Daily Update: MJF, Chase U, Sunny
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Latest News
- WWE Raw ratings down against stronger NFL competition
- Vikingo & Komander tag team match announced for Ring of Honor TV
- WWE star Rey Mysterio undergoes successful knee surgery
- AEW Collision ratings up, still below 400k viewers
- Satoshi Kojima to face Tom Lawlor at MLW One-Shot
- The Rock explains how surprise WWE return happened
- WWE Raw video highlights: Drew McIntyre aligns with Judgment Day
- Warriors Tea Ceremony announced for WWE NXT
- Drew McIntyre costs Cody Rhodes & Jey Uso Tag Team title match on WWE Raw
- WarGames advantage match set for next week’s WWE Raw
- JD McDonagh offically joins Judgment Day on WWE Raw
- NJPW announces Kevin Kelly’s departure
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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter
We’ve got a very heavy business issue of the Observer focusing on a lot of different breaking stories involving both WWE and AEW:
- Match of the week and performer of the week
- The changes in WWE business under TKO
- UFC & WWE quarterly business updates
- Behind Vince McMahon selling 8.4 million shares of TKO stock, what he got, what he still owns, what it did to the stock price and what other large sum of money he just received that fell under the radar
- Why WWE numbers were unexpectedly down, and why TKO actually losing money this quarter is nothing to be concerned over
- A look at WWE and AEW attendance and how it’s changed over the past year
- Ari Emanuel talks about competition for WWE and UFC
- More departments where jobs will be lost
- Company goals for 2024
- Changes in the live arena experience
- Key that makes WWE and UFC attractive for television stations
- Issues with Vince McMahon
- The CW deal for NXT
- Changes for a WWE show next year and other changes talked about
- Who are the leaders for the Raw rights
- What are the rankings of the stations with pro wrestling and MMA product
- Billy Corgan gives comments about the cocaine angle
- A look at the TV deals that Tony Khan, Dwayne Johnson and Vince McMahon have been part of for wrestling and football
- Full coverage of Crown Jewel and the booking
- A look at the Ricochet injury and how it changed the IC title path slightly going into the Survivor Series
- Early notes on the Survivor Series
- PPV numbers and what did Crown Jewel buyers watch and not watch when it came to major PPV events this past month
- The future for Will Ospreay and Giulia
- Notes on the Tokyo Dome show
- Great matches and angles at Power Struggle
- Full Power Struggle coverage
- UFC from Brazil coverage
- The most detailed look at the TV ratings from the past week from all shows, including comparison to last year, competition, and how each segment did as well as Dynamite vs. NXT
- Major rudo turn on sold out Arena Mexico show
- AAA doing a talent search
- More injuries and health issues with Stardom
- Update on Stardom tag team tournament
- Controversy at Stardom event after changed start time of show
- All Japan has an incredible match this week and sets up another for New Year’ Eve
- A look at All Japan’s year end tag team and junior tournaments
- Lots of injury updates
- New Japan big events in early 2024
- DDT has major show this week
- More on the Von Erich movie
- Indie star says his indie career is over
- Indie promotion draws 5,000 fans
- Contract issues in MLW
- WBD stock falls
- Update on Full Gear
- Notes on Mariah May debut
- Stardom star under contract to AEW and details
- Ticket sales for upcoming WWE & AEW shows
- International TV ratings and streaming numbers
- UFC signs deal with new TV outlet to return from nearly a decade
- How Vince McMahon kept UFC off NBC
- Lots of new UFC title matches
- Unique facts about this weekend’s UFC show
- More on Fury vs. Nganou PPV numbers
- WrestleMania week news
- CM Punk news
- YouTube numbers and WWE and TKO value at this point
- Reports from the WWE house shows
This Week’s Retro Observer Newsletter
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Tuesday Update
WWE
- A NXT ad for Tuesday’s show notes that NXT’s Chase U, in storyline, are “under investigation” after Shawn Micheals posted on X that he wanted to see Andre Chase in his office.
- Tavion Heights and Tatum Paxley worked matches for the Main Event tapings prior to WWE Raw on Monday.
- Logan Paul attempts to pawn off the WWE United States title at a pawn shop on TikTok.
- A Cody Rhodes Pharaoh plush toy is now on WWEShop.com.
- One of the Cavinder twins, Haley, has committed to play her final year of college basketball at TCU.
- Montez Ford talked to Fox News about WWE’s upcoming Tribute to the Troops special.
- Full matches and segments added to WWE’s YouTube page today include Seth Rollins vs. Finn Balor on the November 14, 2022 edition of Raw, Becky Lynch, Trish Stratus, and Lita vs. Damage CTRL from WrestleMania 39 Sunday, and Goldberg wiping out security to get to Brock Lesnar from the November 14, 2016 edition of Raw.
- Karmen Petrovic’s theme song is now on YouTube, as well as Angel Garza & Humberto Carrillo’s new theme.
AEW & Other Wrestling
- MJF wrote on X Tuesday: “If you’ve been at a job for a small number of years but at a high level for a majority of it. You don’t have to listen to dumb m************ that talk down to you and say they know better because they’ve been at the job for a large number of years but at a low level for a majority of it. Respect everyone. But don’t let anyone son you, ever.
- Fightful talked to Anthony Ogogo about his AEW feud with Cody Rhodes.
- Amanda Huber is celebrating her birthday today.
- According to PWInsider, Tammy ‘Sunny’ Sytch will be sentenced on 11/28. They also reported that former NXT and Impact star Kimber Lee is scheduled for a pre-trial hearing on 11/28.
- ICW will hold its final Fight Club event on December 17.
- HypeTalkTV interviewed NJPW star Kevin Knight.
- Post Wrestling spoke to Chris Hero about his upcoming return to in-ing action this Friday.
- Ahead of their KOPW title match on Friday, SHO held a press conference to present a number of stipulations to Taichi proposed by the House of Torture. Fans will vote beginning on November 15.
- Impact has uploaded the entire Alex Shelley vs. Jonathan Gresham match from the November 9 edition of Impact.
- A new poster for The Iron Claw, which opens on December 22.
- Nikki and Brie Garcia talked to Kelly and Mark about celebrating their upcoming 40th birthday.
