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Sunday, October 11, 2020

International and indie updates, UK investigating wrestling, Draft continues on Talking Smack, Smackdown audience, Draft change, Interviews with Ember, and Questions on AOP's future, Chelsea Green, and AEW's second TV show

 Stardom notes:

- Their October 3 was a live PPV, and a sellout of more than 1,000 fans.

- Tokyo Cyber Squad splitting was something pushed for by those in the group, due to the pressure of being in the group founded by Hana Kimura.

- TJPW stars Mina Shirakawa and Natsumi Maki (now wrestling as Natsupoi) joined the promotion after their TJPW deals ended days earlier.

- Kairi Sane was backstage. 

Chael Sonnen will appear at Bloodsport as a manager.

C.M. Punk will announce Caged Fury Fighting Championships events on October 29 and October 30.

The UK has formed an all-party parliament group to make the wrestling business safer in terms of sexual misconduct and COVID-19.

MLW will have another episode produced by Salina de la Renta when their show returns.

WWE added Draft-related content to GIPHY.

The WWE Draft continued on Talking Smack:

- Raw chose Humberto Carrillo

- Smackdown chose Murphy

- Raw chose Drew Gulak

- Smackdown chose Kalisto

- Raw chose Tucker

Smackdown drew 2.09 million viewers for night one of the draft. That's not much of a boost at all. Maybe fans "see through" the draft gimmick at this point. There were also some grudge matches that had been pushed for the episode that didn't increase viewership. WWE needs a lot more than a shuffling of the rosters at this point.

WWE originally had The Miz and John Morrison in the second night's draft pool, while Elias was moved from the first night's. Again, it feels more and more like they're making things up as they go.

Ember Moon spoke to Comicbook.com and Daily DDT about returning to NXT. Big shoutout to Edge offering her advice on recovery.

Randy Orton paid tribute to Eddie Guerrero.

Josh Barnett discussed Bloodsport

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:

1. AEW might be a little crowded with tag teams, but they would be a unique fit there. I could see Impact making them a good deal, though. It could depend on how much work they get outside of their home promotion (NJPW for instance).

Nothing to add to 2 or 5.

3. Seemingly WWE was going to move her to Raw or Smackdown, but changed their minds and now she's stuck while they figure out her next move.

4. I greatly expect they won't go against Raw, Smackdown, or the NFL. Other than that, I don't know. I'm curious what happens to Dark's timeslot when it does debut. 

More wrestling tomorrow.

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