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Saturday, October 20, 2018

HoFer booked for Raw, Evolution special on USA and E!, Braun hurt at Raw, WWE exec honored, Interviews with JBL/Paige/Lita, NWA showcases rebooted title, Global Wars matches announced, Impact audience, more Evolution battle royal participants, more names at Evolution, potential Network tier perks, WWE Night guests, Raw names back in action, and Questions on honoring legends at Evolution, WWE's next female HoFer, booking Sunny, Brie wrestling at Evolution, and the Evolution commentary team

Shawn Michaels is expected at Raw to continue the build to Crown Jewel.

A "Road to Evolution" special will air on USA Network after Raw and E! after "Total Divas." This is an important event for WWE.

Braun Strowman hurt his eye during Raw.

Michelle Wilson was honored by Make-A-Wish.

JBL discussed Crown Jewel and more.

Paige discussed Smackdown 1000 and more.

NWA revealed the new National Championship. I love the throwback design.

Announced for Global Wars:
- Jay Lethal, Jonathan Gresham, KUSHIDA, and Chris Sabin vs. Tetsuya Naito, EVIL, BUSHI, and SANADA for November 7 in Maine
- Jay Lethal and Jonathan Gresham vs. the Young Bucks vs. Vinny Marseglia and TK O'Ryan vs. Chris Sabin and KUSHIDA for November 8 in Massachusetts
- Jonathan Gresham vs. KUSHIDA vs. Flip Gordon vs. BUSHI for November 9 in New York
- Jay Lethal vs. Kenny King for the ROH World Championship for November 11 in Ontario

Lita spoke to Natalya for Natalya's newspaper column.

Impact Wrestling drew 189,000 viewers Thursday night for the show after Bound For Glory, marking three straight weeks under 200,000 for the first time in series history. They've got a difficult road ahead in staying on U.S. TV in 2019 with those numbers.

Evolution's battle royal has added Michelle McCool, Alundra Blayze, Ivory, Molly Holly, Kelly Kelly, and Maria Kanellis.

Ric Flair has been booked for Evolution, as have NXT names Taynara Conti, Xia Li, Shadia Bseiso, and Kavita Devi. The last names show the international reach of the WWE Performance Center.

WWE has asked fans about the following Network perks:
- A monthly Saturday Night's Main Event
- Airing live events
- Airing PROGRESS and ICW live
- PROGRESS and ICW video libraries
- free shipping on WWE merchandise orders
- early access to tickets
- early entry to live events
- alternate commentary and audio
- downloading content to watch offline
- voting for the WWE Hall of Fame
- Impact Wrestling, LU, ROH, CHIKARA, and EVOLVE content
-- The company is absolutely building the service in a major way in 2019

WWE Night in New Jersey featured Mick Foley, Becky Lynch, and Curt Hawkins.

Alexa Bliss and Sasha Banks returned to action in tag matches at Raw live events this weekend. Sasha teamed with Bayley and Dana Brooke to defeat Ruby Riott, Liv Morgan, and Alicia Fox, while Alexa teamed with Mickie James in a loss to Ronda Rousey and Nia Jax

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I think there'll be a video package or something, but I don't think there will be any formal ceremony.

2. I was going to go with Molly Holly, but Paige makes a lot of sense, too.

3. Ultimately it will be up to each promoter to see how much they trust her, what the price is compared to the value, etc. I do think she deserves a chance to rehabilitate.

4. It doesn't look like it at this juncture.

5. I definitely expect Renee Young to be part of it. I'd be surprised if they didn't have at least one more experienced commentator alongside Renee and/or Beth.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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