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Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Interview with Rusev+Lana, Cena back on set, more Paige coming, wrestling match at concert, NFL stars get custom title, Rollins misses shows, NXT UK star challenging for ICW title, more ROH TV matches, Lethal passes record, confirmed HoFers, AXXESS location, top Starrcast II guest, Superstar Shakeup advertised, and Questions on celebrity wrestlers, WWEPC staff wrestling, the Rumble running long, and a women's only brand

Rusev and Lana are on Lilian Garcia's latest podcast, which included Rusev's frustrations with Creative. He's not the only one!

John Cena has begun filming his next role. Production should end in time for Cena to appear at WrestleMania, although obviously he'll be pretty busy during the lead-up.

Paige is scheduled to be on Smackdown Live to further promote "Fighting With My Family." I'm curious if she'll end up in another role on WWE TV.

A$AP Rocky hosted a wrestling match at the Barclays Center during a tribute concert.

NFL Champions the New England Patriots are receiving a custom WWE Championship.

Seth Rollins did not work this weekend's Raw live events, partially to sell the F5s he took from Brock Lesnar, but also potentially due to needing a couple weeks off for an unspecified injury. They definitely won't him 100% for WrestleMania.

NXT UK Women's Champion Toni Storm will challenge Kay Lee Ray for the ICW Women's Championship on February 24. We could see that match in NXT UK soon!

ROH's February 9 TV taping in Florida has added:
- Kelly Klein vs. Stella Grey for the WOH Championship
- Mayu Iwatani vs. Holidead
- Willie Mack vs. Rhett Titus for the NWA National Championship

Jay Lethal now has the most combined days as ROH World Champion, hitting 646 days on February 4. It wouldn't shock me for him to have another reign if he continues to stay with the company; he's essentially the franchise of ROH at this point.

The Hart Foundation of Bret Hart, Jim Neidhart, and Jimmy Hart are set to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame this year. Naturally this draws attention to later members who aren't being included, but I can't say the original incarnation isn't worthy of being honored on its own.

WrestleMania 35's AXXESS will take place at Brooklyn Pier 12.

Sting has been announced for Starrcast II before Double or Nothing. That's pretty notable!

WWE is advertising a Superstar Shakeup on April 15 and April 16 in Quebec. This, of course, follows WrestleMania on April 7.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. Amell definitely did well in his two showings. I'm curious if we'll see him again.

2. I would think if they were interested it could be worked out, but it would probably be in NXT or somewhere WWE already has a relationship with. The only exceptions I could see would be if it was a special occasion like a longtime colleague retiring or a tribute show. Ultimately I don't see it being incredibly likely, but it could happen.

3. There was an additional thirty minutes of ring time this year on the main show. WWE would say they were giving fans more action for their money.

4 was kind of a tech support question more than anything.

5. That would be choosing not to feature a substantial percentage of the roster in favor of a division that doesn't have as many talents to pull from. I think fans would get pretty burned out pretty quickly if they tried something like that. I wouldn't be surprised if they tried out a women's brand in place of Main Event at some point a la 205 Live, but even that's somewhat iffy.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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