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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter

  • A look at the wrestling career of Sid Eudy, his death, his career highlights, the injury that basically ended his career, other major inopportune injuries, his going from place to place and more.
  • When he first started which is earlier than most have noted.
  • The Lord Humongous gimmick
  • The Skyscrapers and why it ended
  • The Four Horsemen period
  • His first PPV main event
  • A number of stories related to Brian Pillman including the squeegee story
  • His leaving WCW for WWF and his first WrestleMania main event and how that finish didn’t happen as planned
  • The failed drug test before WrestleMania
  • The Hoosier Dome match
  • Quitting WWF
  • Return to WCW and the plan for him to win the world title and how it fell through
  • Situation with Arn Anderson
  • How he ended up getting his WWF title run in 1996-97
  • The injury that ended his WWF career
  • The ridiculous win streak gimmick in WCW
  • All In coverage from London
  • The update on contract negotiations
  • Why the MAX deal didn’t happen last year
  • The upcoming stadium shows
  • Business notes on how All In did
  • All Out update
  • Notes on new contracts
  • Future of Bryan Danielson
  • WWE weekend preview
  • RevPro anniversary show
  • Look at the ratings over the past two weeks
  • International TV ratings
  • The longest match ever held at Arena Mexico
  • Japanese tournament updates
  • Oldest male wrestler ever to participate in a major match
  • Deaths of Villano V and Fritz Von Goering
  • Tony Khan talks creative process
  • Bryan Danielson talks his discussion with Vince McMahon about doing G1
  • MMA star Benji Radach passes away
  • Mark Shapiro talks new WWE ideas
  • Netflix doc notes
  • Shapiro talks Netflix deal

This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter Back Issue

Tuesday Update

WWE

  • WWE has uploaded the full segment from Monday’s Raw that featured Drew McIntyre assaulting CM Punk.
  • McIntyre responded to the woman who made CM Punk’s bracelet on X, writing: “His blood is on your hands.”
  • Jey Uso, Damian Priest, and Rhea Ripley all yeeted after Raw.
  • Kairi Sane gave a thumbs up on X following Raw, when she appeared to bloody her face during Damage CTRL’s match against Isla Dawn & Alba Fyre.
  • Zelina Vega wrote on X about a fan sign she held on Monday’s Raw that paid tribute to her father, Michael Trinidad, who died during the September 11 attacks: “I’ll remember that moment, forever. Thank you. Denver y’all were pretty amazing. The energy you had for me was electrifying.”
  • WWE Vault uploaded the company’s first-ever ladder match, in which Bret Hart defended the Intercontinental title against Shawn Michaels on an episode of Prime Time Wrestling from July 21, 1992.
  • The Vault channel also uploaded motion capture footage for WWE’s 1996 video game In Your House, as well as The Shield getting arrested on the September 3, 2018 edition of Raw.

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