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Saturday, May 18, 2019

Another guest coach, MITB social media, Interviews with Titus/Y2J, Fish uncle honored, new ROH matches, how to watch DON outside U.S., NJPW Lions event set for US, WM36 supershow set, Flair surgery moved, SDL live event canceled, Shinsuke commercial, new NJPW Australia names, WWE scouting in Singapore, WOW secret taping, Raw guest star passes, WWEPC special, new WWE Untold coming, and Questions on Big E's status, not firing Lars, ROH's base salary, AEW exclusivity, Bryan in Saudi Arabia, and Alexa's injury timing

Shannon Moore was at the WWE Performance Center as a guest coach this week. Glad he's able to give back to the industry.

Money in the Bank's WWE Watch Along will have the Usos, the IIconics, Liv Morgan, R-Truth, Eric Bugenhagen, Aliyah, and Vanessa Borne. Pat McAfee is hosting, with ESPN's Field Yates also appearing.

Titus O'Neil is on Edge and Christian's latest podcast.

Bobby Fish's uncle was honored for his military service at an NXT live event.

ROH's July 20 TV taping will be headlined by Jay Lethal challenging for the ROH World Championship.

Best in the World has added Shane Taylor vs. Bandido for the ROH TV Championship, playing off Bandido defeating Taylor on ROH TV.

Double or Nothing will air on Fite TV outside of the U.S. So that's how it will be available for much of the world.

Chris Jericho discussed signing with AEW and more on Busted Open. I'm glad he reached the decision to work with Fandango at WrestleMania. It's a testament to his skill that he could get that angle and match over.

NJPW has announced "Lion's Break Project 2" for CharaExpo USA 2019 on December 7 and December 8, where their California dojo trainees will get experience.

Game Changer Wrestling has announced a WrestleMania 36 weekend event featuring a number of indie promotions. Beyond Wrestling, Absolute Intense Wrestling, and Black Label Pro have already been confirmed for the event.

ROH's June 1 TV taping has added Jeff Cobb vs. Mark Haskins.

ROH's June 2 HonorClub event has announced:
- Matt Taven vs. PCO vs. Flip Gordon vs. Mark Haskins in a Defy or Deny match. If any of the challengers pin Taven, they get an immediate ROH Championship match.
- A tag team gauntlet match with the winners getting a future tag team championship match

Ric Flair's surgery has been moved to Monday due to complications. He is still scheduled for Starrcast II.

WWE has canceled Monday's Smackdown Live live event in order to use top Smackdown Live talent on Raw. This might end up becoming the norm. If so, Raw should drop its Friday live event to even things out. With the declines in live event attendance, it might be the best move anyway.

Shinsuke Nakamura is in a Japanese noodles commercial. U.S. ads need to step their games up.

NJPW's June 29 Australian show has added Taiji Ishimori and Toru Yano.

WWE was scouting at Singapore Pro Wrestling this past week, with Matt Bloom and Canyon Ceman in attendance. I expect an Asian performance center at some point.

Women of Wrestling had a secret TV taping to prevent spoilers getting out. I don't know if intentionally doing a show in front of a small crowd is a good move, but I guess they accomplished keeping things under wraps.

WWE Now will feature Kofi Kingston, Seth Rollins, and Becky Lynch before MITB. That's definitely pretty major.

Former Raw guest star Grumpy Cat passed away at seven years old. Grumpy Cat was more over than a lot of wrestlers.

The WWE Performance Center will have an eight-hour Combine special on WWE Network on May 26 featuring athletic competitions.

WWE Untold focusing on Eric Bischoff's planned 2001 WCW reboot will air June 26. That could be pretty interesting.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. No real update.

2. Lars is a lot more valuable to WWE's future plans than Hogan was/is.

3. I don't think there's one figure there. Someone like Jay Lethal is going to be able to pull a better base than someone like Eli Isom.

4. It depends on the talent! A number of talents will definitely be able to work elsewhere, especially internationally. MLW seems to be safe for now, too. Down the line, that could change, but certain names are going to be able to get concessions to appear in other promotions if both sides see them as valuable enough.

5. No word one way or another. It would be a little surprising for him to hold a championship and not make the tour, but there's no guarantee he'll appear.

6. The injury is real, but they can still do that idea if they want.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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