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Friday, April 10, 2020

FS1 airing more WWE content, Interviews with Taz/Becky/Cody/Hendrix, new WWE trademarks, coronavirus-related wrestling updates, assorted wrestling press, Lawler returning to WWE TV, Dynamite+NXT audiences, WWE roster move official, AEW commentary update, Rebellion update, AJ Styles' status, Charlotte plans, Bret set for horror movie, Hogan note, and Questions on talents getting ring names, and alternate WWE taping locations and ideas

FS1 will air "Ruthless Aggression" episodes for John Cena, Evolution, and Brock Lesnar on April 14.

FS1 is re-airing Royal Rumble and the recently aired WWE 24 episodes going forward as an effort to fill time during the pandemic.

Taz is on AEW Unrestricted this week.

WWE has trademarked "The Fiend," "Feel The Glow," and "Rated R Superstar."

Coronavirus-related wrestling updates:
- WWE has postponed its UK tour to October 4 through October 9, with an additional date on April 21. The NXT UK tapings that were set for this loop have been canceled.

- WWE is postponing its annual stockholders meeting that was set for this week.

- Money in the Bank will not take place in Maryland as originally planned.

- WWE is taping Smackdown episodes on April 10 and April 11 and Raw episodes on April 12 and April 13.

- AEW covered lodging costs for talents who wanted to stay local for recent tapings.

- Impact considered taping from Booker T.'s facility in Texas before ending up taping in Tennessee. WWE did not intervene on the Texas taping idea.

- Bobby Fulton's career tribute show has been moved to October 3.

"Fight Like A Girl" got a trailer.

Jerry Lawler will return to Raw this week. Hopefully that's the right move.

Ronda Rousey took part in a charity walk.

Elias did a live concert on Instagram.

Dynamite drew 692,000 viewers this week, a slight boost from last week.

NXT drew 693,000 viewers, a good rebound from last week.

Brazil's SBT will air a one-hour Raw version on Saturdays beginning this week. I would think that bodes well for Andrade, Angel Garza, and Humberto Carrillo.

WrestleMania 36's on-demand broadcast doesn't have the AC/DC and Metallica tracks due to WWE not wanting to pay royalties for them.

WWE has officially moved Apollo Crews to Raw. I guess that's payback for Smackdown getting Mojo.

Becky Lynch spoke to The Irish Mirror.

Cody discussed Brodie Lee's Vince McMahon vignettes.

Vickie Guerrero's latest podcast has Taeler Hendrix.

Chris Jericho and Tony Schiavone will be on commentary for the remaining AEW content from Georgia. Not looking forward to that.

Rebellion is being repurposed as an episode of Impact. That makes sense.

AJ Styles will likely miss time to sell the Boneyard Match ending. I'm curious how that will go and what it will mean for his return.

Charlotte Flair is expected to work Raw and NXT going forward to boost NXT. That's logical.

Bret Hart and Angelina Love will star in the horror movie "Demented."

Supercard of Honor was set to feature Dragon Lee vs. El Phantasmo.

Rey Horus is still part of AAA after his ROH signing.

Hulk Hogan was approached to appear at WrestleMania, but nothing was worked out on that front.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. Talents can pitch ring names, gimmicks, etc. in WWE but they have to be approved. And of course sometimes WWE decides the ring name outright. I don't believe AEW is trademarking ring names, so that would leave it up to the talents themselves. That allows them to use the names outside AEW.

Nothing to add to 2.

3. I'm not sure how possible that is on short notice, even for WWE. As far as facilities go, the PC's a pretty good one in that they already own it and can dictate its design, when to tape, etc. Once they get their new Connecticut HQ, I expect they could make more facilities to wrestle in.

4. I think they'd utilize their video libraries more than they already do and potentially do a lot of virtual interviews.

5. I would think they would be legally able to, but it's such a small facility and a lot of their key personnel aren't based in the UK, so it would be challenging to do so. I don't expect fresh in-ring content from NXT UK for a considerable amount of time.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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