Daily Update: Bret Hart, weekend shows, new UFC fights

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Friday News Update

  • Garrett and I will be doing a show tonight covering the news of the week, such as covering this week’s new issue, AEW announcements, WrestleMania main events and plans and much more. Bryan and I will also be doing a show this weekend.
  • We’re looking for reports on the WWE house shows tomorrow night in Youngstown, OH and Sunday in Rochester, NY to dave@wrestlingobserver.com

WWE

  • Smackdown tonight is from Hershey, PA with a legit sellout crowd, only the second sellout of the year for a WWE show. 
  • NXT level Up has Kushida & Ikemen Jiro vs. Joe Gacy & Harland, Xyon Quinn vs. James Drake and Elektra Lopez vs. Sarray.
  • An interview with Damien Priest for the upcoming WWE show in Columbus, OH is here. (thanks to Mike Kuzmuk)

AEW

  • AEW Rampage tonight has Sammy Guevara vs. Andrade El Idolo for the TNT title, Serena Deeb vs. Kayla Sparks, Orange Cassidy vs. Anthony Bowens for a spot in the ladder match at Revolution, Wardlow vs. Nick Comoroto and the Britt Baker-Thunder Rosa title match contract signing.
  • A documentary produced on the life and career of Brody King is here.

Other Wrestling

  • Bret Hart is involved in an event on 3/5 in Calgary called Battle at the Dome II. The Calgary Hitmen hockey team and the Prostate Cancer Centre are honoring Bret Hart for a 2 p.m. event that will include five matches form the Prairie Wrestling Alliance. There will be sales of Bret Hart jerseys where all the proceeds go to the Prostate Cancer Centre. Bret Hart is a prostate cancer survivor.
  • GCW tonight in Los Angeles has Sean Waltman & Joey Janela vs. Brian Myers & Matt Cardona, AJ Gray vs. ACH for the Extreme title, Dr. Wagner Jr. vs. Homicide, Blake Christian vs. Nick Wayne, Mark & Jay Briscoe vs. Jacob Fatu & Juicy Finau, Mike Bailey vs. Ninja Mack and Chris Dickinson is on the show.
  • Micro wrestler Gallito announced that he has left CMLL. (thanks to Rene Ochoa)
  • Kevin Eck’s weekly look at ROH is here.
  • Jonathan Plombon, who wrote the book on Herb Abrams and the UWF, has delivered a long, involved story on The Renegade Richard Wilson, going back to high school friends, his ex-wife, and those who knew him along the way.
  • Greg Gagne is teaming with Steve Rosenthal, who did the original Remco Toys AWA figures, on a new line of action figures with tons of names from the past. The first six will be Lou Thesz, Verne Gagne, Stan Hansen, Magnum T.A., Kerry Von Erich and Ted DiBiase.
  • Mike Bailey vs. Nick Wayne headlines for West Coast Pro and Prestige Wrestling on 3/11 in South San Francisco at The State Room. The show has already sold out but will air on IWTV.
  • Warrior Wrestling on 3/12 in Indianapolis, IN at McGowen Hall has announced Thunder Rosa vs. Skye Blue for the women’s title, Jonah vs. Lance Archer, Athena vs. AQA, Trey Miguel & Myron Reed vs Aramis & Arez, Sam Adonis vs. Psycho Clown for the Lucha title, Brian Pillman Jr. vs. Silas Young, Killer Kross vs. Jake Something and Mike Bailey vs. KC Navarro.
  • Chris Bey, Alex Shelley, Taya Valkyrie, Charlie Haas, Dark Sheik, Reno Scum, Shazza McKenzie and more appear for Prestige Wrestling on 3/13 in Sacramento, CA at the Colonial Theater.
  • WAR Wrestling on 3/19 in Lima, OH at the Empowered Sports Center is headlined by Aaron Williams vs. Cody Jones.
  • Wrestler John Pantoya was on Wheel of Fortune on Monday night. He was trained by Harley Race and wrestled in 2006-2007 (thanks to Grant Zwarych)

UFC

  • UFC has a pure ESPN+ show starting at 4 p.m. Eastern tomorrow from Las Vegas
  • Victor Altamirano (123) vs. Carlos Hernandez (125)
  • Ramiz Brahimaj (170.5) vs. Michael Gillmore (170.5)
  • Alejandro Perez (144.5) vs. Jonathan Martinez (144)
  • Terrance McKinney (156) vs. Fares Ziam (155)
  • Josiane Nunes (145.5) vs. Ramona Pascual (146)
  • Rong Zhu (160) vs. Ignacio Bahamonde (154.5)
  • Armen Petrosyan (186) vs. Gregory Rodrigues (186)
  • Arman Tsarukyan (156) vs. Joel Alvarez (156)
  • Ji Yeon Kim (126) vs. Priscilla Cachoeira (125)
  • Misha Cirkunov (185.5) vs,. Wellington Turman (185)
  • Islam Makhachev (160) vs. Bobby Green (158)
  • The main event was agreed to be fought at 160 since Green had just fought and cut weight hard two weeks ago. Zhu missed weight by four pounds and will be forfeiting 40 percent of his purse.
  • A story on Terrance McKinney, who fights on tomorrow’s show, bouncing back from drug issues and fighting in UFC is here. (thanks to Mike Kuzmuk)
  • Erick Gonzalez pulled out of the 3/5 show due to a foot injury so Devonte Smith now faces Ludovit Klein.
  • Charles Jourdain vs. Lando Vannata has been added to the 4/23 show.
  • Brandon Royval vs. Matt Schnell and Journey Newsom vs. Fernie Garcia have been added to the 5/7 show.

Other MMA

  • Gegard Mousasi destroyed Austin “Mr. VanZant” Vanderford, who has been on AEW television many time in recent months, in 2:00, to retain the Bellator middleweight title in a fight in Dublin, Ireland.
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger and Logan Paul are promoting a World Slap Fighting Championships show on 3/5 at 2 p.m. Eastern. It will stream free on Logan Paul’s YouTube channel, Famino and Facebook.
  • LFA on 3/11 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and live on UFC Fight Pass has a featherweight title fight with Jonas Bilharinho (9-1-1) vs. Rafael Barbosa (14-4) and a welterweight title fight with Gabriel Bonfim (11-0) vs,. Eduardo Garvon (13-3-1).
  • PFL airs on Fubo TV tonight at 9 p.m. on the Fubo Sports Network. Tonight’s show from Orlando is all welterweights trying to get into the 2022 tournament. Ray Lewis, Tyron Woodley and Jeremy Piven will be in-studio panelists for tonight’s show.
  • Jarrah Al Silawi vs. Michael Lilly
  • Dilano Taylor vs. Mark Martin
  • Carlos Leal vs. Socrates Pierre
  • Chris Mixan vs. Nathan Pierce
  • John Morgan is leaving MMA Junkie after 14 years. He’s the guy who gets to ask the first question at almost every press conference. He said that he and management had different ideas for his role going forward. He said he will be joining a new outlet and start with them next week.