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Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Legend in Saudi Arabia, AEW commentator joins full-time, AEW action figure distribution deal, Raw announces international live events, WrestleCon event airing update, Impact tapings set, more ROH tournament participants, Stephanie honored, Raw suspension, Raw audience, latest Matt tease, NXT referee back from injury, WWE Studios movie profiled, WWN adds more NXT names, another AEW member making a book, EVOLVE releases match on YouTube, and Questions on Heyman's WM30 claim, Russo challenges, temporary retirements, fans supporting heels, and WWE booking Brodus

The Undertaker is in Saudi Arabia, so one would expect him to appear at Super Showdown. They could easily have AJ win the gauntlet match only to hear the gong.

- Undertaker is also scheduled for the March 9 Raw.

Tony Schiavone is now with AEW full-time, leaving his baseball job. That says a lot about AEW's perceived viability.

AEW's action figures will be carried in Wal-mart. There are plans for many more action figures after the first two announced "waves." Things continue to move quickly!

Cody will have his entrance music played live at Revolution. That's pretty cool.

Raw has announced Australian shows for August 6 and August 7.

WrestleCon's events will all be live on FITE.TV.

Impact will tape on April 24 and April 25 in Ohio.

Jonathan Gresham has been announced for ROH's Pure Championship tournament. He's a natural fit for that.

Stephanie McMahon was honored by Women In Toys.

Samoa Joe has been suspended 30 days for violating the Wellness Policy. Sad to see that. I hope that and his concussion don't further derail his WWE work.

Australia's Kellyanne has been announced for ROH's Women's Championship tournament. We'll see how far she goes.

Raw drew 2.21 million viewers this week. The ratings continue to be unimpressive.

Matt Hardy teased joining AEW in a recent video, as the title "Dear Dr RKO" can be rearranged into "Dark Order." He's definitely getting people talking about his next steps.

NXT official Tom Castor returns this week after breaking his leg ten months ago. That was BRUTAL.

WWE Studios' "Rumble" was profiled in People.

WWN has added Kushida, Mercedes Martinez, Deonna Purrazzo, Isaiah "Swerve" Scott, Taynara, Cameron Grimes, One Two, Marcel Barthel, and Fabian Aichner to its Accelerate events during WrestleMania weekend.

Hangman Page has a children's book due out May 24, following Cody and the Young Bucks' footsteps.

WWN has released EVOLVE 144's Mansoor vs. AR Fox on YouTube.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. Heyman's great at getting people talking, and he's really played the "worked shoot" card with Brock on a number of occasions. Frankly it doesn't seem likely Brock would have done such a thing, much less that no word would get out about it.

2. It seems so. It's a shame, really, that he's fallen so far from where he used to be in the business.

3. Usually there's not much new to say to such questions, but I definitely see where people want to see their favorites get back in the ring one more time. Especially given the money involved!

4. Honestly, yeah, at this point if the fans are reacting to something, keep it going. They hardly need more reasons to not be engaged with the current product given where current audience levels are.

5. I certainly think it was in poor taste. I would enjoy the characters making a cameo, but that doesn't outweigh the very serious allegations. WWE shouldn't want to be associated with that kind of misconduct.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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