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Friday, January 11, 2019

Graham health update, Interview with Roode, former WWE star on top reality show, Impact announcer done, LU announcer coming to Impact, Nigel trailer, another Impact joint Twitch special, Impact previews tonight's show, Gene celebration in Florida, WWE cookbook confirmed, Ice Ice Sheamy dropped from SDL replay, NXT vs. NXT UK vs. 205 Live Rumble weekend, Y2J teases AEW TV, Tessa hosts AXS marathon, and Questions on RVD's whereabouts, WWE promoting Eva, that Priscilla Kelly spot, and Adamle pre-WWE

"Superstar" Billy Graham has been released from the hospital. He is still battling pneumonia. Hopefully the worst of it is behind him.

Bobby Roode discussed his dream WrestleMania match. I don't expect them to continue their current feud for three more months.

Eva Marie is part of Celebrity Big Brother's next season.

Impact announcer McKenzie Mitchell worked her final date for the company at Monday's TV taping. Alicia Atout could be taking over for her given their overlapping roles. It's unknown why she's no longer part of things; we'll see where she goes next and if she has a future in the business.

- LU's Melissa Santos is scheduled to join the company soon, so she could be replacing Mitchell.

WWE previewed their Nigel McGuinness documentary. I'm curious how it will differ from the one he released.

Impact and Smash Wrestling are doing a Twitch special on February 12. Rosemary is advertised to compete for the first time since April 2018.

Impact released the opening to this week's show. They have impressive production values.

"Mean" Gene Okerlund was celebrated in Florida.

A WWE cookbook is coming March 19. It sounds interesting.

The Bar's rap on the December 11 Smackdown Live has been cut from the WWE Network version. I'm not really sure why, but I wanted to note it.

NXT, NXT UK, and 205 Live stars will compete in a "Worlds Collide" tournament at Royal Rumble AXXESS on January 26 and January 27. Five stars from each brand will be part of the tournament, and the winner can challenge for a championship on any of the three brands. This will air as a WWE Network special.

- NXT will be represented by Adam Cole, Velveteen Dream, Keith Lee, Dominik Dijakovic, and Otis Dozovic. NXT UK will be represented by Tyler Bate, Mark Andrews, Travis Banks, Zack Gibson, and Jordan Devlin. 205 Live will be represented by Cedric Alexander, Tony Nese, Drew Gulak, TJP, and a fifth star to be named, originally set to be Humberto Carrillo. Carrillo could be debuting for the brand soon, and this was inadvertently spoiled.

- The first stage of the event is a battle royal, with the order of eliminations determining "seeds" in the second stage of single-elimination matches. The winner of the battle royal will receive a bye to the second round of the tournament. Good to see all those names getting some work that weekend. Otis Dozovic is kind of an odd pick, though, given his imminent call up.

Chris Jericho said AEW has multiple "strong" TV offers on the table during a Busted Open Radio appearance. This is shaping up to be very significant.

Tessa Blanchard is hosting an AXS concert series Saturday to promote WOW coming to the network. She has a bigger potential TV audience for that than Impact on Pursuit...

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I suspect even if he was able to work WWE in the past couple years, he would have popped in and out for a few months at a time.

Nothing to add to 2 or 3.

4. I wouldn't be surprised to see her interviewed on WWE.com. She definitely won't get the promotion she'd get if she was under contract.

5. I'm not a fan of any kind of "gross out" spots in any medium. So, for the same reason I don't watch Human Centipede and the like, I'm not going to watch anything with her in it if I can help it. But, of course, there are others out there who want more of that kind of thing, so if that's the niche she wants to attract and she can draw money with it, more power to her.

- As for the Joey Ryan comparison, I'm fine with some of his comedy spots but not stuff that's specifically designed to be disgusting.

6. He was specifically hired for that background.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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