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Thursday, May 17, 2018

Interviews with Joe/Rousey, an even bigger Titus slide, NXT live event lineup, first WWE:UK tournament names, Enzo releases statement, SDL audience, new Jericho show, SDL leaving NBCU, and Questions on moving Roman to SDL, why Roman beat Joe, booking Brock's future, and how Impact can compete

Samoa Joe talked to Sky Sports about intimidating an opponent. I expect he'll destroy whatever's left of Big Cass' credibility on he next SD Live.

Titus O'Neil got on the World's Largest Slide. He's going to be on highlight reels for years to come.

Ronda Rousey plans on getting pregnant soon, which, naturally, would put her out of the ring for a significant amount of time. We'll see how that goes.

Set for NXT's June 11 show in France:
- Aleister Black vs. Lars Sullivan
- Shayna Baszler vs. Nikki Cross
- The Undisputed Era (Adam Cole, Kyle O'Reilly, Roderick Strong) vs. Pete Dunne, Oney Lorcan, and Danny Burch
- Johnny Gargano vs. Tommaso Ciampa
- Ricochet vs. Velveteen Dream
- Dakota Kai and Steffanie Newell vs. Lacey Evans and Bianca Belair
- Tyler Bate vs. Zach Gibson
- Heavy Machinery vs. the Forgotten Sons (Wesley Blake and Steve Culter)

WWE has announced the first eight names for next month's UK tournament: Joe Coffey, Joseph Conners, Jack Gallagher, Zack Gibson, Amir Jordan, El Ligero, Dave Mastiff, and Kenny Williams. That's a solid mix of workers.

Enzo Amore released a statement from his attorney regarding charges against Enzo being dropped. I hope he's able to rebound from this unfortunate set of circumstances.

Smackdown Live drew 2.30 million viewers this week, basically what it drew last week.

Chris Jericho is debuting a new radio show, which will broadcast monthly on SiriusXM. That adds another non-wrestling venture to his resume, but I fully expect him to continue getting in the ring here and there.

Smackdown is reportedly leaving NBC Universal, while Raw will be getting a big rights increase. That could lead to some really interesting changes for both shows in the future.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. Given how things have gone since WM34, I definitely think switching AJ and Roman as champions could have been a good move.

2. It looks like they didn't want Roman to beat Brock, but they didn't want him to slip even further than that by losing to Joe on PPV. WWE's booking lately has been a mess.

3. Dear God. Brock being in the title picture all the way through Survivor Series??? This might have worked when there were only four PPVs, but I'm skeptical about it working in 2018/2019.

4. I wouldn't mind that idea, but I don't think Braun needs the briefcase to get that match. Finn winning as part of a heel turn is my pick.

5. Find a sugar daddy (or momma, or parent) willing to throw millions and millions of dollars at them, win the lottery, etc. Even then, it would be a while before they could compete directly with WWE. They'd need a big rights deal and years of being able to restock their roster. In their current state, they're not really in position to be competition to NXT, much less WWE as a whole.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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