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Latest News
- Kurt Angle thinks his TNA career doesn’t get ‘enough accolades’
- Iron Survivor Challenge qualifying match announced for WWE NXT
- Middleweight title match set for Eric Bischoff’s MLW One-Shot
- AEW Collision viewership down, 18-49 rating up
- Kurt Angle reacts to Baron Corbin’s WWE departure
- Francine on WWE NXT appearance: ‘Just being included was enough’
- WWE reveals official poster for Survivor Series: WarGames
- Kazuchika Okada and wife welcome birth of second child
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- WOL: RAW, War Games, AEW and NXT line-ups, more!
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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter
The new issue of the Wrestling Observer is up on the site right now. It was a huge news week as it’s the largest issue in some time:
- ull coverage of Crown Jewel with the matches, business and interest level
- Thoughts on the programs going forward
- TKO gives its quarterly business update
- Why profits are lower than usual.
- UFC’s media rights deal thoughts
- Talk about the future of Fight Pass
- Revenue for UFC & WWE in different categories
- Stock value
- How much debt TKO currently has
- How the Cung Le lawsuit factors into all this
- More on the show at Sphere
- Thoughts about Dana White and/or Nick Khan getting involved with boxing from Mark Shapiro
- More Netflix plans
- A look at the Wrestle Kingdom lineup
- Where New Japan’s business currently stands
- Upcoming New Japan tag team tournament notes
- Power Struggle coverage, great matches and angles
- NXT and AEW go head-to-head, the most detailed breakdown as to what happened and why
- Where AEW stood in the overall standings that night
- How every quarter did
- Coverage of the Conor McGregor trial going on
- Update on Full Gear, announced matches, other matches, ticket buying interest
- Notes on WWE cuts like Baron Corbin, Indi Hartwell and Tegan Nox.
- Dragon Gates runs a major show
- The most detailed look at the ratings for all the shows this past week, with standings for the night and week, segment-by-segment numbers, and all the competition.
- CMLL to fill the historical middleweight title vacancy by Mistico this week
- Arena Mexico draws the week’s largest crowd for themed show
- Update on El Hijo del Vikingo
- Stardom tag team tournament update
- King of Gate tournament update
- Davey Boy Smith Jr. wins Triple Crown and background of that
- Death of Scorpio Jr.
- Hall of Fame candidate health issue update
- The life of AWA’s Al DeRusha
- Can actual wrestling draw more than 40,000 each to six events over three days. 2028 we’ll get the chance to find out.
- Marko Stunt talks retirement
- Santo retirement tour noes
- Mike Mansury talks AEW production changes for 2025
- All the PPV business updates
- Ricochet talks leaving WWE
- International TV ratings and streaming numbers
- Jon Jones talks Tom Aspinall and why he’s not interested in that ight
- More on the Bruce Prichard and Michael Hayes leave of absences
- WWE scheduling updates
- Yoshhiki Inamura comes to NXT
- WWE signs former Olympic athletes
- Lots of WWE injury updates
- Notes from all the live arena events and the European tour
This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter Back Issue
Tuesday Update
WWE
- WWE has uploaded the full WWE Women’s Tag Team title match from Monday’s Raw pitting champions Bianca Belair & Jade Cargill against Liv Morgan & Raquel Rodriguez.
- Behind the scenes at NXT 2300.
- WWE also had a vlog of former ECW stars returning to the former ECW Arena.
- The Undertaker modeled Genoa CFC’s dark kits.
- WWE Vault on YouTube has footage of Nunzio winning the WWE Cruiserweight title from Juventud Guerrera in Italy from a 2005 tour.
- WWE’s main YouTube channel posted the entire segment in which Becky Lynch became ‘The Man” from the November 12, 2018 episode of Raw.
AEW/Other Wrestling
- Minnesota Golden Gophers announced that Gable Steveson would return to amateur wrestling for his final year of eligibility.
- MJF has taken to social media regarding Adam Cole’s upcoming match against Konosuke Takeshita: “I’ve wrestled Takeshita in one of the greatest Dynamite matches of all time. He’s an incredible professional wrestler with fierce athleticism and blinding speed, plus I gave Don Callis my Dynamite Diamond Ring. Adam Cole is Anthropomorphic yellow mop. Case dismissed.”
- A trailer for the upcoming docuseries on Ted Turner called ‘Call Me Ted’ which premieres on Max November 13.
- This week’s TNA Xplosion.
- Tickets for TNA Genesis go on sale this Friday. TNA’s website has additional information.
- Syuri talked to Post Wrestling about her trip to the USA and the Goddess of Stardom Tag League.
- Taiyo Kea will have his retirement match at NOAH’s Giant Baba memorial event on January 31.
- After recovering from a craniotomy as part of his cancer treatment, Osamu Nishimura is being advertised for the FMW-E event on December 12.
- Barbaro Cavernario has been announced for MLW’s King of Colosseum on January 11.
- Zayda Steel, who was recently signed to a WWE ID deal, will make her GCW debut on November 29.