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Monday Update

  • Bryan and I will be back tonight to talk about Raw, PCO, Britt Baker,  Tessa Blanchard, TNA Genesis and a lot more tonight with Wrestling Observer Radio. We’ll also be taking questions for the show to mailbag@wrestlingobserver.com
  • Jake & Logan Paul & Conor McGregor all traveled together in the same vehicle to the Trump inauguration today.
  • Notre Dame vs. Ohio State for the college football national championship goes head-to-head against Raw tonight on ESPN.  As far as the U.S. goes, that will certainly hurt Raw’s viewership numbers, even if we don’t see them.
  • Raw is tonight in Dallas and it will be sold out with more than 14,000 fans.  They sold roughly 5,000 tickets the last ten days which was the same as San Jose, even without adding someone like Rock or John Cena to the show. Bayley has been moved to Raw and should be on the show tonight. Bayley will face Nia Jax coming off last week’s segment plus Seth Rollins vs. Drew McIntyre, Zoey Stark & Shayna Baszler vs. Dakota Kai & Iyo Sky,. Penta vs. Pete Dunne, The New Day will wrestle, CM Punk appears and JBL returns.
  • Allie Katch underwent surgery this morning to repair two broken bones wrestling against Effy on last night’s GCW show.
  • Oba Femi vs. Eddy Thorpe for the NXT title and Tony D’Angelo vs. Ridge Holland for the North American title are on tomorrow’s NXT TV show on CW.
  • With the holiday, the ratings for Smackdown, Collision and NXT will be delayed by a day this week.  It should be caught up Thursday for AEW Dynamite.
  • Mike Santana vs. Josh Alexander and Jordynne Grace vs. Tessa Blanchard were tremendous wrestling matches last night on the TNA PPV show. Obviously the biggest news is that there will be a Masha Slamovich vs. Cora Jade match at some point, and that TNA will be live on AXS & Sportsnet 360 in Canada on Thursday from San Antonio with Nathan Frazer &  Axiom vs. Trey Miguel & Zachary Wentz.  That match will be tremendous as well.
  • Grace said her goodbyes and all and will be in WWE imminently. Josh Alexander is expected on this week’s tapings for TNA in San Antonio but at this point it looks like he’s leaving.  
  • Beneil Dariush said to Submission Radio that he was cutting weight thinking he was getting the fight with Islam Makhachev on Saturday.  He said he found out at 9 a.m. that they were giving the title fight to Renato Moicano. UFC did take care of Dariush paying him not only his guarantee but also his win bonus even though he didn’t end up fighting.  And he’ll probably get another fight soon.  He said he’d like to face Dustin Poirier, Max Holloway or Michael Chandler next.
  • Optimum Cable reached a carriage agreement for a number of stations including WPIX in New York.  So NXT will be available tomorrow to the Optimum customers in the New York metropolitan area.
  • We’re looking for your thoughts on both the TNA Genesis show and GCW show from last night, thumbs up, thumbs down or thumbs in the middle along with a best and worst match to dave@wrestlingobserver.com
  • The Sabu retirement match with Joey Janela will be at Joey Janela’s Spring Break show over Mania week on 4/18 in Las Vegas at the Pearl at the Palms Hotel.
  • Dustin Rhodes will be promoting a Rhodes Cup tournament at his show on 2/21 in Leander, TX.
  • The NWA announced that they will be airing the last match ever taped involving the late Jax Dane on its 1/21 NWA Powerrr show.  Dane & Baron Von Storm (Tim Storm) taped a match against Mims & BLK Jeez before Dane’s death on 12/25
  • MLW announced Brett Ryan Gosselin vs Paul London for the 2/8 show in Atlanta at Center Stage in a Honey Trap match.  The loser of the match gets dunked in a pool of honey and feathered in front of the audience. It’s a takeoff of the old tar and feather matches from the 80s that you could never get away with today using that term. They will also be releasing on YouTube on Saturday at 10 p.m. (right after Collision and SNME end) matches from the last show with Mistico vs. Barbaro Cavernario 2/3 falls for the middleweight title, Tom Lawlor vs. Minoru Suzuki, Persephone vs. Ajeandra Quintanilla, C.W. & Brock Anderson vs. Paul London & Paul Walter Hauser in a tornado match, Bobby Fish vs. Ariel Dominguez and Dark Panther vs. Okumura.
  • Boca Raton Championship Wrestling on 1/30 in Miami,FL at the Pullman Hotel has Frankie Kazarian vs. Monster (Mad Man) Fulton,  Noah Kekoa vs. Kerry Morton (managed by Rciky Morton), Ash by Elegance vs. MJ Jenkins,Matt Riddle & Stallion Rogers vs. Ricky Martinez & ERA, AJ Francis v. Jack Talos and more.  Also there will be Cheeseburger, Brutus Beefcake and Bull Nakano.
  • Matt Riddle and AJ Francis will be at the Memphis Wrestling TV tapings at the WrestleCenter in Memphis on Sunday.
  • WWE in its WWE ID account congratulated GCW on its sellout last night at the Hammerstein Ballroom and noted Jack Cartwheel, Zayda Steel and Marcus Mathers on that show were WWE ID talents.
  • Meiko Satomura faces Rhio on the 2/23 Progress show at the Electric Ballroom in London.
  • Negdog Championship Wrestling on Saturday night at Circle S BBQ in Hudson, FL at 7 p.m. with Bill Alfonso, Gary Wolf, Jason Knight, Ricky Santana and Cuban Assassin.
  •  Justin King was announced as Director of Talent Relations for All Caribbean Wrestling. King is a former WWE referee who worked for Great Khali in India, as well as on shows in Kuwait, Peru and South Africa.