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Thursday, May 14, 2020

Assorted wrestling press, coronavirus-related wrestling updates, Interviews with Mickie/Helms/Christian, Knockout signing, FS1 content, NBA star WWE bound, Double or Nothing content, 205 Live update, released star opens store, more on XFL lawsuit, WWE video game crossover, WWE-FS1 ratings, rejected NXT mask, Takeover announced, Tyson at AEW, Dynamite+DoN matches, NXT release, and Questions on Roman-WWE, MLW's revival, Vince at MITB, The Fiend's status, and Taker's WM33 farewell

C.M. Punk tasted WWE's new ice cream sandwiches. He has a point that they didn't bring back the original product.

PROGRESS has canceled its shows through September, which included planned United States shows in late July and early August. The pandemic is going to stick with us quite a while.

ROH released a Kyle O'Reilly vs. Jonathan Gresham match from 2011.

Natalya will take part in Her Campus' virtual graduation Friday, joining a lot of other celebrities.

NJPW will soon begin empty arena shows in Japan and their California dojo.

Kevin Nash did not appear on "The Bump" as advertised. Adam Cole, William Regal, and Todd Pettengill joined Asuka on the show.

Mickie James discussed wrestling, music, and more.

Hurricane Helms spoke to Chris Van Vliet about a variety of topics.

Impact has signed Tasha Steelz, who debuted on this week's episode and has worked for ROH and NWA in the past. I'm very glad to see new names in the Knockouts division.

FS1 will air two of WWE's Ruthless Aggression episodes next Tuesday leading into Backstage.

The IIconics will be on "The Bump" next week.

WWE is selling commemorative event chairs to past events. It looks like they're clearing out the warehouse.

Christian is on "After The Bell."

NBA's Enes Kanter confirmed a WWE contract offer, stating he intends to wrestle once his basketball career is over. He's already been 24/7 Champion!

AEW's Casino Ladder match has added Rey Fenix.

205 Live will have fresh in-ring content this week and next.

Erick Rowan has opened a Pro Wrestling Tees store as Erick Redbeard, so he's going to be using that name for the time being.

Vince McMahon and XFL president Oliver Luck's lawsuit was detailed by Sports Business Journal. Luck is seeking $23.8 million that McMahon personally guaranteed from Alpha Entertainment. As the story is not a wrestling story, I will generally refer to summaries rather than dedicating a lot of space to coverage.

WWE and King of Fighters All-Star are having a crossover, with The Rock, The Undertaker, John Cena, Seth Rollins, Becky Lynch, and Kofi Kingston available as characters in that game. That's pretty cool!

WWE Backstage drew 175,000 viewers this week, more than double last week's audience and the highest mark for the show since C.M. Punk's interview in November.

Vince McMahon congratulated Becky Lynch on Twitter.

The Bella Twins' memoir has hit the New York Times Bestseller list in seventh place. That's impressive!

WrestleMania III on FS1 drew 157,000 viewers. Not bad at all!

The Undertaker discussed his UFC confrontation with Brock Lesnar and more. Glad it paid off.

Lio Rush showed a rejected WWE mask. I get it (M.O.T.H. - Man Of The Hour), but not sure if that was a good direction for him. Especially as good as he is with facial expressions.

DDT is planning a Zoom audience at their next event. That's a pretty interesting idea. We'll see how it goes and if anyone else follows suit.

NXT has announced Takeover: In Your House on June 7. That's a pretty clever homage.

Mike Tyson will present the TNT Championship at Double or Nothing. That's a REALLY big get for AEW.

Dynamite has announced:
- Jon Moxley vs. Pres10 Vance
- Matt Hardy vs. Sammy Guevara
- MJF vs. Marko Stunt
- Rey Fenix vs. Orange Cassidy
- Arn Anderson and Jake Roberts face-to-face

Double or Nothing has added:
- Nyla Rose vs. Hikaru Shida in a no disqualification, no countout match for the AEW Women's Championship
- Britt Baker vs. Kris Statlander
- Private Party vs. Best Friends for the number one contendership to the AEW Tag Team Championship. This match will be on the Buy In show.
- Kenny Omega, Matt Hardy, Young Bucks, and Adam Page vs. Chris Jericho, Jake Hager, Sammy Guevara, Ortiz, and Santana in a Stadium Stampede Match

FS1 will air WWE's FCW documentary on May 26 to lead into Backstage.

NXT's Rachael Evers was released as part of the recent cuts. She has returned to her Rachael Ellering name.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. The "WWE is erasing Roman" thing continues to fall apart.

2. I'm not qualified to answer this beyond saying they returned in October 2017, so it's theoretically feasible to start there or the first episode of Fusion in January 2018.

3. Hahaha maybe he was responding to Oliver Luck's lawsuit? They do say Vince is a workaholic.

4. Bray showed his soft side to try to win Braun back over. I expect with that not working, The Fiend will be back soon.

5. He planned on retiring then but ended up coming back.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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