Impact and Lariato Pro Wrestling Guild taped an event for Impact Plus, with Eric Young, Heath, and "Big LG" all wrestling. The two sides will do another event on October 10. I'm curious to see what level of crossover there will be.
Simone Johnson recently had knee surgery. That's kind of a scary start to her wrestling career.
NJPW Strong will host the Lion's Break Crown event, an eight-man tournament. It's interesting they don't do a consistent series name, but that fits with how things are done in the Japanese wrestling scene.
Tessa Blanchard lost the Warrior Wrestling Women's Championship to Kylie Rae Saturday night, which may or may not be significant to Tessa's next moves.
Dynamite will air on Wednesday this week due to NBA results.
For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. That would be much easier for Vince to implement than Tony Khan, for the reasons mentioned and with Vince's many years of relationships with USA Network. I just don't know if he'd be willing to do it.
2. It's something that takes time, as it did with those stars. They have to consistently be presented as important and look as if they've earned that level of a spotlight. Of course, AEW itself also needs to be seen as being at a certain level of prominence for anyone to become a mainstream star there. They've done well overall in the early going, but it often takes years for someone to really break out.
3. They've definitely had a considerable number of impressive talents come in and lose big matches, with the flipside being that theoretically building the likes of Cody and Moxley.
I'm not qualified to answer 4.
5. I would be VERY surprised to see Tony publicly rebuke Jericho, and we've heard Jericho's side of it. They'll probably just defer to the fact AEW does take testing and prevention seriously. There's not much they can do when people are outside of AEW events.
More wrestling tomorrow.
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