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New Day's latest podcast is a Q&A episode.

Lucha exotico Cassandro will be the subject of an upcoming movie.

LuFisto's autobiography is set to release in Spring 2022.

The Rock has purchased XFL as part of a partnership with RedBird Capital. That's hilarious in kayfabe. I'm curious what he can make of it.

- There was no auction, as this group was the only qualified bidder.

- Alpha Acquico is the joint venture; they paid $15 million for the rights and will pay $8.5 million toward financial debts from the previous owners.

- The Rock commented on the purchase.

- Creditors are looking to stop the sale until terms can be negotiated that are in their best interests regarding money owed. Not shocked. The Rock might have to lay the smackdown on some corporate jabronis.

Jacob Fatu's sister passed away unexpectedly. Best wishes to that family.

MLW is considering returning to live events after seeing other sports do so successfully.

MLW Underground will likely change beIN Sports time slots to avoid further pre-emptions.

AAA and CMLL have entered discussions regarding working together. The talks are in the very early stages. That would be very significant for the lucha landscape.

Dynamite will be pre-empted due to the NBA on the following dates:
- August 19's episode will now air on August 22 at 6:00 p.m. EST
- August 26's episode will now air on August 27 at 8:00 p.m. EST
- September 16's episode will now air on September 17 at 8:00 p.m. EST
- This absolutely will have important implications for the ratings for Dynamite and NXT. We'll see if NXT can capitalize on the opportunities when running unopposed.

"Exotic" Adrian Street's documentary will debut this weekend.

Jinny spoke to Alicia Atout.

All Out will be headlined by MJF challenging for the AEW World Championship. That's a big risk. It's mindblowing he's in the main event of a major PPV instead of Brian Cage, Brodie Lee, Lance Archer, Brodie Lee, or Jake Hager, but as scary as it sounds he could well be the only credible challenger Moxley hasn't beaten yet. 

Raw featured heavy rewrites, adding backstage segments. That sounds like Raw Underground was decided upon pretty late in the process. Honestly I expect that to be forgotten about by the end of the year.

WWE has trademarked "The Hurt Business" and "Justus." The latter sounds like it could be for the "rioter" faction we saw on Raw. I have a bad feeling that's going to be a political gimmick that will backfire.

AEW action figures have been delayed at arriving at Walmart. AEW responded to the delay: Tweet 1 Tweet 2 Tweet 3 It is good to see such strong demand for the products.

The Jeff Jarrett-Anthem mistrial was also a result of the court failing to instruct on comparative negligence and improper comments by the defendant's counsel in opening statements. This has really been a mess for all involved.

WWE is reportedly considering multiple factions. I'm split on that; it would definitely be a shift. 

Summerslam is being looked at outside of Florida, specifically Atlantic City. I'm sure WWE and fans would love a change in environment right now if it looks right on TV and isn't a big cost.

Summerslam has added:
- Apollo Crews vs. MVP for the United States Championship. I could see the level of "automatic" rematches on PPVs hurting interest in them.
- Street Profits vs. Andrade and Angel Garza for the Raw Tag Team Championship
- Seth Rollins vs. Dominik Mysterio in Dominik's first official WWE match

Raw Underground's Dabba-Kato is NXT's Babatunde, who is in Netflix's Main Event movie. That's a really bad name. 

Raw has announced:
- Bayley vs. Asuka. If Asuka wins, she challenges Sasha Banks for the Raw Women's Championship
- Randy Orton vs. Kevin Owens

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I'm honestly pretty surprised given WWE's massive production capabilities they haven't done anything innovative in response to not having fans in the building. We'll see if that changes.

2. He worked on some joint Impact shows, but that looks to have been it. WWE surely knows who he is, so his best bet might be another promotion signing him now that EVOLVE is through.

3. AEW has absolutely overperformed, but I don't see that happening this soon. The fact that it's even being talked about really tells you where WWE is right now. 

4. My understanding is that she had a one year performer's deal with additional time as an ambassador for the company. So, since she's fulfilled the part of her contract that had her as an active talent, she's not expected to wrestle again. She obviously has other goals right now anyway.

5. Nielsen takes a sampling of viewers and multiplies it. It's outdated in some ways. 

More wrestling tomorrow.