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Saturday, February 16, 2019

WWE Confidential coming to Network, wrestling appearances, NXT VIP appearance set, top name set for Elimination Chamber, Impact names at OVW, WWE Now interviews, Lio does voicework, Andre trailer, another MLW special coming, Schiavone to miss MLW tapings, more on Shane-NCIS:LA, Impact departure, JBL charity, lucha superheroes, WWE gets rights to WarGames, Rumble 2020 set, WWE trademarks Warrior's facepaint, Fenix-Impact update, and Questions on Uso's arrest, how Punk and AJ get paid, why SDL is moving to Fridays, Chris Harris, why WWE is doing Seth-Brock, and Jeff Hardy's contacts

WWE Network is adding WWE Confidential's first season Monday. We'll see when they get to the second season.

The former Jack Swagger is on Edge and Christian's latest podcast. I miss him. I hope we haven't seen the last of him as a wrestler.

Shawn Michaels and Kane will appear at Monster Mania in New Jersey for March 8 and March 9 respectively. Kane makes perfect sense for that; Shawn not so much. Maybe Undertaker isn't able to appear at conventions until after WrestleMania.

NXT has set a VIP experience for TakeOver: New York.

Seth Rollins is set to be at Elimination Chamber. I guess he can cut a promo about Brock not being there like everyone else has. ZZZZZZZ.

Sgt. Slaughter promoted WrestleMania on Boomer and Gio, as well as Taz and the Moose.

Mandy Rose promoted Elimination Chamber.

Sami Callihan and the other oVe members appeared at OVW's most recent TV taping to set up the Impact vs. OVW One Night Only show on March 2. That's pretty fitting.

AJ Styles, Braun Strowman, and the Riott Squad will appear on WWE Now before Elimination Chamber.

Lio Rush provided a voice for an American Psychological Association children's book, along with his wife and son. That's amazing. Glad to see him being someone to aspire to be.

Andre the Giant's documentary DVD got a trailer.

MLW has a two-hour live special on the horizon.

Tony Schiavone will miss a number of MLW tapings due to other broadcasting duties, but he should be back full-time in spring.

Shane McMahon will appear on "NCIS: Los Angeles" on March 31. See, working with Miz has its benefits.

Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows appeared on The Jim Rome Show to promote WrestleMania 35. Can't wait to see them in the Andre the Giant battle royal!

Joe Hendry has left Impact Wrestling, where he had not worked since September. It will be interesting to see if ROH uses him, since he had made some appearances there before signing with Impact. In hindsight, it looks like Impact signed him just to keep ROH from using him, given how he disappeared. If Grado's under Impact contract, I wouldn't be surprised to see him leave, too, since they last worked together.

Stephanie McMahon will give the commencement address at Robert Morris University in May. That's pretty awesome.

Elias promoted Friday's Raw live event.

JBL is part of a charity to bring rugby to Malawi. That's great of him!

Paige appeared on Collider Live.

DC Comics is doing lucha-themed action figures.

WWE has acquired the rights to WarGames from MLW, so that promotion will no longer be using the match type. Frankly, WWE shouldn't have had to, since it was first used by a company they own the library of.

Royal Rumble 2020 will be in Texas. The venue seats more than 41,000 for baseball, so they're expecting a similar crowd to the one they had this year.

WWE has trademarked Ultimate Warrior's face paint design for merchandise purposes, so expect to see it pop up on all sorts of things soon.

Rey Fenix competed at Friday night's Impact Wrestling TV taping despite his recent injury. I hope he doesn't get hurt further there.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. That's not something to joke about! Just kidding. I laughed.

2. All that, plus C.M. Punk being an MMA commentator and having a Pro Wrestling Tees store.

3. At least at one point the goal was to put Smackdown Live on Fridays between sports broadcasts on Thursdays and Saturdays as a link among the three. We'll see if that occurs come October. Honestly that's probably better than going against other broadcast networks' shows on other nights.

4. He had a brief Impact return in 2011, but Storm did pretty well without him and he was pretty burned out by how poorly the WWE run went. I'm under the impression he was unhappy with Impact when he left the first time, so that could have still been the case when his WWE run ended.

5. WWE would argue it's a bigger deal for Seth to wrestle and (possibly) beat Brock.

6. Honestly Jeff could probably sleepwalk through a match at this point he's been doing it so long. Hopefully a doctor has signed off on his eyewear, though. They could definitely damage his eyes if they're not legitimate.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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