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Sunday, November 25, 2018

Best of Takeover DVD coming, new Final Battle match, Miz looks back and forward, Big Show updates WWE contract status, first NXT UK Takeover set, Reigns at football game, Fenix hurt, Starrcade special lineup, Cena wraps up filming, Duggan out of ICU, former ECW Champion returning to U.S., and Questions on wrestling documentaries, international wrestling before the Internet, why WWE still makes DVDs, using Roman's illness in the Seth/Dean feud, and how Drake was used at Survivor Series

A Best of Takeover 2018 is in the works, currently scheduled to come out in March. There's plenty of great content to use there.

Final Battle has added Marty Scurll vs. Christopher Daniels, where the winner gets Marty Scurll's ROH World Championship opportunity from winning Survival of the Fittest. That could be a great swan song for Daniels there.

The Miz teased becoming WWE Champion again. WrestleMania is coming!

Big Show updated his WWE status with TMZ Sports. I expect he'll be kind of off-and-on as a wrestler in the next few years, but he'll definitely remain part of things for a while.

NXT UK's first Takeover is set for January 12 in Blackpool, so I assume the Network series will be caught up by then.

Roman Reigns was at Georgia Tech's latest football game.

Rey Fenix suffered a groin injury that will keep him out of action the rest of the year.

Tonight's Starrcade WWE Network special will feature:
- AJ Styles vs. Samoa Joe in a steel cage
- Sasha Banks, Bayley, Ember Moon, and Dana Brooke vs. Nia Jax, Tamina, Alicia Fox, and Mickie James
- Elias performing with Ric Flair
- MizTV with Shinsuke Nakamura and Rey Mysterio

John Cena has finished filming with Jackie Chan. His next focus is promoting Bumblebee.

"Hacksaw" Jim Duggan has been released from the hospital. Glad to see it.

Masato Tanaka is booked for a pair of U.S. matches for the first time since WrestleMania 30 weekend. He's wrestling in Ohio on December 28 and in New Jersey on December 29.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I'll defer to his answer here, as he is far more qualified than I to answer that.

2. I didn't really have the option to follow international wrestling in a small rural town.

3. There's still something of a market for DVDs. Obviously it's not what it used to be, but there are people who watch content that way.

4. It comes across as a cheap way to get people to boo Dean and cheer Seth. If WWE feels they can't get that feud over without mentioning Roman's real-life battle, that's a big problem.

5. I get what they were going for as far as him being afraid of Big Show, but AOP vs. The Bar could have been a hell of a bout if it wasn't for that and Enzo's interruption. You'd think AOP would be right up WWE's alley to push as serious monsters, but it hasn't worked out that way. We'll see how long Lars will be safe from those kinds of shenanigans.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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