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Thursday, October 18, 2018

More legends at Evolution, Owens has surgery, more on Aries-Impact, original BFG plans, another Impact taping set, Mack's Impact status, Dreamer works double duty, more Global Wars and Survival of the Fittest names, Interviews with Oliver/Orton, WWE Night, Impact star re-signs, NXT UK press, Raw before WM35 booked, WWE promotes nWo again, SD1000 audience and notes, and Questions on female legends being used more, Ronda vs. Nikki, picking a fight with WWE, WWE injury updates, and Evolution's NXT UK title match

Ivory and Molly Holly are booked for Evolution. I'll be glad to see both of them again.

Kevin Owens underwent double knee surgery. He will miss significant time. It's been a rough stretch for him and Sami Zayn.

Impact changed taping plans due to Austin Aries returning home after Bound For Glory. There's no official word on his status going forward.

Joey Janela was originally scheduled as Eli Drake's Bound For Glory performance, with Janela then becoming a regular. Janela's injury changed those plans, with James Ellsworth making a one-time appearance.

Impact has a TV taping in Tennessee the night after Homecoming.

Willie Mack will be a regular in Impact from now on. He was really impressive at Bound For Glory.

Tommy Dreamer worked as a producer at Impact's TV tapings this week.

Global Wars has added Juice Robinson, BUSHI, and KUSHIDA.

Holidead and Thunder Rosa are booked for ROH's Survival of the Fittest weekend.

Survival of the Fittest has added Luchasaurus, making his ROH debut. That might be one of my favorite wrestling names ever. I look forward to seeing how he does.

Lanny Poffo interviewed Sean Oliver on his latest podcast.

NHL's New Jersey Devils are holding WWE Night tonight.

Sami Callihan has signed a new Impact Wrestling contract. So, he'll continue to be part of plans going forward.

NXT UK got press ahead of its WWE Network debut. I could absolutely see Pete Dunne as WWE Champion someday.

The Raw before WrestleMania 35 is set for Washington, DC.

WWE's Twitter account promoted the nWo reunion event, sending fans to Hulk Hogan's website. Honestly during this Saudi controversy, they can do whatever they want with Hogan and it will probably be overlooked.

Smackdown 1000 drew 2.55 million viewers, a sizable jump from last week. That's not a massive number for the show, but it did beat this week's Raw.

The Undertaker's Smackdown 1000 promo was cut short, as was Rey Mysterio vs. Shinsuke Nakamura. A number of backstage segments were also dropped for time.

Kane was scheduled for Smackdown 1000, but was unable to attend.

Randy Orton discussed Crown Jewel continuing, essentially repeating the company line.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. It will likely be a case-by-case basis on who's used for the future, with how much can they do in the ring, how much them appearing will mean for the show, etc.

2. Nope. Both are talented enough to put on a good match.

3. I don't know if any wrestling company's crazy enough to try that, especially since a lot of talents want the option of working there someday. WWE would try to prevent such a situation from happening, of course, but there would be some serious repercussions if someone tried it.

4. There hasn't been any update on Rowan I'm aware of. Tamina will work Evolution, but I don't know if she'll be a regular afterward at 40.

5. This was announced at the latest UK taping.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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