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Friday, October 4, 2019

New ROH matches, Dynamite available on TNT website, Hager-AEW notes, Dynamite visitors, Marvez-AEW update, more on Jay+Silent Bob, Schiavone note, WWE teaming with cancer charity, Impact opening, 2K20 media event coming, new Hidden Gems, Reigns appearance moved, Bayley challenges NXT star, Booker responds to Punk, Liger figure made, big cruiserweight change, what happened after NXT, Interviews with Belair/Roman, AAA postpones California show, Ciampa documentary set, WWE congratulates AEW, AEW+NXT audiences, assorted wrestling press, Orton makes Mania challenge, Dynamite attendance, AEW sign policy, more CMLL changes, Rush update, another FS1 name approached, more on FNSD commentary team, Cain very close to deal, CMLL+ROH+NJPW attendance numbers, AAA name returning soon, Viceland series continuing, former WWE name putting together show, Eric Angle charged, Kurt appearance set, AEW story does well for top news source, Edge contract note, and Questions on no Cena on FNSD, AEW+NXT numbers, and Taz returning to commentary

ROH's October 12 HonorClub event has added:
- Rush vs. the winner of a 15-man battle royal for the ROH World Championship. Kenny King, Joe Hendry, Silas Young, Josh Woods, Rhett Titus, The Bounders, and The Shinobi Shadow Squad have all been announced as entrants.
- Angelina Love vs. Kelly Klein for the WOH Championship
- Brody King and Flip Gordon vs. Mark Haskins and Tracy Williams

ROH's October 25 HonorClub event has added:
- Jay Lethal vs. Mark Briscoe
- Jay Briscoe vs. Jonathan Gresham
- Rush and Jeff Cobb vs. Marty Scurll and Flip Gordon

ROH's October 26 HonorClub event has added:
- Matt Taven vs. Joe Hendry
- Rush and Jeff Cobb vs. Brody King and PCO

Dynamite's first episode is available online.

Jake Hager has signed with AEW, and will continue his Bellator work. Glad to see him back in an important capacity.

Diamond Dallas Page and Awesome Kong were backstage at Wednesday's Dynamite. I expect we'll see both on-screen again.

Alex Marvez did a lot of research for the Dynamite announce team. That's a good role for him.

"Jay & Silent Bob Reboot" had a trailer air before Dynamite. Cool integration there.

Tony Schiavone will miss Full Gear due to previous commitments. I expect Goldenboy will take his place.

WWE and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society are teaming up to help pediatric cancer patients. That's a really great cause.

Impact released the opening to tonight's show. I'll cover it in a post after one for Smackdown and 205 Live.

WWE 2K20 will have a media event October 11.

WWE Network's latest Hidden Gems are the following Smackdown dark matches:
- Brock Lesnar vs. Randy Orton in 2001
- Brock Lesnar vs. Rico in 2002
- Kofi Kingston vs. The Miz in 2007
- Kofi Kingston vs. Steve Corino in 2007

Roman Reigns' "Fox & Friends" signing was canceled due to rainstorms. He still appeared in the studio.

Bayley teased facing Candice LeRae at Hell in a Cell. PLEASE!!!! That would be great exposure for NXT.

Booker T. responded to C.M. Punk. Sounds like Booker's teasing a Punk match.

Jushin "Thunder" Liger has an action figure at New York Comic Con. That's really cool!

WWE's cruiserweight championship is now the NXT Cruiserweight Championship. So it definitely sounds like we're in for more 205 names on Wednesdays. I'm curious how that will intersect with the other parts of the roster.

After Wednesday's NXT, Johnny Gargano and the Street Profits thanked Full Sail for its support.

Bianca Belair spoke to PWInsider before Wednesday's NXT.

AAA's California show has been rescheduled. The new date has not been announced yet, but tickets to the October 13 event will be honored there. AAA's U.S. rollout has really been chaotic.

- The show had sold about 3,000 tickets, but was projected to cost AAA money.

Tommaso Ciampa's WWE Network documentary will debut after the October 9 NXT. That makes plenty of sense. There's no word on when we'll see him return to the ring.

WWE released a statement on AEW Dynamite's debut. AMAZING to see them comment on the show, and via a statement to wrestling news sites at that. AEW has affected things in a major way.

Dynamite drew 1.41 million viewers Wednesday night. That's an incredible number, well above expectations. I have been skeptical and critical of the key AEW figures for quite some time, and they continue to show the rules have changed. To pull that number against a WWE-produced show is a massive statement to where things are in the wrestling industry right now after such a long period of dominance by one group.

NXT drew 891,000 viewers Wednesday night. So, the vast majority of AEW fans weren't watching NXT the past two weeks. NXT was just shown up in a major way despite giving an amazing effort on a big stage. WWE could need to really revamp things if Dynamite continues to outperform NXT at this level.

Edge and Beth Phoenix made Natalya artwork of her late father.

The Rock wished happy birthday to a 100-year-old fan. Very, very cool.

Roman Reigns reviewed Hollywood wrestling scenes.

Randy Orton challenged The Rock for WrestleMania. YES. That would be major.

Dynamite's debut had 11,500 fans in the building off 14,129 tickets sold. Essentially ticket resalers overanticipated demand by a good amount. That's still a very good crowd.

AEW confiscated anti-WWE, profane, and political signs. That's classy of them, because they could have easily played up the "sticking it to WWE" card.

CMLL's Mistico is staying there without his brothers Rush and Dragon Lee in large part due to not having a U.S. visa. That could take significant time to get, so he's smart to make the most of his current situation. There's also the matter of CMLL owning each man's ring name and the group name Los Ingobernables.

- CMLL has already acted to get Dragon Lee pulled from an independent show they were sending other talent to. So, yeah, there's some serious friction between CMLL and that family.

CMLL is now essentially being run by Chavo Lutteroth, who ran the company before the late Paco Alonso. Sofia Alonso has been moved back to her previous role as head of marketing, though some of her projects will continue. CMLL was concerned about such a young name being in charge of a major company. Sofia has not attended shows lately, including the major 86th anniversary event.

CMLL has banned cell phone recording at shows.

CMLL talents will no longer be able to face non-CMLL talents on independent shows in a move to get CMLL talents more bookings. Wow. That could really hurt other promotions.

Rush doesn't intend to sign to any other lucha promotion, but is open to competing independently in Mexico.

FS1 reached out to Jim Ross for WWE Backstage, but he declined. That would have been a very weird dynamic given his AEW duties.

FOX chose Friday Night Smackdown's announce team.

Cain Velasquez is being targeted for a Brock Lesnar match. It's believed he's very close to signing to WWE, but AEW, NJPW, and AAA are all also interested in using him. AAA had signed him for the now-postponed California show.

CMLL's 86th anniversary show drew 15,000 fans.

Death Before Dishonor drew around 800 fans. The following TV taping drew 600 fans. It's a shame ROH is being abandoned at such a rate.

AAA's El Hijo del Vikingo should return next week or so.

NJPW drew 2,100 fans in Massachusetts, a sellout of nearly 1,800 fans in New York and a sellout of more than 1,000 fans in Pennsylvania.

Viceland is conducting interviews for Dark Side of the Ring's second season.

Shad Gaspard is putting together a TV drama based on the behind-the-scenes world of wrestling. Interesting idea.

Eric Angle has been charged as part of a steroid trafficking ring. Very sad to see.

Kurt Angle will appear for Warrior Wrestling in Illinois on December 13.

AEW's "Los Angeles Times" story was the most read online story on the site that day. Very impressive.

Edge has signed a new WWE deal. It's unknown what it will entail.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I'd think the movie commitments would prevent him from getting physical at any rate. WWE should probably save him for when he can wrestle.

Nothing to add to 2.

3. I mean, yeah, AEW and NXT drawing Raw and Smackdown numbers (or better) would be amazing and game-changing. That's not happening, though. As for the worst cases, yes, splitting a million die-hard fans would limit wrestling as a whole.

4. Holy shit that sounds amazing.

5. Oh he should definitely replace Lawler. He'd fit right in in that role, which Lawler doesn't want long-term anyway.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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