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Sunday, November 24, 2019

Interviews with Sheamus+Sasha/Adam Cole, Network update, new 2K20 mode, Cody trademarks more event names, WWE event trademarks, FNSD audience, new Day Of coming, WWE charity, NXT UK name engaged, new IC Title replica on sale, Jericho podcast guests, HHH conference call, and Questions on Smackdown's women triple threat, Hogan's Netflix movie, NXT channeling DX, more brawls on wrestling TV, and ROH's decline

Sheamus is in town for Survivor Series, which could come into play. He and Sasha Banks had a Q&A by Cricket Wireless, which The Miz hosted.

WWE Network has added Chromecast support for live video on Android and iOS.

WWE 2K20 has a "Pilgrim Rusev" challenge tower ahead of Thanksgiving. Silly.

Cody has trademarked former WCW event names "Slamboree" and "Superbrawl." I'm really not sure the best direction for AEW is naming events after shows from decades ago, since they're trying to reach a younger audience and all.

WWE has trademarked the names "War Games" and "WWE Crown Jewel" for obvious reasons.

Smackdown drew 2.60 million viewers Friday night. Good to see the number rebound.

"WWE Day Of" focusing on Crown Jewel's women's match will air Friday. The PR push continues.

Fire and Desire helped out at the Chicago Food Bank before Survivor Series.

Adam Cole talked to The Wrap, Sporting News, and Sports Illustrated before WarGames.

Shannon Moore was at the WWE Performance Center this week as a guest coach.

Piper Niven announced her engagement.

WWE's new Intercontinental Championship has replicas available for pre-order. We'll see what title gets made over next.

The former Enzo Amore and Big Cass are on Chris Jericho's latest podcast.

Triple H had a conference call after WarGames, recapped here:
- Yeah they might have had to change NXT's Survivor Series team after that hellacious event.

- Man, HHH and Punk meeting again could be interesting.

- Oh Riddle's been doing the Goldberg thing for a while now. It would be fun in its own way as a match.

- Right? A lot of injuries are unexpected.

- I can only imagine what was suggested that was too extreme!

- Oh yeah the women really, really delivered.

- Very interesting decision with the next Takeover. Doing it as a PPV is worth a shot.

- I really hope Baker doesn't get in trouble for her appearance.

- Glad HHH put Baker over.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. It was definitely cool! Glad to see some more current names working as producers.

2. It's WAYYYYY too early. I'm not even sure it's been cast yet.

3. It was a very deliberate homage and presented as such.

4. It has been a bigger thing lately with the three brand war at Survivor Series, although I think Heyman's made more "chaotic" segments on Raw in his tenure, too. It's meant to add excitement and break up the stale format of every angle being its own island. It can be overdone, so I hope they back off a bit before Rumble season or it will become predictable.

5. A lot of factors here. Some are longstanding problems that ROH was able to more or less get by without addressing in past years because they were buoyed by The Elite, NJPW stars, etc. but now that a lot of their most significant names are gone or likely leaving soon, the inherent issues of how the company is run as one department of a large corporate entity that's not presenting it as a priority are showing. With AEW, NXT, and NJPW all making big moves, ROH hasn't been able to adapt. Sure, they've had talent losses and bad creative before, but not at this level and not this quickly. AEW, NJPW, and NXT are doing a similar style with bigger budgets, more shows, and with driven teams behind-the-scenes looking to maximize their brands. Some real, deep change is needed if they're going to have a significant presence going forward. The fact they might not even run WrestleMania weekend is telling about where things are for them.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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