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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter:

In this issue:

  • Match of the week and performer of the week
  • A look at AEW’s changes coming up that will be announced over the next week with the debut of Collision, as well as a business analysis of rights fees as compared to WWE, different scenarios and different things that could be part of the new deal.
  • Full coverage of Backlash, including the booking, the show, Night of Champions in Saudi Arabia, Roman Reigns, business notes on the show, interest levels for the different events in a giant weekend of sports, PPV numbers, crossover between WWE and Alvarez fight, and the paradox of government money bringing WWE to cities and how that affects future hows in San Juan.
  • A full look at the AEW event at Wembley Stadium. We look at ticket sales, records, scalpers, the biggest shows ever in Europe, the biggest non-WWE shows in history, how viable is it regarding the all-time paid attendance records, and the three shows it has to beat, U.K. attendance records, differences in AEW & WWE ticket sale patterns, possible attractions for the show as well as opponents for he biggest matches and other London shows that weekend.
  • Full coverage of UFC 288, main event decision, what’s next for the top stars, business notes and match-by-match coverage.
  • A look at Dragon Gate’s Dead or Alive show
  • A look at the longest lasting U.K. headliners and Hall of Fame comments
  • The most detailed look at the ratings from the past week, with weekly placings, competition, and comparisons to one year ago, a well as how segments did
  • Wrestler goes for world title in two very different groups over a few week period
  • Konnan talks AAA U.S. TV negotiations
  • The politics behind the upcoming champion vs. champion match
  • Champion Carnival finals
  • How many tickets has Mercedes Mone moved for her next show
  • Early notes on All Together Now
  • Best of Super Juniors shows for this week
  • The most famous feud in Canadian football history, Angelo Mosca vs. Joe Kapp, and a detailed rundown
  • Former TNA & WWE star retires
  • Double or Nothing update
  • AEW booking team detailed
  • Crazy AEW PPV stat
  • Upcoming ticket sales to WWE & AEW shows
  • International TV numbers and streaming numbers
  • Aftermath of Omega vs. Moxley
  • Retired wrestler mentions being open to work Wembley Stadium as a farewell
  • Notes on the upcoming ROH shows
  • UFC business updates
  • Lots of new UFC fights
  • MMA legend talks retirement
  • PFL hit with rash of suspensions
  • Pat McAfee negotiations
  • Top merchandise sellers

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Tuesday Update

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  • TMZ has picked up the story on Superstar Billy Graham being placed on life support.
  • Deadline reported that Batista will star and executive produce a new Lionsgate action comedy called “The Killer’s Game”. “Based on Jay Bonansinga’s same-name novel, The Killer’s Game follows veteran assassin Joe Flood (Bautista), who is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness and authorizes a kill on himself to avoid the pain that is destined to follow. After ordering the kill, he finds out that he was misdiagnosed and must then fend off the army of former colleagues trying to kill him,” the report said.
  • Atsushi Onita has been released from the hospital after suffering an abdominal aortic aneurysm.
  • Sareee, who has recently left WWE, had her first match since August 2022 on Tuesday, losing to Chihiro Hashimoto.
  • The WrestleQuest video game has been delayed to this summer after originally announcing a May release window.
  • Impact has uploaded their entire Turning Point event from 2009.
  • Masha Slamovich will defend the GCW World Championship in a six-way match against Lufisto, Shazza McKenzie, Allie Katch, Maki Itoh, and Allysin Kay on GCW’s The Way I Am event on May 20 in Detroit.