WK14 international ticket demand, more on AEW-NJPW crossover, Ospreay health update, Kross update, Japanese promotion doing more English content, more on NJPW-AXS split, NJPW president honored, another MLW-AAA show coming, ROH contract updates, WWE returns to Russian TV, Interviews with HHH/Allin/PCO, Memphis announcer to return to AEW, Xavier hosting opportunity, Ospreay set for WM weekend, Austin show picked up for second season, Dynamite adds tag contender match, WWE honoring Corbin, Bully-Manic angle update, ROH title matches set, ROH name does charity, Smackdown dark matches, NXT live event notes, and Questions on a Broken Dark Order and AEW on Jericho's cruise

Wrestle Kingdom 14's two nights set records for the most tickets purchased outside of Japan. Night One had 8,300 tickets sold and the second night had 6,500 tickets sold. That's significant! Interestingly, a large part of those orders were fans from UK and Australia.

NJPW's Hiroshi Tanahashi was interested in working AEW to continue his feud with Chris Jericho, but that doesn't look to have been approved. That would have been a very interesting experience.

Will Ospreay's injury is a fractured heel. He's currently scheduled to return to NJPW on January 25.

Killer Kross is remaining in AAA after his Impact contract has expired.

Dragon Gate will have more English broadcasting going forward.

NJPW had an opportunity to stay on AXS if they affiliated themselves with Impact, but that option wasn't exercised. We'll see if that pays off long-term.

NJPW's Howard Meij will be honored with a Japanese TV special in February and will get the Keizai-kai Global Businessman of the Year award. This is the first time a non-Japanese person has gotten that award. That's pretty cool.

MLW and AAA are set to do another joint show in March.

Marty Scurll is being offered a very significant ROH deal, which is expected to allow him to wrestle for NJPW and NWA as well as potentially AEW(!). That's worth considering for other talents. Between only having some names for certain dates and not having them at all, it's a survival move at this point.

Jeff Cobb is expected to continue working in ROH as a freelancer, allowing him to also work NJPW as they do more U.S. dates. That's not a bad plan. AEW is interested in signing him.

ROH talents are being offered less restrictive contracts, allowing them to do outside dates without being booked by ROH. It's good to see talents have more options.

WWE is back on Russian TV, with MatchTV putting Raw and Smackdown on its paid service.

Triple H spoke before Takeover: Blackpool II.

Darby Allin is on Chris Jericho's podcast.

Dave Brown will be returning to AEW. I'm curious how he'll fit in there and when we'll see him again.

Xavier Woods will host Crunchyroll's Anime Awards on February 15. Glad he's staying busy.

Will Ospreay is booked for Joey Janela's Spring Break 4.

"Straight Up Steve Austin" has been picked up for a second season.

PCO spoke in Maryland. One benefit of him being champion is being able to give long press interviews in English.

Dynamite has added the Young Bucks vs. Kenny Omega and Hangman Page vs. Santana and Ortiz vs. The Best Friends. The winners get a championship match with SCU. AEW is making that episode meaningful. Glad to see it.

WWE is looking to honor King Corbin in Corbin, Kentucky by having the city change its name before a WWE live event there. Amazing.

Maria Manic will "call out" Bully Ray at ROH's event tonight. Can't wait to see them face off in front of 900 people WrestleMania weekend.

The ROH Championship will be defended on February 28 in Tennessee and February 29 in Missouri. That's a great idea!

2 Guys 1 Tag will challenge for the ROH Tag Team Championship on February 28 in Tennessee. Damn they have to wait a month and a half for their title match. ROH's schedule is BARE.

Dak Draper will challenge for the ROH Television Championship on February 29 in Missouri. He won the title opportunity in September.

Caprice Coleman visited a Boys and Girls Club in North Carolina recently.

Before Smackdown, Mustafa Ali beat Drew Gulak.

After Smackdown, The Fiend retrained the Universal Championship against Daniel Bryan.

At NXT's January 10 live event in Pennsylvania:
- Alex Shelley made his NXT debut, teaming with Kushida to defeat Steve Cutler and Wesley Blake.
- Danny Burch worked his first NXT live event since December 7, defeating Raul Mendoza
- Taynara worked her first NXT live event since December 6, teaming with Bianca Belair in a loss to Mia Yim and Kayden Carter
- Dominik Dijakoic worked his first NXT live event since December 7, defeating Shane Thorne
- Tommaso Ciampa worked his first NXT live event since February 9, teaming with Matt Riddle to defeat Finn Balor and Damian Priest. That was also Priest's first live event since October 26.

At NXT's January 10 live event in Florida:
- Rik Bugez worked his first NXT live event since October 18, defeating Brendan Vink
- Saurav Gurjar worked his first NXT live event since October 19, teaming with Rinku Singh to defeat Cal Bloom and Nick Ogarelli.
- Reina Gonzalez worked her first NXT live event since December 5, teaming with Brianna Brandy to defeat Deonna Purrazzo and Indi Hartwell.
- Daniel Vidot worked his first NXT live event since December 6, losing to Kona Reeves
- Marina Shafir worked her first live event since December 7, defeating Monique Jenkins.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I swear. Wrestling journalists can't speculate on or pitch anything without someone spinning it as being reported. There is no indication Rock will work the Royal Rumble. It was just thrown out as a potential direction for that match that would setup a big WrestleMania match.

2. It would not shock me at all if that's the idea they have for it. Talk about making a questionable angle even worse. The level of creative freedom talents have in AEW is its biggest strength and biggest weakness.

3. I'm under the impression that episode will feature content from the Cruise itself.

4. It looks like the two sides are very close to a pretty big deal. See above.

Nothing to add to 5.

More wrestling tomorrow.