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Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Assorted WM36 notes, Taker plan change, more Dynamites set, top international name leaves wXw, assorted wrestling notes, more Ruthless Aggression episodes coming, Lana update, more ROH tournament names, NXT live events set, top names announced for Smackdown, Raw segment set, what happened after Raw, and Questions on the Blood & Guts name, the next boom period, AEW's refereeing, Jinder being champion again, and Roman winning a Chamber match

WrestleMania 36 will be presented by Snickers for the fifth straight year.

Impact's parent company has struck a deal with iHeartMedia to market its content on that service. Impact was not specifically mentioned as part of the deal, but that would make sense. I hope that means more people paying attention to Impact.

WrestleMania DVDs for 15, 17, 18, and 19 will be re-released on March 23 as promotion for WrestleMania 36. Interesting move.

WrestleMania 36 will be released on DVD on May 12 in the U.S. and June 8 in the UK.

The Undertaker was set to appear on Raw this week. I don't mind him being saved for next week since Edge was on TV this week.

Dynamite's June 6 episode will be in Louisiana, at the site of Halloween Havoc 1993, November to Remember 1998, and Supercard of Honor XII among other shows.

Dynamite's June 13 episode will be in New Mexico. As best as I can tell, the venue has never held a wrestling show before.

David Starr has left wXw due to the promotion's WWE affiliation. WWE didn't approve of an angle where Starr stomped on their UK Championship without clearing it with them first. That was bold to say the least! I hope he'll be able to get regular work elsewhere given how many places WWE has ties to now.

WWE Meet and Greets have instituted a no touching policy due to the coronavirus. That's hardly surprising.

WWE Network's Ruthless Aggression series will return in the fall with episodes covering:
- Elimination Chamber
- Tough Enough
- The Diva Search
- Money In The Bank
- The Undertaker
- OVW
-- All of that sounds interesting!

Ricochet promoted Raw.

Jordan Devlin discussed a WrestleMania dream match. I think he can make a spot for himself on that card, but I don't think it would be against someone from Raw.

Tegan Nox was profiled in Wales.

Lana will be in a Bruce Willis sci-fi movie.

ROH's Pure Championship tournament has added Tony Deppen.

ROH's Women's Championship tournament has added Lindsay Snow.

Bob Backlund appeared at Bret Hart's The Big Event signing.

NXT has announced live events for:
- Washington, DC on May 1
- Pennsylvania on May 2
- New York on May 3

Britt Baker and Matt Cross will be in a movie called "Powerbomb" releasing April 14.

Chris Benoit will be on an episode of Reelz channel's "Autopsy" this Sunday.

Chris Jericho and Batista ended up on the same flight. That's pretty cool.

Jeff Hardy and Paige are set for Smackdown, with Paige confronting Bayley on the show. I'm very interested how they fit into things.

The Undertaker and AJ Styles will have a contract signing on Raw.

After Raw, Seth Rollins cut a promo only to take a Claymore from Drew McIntyre.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. It is a very deliberate shot at Vince McMahon and providing an alternative to what he does. As for chairshots to the head, there's no indication we'll see another one after the disaster that was the one Cody took.

2. In theory the Internet could be a gamechanger like PPV and cable were for those eras, but we haven't seen that come to pass yet. If AEW can start pulling Raw and Smackdown level viewership, maybe things will change.

3. Refereeing takes a backseat to spectacle. It does look bad when the announcers are trying to call a match like, well, a match and much of that pretense goes out the window with the wrestlers. If anything, I think they'd change the announcing direction, but I wouldn't expect Jim Ross to ignore blatantly poor officiating.

4. He's only 33, so I don't see why not. We'll see what things look like for him when he's ready to return.

5. Vince pretty much books what he wants to book as long as people buy tickets and react! It probably was for the best that they didn't have Roman win a six-way match given previous backlashes against him.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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