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Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Assorted wrestling news, Interviews with Slater/Breeze/Moxley, Taz Q&A set, new 2K game announced, court cases postponed, another WWE furlough, WWE opposing Cody trademarks?, and Questions on why ratings were down, USA replacing Raw with documentaries, and HHH XXV

Super Showdown 2020 has been released on DVD. Wow Goldberg's title reign ended before his win even made it to disc!

Heath Slater (now Heath Miller) is on Lilian Garcia's latest podcast.

Tyler Breeze is on New Day's latest podcast.

Xavier Woods competed in a United Nations Foundation Mortal Kombat tournament.

Taz will have a live Q&A on AEW's social media Thursday night.

2K announced WWE 2K Battlegrounds. That's definitely a very different WWE property!

WrestleMania 36's Blu-Ray will feature each night's Kickoff match as well as various TV segments.

Jon Moxley spoke to PWInsider.com to promote his new movie. Renee Young is in a unique position, for sure.

Jeff Hardy's DWI court case has been pushed back to July 16 due to COVID-19 precautions in the court system.

Teddy Hart's court cases have been postponed to July 16. I'd assume COVID-19 played a role there, too.

Dynamite this week will air on TSN 1 and TSN 2 in Canada, which will surely help ratings there.

Gerald Brisco has been furloughed by WWE.

Kalisto disclosed a December shoulder injury. That explains why he hasn't been with Gran Metalik and Lince Dorado.

WWE is looking into opposing Cody's trademarks of "Slamboree" and "The Match Beyond," as they have filed for an extension on the deadline to do so. They now have until July 22.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I expect a lot of people are watching the news or otherwise have bigger priorities, for obvious reasons.

2. I don't see it happening. USA Network has three hours of original "in arena" WWE content every Monday for a reason.

3. They are concerned but there's only so much they can do. It took years for ratings to reach this low point. Even if they do everything perfectly, it's going to take significant time to get back where they were.

4. It's probably pretty much par for the course working with Vince!

5. It's basically advertising. They've got bills to pay, too!

More wrestling tomorrow.

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