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Thursday, July 23, 2020

Wrestling content updates, new merchandise, Jericho cruise postponed, Cassidy spotlighted, Interviews with Lita/Hassan/FTR/Cody/Bennett, Takeover announced, NXT to declare new champion, AEW women's tournament, Dynamite+NXT matches set, AEW name returns, and Questions on Vince-Jericho heat, Jericho putting himself over, and Pillman-AEW

FS1 will air Summerslam 1992 on August 4, resuming Tuesday night content at least temporarily.

Becky Lynch is on the Bella Twins' latest podcast.

New Day has created a shirt to benefit the NAACP legal defense fund.

Chris Jericho has postponed his next cruise until October 21-25, 2021.

Orange Cassidy was originally going to drive an orange juice truck at Dynamite to recreate the Stone Cold beer truck angle, but the venue wouldn't allow it. That might have been a bit over the top and obviously derivative, but I appreciate the level of thought they put into Cassidy getting his heat back.

ESPN covered Orange Cassidy's rise:
- I think his work has been really clever.

- Amazing that he's been doing the gimmick that long. I bet a lot of people did pan it.

- I'm impressed with AEW banking on talents who don't fit the traditional mold. It doesn't always work, but they've been bold in separating themselves from other companies with their level of exposure.

- I love that he's doing something different. There are plenty of people doing superkicks, dives, and flips at 100 miles an hour, to the point a lot of them don't stand out.

AEW has limited edition Street Fighter shirts. That's amazing!  

Lita is on "After The Bell" this week. I apologize for forwarding incorrect reports that the podcast was off this week. 

Muhammad Hassan spoke to Chris Van Vliet. Absolutely amazing stories of his times. 

FTR spoke to Alicia Atout.

Sonny Kiss is on the latest Talk is Jericho.

John Cena's animated series "Dallas & Robo" has been picked up by SyFy, debuting August 8.

WWE recently trademarked "The Man" and "Intercontinental Championship."

Naomi and Sasha Banks responded to Booker T.'s negative reaction to the #NaomiDeservesBetter Twitter trend. Booker's take was pretty bizarre. 

Eric Young discussed leaving WWE on Busted Open radio.

AEW is coming to Sky Sports Italy. Further details are not known at this time.

Cody spoke to Sports Illustrated before Dynamite. Good to see him put Rey over despite Mysterio working for WWE.

Stu Bennett spoke to Chris Van Vliet about NWA and more.

Takeover XXX has been announced for August 22, the day before Summerslam.

Keith Lee has relinquished the North American Championship. A new champion will be declared at Takeover XXX in a ladder match featuring winners of triple threat matches airing on NXT. That's a very gimmicky way to declare a new champion, but we should get good matches from it. 

AEW has announced a Women's Tag Team Cup, which will feature eight tag teams. That certainly gives them a way to feature a lot of women's matches, likely including new and not-often-seen faces. We'll see how it goes.

NXT has announced Finn Balor vs. Timothy Thatcher vs. Dexter Lumis in a North American Championship qualifying match. That's very random. 

Sammy Guevara returned on Dynamite, rejoining The Inner Circle. I hope things have been settled. 

Dynamite has announced:
- Chris Jericho, Jake Hager, Sammy Guevara, Ortiz, and Santana vs. Orange Cassidy, Best Friends, Luchasaurus, and Jungle Boy
- Jon Moxley and Darby Allin vs. Brian Cage and Ricky Starks in a tornado match
- Kenny Omega and Hangman Page vs. Evil Uno and Stu Grayson for the tag team championship
- Cody defending the TNT Championship in an open challenge
- Hikaru Shida vs. Diamante for the women's championship
-- Notice AEW has things a lot more planned out and doesn't feel like they're throwing matches together with no build.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I doubt Vince cares that much about what someone who doesn't work for him thinks about his business decisions. I also doubt Vince and Jericho are on great terms right now, but I would be surprised if we never saw Jericho on WWE TV again as he's got a lot of history there and is more than qualified for the Hall of Fame.

2. Not at all. Jericho has been more miss than hit in AEW and it's evident he can basically call the shots and amuse himself whether it benefits the company or not.

Nothing to add to 3.

4. I'm not sure what's going on there, but that's certainly an interesting way to use someone as touted as Pillman is.

5. It probably shouldn't have even been a one week thing, but Jericho has enough enablers to pop himself week after week. 

More wrestling tomorrow.

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