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Saturday, November 10, 2018

Top indie name injured, WWE karaoke, WWE digital awards, Ambrose on Network series, Impact audience, NXT live event note, and Questions on changing Impact management, the Aries-Johnny Impact angle, talents criticizing Evolution booking, who would return for an ECW reboot, and Batman in WWWF

Joey Ryan has torn a pectoral muscle, making his in-ring future questionable. I hope he doesn't miss much time.

WWE's Carpool Karaoke episode has hit Apple TV.

Mixed Match Challenge and Xavier Woods picked up awards from Cynopsis.

Dean Ambrose will be featured on WWE Chronicle.

Impact Wrestling drew 129,000 viewers Thursday night, so fans are starting to migrate to the new timeslot.

Xia Li returned to NXT live events for the first time in a month, losing to Chelsea Green on November 9 in Florida.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. While I certainly don't think you can entirely blame Callis and the other names put in place at the beginning of 2018, the audience has definitely dropped from last year, with notable declines leading into the timeslot change. If it was Dixie, Bischoff, Hogan, Russo, etc. or Vince and Kevin Dunn in charge with those declines, fans and journalists would be calling for their heads. All that said, a lot of wrestling shows have declined this year, as have a lot of non-wrestling shows, as fans have found more compelling options in sports, cable news, etc. Additionally, Impact's relevance and talent roster have been dropping for years since they left Spike. Even in the best scenario, that wasn't going to be turned around in a year.

2. Impact deliberately did a "worked shoot" angle between Aries and Johnny, presumably to try to get people talking as the product's relevance was stalled (to say the least) and Aries' contract came to a close. Again, if it was someone like Russo doing that, fans would be in an uproar.

3. Let's just say I doubt WWE is changing any plans based on those tweets. At least not for the better. The last thing they want is their own talent critiquing the show!

4. The (re)reboot would more likely be "in the style of" the original ECW rather than focused on people who wrestled there, but they could supplement the new roster with names like Rhyno, Tommy Dreamer, Stevie Richards, Little Guido, 2 Cold Scorpio, Super Crazy, and Tajiri (if Tajiri would be willing to leave Japan).

5. Since the Internet didn't exist then and neither DC nor WWE were the major force they are now, WWE was able to slip things by.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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