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Monday, October 22, 2018

Interview with Rollins, WM35 merch already on sale, Charlotte/Becky brawl at the WWEPC, live event notes, WWE prepares for live events on the Network, HoFer set for Raw, a lot of NWA70 notes, and Questions on Lita's non-PG lyrics, Taker retiring, The Club leaving for NJPW, and WWE calling off Crown Jewel

Seth Rollins did a Facebook Live Q&A Sunday.

WWE is selling WrestleMania 35 merchandise. And I thought Christmas came early!

Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch did an angle at the WWE Performance Center. Clever!

Live event notes from this weekend:
- Carmella teamed with Asuka to defeat the IIconics, so it looks like she's officially a face.
- Tamina competed at a live event for the first time since January, in preparation for Evolution.

WWE filmed a live event last night with a smaller crew in possible preparation for airing live events on WWE Network. Starrcade will also be filmed in this fashion.

Lita is booked for tonight's Raw leading into Evolution.

NWA's 70th anniversary event notes:
- There were a number of notable production issues throughout the broadcast
- Blue Demon Jr. challenged the NWA World Champion to face him in Mexico
- James Ellsworth worked a dark match, as well as appearing on the show proper
- Willie Mack became the new National Champion, defeating Samuel Shaw
- Shannon Moore and Crazzy Steve answered the tag team open challenge, losing to the War Kings of Crimson and Jax Dane
- The Crockett Cup was announced as returning for 2019
- Nick Aldis regained the NWA World Championship in the main event
- The show was the highest grossing event in the history of the venue, surpassing every Impact or ROH event ever held there. That's actually pretty surprising!
- A press conference followed the show
- Madison Rayne was originally set to face Jazz before she signed with ROH
- JJ Dillon was originally set to be in Magnum TA's role, but he had a health issue.
- Joey Janela was going to compete for the National Championship before his injury
- Jeff Jarrett produced the show. CWFH's Dave Marquez directed it.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. It's possible if she became a regular, but given how the lyrics are obscured in the music and ultimately people just hear it as a bunch of noise, she might fly under the radar. It's probably not worth changing such a recognizable song for someone who rarely appears on WWE TV.

2. There's retired and then there's "not coming back for a big Saudi payday" retired. It will depend on how much he's willing to put himself through and how much certain parties are pushing him to keep coming back.

3. Ultimately it will depend on how much money they're offered by each side for how many dates, how much they care about their "push" and so on. I think Finn's more likely to stay than Karl and Luke, but they might also be fine making regular pay at the level they are now and don't want to rock the boat.

4. WWE still intends to go forward with the show.

5. Something that causes enough of a backlash that WWE would stand to lose around the same amount of money they're being paid to put the show on.

6. The more things continue toward putting the show on, the more difficult it will be to move or cancel it. It's going to take something that really puts WWE business in jeopardy to the tune of tens of millions of dollars for them to change things. How many times has Vince gone forward with things people have told him aren't good ideas? How difficult is it to change his mind on much smaller issues like pushes and storylines? I see that same mentality being in effect here.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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