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Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Interviews with Sonya/Becky/Booker/WWE comic writers/Stephanie/Nordholm/Punk, WWE prop mishap, Raw cameo, Ringside Fest guests, more NWA names, NXT gets overrun, SD special audience, rapper on NXT, NXT name joins Twitter, Roman reads Internet comments, Raw audience, NXT surgery update, Anthem toasts AXS debut, WWE playlists, TLC venue set, Bandido update, AEW signs ROH commentator, AEW meet and greet, NJPW U.S. show getting English commentary, Morrison joins wrestling game, Dynamite Canada airing updates, and Questions on Rey's in-ring future, Murphy disappearing, Jericho's availability, why AAA ran MSG, and New Japan World apps

Sonya Deville discussed joining "Total Divas" and more.

Becky Lynch spoke at the Global Citizen Festival.

Booker T. discussed coming up with the Harlem Hangover. It's a pretty cool move!

King Corbin's throne broke on Raw as Corbin went to sit in it. Yeah that's not good. It would have been a clever impromptu storyline, though.

Brock Lesnar's victim on Raw was new WWE producer Pat Buck.

Smackdown's comic writers were interviewed. A 24/7 Title comic would be a lot of fun, honestly.

Stephanie McMahon's First Things First appearance was uploaded. Sounds like it's just a few years before we see her oldest daughter on WWE TV.

Impact's Ed Nordholm spoke to PWInsider:
- Oooooh. Interesting words about Sullivan's departure.

- Cool to see the former names returning to production.

- Way too early to assume AXS is dropping NJPW and WOW.

- I mean if Impact doesn't want talent discussing unfavorable conditions, they shouldn't put talents in those positions.

- Looks like no more Impact on Pursuit.

- The product has been well received since D'Amore and Callis came aboard.

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

NWA's TV tapings this week featured, among others, Caleb Konley, Homicide, Aron Stevens (formerly Damien Sandow), Trevor Murdoch, and Ken Anderson. Billy Corgan addressed the crowd at the first taping.

NXT will go until 10:15 p.m. EST this week. That will presumably keep some fans from watching the Dynamite replay TNT is airing at 10:00 p.m. EST. WWE is taking AEW very seriously.

Smackdown's Greatest Hits drew 1.39 million viewers. Not bad at all.

Wale will appear with the Street Profits tonight. Great get for them.

NXT's Aleksandar Jaksic has joined Twitter. He trained under Santino Marella.

Roman Reigns responded to Internet comments on a GQ video. He's pretty entertaining there.

Raw drew 2.57 million viewers Monday night, up from 2.21 million last week. That's a solid boost.

NXT's Joaquin Wilde got a steel plate in his face during surgery for his broken orbital bone.

Anthem's CEO "toasted" Impact coming to AXS.

WWE has created Apple Music playlists by Triple H and Asuka.

WWE TLC will be in Minnesota on December 15.

Bandido indicated he'll miss seven weeks after surgery. I'm curious if ROH will add that to his contract; it's entirely possible he's headed to AEW in 2020.

AEW has signed ROH Spanish commentator Alex Abrahantes. The team continues to expand!

Cody, Brandi Rhodes, and MJF will have a meet-and-greet in Illinois tomorrow in support of the just-announced Dynamite taping coming there.

NJPW is making English commentary for Fighting Spirit Unleashed New York due to fan demand. Glad to see it.

C.M. Punk discussed wrestling on the K&B podcast. The speculation of a return continues.

The former John Morrison has joined the RetroMania game as "Johnny Retro." BRILLIANT.

AEW Dynamite will stream digitally for TSN in Canada as well as airing live on TSN2 and TSN3. We'll see if they get "promoted" to TSN TV if audience numbers are good.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I believe Rey's current deal comes due in the middle of next year, so there's definitely a feeling that they want to give this angle a shot while they can. That doesn't mean he's retiring anytime soon, but the clock is ticking. As for once this deal ends, it will depend on how much he wants to keep wrestling and who's going to make him the best offer to continue doing so!

2. Honestly at this point it doesn't feel strange because they do that kind of thing so often! I was impressed by Murphy and want to see more from him and Ali, so maybe that will happen after the next draft.

3. While I don't believe Jericho will be a full-time guy, I would be surprised if he's not on each episode going into Full Gear.

4. I don't even think they sold out the Hulu Theater! They actually looked into doing the show before G1 Supercard was set. A lot of them running MSG goes back to a New York show they had in 1994 where they discussed running MSG. They didn't have the opportunity to come back until MSG opened itself up to promotions other than WWE, and they finally made a shot at living up to what they discussed 25 years previously. AAA was convinced there would be a really significant "walkup" crowd that didn't buy tickets in advance, and running the show the weekend of a Latin festival was thought to aid with that. Overall they greatly overestimated the demand.

5. I don't think it's a priority right now, as odd as that might sound. Streaming isn't as much of a thing in Japan as it is here, and that's still where they focus a lot of their business.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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