. After 205 Live, Becky Lynch and Naomi defeated Natalya and Carmella before AJ Styles defeated Jinder Mahal. So, the crowd got quite a bit of action.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. Basically, if they have pyrotechnics, they have to hire extra staff to handle them. So, it's an expense they don't want to deal with outside of potentially big occasions.

2. I'd think as they expand the service, those platforms would be possibilities.

3. Basically it shows how strong they are that they can beat these other pro wrestlers with no problem, without hurting anyone currently on the roster. It shows that superstars in major leagues are larger-than-life and much more impressive than the local crop of workers.

4. WWE is trying to sell tickets to the event and get people to watch the special on the Network, so they're going to pick inductees and inductors with that purpose in mind. In other words, it's about as much of a work as anything else the company does.

5. I can see why WWE did what they did. I wouldn't assume they're going to create a new replica or anything over it.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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