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Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Cyborg vs. Rousey?, assorted WWE press, Interviews with Rollins/Stephanie/Elias, how SDL talents made it to Raw, Evolution travel issues, WWE video games getting more investment, Attitude Era star arrested again, AJ DVD trailer, SDL star impresses Management, MMA stars debuting in NXT soon, Riddle updates, and a Question on inaccurate reporting

MMA's Cris Cyborg discussed potentially wrestling Ronda Rousey. I'm starting to think we're going to see more names choose wrestling over MMA.

Finn Balor appeared in a UK star's music video. Miles Kane's album has the same name as Balor's double stomp finisher. It's good to see WWE is cool enough to cross over like that again.

O.A.R. was backstage at Raw ahead of working with Connor's Cure.

Seth Rollins discussed Extreme Rules and more with Lilian Garcia. Here are highlights. A certain subset of fans have really hijacked the business at the expense of the majority of the crowd. With Triple H increasingly catering to them, that's only going to get worse.

Stephanie McMahon talked to Sky Sports about Evolution, putting WWE over pretty heavily. I absolutely think Ronda vs. Charlotte could headline WrestleMania if presented well.

Smackdown Live talents were flown to Raw and back on WWE's corporate jet in order to attend the Evolution announcement. That's pretty cool.

Evolution in New York will precede a Raw in North Carolina, which could lead to issues from a production standpoint given the long travel between the two venues.

WWE's video game franchise will get increased investment from 2K. It will be interesting to see what that involves.

Elias promoted his new album and more. It's nice to see him getting press outside of WWE.

WWE showed footage of creating their action figures. That's always cool to see.

Raw drew 2.78 million viewers Monday, somewhat dropping from last week despite the advertised Extreme Rules rematch headlining.

The former Grandmaster Sexay was arrested earlier this month for DUI and evading the police. This follows a previous arrest in June. He could really use some help.

Mark Andrews' band has released a new single. If he wasn't in a different weight class, there's a natural feud with Elias there.

AJ Styles' upcoming WWE DVD got a trailer. He and Samoa Joe are the only names I'm aware of with DVDs from WWE, Impact, and ROH. That's really special.

Andrade Almas impressed WWE Management during his match with AJ Styles. Good to see them realizing what people watching his NXT title reign saw. Better late than never.

MMA stars Marina Sharif and Jessamyn Duke will debut for NXT Thursday night at a Florida live event. I'm interested to see them when they make it to TV.

Matt Riddle has pulled out of a California independent date this weekend, but will work his scheduled EVOLVE dates for August. It's increasingly expected he'll be starting with NXT soon, likely appearing in some form at Takeover: Brooklyn.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com question:
1. Dave did a great job here of discussing the issue from all sides. I really can't add much beyond the practice of giving reporters a self-serving story might not be remedied by having more than one source if those sources are on the same side. If two (or more) individuals want to paint a certain narrative of what's going on, they can and will try to get that story out there. Some people are all too eager to put themselves and their friends over to the audience that reads wrestling news sites.

More wrestling coming up.

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