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Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Sin Cara supports his town, Interviews with Booker/Roman/Becky/IIconics/Big E/Austin, NXT special coming, Untold's next subject, a new WWE Chronicle, weekend Kickoff notes, new ROH matches, another Network app update, FOX exec comments on WWE, new Impact specials, new AEW tapings, All Out poster, NXT surgery, Titus book released, signings set, Expo Lucha lineup, SDL changes, Lashley surgery, SDL dark match, and Questions on AEW's debut audience, the Kanellises, signing EC3, and Punk in AEW

Sin Cara was part of mourning ceremonies following shootings in Texas.

Booker T. is on Stone Cold's latest podcast. I really hope the 24/7 Championship is defended in a grocery store.

NXT will have another "Prime Target: Takeover" episode tonight, focusing on Adam Cole vs. Johnny Gargano. The last one was quite well received.

"WWE Untold" will cover Team Hell No Friday night. They were a lot of fun together.

"WWE Chronicle" with Seth Rollins will debut after Takeover:Toronto.

Summerslam's Kickoff show will go for two hours. It's going to be a LONG night with a lot of wrestling.

Summer Supercard has added Silas Young vs. PJ Black. That should be good.

ROH's August 24 TV taping has added Marty Scurll vs. Bandido. That should be special.

ROH's August 25 HonorClub event has added Villain Enterprises' Marty Scurll, PCO, and Brody King vs. Lifeblood's Bandido, Mark Haskins, and Tracy Williams for the ROH Six-Man Tag Team Championship. We could definitely see a title change there with Marty widely speculated to be joining AEW soon.

Roman Reigns discussed AEW, leukemia, and more:
- I love Roman being all for fans booing him.

- Damn, Roman's going in on detractors.

- Good to see Roman put the women over.

- SHOTS FIRED AT AEW.

- WWE is absolutely a cultural force. AEW's a long way from permeating the public's perception like WWE has, although things have been very, very impressive early.

WWE Network's PlayStation 4 app has been updated.

Becky Lynch spoke about WWE 2K20 and Summerslam:
- It's interesting to see how she's coping with having achieved what she set out to do and beating her two biggest rivals.

- Crowd reactions have definitely elevated her beyond where she was expected to be.

- YES thank you. Putting Seth and Becky together wasn't executed perfectly.

- I like the layers to the story with Natalya.

The IIconics spoke about the women's tag division and more. I appreciate NXT tried to make something of them as singles stars, but their strength is as a unit.

A FOX executive commented on WWE's move to the channel. They're optimistic with how the product will be presented.

Impact Wrestling and Oklahoma's World Class Revolution are teaming for a Twitch special on September 13 and an Impact Plus event on September 14.

AEW has announced TV tapings for October 9 in Massachusetts and October 16 in Pennsylvania. The October 9 venue held Slammiversary XI, which drew 3,800 fans, and the October 16 venue held Lockdown 2009 in front of 4,500 fans as well as Bound For Glory 2011 in front of 3,600 fans. I expect AEW to do better numbers than those shows did.

All Out has an official poster. That's quite good.

NXT's Rachael Evers had ACL surgery yesterday.

Titus O'Neil's book has been released.

Kane will appear at MCW's Tribute to Legends event on October 5.

Mark Henry and Alicia Fox have been added to Summerslam weekend signings on top of WWE and NXT roster members.

The Expo Lucha convention is set for next weekend in California. The Lucha Bros, Teddy Hart, Jack Evans, Juventud Guerrera, TJP, Flamita, Rey Horus, Drago, Aerostar, Psicosis, Daga, Joey Ryan, Peter Avalon, Christina Von Eerie, Dr. Wagner, Jr., Octagon, Damian 666, Bestia 666, Essa Rios, Brian Cage, Brian Pullman, Jr., Davey Boy Smith, Jr., Puma Kid, Laredo Kid, Taya Valkyrie, Viva Van, and others are advertised as wrestling.

Takeover:Toronto's Kickoff panel will feature Charly Caruso, Sam Roberts, and Pat McAfee. Cathy Kelley and Dennis Arnell will do interviews.

Big E did a Q&A on WWE's Facebook. He's great.

Smackdown Live was rewritten entirely Tuesday. Yeah I hope Bischoff and Prichard can get the ball rolling without that level of revision weekly.

Lashley had surgery to remove bone spurs and will miss around three months. I hope he comes back to do good things.

Roman Reigns discussed Jon Moxley's post-WWE comments and more:
- Yeah Saudi Arabia was ROUGH for Taker vs. Goldberg.

- I imagine Roman's experience with Creative/Vince is different from Ambrose's. They come from different backgrounds.

Stone Cold promoted his new show on ESPN's First Take.

Before Smackdown Live, Heavy Machinery defeated The B-Team. That's the standard pre-show dark match for that brand.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. Let me just say this: TNT is a really significant platform and they've got a chance of doing impressive numbers. One million is a real possibility.

2. HAHAHAHAHA. We could have had an even younger champion than Nicholas!

3. There's a feeling that what attracted fans in wrestling's heyday was soap opera-style angles and spectacles, so we're getting hit-and-run attacks, dives off the stage, and Jerry Springer style antics.

4. Triple H signed him because he saw what EC3 was doing in Impact. Vince is going to keep using the people he's comfortable using in important roles.

5. There's no indication any of it is a work. Fans are setting themselves up to be disappointed.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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