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Monday, June 11, 2018

Punk called out by Graves, Punk-UFC fallout, Interviews with Conrad/Hogan+Flair, Ronda contract update, NJPW announces top matches for G1 special, and Questions on NJPW dropping ROH for Impact, Omega vs. Okada's place in history, future Marine movies, AJ's autobiography, and Liger losing so much in NJPW

C.M. Punk was the target of a series of tweets from Corey Graves following his second UFC loss:
- Tweet 1
- Tweet 2
- Tweet 3
- Tweet 4
- Tweet 5

-- This prompted the following responses from former WWE director marketing Lou D'Angeli:
- Tweet 1
- Tweet 2
- Tweet 3
Tweet 4

-- Which Corey Graves responded to with this tweet.

-- Corey then tweeted:
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Tweet 2
Tweet 3
Tweet 4
- Tweet 5

--- Long story short, there's bad blood between Punk and Graves following Punk leaving WWE and Graves staying.

C.M. Punk's UFC career "should be a wrap" according to Dana White following Punk's second loss. While I'm sure a third fight would draw interest from fans, it doesn't seem like he's going to have the chance to win a bout after that showing.

- Punk tweeted after his bout. It will be interesting to see what's next for him.

Conrad Thompson discussed WWE delaying last week's "Something Else to Wrestle With" and a lot more. It sounds like WWE didn't want them going over Chris Benoit's brief stint in WWE's ECW brand and how that ended up. I can't say I blame WWE for that, and, really, that would be pretty much its own episode.

Hulk Hogan discussed his WWE status and more. His WWE hiatus has seemed to gone on forever at this point.

Ronda Rousey's WWE contract is believed to run through WrestleMania 35. Ronda has talked about wanting to have kids, which would derail her wrestling ambitions. That event is long enough away for plans to change, of course. I hope WWE doesn't build the company around someone whose stay could be so short.

NJPW has announced the following matches for July 7's California event:
- Kenny Omega vs. Cody for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship
- The Young Bucks vs. EVIL and SANADA for the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship
- Jay White vs. Juice Robinson for the IWGP United States Championship
- Kazuchika Okada and Will Ospreay vs. Tetsuya Naito and BUSHI
-- Curiously, Chris Jericho and Rey Mysterio have not been announced yet despite Jericho winning the Intercontinental Championship. NJPW could be finalizing plans for them and others. This is a pretty big start, though.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. Absolutely not. This is just a case of Taiji being able to continue to work Impact. NJPW and ROH will continue to work together. Impact has greater exposure in the U.S. and worldwide than ROH, and in the U.S. than NJPW, but obviously they don't run the number of events or draw the kind of crowds ROH does.

2. It's absolutely being considered a defining feud in the history of the business. I wouldn't be surprised if people bring it up twenty years or more from now as being what got them into the business.

3. It wouldn't shock me, if this one does well enough.

4. Honestly, some of the best chapters would revolve around what he's doing now, so he should probably wait until he's retired!

5. Liger is going to go down as an all-time legend even if he never wins another match. As such, he's now in a position to elevate others who could benefit from the rub of working with him.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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