Daily Update: DC off UFC 206, Cobb vs. Riddle, Cesaro’s Twitter

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The biggest news of today is Daniel Cormier being off UFC 206, where he was scheduled to headline, due to needing hernia surgery. The injury he got is the same injury Dwayne Johnson got in his second match with John Cena. Joe Silva has one last rabbit to pull out of his hat to save a show before leaving UFC as there is no logical opponent for Anthony Rumble Johnson considering he’s already knocked out Ryan Bader, Glover Teixeira and Alexander Gustafsson, the next three contenders.

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No WWE events tonight.

Saturday has the Raw crew in Providence, RI and the Smackdown crew in Kansas City. We’re looking for reports on both of these shows to newstips@wrestlingobserver.com

CMLL LIVE FROM ARENA MEXICO AT 9:30 P.M. EASTERN TIME

  • Astral & Electrico vs. Demus 3:16 & Mercurio
  • Drone & Fuego & Guerrero Maya Jr. vs. Misterioso Jr. & Ripper & Sagrado
  • Lluvia & Princesa Sugei & Sanely vs. Amapola & Dallys & Zeuxis
  • La Mascara vs. Hechicero
  • Four-man family trios tournament:
  • Dragon Lee & Mistico & Pierroth
  • Mascara Ano 2000 & Sanson & Cuatrero
  • Blue Panther & Blue Panther Jr. & The Panther
  • Negro Casas & Puma & Tiger
  • Volador Jr. & Caristico & Valiente vs. Ultimo Guerrero & Niebla Roja & Euforia

UFC ON SATURDAY (SUNDAY LOCAL TIME) FROM THE ROD LAVER ARENA IN MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA AT 8 P.M. EASTERN TIME

  • Ning Guanyou vs. Marlon Vera
  • Khalil Rountree vs. Tyson Pedro
  • Danielle Taylor vs. Seo Hee Ham
  • Yao Zhukui vs. Jerel Lausa
  • Jason Knight vs. Dan Hooker
  • Ben Nguyen vs. Geane Herrera
  • Richard Walsh vs. Jonathan Meunier
  • Jon Tuck vs. Damien Brown
  • Daniel Kelly vs. Chris Camozzi
  • Alex Volkanovski vs. Yusuke Kasuya
  • Kyle Noke vs. Omari Akhmedov
  • Jake Matthews vs. Andrew Holbook
  • Robert Whittaker vs. Derek Brunson

NEW JAPAN TAG TEAM TOURNAMENT SATURDAY FROM KOCHI (will air on tape delay Saturday on New Japan World)

  • Manabu Nakanishi & Henare vs. Tama Tonga & Tanga Roa
  • Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima vs. Ray Rowe & Hanson
  • Brian Breaker & Leland Race vs. Tetsuya Naito & Rush
  • Hiroshi Tanahashi & Juice Robinson vs. Yujiro Takahashi & Hangman Page

Sunday has the Raw crew in North Charleston, SC and Smackdown crew in Fayetteville, VA.  We’re looking for reports on those shows to newstips@wrestlingobserver.com.

NEW JAPAN TAG TEAM TOURNAMENT SUNDAY FROM IMABARI (will air on tape delay Sunday on New Japan World)

  • Katsuyori Shibata & Yuji Nagata vs. Yoshitatsu & Billy Gunn
  • Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma vs. Kenny Omega & Chase Owens
  • Kazuchika Okada & Yoshi-Hashi vs. Bad Luck Fale & Bone Soldier
  • Hirooki Goto & Tomohiro Ishii vs. Seiya Sanada & Evil

ALL JAPAN HAS ITS BIGGEST SHOW OF THE YEAR SUNDAY AT SUMO HALL IN TOKYO

  • Naoya Nomura vs. Takuya Nomura
  • Sushi & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi & Masao Inoue vs. Kaji Tomato & Kazuhiro Tamura & Naoshi Sano
  • Super Tiger & Ryuji Hijikata & Rey Paloma & Dial vs. Mitsuya Nagai & Tatsuhito Takaiwa & Takeshi Minamino & Black Tiger VII
  • Dory Funk Jr. & Chavo Guerrero Sr. & Ultimo Dragon & Tajiri vs. Great Kabuki & Osamu Nishimura & Yutaka Yoshie & Isami Kodaka
  • Jake Lee & Yuma Aoyagi & Koji Iwamoto vs. Ryoji Sai & Kengo Mashimo & Konosuke Takeshita
  • Yohei Nakajima vs. Jiro Kuroshio for TV title
  • Soma Takao vs. Keisuke Ishii for World jr. title
  • Atsushi Aoki & Hikaru Sato vs. Masa Fuchi & Atsushi Onita for All-Asia tag titles
  • Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabyaashi vs. Zeus & The Bodyguard for world tag team title
  • Kento Miyahara vs. Suwama for Triple Crown

Raw will be Monday night in Charlotte, NC. Announced for the show are New Day vs. Karl Anderson & Luke Gallows for the tag titles and Charlotte vs. Sasha Banks for the women’s title. There will also be a Smackdown brand house show Monday night in Florence, SC.

NEW JAPAN TAG TEAM TOURNAMENT TUESDAY FROM SASEBO (will air on tape delay Tuesday on New Japan World)

  • Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima vs. Manabu Nakanishi & Henare
  • Hiroshi Tanahashi & Juice Robinson vs. Leland Race & Brian Breaker

Smackdown will be live, Main Event will be taped, and 205 Live will debut Tuesday night in Columbia, SC. The 205 Live main event will be Brian Kendrick vs. Rich Swann for the cruiserweight title.

NEW JAPAN TAG TEAM TOURNAMENT WEDNESDAY FROM BEPPU (will air on tape delay Wedensday no New Japan World)

  • Tama Tonga & Tanga Roa vs. Yujiro Takahashi & Hangman Page
  • Tetsuya Naito & Rush vs. Ray Rowe & Hanson

NXT will be taped on Wednesday at Full Sail Univesity in Winter Park, FL.

FIGURE FOUR WEEKLY: 11/17/2016: More on Buddy Rose

During his time splitting time between the Portland and San Francisco territories, Buddy Rose continued to make trouble with the California State Athletic Commission throughout 1978 and 1979. For some reason, all of the incidents appear to have taken place in San Jose, like the one discussed last week where he was being penalized for a ref bump…click here to continue.

WRESTLING OBSERVER NEWSLETTER: Nov 28, 2016 Wrestling Observer Newsletter: WWE Survivor Series, Goldberg agrees to more matches

The improbable story of Bill Goldberg, weeks before his 50th birthday, coming back for what was supposed to be a one-time appearance to help promote the WWE’s video game, and emerging as the biggest star in pro wrestling just tells you that the axiom that it’s all about timing is true.

Goldberg defeated Brock Lesnar in 1:26 after agreeing to come back for at least a few more dates. Unlike with Sting, who lost to HHH in his first match back because of the idea that at his age, he was only going to do one match with the company, but that was kept hidden, in Goldberg’s case, he came out on interview No. 1 and said about Lesnar, that not only was he next, but he was last… click here to continue.

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WON BACK ISSUE:December 6, 2010 Wrestling Observer Newsletter: The history of wrestling on Thanksgiving  – Thanksgiving in most of the 80s meant some of the biggest wrestling shows of the year. The tradition was at its peak from 1983 to 1987, with the early Starrcades in Greensboro and later Atlanta as well, Star Wars at Reunion Arena in Dallas, the AWA at the St. Paul Civic Center, Mid South Wrestling at the Superdome in Louisiana and the early Survivor Series events… click here to continue.

FRIDAY NEWS UPDATE

We’ve got a special deal today for Black Friday as you can get a one-month subscription to the site for $3.99, which includes this week’s issue, back issues, and archived issues and raido shows.

Our weekend show will be up Saturday night after the UFC show. If you’ve got questions you can send to mailbag@wrestlingobserver.com.

The first Jeff Cobb vs. Matt Riddle match in Evolve and Cobb debut was announced for 12/10 in Queens, NY.  Also announced is Tracy Williams & Fred Yehi defending against Peter Kaasa & Ricochet. 

Yesterday’s Dallas vs. Washington game drew the largest television audience, 35.1 million, of any NFL regular season game in 21 years.

Timothy Thatcher defending the Evovle title against Dick Togo on 12/11 in Melrose, MA, which also as has Drew Gulak vs. Tracy Williams and Riddle vs. Ricochet.

In today’s unwise tweet category, Cesaro complained about not even being on the poster for May shows in Zurich, Switzerland, his home country. He failed to make the cut behind Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins, Luke Gallows, Karl Anderson, New Day, Finn Balor, Charlotte, Sheamus, Sasha Banks and Roman Reigns. Also notable is no Chris Jericho. 

Volador Jr. defending the NWA welterweight title against Mephisto from Tuesday night at Arena Mexico.

WWE

  • Chris Jericho and Randy Orton are both not advertised for the weekend house shows. Orton has off until Tuesday and Jericho is due back on Monday.
  • WWE debuts another episode of “Story Time” on Monday night after Raw on the WWE Network.
  • WWE Network also has a show called “The True Story of the Royal Rumble” at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday. Hopefully there is at least a mention of the San Francisco Cow Palace annual Battle Royal, or if even better, the Honolulu version.  

UFC

Our buddy Denis Shkuratov has a ton of videos from Australia regarding tomorrow night’s UFC show:

  • Miesha Tate talks her retirement and UFC 205 as well as Ronda Rousey.
  • Ross Pearson talks his fight from Saturday.
  • Chris Camozzi talks his fight tomorrow night.
  • Kyle Noke thinks his job is on the line tomorow.
  • Jake Matthews is looking for a knockout in front of his home fans.
  • Derek Brunson is hoping for a title shot with a good showing in the main event.

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Due to college basketball, no New Japan tonight on AXS TV.
  • Bellator also lost a main event today, as the Patricky Pitbull Freire vs. Derek Campos headliner for the 12/3 show in Thackerville, OK is out  The Darrion Caldwell vs. Joe Taimanglo fight that was No. 2 that night, has been moved into the main event position.  Bellator next weekend has both a Friday night (Eduardo Dantas vs. Joe Warren for the bantamweight title) and a Saturday night show in the same arena in Thackerville, OK.  No Bellator shows this weekend.
  • CWE tonight in Winnipeg at Rookie’s Sports Bar has Adam Knight vs. Rookie Sensation Roy for the CWE title.
  • NWA New South Wrestling from last night in Franklin, KY:  Shawn Hurley b Shane Andrews-DQ, John Irons b Shiner Sutton, Shane Andrews b Mr. USA, Damien Wayne b Chase Stevens, Arrick Andrews & Vic the Bruiser b Christian James & Chris Michaels  (thanks to Lekisha Oliver)
  • NWA Smoky Mountain Wrestling on 12/10 in Kingsport, TN at the Civic Auditorium with Jason Kincaid vs. Michael Elgin for Southeastern title.

The joint show today with Preston City Wrestling, Beyond Wrestling, CZW and wXw in Preston, England drew a disappointing crowd of 200 fans today:

Cruiserweight tournament first round:

  • Da Mack b Zachary Wentz
  • Tracy Williams b Martin Kirby
  • Bubblegum b Axel Deiter Jr.
  • AR Fox b Dezmond Xavier

Open weight tournament first round:

  • Jurn Simmons b Dave Crist
  • Chris Dickinson b Joey Janela
  • Dave Mastiff b Keith Lee
  • T-Bone b David Starr

Iestyn Rees & Sha Samuels & Lionheart b Danny Hope & Zak Knight & Ryo Knight.  Dickinson vs. Janela said to be very good, as was Lee vs. Mastiff.

Today in Professional Wrestling History (11/25): Survivor Series 1992

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