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Wednesday, September 18, 2019

AEW trademarks possible show name, TV Guide on NXT vs. AEW, MJF's last indie show, new WWE and Stone Cold trademarks, Rock show returning, Orton praises KOTR, Booker praises WWE team, MLW PPV main event, Andre book update, DBD pre-show match, CaZXL statement and reactions, Vince and HHH miss TV, former trainer at Raw, WWE-FOX press, Gulak discusses title care, NXT name teases battle with Raw name, WWE-FS1 staff and likely show name, EVOLVE update, NWA main event, note on Raw's graphics, Kane's referee, Taz in discussions to return to business, Raw name moving to NXT UK?, SDL names visit children's hospital, Raw audience, Becky appearance, Interviews with Ciampa/Abbott, NFG match official, MLW profiled, ex-announcer gets podcast, AEW tournament bracket, Starrcade return announced, SDL dark matches, and Questions on women being in bigger matches, AEW statistics, WWE's huge roster, and who owns All In

AEW has trademarked "All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite," almost certainly for the name of their upcoming TV series.

TV Guide covered NXT going against AEW. WWE treating AEW as a threat is probably getting the latter company publicity and hype it wouldn't have otherwise gotten.

MJF's final independent appearance is Sunday in Rhode Island.

WWE has trademarked "The Disrespected" and "Boa." I'm curious who the first will apply to.

Stone Cold has trademarked "King of Professional Wrestling," "King of Attitude," "Queen of Attitude," "Broken Skull Ranch," and "Skullaflage" for merchandise purposes.

The Rock's "Titan Games" is returning for a second season.

Randy Orton praised Baron Corbin, subtly taking shots at the rest of the roster. It definitely often feels like the fundamentals aren't treated as importantly as flashy moves, etc.

Booker T. discussed wanting to manage the Street Profits. I'm not sure if that would help them or draw attention away from them onto the Hall of Famer.

MLW Saturday Night Superfight will be headlined by Jacob Fatu vs. LA Park for the MLW Championship in a no disqualification match.

Andre the Giant will have an official biography released in April 2020.

Death Before Dishonor's pre-show will feature Jeff Cobb vs. Brody King. That could really be good.

CaZXL released a statement after the recent WrestlePro situation. That was a very mature approach, and I hope he comes out of this in a better place.

- Kevin Matthews and nZo tweeted out support.

Paul Heyman ran Raw Monday, as neither Vince McMahon nor Triple H were in attendance.

- Vince McMahon was also not at Smackdown Live. Bruce Prichard, Eric Bischoff, and Michael P.S. Hayes took over his duties.

Dr. Tom Prichard was at Raw.

WWE had "moving trucks" at Clash of Champions and Raw to promote Smackdown going to FOX.

Drew Gulak discussed taking care of championship belts.

Kacy Catanzaro teased going after Maria Kanellis for her Raw comments. Funny!

WWE's FS1 talk show will be taped weekly in California. Renee Young and Cathy Kelley will be involved, and a number of WWE personalities and Hall of Famers have tried out to be added to the panel.

- There series is currently expected to be called "WWE Backstage."

EVOLVE's events this weekend in New York will feature meet and greets with everyone on the card.

NWA's upcoming TV tapings will be headlined by Nick Aldis vs. Tim Storm for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.

Raw's upside down graphics were a deliberate direction to tie into The Fiend. I'm enjoying WWE's creepypasta.

Kane's referee on Raw was former WWE developmental star Micah Taylor. Amazing that he finally got his chance on Raw more than a decade after being done there!

Taz has recently had discussions to return to wrestling commentary. I'm curious who was interested in using him again.

Ember Moon teased going to NXT UK to face Kay Lee Ray. She might as well at this point.

Kofi Kingston, Ali, Mandy Rose, and Sonya Deville visited Children's Healthcare of Atlanta before Smackdown Live.

Raw drew 2.27 million viewers Monday night, only seeing a slight increase from last week.

Becky Lynch spoke at Sports Business Journal's Game Changers event.

FOX had NASCAR's Jeff Gordon promote SmackDown's move.

Tommaso Ciampa spoke to NXT's Izzy. I'm glad his recovery is going well.

Bound For Glory has officially added Michael Elgin vs. Naomichi Marufuji.

MLW got press with The Ringer. Jim Ross, Court Bauer, Dave Lagana, and Jacob Fatu were quoted.

Former WWE/AWA announcer Ken Resnick is joining VOC Nation Radio's Wrestling With History show beginning October 2.

Tank Abbott discussed Goldberg and more.

AEW has released the brackets for their tag team championship tournament:
- The Young Bucks vs. Private Party on October 9 in Massachusetts
- The Lucha Bros vs. The Jurassic Express on October 16 in Pennsylvania
- Best Friends vs. SCU on October 16 in Pennsylvania
- Dark Order vs. the winners of Best Friends vs. SCU on October 23 in Pennsylvania
- The other semifinal match on October 23 in Pennsylvania
- The champions will be crowned on October 30 in West Virginia

WWE Starrcade will return on December 1 in Georgia as a one-hour WWE Network broadcast. Raw and Friday Night Smackdown stars are advertised for the show.

Before Smackdown Live, Aleister Black defeated Buddy Murphy.

After Smackdown Live, Bayley defeated Charlotte Flair to retain the Smackdown Live Women's Championship.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I'm under the impression Triple H and Stephanie McMahon pushed for those events to happen given the ability and prominence of the women featured in them.

2. I agree it would be an alternative, but I definitely enjoy angles more than statistics.

Nothing to add to 3.

4. WWE would rather have talent and not want to use them than want to use talent and not have them. Lio at least is being benched to send him a message in humility. I'm not sure what the story is with Lana. As for names like The Ascension, there's always the possibility WWE wants to do something with them before their contracts run out. If not, WWE will just let the contracts expire naturally. They've got more than enough money to do pretty much whatever they want now.

5. The show was produced by ROH, so it's theirs.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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