Jackie Stallone, of GLOW fame, passed away at 98.
Drew McIntyre spoke to PWInsider.com to promote Clash of Champions.
Lance Bass is on Alexa Bliss' podcast. Very cool!
Ricky Morton will face Joey Janela at Spring Break 4. 2020 is a surreal time!
WWE wines are coming in a collaboration with Wines That Rock. The Undertaker and Ultimate Warrior are the first two subjects. That's an interesting direction from the PG family company.
Raw drew 1.67 million viewers Monday, very close to last week's number.
Jon Moxley spoke to The Sun about Roman Reigns working with Paul Heyman and more:
- Credit to Moxley for supporting his friends at other companies.
- Also credit to him for not focusing on the ratings war. Jericho should take note.
- OK, no, Wednesday isn't replacing Monday for wrestling fans. If anything, it's Friday above Monday and then Wednesday based on combined ratings.
The Rock spoke about potentially returning to face Roman Reigns. That would be very big for Roman.
Stephanie McMahon sold more than 57,500 sales of WWE stock. That is only a small fraction of how much she owns, so there's not much to say about it.
Drew McIntyre spoke to GQ in the UK about WrestleMania week.
Zelina Vega spoke to TVInsider and Sports Illustrated.
WWE won Cablefax Awards for:
- Digital Executive of the Year
- Overall Social Presence
- 2nd place for Social Good Campaign (for their work with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society).
- 3rd place for Use of Video/Moving Image (WWE 24)
Bloodsport has added Simon Grimm.
Jon Moxley promoted Bloodsport on The Fight Game Podcast.
Hangman Page was on Wrestling Inc.'s podcast.
Evil Uno is on David Penzer's latest podcast.
Impact will hold Victory Road on Impact Plus on October 4. Eric Young will defend the Impact World Championship against Eddie Edwards on the show, which obviously could affect Bound For Glory. Odd move to rather suddenly put another event before their biggest show of the year.
Impact has announced:
- Good Brothers vs. Wez and Dentz
- The North vs. Ace Austin and Madman Fulton
- Rosemary and Taya vs. Havok and Neveah
- Johnny Swinger vs. Fallah Bahh for the right to be best man at John E. Bravo's wedding.
Bound For Glory has added Deonna Purrazzo vs. Kylie Rae for the Knockouts Championship. Honestly they've cooled Deonna off after her big wins against Grace.
For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. They do a lot with the ranking system and showing win-loss records. It does seem like some things have shifted from that pitch, though given the silliness we saw at the first Fyter Fest, maybe things changed for them pretty early.
2.a. Let's just say I see why some are saying that, and, yes, I would think a number of talents wish there was a union in place right now.
2.b. I don't think Management would be pleased! Anything beyond that is very speculative, but I would think contracts would be structured differently in regard to being driven by number of dates worked. The business is very much based on TV now, and one would think wrestlers would want to be paid based on those rights fees rather than a split of ticket revenue.
3. It feels like a lot of WWE talents now are a hodgepodge of what they were before WWE/what was emphasized in NXT being fit into the "main roster" mold everyone has had to fit in for well over a decade.
4. Thunderdome looks more like a television product involving wrestling, whereas Dynamite is a wrestling product being televised.
5. 2016 Mickie was coming back to prove herself after traveling outside of WWE. 2020 Mickie had a year off and is suddenly being transitioned back from non-active roles. I don't know how long she has left on her deal, but it could very well be a case of her making the most of the time she has left to fulfill before retiring. Of course, Asuka has also gone from emerging exciting talent to someone working weekly in the WWE fold.
More wrestling tomorrow.
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