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Thursday, July 5, 2018

More ROH UK names, Interviews with Miz+Maryse/NXT signing, Bray crash update, reunited WWE team gets new shirts, WWE Network filling out their vault, Impact airing in Mexico, new Impact character announced, Slammiversary perks, WWE trademarks returning character, and Questions on the tiered WWE Network, Impact running PPVs with indies, Neville's WWE status, Gable moving to 205 Live, and WCW+ECW living on as Network series

ROH has announced Joe Hendry, Jodie Fleish, and Jonny Storm for their first International Cup at Honor Re-United. It's good to see local workers getting a chance on that tour.

The Miz and Maryse spoke to Entertainment Weekly about "Miz & Mrs." I hope that show elevates Miz.

Bray Wyatt was cited for careless driving in his recent crash. I hope this is the last time he's involved in such an incident, for his sake and others.

Team Hell No has new T-shirts. Kane and WWE are smart to take advantage of what's left of his wrestling career.

Sports Illustrated spoke with NXT's Rinku Singh. I admire his drive.

WWE Network is focusing on continuing existing libraries in the vault section for the remainder of 2018 rather than debuting new shows. Specifically, there are plans for adding more content from Mid-South Wrestling, WWWF All-Star Wrestling, WCW Saturday Night, and WWF Coliseum Home Videos.

Impact Wrestling's TV show will begin airing in Mexico this weekend. That's a good expansion for them as they feature more talent working down there.

Impact is teasing a new character, Border City Wrestling's Stone Rockwell. We'll see how this turns out.

Slammiversary's VIP package will feature bingo with wrestlers as well as a screening of a Johnny Impact movie. They're really stretching to make an experience fans will pay for.

WWE has trademarked "Dr. Shelby," so we could be seeing him more regularly. There could be a fun web series centered around him.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I think it could still happen with them showcasing companies like EVOLVE and PROGRESS on the service. I think the holdup is they're still hesitant with the idea of active non-WWE promotions being featured.

2. Not at all. Impact is getting their stars some more work out of it, and it's presumably easier and less expensive than running live events on their own. If anything, it's a sign of them getting things together.

3. He wants out of his deal, but WWE doesn't want him to jump to another promotion and boost them, so they're presumably paying him his downside guarantee to stay on the bench. WWE literally has enough money to pay people to NOT wrestle. Let that sink in.

4. I think he'd succeed as far as doing better work and the like. There are a number of people who could benefit from moving there (Tye Dillinger comes to mind), but, yes, he gets more work and more pay filling space on Raw live events.

5. There was actually a pitch to do the 2006 ECW relaunch on WWE.com, interestingly enough. I tend to think they'd still just pick up the better wrestlers for their existing brands rather than spending millions of dollars keeping WCW and ECW alive on a service with a much smaller audience. They were planning on shuttering Impact when there was talk of buying it, after all.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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