Daily Update: PWI Top 100 Tag Teams, Kyoko Kimura, Mills Lane

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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter:

  • The history and creation of War Games
  • How the rules have changed and what did and didn’t work this year
  • The copies of War Games
  • Why WWE didn’t do War Games on the main roster, and why they started it on NXT
  • Business notes on how the show did, live, streaming, PPV
  • Crossover audience between War Games and Full Gear and Crown Jewel
  • Full show coverage with poll results
  • The story behind William Regal’s AEW departure
  • Why many questioned the MJF booking
  • Best of Seven notes
  • PPV number updates, as well as updates on the last four AEW PPV shows
  • Who bought Full Gear, Forbidden Door or All Out and patterns
  • Revenue, movie gate numbers and more
  • Notes behind the title changes
  • Match by match coverage and poll results on the show
  • Updates on the Royal rumble, ticket sales and more notes
  • New Japan and Stardom Historic X Over
  • The story behind Kairi winning the IWGP title and not Mayu Iwatani
  • The story behind Omega vs. Ospreay
  • Match by match coverage and poll results
  • C.M. Punk mocks the brawl, Young Bucks & Kenny Omega mock C.M. Punk, and more
  • TV ratings over the past two weeks, including where AEW faltered this week and did great the week earlier and it’s the same group, the huge drop during the show of Raw, what about Smackdown was the best of the year for the show, and where wrestling ranked in the sports charts and the entertainment charts the past two weeks
  • Wrestling legend gets honored by an international embassy
  • Cain Velasquez wrestling and the story behind it
  • Stardom PPV show coverage
  • Updates on all the traditional Japanese tournaments
  • Update on Kota Ibushi
  • Fantastica Mania news
  • Generational legends battle this past week
  • Ricky Steamboat comes out of retirement
  • Plan for a statue of iconic wrestler to be built in his home town
  • Battle of Los Angeles news
  • Mayor Glenn Jacobs in the middle of controversy
  • Injury changes the winner of a tournament
  • Major WWE legend coming out of retirement in December
  • One of the most well traveled wrestlers of all-time passes away
  • Former ECW and WWE star retiring
  • Thoughts on wrestlers whose contracts are coming due
  • New angle off television for recently signed AEW wrestler
  • International TV ratings
  • AEW & WWE streaming numbers
  • Lots of new UFC main events
  • Conor McGregor gets sued twice
  • UFC gaming controversy
  • MMA returns to CBS prime time
  • PFL season finale
  • Paul Levesque talks WWE future
  • Big stock rise for WWE and why
  • Nick Khan and Stephanie McMahon talk WWE business, international, buying companies and more
  • WWE injury updates
  • Ticket sales for upcoming WWE & AEW events
  • Next MSG show

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Tuesday Update

WWE

AEW

  • This week’s Road to, which focuses onJake Hager & Daniel Garcia vs. Claudio Castagnoli and Wheeler Yuta, as well as Jon Moxley.
  • Chris Jericho paid tribute to actress Kirstie Alley on Instagram. Alley, best known for her roles on the television show ‘Cheers’ and the ‘Look Who’s Talking’ movies, passed away Monday following a short battle with cancer. Jericho and Alley appeared together on a season of Dancing with the Stars.

Other Wrestling

  • Pro Wrestling Illustrated released their top 100 tag team rankings for 2022, with The Usos, FTR, and The Briscoes taking the first three spots. Jay Briscoe replied on Twitter: “Imagine if we weren’t banned from TV…Usos my ass”.
  • The Usos on Twitter replied: “A lot of Salty ass tag teams out there huh??…#WeTheOnes”
  • Kyoko Kimura, the mother of Hana Kimura, announced she has filed a lawsuit against Fuji Television Network and two other companies. Fuji Television broadcast Terrace House, the reality show Hana starred in. Hana committed suicide on May 23, 2020 following online harassment over situations that took place on the show.
  • Shingo Takagi made an appearance on Tuesday morning’s Dragongate event in Korakuen Hall. He will be returning to in-ring action in Dragongate for the first time since October 2018 on December 25 when he teams with BxB Hulk to take on YAMATO and Madoka Kikuta.
  • Mills Lane, who refereed memorable boxing fights including Mike Tyson vs. Evander Holyfield, has passed away at the age of 85. In pro wrestling, he made a cameo on an episode of WWE Raw in 1998 declaring that Steve Austin should get a title shot against The Rock. He also refereed a match between Roddy Piper and Buff Bagwell that took place at Bash at the Beach 1999.
  • The first six names announced for WrestleCon 2023 in Los Angeles over WrestleMania weekend include Bret Hart, Mick Foley, Sgt. Slaughter, The Tonga Kid, and Henry & Phinneas Godwin.
  • The cover to ECW founder Tod Gordon’s memoir has been revealed. Terry Funk will be writing the foreward for the book.
  • NJPW’s website interviewed the current IWGP Jr. Tag Team Champions, TJP and Francesco Akira.
  • A look at Cassandro, a movie starring Gael Garcia Bernal based on the exotico wrestler’s life. It will stream on Amazon Prime Video in 2023.