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Saturday, June 8, 2019

Interview with Scotty, Impact attendance, WWE charity, possible WWEPC guest coach, more WWE producers coming?, why Alexa and Natalya were in Saudi Arabia, territory name releases book, ROH events announced, new Stomping Grounds matches, Cena gets big film role, Goldberg apologizes for SSD, NXT star burns Goldberg, new Slammiversary match, and Questions on Corbin's NXT buzz, Wild Card Rule limits, why Bully brought a fan backstage, Asuka challenging Becky, and Batista getting movie roles

Scotty 2 Hotty is on Edge and Christian's latest podcasts. He's a producer for NXT.

Impact's Thursday TV taping drew about 400 fans. Yikes.

WWE worked with the Special Olympics in Connecticut Friday.

WWE is looking at using Paul Diamond as a guest coach. They use people from a lot of different backgrounds there.

WWE is looking at getting additional producers for Raw and Smackdown Live, likely in anticipation for the FOX move.

WWE stars visited a local children's hospital in Saudi Arabia. As you can tell, Alexa and Natalya made the trip but ultimately weren't on Super ShowDown.

- Apparently the Saudi Arabian government went back and forth on approving the match, but ultimately it didn't happen.

Territory star "Cowboy" Scott Casey has released an autobiography.

ROH has announced events for:
- September 6 in Michigan
- September 7 in Illinois
- September 8 in Wisconsin
-- It's unclear if any of those dates will be a TV taping.

WWE Stomping Grounds has added:
- Seth Rollins vs. Baron Corbin for the Universal Championship
- Kofi Kingston vs. Dolph Ziggler for the WWE Championship in a Steel Cage match
- Becky Lynch vs. Lacey Evans for the Raw Women's Championship
-- Having a show two weeks after Super ShowDown really doesn't leave room for much in the way of fresh feuds.

John Cena will be in Fast & Furious 9. So now Rock, Roman, and Cena are all in the same film franchise.

Goldberg tweeted that he injured himself at Super ShowDown. Yeah that match didn't go well at all.

- Matt Riddle buried Goldberg's performance on social media. It was definitely bad, but a significant amount of that has to be attributed to him KOing himself early on.

Slammiversary has added a Monster's Ball match with Taya Valkyrie vs. Rosemary vs. Su Yung vs. Havok. That could be really entertaining.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. Corbin didn't have a huge amount of buzz in NXT, at least not at the level of being a top name immediately. He won a lot of squash matches and did well enough making his way up the ranks, but it was way too soon to think he was going to be a big deal.

2. Obviously Vince isn't following through with his promise to fire people who abuse the rule, so the roster is taking advantage of his leniency!

3. The fan targeted Velvet Sky, whom Bully Ray is dating, so Bully felt the need to personally act. Bully and Velvet are pretty public with their relationship, so either Johnson failed to do basic research on the incident or he's covering for his friend from the ECW days. I have a lot of respect for Johnson, but he left out a crucial detail there.

4. In theory, but I don't expect that since she and Kairi Sane are hypothetically focused on the tag team division right now.

5. A lot of people know who he is, and the movie makers want to use his WWE and Marvel success to get more people to watch his other projects.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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