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Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Starrcast schedule, Dynamite New Year's taping set, more on Myles vs. WWE, Bourne's first EVOLVE opponents, more on Stone Cold-WWE Network, Network episode update, Bray gym box, Byron update, Interviews with Lawler/Cain+Rey/Jinder/OC, NXT tour set, Luchasaurus update, OVW streaming TV show, identity of Raw star, Raw dark match, and Questions on Impact leaving Universal Studios, fans loving the Horsewomen more than past women, comparing AEW vs. NXT to WCW vs. WWF, Vince's XFL involvement, and Dynamite's younger audience compared to Raw

Starrcast IV has announced its live schedule. Jimmy's Famous Seafood will be on hand.

Dynamite's January 1 episode will come from Florida, at the site of Fight For The Fallen. This is being presented as a "Homecoming" episode, since the town is AEW's headquarters.

Jordan Myles continued his criticism of WWE on Twitter in regard to his T-shirt design, responding to reports he had approved the design and attacking WWE for the Hulk Hogan situation. Notably, Myles has not been at the WWE Performance Center in recent weeks. I wish him the best.

- Titus O'Neil responded to Myles' situation after Myles took a (now-deleted) shot at Jay Lethal's ROH push.

Evan Bourne's EVOLVE opponents have been decided via fan vote on Twitter. Bourne will face Leon Ruff at EVOLVE 139 on November 9, and AR Fox at EVOLVE 140 on November 10. It remains to be seen if he'll end up facing WWE-contracted talents.

Stone Cold is believed to be returning to the WWE Network soon with "Steve Austin's Broken Skull Sessions."

"WWE Day Of" for Smackdown's 20th anniversary will air after Crown Jewel.

Bray Wyatt has a special collector's edition "gym box."

Byron Saxton was at Raw. I'm curious what's next for him.

Jerry Lawler was recently on Cerrito Live.

Cain Velasquez and Rey Mysterio are on Sam Roberts' latest podcast.

Jay Lethal suffered a broken arm during his match with PCO. That's unfortunate with the big Final Battle build.

Brody King suffered a knee injury on the Honor United tour. We'll see what that means for the six-man tag team championship.

Smackdown Live on FS1 drew 888,000 viewers. Yeah it definitely benefits them to be on FOX!

WWE Backstage drew 426,000 viewers for its second preview episode, down from 597,000 for the previous episode. We'll see how the show does once it's a regular occurrence.

Jinder Mahal updated his injury status in an interview. It sounds like we can pencil him in for the Royal Rumble.

Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows promoted Raw.

NXT has announced California live events for December 12 through December 15.

Luchasaurus appeared at an indie show in Michigan this weekend, interfering in a match but not wrestling due to his hamstring injury.

Impact taped a "Throwback Throwdown" special for Thanksgiving featuring their wrestlers competing as if it were a previous generation. Think Southpaw Regional Wrestling but with actual matches. That could be fun.

OVW will stream its TV show on YouTube each Tuesday beginning tonight.

Sin Cara's partner on Raw was NXT's Catalina Garcia, who had wrestled in Chile as Jessy.

Crown Jewel's Kickoff battle royal to determine AJ Styles' United States Championship challenger will feature Akira Tozawa, Andrade, Apollo Crews, Brian Kendrick, Buddy Murphy, Cedric Alexander, Drake Maverick, Eric Young, Erick Rowan, Heath Slater, Humberto Carrillo, Luke Harper, Mojo Rawley, No Way Jose, R-Truth, Shelton Benjamin, Sin Cara, the Singh brothers, Titus O'Neil, and Tony Nese. So, yes, a Smackdown talent could challenge for a Raw championship.

After Raw, Seth Rollins retained the Universal Championship against The Fiend in a steel cage match. Bray's got a tough road ahead of him, since he's not going to take the title at Crown Jewel.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I believe this is a conscious decision to distance the current regime's shows from "TNA" events in Orlando. They could do some shows here and there down the line, but Impact is focusing on other markets now.

2. I think a lot of the appeal of these names is seeing them all come up at once, and fans got to see a lot of their formative work in NXT, so there's the connection of seeing how much things have changed. I wouldn't assume there's the same level of love as there is for the other names mentioned, though. We'll see who fans are into five years from now.

3. Interesting! I don't know if I'd make the same connection. As for NXT taking over AEW in the ratings, that's certainly WWE's goal, and they're going to give it a major effort.

4. I fully believe Vince will more or less let the football people do their thing. He'll be handling a lot of duties there, but I really don't see him managing things at the same level he does at WWE. WWE will remain his priority, and his stamp will still be on it, even when he tries to balance the two companies.

5. No, but of course Raw draws a significantly larger audience overall, so that's to be expected. I do believe AEW's average audience is younger than Raw's, though.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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