Daily Update: NXT, Tetsuya Naito, Hijo del Vikingo
Daily Update
Latest News
- AEW hires new Chief Operating Officer
- AEW’s Rey Fenix gives update on injury recovery
- TNA reveals new Digital Media Championship belt
- AEW Collision ratings down for first episode of 2024
- Cody Rhodes not bothered by The Rock & CM Punk’s WWE returns
- Matt Riddle says Brock Lesnar ‘didn’t want to do business’ at WWE Royal Rumble 2022
- Rey Mysterio hoping to return for WWE Royal Rumble
- WWE Raw video highlights: CM Punk & Drew McIntyre confrontation
- Two title matches announced for NJPW Road to The New Beginning tour
- Bryan Danielson vs. Zack Sabre Jr. set for NJPW New Beginning in Osaka
- NJPW reveals full card for New Beginning in Nagoya
- Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic matches announced for WWE NXT
- World title match, Gunther return set for next WWE Raw
- Giovanni Vinci out ‘a number of weeks’ following WWE Raw injury
- Drew McIntyre declares for WWE Royal Rumble
- AEW to honor Brodie Lee with Dynamite eight-person tag matches
Latest Audio
- Wrestling Observer Live: Bryan and Filthy Tom talk Battle in the Valley, RAW report, all the news
- Wrestling Observer Radio: Danielson vs. Sabre II, New Japan line-ups, RAW report, ratings, more
Latest Free YouTube Video
This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter
- What people thought of Worlds End and Stardom Queendom
- Roman Reigns vs. The Rock
- All the AEW news and controversies from the past week
- Worlds End rundown
- MJF future
- AEW departures
- Business numbers
- Full coverage of New Japan at the Tokyo Dome
- Kevin Dunn’s WWE departure
- Breakdown of WWE and AEW attendance in 2023 and how it compares to other companies historically
- 2023 WWE Iron Man award winner
- Pro Wrestling NOAH’s big show
- Stardom show at Sumo Hall rundown
- Giulia future
- Nakajima vs. Miyahara II
- The most detailed look at the TV ratings of all the shows, rankings, demos, competition and comparisons with one year ago
- What AEW may have done this past week for the first time in its history
- What Japanese wrestler drew more major crowds in the U.S. than anyone in history
- Andrade’s last match at Arena Mexico draws a sellout
- The unique show this week at Arena Mexico
- Lots of international groups coming to Philadelphia for WrestleMania
- Story behind the departures and changes in All Japan
- Annual New Year’s Eve trio tournament coverage
- Takeshita comes to All Japan
- Surprise as far as popularity of Iron Claw in week two
- The story of World Class in Israel
- Mil Mascaras and Hulk Hogan speak
- Thoughts on Mad Kurt
- Grandfather of NJPW star will be honored by the King Charles
- Danielson talks his future
- International TV deals for WWE and AEW
- International TV ratings
- Streaming numbers for the past week
- UFC PPV experiment
- Lots of newcomers to WWE
- Advanced tickets for upcoming WWE & AEW & NJPW shows
This Week’s Retro Observer Newsletter
Tuesday Update
WWE
- CM Punk will appear on The Jackie Redmond Show on the NHL’s YouTube account this Thursday.
- WWE has posted the Cody Rhodes vs. Shinsuke Nakamura match in full from Monday’s Raw.
- NXT Anonymous posted a video with Jacy Jayne telling Chase U students she has a plan to get the university back in good standing.
- The company has trademarked the term “The Final Testament”.
- John Cena is teaming with Rob Gronkowski for FanDuel’s 2024 Super Bowl “Kick of Destiny 2” campaign.
- Nikkita Lyons’ new theme on WWEMusic’s YouTube channel.
- WWE released a video celebrating their record-breaking 2023.
- Free matches added to WWE’s YouTube account include John Cena vs. Seth Rollins from the December 22, 2014 edition of Raw and Kevin Owens vs. Roman Reigns in a cage match from the December 25, 2020 edition of Raw.
AEW & Other Wrestling
- The newest edition of Sammy Guevara’s vlog.
- Warner Bros. Discovery credited AEW with strong ratings in a press release from Tuesday.
- AEW posted a video with Bryan Danielson shortly after his match against Kazuchika Okada at Wrestle Kingdom 18.
- Eddie Kingston cut a promo on Gabe Kidd ahead of their match this weekend at Battle in the Valley.
- Adam Copeland joined Busted Open Radio to talk AEW.
- Steve Maclin talked to Fightful about his current run in Impact Wrestling.
- In his first press conference as IWGP World Heavyweight Champion, Tetsuya Naito teased destroying the title, which he isn’t a fan of: “When this belt was made, I was against it right up to the very end. I never had any good thoughts about this title before, and now I have it… it’s complicated. Maybe I have a little more attachment to this belt than I did before the Tokyo Dome, but just a little. Perhaps the more I hold it, the more attached I’ll become, and if not, well I guess I’ll just toss it. I mean, if you break belts around here they just give you new ones, right? With a different name. Seems there’s precedent.”
- TNA is partnering with NFL Alumni ahead of Hard of Kill as part of NFLA’s “Huddle for Health” initiative.
- Hijo del Vikingo has surpassed Kenny Omega’s reign as AAA Mega Heavyweight Champion, which is now at 766 days.
- Former WWE and Impact Wrestling referee Earl Hebner has released an autobiography.
- ‘Little Big Brawlers’, a show featuring little people pro wrestlers, premieres on January 9 at 10 pm ET.
