Y2J NJPW return match, Mahal honored, Hardy Halloween preview, WOS licensed, 205 Live name working EVOLVE, Interview with Cena, next Network collections, HHH shouts out school, Raw audience, new ROH TV matches, ROH debut set, recent Impact name working ROH, more on Mercury legal situation, another SD1000 name, more NXT names at Evolution, and Questions on WWE selling PPVs to TV providers, how royalties work, WWE catering, wrestlers in the acting union, and Ronda's Piper merchandise

Chris Jericho vs. EVIL for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship is official for NJPW's November 3 Power Struggle event. This will almost certainly lead to Jericho vs. Tetsuya Naito at WrestleKingdom on January 4.

Jinder Mahal received an award on behalf of India's Sony YAY! channel. That's pretty cool. I hope more is coming for him going forward.

The House Hardy Halloween special got a preview trailer. I hope we see some fun cameos outside the usual crew.

WOS Wrestling is being licensed for the upcoming Brand Licensing Europe convention, another sign the project will continue.

205 Live's Mustafa Ali will be competing for EVOLVE on November 9 and November 10. As infrequently as the wrestlers on that show get work, it should be more of the norm for them to get outside bookings.

John Cena discussed his new book and haircut.

Rey Mysterio and Sasha Banks are getting WWE Network collections soon.

Triple H supported a school honoring female students with a WWE Championship replica. That's definitely pretty cool.

Raw drew 2.37 million viewers Monday night, a slight boost from last week.

ROH's October 14 TV taping has added:
- Sumie Sakai/Madison Rayne/Jenny Rose vs. Britt Baker/Kelly Klein/Karen Q, marking Karen and Rayne's return to WOH after working the Mae Young Classic. Rayne has signed a deal with ROH, but I think Karen is still a free agent.
- Cody vs. Kenny King
- Jeff Cobb vs. Shane Taylor, which could really be good.
- The Briscoes vs. Young Bucks vs. The Addiction for the ROH Tag Team Championship. The Briscoes are running out of credible opponents!

Tracy Williams will debut for ROH at Survival of the Fittest on November 4. Good to see a new name in the mix.

- Andrew Everett will return to the company at that event, as well. So leaving Impact is already paying dividends for him.

The former Joey Mercury was charged with criminally using someone else's credit card to purchase more than $300 of goods. More on this tomorrow.

Kane will appear on Smackdown 1000, as part of the build to Crown Jewel. I certainly don't expect him to be a regular going forward; we'll see if he sticks around after the Saudi Arabian show.

NXT's Rhea Ripley, Mia Yim, Lacey Evans, and Kacy Catanzaro are also booked for Evolution. I expect we're in for a contenders' battle royal to face the NXT Women's Champion at WarGames. 

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I don't see why they couldn't just turn an episode each of Raw and Smackdown Live into a "PPV" each month, a little like Impact has done. For instance, the last episode of Raw in February can be their piece of Fast Lane, while the last episode of Smackdown Live can be their contribution to that event. It's worth looking to see if someone would buy additional content for TV, though. It's also worth noting they still make some money from PPVs, so they're not going to abandon them without good cause.

2. I'd think it'd be a case of who was playing the character in the content used, since it would be their likeness.

3. WWE has been doing what they do for a long time. They've got plenty of connections to make things like that happen.

4. Generally wrestlers just do a few acting gigs here and there when they're not available to take bumps, so it's not a big issue. WWE absolutely wants to do things their way rather than the union's way.

5. The Piper situation would depend on whether that family has any claim to those designs. WWE might pay a flat fee to license the design, and/or the family gets a percentage of sales. As for the "Yep!" shirts, I believe Owens and Zayn would get paid and Bryan wouldn't, since the shirts were for them rather than him.

More wrestling tomorrow.