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Monday, March 11, 2019

WWE-SXSW press, WWE rembers Yamaguchi, WWE star works wXw tournament, 205 Live star trains, Lawler needs double knee replacement, Matt Hardy brings back former character, Bryan documentary on Honor Club, former WWE name at Fastlane, title match on Raw, and Questions on speculating on Roman's treatment

WWE's SXSW panel was given press by The Female Quotient.

WWE remembered Wally Yamaguchi. They didn't mention the Val Venis angle.

Alexander Wolfe appeared at wXw's 16 Carat Gold tournament, losing an open challenge for the Shotgun Title on March 9 and losing a six-man tag match on March 10. Damn he can't even get a win outside of WWE!

Ariya Daivari worked short matches at The Academy in Minnesota, which was partially founded by his brother.

Jerry Lawler announced he needs double knee replacement, but will continue to wrestle with injections. That's rough. I hope he's making the right choice there.

Matt Hardy did a video as his Big Money Matt persona, which he used in Impact and ROH. I don't expect this to be on WWE TV after the Hardys reunion, but you never know. It would seem like the Broken/Woken stuff is back on hold.

Honor Club has added a Daniel Bryan collection featuring all his matches as ROH World Champion. Pretty clever timing.

Former WWE star Shad Gaspard of Cryme Tyme was backstage at Fastlane. Notably JTG wasn't with him. The duo continues to perform as a team outside WWE. I'm interested to see if this leads to anything.

Raw will feature Finn Balor vs. Bobby Lashley for the Intercontinental Championship.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. There's a LOT to unpack with this one. For context, I am also a subscriber to this other website and have seen the site go in depth about this and similar issues regarding performers' health, with details that aren't otherwise made public. I definitely feel like it crosses a line to discuss someone's private medical situation in such a way. Yes, it's newsworthy to delve into, for instance, why Lars Sullivan is not on the road right now, but to me there's a point where it goes from being a story about a performer to being a story about the person's private life as they deal with something serious they are intentionally keeping private.

2. I feel uncomfortable speculating on something like that, because, as I said, that goes beyond covering wrestling to covering someone's personal medical condition. I understand wanting to be thorough and cover a story people want to know about, but it strikes me as inappropriate to say the least to go into something that private.

3. That specific tweet was in response to someone saying his coverage of Roman's illness was some sort of way to "bash" Reigns to appeal to the insider fan base, rather than criticism of him running a story about someone's private medical issue. From what I've seen, he hasn't addressed the feeling he shouldn't be speculating on such things in the first place.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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