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From this week's edition of The Wrestling Observer/ WO Radio

Seth vs Brock scheduled for WrestleMania 35 Vince McMahon has been in a shaking up plans mood, Lesnar is right now scheduled to face Seth Rollins at WrestleMania 35. I haven’t been directly told Lesnar is beating Strowman again, as that would make his third singles PPV win over Strowman. However, Lesnar vs. Rollins is scheduled to play off Roman Reigns leukemia in some fashion, so Reigns’ name and illness are scheduled to be used in storylines going forward. Ronda Rousey heading into WrestleMania 35 Rousey, Flair and David Finlay trained extensively in Southern California from 11/14 to 11/17 for the Survivor Series bout. People in WWE, as well as Rousey, are pulling for her feud with Nia Jax to be a short program. This is being meant as a temporary thing for Rousey as she wants her focus to be on Charlotte Flair next before moving back to Becky Lynch at WrestleMania 35. All Elite Wrestling The revelation of certain trademarks that have been filed looks to answer questions about the probable destination of The Young Bucks, Cody, Brandi Rhodes and Hangman Page. A group using the address of the Jacksonville Jaguars football team filed for several trademarks on 11/5, the key being All Elite Wrestling, the name of the promotion, along with AEW, All Out, Double or Nothing, AEW Double or Nothing and Tuesday Night Dynamite. Normally trademark filings would hardly be a big deal. But the key is All Elite Wrestling is the name of the group, and The Young Bucks and Kenny Omega own the Elite name for marketing purposes.In addition, Double or Nothing was known to be the name of the second All In show, an idea for a show on a holiday weekend in the second quarter of 2019 in Las Vegas. This show is not confirmed by any means, but it was an idea and that was the name of it. The Jacksonville Jaguars, as well as Fulham FC of the English Premier League, are owned by Shahid Khan, 68, who Forbes Magazine once called the face of the American Dream, and as the 70th richest man in the U.S. and 221st richest man in the world with a net worth of $7 billion. He recently attempted, although the bid fell through, to purchase Wembley Stadium. His son, Tony Khan, 36, is a huge wrestling fan and is the person behind AEW. Khan is a well-known pro wrestling fan. He has been an Observer subscriber since he was a teenager and even sent in live event reports. He was part of some Internet wrestling groups. He knows many of the biggest names in wrestling and was considered one of the best friends of The Young Bucks. NJPW's Tokyo Dome show to air on US Cable Station AXS New Japan and AXS TV have announced same-day coverage for Wrestle Kingdom 13, but in limited form. The top two hours of the show will air on an approximately 14-hour tape delay on AXS TV after airing live on New Japan World, from 8 to 10 p.m. Eastern time. AXS is scheduling five hours for Tokyo Dome matches, with another two hours from 8-10 p.m. on 1/11 and one hour on 1/18. “Same-day coverage of NJPW’s Wrestle Kingdom 13 ushers in a new era of NJPW on AXS TV,” said AXS TV Fights CEO Andrew Simon. “Based on the tremendous growth of NJPW on AXS TV, we are making major changes to reward wrestling fans by delivering NJPW in prime time on Friday nights as close to when it takes place as possible.” New Japan has been a success to a degree on AXS TV. As of press time, their TV numbers have been up 18 percent from 2017 (they were slightly over 200,000 in 2017). NJPW is currently drawing higher ratings than IMPACT. AXS also announced that New Year’s Dash, which takes place on 1/5 at Korakuen Hall, which is basically New Japan’s version of the Raw after WrestleMania, which sets up the angles for the next several months, will air in one hour form on 2/1. NXT Takeover Shawn Michaels was the agent who put together the War Games match at NXT Takeover. Owen Hart A documentary is being done on the life of Owen Hart by Curate Films of the U.K. Keaton Stone is doing the project and he’s going to Japan to interview people there who knew him. Martha Hart is cooperating with the documentary and both Bret Hart and Natalya have been interviewed IMPACT looking for a new cable home IMPACT has had talks with WGN America, Tru TV and Syfy to host the series when the deal with POP TV ends in early 2019. NXT As A Global Brand Some more regarding the expansion of NXT territories. They are actually working very hard right now to get things going and there is likely to be an announcement within the next few weeks regarding a second Performance Center, likely the U.K. Plans are on for WWE within a few years to be in every major wrestling geographical area in the world, as well as Saudi Arabia with the long-term goal of running a regular regional promotion in that area. This does include Japan, as well as Germany, South America and Australia. NXT Takeover: UK There are plans right now for U.K. Takeover specials in 2019, not every few months although obviously everything depends on how well they are received. Two PPVS between Royal Rumble and WrestleMania 35 WWE is doing something different this year with two PPVs in between Rumble and WrestleMania instead of one. For the first time in many years, they are doing a non-Mania March show, and only doing four weeks of direct Mania build instead of the usual seven or so. The Elimination Chamber PPV will be 2/17 in Houston. They are also doing a Fast Lane PPV on 3/10 in Cleveland. SmackDown LIVE on FOX Here are a few more notes regarding tentative plans for October. There was speculation going around that with the move to FOX that they would go to one brand because they would need all the top stars on FOX because of how important network prime time numbers are. That was denied to us and said that FOX doesn’t really want to cross-promote the same talent as NBC Universal and the expectation is split crews would remain. We are still more than ten months away from launch and anything could end up happening. Shane McMahon The storylines to follow-up Shane winning the World Cup are still scheduled but now for the first quarter of the year to presumable set up Shane's WrestleMania program. The time Kofi Kingston challenged Vince McMahon to a drunken fight Jericho told a story on a recent podcast about Vince McMahon and Kingston from 2010. Jericho, Vince, Cena, Kingston and John Laurinaitis were flying from Nashville to Phoenix for a press conference for that year’s WrestleMania. They were all drinking and by the time the four-hour flight landed they were all drunk. Kingston got up to leave and Vince said, “Maybe you’ll get over one of these days.” Kingston ignored it. Jericho then went to Kingston and told him to go back on the plane and challenge Vince to a fight right there. “If you don’t, he’ll know he can walk all over you whenever he wants. If you challenge him, he’ll love it and respect you for it.” Jericho noted he wasn’t ribbing at all. Kingston thought about it for a few seconds and went back. Kingston went to Vince and said, “Vince, do you have a problem with me?” Vince looked surprised and said, “Maybe I do. Do you want to do something about it?” Vince again looked at him and said, “Do you want to do something about it?” Kingston said, “Do you want me to do something about it?” In the middle of the sentence, Vince went for a double leg. “They both went down and rolled around and Vince started laughing and said, “That’s the way to do it” and he got off the plane.