WWE's German tryout featured local Special Olympics athletes.
Impact's latest One Night Only show did not feature a match involving Chris Sabin due to Sabin's ROH contract preventing him from being featured on an Impact broadcast. Sabin teamed with Petey Williams and Tyson Dux to defeat all three members of oVe.
The OGz and King were not used at Impact's Nevada tapings, as they are not signed to contracts. It's possible they're used again later, however.
C.M. Punk discussed WWE fans chanting for him and more. I expect the chants will keep going as long as it's still hypothetically possible he makes an appearance in WWE. I don't see that happening anytime in the near future, but stranger things have happened.
Added to Final Battle:
- Jay Lethal vs. Cody for the ROH World Championship. This feels kind of out of nowhere in the current storylines, but they want to make the most of Cody while he's still working there.
- Jeff Cobb vs. Hangman Page for the ROH Television Championship
-- Cody confirmed this will be his last ROH match. ROH is going to really take a hit from this and other likely departures in December.
ROH has announced a TV taping for February 9 in Florida before an Honorclub event on February 10 in Florida.
ROH's 17th anniversary PPV and the following night's TV taping are set for March 15 and March 16 at Sam's Town Live in Nevada. It's notable they're returning to the smaller venue there after recently doing bigger attendance in Nevada.
Trevor Lee has finished his commitments with Impact Wrestling with the Nevada TV tapings, and is expected to join NXT in January. Lee's Impact contract runs through December 31, but there are no more tapings scheduled between now and then. I can't say I blame him for heading to NXT and banking on a longer-term future there rather than continuing to grind in Impact and other promotions.
Carmella did a signing at a Walmart before Takeover:WarGames.
Paige has launched a makeup line.
MLW is picking up former Impact star Andrew Everett as a regular beginning with their December tapings. Good to see him getting regular work.
MLW is working on a Spanish YouTube channel as they look to expand their Latin audience. Rush will be a featured talent going forward, so they could really draw the lucha crowd.
Joey Ryan has confirmed he will be undergoing surgery for his torn pectoral muscle. I hope he doesn't miss long.
Shane Strickland will be finishing up with MLW on their December 13 and December 14 TV taping. It's expected he will be joining NXT in the same timeframe as Trevor Lee. This move had been suspected since summer, so MLW has had time to prepare. Strickland also works as Killshot in Lucha Underground.
WWE's December 1 Mexico City live event will feature Raw and Smackdown Live stars.
Impact Wrestling drew 101,000 viewers. Next week's episode is on Thanksgiving, so we'll see what the audience looks like the rest of the year.
The Undertaker and Kane will have a meet and greet in Virginia on April 13 to raise money for a five-year-old with pediatric liver cancer. Both men will be in character. That's a little weird given their characters and the situation, but it's a really cool moment.
Starrcade on November 25 will have a one-hour live WWE Network special. I'm curious which matches and segments will air on the show.
The Great Muta will appear at House of Glory's WrestleMania 35 weekend event, Culture Clash 19. Impact is airing this event on Twitch that night.
For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I'm not qualified to answer that one, as almost all the promotions on my radar fall into one of those two categories.
Nothing to add to 2.
3. I'd be very surprised to see them skip having the Universal Champion and WWE Champion in more prominent matches. It's special to see champion vs. champion matches on top of the elimination bouts.
4. Memphis is probably the most notable outlier now that Puerto Rico's been picked up.
5. The primary goal of the Cruiserweight and Mae Young Classics are to test the waters on signing certain names. They already have a lot of talents under 205 pounds they're balancing how to effectively utilize, so I don't see any reason to look to recruit more. I think we're more likely to see something like an "Independent Classic" exclusively featuring talent not under WWE contract.
More wrestling tomorrow.
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