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Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Power Ranger wrestling, Dragon Gate talents at Wrestlecon, new Honorclub match, indie announces weekly series, MLW signing, NXT UK names finish at PROGRESS, and Questions on AEW getting a good TV deal, Impact on a streaming service, the purpose of NXT, pushing McIntyre, and if Ronda winning removes suspense

Original "Power Rangers" actor Jason David Frank will wrestle in 2019 for a Texas indie promotion. That's AWESOME. I unironically want to see him face Stephen Amell.

Dragon Gate talents wrestling at WrestleCon's WM35 weekend event include:
- Susumu Yokosuka
- Shun Skywalker
- Eita Luchador
- Yoshino
- Big R Shimizu
-- That's going to be a special event to keep track of.

ROH's January 13 Honorclub event has added:
- Villain Enterprises (Marty Scurll, PCO, and Brody King) vs. The Briscoes and Silas Young. This is advertised as the faction's in-ring debut ahead of a match taped at ROH's post-Final Battle TV taping. It certainly looks like PCO and King are poised to immediately be important.

Beyond Wrestling will stream a live weekly series on IndependentWrestling.TV beginning April 3. That's a big move!

MLW has signed Gringo Loco. That's an amazing ring name.

NXT UK's Pete Dunne and Ligero finished their indie appearances ahead of becoming full-time WWE talents.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. This will be addressed in greater detail with tomorrow's news post. It will be an uphill battle, but I think they might have something up their sleeves.

2. Yeah, Impact doesn't make that call. If one of those places was interested, Impact would have jumped on it by now. Twitch is potentially a possibility, but Impact would definitely prefer to stay on TV. If they leave TV, I don't see them getting to come back.

3. I continue to make the argument that if "developmental" isn't creating talents WWE can use effectively, it's on them. I say that as someone who loves NXT and thinks they're doing great things. But if an NFL team's training camp isn't creating players that fit with what the owners want for their team, despite knowing full well what roles that team is looking for, they can hardly blame the owners!

- Furthermore, developmental has always been about developing people for the entire card. Only a set number of people in any roster can be main event stars, just as only a set number of football players can be the quarterback or in other key positions. Developmental needs to make main eventers, of course, but they also need to make solid undercard names to supplement those main eventers.

4. I think they're turning the corner on Drew. I don't know if he'll beat Brock (I certainly don't see it happening at WrestleMania), but I think things are looking up for him.

5. It shouldn't. Everyone watching "Titanic" knew the ship was going to hit the iceberg. You get the idea.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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