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Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Vader health update, another Impact live event in the works, part-timers schedule update, WWE/GLOW rap battle (seriously), more All In weekend events, Interviews with Ronda/Dana Warrior/Foley, JR at AXXESS, big Mania contest, Otunga takes ill, Super Troopers on WWE Network show, Raw audience, new WWE MSG match, more on Roman suspension, and Questions on Takeover from Full Sail, Rock teaming with Ronda, Ronda's Rumble appearance, what happens if Smackdown ends up on FS1, and Neville's status

Vader recently underwent heart surgery. I hope that went well for the legend.

Impact Wrestling looks to be working with Future Stars of Wrestling in Nevada for an event in June or July. Impact has definitely gotten things moving on the live event front. Good to see the brand getting more active.

Ronda Rousey was removed from advertising for the next two weeks of Raw before being added back. So, it does look like they plan on using her each remaining Raw before Wrestlemania. I'm not sure what to make of the indecisiveness of how much to have her appear.

A WWE vs. GLOW episode of "Drop the Mic" is being taped March 18, with the Bella Twins, Carmella, and Alicia Fox representing WWE. That's a clever idea.

All In will feature a podcast convention beforehand called Starrcast. Pretty funny. The show will have shuttles from that convention to All In. The parties involved are definitely making the show as much of an event as possible.

Ronda Rousey was on "Ellen." That's definitely outside the traditional WWE audience, but that's the point. 

Jim Ross will be part of AXXESS in addition to Wrestlecon. WM weekend is big for everyone.

Dana Warrior is on Terri Runnels' latest podcast.

WWE is doing a contest for Wrestlemania and action figures. That's pretty cool! 95% chance the winner meets Curt Hawkins instead of AJ Styles, though. Just saying.

Mick Foley discussed Chyna and Vader going into the WWE Hall of Fame and more. I expect both to be honored there at some point. 

Daivd Otunga recently had food poisoning. I hope he's recovering well. 

The Super Troopers were part of WWE Game Night. WOW. Talk about a throwback.

Raw drew 3.35 million viewers Monday night, a pretty nice boost from the previous week. 

WWE's Madison Square Garden show will feature Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins, Finn Balor, and Matt Hardy against Bray Wyatt, The Miz, and The Miztourage in an eight-man tag match.

Brock Lesnar is now advertised for every Raw before Wrestlemania. We'll see if he actually appears all of those nights.

Roman Reigns isn't set to miss any shows after his "temporary suspension." So I guess it was a VERY temporary suspension.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I wouldn't 100% rule out them doing a special Takeover from there at some point, but I think they like pairing the shows with bigger Raw and Smackdown events. I don't blame them.

2. DAMN that Ronda diss. There had been talk of trying to do something with all the players involved at previous Manias, but Rock's got a busy Hollywood career that takes precedence.

3. SWERVE BRO!!!! WWE did some misdirection to throw people off the trail of Alexa vs. Nia, Asuka vs. Charlotte, and Ronda/Angle vs. Stephanie/HHH. For that matter, they tried to throw people off Roman vs. Brock and AJ vs. Shinsuke, too.

4. I thought about that, too. We'll also see if Smackdown stays live and what effect that has on things.

5. It seems like every month or so there's talk of the two sides being closer to him returning only for it to not happen. There's a big opportunity for him to return to face the new Cruiserweight Champion after WM34, but we'll see if it ends up happening.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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