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WON NEWSLETTER: August 16, 2021 Observer Newsletter: More NXT cuts, Dominic DeNucci passes away

In this week’s issue:

  • The latest set of WWE cuts and the more important political battle and changes in what WWE wants out of developmental
  • Going through all of the WWE talent cut, who can benefit where, why decisions were made
  • Life of Dominic DeNucci, the biggest drawing babyface ever in Australia and trainer of many top stars
  • Gable Steveson wins gold medal, looking at the big decision Steveson has to make, AEW star challenges Gable Steveson and Steveson’s response
  • Hall of Fame season, what top draws are not in
  • Full coverage of UFC 265
  • CMLL loses four major names, another talks his problems, and the big picture of what is leading to the decline of the world’s oldest and formerly most stable promotion
  • WWE & AEW business, how ticket sales are going, lineups for the big events, secondary market demand, what shows scalpers overbought which shows they under bought
  • Preview of this year’s TripleMania
  • A look at all the ratings of the past week and analysis
  • Name changes of wrestlers coming
  • A number of COVID positives in Japan and others having to quarantine
  • Previewing NJPW’s show in Los Angeles, Jr. tag tourney standings, frustrations with COVID impacting New Japan
  • Peggy Lathan – The Queen of Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling
  • Lots of news regarding Rampage carriage outside the U.S.
  • Update on Max Caster
  • McGregor melts down regarding Cormier’s criticism
  • Adam Cole update
  • WWE & AEW International TV numbers
  • Former controversial WWE performer running for public office and complains about WWE COVID policies
  • What WWE segments on television were the most watched after the fact
  • More detail on the ratings than any other source, how many different viewers the shows had, breakdown of who watches the shows, how they watch, DVR numbers and how long the average fan watches
  • Results of the major pro wrestling events of the past week

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MONDAY NEWS UPDATE

Bryan and I will be back tonight with Wrestling Observer radio covering a ton of topics including Raw, COVID in Japan, and the U.S., and much more.

Raw is in San Antonio tonight. There will be a Bill Goldberg-Bobby Lashley face-to-face as Raw does exactly what Smackdown did on Friday plus Randy Orton vs. Omos and Drew McIntyre vs. Veer & Shanky. It’s the SummerSlam go-home show for the Raw brand.  We’re looking for reports on anything from the show not televised as well as from the Impact tapings in Nashville and New Japan tapings tonight in Long Beach, CA.  We’re also looking for your thoughts on the weekend’s AAA TripleMania and New Japan Resurgence shows, thumbs up, down or middle, best and worst match to dave@wrestlingobserver.com

The Showbuzz Daily web site has returned with notes on Friday programming. This will enable us to get more details on the ratings of all sports. 

Some notes from Friday. Smackdown did 2,084,000 viewers and 0.58 in 18-49, winning the night in the key demo. The number is actually artificially low because several markets aired NFL football on FOX and it probably would have ended up closer to 2.2 million and probably be the most demo number except for 7/16 in a long time. The debut of Rampage did 740,000 viewers and 0.31, finishing third on cable behind the two NFL games on the NFL Network.  Head-to-head, the NFL only beat Rampage .36 to .31. It actually beat the NFL game head-to-head in women 12-34.  It was up 113% from what TNT averages in the time slot in 18-49and up 30% in what TNT averages with movies in total viewers. Given the time slot, it’s an excellent number but it was promoted like crazy all week by WarnerMedia so this is not likely where it’s going to stay. IIt may do even bigger this Friday so it probably won’t be until about week four before we know what level it will end up at.

“Our goal was to come out of the gate strong and establish Fridays at 10 p.m. ET on TNT as the place to catch the hottest commodities in professional wrestling,” said Tony Khan, CEO, GM and Head of Creative of AEW.  “Coming off our red-hot debut episode of ‘AEW: Rampage’ last Friday that featured Dr. Britt Baker retaining her AEW Women’s World Championship against Red Velvet in the main event match, we’re all excited for The First Dance this Friday night at the sold-out United Center in Chicago. It will be a special episode of ‘AEW: Rampage’ that will be enshrined in wrestling history as a night that fans will remember for a very long time.”

The final WWE PPV show of the year will be 12/12 at the All-State Arena in suburban Chicago. Chicago will be loaded as AEW not only runs there Friday, three times the first week of September and will return the night before Thanksgiving as well.

Funeral services for Bobby Eaton will be on 8/24 at 2 p.m. at  the New Generation Funeral Home at 2930 Murfreesboro Pike in Antioch, TN.

WWE

  • In Canada on Friday, Smackdown was preempted until midnight on SportsNet and did 40,000 viewers.  SportsNet did stream the show live.
  • A Bobby Lashley interview promoting SummerSlam.
  • The entire concert performance from the January 14, 2013 Raw where Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson insulted Vickie Guerrero, insinuating she was a prostitute and not attractive, has been removed by Peacock.

AEW

  • Dark Elevation tonight
    Pac vs. Anthony Bowens
    Penta & Fenix vs. Jack Evans & Angelico
    Hikaru Shida vs.  Kiera Hogan
    2.0 vs, Duke Davis & Ganon Jones
    Diamante vs. Julia Hart
    Brian Cage vs  Joey Keys
    Jade Cargill vs Katie Arquette
    Lance Archer vs. Reggie Collins
    Joey Janela vs,. 5
    Thunder Rosa vs. Rae Lyn
    Sammy Guevara vs Serpentico
  • The movie “Jakob’s Wife,” which features Phil Brooks (C.M. Punk) will premiere on Shudder, a horror film streaming service this coming Thursday.
  • The company sent out a press release that Sting will have his first match on TNT since his 2001 match with Ric Flair this coming Wednesday on Dynamite. Sting & Darby Allin face 2.0 in a tornado match.  

UFC

  • UFC fighters Thiago Santos and Yana Kunitskaya announced on Sunday that they are having a child.  The funny part is that the couple first announced the pregnancy on 4/1, and then said it was an April Fool’s joke. But this is apparently legit. Kunitskaya has said that she will fight at some point in 2022.

OTHER NOTES

  • Kalyl Silva, the 22-year-old son of Anderson Silva made his kickboxing debut on a show in California scoring an eight second knockout with a head kick. The fight was at 159 pounds.  Gabriel Silva, another son, is expected to start kickboxing as well.
  • An interview on TV in New Zealand with Aaron Henare talking about his Warrior Wrestling company is at 
  • The Mikey Nicholls vs. Kiel Steria match had an insane spot where Steria could have broken his leg at https://youtu.be/_W7Bsfve_sA
  • Melbourne’s lockdown has been extended another two weeks. This puts the 9/11 date for Melbourne City Wrestling in jeopardy again. Deathmatch Downunder have already moved their Deathmatch tournament shows back to 2nd October. (thanks to Kevin Chiat)
  • AIW has shows 8/27 in Cleveland at the Odeon Concert Club, 8/28 in Parma, OH at First Stop and 9/10 in Cleveland at the Odeon Concert Club with Tammy Pattersonr>
  • Zakary Hebert, the 21-year-old son of Montreal book author Bertrand Hebert made his pro wrestling debut on Saturday night in St-Jean, Quebec wrestling as Zak Patterson, beating Mike Bailey, his coach. Hebert wrote Pat Patterson’s autobiography with him as well as a number of books in both French and English including the award winning Montreal history book with Pat Laprade.

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