Daily Update: Karrion Kross, Adam Cole, trademarks
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Latest News
- Thunder Rosa addresses awkward AEW Dynamite segment with Megan Bayne
- TKO announces ‘takeover’ in Kansas City featuring WWE, UFC, PBR events
- Get your tickets – Dave and Bryan live Q&A in Las Vegas
- Candice LeRae goes to another time limit draw in WWE Speed title defense
- Sheamus signs with Paradigm Talent Agency
- Trish Stratus appearance announced for WWE SmackDown
- Bianca Belair ‘very proud’ of her work to elevate WWE women’s tag team division
- Ricky Saints: NXT in-ring debut was ‘a love letter to all the people that rode for me’
- Sabu to receive Indie Wrestling Hall of Fame award at GCW The Coldest Winter 3
Latest Audio
- WOL: Great NXT TV, Giulia vs. Stephanie, Dynamite
- DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: Looking back at the epidemic of young deaths
- B&V: Awesome Mid-South S6:E14, plus Granny!
- Big Vinny V: TNA Impact with lots of new names
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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter
Some highlights:
- A full look at AEW Grand Slam in Brisbane, Australia. The mentality behind the show, a look at the card, ratings, booking, business and more
- NXT Vengeance Day coverage
- The life and times of Gran Hamada, great wrestler, influential in history, including the glory days of LLI at El Toreo and his biggest matches and feuds, booking to make a star, biggest feuds, multiple world titles and far more huge crowds than people would ever realize. Plus the Tiger Mask heyday, matches of the year candidates in his late 40s, and the start of multiple different companies
- A look at the next WWE & AEW PPV shows
- The most detailed look at TV ratings and streaming for RAW, including how every show has compared with a year ago, the weekly standings, demos, quarters, every wrestling show on Netflix and more.
- CMLL announces its second biggest show of the year
- Valentine’s Day at Arena Mexico
- Big head-to-head battle in Mexico City on Saturday
- Fantastica Mania starts’
- More on the awards issue including multiple category placers
- Lots of AEW business notes
- WWE & AEW ticket sales for upcoming show including multiple PPVs
- Lots of new UFC main events announced
- Topuria vacates featherweight title
- Aaron Pico on leaving PFL
- Notes on Mania plans
- Notes on Dwayne Johnson being back
- Michelle McCool Hall of Fame story
- Notes on Hall of Fame update
- Trauma of leaving WWE
- Ricky Starks
- Sonya Deville talks being let go
- Michael Cole on the Corey Graves story
This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter Back Issue
- August 13, 2007 Observer Newsletter: Vince McMahon lashes out amid congressional investigations, Pacman Jones & TNA
Wednesday Update
WWE
- On Instagram yesterday, CM Punk shared a photo of him and Ricky Saints (Ricky Starks) reuniting before Starks’ NXT in-ring debut.
- The full Saints & Je’Von Evans vs. Ethan Page & Wes Lee main event from NXT can be watched here.
- TNA X-Division Champion Moose did a post-show interview reflecting on his first-ever NXT match.
- WWE filed a trademark for “Fraxiom” (Nathan Frazer & Axiom’s tag team name) on February 25.
- Karrion Kross shared the trailer for “Blue Evening,” a short film he stars in: “VERY excited to finally debut this trailer. Blue Evening will have an LA screening date that will drop soon. Keep everyone posted. But stay tuned for Film Festival dates to watch our film in a town near you!”
- Chelsea Green represented WWE at last night’s Toronto Raptors vs. Boston Celtics NBA game.
- The Undertaker interviewed Diamond Dallas Page on the latest episode of his Six Feet Under podcast.
- WWE’s YouTube channel is counting down the 50 greatest matches in WrestleMania history, starting off with Cody Rhodes vs. Seth Rollins from WrestleMania 38 ranking at number 50.
- For a WWE Playback video, Shawn Michaels and Booker T rewatched the first-ever Elimination Chamber match from Survivor Series 2002.
- WWE Vault uploaded a full Georgia Championship Wrestling event that took place at The Omni in Atlanta on February 26, 1984. The card was headlined by NWA World Champion Ric Flair vs. National Champion Brad Armstrong.
Other Wrestling
- Adam Cole told Bleacher Report that, despite their recent loss to the Death Riders, he is still hoping to win the AEW Trios titles with Kyle O’Reilly & Roderick Strong:
- I love that idea. Especially after getting so close to winning the Trios Championships the last time we challenged for them.
- I really feel like the combination of me, Kyle O’Reilly and Roderick Strong really could be the best trio in all AEW, so winning the trios titles would be awesome and I know it’s a goal we all have.
- Cole stated that one of his biggest goals is to compete in Japan for NJPW again:
- The one for sure that I think I would love to do is I definitely want to go back to New Japan. I got the chance to wrestle there a few times and I got to do a Wrestle Kingdom show, which was amazing.
- But then right as I started going to Japan more often is when I left, so I was not able to continue going to Japan. So now that I’m back in All Elite Wrestling, the idea of being able to go over and wrestle for New Japan again is very high up on my list.
- While praising his AEW colleagues on his What Happened When podcast, Tony Schiavone called Renee Paquette one of the best performers that’s ever held a microphone: “Being able to work with Renee Paquette – if she’s not the best that’s ever held the mic, I mean, she’s in Gene Okerlund territory. She really is.
- Chris Jericho has filed a trademark for “The Hi Spot,” which is a move he recently debuted.
- Daria Berenato (the former Sonya Deville) discussed her WWE departure while appearing on the Made It Out podcast.
- Joe Hendry, Masha Slamovich & KC Navarro appeared at last night’s New York Islanders vs. New York Rangers NHL game, promoting that TNA Slammiversary is being held at UBS Arena in Elmont, New York this July.
- Actor/wrestler Paul Walter Hauser will be an entrant in MLW’s 40-wrestler Battle Riot match in Los Angeles on Saturday, April 5. Matt Riddle is defending the MLW World Heavyweight Championship in the battle royal.
- A trios match with The Wagner Family (Dr. Wagner Jr. and his sons El Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr. & Galeno Del Mal) facing Los Desperados (Gringo Loco, Jack Cartwheel & Arez) has been booked for Joey Janela’s Spring Break in Las Vegas on Friday, April 18.
- Simon Gotch is the latest talent confirmed for Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport XIII on Thursday, April 17. Miyu Yamashita, Tom Lawlor, Timothy Thatcher, and David Modzmanashvili are also set to compete at the show.
- Effy will defend his GCW World Championship against Super Crazy at the promotion’s Just Being Honest event in Mesa, Arizona this Sunday.