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Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Orton continues Khan Twitter battle, Interviews with Bischoff/Cross/Goldberg, 24/7 Title changes, new NWA show coming, MLW using Cima and friends, Trish special set, NXT match added, new WarGames and Survivor Series matches, Raw audience, more KultureCity, Ryan on Netflix series, Omega AAA title defense tonight, NWA pulls episode due to Cornette, and Questions on Hogan at WM36, Lana vs. Lights Out for alienating wrestling fans, AXS ratings, and Heyman's booking abilities

Randy Orton fired back at Tony Khan after their recent Twitter battle, comparing Tony to Dixie Carter. Tony has been silent since then, which is probably for the best.

Eric Bischoff did a Q&A about leaving WWE, Saudi Arabia, and more. His account of the Tony Khan situation has since been disputed by Conrad Thompson.

R-Truth became 22-time 24/7 Champion after Raw.

- R-Truth lost the championship during a WWE corporate meeting. The new champion was congratulated by Triple H.

- R-Truth started his 23rd reign during a talent relations meeting where the new champion was being offered a contract. The contract offer was seemingly rescinded as a result.

Nikki Cross discussed teaming with Alexa Bliss.

NWA is launching a show called "The Circle Squared" that will allow talents to audition for the company on the mic and in the ring. The show will tape from December 14 through December 16 in Georgia. That's an interesting idea.

MLW is bringing in Stronghearts' Cima, El Lindaman, and Shigehiro Irie for their December 5 TV taping. The trio will face Contra Unit's Jacob Fatu, Simon Gotch, and Ikuro Kwon. Of course, Cima is signed to AEW and El Lindaman has appeared there, too, so this is an interesting turn of events. AEW and MLW are on friendly terms.

Trish Stratus' "WWE 24" special will air after Starrcade. It will follow her return match against Charlotte Flair.

NXT has added Kyle O'Reilly and Bobby Fish vs. The Revival. That should be special.

WarGames has added Killian Dain vs. Pete Dunne vs. Damian Priest. The winner challenges for the NXT Championship at Survivor Series. That's pretty cool.

Raw drew 2.13 million viewers Monday night. Not good. Hopefully they get a boost after Survivor Series.

Goldberg discussed future WWE plans and more. I expect him and other legacy talents to continue to wrestle as long as it works for them financially.

All AEW events going forward will have KultureCity involvement. That's good.

Joey Ryan is in "Magic For Humans'" second season.

Kenny Omega will defend the AAA Mega Championship against Jack Evans on the next AEW Dark. Evans of course has history in AAA.

NWA temporarily pulled the latest episode of Power from YouTube due to a comment Jim Cornette made regarding Trevor Murdoch being tough enough to go through Ethiopia with a bucket of fried chicken. David Lagana and Nick Aldis apologized for the remark on Cornette's behalf. More on this tomorrow. This was just a matter of time. NWA management has no one to blame but themselves for hiring someone who regularly makes controversial remarks, and this misstep so early in the show's run is unfortunate given how well-received it has otherwise been. As for Cornette, as long as the wrestling business continues to support his behavior, he will continue to engage in it.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
Nothing to add to 1.

2. The craziest part of this is that I can't dismiss the possibility it happens. Ideally it would be a tag match or something to where he can "play the hits" with minimal physicality. A lot could go wrong in his condition.

3. I mean, at least Omega vs. Moxley was presented as a serious match (albeit one that didn't "count" on their records). The Lana stuff could lead to a serious match, but in of itself it's not a shining example of what wrestling can be.

4. AXS isn't in enough homes for Nielsen to consider it major enough to include, so official numbers aren't out.

5. The Lana angle is 100% Heyman "pushing the envelope" because it's felt Raw was lacking an edge, and trying to do something to get people talking about the show again. Frankly since it's been so long since Heyman had this level of control, a lot of fans aren't familiar with this kind of content being something he's a fan of. And as the legacy of ECW has been rewritten to exclude the negative, fans who started watching wrestling in recent years have a distorted view of his booking prowess. And, of course, when he hasn't had much creative control in so many years, there's no recent content to judge him on, so that feeds into his legacy. All that said, I've loved a lot of Heyman's changes to Raw.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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