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Saturday, February 15, 2020

ROH and EVOLVE add matches, assorted wrestling press, Chamber match advertised, Matt Hardy teases facing current titleholder, MLW signing, MLW-AAA update, WWE personality leaving, ROH injury reshuffles cards, Manic-ROH note, ROH debut update, first ROH women's tournament competitor, Raw match and appearance set, DiBiase nonprofit under fire, Cody promotes Dynamite, legend WM36 match in the works, Super Showdown adds women's title match, Smackdown dark matches, NXT live event notes, and Questions on Davey Boy's WWE appearance, ROH skipping Hammerstein, the Nightmare Collective ending, and the Midnight Express reuniting

Past vs. Present has added:
- Homicide vs. Brody King
- Grizzly Redwood and Delirious vs. Dalton Castle and Joe Hendry
-- This show has a variety of interesting and unique matches. I like it.

EVOLVE 145 has added:
- Mansoor vs. Curt Stallion
- Denzel Dejournette vs. Harlem Bravado
- Jessi Kamea vs. Alex $ky
- Brendan Vink will also be in action

EVOLVE 146 has added:
- Mansoor vs. Anthony Greene
- Brendan Vink vs. Leon Ruff
- Jessia Kamea vs. Avery Taylor

Mustafa Ali is taking bookings as a keynote speaker. I mean, his schedule is pretty open these days!

Elimination Chamber is locally advertising Big E and Kingston vs. The Miz and John Morrison for the Smackdown Tag Team Championship. That would make sense to follow up their Super Showdown match.

Jerry "The King" Lawler's grandson was profiled for his amateur wrestling skills. We'll see if those parlay to a professional career. 

Tommaso Ciampa helped Give Kids The World village in Florida.

Matt Hardy and PCO teased a future match: Tweet 1 Tweet 2 Tweet 3. That could be quite entertaining if they don't overdo the Broken stuff. 

MLW has signed Kevin Ku. He's set to debut in April.

MLW will soon start using LA Park, Jr.. They make use of other family members already, so this was a natural next step.

MLW is disputing reports of signing AAA wrestlers, however they will continue to use them on per-date agreements.

Cathy Kelley has announced leaving WWE after Takeover:Portland. It sounds like she's looking to pursue other endeavors. She's been valuable in a number of roles there, so I hope she achieves what she's hoping to do elsewhere.

- Cathy asked for and received her release in the past few weeks. This isn't a case of a release or an abrupt departure.

- Kelley will interview Triple H following Takeover:Portland in her final WWE appearance.

WWE has made an "Irish World Order" shirt for St. Patrick's Day, as well as a green variant of the classic nWo shirt. Just because you can make something, that doesn't mean you should.

Flamita has suffered a torn meniscus. He will not compete at either ROH event later this month.

- On ROH's February 28 event, he and Bandido will be replaced by PJ Black and Brian Johnson in the advertised tag match. Bandido has been added to Marty Scurll vs. Slex in a triple threat match.

- On ROH's February 29 event, Bandido and Rey Horus will now face Jay Lethal and Jonathan Gresham. If Lethal and Gresham are still champions, this will be a Proving Ground match.

Maria Manic will be out "indefinitely" after being powerbombed by Bully Ray. I assume that's an angle to build to them facing off at Supercard.

ROH signee Adam Brooks will debut at their 18th anniversary show.

Sumie Sakai has been announced for ROH's women's championship tournament. That makes sense.

Raw has added Randy Orton vs. Matt Hardy in a No Holds Barred match. Hardy's contract goes through the end of the month.

- Big Show is also set to be back Monday. They could easily put him in a battle royal or something at Super Showdown.

Houston's wrestling history is being showcased in a new exhibit.

Ted DiBiase, Sr.'s nonprofit is under scrutiny for receiving more than $2 million in state welfare funds. Brett DiBiase was deputy administrator at the Mississippi Department of Human Services, which was in charge of the distribution of such funds. That's very, very disappointing to hear.

Cody promoted Dynamite coming to Georgia. Good piece on him and AEW.

Takeover:Portland's pre-show panel will have Mansoor, Charly Caruso, and Sam Roberts.

The Undertaker vs. AJ Styles is being planned for WrestleMania. That's an interesting direction. I'm curious how it will go at Taker's age.

Super Showdown will feature the Smackdown Women's Championship on the line as Bayley defends against the winner of next week's Naomi vs. Carmella match. That's another accomplishment WWE can point to in the region.

Before Smackdown, Gran Metalik and Lince Dorado beat Drew Gulak and Drake Maverick.

After Smackdown, The Fiend defeated King Corbin to retain the Universal Championship. Interesting choice of opponent.

At NXT's February 14 Florida live event:
- Killian Dain worked his first live event since January 11, defeating Babatunde
- Xia Li worked her first live event since December 6, defeating Santana Garrett
- Joaquin Wilde worked his first live event since January 10, defeating Brendan Vink
- NXT UK's Pretty Deadly lost to Bronson Reed and Shane Thorne. I'm curious if we'll see the Aussies team over there.
- NXT UK's Aoife Valkyrie defeated Aliyah in Aliyah's first match since November 13.
- Rik Bugez worked his first live event since January 11, losing to Cameron Grimes

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. Not at all. I would be shocked if he didn't get approval for working All Japan, and his Bump appearance was to support family members.

2. Smart move to not run an expensive venue with that many empty seats.

3. It was being rejected by their fans, and Awesome Kong was leaving to do GLOW stuff anyway.

Nothing to add to 4.

5. I don't see it happening. They last worked together in 2011.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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