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Saturday, December 8, 2018

Main Event Reax - 12/7/18, Impact team releases Christmas book, Midnight Express on tour, Ryder Q&A, WCCW documentary available, Raw women's segment set, Becky responds to rumors, Hennig press, another Tegan surgery, MJF stripped of MLW title, Extreme DVDs coming, Bush's wrestling fandom, Bella appearance, Cena appearance, Credible arrested, WWE changes MSG card, Impact audience, former Impact champion going for NWA Championship, NXT live event notes, and Questions on WWE reaching out for a Punk return, wrestlers ROH should sign, new wrestling documentaries, and what AXXESS entails

-- Main Event:
- Breeze vs. Hawkins:
I like this so far.

Ahhhhh Hawkins ALMOST had it. 0-239.

- Ryder/B-Team vs. Mojo/Ascension:
Wow. That was quick. 

Impact's KM and Fallah Bahh have released a Christmas book. That sounds bizarrely entertaining.

The Midnight Express' Jim Cornette, Bobby Eaton, and Dennis Condrey are doing a 35th anniversary signing tour beginning this weekend. This is Condrey's return to the road after defeating throat cancer.

Zack Ryder joined Christian for a Q&A episode of Edge and Christian's podcast.

The "Heroes of World Class" documentary is available from Highspots.com in limited quantities.

Alexa Bliss is holding a "press conference" on Raw with Ronda Rousey and Nia Jax. Hopefully the questions will be better than the fake audience member questions we've gotten lately.

Becky Lynch responded to reports of her TLC status.

Larry "The Axe" Hennig's passing got press in Minnesota.

Tegan Nox underwent another knee surgery to clear up some issues. She's still a long way from getting back in the ring.

MJF has been stripped of the MLW Middleweight Championship due to injury. The remaining competitors in the scheduled ladder match (Dezmond Xavier, Andrew Everett, Kotto Brazil, and Jason Cade) will now face off to crown a new champion on December 14.

Extreme Wrestling Legends will release four DVDs on December 11, honoring Public Enemy, Sabu, The Sandman, New Jack, Rob Van Dam, and Raven.

George H.W. Bush's wrestling fandom was covered.

The Bella Twins were at the Z100 Jingle Ball concert in Madison Square Garden.

John Cena was on The Graham Norton Show. Graham would belong in the WWE Hall of Fame if he took that bump.

Justin Credible has been arrested for violating a protective order, criminal mischief, assault, and breach of peace. He is being held for $50,000 bond. He's had a really rough past couple of years. I hope things turn around for him soon, because things are getting scary.

WWE's Madison Square Garden show has changed:
- John Cena is no longer advertised as wrestling, but will be appearing.
- Johnny Gargano has been removed from NXT's tag match, likely due to his heel turn.
- Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre are no longer advertised.

Impact Wrestling drew 116,000 viewers Thursday night.

James Storm will challenge for the NWA Championship on NWA's January 5 event, the night before Impact's Homecoming PPV.

At NXT's January 7 show in Wisconsin:
- Kairi Sane, Candice LeRae, and Dakota Kai defeated Shayna Baszler, Jessamyn Duke, and Marina Shafir by disqualification. Dakota left the match early due to an unspecified injury. It's strange Candice replaced Io Shirai there given the TV angle. Io was in Florida, in a triple threat with Lacey Evans and Mia Yim. Lacey won.
- Kona Reeves was in the main event, teaming with Tommaso Ciampa in a loss to Aleister Black and Ricochet. I get he was there to take the pin, but surely they could have used Ohno or someone instead.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. Braun is expected back in time for the Royal Rumble, so that won't be a factor. I think they'll call people they're on better terms with (Rock, Jericho, HBK) before they consider reaching out to Punk. Never say never, but they'd really have to be backed into a corner to try to get him back.

Nothing to add to 2 or 6.

3. No way could I compete with that list. To some degree we don't know who will break out until they get that chance.

4. VINCE MCMAHON DAMMIT. Or The Undertaker or Kane? I can't say I'd disagree with Funk or Piper, though.

5. There's no guarantee of a picture or autograph. Fans have to choose whether they want to spend time in line to meet the advertised stars vs. other attractions there.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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