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Thursday, March 21, 2019

More Cody trademarks, Crockett Cup VIP setup, Horsemen at Wrestlecon, New Day teasing quitting, Interviews with Dawson/Waltman, Henry watching Raw with fans, WWE executive honored, SDL audience, WWE HQ moving, and a Question on Vince not changing things

Cody has filed for trademarks on the following terms:
- Prince of Wrestling
- Battlebowl
- Bash at the Beach
- Bunkhouse Stampede
-- The latter three refer to event and match names associated with Dusty Rhodes' tenure in various companies. I'm a little surprised WWE will hypothetically allow a former WCW PPV name to potentially be reused by AEW. And, really, should AEW be trying to recreate those concepts? NWA I could understand, but it doesn't seem to fit AEW.

NWA has set up VIP events for Crockett Cup.

The Four Horsemen will appear at WrestleCon. Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Barry Windham, Lex Luger, and JJ Dillon will all be available for picture opportunities.

New Day is teasing quitting WWE, with promos from Big E, Xavier Woods, and New Day as a group. I'd like to see the Smackdown Live babyfaces threaten a walkout if Kofi doesn't get a fair chance at WrestleMania.

Scott Dawson discussed tag team wrestling and who he'd like to see in the WWE Hall of Fame. The Midnight Express are unquestionably deserving, although of course WWE doesn't give tag teams a huge priority.

Mark Henry is doing meet-and-greets during upcoming Raws. That's a cool idea.

WWE Co-President Michelle Wilson was honored as a wonder woman by Multichannel News.

Smackdown Live drew 2.21 million viewers Tuesday night, very close to last week's number.

Sean Waltman discussed working at the WWE Performance Center recently and more. Here are highlights. They run the same small venues in Florida so much the audience probably is entitled to a degree. To an extent, those shows are more for people to practice things and for producers to see how they're progressing, etc.

WWE headquarters is moving to another Connecticut building in early 2021 or thereabouts in order to have a building that has more potential for production work. Wow. They're making a big long-term move there.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com question:
1. I don't have much to add. As long as Vince can keep doing the things the way he likes to do them and continue to pull in hundreds of millions of dollars from TV deals, he's not going to change much. I do agree the talents who are closer to 45 should be used to help establish the talents that are closer to 30. Right now it feels like everyone gets pushed aside for the people who were over in 2002. WWE is hesitant to embrace a new generation because those talents don't resemble people who were over in the '80s and '90s. I compare this to music. While there are definitely musicians having successful tours who were hot in previous decades, more fans are gravitating toward talents who have emerged more recently and are in their twenties and thirties. And those musicians who are successful in their twenties and thirties aren't successful because they're trying to emulate musicians who were popular in past generations. They're doing something relevant to the current audience.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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