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Thursday, September 19, 2019

NXT UK stars challenging for ICW titles, assorted wrestling press, Impact roles at WOW, Impact Plus event match, lots of NXT debut press, NXT releases a lot of merch, Orton retracts Corbin praise, Moxley-NJPW update, AEW stars feud over D&D, Crusher statue vandalized, MLW signs debuting star to deal, NXT-related trademarks, RingsideFest guests announced, another Brock date, Owens update, AEW-TNT notes, FOX content coming, SDL audience, new ROH TV match, ROH events set, NXT backstage notes, Rock 'n' Roll returning to NWA, new NWA logo, more from CaZXL, NXT dark matches, WWE Network issues, what happened after NXT, Swagger back in the cage, HHH conference call, and Questions on

ICW's November 2 show will be headlined by NXT UK's Wolfgang challenging Liam Thomson for the Zero-G Championship in a Good Housekeeping match. ICW's November 3 show will be headlined by NXT UK's Joe Coffey challenging Stevie Boy for the ICW World Heavyweight Championship.

Roman Reigns will guest star on Disney's "Elena of Avalor" for its third season.

WWE stars will appear on tomorrow night's "25 Words or Less" on FOX.

Kane winning the 24/7 Championship got local press.

Impact's Scott D'Amore was in the production truck at WOW's Tuesday taping. Ed Nordholm was in the crowd.

Impact is waiting to move to AXS because they had commitments in place with Pursuit through Bound For Glory. Honestly, the timing works out well for them to have a fresh start when they will.

Ken Shamrock will be the subject of a Fight Network documentary.

Impact's October 18 Impact Plus event in Indiana will feature Rob Van Dam, Rhino, and Naomichi Marufuji vs. Michael Elgin and The North.

CBS Sports covered NXT's move to USA, with Triple H, Shawn Michaels, Adam Cole, Johnny Gargano, and Shayna Baszler quoted.

NXT has released a substantial number of new talent T-shirts in conjunction with the USA debut. Frankly a lot of them look generic and uninspired; they would have been better off doing a few at a time as those names appeared on TV instead of rushing them out.

Titus O'Neil got press for wearing a University of Tennessee shirt designed by a bullied fan. That's pretty cool.

Randy Orton retracted his Baron Corbin praise. Vintage Twitter Orton.

Jon Moxley intends to work Wrestle Kingdom 14.

MJF and Brandon Cutler feuding over Dungeons & Dragons got press with Comicbook.com and Muscle & Fitness. I guess this is the kind of thing you have to do to get attention now.

Da Crusher's Wisconsin statue was vandalized. Well that didn't take long! It sounds like it was just a way to get attention rather than an act against Da Crusher specifically.

MLW has signed jiujitsu competitor Dominic Garrini to a multi-year contract.

WWE has trademarked "Follow That My Friend" and "FTMF" as a show name as well as for merchandise purposes. Triple H made the remark after NXT UK: Takeover Cardiff.

Seth Rollins, Jeff Hardy, Sasha Banks, and Ricochet will appear at Ringside Fest 2019 in New York on November 3.

Brock Lesnar is advertised for the September 30 Raw. So there will be a Beast, a Monster, and a Fiend there!!

Kevin Owens will work this weekend's Smackdown Live live events as Shane McMahon "considers Owens' lawsuit." It was expected Owens would appear on NXT as part of the angle, but he needed to travel for this international tour.

Adam Cole spoke to Fox News and Sports Illustrated before NXT's USA debut.

Bianca Belair spoke to Channel Guide Magazine and Newsweek before NXT's USA debut. Interesting story about the braid!

Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville were at the Olympia 2019 Fitness & Performance Weekend.

"All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite" has been confirmed as the title of AEW's TV show. TNT will have a two-hour countdown special on October 1 before that show debuts the next night.

FOX has announced the following WWE related content:
- Smackdown's Greatest Hits on September 27
- WrestleMania's Legendary Moments, narrated by John Cena, on September 29
- Friday Night Smackdown Kickoff Show on October 4 half an hour before the series debut. This will feature celebrities, athletes, and past WWE stars as part of the "blue carpet" festivities.

Smackdown Live drew 2.06 million viewers Tuesday night, almost identical to last week.

ROH's September 28 TV taping has added PCO and Brody King vs. Rush and Dragon Lee.

ROH has announced:
- The Experience in Pennsylvania on November 2. This event will have fans choosing stipulations and opponents.
- ROH Unauthorized in Ohio on November 3. This event is presented as ROH booking matches and talents they don't normally book.
- Survival of the Fittest in Texas on November 8 and November 9.

Braun Strowman, Tomasso Ciampa, Kalisto, and Sarah Logan were all backstage at NXT.

NXT coaches Matt Bloom (Albert) and Sarah Amato spoke to The Orlando Sentinel before NXT's USA debut.

The Rock 'n' Roll Express will compete on NWA's October 1 TV taping.

Billy Corgan unveiled NWA's logo for their TV tapings. Pretty cool, although of course just featuring one state kind of goes against the "National" part of the name.

CaZXL released another brief apology.

NXT sold a "Live From Full Sail" shirt at Wednesday's taping.

Before NXT:
- Angel Garza defeated Raul Mendoza
- Damian Priest defeated Kona Reeves. Reeves was busted open during the match and helped to the back by referees and a doctor. He ended up needing stitches.

WWE Network experienced issues with so many people logging in to see the second hour of NXT. That's impressive in a sense.

After NXT, Triple H cut another promo before posing in the crowd for a photo. This was a big moment for him.

The former Jack Swagger will compete at Bellator 231 on October 25 in Connecticut.

Triple H did a conference call after NXT, recapped here:
- Everyone definitely delivered.

- TV is a whole different animal.

- There really needs to be a balance of in-ring action and character progression.

- Yikes. "Developmental" and "midcard" are dirty words to HHH. I see his point, though, about developing.

- I'll be quite surprised if they stay at Full Sail long-term given the growth potential.

- Vince is very often painted as someone who only wants one kind of wrestling. He's put tens of millions of dollars, if not more, into NXT.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I'm under the impression AEW did tone down what was proposed for the Cracker Barrel Brawl. There's an understanding that a lot of his appeal is pushing boundaries the way he does, just as the appeal of the Young Bucks is seeing what crazy stuff they'll come up with next.

2. He doesn't need it, and it would be weird in some ways for him to have it, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't be a big moment for him.

3. Essentially he's cleared for a small amount of physicality, but for obvious reasons he wants to keep such impacts few and far between!

4. Right now it's just on WWE Network, but it's possible that expands.

5. AEW is working on TV deals for Canada and the UK. I believe others are in the works, too.

More wrestling coming up.

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