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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter:

  • The lead story concerns AEW and WWE and the momentum changes, the current business environment for both companies, when momentum shifted and reasons, a listing of all the turns on AEW television of late, and goes into detail on the AEW issues with CM Punk & Adam Page, Eddie Kingston & Sammy Guevara, Thunder Rosa’s injury and it is real and so much more. It’s a major story and talks about the key things for AEW’s future as well as the talent meeting. Also in the issue:
  • Update on Clash at the Castle and All Out including business notes
  • Hot ticket sales for AEW & WWE shows
  • UFC 278 coverage in detail by Ryan Frederick
  • A fascinating historical piece on UK star Bert Royal and the Royal Brothers tag team, why they are so important in different aspects of the changes in UK wrestling in the 50s and 60s
  • How the pandemic has affected the Japanese wrestling business as compared to other sports and sports franchises, as well as the hierarchy of popularity and how it has changed from pre-COVID until today including the percentage increase or decrease in attendance of the major groups.
  • G1 Climax star ratings, as well as readers voted best match of G1 and G1 MVP
  • More on the New Japan and Stardom joint show
  • The death of Howard Brody and his contributions to pro wrestling
  • DDT Peter Pan show
  • Television ratings for the past week
  • Arena Mexico Grand Prix
  • Next major Stardom event
  • Next major New Japan matches around the country
  • Update on Dark Side of the Ring
  • One of the best wrestling announcers who never got a break looks to be leaving
  • A look at both nights of the RevPro 10 year anniversary shows
  • Time slot changes in October for Dynamite and Smackdown
  • Upcoming ticket sales for AEW and WWE
  • International TV ratings
  • MMA judging criteria changes
  • More on Johnny Gargano’s return to WWE
  • Why Jeff Jarrett is out at WWE
  • Big E update

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Tuesday News Update

WWE

  • Roman Reigns’ title reign officially reached the two-year mark today. At Payback 2020, Reigns defeated Braun Strowman and “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt to win the WWE Universal Championship.
  • Reigns tweeted this afternoon: “A run like never before. Success in every single measure and in every category. This is what the Top of the Mountain looks like so Acknowledge and appreciate it.”
  • WWE has a 20-minute Playlist video from all of Reigns’ title defenses over the past two years.
  • On Raw last night, Matt Riddle and Seth Rollins got into a heated war of words to build up their match at Clash at the Castle this Saturday. The angle included Rollins saying that Riddle doesn’t have a family because his wife divorced him, took their kids, and they don’t want to see him anymore.
  • Paul “Triple H” Levesque commented on Raquel Rodriguez & Aliyah’s WWE Women’s Tag Team title win: “The culmination of a tournament featuring some of the brightest stars from the @WWE and @WWENXT Women’s Divisions. Congratulations to @RaquelWWE and @WWE_Aliyah on their #WWERaw MAIN EVENT win and becoming the NEW Women’s Tag Team Champions!!! #JustTheBeginning”
  • When asked when she’ll be returning to the ring, Carmella responded to a fan on Twitter: “I’m not sure yet.. still recovering. Hopefully soon! I miss y’all” Carmella was injured when she hit her head during a match at a WWE house show earlier this month.
  • Dakota Kai told Digital Spy that Bayley first brought up the idea of them being in a faction together in 2018: “Bayley has been talking to me about this idea for years now. We were talking about when I was still in NXT, it was like 2018 when she first brought it up to me and then again at Evolution. We just kept like saying, ‘This needs to happen, we want this to happen so bad,’ and obviously the members changed but I was the constant. So I think it’s very poetic that it happened at SummerSlam and that her idea that we’ve been talking about for so long finally happened on such a big stage and with Iyo as well, it was an emotional moment for all of us that it finally happened.”
  • Shelton Benjamin vs. R-Truth and T-Bar vs. Cedric Alexander will air on WWE Main Event this week.
  • Alexander James is coaching at the WWE Performance Center and producing for NXT.
  • WWE’s YouTube channel uploaded Hollywood Hogan vs. Diamond Dallas Page from the March 29, 1999 episode of WCW Nitro, Rey Mysterio vs. Eddie Guerrero in a steel cage match from the September 9, 2005 episode of SmackDown, and Damian Priest vs. Drew McIntyre vs. Sheamus for the United States title from the August 30, 2021 Raw.

Other Wrestling

  • AEW uploaded this week’s Road To video hyping up tomorrow’s Dynamite.
  • Chris Jericho tweeted last night: “Just wanna thank @TonyKhan, @KennyOmegamanX & @youngbucks for reigniting my love for pro wrestling!! @AEW is the BEST wrestling company in the world today and I’m so PROUD to be a part of it! Haters gonna hate…and wizards are gonna throw fireballs at all their asses!”
  • This week’s episode of Sammy Guevara’s vlog is now available.
  • Isiah Kassidy was interviewed on the Ten Count for NBC Sports Boston.
  • NJPW has revealed the logo for Wrestle Kingdom 17.
  • Chris Charlton noted that Fred Rosser vs. Fred Yehi for the Strong Openweight Championship on this week’s NJPW Strong will be the first title match between two Black wrestlers in NJPW history: “While Bob Sapp was the first black IWGP Champion in 2003, Rosser vs Yehi is the first championship match between two black wrestlers in NJPW history. #njpwstrong”
  • Diamond Dallas Page shared an update announcing that Buff Bagwell has entered a drug rehab facility after relapsing.