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Originally Posted by WrestleInc The Independent ran an article about the possibility of WrestleMania coming to London. They referenced a survey that WWE sent out this week to Wrestlemania 33 attendees, asking their interest in future venues, which also included locations like New York City and Toronto. The article mentioned the last major show held in England, SumerSlam in 1992, which saw the British Bulldog defeat Bret "The Hitman" Hart for the Intercontinental Championship in front of over 80,000 fans at Wembley Stadium.

Link to the article: http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/g...-a7789331.html

Originally Posted by WrestleInc After having minor elbow surgery, reports have gone back and forth on if Braun Strowman is cleared for action by the WWE. No matter the case, it looks like he will be scheduled to work the Great Balls of Fire PPV on July 9. It's expected to be against Roman Reigns, since that was the original plan before Strowman would go on to face Brock Lesnar at SummerSlam. Strowman and Lesnar's SummerSlam match was - as of last week - planned to be the show's main event.

Originally Posted by Observer With two of Impact Wrestling's announcers involved in a match at Slammiversary, the company is bringing in both a familiar voice and a new one to call the pay-per-view. Impact announced today that Don West and Robert Flores will be the announce team for Slammiversary. West was formerly one of the voices of Impact alongside Mike Tenay. He parted ways with the company in 2012 but returned to work with ShopTNA at the beginning of this year. Flores works in television for both the MLB and NHL networks, which he joined after leaving ESPN in 2016. He's a longtime pro wrestling fan and was slated to serve as the co-host of "The Ric Flair Show" on the MLW Radio network earlier this year before Flair decided that he didn't want to continue with the podcast.

Originally Posted by PWI As we noted yesterday on PWInsider.com, WWE will release a DVD set devoted to "Unreleased Matches" from 1985-1993 hosted by Sean Mooney and Charly Caruso on 9/5.

3 disc set and the listing of the contents in the link: http://www.pwinsider.com/article/110...d-set.html?p=1

Originally Posted by PWI Jeff Jarrett noted on Twitter he is going to Los Angeles for Impact-related meetings. Impact has been working on bringing Naomichi Marufuji and Taiji Ishimori in for Slammiversary, PWInsider.com can confirm. Marufuji has already been announced for a date for Michael Elgin's Glory Pro Wrestling, so it would appear that he's a lock for the Impact PPV and subsequent TV tapings. There are also plans to bring some AAA talent in to work LAX. Ross Forman, who worked for WCW and has worked for TNA in the past, is back as Head of Media Relations for the company. He started back with the company last week. There have been talks with Mike Tenay about coming in for Slammiversary.

Some Impact related news.

Originally Posted by PWI Officially added to the 6/23 Best in the World PPV is that the losing team involved in Seek & Destroy vs. The Rebellion will be forced to disband. Gabby Ortiz, who has been competing in the Women of Honor division for ROH, is currently touring STARDOM. A number of ROH officials are slated to be at the 7/1 and 7/2 New Japan events in Los Angeles.

Some ROH related news.

Originally Posted by WrestleInc WWE posted this teaser with the Andre the Giant statue for what appears to be a new project being announced this coming Monday: "No man can stop a giant." #BLN1 #ThisMonday pic.twitter.com/tMa8mpZxp3 — WWE (@WWE) June 14, 2017

Originally Posted by PWI As noted, WWE will tape The Mae Young Classic on July 13th and July 14th at Full Sail University. The following names have been confirmed for the 32-competitor tournament: * Bianca Blair - standout at the WWE Performance Center and signed in April 2016 * Danielle Kamela - WWE developmental talent, trained at WWE Hall of Famer Rikishi's school * Julia Ho - WWE developmental talent with MMA background, trained with Brian Kendrick * Kimberly Frankele - WWE NXT talent, formerly known as Kimber Lee on the indies * Lacey Evans - NXT talent and a Marine, formerly known as Macey Estrella * Mary Kate - NXT talent and formerly known as Rosie Lottalove in TNA * Sarah Logan - NXT talent, formerly known as Sarah Bridges in NXT and Crazy Mary Dobson on the indies * Taynara Melo - WWE developmental talent signed last year, black belt from Brazil * Victoria Gonzales - WWE developmental talent signed in 2016, college athlete and daughter of Rudy Boy Gonzales * Zhao Xia - WWE's first female Chinese talent

Originally Posted by Observer There will also be a lot of women not under contract from all over the world. Names talked about have included Toni Storm and Tessa Blanchard, who have worked Stardom

Other names for the tournament and revelation of WWE being unable to get everyone to sign a deal for the tournament unlike with the recent UK tournament.

Originally Posted by Observer AXS is planning on a marathon of New Japan in three weeks. The Dominion show will be edited down to two hours, from 7-9 p.m. There will be the all-time New Japan marathon leading to the live show at 8 p.m. Eastern from Long Beach.

Originally Posted by Observer There will also be some sorts of a legends segment to the Money in the Bank show. Ric Flair, Bob Orton Jr., Larry Hennig (interesting since Hennig never wrestled once in his career in St. Louis), Baron Von Raschke and Greg Gagne are all confirmed as appearing on the show in some form with the idea they were former St. Louis stars. Gagne worked a few shows in the 70s in St. Louis, while Flair was one of the bigger draws in the history of the city, at least until 1983. The early years of Flair as champion were the best drawing years on a consistent basis in the city’s history, but after 1983 that was far from the case.

Originally Posted by Observer The NWA deal and Billy Corgan remains in a weird state. Those close to the situation say that Corgan does have a signed deal with Bruce Tharpe and they are aware of the issues in play, but the money has not changed hands and Corgan’s side hasn’t officially taken over. The NWA affiliates are pretty much on hold waiting to find out what is going to happen

Originally Posted by Observer Paul Lloyd Jr., 36, who works here as P.J. Black (Justin Gabriel in WWE), suffered a terrible injury base jumping this past week. He suffered a broken leg, a broken hand and lost a finger. He’s has to cancel all of his upcoming indie dates. He had suffered two broken ankles in October from an earlier base jumping accident while in South Africa

Originally Posted by Observer There is still no planned date for when Io Shirai will start at WWE. She is still working for now for Stardom

Originally Posted by Observer Tyler Bate, Trent Seven, Pete Dunne, Mark Andrews and Wolfgang either have been or are expected to be offered new three-year deals at a higher price. They had all originally signed $20,000 per year deals. The entire U.K. strategy seems up in the air. As noted, they had originally booked monthly TV tapings that would have started in June, but we’re now in June and nothing has been announced and even people in the mix don’t seem to know anything about a start date for the long-talked about weekly network show. The market changed with the ITV thing seemingly failing apart

Originally Posted by Observer The Hardys did an interview for the WWE Network (which ended up being the most-watched show of the week) where they talked publicly for the first time on a WWE show about the Broken gimmick. Matt said it was weird to him to go back to the old Matt Hardy after doing the gimmick and that he almost became the new personality and had morphed into it. Regarding whether they would use the gimmick in WWE he said, “I definitely think there is a chance. It’s a work in progress. Unfortunately, due to legal reasons, I really can’t go into it right now, but I find it very flattering and humbling that every time we come and wrestle in front of the WWE Universe, they chant and they address it and acknowledge it.” Regarding the “delete” chants, he told fans to please keep doing it. He used the term, “When it (the transformation) happens, and I’m not going to say if, when it happens, its doing to be the most exciting thing to hit WWE programming in a long, long time.” Matt also said that it was inevitable that at some point Jeff would go as a single

Some other sheet news includes:

• According to the Observer, NJPW is planning one more match between Omega and Okada to occur prior to next year's Wrestle Kingdom.
• Observer's Dave Meltzer also rated Okada-Omega II as a 6.25 star match (0.25 higher than the first match).
• Chris Jericho's next possible return to the WWE will either be cut short or could occur after the next Fozzy tour currently set to start around late October or November.
• Curt Hawkins celebrated the birth of his first daughter today with WWE sending a congratulations announcement. http://www.wwe.com/shows/raw/article...rst-child-born