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Sunday, March 11, 2018

Main Event Reax - 3/10/18, more on Aries in ROH, Savage DVD lineup, SCOH main event official, Brandi to Stardom, ROH returning to Texas, Interview with Corbin, Regal advises WWE hopefuls, Laith comments on NXT departure, Brock meets Minnesota athletes, Cornette on WWE Network, Flashback Friday theme, and Questions on Impact airing the Callihan incident, Magnum TA's potential, MITB 2011, Matt/Edge/Lita, and more GWF on the Network

-- Main Event:
- Apollo vs. Hawkins:
Curt is the star of Main Event. Prove me wrong.

I guess if Curt can't get a win, he's trying to get a date with Dana.

Apollo's putting him through the wringer.

I liked the toss powerbomb counter. Hawkins has been planning that for a while in his master plan to finally get a win. 

Fun enough.

- Metalik/Kalisto vs. Ariya/Nese:
I'd be fine with two Curt Hawkins matches one week. Just saying.

Fine work to start.

Nice flying here.

Pretty impressive! 

Austin Aries informed Impact Wrestling of his ROH appearance before it happened. Impact was supportive of him working the show, feeling it was positive press for them and could potentially open doors for working with ROH directly. They also directly gave Aries permission to use the Impact World Championship. Impact is very much looking to have open relationships with other companies under the Anthem era.

Randy Savage's upcoming unreleased matches DVD's lineup has been released, with 41 matches. That's quite the haul.

Dalton Castle vs. Marty Scurll for the ROH World Championship is officially the main event for Supercard of Honor XII, which will be in front of the largest crowd in ROH history. More than 4,700 tickets have already been sold for the event. Big night for everyone involved.

Brandi Rhodes is working Stardom's 2018 Cinderella tournament. She's getting a pretty big spotlight for herself post-WWE.

ROH is headed to Texas on June 15-16. It will be interesting to see what things look like for the company that weekend.

Baron Corbin promoted Fast Lane and Wrestlemania. It will be interesting to see where he fits into the card in New Orleans.

William Regal tweeted about the right and wrong way to get into a wrestling company. I definitely see what he's saying, and he's in the position to make those kinds of decisions, but I can also see how we're in the era of using your own platform to get noticed.

Abbey Laith thanked NXT on her way out. That's classy. I hope she's able to get significant opportunities elsewhere.

Brock Lesnar and Paul Heymen met two University of Minnesota athletes at a Raw live event. That's pretty cool. We'll see if they end up coming to WWE at some point.

Jim Cornette will be on "WWE Photo Shoot" after Raw this week. That should be fun.

WWE Network's "Flashback Friday" theme this coming week will be "Luck of the Irish" in honor of St. Patrick's Day. Yes, Finlay and Hornswoggle make an appearance.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I think people are more upset because of how dangerous and violent the spot was than anything. Impact could have definitely edited things to where they didn't show the full extent of it if they so chose, but they wanted to make the most of something that definitely got buzz, positively or negatively.

2. The consensus seems to be that he would have been a pretty big deal.

3. That's a lot of questions! He was given the title match because they were going to be in his hometown and wanted to make the most of what could have been his last appearance. It also showed they were willing to get behind him if he did stay around. He was brought back pretty much immediately to do a big rematch at Summerslam and set up what they were planning with Kevin Nash and Triple H.

4. It was so legitimate Impact was teasing Matt coming in to work one of their PPVs. Eventually WWE realized how many people were talking about it and made an angle out of it.

5. Basically unless there's a huge spike in people watching the footage already in the section, it won't be a big priority for them to upload more.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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