NWA's Crockett Cup event has added:
- Willie Mack and Jazz defending their respective championships
- A tag team battle royal to determine the final team in the tournament
- A Friday night dinner with Nick Aldis and Marty Scurll
- A Saturday morning VIP event with Billy Corgan doing photo opportunities, and panel discussions with Jim Cornette, the Midnight Express, the Rock 'N' Roll Express, and more.
FOX Sports 1 will have a weekly studio talk show discussing WWE beginning this fall. The current plan is for the show to air on Tuesday nights.
CZW is now being invested in by former ECW General Manager Steve Karel, who will now serve in an official capacity there. I'm not sure exactly what this will mean for the group, but it certainly opens up some doors.
WWE is seeking a director of road production, a road video producer, a road production assistant, a social media producer, and a social media manager as they expand those areas of their business.
The Miz responded to the recent Last Week Tonight piece, by not actually responding to any of the issues brought up. Smooth.
Kamala is raising money to pay taxes to keep his house. That's a very unfortunate case.
Honky Tonk Man will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by Jimmy Hart. I wonder if that's why Hart isn't going in with the Hart Foundation.
EVOLVE's Darby Allin is leaving the company effective sometime next week. He has been trying to get out of his deal for a while, so maybe he has something lined up with AnothEr Wrestling company.
MLW will air in Great Britain and Ireland on Freesports TV beginning Tuesday with an airing of this weekend's Battle Riot special. Fusion will then air on the channel each Monday. That's another move forward for MLW.
NXT has signed Aleksandar Jaksic from their Germany tryout. Jaksic was trained by Santino Marella.
WWE stars helped a road producer lose 51 pounds. I'm glad he's in a healthier place now.
Becky Lynch teased Ronda Rousey quitting after WrestleMania 35. That's certainly the popular rumor!
Taz was backstage at Takeover:New York. He's local to the area, but hasn't attended a WWE show in years.
Triple H did a live Q&A session after Takeover:New York, covered here:
- NXT can definitely have incredible success when tied to major WWE events.
- NXT is perfect for having talent impress and not overstay their welcome. Then of course Raw and Smackdown Live have the much harder task of booking them along a lot of other talented performers for a much longer period of time.
- NXT talents absolutely become bigger players over the course of the program, although of course they're not really being prepared for how they'll be used post-NXT.
- That Brexit joke popped me hard.
- I'm very surprised Shane Strickland wasn't around, but maybe they didn't want him to overshadow Kushida's signing?
- Definitely an interesting decision to close with DIY together.
- Honestly it was time for Dunne to lose, and, yes, it's Raw or Smackdown Live time. WWE creative needs to clean house and be prepared for all the great young talent they have.
- Ehhhhh I don't think we'll see NXT on TV.
- Fresh matchups among brands is great and one of the strengths of the extension. When they do cross over, it means a lot.
- I mean, yes, a lot of talent succeeds based on making the most of their opportunities, but they have to get those opportunities first.
For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. In the day of so many shoot interviews and documentaries, it almost seems like a lot of stars are covered, right? We definitely need a Vince McMahon biography some day, though. I don't expect him to write it himself.
2. I wouldn't say so. Certain names, yes, but not the division as a whole.
3. Producers and agents are the same role with different names. I'm under the impression WWE wanted to move away from "agent" the same way they moved on from "house show" and other terms. I see producers as kind of the go-between from Management and the talents, translating what Creative wants to something that works in the ring. For instance, if Creative says they want one party to go over in dominant fashion, the producer works out the details with the talent to get that cross.
4. It was that damned Charlotte getting special treatment again! Typical McMahons doing everything to put her in the spotlight! I sure hope The Man makes her pay for that tomorrow night! Basically WWE put a lot more focus on the main event storyline.
5. I fully expect it to be available live. It will likely be online and on traditional PPV, if not on a TV channel.
More wrestling tomorrow.
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