Daily Update: Natalya, Drew McIntyre, Mustafa Ali

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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter
The new issue of the Observer is on the site today (after a snafu):
- Full coverage of the lessons of Saturday Night’s Main Event, from ratings to execution
- The Athletic story on Lee Fitting, plus our thoughts on the subject
- B.J. Whitmer alleged victim Jaime Hawn comments on current and former AEW legal heads
- Full coverage of New Japan’s show in Long Beach with the Mercedes Mone vs. Hazuki main event
- Update on Worlds End and the Battle of Orlando
- CMLL’s international based show on Friday and what went right and wrong
- Dragon Gate’s lastest major show of the year
- The most detailed look at the ratings of all the pro wrestling TV shows and UFC shows including segment ratings, standings for the week and night, demos, comparisons with last year and a lot more
- Annnouncer leaves company after more than 30 years and why
- Stardoms’ end of year show
- Comedy wrestler retires
- CyberFight (DDT, NOAH and TJPW) financials looked at
- How sports ratings are doing
- Notes on a movie on one of the most legendary woman wrestlers of all-time that will be out in March
- Chris Jericho and Matt Cardona angle in GCW and how it came about
- Tessa Blanchard to TNA notes and the bigger picture
- WWE, AEW and TNA PPV numbers updates
- Notes on changes in WBD structure
- More on AEW move to MAX
- Ticket advanceds for WWE & AEW shows
- UFC business updates
- More on WWE to Netflix and international TV notes
- Dwayne Johnson box office notes
This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter Back Issue
Tuesday Update

WWE
- The full match between Drew McIntyre and Sami Zayn from Monday’s Raw has been uploaded in full to WWE’s YouTube channel.
- WWE’s YouTube channel also has a look at the Bloodline story in 2024.
- Following her loss last night in the Women’s Intercontinental title tournament, Natalya wrote on social media: “There’s so much more I want to say, but I don’t know how to. I wake up everyday worried that I wont be able to realize my full potential. It haunts me. More than I can say. But I’ll never stop fighting. I’ll never stop showing up for my dreams. I love and appreciate everyone who’s fought hard with me. You guys are truly the best.”
- A new teaser for Penta El Zero Miedo aired on Raw last night.
- Drew McIntyre has a message for The Bloodline and fans ahead of Christmas.
- Aaron Rourke vs. Timothy Thatcher in a WWE ID Showcase match has been added to Beyond Wrestling’s December 31 event in Worcester.
- This week’s WWE Vault content has a focus on ECW. In the last couple of days, Gunther introduced the ECW One Night Stand 2005 match between Mike Awesome and Masato Tanaka, The Dudley Boyz relive their greatest moments, and the Rob Van Dam vs. Jerry Lynn match from Hardcore Heaven 1999 has been added.
AEW/Other Wrestling
- This week’s Sammy Guevara vlog.
- Toni Storm takes a tour of New York ahead of her debut at the Hammerstein Ballroom.
- Kyle Fletcher, Chris Hero, and Pat Buck are all celebrating birthdays today.
- Mustafa Ali talked to Chris Van Vilet about his WWE run. At one point, he said that he was originally set to win Money in the Bank in 2019 until Vince McMahon changed his mind during the entrances.
- On social media, Ricochet confirmed Ali’s story, writing: “All of this is true. I was in the match hahaha.”
- Sami Callihan vs. Frankie Kazarian headlines this week’s TNA Xplosion.
- On social media, Zachary Wentz asked Adam Sandler to perform at his and Gigi Dolin’s wedding.
- TNA has uploaded the full Genesis pay-per-view from 2005.
- Zoe Lucas is returning to the ring for the first time since 2021 at RevPro Live in London 92 event on February 2.