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Some WrestleMania 35 week press stories were omitted in order to avoid redundancy and clutter.

Batista has been challenged to an MMA bout by ex-NFL player Shawne Merriman in Merriman's new MMC league. That could definitely be a spectacle.

OVW is seeking to become an accredited trade school, meaning students could actually receive a degree in wrestling. Notably, course work would include finance, business, marketing, and TV production. There's definitely a lot of skills that go into putting a wrestling promotion together. That's a novel idea, but one that could pay off.

WWE Network's latest Hidden Gems are:
- WrestleMania 2's press conference
- WrestleMania III's press conference
- WrestleMania IV's press conference
- Tito Santana vs. Papa Shango, WrestleMania IX's dark match
- A Lex Luger promo regarding WrestleMania X from a 1994 Superstars taping that never aired
- A Razor Ramon promo regarding WrestleMania XII from a 1996 Superstars taping that never aired

AAA announced a Madison Square Garden event for September 15, the day before Mexican Independence Day. That's bold. We'll see how it goes.

WWE Studios and A&E Network are producing documentaries on Randy Savage, Roddy Piper, Stone Cold, Shawn Michaels, and Booker T. for the "Biography" series. Each episode will be two hours. That's quite significant, and a nice move for WWE Studios.

AAA held a press conference to promote their Madison Square Garden show, covered here:
- MSG made a bold move reaching out to other wrestling promotions, but it looks like it's going well for them.

- This is a MAJOR show for AAA. That's a large venue.

- Yeah MSG is a little upset they're not holding any WM35 festivities.

- Looks like this is just the start of a U.S. expansion. That can be big if they play their cards right.

- With WWE's attendance woes, I don't think it's totally crazy for AAA to be competitive in some markets.

- You'd think they'd go ahead and announce at least one partnership for the show.

- Wow. Europe, too? That's really big.

- Oh, yes. This airing live will be key.

- Honestly not securing Cain for this event should have given them pause. They've got their work cut out for them drawing fans.

Hulk Hogan will induct Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake into the WWE Hall of Fame. I'm surprised WWE didn't announcer inductors a lot earlier. They've got some real competition this week.

WWE 2K19 is free for Xbox Live Gold members this weekend. It's also now 67% off. The hype for WWE 2K20 will start soon, I suppose.

Big Show spoke to TMZ Sports about the recent Last Week Tonight piece and more. I agree WWE has made improvements in the past decade-plus to address some of the problems Oliver mentioned. I still think it'd be good for there to be a sit-down with Oliver and someone from WWE to discuss the issues involved in depth.

WrestleMania 35 has officially added The Revival vs. Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder for the Raw Tag Team Championship. I could see a title change in the local market, even if it just lasts that night. I'd pop for Kyle O'Reilly and Bobby Fish beating them for the title on Raw, honestly.

WWE will report Q1 2019 financial results on April 25. WrestleMania 35 is included in Q2.

William Regal and Canyon Ceman were scouting talent at Bloodsport this weekend. Regal was also at Battleclub Pro.

Dean Ambrose was in attendance at Bloodsport. He'll be free to work there and elsewhere soon.

Howard Finkel is in town for WrestleMania for the first time in several years. Glad to see him well enough to be there.

The Undertaker is in town for WrestleMania, but that doesn't mean he'll be on-screen. It's definitely going to feel odd to have a WrestleMania without him!

"Rowdy" Roddy Piper has been honored with a WWE statue. I'm glad to see it!

Kofi Kingston is the subject of an upcoming "WWE 24."

AXXESS is featuring Sonjay Dutt and Abyss. That's pretty cool!

At AXXESS on Thursday:
- Candice LeRae and Mia Yim teamed to defeat Aliyah and Vanessa Borne. We'll see if Candice and Mia team more.
- Raw's No Way Jose defeated NXT's Eric Bugenhagen. I wouldn't be shocked to see them team up.
- Raw's Apollo Crews defeated NXT's Fabian Aichner.

Stokely Hathaway is now Courtenay Moore. Yikessssss. We'll see how that works out.

NXT has a new theme song. I'm not sure how wise it was to make a video featuring people who are likely leaving after WrestleMania! Still a pretty badass video.

WWE Hall of Fame's Legacy wing has added:
- Bruiser Brody
- Wahoo McDaniel
- Luna Vachon
- SD Jones
- Professor Toru Tanaka
- Primo Carnera
- Joseph Cohen, who created the MSG Network
- Hisashi Shinma, former WWF President
- Buddy Rose
- Jim Barnett

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. They are still with WWE as ambassadors and public figures.

Nothing to add to 2 or 5.

3. I'd think it'd be about the same as any other "documentary" footage, and, yes, for legal reasons in case there's ever a lawsuit about the procedures.

4. I could see them filming SDL at AXXESS if they don't want to do a separate taping.

More wrestling tomorrow.