News & Notes: GFW Latin Night, WWE Merchandise, Mae Young Classic

GFW Impact Wrestling TV Taping News

As previously reported, GFW will be holding a series of television tapings for Impact Wrestling between August 17-22 to cover all Impact episodes going into November’s Bound For Glory event.

GFW announced the final day of tapings will be Latin Night themed. GFW will be collaborating with the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Metro Orlando and several of GFW’s Latin stars will be showcased during the day.

WWE Merchandise and Sales

Foot Locker recently announced special SummerSlam themed sneakers and shirts are currently available for sale at their stores. WWE collaborated with PUMA for this limited edition series of SummerSlam related merchandise.

Salute To The Legends.@PUMA x @WWE Summer Slam Collection is in stores & online now.

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— Foot Locker (@footlocker) August 18, 2017

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— Foot Locker (@footlocker) August 18, 2017

WWE is currently holding a SummerSlam themed sale on their official online store from now till 11:59PM PT on August 20th. Discounts range between 20% off to 30% off and the checkout coupon being SLAM.

WWE also released new merchandise for Southpaw Regional Wrestling as part of the release of Season 2 on Friday.

Triple H Explains Reasoning for Mae Young Classic’s Release Schedule

During a media call held earlier this week, Triple H explained the reasoning for the release schedule of the Mae Young Classic and why the WWE went in a different direction than with the Cruiserweight Classic. He stated the main reasons were related to waning interest as the CWC tournament progressed and trying a Netflix-like experiment for future tournaments on the Network.

“What we found with the cruiserweight thing was people loved the tournament and they loved all of it, some of it started to wane as you got into the later weeks. People have busy lives right and appointment television, there’s a lot of stuff to watch. Now especially it’s like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, if you watch NXT, there’s a lot of stuff there. And even if you watch NXT, you know in a particular timeslot, the majority of people watch it within like in the first seven days. The majority of people they watch it when they want to watch it. It’s a little bit of experiment.”

“Get people excited about it, put out the bracketology show, get people really excited about it, put it out there. Put that first round out there in a four-week run, where you got a week to watch four hours of that and really get into that and find it exciting. The rest of it comes out the following week, much like Netflix does with ‘House of Cards’ or something like that, where they put it out in chunks. A lot of people sit at home and you know, order food or whatever and just watch the complete season.

I think that’s what people are going to do with it. They’re going to watch all of it and when it’s hot and fresh on your mind in a couple weeks span, we’re going to go right into that live show in Las Vegas and really make a big deal out of it and kind of determine the winner and really make a big deal of it. It is a huge deal and this is a big deal for women in general but women in our industry. We’re finding a lot of support outside of WWE.”