Daily Update: Emma, Bryan Danielson, House of Black

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October 31, 2022 Observer Newsletter: AEW completes All Out fight investigation, NXT Halloween Havoc

  • The new issue of the Observer is on the front page today. In hindsight, I think it’s kind of a sad issue filled with many what ifs, but highlights include:
  • The update on the situation after 9/4’s All Out PPV with the fight, suspensions, and investigation
  • The Wrestling Inc. story with new claims as to what happened, CM Punk’s thoughts from his side on things that had happened
  • More on why Punk did the interview he did on Adam Page
  • Reactions of others to that story
  • Why late 2023 and early 2024 are so key to AEW
  • How and why this was handled completely different from how UFC would handle a similar situation
  • The lessons of the entire situation
  • Full coverage of NXT Halloween Havoc
  • Comments from Shawn Michaels about the show
  • UFC 280 coverage and early business notes
  • Stardom PPV coverage and updates on the big decision regarding who is the first IWGP women’s champion
  • Ratings for all the major shows including how the main segments did
  • Major womens tournament news
  • Update on Laredo Kid injury situation
  • Next major AAA show
  • First pro wrestling show ever at Ariake Arena
  • Update on Karl Anderson in New Japan situation
  • New Japan TV title tournament thoughts and updates
  • New Japan joint tour next year
  • Former pro wrestling star inducted into sports Hall of Fame
  • Billy Corgan talks ideas for NWA to work with WWE or AEW
  • Legendary pro wrestling arena in danger of being torn down
  • New major project with Bret Hart coming involving Wrestling with Shadows being re-released
  • Tales from the Territory thoughts
  • Shocker gives his side of the story
  • Next few weeks of Impact TV
  • Update on AEW viewing and how many people have watched TV this year, plus actual numbers that watch the show weekly and other shows which is not the Nielsen number
  • New AEW signings
  • Upcoming ticket sales for AEW & WWE events
  • More notes on Chris Jericho’s first three AEW contracts
  • Thunder Rosa update
  • AEW overseas distribution update
  • Dana White talks Jon Jones return
  • Very interesting Conor McGregor note
  • Bellator part of Japan’s New Year’s Eve show
  • Jake Paul vs. Anderson Silva notes
  • Lawsuit filed against Jake Paul
  • What types of angles can we expect more of in WWE
  • Early notes on “Black Adam”
  • WWE injury notes
  • How the World Series will effect pro wrestling shows this week
  • WWE talent up for a number of awards
  • International TV ratings and streaming numbers
  • New movies with WWE legend
  • Paul Heyman gets international mainstream exposure
  • First WWE talents to hit 100 matches this year

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Saturday News Update

WWE

  • After making her return to WWE last night, Emma has been added to the SmackDown roster page on WWE.com.
  • WWE uploaded a post-show interview with Emma after last night’s SmackDown. Emma said she waited five years to return to WWE and will make sure she’s never forgotten again.
  • Emma posted on social media: “5 years ago today I was heartbroken feeling like my dream had come to an end. Today my heart is so full! I’m overwhelmed by the amount of support I have. You guys are the best. Now… I’ve got some unfinished business to take care of! I’m home baby!!”
  • 1hAEW’s Saraya tweeted about Emma’s return: “Proud of you sister @TenilleDashwood”
  • Madcap Moss told WWE Die Woche that Randy Orton and Brock Lesnar are two people who have given him advice in his WWE career: “To be able to share the ring and the locker room with a guy like Randy Orton, anytime I get a chance, I’ll pick his brain. As much as he is a menace, destruction machine, I’ve actually had Brock Lesnar pull me to the side. We both went to the University of Minnesota and certainly, when he gave me advice, I listened. Those are just a couple of examples. There’s a lot of guys in the locker room that I respect and listen to.”
  • Roxanne Perez dressed up as Bayley and Cora Jade dressed up as AJ Lee for a Halloween battle royal at last night’s NXT house show.
  • AJ Mendez reacted to Jade’s costume: “OMG. Mother is so proud. And ordering a dna test.”
  • Former Bellator fighter Valerie Loureda was also a participant in the battle royal.
  • Roxanne Perez spoke to the Mark Moses Show about working with Shawn Michaels: “He’s amazing. He’s given me so much confidence to just go out there and know that they can trust me with anything they throw at me. I can go out there and have a good match for you, I can do a promo, I can do a live promo. He’s given me so much confidence with that. It’s surreal to be working with him. I used to re-watch the DX documentary when I was 12, over and over again. To be working with him and Triple H is now working with the main roster again, it’s wild.”
  • Jake Paul channeled Triple H by doing a water spit at the weigh-ins for his fight against Anderson Silva.
  • Imperium, Liv Morgan, and The Bloodline were interviewed on The SmackDown LowDown.
  • WWE has a behind-the-scenes video from Liv Morgan’s appearance on “Chucky.”
  • The following full matches were uploaded to WWE’s YouTube channel today: Kane vs. MVP in an inferno match (Armageddon 2006), The Undertaker vs. Chavo Guerrero in a casket match (October 31, 2008 SmackDown), and The New Day vs. The Usos (October 29, 2021 SmackDown).

AEW/Other Wrestling

  • In a recent interview with Inside the Ropes, Bryan Danielson discussed how he considered signing with ROH in 2018:
          • It was really interesting. My contract with WWE was up in 2018 and I was considering going to Ring of Honor. And I was talking to The Young Bucks and I was talking to Cody [Rhodes] just to kind of see – all their contracts were up with Ring of Honor and I was like, ‘What are you guys gonna do?’ Because even my lawyer, who doesn’t know anything about pro wrestling, he said, ‘Hey, I don’t think you’d wanna sign with Ring of Honor if these Young Bucks aren’t going because they’ve got this YouTube show. I don’t know if you’ve heard of it, called Being The Elite’ and it’s essentially the driver for the popularity of Ring of Honor at the time, right? And so those guys go away, we don’t know if Ring of Honor will nearly still be as popular and then with Cody’s contract coming up, if they leave and Cody leaves, what will Ring of Honor’s popularity be like? So that was a part of the discussion.
  • Malakai Black posted a House of Black teaser yesterday that includes him, Julia Hart, Brody King, and Buddy Matthews. Black captioned the post with “An elegy of the forgotten.”
  • Britt Baker and Orange Cassidy attended today’s Fulham game in London with Tony Khan.
  • Ted DiBiase said he’s planning to reach out to Virgil more: “I saw him [Virgil] at an autograph signing. I can’t remember where because I do so many of ‘em and we had a good little chat, little worried about him because he doesn’t look real healthy and he just told me, without getting into any detail that he was having some health issues so, you know, I’m gonna try to reach out to him a little more because… I don’t know. It’s hard to explain. He’s a pretty complicated guy.”
  • Thursday’s episode of Impact Wrestling averaged 101,000 viewers on AXS TV. The rating in the 18-49 demo was a 0.02.