Daily Update: Bray Wyatt, Gallows & Anderson, AEW in Canada

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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter:

  • The legacy of Inoki, his title histories and highlights, where he stands in Japanese culture, record attendances and gates, stadium shows from around the world, merchandise, major opponents, hostage settlement, Ali vs. Inoki, Bruno Sammartino, the complete story on the most famous mixed martial arts match of its generation, the heyday of wrestling in Japanese domed stadiums, Inoki vs. Don Frye, Inoki’s career start, and his heyday over more than 30 year, formation of new Japan and IGF, New Year’s Eve specials on network television, famous programs with Hogan, Andre, Backlund and Singh, his matches against international stars and stars from other sports, his legacy in foreign countries, the Inoki vs. Maeda and Inoki vs. Baba matches that didn’t happen, and so much more.
  • What happened with Sammy Guevara and Andrade, from multiple people who were there
  • WWE PPV business update
  • WWE television changes
  • Giulia, the Five Star Grand Prix, biggest match for Stardom at the end of the year and notes on the show
  • Television ratings for every national show this past week
  • New Japan Declaration of Power
  • New Japan notes from England
  • The story of AEW changing its Latin American distribution
  • New AEW signing and where other potential signings stand
  • Live event business upcoming for WWE and AEW
  • Streaming number updates
  • New A&E docs on wrestling stars
  • International ratings

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Tuesday News Update

WWE

  • PWInsider is reporting that moving forward, Bray Wyatt will be making appearances exclusively on SmackDown. Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows, who made their return on Raw on Monday, are slated to be exclusive to Raw.
  • Matt Riddle is the guest on this week’s After the Bell with Corey Graves.
  • Today’s new matches on WWE’s YouTube page include Rhea Ripley vs. Asuka vs. Charlotte Flair from WrestleMania Backlash 2021, Kane vs. Edge in a stretcher match from the July 25, 2005 edition of Raw, and Drew McIntyre vs. Ricochet from the August 26, 2019 edition of Raw.

AEW/ROH

  • This week’s AEW Road to Toronto, focusing on Bryan Danielson vs. Chris Jericho for the ROH World Championship and PAC vs. Orange Cassidy for the AEW All-Atlantic Championship.
  • AEW announced on social media that they will be releasing production holds for ticket sales today ahead of their debut in Toronto on Wednesday.
  • Chris Jericho was interviewed by Now Toronto regarding the upcoming debut. “It’s been a long time coming,” he said regarding the company touring Canada. “Right out of the gate we were a big hit in Canada. I know our numbers on TSN are really good. But we had this little thing called the worldwide pandemic that delayed getting here. I was always asking, “When are we hitting Canada? When’s Toronto?” Now that it’s almost time… it’s really exciting. Toronto wrestling fans are off the charts. Whenever someone asks about the best wrestling cities in the world I always say London, Chicago, Tokyo and Toronto. Toronto is loud. You cheer for who you want to cheer for… sometimes that would drive WWE heads of state crazy. They would call it bizzaro land. But that’s the Canadian way. We’ll go nuts for who we like and we’ll boo who we hate. We don’t care what we are “supposed” to do. I’m excited to see the reaction we get.”
  • The Toronto Star also covered AEW’s debut, including comments from Tony Khan.
  • Our own Dave Meltzer spoke to Nick Hausman of Wrestling Inc. to discuss CM Punk and the AEW All Out media scrum.
  • Mark Sterling on 10/6 filed for the trademark ‘Scissor Me”, likely playing off last week’s Dynamite where he was laid out by The Acclaimed.

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