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Saturday, April 20, 2019

Main Event Reax - 4/19/19, NJPW announces second Australia show, assorted wrestling press, Flair roast at Starrcast, Cross brand update, new WotW title match, new ROH interviewer, new Lifeblood member?, WWEPC guest coach, more on Rocky book, new WWE show trademark, Flair trademarks, NXT-EVOLVE matches, WWE commentator tryout, NXT team done at EVOLVE, AEW name finishing in EVOLVE, NXT UK roster move?, NXT+Raw live event notes, and Questions on Cross joining Bray, overcoming being buried, Chris Adams, David Benoit wrestling, The Club's future, and WWE's Bunny

-- Main Event:
- Dana vs. Tamina:
The Raw women's division is really in for a shift with Ronda, Nia, Bayley, Ember, Mickie, Liv, and potentially Sasha gone. 

This isn't bad.

Fine work.

- HM vs. B-Team:
Note that HM was drafted to Smackdown Live after this was taped.

Fun enough so far.

HM is working things out pretty well.

That was pretty fun at the end.


NJPW announced a June 30 event in Sydney, Australia, as expected. This will be a smaller event than the one on the preceding night.

Seth Rollins promoted The Shield's Last Stand.

Mark Henry discussed Kofi Kingston's WWE Championship win. I definitely hope he inspires others to excel.

SNL's Colin Jost discussed working WrestleMania and more. He and Michael Che were used appropriately.

Ric Flair will be roasted at Starrcast II. That could really be something special.

Nikki Cross is scheduled for Raw this week. She has not officially been assigned a brand. Raw could definitely use her more.

John Cena guest hosted "Ellen" Friday.

War of the Worlds' May 12 event in Illinois will feature Guerrillas of Destiny vs. The Briscoes for the ROH Tag Team Championship. I could definitely see a title switch there.

ROH is using Quinn McKay as a backstage interviewer going forward.

ROH is considering Flip Gordon for Lifeblood now that David Finlay is injured. They might as well...

The WWE Performance Center saw Mike Quackenbush back as a guest coach this past week. He's really getting to head there a lot.

The Rock will write the foreword for the upcoming Rocky Johnson autobiography, due September 3.

WWE is trademarking the name "WWE Stomping Grounds" as a show name. I'm thinking this would follow wrestlers in their hometowns?

Ric Flair has trademarked the nicknames "King of Drip" and "Founder of Swag." Amazing.

EVOLVE 127 will feature Adam Cole vs. Austin Theory in a non-title match, as well as Kassius Ohno and Harlem Bravado against AR Fox and Leon Ruff. EVOLVE 128 will feature Adam Cole vs. AR Fox and Kassius Ohno vs. Josh Briggs.

Sam Roberts did commentary for the latest WWE Main Event. We'll see if that becomes a more regular thing for him.

The Street Profits are no longer working in EVOLVE. They had already worked with all the teams there. With the Viking Experience leaving NXT, Dawkins and Ford have the opportunity to take the championship.

Randy Orton appeared on "SuperMansion"'s Earth Day special as an evil tree. I can't say I expected to ever write that.

Jimmy Havoc's final PROGRESS appearance is set for May 6. He'll be joining AEW soon afterward.

Alexa Bliss spoke to Sports Illustrated. She always comes across well in those pieces.

Alexander Wolfe is backstage for NXT UK's weekend tapings, so it does look like he's moving there.

At NXT's Florida live event for April 19:
- Kavita Devi competed at her first live event since February 21, losing to Reina Gonzalez. Devi did compete at AXXESS.
- Court Moore managed Jermaine Haley, the former Jonah Rock.

At Raw's April 19 live event in Missouri:
- The Lucha House Party defeated the Singh Brothers. This was both teams' first live event since March 17.
- Aleister Black and Ricochet made their post-NXT live event debuts, defeating The Singh Brothers after that duo asked for another match.
- Lacey Evans and The Riott Squad (!) defeated Nikki Cross, Bayley, Ember Moon, and Dana Brooke. This was Liv and Dana's first live event match since March 17, and Ember's first live event since January 20. That's a pretty wild combination of women/gimmicks.
- The Shield defeated Baron Corbin, Bobby Lashley, and Jinder Mahal in Roman's first live event since October 14 and Jinder's first live event since March 17.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. There's nothing to suggest that's what's coming, although obviously that could be a pretty fun combination.

2. Oh yeah, that's got to be the go-to answer. The Miz comes to mind, too.

3. I can't find any record of him wrestling there.

4. I don't expect any wrestling company to use him for the obvious reasons. It also doesn't look like he's interested in putting in the necessary training at this point.

5. They're still expected to leave when their current deals end.

6. At the end it was definitely more Justin Gabriel, including the attempt at a heel Bunny.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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