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Thursday, March 28, 2019

NXT/NXT UK name moved to 205 Live, ROH name re-injured before return, United We Stand match change, Impact-HOG show set, Interviews with Bryan/WWE co-president, Lio's diss gets national press, Hatebreed singer wants to work in wrestling, classic Mania matches streaming, Bar appearance, Supercard-AXS schedule, AXXESS names, WWE correspondent pregnant, names announced for Survivor Series, SDL audience, Vince sells $270M in WWE stock, new Honor Club match, and Questions on WM35 women's plans, choosing between Supercard and Takeover, how fans will react if Becky loses, and the build to WM35

NXT's Oney Lorcan has officially moved to 205 Live. Hopefully that's a move up for him; he hadn't gotten much momentum in NXT or NXT UK.

Flip Gordon reinjured his knee during a March 24 match in Northern Ireland. He will not compete at ROH's March 31 Honor Club event as a result. He's awaiting an MRI to see the extent of the injury. That's unfortunate. I hope he's able to rebound and get momentum going again.

Johnny Impact has been moved to United We Stand's Ultimate X match, which is for a future X-Division Championship match. If the World Champion can't win a contenders' match for the X-Division Championship, there's a problem.

Impact and House of Glory will have a joint event on May 5. This doesn't appear to be a One Night Only show, so it could end up airing on Twitch at some point.

Daniel Bryan is on the Bellas' first podcast.

Lio Rush's shot at Rob Gronkowski on Raw got national press. Lio vs. Gronk works for me.

Hatebreed's Jamey Jasta discussed wanting to make music for wrestling. Someone should definitely capitalize on that interest!

WWE Co-President Michelle Wilson discussed the company's content and more with Bloomberg Markets. They definitely make a LOT of content easily available.

WWE will livestream 25 top WrestleMania bouts beginning March 29 at noon.

The Bar attended the International Champions Cup launch.

G1 Supercard will air on AXS in two parts, on April 12 and April 19. Which matches will air which night has not yet been determined.

WrestleMania AXXESS has announced, on top of expected active Raw and Smackdown Live names:
- AOP
- Sting
- Trish Stratus
- Sami Zayn
- Mark Henry
- Velveteen Dream
- Johnny Gargano
- Adam Cole
- Toni Storm
- Bianca Belair
- Harper
- Kevin Nash
- Ivory
- Pete Dunne
- Sin Cara
- Harlem Heat
- Lita

Jojo has announced a baby due in June, on top of indicating she will return to WWE at some point.

Survivor Series is advertising Raw's Roman Reigns, Braun Strowman, Drew McIntyre, Finn Balor, and Bobby Lashley vs. Smackdown Live's Kevin Owens, AJ Styles, Randy Orton, Samoa Joe, and Rey Mysterio. I'm surprised they're announcing anything that far in advance, but I would expect this at least means those ten names are expected to be in the mix then.

Smackdown Live drew 2.39 million viewers Tuesday night, the biggest audience since the 1000th episode special in October. Other than that night, Tuesday's audience was the highest since August.

Vince McMahon sold more than 3.2 million shares of WWE stock for around $270 million (!) in order to finance Alpha Entertainment as it prepares to relaunch XFL. That should go to show how serious Vince is with his XFL plans. Vince still owes more than 28.6 million shares of WWE stock, which represents nearly 37% of the stock and roughly 80% of voting power. So, he remains a major figure.

- WWE's stock took a hit after this announcement, as Seeking Alpha covered. A lot of investors associate WWE with Vince so much that even the appearance of him partially stepping away is a cause for concern.

ROH's March 31 Honor Club event has added Marty Scurll vs. Shane Taylor. That's an interesting match just before Supercard.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. As was said, the original plan was Ronda vs. Charlotte at WrestleMania, with Ronda vs. Becky at Survivor Series. Becky being injured before the November match made him change things to a triple threat. Charlotte has been a target of both women during the whole build, so I don't know why people think she's being added at the last minute.

2. I'm perfectly fine with Charlotte being added and that match headlining, but certainly a Ronda vs. Becky one-on-one match down the line would be great, too.

3. I'll watch Supercard the next day so I can skim through ring entrances and video packages. I'm very glad I don't have to choose between that and Takeover! I'll probably just catch highlights of the HoF.

4. I definitely don't see it being THAT negative, but I certainly think there would be some upset fans.

5. It blows my mind people don't see how Charlotte was positioned to be part of things from Day One. I do think Brock in a Universal Title match and the annual Triple H ego boost are pretty passe, and some other stuff was definitely thrown together late in the game, but it still feels like a pretty important show.

6. Those degenerates constantly came up with a way to cheat the system!

More wrestling tomorrow.

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