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Thursday, January 31, 2019

Interviews with DDP/Patricia Arquette/Edge/Foley, Ohio promotion changing venues, Itami's future, new Chamber team, new title gets press, SDL stars update, Impact and MLW coordinating during WM weekend, NWA name working at ROH, a lot of ROH matches, Shamrock back in the ring, Haskins hurt, SDL audience, new Hidden Gems, and NJPW-California note

Diamond Dallas Page is on Chris Jericho's latest podcast.

Patricia Arquette discussed David's wrestling return. He's getting pretty good press from it.

Ohio's Rockstar Pro Wrestling is changing locations.

Hideo Itami will be returning to Japan once his release goes through, which is expected to be soon. He will be subject to the standard 90-day no-compete clause.

Sonya Deville and Mandy Rose will team in the women's Elimination Chamber match February 17. I'm curious how they'll do.

Daniel Bryan's new championship was covered by BBC. Bryan's doing some of the best work of his WWE career now. I'm glad he's back, and I'm glad he's heel.

- Wildcat Belts made the title.

AJ Styles and Jeff Hardy are announced for Smackdown Live's May 10 event in Finland. Both men have contracts coming due before then, but there's no sign either man is leaving.

Impact Wrestling and MLW are coordinating talent on April 4 so workers can appear on both promotions' shows that day. Impact has announced a Twitch special with WrestlePro that night following MLW's TV taping.

NWA's Dave Lagana taped footage at ROH's Texas events for their Pinnacle series. He might take over producing all their vignettes. That could definitely be big for both sides.

ROH has announced the following matches:
-- For February 9's TV taping in Florida:
- Jeff Cobb vs. Silas Young for the Television Championship
- The Kingdom vs. Villain Enterprises for the Six-Man Tag Team Championship
- Zack Sabre, Jr. vs. Rocky Romero

-- For February 10's HonorClub event in Florida:
- Jeff Cobb vs. Rocky Romero for the Television Championship (if Cobb retains the previous night)
- Jay Lethal, Jonathan Gresham, and Rush vs. The Kingdom
- Zack Sabre, Jr. vs. Colt Cabana
- PCO vs. Mark Briscoe
- Kelly Klein vs. Mayu Iwatani for the WOH Championship
- Brody King vs. Jay Briscoe
- Willie Mack vs. Kenny King vs. Silas Young vs. Marty Scurll in a survival match
- Dalton Castle and The Boys vs. Shinobi Shadow Squad

Ken Shamrock will face Tom Lawlor tonight in Georgia. Other than two matches in November in Australia, this is his first match since 2009.

Edge appeared on Inside The Ropes. The 2005 Royal Rumble's conclusion was legendary.

Mark Haskins partially tore a calf muscle recently. He still intends to work ROH's events next weekend.

Smackdown Live drew 2.14 million viewers Tuesday night, virtually identical to the previous week despite following one of the biggest WWE events of the year. The lack of a Royal Rumble boost is concerning. That was a pretty major show.

WWE Network's latest Hidden Gems are:
- Razor Ramon vs. El Matador in a dark match from WWF in 1992.
- Konnan as Relampago vs. The Mercenary in a dark match from WWF in 1992.

Mick Foley discussed the original Halftime Heat. One of my all-time favorite matches.

NJPW's January 31 California event closed with Juice Robinson apologizing for Japanese wrestlers not being able to appear on the show due to visa issues.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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