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Saturday, May 4, 2019

Swann-MLW update, Impact meet and greets, Interviews with Dustin/Paige/Ivelisse/Joe/Carmella, CIMA's DON partners, Percy update, Rock puts Charlotte over, UKPC press, assorted wrestling press, Impact doing charity with NFL alumni, another NWA title match at WOTW, Cage injury status, Mitchell on Impact TV, Mack signs contract, Sinclair purchase official, why Dixie was at WWE HQ, SDL live event postponed, Andre documentary coming, replica titles available, NXT live event notes, and Questions on Big Show's WWE status, Sami's diatribes, Punk-DON, interest in wrestling books, and Impact contracts having guarantees

Rich Swann is expected to continue to wrestle in MLW following signing a new Impact contract.

Impact's Friday night TV taping had meet-and-greets with LAX and Madison Rayne. Tonight's taping will have meet-and-greets with Eddie Edwards, Su Yung, and Scarlett Bordeaux. That's a good way to get more interest in the shows.

Dustin Rhodes discussed leaving WWE for AEW.

CIMA's partners at Double or Nothing will be T-Hawk and El Lindaman. The three stars are members of Strong Hearts in OWE.

Paige was on ESPN's Now or Never.

Ivelisse Velez talked about her issues with Lucha Underground. The odds continue to pile against that project continuing.

Samoa Joe did a radio interview.

Percy Watson is still with WWE despite not appearing at the most recent NXT taping. Beth Phoenix did commentary in his place, which may or may not become a regular role.

Carmella discussed her previous MITB win and more.

The Rock endorsed Charlotte Flair.

BBC covered the UK Performance Center.

Becky Lynch will appear at the Greenwich International Film Festival on June 1, discussing top level athletics.

Chris Jericho held an estate sale to benefit JRDF with fans invited. That's kind of surreal.

Sin Cara appeared with the Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Impact and the NFL Alumni Association will work together on charity endeavors. Impact is expanding their work in that department.

War of the Worlds Chicago has added Allysin Kay vs. Marti Belle for the NWA Women's Championship in a battle of Impact alumni.

Brian Cage is not at this weekend's Impact tapings due to his injury. So, he's going to be missing a lot of TV in the build to Slammiversary. We'll see how Impact copes with that.

Jim Mitchell will be part of this weekend's Impact TV tapings, so we could see more Undead Realm-related segments. Eh. I think it's kind of run its course.

Impact's Code Red event has added Tommy Dreamer vs. Sami Callihan. That could be pretty wild.

Willie Mack has signed a new multi-year deal with Impact. It's unknown how this will affect him working in NWA and ROH, but he at least has a consistent contract now.

Sinclair Broadcasting Group has, pending regulatory approval, officially purchased 21 regional sports networks from Fox. It will be interesting to see if that benefits ROH.

Paige will be on "The Real" Monday.

Dixie Carter's WWE HQ visit was to film content for upcoming documentaries. Glad to see her weighing in on people she worked with for years.

Smackdown Live's Monday live event has been postponed to October 17 in the same venue. More on this tomorrow.

Andre the Giant's WWE Network documentary will debut May 12.

WWE Shop has added replicas of more classic championships.

At NXT's May 3 live event in Florida:
- Adrian Jaoude worked his first NXT live event since March 21, losing to Eric Bugenhagen. Jaoude has competed in EVOLVE lately.
- Robert Strauss (formerly Robbie E) managed Dan Matha and Riddick Moss in a win over two WWEPC recruits, and then a loss to the Street Profits. Matha and Moss haven't teamed before, so that pairing is being tried out.
- Kairi Sane worked her first NXT live event since March 30, teaming with Io Shirai and Karen Q in a loss to Shayna Baszler, Jessamyn Duke, and Marina Shafir. Sane then had something of a farewell moment with the crowd.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. It's telling he hasn't even been on the stadium shows. He's primarily used as an ambassador here and there, but is on hand between movie/TV roles if they want to use him in the ring again.

2. Until the fans get the point! Or someone finally interrupts him.

3. I don't see it happening. Maybe some time down the line, but right now he's focused on MMA and other things.

4. How many of those names are currently wrestling on TV? Fans of years past are most of the audience there. There's also a big difference between reading a book at your own pace compared to sitting for hours of TV.

5. As far as a downside guarantee, I don't believe so. Some of them are for a certain number of dates per year, though.

6. I don't think either will try it if they think Impact's going to take him to court for breach of contract.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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