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Saturday, August 17, 2019

WCW episodes coming to Network, Interviews with Bate/Titus/Sheamus/Black+Vega, Race trademark update, AAA moves NYC show, new AAA-NYC match, AEW tapings sell out, Final Battle date set, new ROH matches, new All Out match, AEW-TNT updates, KOTR matches set, ROH Title match set, NXT to USA?, Taker appearance, more 205 Live match competitors, new Photo Shoot, 24/7 title defense, Edge in-ring update, Shelley update, Foley to miss appearance, CHIKARA game coming, NXT UK invades NXT live event, and Questions on Norvell Austin, WWE ice cream bars, Impact paying Mexican taxes, and the Central States library

WCW Saturday Night episodes from 1993 will be added to WWE Network Monday.

Tyler Bate discussed being a vegan, his workout, and more.

Harley Race's name is being trademarked by his promotion, World League Wrestling.

AAA has moved their Madison Square Garden show to the adjacent Hulu Theater, which holds around 5,000 fans. This move was a joint decision between AAA and the venue after unimpressive ticket sales.

- The show has added Dr. Wagner Jr. vs. Blue Demon Jr. in a Hair (Wagner) vs. Mask (Demon) match.

AEW sold out both its October 9 and October 16 TV tapings within hours of the tickets going on sale. To say there's a lot of anticipation for these shows is an understatement.

Final Battle 2019 will take place on December 13 in Maryland.

ROH's August 24 TV taping has added:
- Haitian Sensation vs. Ken Dixon in a Top Prospect Tournament match
- Brian Johnson vs. Austin Gunn in a Top Prospect Tournament match
- Beer City Bruiser vs. Vinny Marseglia
- Rhett Titus vs. Shaheem Ali
- Silas Young and CMLL's Okumura and Felino vs. the Shinobi Shadow Squad
- Rock 'n' Roll Express in a meet and greet

ROH's August 25 HonorClub event has added:
- The Bouncers vs. CMLL's Okumura and Felino
- Dalton Castle vs. Eli Isom
- Dak Draper vs. Makita in a Top Prospect Tournament match

All Out has added Hikaru Shida vs. Riho. Looks like we're going to see a lot of fresh names in the battle royale.

Tony Khan and Cody recently met with TNT sponsors in New York in regard to the AEW show. They're putting all the pieces together; I'm impressed with the level of organization involved.

TNT is now running AEW ads. All hands are on deck to make this a success.

WWE has announced the King of the Ring brackets:
- Raw's matches will be:
-- Samoa Joe vs. Cesaro
-- Drew McIntyre vs. Ricochet
-- Sami Zayn vs. Cedric Alexander
-- The Miz vs. Baron Corbin

- Smackdown Live's matches will be:
-- Kevin Owens vs. Elias
-- Ali vs. Buddy Murphy
-- Chad Gable vs. Shelton Benjamin
-- Andrade vs. Apollo Crews

- Some of those matches sound really solid.

Global Wars:Chicago on September 7 has announced Matt Taven vs. Volador, Jr. for the ROH Championship. That show should feel pretty fresh with the CMLL names involved.

NXT is being pitched to USA Network as a weekly two-hour live series from Full Sail. NXT is poised to really become a bigger priority really soon, whether that's on USA or FS1.

The Undertaker is set for Comic Con Scotland on October 12 and October 13.

Titus O'Neil discussed his new book and more.

Sheamus discussed his wrestling status and more. I really hope we see more of him in WWE.

205 Live's Captain's Challenge has added Mike Kanellis on Drew Gulak's team and Akira Tozawa on Oney Lorcan's team. Yeah, I think Oney got the better pick there.

Big Show will be on "WWE Photo Shoot" following Raw.

Elias defended the 24/7 Championship in his studio against Drake Maverick.

Aleister Black and Zelina Vega are on the latest Swerve City Podcast.

Edge discussed Summerslam on he and Christian's latest podcast. He indicated he could take an occasional bump but doesn't think WWE would approve another match for him. He also seemed to rule out a regular return.

Alex Shelley vs. Austin Aries is set for Warrior Wrestling on September 1. So, Shelley didn't just come back to wrestling for the Taven feud. It is notable he isn't currently advertised for anything else with ROH.

Mick Foley will miss Monster Mania Con this weekend due to a scheduling and travel issue.

CHIKARA has announced a video game coming to Steam.

At NXT's August 16 Florida live event:
- NXT UK's Ligero defeated Angel Garza
- Cameron Grimes and Reina Gonzalez defeated Boa and Xia Li. Interesting Grimes/Reina pairing. This was Boa's first live event since June 29, though he did work the previous night's taping.
- NXT UK's Ilja Dragunov lost to Kona Reeves
- NXT UK's Fabian Aichner and Marcel Barthel lost to Breezango
- NXT UK's Travis Banks defeated Atruro Ruas
- 3.0 are now known as Chase Parker and Matt Martel. They defeated Cal Bloom and Mohamed Fahim.
- NXT UK's Kay Lee Ray defeated Tegan Nox
- NXT UK's Joe Coffey and Mark Coffey teamed with Kassius Ohno in a loss to Velveteen Dream, Danny Burch, and Oney Lorcan

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I don't believe I've heard that name for anything in years.

2. I would think Good Humor would handle getting them to venues. It's possible Good Humor had people selling them on their behalf.

3. As best as I know, that would be Good Humor's call unless WWE bought the license back or it expired. There's no movement on it happening.

4. I would think so for the live gate, merch sales, etc. but not for the series airing.

5. Not that I know of! If they do, it's deep in the archives and they haven't done anything with it.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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