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–Our weekend show talking about the latest news, Smackdown, Collision and UFC is up right now on the site.  Our weekly Observer review show with Garrett Gonzales is also up.  Bryan and I will have our next show tomorrow night covering Raw and G-1.

–Zack Sabre Jr. beat Yota Tsuji to win the G-1 last night with the Clarky Cat submission.  The semifinals and finals were all great matches.  The big news is that Sabre after the match said that he doesn’t want to wait for the  Tokyo Dome and wants his title match on 10/14 at the next show at Sumo Hall.  The idea is he wants to win the title and come to Royal Quest on 10/20 in London at the  Copper Box Arena as champion.  That leaves the Tokyo Dome main event wide open.

–Among the other things last night was Yoshi-Hashi challenging David Finlay for the Global title, Evil recruiting El Phantasm for House of Torture and being turned down, Hiromu Takahashi pinning Henare clean and challenging for his Never title and Taiji Ishimori challenging Douki for the IWGP jr. title.

–We’re looking for your thoughts on both nights of  G-1 at Sumo Hall with a thumbs up, thumbs down and thumbs in the middle along with a best and worst match to dave@wrestlingobserver.com.  We’re also taking poll results from last night’s TripleMania show but we haven’t gotten any response so far.  I think with such a loaded schedule of things, AAA, even its biggest show of the year, seems off the radar to most.

–We’re also doing polls for the best match of the G-1 tournament and MVP of the tournament to dave@wrestlingobserver.com

WWE had a house show last night in Lakeland, FL:
Sami Zayn b Ludwig Kaiser
Kofi Kingston & Odyssey Jones & Braun Strowman b Finn Balor & JD McDonagh & Carlito
Tama Tonga & Tonga Loa b Johnny Gargano & Tommaso Ciampa.  This was a tag title match even though Jacob Fatu didn’t wrestle in the match
Gunther b Damien Priest to retain the world title.  After the match, Judgment Day attacked Priest .  Priest ended up cleaning house on all of them and finished off MCDonaugh with the south of heaven choke slam
Naomi b Chelsea Green
Kevin Owens & Randy Orton b Austin Theory & Grayson Waller
Cody Rhodes b Solo Sikoa in a street fight.  Loa & Tonga tried to help out.  

—Rhodes noted that he wasn’t going to miss house shows saying he’s flying to New York for the Fanatics event and then flying back to Florida for the house show tonight in Estero, FL.

–We’re looking for reports on the WWE show tonight to dave@wrestlingobserver.com

–Regarding the story in the current issue on Lumumba Sayres, a former Strikeforce fighter who allegedly shot Malcolm Watson, 28, at Watson’s five-year-old son’s birthday party somehow believed in retaliation because Sayres’ son was killed last year in a shooting by someone who Sayres evidently believed was a friend of Watson’s.  The person originally charged in the killing of Sayres’ son, Lumumba Sayes Jr., last August, was charges in the killing dropped (there are still pending other charges against that person)   There was a court hearing Friday where Sayres was ordered held on $5 million bond and charged with first degree murder.  Friends of both Sayres and Watson were in the courtroom.  According to prosecutors, there was no evidence of another shooter in the incident that took place on 8/10 and the prosecutors claimed that Sayres tried to plant a gun under Watson’s body with the idea he could make an argument it was in self defense.  Sayres was originally held on $1 million bond but after Watson’s sister and mother became emotional when Sayres’ lawyers tried to get the bond reduced, the judge instead increased the bond to $5 million.

–After Dricus du Plessis retained his middleweight title over Israel Adesanya via fourth round choke, Alex Periera, the light heavyweight champion and former middleweight champion said that he’s going to come down to 185 one more time with the idea of challenging to hold two titles at once.  Dana White wasn’t at the show so didn’t comment on that.  Du Plessis did say he was up for it.

–They taped Friday’s Rampage in Arlington, TX after Collision last night.  Matches taped were:
Ross & Marshall Von Erich vs. Outrunners
Toa Liona & Bishop Kaun vs. Iron Savages
Mina Shirakawa vs. Robyn Renegade
Roderick Strong vs. Fuego del Sol
Mark Briscoe & Tomohiro Ishii & Kyle O’Reilly vs Johnny TV & Beast Mortos & Brian Cage

–JBL was the big surprise at TripleMania last night.  He came out as a heel with Nic Nemeth for Nemeth’s title defense against Alberto El Patron.  Alberto won the AAA world title.  The big thing was the post-match angle where both Dorian Roldan and Konnan turned heel on Latin Lover.  Alberto also turned heel with the finish using a low blow and later shook hands with JBL.  Basically everyone turned on Latin Lover who I guess is the babyface authority figure in a company run by all heels.
Jeff Jarrett helped Raj Dhesi (Jinder Mahal) & Satnam Singh win the AAA tag titles from Negro Casas & Psycho Clown using a guitar shot in a three-way that also included Dr. Wagner Jr. & Galeno del Mal.
Jarrett was also one of the many people in the Vampiro coffin match haat included a ton of people both helping Vampiro and fighting against him.  Sam Adonis, Pirata Morgan, Jarrett, Konnan, Pagano, Chessman and others were involved.  Everyone involved was a mystery and Mesias ended up  being put in a coffin so Vampiro won in what was billed as his final match ever in Mexico City.  At one point  a coffin was opened and somebody in a La Parka costume was there and the lid was shut.  The AAA La Parka passed away some time back so that was weird.

–Matt Riddle won a three-way over champion Komander anid Laredo Kid to win the AAA cruiserweight title.  This was basically getting the belt off Komander because he’s with AEW.  Riddle being a cruiserweight is funny because he’s so much bigger than the AAA cruiserweights. 

–Limitless Wrestling drew a reported 1,200 last night in Lewiston, ME:  Dezmond Cole b Aiden Aggro, Gabby Forza b Davienne, Alec Price b Donovan Dijak, Aaron Rourke b Ricky Smokes, Dezmond Cole won four-way, Channing Thoimas b Anthony Greene to keep the Limitless world title , Luke Robinson b Matt Cross, Scotty 2 Hotty b Dirity Dango (thanks to Philip Laine)

–Jonathan Gresham on yesterday’s Memphis Wrestling show was announced as now being a regular and will also help at their wrestling school (thanks to Brian Tramel)