Both Johnny Impact and Taya Valkyrie will not be leaving Impact Wrestling any time soon as they have signed to new deals.

The new deal will allow both talents to continue working for the company while also being able to appear for Lucha Underground. Speaking of Impact Wrestling and talents, the belief is that many talents are expected to leave the company soon and they plan to use more Canadian-based talents next year.

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Edge & Christian open today’s show speaking about last Sunday’s TLC PPV.

Christian thought it was good that there was only one TLC match on the show, because if you have three or four of those matches on the same show the fans grow weary of it by the end of the night. Christian thought the show was pretty good but it didn’t ‘blow his socks off’.

Edge says that he just doesn’t get the fascination surrounding Asuka, but he thought Emma had a great showing on this night. Christian points out that when there’s that much hype surrounding a performer it becomes nearly impossible for the performer to live up to people’s expectations. Nonetheless, he thought Asuka’s presentation and facial expressions were good.

Edge couldn’t comprehend how Asuka, Emma and that match’s Producer thought it was good idea to utilize an ankle lock in that match when Hall of Famer, Kurt Angle was making his long-awaited return to the ring in the main event later in the show. This is a sign to Edge that someone just doesn’t have a mind for the business.

Christian says he really enjoyed the Elias segments. Edge agrees and points out that Elias is a throwback to Honky Tonk Man and Jeff Jarrett in his ability to get heat through his music gimmick. Edge and Christian both agree that Alexa Bliss and Mickie James had a good match, and they add that Mickie James is a great babyface while Bliss is a really good heel.

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Lawler is joined on today’s show by his co-host Glenn Moore.

Lawler opens today’s show speaking about the passing of Bobby ‘The Brain’ Heenan. Lawler was devastated to hear the news of Heenan’s passing over the weekend, and he says there’ll never be anyone like Heenan ever again. He considers the pairing of Heenan and Gorilla Monsoon to be the greatest commentary team of all time.

He mentions that Heenan was the one who personally introduced him to the WWE Universe, and he knew he was in for a good run when Heenan was chosen as the choice to introduce him. Lawler says it’s terrible that Heenan had so many health issues over the last decade, and it was particularly cruel that he was stricken with throat cancer given that he spent so many years entertaining people with his voice.

Moore points out that WWE announced they’ll be promoting a show under the Starrcade banner soon, and Lawler says he actually doesn’t remember anything about Starrcade. He never saw any of those shows from back in the day because he and all the other WWE employees were so involved in their own thing during the Monday Night Wars that they didn’t have time to watch what WCW was doing.

Moore asks Lawler if McMahon is hesitant to use former WCW PPV names, since we haven’t really seen much of it at all since WWE bought WCW back in 2002. Lawler doesn’t think McMahon is hesitant to use those names at all, and when the time is right, he has proven that he doesn’t mind bringing back old WCW PPVs.

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Block 1:

Taz opens today’s show speaking about last night’s episode of NXT.

He points out that at the end of Takeover, we saw Cole, Fish and O’Reilly standing tall over Drew McIntyre. Because of this, he thought it was strange that McIntyre opened up last night’s episode of NXT with a promo. He says that McIntyre’s a kick ass babyface, so NXT officials should let him kick ass.

Taz feels that the three heels should have opened the show with a promo segment, and then the heroic babyface (McIntyre) could have stormed the ring and attacked all three men. As a former Champion himself, Taz says that McIntyre should have stood up for himself here creatively.

As the show progressed Peyton Royce took on Ruby Riot, and he thought these girls had a good match. He has liked both women for a while, and he also likes the pairing of Royce and Kay. However, he thought the announce team were somewhat over the top during this match, and he says it’s simply impossible to make every match feel epic. The NXT announce team needs to pick their spots to react like that in Taz’s opinion.

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While Speaking to The UK Sun, Samoa Joa was asked about the possibility of a CM Punk returning to professional wrestling and basically said to never count Punk out.

“You never know with Punk. He is definitely somebody who does things his own way and I think the biggest thing is that you can never count out what his next move will be. I think no one would have predicted his move to UFC, nobody would have predicted a lot of things he does, so whatever he chooses to do, he will do what feels best in the moment.”

When asked about possibly facing him in a match or teaming up with the former WWE Superstar, Joe responded, “It depends on how I feel about him that week. It changes a lot as good friendships do!”

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After their victory over The Hardy Boyz Monday night, The Revival want a shot at the Tag Team Championship titles from Cesaro & Sheamus. Dash Wilder posted the following today on Twitter, telling Jason Jordan to ask his “daddy” Kurt Angle when they will get their shot:

Undefeated against New Day. Undefeated against the Hardys. When do we get a title shot? @RealKurtAngle. @JasonJordanJJ can you ask daddy?

— Dash (@DashWilderWWE) July 18, 2017

Speaking of the Revival, WWE.com caught up with them after their victory Monday night and they talked about being the top guys. You can check out their remarks in the video embedded below:

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Russo opens today’s show by saying that some people within the wrestling business have reached out to him and said that he really needs to start sucking up to Vince McMahon because WWE needs Russo more than Russo needs WWE. Russo refuses to kiss McMahon’s ass in order to get re-hired by WWE so that he can help them. If McMahon wants his help fine, if not that’s fine too.

The scary situation is that for five weeks now WWE has drawn less than three million viewers. There are no more excuses for McMahon and WWE, and they need to do something to combat their plummeting viewership. For a while they’ve been saying that their viewership drops are as a result of new ways to watch programming (social media, DVR), but these things have been around for years, not just the last few weeks.

Russo says that he will never suck up to WWE like Jim Cornette and Eric Bischoff did recently. Speaking of those two men, he says that both of them need to man up and have a face-to-face conversation with him because he’s sick of both of them talking behind his back. He assumes that they’re both afraid to have a discussion with him because he will expose all of their lies.

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