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Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Raw visitor, recent WWE titleholder going to Impact, another Jericho tease, podcast note, more All In praise, another Hogan interview, Raw audience, Impact and ROH apps expand availability, more ROH UK matches, WWE UK return set, and Questions on beating Brock, WWE-Saudi criticism, the GRR cage match ending, and Paige's retirement

Davey Boy Smith, Jr. was backstage visiting at Raw. I'd like to see him return to WWE at some point, but I don't know what the odds are of that coming to pass.

Rich Swann will debut for Impact Wrestling at their next tapings. I hope that's a good move for both sides. Of course, his wife Su Yung recently started working there, too.

Chris Jericho was in London at the same time as Tuesday's Smackdown taping. He got people talking about that possibility with a picture he had taken with Sami Zayn a few weeks previously. VINTAGE Jericho playing mind games with the WWE Universe!

Ronda Rousey and Nia Jax are no the road for WWE's European tour after their NBC upfront appearances.

Taz discussed what would have happened had ECW continued on his radio show. Paul Heyman, Tommy Dreamer, and others discussed this on WWE.com a few years back. It was pretty cool.

Paul Heyman put over All In's success. As was the case with Cornette, this show has sold more tickets than any ECW event. It's truly an amazing accomplishment for a show not tied to a national TV deal.

Hulk Hogan discussed his WWE status and more. Not much new to report there.

Raw drew 2.74 million viewers, slightly up from the previous week. This week and last were the lowest back-to-back audiences since late May 2017. 

HonorClub is now available on all Apple and Android devices. They're still working on getting it on Roku.

ROH has announced the following additional Honor United matches:
-- May 24 in Edinburgh:
- EVIL and SANADA vs. The Addiction
- Shane Taylor vs. Scorpio Sky

-- May 26 in London:
- Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Silas Young vs. Punishment Martinez vs. SANADA
- Jay Lethal vs. Mark Briscoe
- Shane Taylor vs. Toru Yano

-- May 27 in Doncaster:
- The Briscoes vs. EVIL and SANADA vs. the Young Bucks vs. Vinny Marseglia and TK O'Ryan

The Global Wrestling Network app is now available in 14 new countries. I don't know how many Impact fans are in those countries, but hopefully this means more money for the company.

WWE will return to the UK for a live event on August 29. Ronda Rousey is advertised as making her UK debut on that event. Will she be another part-time champion by that time?

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. Seth is already holding gold. I don't dislike the idea of Finn winning MITB and using that to challenge for the title at Summerslam. Otherwise, I'm going with Braun.

2. I think that goes beyond being a wrestling question in most regards, so I'll just refer to my previous answer that I see why fans aren't happy WWE is associating with the Saudi regime, and WWE is hoping to be a force of change in the region.

3. WWE completely addressed this by having the referee say he made the wrong call as he was concerned about the health of each competitor after the cage bump, and then Angle said the referee's decision was final.

4. I see why the reader felt the report was false, since at the time it wasn't addressed on WWE TV, but obviously Johnson has since been vindicated.

5. She's still under contract as a performer, so they're using her as an on-screen talent for the remainder of that deal. After that contract ends or WWE decides to change direction, they can discuss other options. I'd like to think there's a chance she'll take a backstage role at some point, but right now everyone's focused on her fulfilling the rest of her commitments on-screen.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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