Originally Posted by Observer

WFTV9 is reporting that The Orange County Department of Health is asking their COVID-19 strike team to investigate 17 businesses where COVID-19 may be spreading. The WWE Performance Center, Full Sail University, and the Amway Arena, all places WWE are currently holding events, are on the list ...

There reportedly has been at least two COVID-19 outbreaks in WWE since moving all of their tapings to Florida, one in June and another in September. In the case of the latter, matches for Clash of the Champions had to be changed as a result, including the Women's Tag Team title match between Shayna Baszler and Nia Jax vs. The Riott Squad and Bayley vs. Nikki Cross.

Originally Posted by Emperor Smeat (Post 5383120)

WWE recently revealed how bad their recent coronavirus outbreaks were as part of their response to Orange County officials investigating them as a potential hotspot of the coronavirus in the county.

According to the Observer's Bryan Alvarez, the 1.5% positive cases given by WWE ends up being around 150 wrestlers and staff who tested positive for the coronavirus since WWE started holding tapings at their Performance Center and Full Sail. That number is a lot higher than was originally assumed for WWE's outbreaks.

Alvarez also stated that WWE's number doesn't include family members that contracted the virus from infected wrestlers and staff which would skew the numbers even higher against the company.

Originally Posted by Insidepulse.com

Things were really bleak on the next episode of Thunder. No one was interested in Norman and Ralphus’s Lawn Care Service or Ralphus’s Babysitting Service. Norman then saw a sign that announced that wrestling was today in a backyard and kids were running for it. Norman had an idea.

Two kids were fighting in the back when they arrived. Norman asked if everyone knew who he was. Of course. Booker T. An unperturbed Norman continued by explaining that backyard wrestling was dangerous and offered to teach the kids to wrestle. Norman found the 130 pound champion and got into the makeshift ring with him. Norman demonstrated a half nelson – then rolled the kid up! Ralphus counted the pin, and Norman was the champion! Unfortunately, they couldn’t celebrate for long. Those kids were chasing them.

That was the end of the angle. No payoff, no nothing. It just stopped. Maybe Norman and Ralphus went on welfare.

Originally Posted by Fightful

Bret Hart, accompanied to the ring by a cat?

It could have happened.

"The Hitman" has been outspoken about his WCW run not living up to expecations. Specifically, Hart told Fightful in a recent interview that not having creative direction in storylines or promos was a detriment to him. He recalled one instance where he just talked about something that entertained him, and it happened to impress WCW brass.

"I had nothing to talk about. I’m going out and I’m ranting about WCW fans, they have no respect," I’m sitting there going, ‘What else do I got to say? I don’t have anything to say. I don’t know who I’m fighting or where I’m going, what I’m doing.’ I remember I got really frustrated, I went out and talked about my cat. I talked about my cat was my only fan, Smokey the cat. My cat was named Smokey. But, I remember it was the stupidest interview ‘cause I had nothing to talk about. It was almost sarcastic to make it clear to Bischoff in the back, ‘I don’t have anything to talk about.’ The best I can come up with is my cat. I just remember when I came back to the dressing room, Eric Bischoff goes, ‘I loved the part about the cat.’ He goes, ‘I loved it.’ I remember scratching my head and thinking, ‘For the money these guys are paying me, they’ve sure got some stupid people here.’"

It went a lot further than a promo about a cat. Hart pitched a full on storyline ang angle with the cat. No word on if it was going to be Smokey, but he went the extra mile just to see if it was something WCW would actually to.

"I actually remember giving him an idea about the cat, putting the cat carrier and having the cat in my corner all the time. He said he loved it. It never went anywhere, like everything in WCW. Yeah. I actually had an idea where the cat, I’d have a real cat all the time in my corner, and then for one of the matches I would put a stuffed toy cat in my cat carrier and I would have a zipper on it. I would stick the insides of the cat with a brick and then when I was in peril in the match I would reach in, say, a boston crab or something like that, or some kind of a hold where I’m in jeopardy. I would open my cage door, reach through, grab the cat by the tail, swing it and hit the wrestler over the head with the brick and win the match with a stuffed cat with a brick. But, I remember it was almost like a rib to see if they would just do it. Actually, to be honest, it would have been better than anything they did have me do at that time. Anyway, that never came to fruition. Sometimes you gotta just make up stuff on the go all the time," Hart told Fightful.

It didn't happen. Such is life.

Originally Posted by PWI

Marty Scurll and Dan Maff have been removed from the Ring of Honor website's roster page. Neither have been at any of the recent ROH TV tapings in Maryland and in the case of Scurll, he has not been involved in a creative capacity for months. There is no official update on their status with the company at this time.

Originally Posted by Emperor Smeat (Post 5384583)

Lucha Libre AAA held their TripleMania press conference today and the two biggest stuff coming out of it was them signing a sponsorship deal with Marvel and Kenny Omega defending his AAA Mega title against Laredo Kid at the show.

In other stuff, apparently Danny Burch ended up outing himself as one of the COVID truthers in NXT's locker room and Rodd Dogg got into a another dumb online argument but this time with Hurricane over the view that wearing masks prevents the spread of the coronavirus. Could easily guess which side Hurricane was on.

Originally Posted by Bad News Gertner (Post 5384625)

Tommy Dreamer's podcast is really good. Definitely check it out.

Originally Posted by Slik (Post 5384771)

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I tried to teach <a href="https://twitter.com/thunderrosa22?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@thunderrosa22</a> realistic MMA for professional wrestling and it did not go well. <a href="https://t.co/kfdLTupN5r">https://t.co/kfdLTupN5r</a> <a href="https://t.co/77XkZBQb1B">pic.twitter.com/77XkZBQb1B</a></p>&mdash; Jamie Kilstein (@jamiekilstein) <a href="https://twitter.com/jamiekilstein/status/1321097874818695169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 27, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Originally Posted by Slik (Post 5384957)

Impact angle is a shoot, literally

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/JohnEBravo1st?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JohnEBravo1st</a> was just SHOT! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IMPACTonAXSTV?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IMPACTonAXSTV</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/WeAreRosemary?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WeAreRosemary</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TheTayaValkyrie?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheTayaValkyrie</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/THETOMMYDREAMER?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@THETOMMYDREAMER</a> <a href="https://t.co/hfiBm3sUg4">pic.twitter.com/hfiBm3sUg4</a></p>&mdash; IMPACT (@IMPACTWRESTLING) <a href="https://twitter.com/IMPACTWRESTLING/status/1321270462802919424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Originally Posted by Vastardikai (Post 5384972)

Interesting things going on in NWA land. Last week, the Pope took the TV Title off of Zicky Dice, who was looking to leave. And this week?

Originally Posted by Slik (Post 5384957)

Impact angle is a shoot, literally

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/JohnEBravo1st?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JohnEBravo1st</a> was just SHOT! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IMPACTonAXSTV?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IMPACTonAXSTV</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/WeAreRosemary?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WeAreRosemary</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TheTayaValkyrie?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheTayaValkyrie</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/THETOMMYDREAMER?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@THETOMMYDREAMER</a> <a href="https://t.co/hfiBm3sUg4">pic.twitter.com/hfiBm3sUg4</a></p>&mdash; IMPACT (@IMPACTWRESTLING) <a href="https://twitter.com/IMPACTWRESTLING/status/1321270462802919424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>