Impact plans to stream 12 hours of live programming a day from Wrestlecon during WM weekend, likely a lot of interviews and the like.
AJ Styles is set to work this weekend's Smackdown live events in eight-man tag action, teaming with New Day against Rusev Day, Chad Gable, and Shelton Benjamin. So they're being cautious as he continues to rehabilitate on the road to Wrestlemania.
The Greatest Royal Rumble will also air live in Australia on Main Event.
Penta El 0M and Rey Fenix will be part of All In. So, top names from ROH, NJPW, and now LU are set for the show.
ROH is doing a big "Spring cleaning" sale with older DVDs.
ROH's April 15 main event will be a Defy Or Deny match with Dalton Castle vs. Marty Scurll vs. Punishment Martinez vs. Beer City Bruiser. The match will be held under elimination rules. If Castle wins, the last name eliminated won't be able to challenge for the World Championship as long as he holds the championship. However, if one of the other three men wins, they will receive a future World Championship match. That's a pretty interesting idea.
AXS TV is doing a contest for signed Strong Style Evolved merchandise. That show will be a big one for NJPW and AXS.
Kazuchika Okada promoted Strong Style Evolved on Nacion ESPN.
The Bella Twins were on Steve Harvey's show to promote Wrestlemania: Video 1 Video 2 I'm curious if they'll be on the show in any way.
Major League Wrestling is expected to announce a TV deal with beIN Sports USA, which is available in a lot of markets through cable, satellite, IPTV, and streaming services.
- MLW has an agreement to use AAA and LU talent. We'll see if that plays out on the new TV series.
Impact will return to the UK on September 9 as part of a greater convention. Hopefully that's a big show for them; running more international dates is a definite goal of theirs.
Daniel Bryan's return was covered by Newsweek, who interviewed one of the neurosurgeons who cleared the former WWE Champion. Hopefully Bryan has a long and fruitful career ahead of him.
John Cena was recently on "Ellen." I think it was more to promote his new movie than Wrestlemania.
Alexa Bliss promoted a live event in Ottawa. Part of why she's getting such a push is because they can count on her to do so many media appearances.
Lilian Garcia will be the guest ring announcer for Wrestlemania's women's battle royal. Good choice.
Molly Holly will induct Ivory into the WWE Hall of Fame. I think it's only a matter of time before Molly goes in, too.
Impact vs. LU will feature Allie vs. Taya Valkyrie. Obviously there's some overlap between the two promotions' rosters.
WWE posted some aftermath of Ultimate Deletion. I hope they've got something new and fresh in mind for Bray, and I say that as someone who's loved that character.
Triple H discussed Brock Lesnar's future and more. I mean, I didn't expect him to say "yes, our Wrestlemania main eventer is leaving soon."
Wrestlemania 34 will have decorated sugar skulls for sale. That seems like kind of an odd fit for this time of year, but WWE will sell pretty much anything.
JBL discussed Daniel Bryan's return. I'm cautiously optimistic, as Bryan's going to really be under a microscope for any injuries that pop up.
Impact drew 362,000 viewers Thursday night for the Feast or Fired reveal. This show was EC3's final taped appearance for the company. We'll see how that affects the audience going forward.
For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. For now it's just an appearance on NXT's Kickoff panel. Vince mostly stays out of NXT decisions. It's possible McAfee ends up being part of the XFL, but right now he's focused on his podcast and similar endeavors. We're still pretty far from the league launching, so I don't know if they're at the stage of planning commentators and the like.
1. For now it's just an appearance on NXT's Kickoff panel. Vince mostly stays out of NXT decisions. It's possible McAfee ends up being part of the XFL, but right now he's focused on his podcast and similar endeavors. We're still pretty far from the league launching, so I don't know if they're at the stage of planning commentators and the like.
2. She's not going to announce a retirement any time soon, as she's still going to be part of things with Absolution and there's going to be promotion of the movie about her. That said, there are no plans for her to return to the ring after her injury.
3. That said, some promotions do pay for ads on the website. It's certainly not the same as paying for coverage or positive coverage, but it's there.
4. There's a decent chance he appears at Mania and/or the Greatest Rumble. I think it's more likely he'll be back as an ambassador or something who occasionally appears, but there's speculation he'll replace Shane and Bryan as the one running Smackdown. At any rate, the two sides are in discussions for him to return.
5. WWE is usually pretty clever with their wording in situations like this. WWE confirmed there were talks, but kind of tempered expectations by saying they were just about Hogan learning from his past mistakes and that he hasn't signed a deal of any kind. It's entirely possible Hulk just comes back as an ambassador of sorts, if he even comes back at all.
More wrestling tomorrow.
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