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Wednesday, November 7, 2018

WWE profiles German tryouts, major Heyman anniversary, Impact sets TV and Twitch special, Be A Star rally, more Global Wars matches, WWE gets Puerto Rican video library, CMLL star joining MLW, Hawkins continues the streak, Ronda note, and Questions on overpushing Ronda, Bryan's future, what WWE should do with Saudi Arabia, and Ronda headlining WM35

WWE profiled their German tryouts, which included the following names:
- Ilja Dragunov of Russia
- Camille Grignon of France
- Raffael Gordzielik of Germany
- Jurn Simmons of The Netherlands
- Mila Smidt of France
- Emil Sitoci of The Netherlands
- Wesna of Croatia
- Christopher Oketch of Kenya
- LX Ken of Germany

Paul Heyman celebrated 30 years (!) since his TV debut.

Impact has announced Nevada TV tapings for February 15 through February 17. Their U.S. TV status for 2019 remains up in the air, but they still plan to continue the show.

Ember Moon and Dana Brooke attended a Be A Star rally in the UK.

Global Wars has added:
- TK O'Ryan and Vinny Marseglia vs. The Boys in New York
- Flip Gordon vs. Eli Isom in Maine

WWE has acquired Puerto Rico's WWC's video library and shipped it to WWE headquarters. Some of the footage may have been impacted by Hurricane Maria, which will naturally affect when and how WWE utilizes the footage.

Impact and House of Glory are doing a joint show WrestleMania weekend. Culture Clash 2019 will air live on Impact's Twitch channel. We'll see if they work with Lucha Underground again in that timetable as well.

CMLL's Rush will be working MLW regularly going forward. I expect we'll see even more of him in U.S. promotions in 2019.

Curt Hawkins returned to the ring at Raw's November 6 live event, losing to Zack Ryder, No Way Jose, and Elias in three straight singles matches to reach 223 losses in a row. That's a fitting return for him!

Ronda Rousey was not at Raw's November 6 live event. Instead, Nikki Bella defeated Natalya and Nia Jax teamed with Sasha Banks and Bayley to beat The Riott Squad.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. PWInsider does a good job of recapping things in some columns and then giving opinions of them in different features. As indicated, a lot of reporters in various industries would love to do the same.

2. Basically we're not there yet, but it's always possible.

3. Well he's still pretty important going into Survivor Series, so he's safe so far. We'll see what things look like moving into WrestleMania.

4. It's easy on paper/screen to say WWE should pull out, but much harder when hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake. Leaving that money on the table could really hurt them with shareholders.

5. We're still long enough out to where things could go any way, but it's definitely an option.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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