Irish promotion changing due to Speaking Out, Interviews with Garrini/Show/Bayley/HHH, WWE exec hire, WWE documentary in the works, WWE video game makes changes, Pillman update, Impact tease, new Impact match, and Questions on HHH+Stephanie pushing women, the Forgotten Sons' status, We The People, and Low Ki's future

Ireland's Over The Top Wrestling announced a number of changes:
- Talent relations will now be headed up by Anne O Brien, who will also work with their training facilities.

- All management, performers, and staff will be vetted for criminal records.

- A board has been established to discuss issues in the Irish wrestling scene. In addition to promoter Joe Cabray, this will include roster members LJ Cleary, (Session Moth) Martina, Kaydee McKeon Joyce, and FFPW coach Katey Harvey. 

- A code of conduct is being drafted.

- The School of Wrestling NI (Northern Ireland) will be opened later this year, as will a school in Dublin. (Session Moth) Martina will join the coaching team with these additional schools.

-- That all sounds significant. They're making strides to improve.

MLW's Dominic Garrini spoke on the Conversations with Love podcast. Here are highlights.

Shad Gaspard and Muhammad Hassan's comic has been re-released with a tribute cover. Proceeds will benefit the Gaspard family.

Ricochet has the latest Best of WWE collection on WWE Network.

Big Show discussed "The Big Show Show"'s future. A Christmas episode is coming. Sounds like things are doing well for the show. 

WWE is selling United States Championship replicas. Of course they are! 

Bayley spoke to Newsweek about her heel run and more:
- It was definitely a process to see how her character would change as a heel.

- Interesting discussion about how different it is to wrestle with no crowd. 

- I'd like to see more talents take bold new character directions!

- Yeah that IIconics tag title run was weak.

- I REALLY don't want them to rush the Sasha/Bayley split.

WWE has named a new Chief Financial Officer, Kristina Salen. She held the same role at Etsy.

Stone Cold's A&E documentary has begun production. It is set to debut in December. That should be interesting. 

- Mick Foley was interviewed for the project.

WWE 2K Battlegrounds has changed character models' tattoos, likely due to lawsuits over trademarked designs as tattoos.

Triple H spoke to Sports Illustrated about Great American Bash:
- Good to see Cole praised.

- Fascinating discussion about Keith.

- I love the enthusiasm former NXT names have. WWE as a whole needs to keep things fresh.

- I do like them building multiple names at once in a division. That's not as well-done post-NXT.

- I hope talents are paying attention about not playing it safe. That mentality also needs to transcend NXT.

MLW commented on Brian Pillman, Jr. wrestling in AEW. Basically, as long as he doesn't miss MLW events, they're fine with him appearing elsewhere. I admire that approach. 

Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows teased coming to Impact. I could see them being in a faction with EC3. Or maybe Aces and Eights is returning? Lots of possibilities with fresh talent coming in.

Slammiversary has added Moose vs. Tommy Dreamer for the TNA Championship in an Old School (hardcore) Rules match. Given the stipulation, this match would fit for having another talent run in on a night with multiple debuts and returns teased.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. It's absolutely something those two pushed for. 

2.a. It feels like the gimmick is on pause because of Ryker's tweet and also because it was going to be a hard sell from a political standpoint, especially feuding with New Day. WWE was wise to hold off on that before things got worse from a PR standpoint.

2.b. Talent relations is supposed to check such things in the hiring process. Notably the "Soul Man" photo was after his hiring. It's possible it didn't make enough of a splash at the time for anyone to pay attention. It would be quite the undertaking to have to monitor that many people's social media feeds!

3. I took at as an ad lib, with Jericho wanting to derail the crowd from referencing WWE, which was smart. He knew they'd pop for a shot at Vince. 

4. That's quite funny. I'm sure Low Ki would want to go over, too. The answer was a little heavy, though. 

5. Again, I'm choosing to keep this wrestling related and not delve into personal attacks like their answer. I don't see him getting any backlash from MLW because they're not currently running. I don't know that WWE or AEW would punish him just for the tweet, but certainly they could do so if he refused to comply with anything they're putting in place. 

More wrestling coming up.