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Tuesday, April 2, 2019

New wrestler music, assorted WM35 weekend press, new X-Division Title match for UWS, Ciampa discusses injury, ROH name re-signs, Supercard pre-show airing notice, LWT-WWE fallout, wrestling book notes, final WWE HoFer announced, NXT star working Booker T's promotion, Ronda teases future, AEW supports autism, MJF at six, Noam update, Interview with Ricochet, ND wrestling school opens, Roman shirt raising money, UUDD joins streaming site, Flair lawsuit settling soon, Cena done filming, Raw ending followup, Strickland's last indie date set, and Questions on Ronda retaining before losing on Raw, multiple-time HoFers, AEW not being at WM weekend, Angle vs. Bryan, and a GotG WM entrance

Some miscellaneous stories of lesser importance and WrestleMania week hype interviews have been skipped in the interest of space. 

Jeff Hardy has released a new album called "Indviduals."

WWE 2K19's Million Dollar Challenge will take place Friday.

Sasha Banks and New Day are getting limited edition sneakers from Foot Locker.

Bruce Prichard will have lunch with a random VIP ticket holder at 80s Wrestling Con this weekend.

United We Stand will feature Rich Swann vs. Flamita for the X-Division Championship. Dragon Gate's YAMATO was originally going to challenge Swann, but visa issues are preventing him from attending that weekend. That's a big opportunity for Flamita.

Tommaso Ciampa discussed his injury status. He's going to do anything in his power to get back in the ring and succeed at the highest level. I hope he's able to do that without ending up in a terrible predicament once his wrestling days are over.

ROH has signed Kenny King to a two-year deal. He's got the charisma to be an important player there. I hope he's able to be successful considering he's not going to be able to head elsewhere until 2021.

G1 Supercard's pre-show will stream for free on Facebook, FITE, NJPW World, and PPV providers. The Honor Rumble will be shown there.

Last Week Tonight's WWE episode drew comments from:
- Lance Storm 
- Jim Cornette
- Hangman Page: Tweet 1 Tweet 2
- Chavo Guerrero
- Alex Reyes
- Paul London: Tweet 1 Tweet 2
- Gail Kim
- Colt Cabana
- Vito, whose CTE claims were found to be without merit
- C.M. Punk, whose tweet contains profanity but references the tweet highlighted on the episode.

-- The episode got press from Deadline Hollywood, The Huffington Post, Time, Newsweek, and The Hollywood Reporter among others.

-- WWE issued a statement about the episode, inviting the show's host to attend WrestleMania. It would be good for the sides to meet and discuss the issues brought up. And it would make for great TV!

Vader's autobiography is now available for pre-order.

Tracy Smothers has an autobiography coming soon.

Drew McIntyre promoted Raw.

Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake was announced for the WWE Hall of Fame.

NXT's Kassius Ohno will compete at Booker T.'s Reality of Wrestling on April 13. I'm glad he's getting to do that role inside and outside of WWE.

Ronda Rousey released an April Fools' video. She has an interesting sense of humor.

AEW released an autism awareness shirt to promote Kulture City. Wow. That's really cool.

MJF's appearance on The Rosie O'Donnell Show at six years old was found. That's incredible! He's someone to keep an eye on.

Alicia Fox is advertised for AXXESS after being off the road since February 10.

Alexa Bliss' WrestleMania store appearance on April 8 is being replaced with Adam Cole. He could be NXT Champion then!

Noam Dar recently had a knee sprain and bone bruise, but doesn't expect to miss much time. He's very entertaining. I hope he's working on a bigger stage before too much longer.

Ricochet is on Lilian Garcia's latest podcast.

Pat Tanaka has opened a wrestling school in North Dakota in combination with a local boxing outlet. I hope that's a success for him and for his trainees.

Roman Reigns' T-shirt sales will benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Glad to see him helping out others affected.

Xavier Woods' UpUpDownDown is now available on streaming site Caffeine.

Ric Flair and Charlotte Flair's lawsuit over "Second Nature" will be settled shortly as all parties have agreed to resolve the dispute. I'm glad that didn't get drawn out.

John Cena has finished filming his latest movie, which is due to be released March 20, 2020. Naturally this is going to lead to further talk of him working WrestleMania.

- Cena is in the area for WrestleMania, having left filming in British Columbia.

WWE reported Ronda Rousey, Charlotte Flair, and Becky Lynch were released from jail after being arrested on Raw. Wow. WWE really must have pulled from strings after all they did on Raw!

Mickie James has released a new country music single.

Shane Strickland's final indie appearance will be at a Pro Wrestling Revolver event at WrestleCon. So he'll be nearby if he "has a ticket for Takeover."

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I would be REALLY surprised if they threw away the main event of WrestleMania like that. I feel like that would be a flat ending to a major storyline, just for the sake of throwing fans off for 24 hours and giving another major win to someone who is presumably leaving the company.

2. Obviously Booker T. should be a FIVE-TIME Hall of Famer. Other than that, I expect an Evolution induction at some point, so that's another one for Triple H and Ric Flair. We'll see what other changes the Hall of Fame brings - I could see WWE inducting rivalries and/or key matches down the line, which could bring quite a few more awards for certain wrestlers.

3. AEW is very deliberately avoiding WrestleMania weekend. With so much else going on then, they don't have the spotlight they'll have at Double or Nothing. Now, if G1 Supercard wasn't in Madison Square Garden, they might feel differently, but there's no changing that.

4. It didn't really make any sense for their paths to cross, unfortunately. Ideally they would have planned Angle's final run out from November or December, but that didn't happen.

5. I don't expect it, since Batista's working as a heel. Maybe something Dune-related, though.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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