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Sunday, June 30, 2019

Main Event Reax - 6/30/19, new Ride Along, WWE live match gets press, WWE exec honored, WWE+SDL+NXT live event notes, ROH injury, Raw match, hype for BITW and Fyter Fest, Punk NASCAR promo, and Questions on Puerto Rican wrestling, neck bumps, watching Liger live, Cornette battling on Twitter, and being more interactive

-- Main Event:
- Dana vs. Logan:
Surely this is a grudge match after last time!

Fine work so far.

Solid enough. Glad to see both women get ring time.

- EC3/Roode/Cesaro vs. LHP:
Well that's a random team.

LHP showing what they can do.

Not bad for the time it had. I'm sure they could tear it up on a better stage.

WWE Ride Along after Raw will feature The IIconics as well as the team of Zack Ryder and Curt Hawkins.

Seth Rollins vs. Shinsuke Nakamura at WWE's June 28 live event in Japan got heavy praise from Tyson Kidd, Becky Lynch, Finlay, and Ricochet.

WWE's Chief Product and Technology Officer was honored by March of Dimes.

At WWE's Japan live event on June 29:
- Asuka pulled double duty, unsuccessfully challenging for the Raw Women's Championship in a triple threat also involving Alexa Bliss before teaming with Kairi Sane to once more beat The IIconics.
- Triple H teamed with Shinsuke Nakamura to defeat Samoa Joe and Robert Roode. On June 28, Triple H teamed with AJ Styles, Karl Anderson, and Luke Gallows to defeat Bobby Lashley, Samoa Joe, Baron Corbin, and Drew McIntyre.

Flip Gordon dislocated his shoulder at Best in the World, but he should be fine going forward. I'm curious how things go for him as part of Villain Enterprises.

Raw has announced New Day's Big E and Xavier Woods will face the Viking Raiders on Raw. That should be interesting, booking-wise.

Eric Bischoff commented on returning to WWE. We're in a very strange timeline that the former WCW boss is running part of WWE 18 years later.

- Triple H put over the returns as well. I'm very curious how he fits into the changes.

Rush spoke before Best in the World:
- He's definitely made a mark in ROH.

- I hope we do see him work with Andrade someday. Of course, I mean in a way that lets them both excel.

- I like his goals! He's not settling.

Christopher Daniels spoke before Fyter Fest:
- I would not have been shocked for him to become an on-screen GM or something in ROH if AEW wasn't an option.

- I'm very curious how the internal optimism will hold up over time.

- Oh wow. I didn't realize he had an office job for AEW.

- Daniels damn sure still has it.

- I expect AEW to hit MSG at some point.

Fyter Fest got press with ESPN for tying into CEO. It was definitely a unique crossover.

C.M. Punk appeared in a NASCAR commercial. That was pretty good.

At Smackdown Live's June 29 live event in Mississippi:
- Big E and Xavier Woods defeated Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn. This was Big E's first live event match since April 1, and Xavier's first live event match since May 16. Obviously both men have had a lot of on-screen matches since then.
- R-Truth and Carmella defeated Shelton Benjamin and Liv Morgan. Technically this was R-Truth's first live event match since May 13, but he's defended the 24/7 Championship on shows since then. This was Shelton Benjamin's first live event match since March 25, and the first time he's teamed with Liv Morgan. I'm not sure that we'll see that pairing on TV.

At NXT's June 19 live event in Florida:
- Chelsea Green returned to the ring, teaming with Deonna Purrazzo to defeat Kacy Catanzaro and Lacey Lane. This was Green's first match since March 13, and Kacy's first live event since May 23.
- Rocky teamed with Boa in a four-way tag team elimination match also featuring The Outliers, One Two, and the team of Dio Maddin and Isaiah Scott. This was Rocky's first live event since January 19.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I'm not really sure of a place that covers Puerto Rican wrestling regularly, although results are available on cagematch.net.

2. There's definitely a shift toward scarier looking bumps in 2019. Wrestlers protect themselves as best as they can in such spots.

Nothing to really add to 3.

I don't really have an answer for 4 if it's referring to wrestling-related writers. I haven't delved deeply enough into enough people's years of work to have a qualified opinion.

5. While I'd love to go to Japan someday, I don't anticipate spending that much money to do so anytime soon! I have other financial priorities.

6. Plenty of people take issue with his opinions and antics, leading to promo battles on Twitter. He's also not shy about sharing his opinions on that site, which opens up his words to responses.

7. Honestly as much as I like wrestling and covering it, I don't want to devote THAT much time to it. That's a real recipe for burnout, which is the last thing I want.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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