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Wednesday, September 25, 2019

AXS' Impact plans, Impact production team changes, MLW sets Fightland, NJPW booking anniversary matches, NJPW names traveling, Interview with Booker, MLB legend wrestling, Arn podcast begins, 3D Academy moves, another RnR date, Impact content on AXS, Interview with Corbin, Bray apologizes to Braun, another title match in NXT, Raw audience, AEW's content rating, 205 Live's future, assorted wrestling press, NWA women division expands, more Wild Card wrestlers, Cody releases Dynamite statement, SDL dark match, and Questions on turning Omega heel, Ronda's future, how Brock will be booked, and Vince missing TV

Impact will be replacing Dan Rather's AXS show on Tuesdays. Rather's show is moving to Wednesdays.

Scott D'Amore and Josh Matthews have been at AXS filming content for Impact.

Impact's vice president of production, Kevin Sullivan, is leaving the company for AEW along with some other members of the production team. The current team will finish out their responsibilities before leaving for AEW, and Impact has a transition team in place.

- Tennessee wrestler Nolan Edwards is joining the production team. A number of former production employees have reached out to the company looking to return.

MLW Fightland will be held in Pennsylvania at the former ECW Arena. It's amazing that that venue continues to hold significant wrestling cards!

NJPW is holding 20th anniversary matches for Hiroshi Tanahashi in October.

NJPW is sending Shota Umino to compete in the UK full-time, while Ren Narita is moving to being in their California dojo. I wouldn't necessarily read anything into neither of them being sent to ROH, though it might be a little surprising if Narita didn't work there at any point. Some of that will depend on how much NJPW runs in the U.S. and how much show experience they want him to get.

Booker T. discussed Kenny Omega's NXT comments. I'm glad Booker got what Omega was going for.

MLB's Jose Canseco will wrestle in Oklahoma on November 3 as part of World Class Revolution's "OklaMania IV." That should be interesting.

Arn Anderson has debuted his podcast with Conrad Thompson. The first episode looks at Anderson's territory era work.

The Team 3D Wrestling Academy has moved. As far as I know, it's still affiliated with ROH.

The Rock 'n' Roll Express are booked for House of Glory's November 16 event. It's wild to see them spotlighted so much in 2019.

AXS has officially announced Impact's debut for October 29. The debut will be preceded by AXS showing the previous Impact PPVs of 2019 in the new timeslot beginning October 1, then a special showcasing the company's history on October 22. That's a great way to lead into a new era for the company.

- Impact intends to still have content on Pursuit, but what exact form that will take is currently undecided.

King Corbin discussed being a heel in 2019 and more. He is getting a level of support for his commitment to his role.

Bray Wyatt reached out to Braun Strowman after The Fiend's actions on Raw.

NXT's October 2 episode has added Kyle O'Reilly and Bobby Fish vs. the Street Profits for the NXT Tag Team Championship. This joins the previously announced Shayna Baszler vs. Candice LeRae for the women's championship.

Raw drew 2.21 million viewers Monday, not a strong number.

AEW Dynamite is set to be TV-14, as had been indicated previously.

205 Live will still follow Smackdown once the series moves to FOX. That's not particularly surprising. I'm curious what they do with it long-term given the limited number of people who fit that brand.

- 205 Live is now being booked by the NXT creative team, which makes sense given the recent integration of cruiserweights into the show.

Boxer Errol Spence, Jr. discussed WWE.

Xavier Woods was on Kinda Funny Games.

WWE 2K20 showed footage of Chyna.

NWA's TV tapings have added Marti Belle, Thunder Rosa, and Ashley Vox.

ROH's Wild Card match has added Marty Scurll to Jeff Cobb's team and Joe Hendry to Jay Briscoe's team. The match will take place September 28.

Cody released a statement before AEW's TV debut. There will definitely be plenty of voices heard about how the shows go.

Before Smackdown Live, Apollo Crews beat Buddy Murphy.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I think the decision to make him an arrogant heel preceded the NXT comments. He cut a pretty heelish promo on Moxley when their All Out match was changed, and followed up with something similar in the same interview as the NXT burial.

2. Her primary goal seems to be having a child. After that, it will be a matter of if she's more interested in Hollywood or wrestling. She's only 32, so she could do plenty more in the ring if she wanted. Heck, she could be winning titles in 2040!

3. I expect Brock to win decisively and stay around fairly regularly through WrestleMania.

Nothing to add to 4.

5. He's still very involved with WWE and intends for that to continue to be the case. He just isn't  physically at as many tapings.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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