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Sunday, January 5, 2020

WK14 notes, Interview with Lana, WWE posts positions, EVOLVE announces NXT stars in action, AEW Memphis plans, Dusty match set for NXT, NJPW injury, Liger honored, more on Jericho-Tanahashi stipulation, FNSD audience, and Questions on live event title changes, Punk's WM30 plans, and what WWE does and doesn't own

At WrestleKingdom 14 Night One:
- Juice Robinson and Dave Finlay won the IWGP Tag Team Championship from the Guerrillas of Destiny
- Jon Moxley won the IWGP United States Championship from Lance Archer in a Texas Death Match
- Hiromu Takahashi won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship from Will Ospreay
- Tetsuya Naito won the IWGP Intercontinental Championship from Jay White
- NJPW announced 40,000 paid attendance for the show. That's quite the success.

Lana spoke about her storylines and more.

WWE has posted positions for:
- Podcast audio engineer and editor
- Podcast associate social video producer and editor
- Podcast operations coordinator
- Podcast associate audio producer and editor
- Social media video coordinator in China
- Social media editor in China
- Digital and social media coordinator (temporary) in the Middle East

EVOLVE 143 and EVOLVE 144 have announced NXT's Brendan Vink, Rik Bugez, Denzel Dejournette, and Dexter Lumis.

AEW has announced the Memphis legends it will honor this week: Angelo Poffo, Randy Savage, Lance Russell, Eddie Gilbert, Tommy Gilbert, Brian Christopher, Austin Idol, Dave Brown, The Rock 'n' Roll Express, and "Handsome" Jimmy Valiant.

- Idol, Valiant, and the Rock 'n' Roll Express will be at the taping. Lanny Poffo, Doug Gilbert and Shane Russell are set to honor their relatives. Additionally, Dave Brown will do commentary on AEW Dark.

NXT has announced Steve Cutler and Wesley Blake vs. Fabian Aichner and Marcel Barthel in the Dusty Classic this week.

Will Ospreay suffered an ankle injury at Wrestle Kingdom 14 Night One. It's currently unconfirmed how severe it is.

Jushin "Thunder" Liger was tributed on social media by Arby's, Steve Corino, BT Sport, Adam Cole, and Robbie Eagles among others.

Chris Jericho using the AEW World Championship in NJPW was approved by Tony Khan. Khan worked on the details with NJPW's Rocky Romero, and right now the plan is for the stipulation to only be promoted in that company, rather than this being something AEW brings up on TV or social media.

Smackdown drew 2.42 million viewers this week, basically identical to last week. We'll see if Sheamus, John Morrison, and The Usos returning changes anything.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. There are times when it makes sense to do a flash title change like that, but honestly I think the current WWE live event schedule is antiquated and should be completely restructured given where ratings are.

Nothing to add to 2.

3. Yes that would have followed from what Punk was doing with Kane at the time. Punk wanted something more prominent on the show rather than doing a feud that had already been done. It's entirely possible he was going to leave WWE after WrestleMania or at the end of his contract in July even if he didn't walk out when he did, because he had accomplished all he wanted to other than closing WrestleMania.

4. I actually didn't know that. Interesting that they replaced it. Maybe they didn't want to acknowledge him.

5. Obviously that's a blow to NWA in a number of ways, but thankfully they're not exclusively relying on work from decades past.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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