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Sunday, November 4, 2018

ONO show announced, Ride Along preview, next WWE Network collections, Interviews with Stephanie/Alexa+Ember, Ronda honored by PWI, new ROH matches, NXT promotes Special Olympics, Y2J wrestles in NJPW, Bryan-WWE update, Alexa cleared, Matt Hardy gets physical, Punishment debuts in NXT, and Questions on why some ECW TV is missing, Swagger-MLW, RVD wrestling with bad eyes, Paige back in the ring, and post-Crown Jewel travel

Impact Wrestling has a One Night Only event set for January 26 in Pennsylvania. Johnny Impact, Eddie Edwards, Sami Callihan, Eli Drake, Rich Swann, Fallah Bahh, KM, and Scarlett Bordeaux are advertised as Impact teams up with Pennsylvania Premiere Wrestling. It's concerning they're running an elementary school gym, but presumably it makes business sense for them to do so. They're not really in a position to sell out Madison Square Garden.

WWE Ride Along after Raw will feature Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre as well as Renee Young, Corey Graves, and Nia Jax.

Rey Mysterio and Sasha Banks are getting WWE Network collections in November.

Stephanie McMahon discussed the women's revolution in the United Arab Emirates. I completely expected her to wrestle at Evolution.

Alexa Bliss and Ember Moon talked to SYFY about their influences. It's good to see them getting opportunities.

Ronda Rousey commented on Pro Wrestling Illustrated ranking her No. 1. Tough to argue with that one.

Madison Rayne vs. Britt Baker has been added to Survival of the Fittest.

Added to Global Wars:
- Dalton Castle and Juice Robinson vs. The Bouncers, and Matt Taven vs. BUSHI in Massachusetts
- Dalton Castle vs. TK O'Ryan in New York
- Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky vs. Super Smash Bros in Ontario

NXT stars promoted the Special Olympics.

Chris Jericho defeated EVIL to retain the IWGP Intercontinental Championship on NJPW's November 3 event. Tetsuya Naito then challenged Jericho, so those two will compete at Wrestle Kingdom.

Daniel Bryan is working WWE's European tour after pulling out of Crown Jewel, so he's not on a long-term hiatus or anything.

Raw live event notes from Spain on November 3:
- Alexa Bliss returned to action, teaming with The Riott Squad in a loss to Nia Jax, Sasha Banks, Bayley, and Dana Brooke.
- Ronda Rousey defeated Nikki Bella, so Nikki's still in action for now.
- Matt Hardy made a run-in in the main event of Seth Rollins vs. Baron Corbin, as did Dean Ambrose. Neither man was otherwise on the card.

Punishment Martinez debuted at NXT's Florida live event on November 2, losing to The Mighty's Nick Miller in the opening match. Ouch. Talk about starting at the bottom. I hope he doesn't end up MIA like Dominik Dijakovic.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. It's possible some of them got taped over, too. Videotapes were hard to come by at first, so people make all of them count.

2. Swagger has wrestled since then, but it looks like he's just doing a few dates here and there rather than wanting to have a full-time run somewhere.

3. Basically some places are willing to use him regardless.

4. There are no plans for her to do so anytime soon. As long as she's under WWE contract, she's not expected to be cleared. The only way I would see that changing is if she was pushing to wrestle somewhere else if WWE doesn't clear her.

5. If they were rushed, it was more of a case of needing to travel a pretty long way pretty quickly rather than any kind of controversy. HHH went right back to the U.S. to see doctors in Alabama, and Vince either went back home or will be at this week's TV in Europe.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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