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Tuesday, July 30, 2019

MLW name working NOAH tournament, Supercard adds title match, Renee addresses critics, more Lacey vs. Alundra, more Twitter angles, Rock shares Roman filming story, AEW taping perk, Lawler suing for wrongful death, WWE names at Sammartino fundraiser, NXT announcer hired at ESPN, AEW signs interviewer, new NXT tour, former Impact+ROH name at WWEPC, Interviews with Natalya/Cedric, NXT name wants to use Tazmission, HHH birthday press, Blink-182 in Janela video, another company coming to WWE Network, Impact signs former WWE star, and Questions on WWE's response to DUIs, WWE helping others with live events, Bray being face while The Fiend is heel, and Punk's relationship with AEW

MLW's Alex Hammerstone has entered Pro Wrestling NOAH's N-1 Victory Tournament, formerly known as the Global League.

Summer Supercard has added Shane Taylor vs. Tracy Williams for the ROH Television Championship. That could be really enjoyable.

Renee Young tweeted about her current commentary skills. I'm glad she was frank about where she is right now, although of course she doesn't "need" to respond to any online criticism.

Lacey Evans continued to feud with Alundra Blayze on Twitter. If this isn't leading to anything, I hope I don't have to keep hearing about it.

Kofi Kingston continued his worked shoot with Randy Orton. For anyone who doesn't get the context, years back in a match, Orton was setting up for a punt on Kofi and Kofi prepared to take an RKO. Orton kept trying to push him down into punt position, but Kofi continued to set up to take an RKO. Orton wasn't pleased the match ended that way. Here's a clip of a lot of it.

Natalya did a worked shoot of her own against Becky Lynch. It's insane they're doing "hey I had to fart with Hornswoggle but I'm also using your TV name." Although of course using Becky's real name would be even dumber. This whole direction is terrible and, again, if it wasn't a Paul Heyman thing everyone would be up in arms about it.

The Rock shared a story of Roman Reigns knocking out a cameraman during filming "Hobbs & Shaw." That could have really ended badly.

AEW's first TV taping will feature special take-home chairs for the first three rows. That's pretty cool.

Jerry Lawler is suing for the alleged wrongful death of his son. Note this article features details of suicide: Link to more details of lawsuit.

Bruno Sammartino's fundraiser this weekend will feature Mick Foley, Jerry Lawler, Corey Graves, Billy Gunn, Darby Allin, Brian Pillman, Jr., and more.

Pat McAfee has been signed by ESPN for Thursday Night College Football. It looks like he will continue on in WWE.

AEW has signed Chris Van Vliet as a backstage interviewer. That's great! He's worked hard to get there.

NXT has announced live events for:
- September 26 in Iowa
- September 27 and September 28 in Missouri
- September 29 in Mississippi

Chris Sabin is at the WWE Performance Center this week as a guest coach. He last wrestled in January for ROH; his contract has since expired and he is recovering from injury.

Natalya promoted Raw locally.

Taz and NXT's Dominik Dijakovic discussed the latter using The Tazmission. Yeah, this definitely should be handled privately rather than through public tweets.

Triple H's 50th birthday bash got press in Yahoo. That's definitely pretty cool.

Cedric Alexander is on the latest Swerve City Podcast.

Blink-182 appeared in an AEW video of Joey Janela fighting Jimmy Havoc and Darby Allin. OK, that's hilarious to play off the Janela-Enzo incident.

ICW's weekly show is believed to be coming to WWE Network, as it appears as a search term on the updated version. Fans are sharp at finding that kind of thing.

Tenille Dashwood has signed with Impact Wrestling. I'm a little surprised AEW didn't pick her up.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. It's not "we don't care" as much as "we can't control what our independent contracts do when they're not at work." They should definitely help talents who are having issues with that kind of thing, although there's only so much WWE can do for adults in their private lives.

2. They've got plenty of live events to do on their own right now! I doubt they have staff and time to spare.

3. I see it as a case of Bray more or less wanting to have reformed from his dark side, but it's still there and comes out in certain moments. Either that or the whole nice guy thing is an act to recruit new followers (kids) after the sheep mask thing stopped working.

4. Things have definitely gotten to a point where some expect Punk to appear, and AEW's going to try to get him to do so. That puts the ball in Punk's court as to what it will take for him to work that night and return to wrestling.

5. It's 100% not a work. Punk's telling his side of the story. He is absolutely a difficult person to be on good terms with, and this situation isn't helping AEW win his favor. In AEW's defense, they're being asked a lot of questions about him and they're giving people frank answers.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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