The interesting thing is the injury is real (unless Dawson hasn't worked anywhere for two months just to sell this) but it was completely played as ducking out for their chance further down the line.

Reigns-Owens has already been officially announced.

They do have the delayed Becky-Bliss title match. Becky's been doing a lot of promo and is in a city with strong Irish connections, so I'd like to be the first to congratulate Alexa.

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Haven't done this for a while but it's starting to find its feet again, apart from the Aries/Revival double standard last week and that Itami is injured again, especially as it now means Dillinger of all people is secondary face. Nakamura-Joe seems to be spluttering around but the Dusty is doing what it…

Not gonna lie, the idea of Emma going all Dustin Rhodes-as-Seven appeals to me. I wonder why they keep delaying her actual appearance, they were trailing a debut for last week and in the meantime she's been working face on Smackdown shows.

I'm pleased they didn't try to shoehorn some election reference into the show in a country that has its own reasons for despising him - or indeed mention Brexit in a land that voted against it.

By all accounts the edit made Charlotte's handling look much better. I don't know whether nobody expected it to be that loud but it's not the first time a Bayley chant has thrown Charlotte off-course mid-promo.

That seems a very reactive idea, her ability to tell a story in-ring and when she gets into gear with her offense were perfectly fine working with a wide range of opponents (in terms of both style and experience) in NXT.

It seems incredibly evident, given it's a face vs face match, that Sami is the body Miz can beat up as he goes against Bryan's wishes and forces a match with Ziggler at TLC out of him.

Young Bucks' ROH contract is supposedly up at the end of the year, though I'd guess they'd be more likely to rejoin Styles.

One of my favorite things during their Wrestlemania match (because let's face it, it was no good) was finding people on Twitter commenting to the effect of "he's a Super Saiyan wearing a unicorn horn playing a trombone. What is this?"

When Woods was injured by the Dudleys the other two referred to him as their special unicorn. There's some talk he might be a brony too.

I kind of feel music/culture sites reporting on this story are missing a huge amount of context, given the approach is more often than not "Billy Corgan's involved in wrestling now!!!" and not that, y'know, he's the popular choice to take over from an owner seemingly driving it into the ground.

Corgan's completely laying into TNA and Anthem on Twitter about now, threatening to reopen the court case due to non-payment and making threats to sell his stake to WWE (which is what some people at the top end of TNA reputedly wanted all along, but anyway)

Yes, and kinda-new owners Anthem have until tonight to pay him back his $1.8m - this for a company subject to a lien in Tennessee bankruptcy courts and several other non-payment lawsuits.

In this case, if the evil party was already in charge.

That's why I didn't get last night's female segment being built around Nia Jax - why would you promote the monster heel with a heel champion? What's Sasha meant to do if it's Nia-Bayley?

Becky has a title match next Tuesday, we don't know whether she'll be champion at Survivor Series. And why would beloved underdog Becky specifically go against another face?

Joey Ryan!

That was hijacked by JR wanting to use it to push Dr Death Steve Williams in any case.