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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter

  • The life of Vince McMahon and the Netflix documentar.y This is a lengthy story talking about the documentary, my reactions, more details on the various stories talked about, comments from Vince McMahon, Bill Simmons, Ann Callis, things we did learn, what wasn’t accurate and what wasn’t and reviews.
  • More on what the latest settlement in the Cung Le lawsuit against UFC entails, how much more fighters will be getting if the judge approves this, and if the judge doesn’t, what happens next.
  • A note about Bad Blood and Wrestle Dream, interest levels of both and card update.
  • How the audiences for WWE & AEW have changed over the past year, as far as income, viewing together and age of viewers. What show viewerships have grown in income the most over the past year.
  • The most detailed look at  the ratings of the past week, placings for the night and week, competition, segment by segment numbers and more.
  • The upcoming women’s World Grand Prix show.
  • Wrestling star accused of kidnapping his son
  • Toni Storm returns to Japan.
  • The 48th World Tag League from All Jaan
  • Thoughts on Queen of Villains
  • El Hijo del Santo retirement tour
  • Tony Khan talks more business
  • Fenix and Penta update
  • International TV ratings and streaming number s
  • Ricochet talks this past week
  • Ticket advances for upcoming WWE & AEW shows
  • More notes on the UFC show at The Sphere
  • Changes to WWE television in 2025

This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter Back Issue

Friday Update

  • We have a ton of new shows up, the most we’ve done in a week. Garrett and I did two shows this week covering the Vince McMahon Netflix documentary. We just finished another show today where we talked about the reaction, Bad Blood interest levels, WWE business going forward, Young Bucks vs Fletcher & Ospreay, Ospreay vs Ricochet, Dump Matsumoto and 80s women’s wrestling and lots of other topics. I’ll be back doing shows with Bryan on both Sunday and Monday night.
  • We’re looking for reports on these shows
    *WWE in Oklahoma City tonight (looking for dark matches and notes on matches not on television
    *NXT tonight in Davenport, FL
    *WWE house show tomorrow night in Columbus, GA
    *WWE house show Sunday in Huntsville, AL
    We’re looking for results, finishes and highlights to dave@wrestlingobserver.com
  • Apparently the Vince McMahon documentary has been one of the most watched shows on Netflix.
  • There is a 20 percent discount for tickets for the AEW Wrestle Dream show on 10/12 in Tacoma, WA.  You can use the code WAR20 to get the discount.
  • AEW also has tickets for $10 for the Collision tapings this coming Thursday in Toledo, OH.
  • Due to Hurricane Helene, MLW has canceled its 10/4 show in St. Petersburg,FL. All ticket holders will get a full refund.
  • MJF’s movie that is why they did the injury angle with Daniel Garcia at All Out is he has a part in Happy Gilmore 2 that will star Adam Sandler.  
  • Rampage tonight on TNT:
    Lio Rush & Action Andretti vs. Malakei Black & Buddy Matthews
    Anna Jay vs. Robyn Renegade
    Konosuke Takeshita vs. Angelico
    The Acclaimed vs. Ryan Clancy & TJ Crawford
    Willow Nightingale vs. Taya Valkyrie
  • New CW affiliates starting Monday are:
    KCOV-12 in Santa Barbara, CA
    KTTU-18 in Tucson, AZ
    KSCC-38 in Corpus Christi
    WKBD-50 in Detroit
    WBFS-33 in Miami (which aired CWF in the 70s)
  • UFC tomorrow from Paris, France is an ESPN+ show running from Noon to 6 p.m. Eastern time
    Bolaji Oki (156) vs. Chris Duncan (156)
    Nora Cornolle (136) vs. Jacqeline Cavalcanti (135)
    Daniel Barez (125) vs. Victor Altamirano (126)
    Darya aZheleznyakova (135) vs Allin Perez (136.5) – Perez missed weight by .5 pounds and was fined 20 percent of her purse
    Taylor Lapilus (136) vs. Vince Morales (135)
    Ludovit Klein (155) vs. Roosevelt Roberts (155)
    Oumar Sy (205) vs. Da Un Jung (205)
    Ion Cutelaba (205) vs. Ivan Erslan (206)
    Fares Ziam (156) vs. Matt Frevola (156)
    Morgan Charriere (146) vs. Gabriel Miranda (146)
    Kevin Jousset (169) vs. Bryan Battle (170)
    William Gomis (146) vs Joanderson Brito (146)
    Nassourdine Imavov (186) vs. Brendan Allen (186)
    Renato Moicano (156) vs. Benoit Saint Denis (156)
  • Now that Raw will be two hours starting with the 10/7 show, they are taping two shows, for 10/7 and 10/14 in St. Louis because they aren’t going to tape in Europe that week.   They are also taping two Smackdowns on 10/25 because the 11/1 show would be when the crew is in Saudi Arabia.
  • The Aljamain Sterling vs Movsar Evloev fight that was scheduled for 10/5 in Salt Lake City has been  moved to 12/7 in Las Vegas. Sterling pulled out of the first date due to injury.
  • WWE’s Vault YouTube channel will be airing a stream of a 1987 JC show at the Omni on Sunday
    Bill Dundee vs. Dutch Mantel
    Bob Armstrong vs. Jimmy Garvin
    Brad Armstrong vs Arn Andeson
    Tully Blanchard vs. Wahoo McDaniel for the TV title
    Robert Gibson & Ron Garvin vs.  Midnight Express
    Dusty Rhodes & Nikita Koloff vs. Ivan Koloff & Vladimir Petrov
    Rick Rude & Manny Fernandez vs Road Warriors for NWA tag titles
    Ric Flair vs.  Barry Windham for the NWA title
    Back in those days there was nothing in U.S. wrestling better than a Flair vs. Windham match.
  • For next week’s Smackdown there will be a ladder match with DIY vs. Tama Tonga & Tonga Loa vs. Street Profits.
  • Roxanne Perez vs. Giulia will open Tuesday’s NXT show in Chicago.
  • Juventud Guerrera is on tour with the CWE promotion that travels throughout Canada.
  • Trick Williams was doing media on a number of local CW stations to promote the Smackdown debut on Tuesday.
  • Donovan Dijak debuts for AIW on 11/29 in Eastlake, OH at Force Sports.