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Monday, January 20 2020 Issue #5827
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Colin Vassallo -[mailto:editor@...]-

Here we go another week. Royal Rumble week! Apart from WrestleMania, this is my favorite PPV of the year. Usually they always deliver, although sometimes there are big misses. But overall, it's a fun show.


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RAW PREVIEW

- The Royal Rumble go-home episode of Monday Night Raw airs live tonight on USA Network from the Intrust Bank Arena in Wichita, Kansas. Apart from another Brock Lesnar appearance - which makes it three weeks in a row - two matches are being advertised by WWE for tonight's broadcast. The first is a ladder match for the United States title with Andrade defending against former champion Rey Mysterio and the second match is a mixed tag team match featuring Rusev and Liv Morgan versus Bobby Lashley and Lana. More Superstars - especially from the women's match - are expected to be announced for the Royal Rumble as well. So far, only four confirmed entrants are in the women's match - Charlotte Flair, Alexa Bliss, Nikki Cross, and Sarah Logan.

WWE UNITED KINGDOM CHAMPIONSHIP RENAMED

- The WWE United Kingdom title is no more as WWE has renamed it to the NXT UK title. At last week's NXT UK tapings in York, NXT UK General Manager Johnny Saint did the presentation of the new title to champ Walter with the rest of Imperium by his side. The WWE United Kingdom title was introduced in January 2017 when there was no NXT UK established yet with Tyler Bate being the inaugural champion. When NXT UK was formed, all the other titles were referred to NXT UK rather than the WWE UK titles so it made sense to change this to refer to the UK brand.

FORMER WWE TAG TAM CHAMPION SYLVAIN GRENIER HIRED AS WWE PRODUCER

- In an interview with French-Canadian website TVA Sports, former WWE Tag Team title holder Sylvain Grenier revealed that he is now working for WWE again as an agent/producer. The 42-year-old Quebecer is best known for being part of the La Résistance tag team between 2003 and 2005 with René Duprée. After his release from WWE, he worked for Impact Wrestling doing French commentary between 2007 and 2009. “When WWE came to Montreal in April 2019, I went to meet Kevin Dunn to ask him for pictures of the time I won the team titles at the Bell Center," Grenier told TVA Sports. "We started talking about things and others and he told me that the company was looking for agents. I had just had a child, I was working on my show, I didn't want to end up on the road as much as before. But he told me that things had changed. The company then invited me to the premiere of SmackDown on FOX in Los Angeles and a few exchanges later, we had an agreement.” Grenier explained his role as being the guy who "fine tunes" a little bit of the ideas that others come up with and to serve as a bridge between the powers that be and the wrestlers on how their particular match should go. "For the moment I'm in training. But eventually I will be assigned to the red team or the blue team, Raw or SmackDown. I'm going to do a TV show a week, every PPV and once a month, I'm going to tour house shows,” Grenier added.

JAZZY GABERT DEPARTS NXT UK

- Popular German wrestler Jazzy Gabert has departed the NXT UK brand, tweeting that she is now a free agent. Gabert made a big impression during the Mae Young Classic tournament and was about to get signed before she was dropped because she failed the medical due to an injury. After she underwent surgery and recovered, WWE signed her to an NXT UK deal in January of last year. However, in a whole year, Gabert barely wrestled for NXT UK and only had a handful of appearances with only one singles match. The 37-year-old known as the Alpha Female has said that she is now hitting the "reset button," getting offline for a bit and changing her look.

MIKE KANELLIS MOVED TO NXT

- Mike Kanellis looks like he will be moving permanently to NXT after last weekend he started touring with the brand. Kanellis was in a tag team with Tony Nese in what is said to be a "trial run" for a new team for the yellow brand. Things for Kanellis in WWE hasn't been going great and despite signing a multi-year deal last year, he asked for his release back in October. WWE management refused his request and there's no plans to grant it still, with WWE opting to send Kanellis to NXT for a fresh start. Kanellis was last seen on WWE television in September. The angle involving his wife came to a close last year when Maria revealed she was pregnant and after a few weeks on television, even winning the 24/7 title, the former WWE Diva Search winner was taken off television as well.

CHRIS JERICHO'S ROCK'N'WRESTLING RAGER CRUISE SAILS TODAY

- A jam-packed Chris Jericho Rock'n'Wrestling Rager cruise kicks off today from Miami, Florida aboard the Norwegian Pearl. The sold out cruise will have tons of wrestling personalities onboard including Jericho himself, Cody, Kenny Omega, Young Bucks, Jon Moxley, MJF, Sammy Guevara, Jake Hager, Pac, Hangman Page, Britt Baker, Darby Allin, and other AEW stars who will be part of the Dynamite show which will be filmed on the ship itself. Others on the ship include Ric Flair, Vickie Guerrero, MVP, Eric Bischoff, Jake Roberts, Booker T, Scott Hall, Chavo Guerrero Jr, and more. The cruise will also be the site of many live podcasts that will be taped and several bands, including Fozzy, will be providing the entertainment throughout the next couple of days. Q&A panels and photo shoots will be held as well. The itinerary will have a stop in Nassau, Bahamas and two days at sea before returning to Miami on Friday morning.

DYNAMITE COMING TO ROCHESTER IN MARCH

- All Elite Wrestling today announced that they will be making their debut in Rochester, New York in March. The March 18 episode of Dynamite will be taking place at the Blue Cross Arena, an 11,000-seater multi-purpose indoor arena which is also known as the War Memorial. Tickets go on sale this Friday, January 24 at Noon ET at AEWTix.com. Prices will start from $20. The next few Dynamite shows are looking close to full although the February 12 episode in Cedar Park, Texas, is struggling big to sell tickets. AEW has locations for shows up to March 25 at time of this writing.


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