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Sunday, January 27, 2019

Main Event Reax - 1/26/19, British women profiled, Charlotte helps military, more Club trademarks, Bella promotion, Interview with Paige, possible Rumble surprises in town, Rumble tickets released, English soccer star honors Foley, Rumble hype, Elite names show up at NEW, Takeover entrance note, what happened after Takeover, HHH conference call, Swagger's MMA debut, and Questions on the OGz in WWE or ROH, Omega at Double or Nothing rally, Kenzo post-WWE, three hours of SDL, Sting's religious DVD, and WWE HQ

-- Main Event:
- Rezar vs. Breeze:
I was wondering what they'd do with Rezar and Drake with Akam hurt.

Fun so far.

I liked that!

- Jose vs. Mojo:
Fine start.

I'm impressed with Jose here.

That was pretty good for the time it had.

BBC's The One Show covered British women's wrestling history. Good to see that kind of exposure for the workers there.

Charlotte Flair was part of assisting a military family in Arizona.

Luke Gallows has further trademarked "Big LG," "Good Brothers," and "Good Brother," while he and Karl Anderson have jointly trademarked "Talk'n Shop." This would allow those workers to use those names and phrases outside of WWE.

The Bella Twins were on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon as well as Good Morning America to promote "Total Bellas."

Paige discussed potentially returning to the ring and more. I don't expect it to happen.

Royal Rumble could feature the following names in the men's match, as they're on the road for WWE:
- Big Show
- Tye Dillinger
- Rowan
- Kurt Angle
- Sin Cara

- Additionally, Hornswoggle is expected to be at the event.

Sasha Banks and Bayley did a live Q&A before Royal Rumble.

Royal Rumble had some floor seats released late as production was finalized.

Mick Foley was honored by an English soccer player using Mr. Socko. Amazing other than the no-sell from his teammate!

Becky Lynch spoke to MLB's Cody Decker before Royal Rumble.

Cody and Hangman Page appeared at NEW's January 26 event in Connecticut to hype AEW.

War Raiders' Takeover entrance featured Sarah Logan as one of the Vikings. She recently married Rowe. That's cool!

After Takeover went off the air, a brawl broke out with Tommaso Ciampa, Johnny Gargano, Velveteen Dream, Adam Cole, Aleister Black, and Ricochet. I like how this all fit together. Could we see an Elimination Chamber match WM35 weekend? That would definitely be a big challenge to G1 Supercard.

Triple H did a conference call after Takeover, covered here:
- Hmmm. I don't know if NXT's quite big enough for a women's tag team title. It's notable the other title is between two brands' rosters.

- I definitely expect more from tag teams in WWE in response to AEW opportunities.

- I do think it's something of a problem the NXT audience can't expect the talent to be handled well on Raw and Smackdown Live. WWE needs to throw down the gauntlet and say that if talent aren't excelling on those rosters, there are a lot of hungry talents in NXT who want those spots. Of course, they also need to throw down the gauntlet backstage and make sure they use hot, over talent in a way that makes money. WWE has access to an incredible depth of talent. If the audience is dropping, it can hardly be blamed on the people who have spent time showing they can draw crowds and sell merch.

The former Jack Swagger won his Bellator debut. R-Truth performed his entrance, but unfortunately didn't try to throw Swagger's opponent over the top of the cage as the last Rumble entrant.

Bianca Belair clapped back at Sam Roberts after Takeover. He was pretty harsh.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I don't think so. There's a reason their matches were kept pretty short in Impact and they weren't signed to longer deals. Hernandez is about to turn 46 and Homicide's closing in on 42. If WWE or ROH wanted them as wrestlers, they could have been scooped up years ago.

2. That would be a great way to get tickets moving and for him to reveal his next steps.

3. After WWE, he worked in Mexico before working in Japan. He's gotten a lot of bookings after his less-than-stellar WWE run.

4. Slim to none unless they move the show to 7 p.m. I would be SHOCKED to see them move their 10 p.m. newscasts. Those have been in existence a long time.

5. I guess they figured WWE wouldn't take them to court over it. They weren't trying to sell a WCW DVD as much as a DVD about a WCW star, so there was hypothetically some leeway. Of course this was also long before WWE did much with their WCW library.

6. It's worth noting the building is largely an office building rather than a big wrestling site. It's a place where people work 9-5 and they don't do tours.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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