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Monday, October 21, 2019

Impact signings, Rock movie production, new Honor United matches, another Experience vote, new Dynamite match, Bucks at Impact show?, Lacey vs. The Rock, Ali helps fan for Halloween, WWE signs top indie name, assorted wrestling press, BFG guests, WWE scouting this weekend, BFG match taped for TV, next Impact PPV, WWE live event note, and Questions on Bischoff leaving, AEW rules, Russo returning to WWE, and rollups winning matches

Impact has signed Ace Romero to a three-year contract. That's a good opportunity for him to show what he's made of.

The Rock's "Black Adam" will begin production in July.

Honor United's October 26 event has added:
- Kenny King vs. Mark Haskins
- Jay Lethal and Jonathan Gresham vs. Silas Young and Rampage Brown
- Dalton Castle vs. NJPW's Hikuleo.

Honor United's October 27 event has added:
- Matt Taven vs. Mark Haskins
- Jay Lethal and Jonathan Gresham vs. PCO and Brody King
- The Briscoes vs. Kenny King and NJPW's Hikuleo.

ROH The Experience will also have fans choosing who will be at the meet and greet. That's a good way to gauge interest I suppose.

Dynamite has added the Young Bucks vs. Best Friends.

Impact is doing a "TNA" show for WrestleMania weekend. I'm guessing that's something of a reunion show; it's a clever idea.

- The Young Bucks teased getting involved, leading to a pitch of them facing the Motor City Machine Guns. That could be very, very interesting. I hope for Impact's sake it happens, because now fans are talking about it.

Lacey Evans and The Rock had a back and forth on Twitter: Tweet 1 Tweet 2 Tweet 3. Good exposure for Evans.

Ali got a WWE fan some of his gear for a Halloween. That is really, really cool.

Jake Atlas has signed with WWE. It's believed he'll report to the WWE Performance Center in January after completing dates he's already signed for. This is notable since he just appeared for ROH and was set to do more with them; I'm guessing their interest got WWE to make a move.

Cathy Kelley discussed The Undertaker on ESPN.

Ric Flair cut a promo ahead of Raw.

At Bound For Glory were Chris Sabin, Jay Bradley, and OVW's Tony Gunn and Tyler Matrix.

Jinder Mahal appeared at a Canadian political rally ahead of the Prime Minister election.

WWE's Canyon Ceman was scouting talent in Australia recently.

Seth Rollins spoke before a convention appearance.

Bruno Sammartino's first match was discussed ahead of its 60th anniversary.

Terry Funk spoke on The Two Man Power Trip. Glad he's still appearing.

Rick Steiner's son was profiled.

Joey Ryan has officially signed with Impact, in a deal that will allow him to continue his independent appearances. I'm curious how that will work for him long-term.

Impact taped The Rascalz vs. Team AAA before Bound For Glory. It will air on this week's Impact special. Good idea to have some fresh content to anchor that show.

Impact's next pay-per-view "Hard To Kill" will be in January. No further information has been released at this time.

Shelton Benjamin worked his first live event since July 22 Sunday night, teaming with Mojo Rawley in a loss to Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. Considering Bischoff hadn't been in an executive capacity at a wrestling company in quite some time, and wasn't really familiar with WWE roster coming in, he was at a severe disadvantage from the get-go. I hope Prichard's better able to adapt.

2. I think there's something of a schism in AEW, where different parties want completely different directions. So, when one party says something like rules matter, the result is that rules only matter if they don't get in the way of what another executive wants to do. Fortunately for AEW, the product is so hot there aren't many people nitpicking.

3. Is it possible to have a dirty finish in a street fight? I personally don't care about "clean" finishes most of the time, but AEW has said rules matter, wins and losses matter, it's a sports-like product, etc., so we'll see if things change.

4. NO WAY. His services have been available for a long, long time, and WWE hasn't considered bringing him in. I don't see that changing.

5. It's one thing to win that way in surprise fashion when someone has to be on guard 24/7. It's different to win that way in a really important match against a top competitor.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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