Samoa Joe beat up Tye Dillinger before Smackdown Live. It seems like they're putting Joe to the side so as not to overshadow Rusev challenging for the WWE Title. I fully expect AJ vs. Joe at Summerslam.
Jeff Jarrett is doing a one man show starting July 25 and airing on FITE TV.
Hiromu Takahashi has returned to Japan to continue treatment after his G1 Special injury. Hopefully it's a good sign that he was able to travel back. There's no timetable for his return yet.
William Regal, Steve Corino, and Satoshi Kojima remembered Shinya Hashimoto on the 13th anniversary of his passing.
Kurt Angle is selling his Survivor Series 2017 gear to fund blood cancer research. That's really great!
Corey Graves now has a "Shut Up Saxton" T-shirt. Good times.
Braun Strowman and Alexa Bliss put over the WWE Performance Center. It's definitely miles ahead of what previous generations had to train in.
Kaitlyn is returning to WWE for the Mae Young Classic. That's awesome! I look forward to seeing her next chapter.
Smackdown Live drew 2.19 million viewers Tuesday, an increase from last week's total of just over two million.
Beth Phoenix was at the WWE Performance Center recently, presumably as a guest speaker.
WWE Network's latest Hidden Gem is the "Black Saturday" episode of WCW, where Vince McMahon announced the purchase of the show's timeslot in 1984 in one of the most controversial and derided moments in wrestling history.
The Rock discussed returning to WWE. No concrete plans for a return.
The Rock's mom discussed Rock's daughter training to be a wrestler and Nia Jax at Extreme Rules.
Sami Zayn launched a fundraiser for Syria. Zayn is of Syrian descent.
ROH Dojo has partnered with four other wrestling schools: The Monster Factory, Team 3D Academy, MCW, and the Power Factory. That's a big step for their talent development, and probably ensures Bully Ray will be linked to the company for quite some time.
Bully Ray vs. Chuckie T is set for ROH's July 20 event. That might be tolerable.
Kay Lee Ray has been announced for Honor Re-United on August 16 in Scotland. WOH has featured a good variety of workers.
- Marty Scurll and the Young Bucks will face the Briscoes and Punishment Martinez on that show, too. Sounds good!
Maria Kanellis-Bennett is about to begin training to return to WWE TV. I'm curious to see how she and Mike will do once they're able to go full-time.
For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. Brock's title reign has overstayed its welcome. It's time for a new champion to be crowned and for Brock to go be a UFC guy for a while.
2. Realistically Brock can probably get any deal he wants given how valuable he is to both sides, but I expect his WWE contract to expire and for him to focus full-time on UFC.
3. That's all the more reason to let his contract expire and let him go do UFC, so WWE can't take any blame. He's only got so many more fights in him, and then WWE will probably be able to get him back without much of a counter-offer from Dana White.
4. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if Brock held the title for life, and everyone from now on is just the "interim champion."
5. I'd pop for Hulk facing Curt Hawkins after Hawkins does an open challenge. Hulk wins in two minutes and cuts a promo and all that. As for Michaels, it's a shame we can't see DX vs. B-Team that night, as HBK has indicated he wants to do a comedy team match and that would be perfect.
More wrestling tomorrow.
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