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Tuesday, August 14, 2018

A-Listers appearance, Interviews with Lashley/Enzo, SDL 1000 announced, wrestlers in movies covered, WWE YouTube series added to Network, top execs miss Raw, Joe pulled from appearance, Summerslam opening released, Ambrose back in the ring, and Questions on Trish working with Lita at Evolution, why Alexa and Carmella are champions, how HHH and Stephanie will change Creative, Brock losing the title to Y2J, and Sunny on WWE Network

The Miz and Maryse were at the Teen Choice Awards this weekend. Miz has crossover appeal no one from NXT has achieved yet. WWE would be wise to make the most of that.

Bobby Lashley is on Lilian Garcia's latest podcast. Here are highlights. I hope WWE can make the most of him. Right now they're so invested in Roman they're not going to shift focus toward him.

The former Enzo Amore shot down a return to wrestling. As much as I enjoyed his WWE work, I think it's clear he wants to be a performer more than he wants to be a wrestler.

Smackdown Live's 1000th episode is set for October 16. WWE is already putting together promotion for it.

Wrestlers appearing in movies was covered on Fun.com.

WWE has added its "Formerly Known As" series to WWE Network's shorts section. That's a pretty cool show.

Triple H and Stephanie McMahon missed Raw due to appearing at an O.A.R. concert. O.A.R. is working with Connor's Cure, so this was a business trip.

Samoa Joe has been pulled from a meet-and-greet Summerslam weekend. That would have been big.

Summerslam's opening, featuring Terry Crews, was released. That's really cool.

Dean Ambrose returned to the ring after Raw, teaming with Seth Rollins, Braun Strowman, and Finn Balor to defeat Kevin Owens, Dolph Ziggler, Drew McIntyre, and Baron Corbin. Ambrose looked to be in great shape. I'm glad to see it.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I'd definitely like to see them interact in some way on the show, but I don't think they should face off one-on-one. The show should honor the pioneers of the modern women wrestling era, but it should ultimately push things forward. I'd rather see them work with newer names.

2. Nope. Alexa's a great heel who makes sense to lead the division against all challengers. I think Nia could very well still be champion if it wasn't for getting hurt and Ronda vs. Alexa being a bigger deal. As for Carmella, they're trying to make a new credible heel (or at least one who fans want to see finally get what's coming to her from someone like Charlotte or Becky). Sasha, Bayley, Asuka, et al. are good enough to not "need" the title to be over/credible. WWE knows what they have with them and isn't taking them for granted.

3. I expect Triple H and Stephanie will set the direction and the writers will work within that vision. That said, I can see there being more "wrestling people" in the creative mix, since the business is such a different breed.

4. Brock doesn't care whom he loses the title to as long as he gets paid well for it. Jericho's pretty booked up with Fozzy, and I doubt WWE's going to reach out to bring him in while he's holding a title for NJPW. It would be much better to move the title to a younger, full-time superstar whose career would be elevated by the win.

5. A fair point, but I think they want to go ahead and digitize/upload all the videos in that series. They're definitely not looking to associate themselves with Sunny in her current predicament.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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