SAMOA JOE UPDATES

WWE NXT filmed their next four weeks of TV last night and Samoa Joe will be featured prominently on the episodes, including his NXT in-ring debut and the continuation of the storyline that began with Kevin Owens at NXT Takeover: Unstoppable.

Readers that have ordered the WWE Samoa Joe t-shirt were informed the shirts are out of stock until 6/15. That's a pretty good indication of what sort of orders they've received already.

We've been asked why Samoa Joe has retained his name. I don't know this to be 100% but the indication I was given is that was a Triple H call.

Joe will be wrestling this weekend for Absolute Intense Wrestling on Sunday 5/24 in Cleveland against Johnny Gargano. AIW promoter John Thorne jokingly offered on Twitter to replace Gargano with CM Punk and Punk immediately asked what the offer was, leading to a pretty funny back and forth. I don't think we'll be seeing that but as I wrote when Joe left TNA, if there was one person that could get Punk back into a wrestling ring, Joe would be that opponent. For more on AIW's events this weekend, visit AIWrestling.com.

Joe is also working for House of Glory in Jamaica, NY on 5/29 against Chris Dickinson.

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