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Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Interviews with Graves/Cena/Jarrett/WWE social VP, Mickie collaborating with hip hop duo, another injured name at Raw, Ospreay-Mania week update, Jarrett single sold for charity, HBK on PWT, Impact's Wrestlecon schedule, NXT championship revealed, future HoFer backstage, post-Smackdown dark match, and Questions on Bryan's future, naming matches after wrestlers, Johnston vs. CFO$, the CTE lawsuit, and Miz chasing the IC record

Corey Graves was profiled. He's really made the most of not being able to wrestle.

Mickie James is working with the Ying Yang Twins. That should be interesting.

John Cena was on Desus & Mero

Brian Kendrick was backstage at Raw, along with a lot of other recovering names. I'm excited to see him in the "new" 205 Live.

Jeff Jarrett discussed going into the WWE Hall of Fame.

Will Ospreay has confirmed he will work this weekend's events in New Orleans. I hope he's making the right decision there from a health perspective.

Jeff Jarrett's classic WWE theme is being used to raise money for Connor's Cure. That's great!

Shawn Michaels has joined Pro Wrestling Tees. That's all pretty cool.

Raw drew 3.36 million viewers Monday night, virtually even with last week.

Impact released their Wrestlecon content schedule. They're going to be steaming a LOT of content. Interestingly, Laurel Van Ness is officially part of the company's activities after leaving the company. I assume it's just a one night thing.

- Fans can co-stream all this content on their own Twitch channels to provide their own commentary. I like that idea.

WWE's digital and social content VP discussed his role. They're highly involved with that.

Triple H revealed the NXT North American Championship. I love the classic look.

John Cena answered wrestling questions from Twitter, then narrated a makeup tutorial. Pretty entertaining and enlightening.

Jeff Jarrett was backstage at Smackdown in Tennessee. I'd be completely OK with him being the next Smackdown GM.

After 205 Live, Randy Orton and the Usos defeated Baron Corbin and Rusev Day. 

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. There's no evidence there was some kind of conspiracy to keep Bryan out of the ring. Given the medical problems he was having and hiding from the company, I see why they made the decision they made. They could have made a LOT of money from Bryan wrestling. The idea of paying him that much money to not wrestle for so long is just... wow. As for what to do with him now, they've already teased Bryan vs. Ziggler. He's been out of the WWE Title picture for a while and should have to work his way back up. They can have Shinsuke do his thing for a few months before setting up Nakamura vs. Bryan at Summerslam.

2. Whooooaaaaaaa. Andre was absolutely famous for battle royal matches. Other than that, I'm OK with honoring the people who laid the groundwork for where the business is now. Maybe we see the Danny Davis referee award, the Gordon Solie announcer award, etc.?

3. I see his point about going from entrance music for characters to singles the company can sell. That's pretty insightful. It was probably a matter of time before he was replaced by the next generation of WWE musicians, but I'm a little surprised it happened when it did. Johnston is absolutely a Hall of Famer.

4. Honestly, I think a lot of the wrestlers were worked by the possibility of another big payday from the lawsuit. Hopefully WWE can mend fences with those talents and honor them once everything's thrown out.

5. The Honky Tonk Man holds the longest single reign, but Miz is close to having the most combined days as champion.

Nothing to add to 6.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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