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Saturday, February 2, 2019

Interviews with Puder/Gargano/Adam Cole, PETA promotes Bryan's title, podcast notes, former WWE star signs MLW deal, new MLW producer, more ROH matches, WWE announcers at Wrestlecon, Impact changes WM weekend plans, Impact name returning to NOAH, Impact documentary, Andre DVD bonus matches, Owens at WWEPC, Sabu book guest writers, AXXESS length, WM35 ticket contest, WWE stars do DDP Yoga, new Network content, AEW crashes Georgia show, top team offered AEW deals, Raw+NXT live event notes, and Questions on Jarrett's Anthem lawsuit, Ryback's future, Dixie post-Impact, and Nia taking liberties

Daniel Puder was profiled as he takes on a new job.

PETA covered Daniel Bryan's new championship. Now there's an organization that knows how to get heat! Due to some of the other graphic content included in the blog post, I won't post it here.

Edge and Beth Phoenix do a Q&A on the most recent Edge and Christian podcast.

Jerry Lawler discussed his Royal Rumble experience on his most recent podcast.

Simon Gotch has signed a deal with MLW. Glad he's getting work.

MLW is getting a new segment producer from A&E's Live PD.

ROH had announced the following matches:
-- For the February 9 TV taping in Florida:
- Jay Lethal and Jonathan Gresham vs. Coast 2 Coast
- Dalton Castle vs. Kenny King
- Rush vs. Tracy Williams

-- For the February 10 HonorClub event in Florida:
- Juice Robinson, Bandido, David Finlay, and Tracy Williams vs. Coast 2 Coast and The Bouncers

Jerry Lawler, Renee Young, and Corey Graves have been added to WrestleCon.

Impact's planned show with House of Glory has been dropped due to concerns about the New York State Athletic Commission. Impact is instead running the just-announced joint show with WrestlePro in New Jersey WrestleMania weekend. There are plans to work with HOG again at some point.

Eddie Edwards is going to work Pro Wrestling NOAH again soon. Good to see him getting work there.

The Global Wrestling Network has added a backstage documentary on Bound For Glory 2018.

Andre the Giant's May DVD will include a number of bonus matches.

Kevin Owens recently worked out at the WWE Performance Center. I'm curious what he'll be doing when he's back on WWE TV.

Sabu's upcoming autobiography will feature passages from RVD, Taz, Bill Alfonso, Tommy Dreamer, Al Snow, Mikey Whipwreck, Justin Credible, Blue Meanie, Raven, and Kevin Sullivan among others. That should be wild.

WrestleMania 35 AXXESS will take place from Thursday, April 4 through Monday, April 8. That's a lot of activity!

Johnny Gargano spoke to Yahoo! Sports about Halftime Heat and more.

WWE is doing a WrestleMania ticket contest with Draft Kings.

Adam Cole promoted Halftime Heat on TMZ Sports. Well done.

Sheamus and Finlay did DDP Yoga.

The Edge and Christian Show will have a new episode after Raw.

AEW stars made surprise appearances at a Georgia live event, with Cody and Hangman Page saving Joey Ryan from a beatdown. Cody told the crowd he was trying to bring an AEW event to Atlanta.

- The Lucha Bros were offered AEW contracts by the Young Bucks. Before they could shake hands on the deal, the four men were attacked by local talent. Those names and SCU fought the names off. More on the Lucha Bros tomorrow.

At Raw's February 1 show in Saskatchewan:
- Seth Rollins did not appear. Instead Lashley defended the Intercontinental Championship against Drew McIntyre, Finn Balor, and Dean Ambrose.
- Nikki Cross defeated Tamina, so Cross is on Raw shows this weekend.
- Rezar teamed with The Ascension in a loss to Heath Slater, Rhyno, and Titus O'Neil.

At NXT's February 1 show in Florida:
- Eric Bugenhagen is back using that name. He had been working as Ric Bugez.
- Io Shirai and Taynara Conti defeated Aliyah and Vanessa Borne, so those teamings could end up on NXT TV at some point.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. We'll see where things go with Global Force projects.

2. (The) Ryback hasn't wrestled since August. It'll be interesting to see if he returns to a televised promotion in 2019.

3. I was under the impression she went back to what she did before Impact, which was in the Tennessee music scene. There's nothing to indicate she's getting back into wrestling.

4. We'll see if Nia faces any repercussions and/or is told to tone it down. Obviously this isn't the first time something like this has happened.

5. Still TBA!

More wrestling tomorrow.

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