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Sunday, December 30, 2018

Raw dark match, WWE exec sells stock, Interview with Becky, Japanese Hidden Gems, SDL lineup, and Questions on so many Mania week shows, Japanese names at Mania week events, why WWE TV isn't live this holiday season, Eddie Kingston in EVOLVE, and how The Elite leaving affects Supercard

After Raw taped, Dean Ambrose defeated Seth Rollins in a steel cage to retain the Intercontinental Championship.

WWE co-president George A. Barrios sold 37,500 shares of stock for nearly $2.7 million. This isn't expected to mean any change in his position in the company.

Becky Lynch spoke to TMZ Sports about Ronda Rousey. I hope Becky's able to be the mainstream star people are hoping she'll be.

WWE Network's next Hidden Gem collection focuses on Japanese wrestlers. The collection drops the day before Wrestle Kingdom and features the following:
- Antonio Inoki vs. Larry Sharpe from WWF's Showdown at Shea event in 1980
- Jerry "The King" Lawler and Greg Gagne vs. Mr. Saito and Riki Choshu from AWA in 1988,
- Sting vs. The Great Muta from WCW Power Hour in 1989
- Dean Malenko vs. Shinjiro Otani from WCW Worldwide in 1996
- Kota Ibushi vs. Bobby Roode from an NXT live event in 2016
- Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Samoa Joe vs. Eric Young from the same NXT live event in 2016

Tuesday's Smackdown Live will feature:
- Naomi vs. Sonya Deville
- Samoa Joe vs. Jeff Hardy to determine the final competitor in the main event
- John Cena and Becky Lynch vs. Andrade "Cien" Almas and Zelina Vega
- AJ Styles vs. Rey Mysterio vs. Randy Orton vs. Mustafa Ali vs. (the winner of Samoa Joe vs. Jeff Hardy) to determine who faces Daniel Bryan at Royal Rumble for the WWE Championship

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I just intend to cover Takeover, Supercard, and WrestleMania currently.

Nothing to add to 2 or 3.

4. The last match I see he competed in was 2010, and I can't find any U.S. appearances, so I really don't expect that to change. It would be a big expense for someone who's seemingly moved on from the business.

5. Interesting. At the time, I'm almost positive it was announced as a USA Network call to keep ratings up, rather than a Vince call. Either way, I'm sure the wrestlers preferred having that time off.

6. The OGz are similarly not under contract to Impact, so EVOLVE could try to use them if they wanted. That would be interesting.

7. There are definitely a lot of people looking to get rid of their tickets now that they know the show won't be "All In 2," and that key names won't be there. That said, a good number of them will probably still attend, since they've already bought the tickets and it could be difficult to get rid of them.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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