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Sunday, February 17, 2019

Main Event Reax - 2/16/19, Henry documentary replaying, more Paige promotion, watch the Chamber built, Raw+NXT live event notes, former Impact World Champion re-signs, another One Night Only show set, and Questions on the success of Tough Enough/the original NXT, "The Woman" vs. "The Man," Supercard's IWGP Title match, WWE-MSG, WWE Studios-Netflix, and Shaul Guerrero

-- Main Event:
- HM vs. Ascension:
Four wrestlers with no last names!

I like this so far. 

Pretty fun.

- Jinder/Singhs vs. Breeze/B-Team:
We need some comedy segments with Breeze, Bo, and Curtis.

Fine enough. The Singhs are pretty basic.

Mark Henry's documentary will re-air after Raw. Glad he's being featured after so many years with the company.

Paige spoke to the LA Times about "Fighting With My Family."

WWE live-streamed the building of the Elimination Chamber.

Raw's live events this weekend featured the first appearances of Ronda Rousey, the Lucha House Party, Tyler Breeze, and Mojo Rawley in over a month. Notably, those names had competed on Raw, 205 Live, and Main Event in that timeframe.

Eddie Edwards has signed a new long-term deal with Impact. Honestly WWE, AEW, and NJPW should have all made him big offers to work in front of larger crowds in a more prominent role. No matter how well he does in Impact, he's undervalued for the work he does.

Impact is working with Kentucky's UCW Pro for a One Night Only show on April 13. Honestly I can't even find coverage of that promotion. I hope Eddie's getting paid well to work these shows...

NXT's Mia Yim and Jessie Elaban teamed to defeat Aliyah and Vanessa Borne at the February 16 Florida live event. That's the first time Mia and Jessie have teamed, so we'll see if it becomes more of a regular thing.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1.a. I mean Tough Enough III was way back in 2002. That's a long career for anyone in the business! I concur the series was a success as it got a different audience to check out wrestling content.

1.b. NXT wasn't a huge success as a TV product, by any means, but yes, it did provide TV (later WWE.com) exposure and experience for talents to get something that worked.

2. I could see someone doing it as a comedy thing, like Santina Marella or James Ellsworth, but I don't really see it going as well as Becky Lynch's nickname.

3. I'd be surprised if Jay White isn't in the title picture then. Okada and Ibushi are the top expected opponents. NJPW definitely wants to establish White as a top name with Omega out.

4. WWE is not happy "their" arena is running against them during WrestleMania weekend. I doubt we've seen the last WWE show there, but certainly it'll take some time for the two sides to work together again.

5. Netflix is paying them to make content. They'd much rather have someone else pay for and distribute their productions than put it out themselves!

6. Yes. She was in WWE developmental as Raquel Diaz quite a while ago, but didn't make it past a few NXT TV appearances.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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