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With Global Force Wrestling having added two additional TV tapings later this month at Universal Studios (8/17-8/22, six days total), PWInsider.com has learned that internal plans to tape in September have dropped. The September tapings were never officially announced. Universal Studios in Orlando traditionally utilizes all of their warehouse space in September and October for their Halloween Horror Nights event, so that may be a factor here. GFW will now be taping all of their content through the first week of November later this month.
The 8/17 taping will feature the live Destination X-themed broadcast.
The current plan is that the 11/5 Bound for Glory PPV will be in Orlando at Universal Studios Orlando with subsequent tapings.
We've received a lot of questions about a promo Eli Drake cut at the State Island live event on 8/5 where he questioned why anyone would want Alberto el Patron as champion representing the company. We've been asked whether that was a way for the company to bury Patron. One would think Drake said the line on his own, because I can't see any valid reason that the company would actually want to remind fans who attended the show that the company's champion isn't even there, but you never know. Patron remains suspended as part of the fallout of the 7/9 Orlando Airport incident.
For those who asked, Eddie Kingston is still with the company but hasn't been used since the DCC broke up. Kingston has been regularly working all over the independent scene, so it's not an injury issue. How you don't have a role for someone who can do the type of promos Kingston can cut is beyond me.
There's been talk of moving Lockdown back to a full fledged PPV next year. The show was moved from a PPV to a themed-episode of Impact Wrestling in 2015, but that was under Dixie Carter's ownership and management.
GFW released the following matches that were taped for Xplosion online:
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