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Samoa Joe is booked to work the WWE NXT house shows in Pittsburgh, PA and Columbus, Ohio. Those will be his first NXT dates beyond the TV taping last month.
Joe's final Ring of Honor date will be 6/20. Had WWE not bumped Joe's deal up to an exclusive deal, ROH would have obviously have been happy to continue using him. As I noted last night, ROH graduating to national cable TV led to WWE making the call to bring Joe completely into the fold as it was one thing for Joe to work the independents but national TV was a completely different animal.
As of this writing, Joe will be retaining his existing independent dates, although if something comes up that requires him to be present for a WWE obligation, he'll have to reschedule that date, similar to Daniel Bryan when he returned to WWE in 2010.
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