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Saturday, July 20, 2019

WWE awards another custom title, Interviews with Gulak/Slaughter/A1/Jose/Mercedes, Impact names miss AAA event, Steiner set for Impact shows, Rhino begins Impact tenure, more Impact Twitch content, ROH name working BOLA, Anthem continues Jarrett lawsuit, ROH UK tour set, MJF signs long-term deal, new Smackville matches, October WWE PPV official, Raw Reunion merch, NXT name working 205 Live, MLW pulls Schiavone from AEW, WWE names help teacher, HoFer turns down Raw Reunion, OVW manager seeking help, wrestling series trailer, ROH concludes Bully investigation, new WWE trademarks, 24/7 defenses at SDCC, NXT live event notes, and Questions on the Colons, WWE crossover figures, and Liger working WWE again

WWE presented the Cricket World Cup winners with a custom championship.

Drew Gulak is on Edge and Christian's latest podcast.

Sgt. Slaughter promoted Raw Reunion.

Impact's Brian Cage and Killer Kross didn't appear at AAA's Thursday event as advertised. Tessa Blanchard and Taya Valkyrie were on the show, so I'm not quite sure what happened there.

Scott Steiner and Rhino are advertised for Impact's August 2 through August 4 California tour. I'm curious what they'll do with Steiner; I wouldn't think he'd be a regular again. Rhino's clearly going to be a top player, though.

oVe appeared on Impact's Twitch stream during commercial breaks, playing Fortnite. I mean I guess if that's something that gets viewers, it's worth experimenting with.

Impact interviewed former Team Canada member A1.

ROH's Brody King has been added to Battle of Los Angeles. Pretty cool to see PWG able to match up people we normally wouldn't get to see work together.

Anthem's latest response to Jeff Jarrett's GFW lawsuit alleges that:
- Anthem has made no money off GFW content, so Jarrett isn't entitled to any financial damages
- Jeff Jarrett signed an agreement when joining Anthem that waived his right to a jury trial.
- Jeff Jarrett did not have custody of the GFW content when signing with Anthem, as it had been sent to producer Kevin Sullivan for agreed upon work and Sullivan held onto it because Jarrett hadn't made payments toward the work he had been hired for.
- Anthem paid $40,000 to Kevin Sullivan as partial payment on the above-mentioned agreement in order for Sullivan to release the footage to them. Anthem alleges they expected to be reimbursed for that amount by Jarrett and were not, so they are now counter-suing Jarrett for that amount plus interest.
-- Sounds like things are getting worse for Jarrett in this matter.

ROH has announced a UK tour from October 25 through October 27, known as Honor United 2019. For whatever it's worth, this tour isn't in conjunction with any partner promotion, just as Honor United 2018 wasn't.

No Way Jose spoke to Sports Illustrated. He seems pretty content to be where he is on the card.

MJF has signed a multi-year contract extension with AEW. Both sides are clearly confident in the relationship!

WWE Smackville has added:
- Bayley vs. Charlotte Flair vs. Alexa Bliss for the Smackdown Women's Championship
- Big E and Xavier Woods in action
-- Good to see all of the brand's titles represented.

Hell in a Cell has been announced for October 6 in California. Local advertising currently has Kofi Kingston vs. Randy Orton for the WWE Championship and Seth Rollins vs. Drew McIntyre.

Raw Reunion unsurprisingly has special merchandise on sale for Ric Flair, Stone Cold, and DX.

NXT's Isaiah "Swerve" Scott will face Drew Gulak on 205 Live this week. That's a good sign for the former Shane Strickland!

Tony Schiavone appearing for AEW surprised MLW. If he's going to appear again, it will have to be worked out between the two companies. Yikes. Someone should have communicated better.

Ali and Ricochet got press for helping an Arizona kindergarten teacher buy school supplies. That's really cool of them.

Bret Hart turned down appearing on Raw Reunion. He would have been obvious addition to the Becky/Natalya feud.

OVW manager Kenny Bolin is doing a GoFundMe to help pay for knee replacement surgery.

Canadian comedy series Paper Champions got a trailer. Fun in its own way, like Southpaw Regional Wrestling.

Mercedes Martinez was interviewed. I'm surprised she isn't signed somewhere bigger.

ROH has "taken appropriate action" in regards to the Bully Ray fan incident in June, according to a statement provided to PWInsider.com. Looks like they've moved past it, for whatever that means.

WWE has trademarked the names "Shorty G" and "The O.C." for future character names. I REALLY hope those names aren't for the Street Profits.

- WWE has also trademarked the name "Smackville."

R-Truth defended the 24/7 Championship against The Hurricane and Drake Maverick at San Diego Comic Con. AMAZING. THIS IS WHAT WWE NEEDED.

At NXT's July 18 Florida live event:
- Rinku Singh worked his first live event since May 25, teaming with Saurav Gurjar in a loss to Isaiah Scott and Dio Maddin
- 3.0 worked their first live event since June 15, losing to the debuting Jordan Omogbehin. I'm starting to think they're predominantly around to be experienced names working with WWEPC recruits.

At NXT's July 19 Florida live event:
- Humberto Carrillo worked his first live event since May 24, defeating Dexter Lumis. Humberto has of course appeared on 205 Live since then.
- Marina Shafir teamed with Taynara Conti in a loss to Kacy Catanzaro and Lacey Lane. Interesting to have Marina team with someone other than Shayna or Jessamyn.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. They haven't worked a WWE match since February. They clearly have job security, though! It's always possible they end up being utilized again before their contracts expire.

Nothing to add to 2.

3. It's something Mattel put together. They did WWE TMNT figures as well.

4. It's possible WWE considers using him in another one-off appearance, but I don't expect they want to use someone still under NJPW contract.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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