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Thursday, March 29, 2018

Vader update, Interviews with HHH+Mauro/Lana/Sonjay/Alberto/HHH+Stephanie, Sting working for WWE during Mania weekend, Impact sets press conference, Impact updates website, Impact World Title in title vs. title match, Smackdown audience, concussion lawsuit dismissed, and Questions on Brock assaulting Roman, Sable's absence from WWE, and Ronda's role in the women's revolution

Vader commented on the aftermath of his heart surgery. It's sad to see a legend hurt like this.

Triple H and Mauro Ranallo discussed NXT, 205 Live, and more. It will be interesting to see how the brands progress in the years to come.

Lana discussed Rusev Day and more. She has officially joined the Wrestlemania Women's Battle Royal.

Sting will be part of WWE's Wrestlemania weekend activities, necessitating a change in his Wrestlecon schedule. I'm curious if that means he's going to induct Goldberg into the WWE Hall of Fame.

Impact Wrestling is holding a press conference on April 7 to promote Redemption. That's a smart way to make use of Mania weekend.

Impact has updated their merchandise website.

Austin Aries is defending the Impact World Championship in a title vs. title match for Seattle's DEFY Wrestling. I can see how some think it devalues Impact's title to be at the level of local promotions' titles, but it also gets Impact more buzz to tour their world champion.

Sonjay Dutt did a teleconference for Impact. There's little coverage of these conferences these days.

Alberto El Patron talked in Canada. Could that be one of his last non-WWE interviews?

Triple H and Stephanie McMahon were on ESPN's First Take: Video 1 Video 2  It's notable Vince really isn't in the picture as much for media appearances now. 

Smackdown drew 2.58 million viewers Tuesday, notably down from last week's big Daniel Bryan announcement. We'll see what effect he has on the audience once he's back in action.

WWE's original concussion lawsuit has been completely dismissed due to lack of evidence WWE deliberately misled performers about the effects of concussions. A similar lawsuit involving wrestlers being independent contractors rather than employees is still ongoing. At least WWE has finally survived the original claims.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I think it made Heyman and Brock look devious for setting the whole thing up to damage to Roman.

2. Rollins is busy with his own title hunt, and Roman's the one who called Brock out in the first place.

3. I think Sable has deliberately moved onto being a wife and mother. As much as I think she belongs in the Hall of Fame, she seems to have really distanced herself from her performing days.

4. As was alluded to, that would basically put UFC over at WWE's expense.

5. I can't say I expected that to be a question!

More wrestling tomorrow.

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