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Friday, May 15, 2020

Assorted wrestling press, Interviews with Bononi/Apter/Lio/Otis/Havoc/Excalibur, Foley endorses AEW name, Dynamite+NXT audiences, another AEW ladder match competitor, and Questions on the six-sided ring, comedian in WWE, and Cody's tattoo

Sara Del Rey was voted ROH's all-time top women's competitor.

NXT alum Cezar Bononi is doing a live Instagram stream tonight with Brazil's WrestleManiacos.

Mick Foley endorsed Britt Baker.

Bill Apter was on VOC Nation's Wrestling with History podcast. Here are highlights:
- Weird to see Impact listed as a major promotion in 2020! They don't draw crowds like WWE or AEW.

- I'm seeing more criticism of AEW's "sports like feel" pitch being pushed aside. I do think some aspects are very much competition based, but there's also WWE style silliness.

- Cody is 100% straddling the line of wrestler and promoter.

Lio Rush talked about his WWE heat and more. It definitely needs to become commonplace than anyone working Raw and Smackdown needs to be paid accordingly rather than continuing on a low-level NXT contract.

Otis spoke to SPORF. I'm interested to see what's next for him. I can't say I expected a push this size this soon. I would have thought he would be at the Intercontinental Championship level first.

Dynamite drew 654,000 viewers this week, which is the lowest audience it's ever drawn. Of course, the coronavirus has to take most of the blame there.

NXT drew 604,000 viewers this week, a sizable drop in its own right.

AEW's Casino Ladder Match has added Scorpio Sky. Him winning would be nice!

"Lio Rush" has been trademarked by a WBGR Sports and Ent Network in Maryland. Lio is from the area.

Jimmy Havoc has trademarked his ring name.

Excalibur is on the latest AEW Unrestricted podcast.

ODB is on Vickie Guerrero's latest podcast.

Seth Rollins commented on becoming a father.

The Rock's "Ball and Chain" has been sold to Netflix.

Ric Flair spoke to Snoop Dogg.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I think the ring helped the company stand out, but also see the argument it made it hard to take them seriously as a major promotion. Ultimately it felt like they changed a lot of things really quickly without long-term plans in place.

2. Yeah there were some growing pains in the Bischoff/Hogan era, huh?

3. Very briefly, as was said.

Nothing to add to 4.

5. He's committed to that logo and character!

More wrestling tomorrow.

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