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• The Beast Mortos was pulled from Starrcast, as he has a CMLL booking that night now.

• We will have news on Ricochet's HOG opponent tonight.

• We can confirm the BodySlam.net report that Shayna Baszler was backstage at NXT and was listed as a producer. WWE is seeing how things go in that role for her.

• A reminder, we spoke to Zilla Fatu about this weekend's HOG Texas show. You can see that at this link.

• Masha Slamovich has been replaced for this weekend's GCW show by Gigi Dolin.

• In case you missed it (I bet you did!) Tony Khan confirmed publicly and on the record Fightful Select's report that Mercedes Mone doesn't have creative control or dictate her own creative. You can hear his direct quote at this link.

• Khan also confirmed Fightful Select's recent story that Britt Baker has not asked for her AEW release.

• Veda Scott and Allison Danger will be doing commentary for the WHO RUNS THE WORLD? show.

• We're told the 2K/Wyatt news is being targeted for an official announcement today.

• We have news regarding AEW All In coming to the paid tier of Fightful Select today. We also have an SRS quick picks show for the weekend. As always, on the paid tier we have daily Q&A articles, weekly Q&A shows, and more. SRS will also do an exclusive review show for subscribers.

• Fightful can exclusively confirm that Rayne Leverkusen will take on Rhio at PROGRESS Chapter 182: Stay Humble on July 27

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