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WON NEWSLETTER: November 1, 2021 Observer Newsletter: ROH announces hiatus, WWE’s 2022 schedule

In this week’s issue:

  • The legacy and the future of ROH
  • 2022 WWE PPV schedule
  • The Flair-Lynch-Deville-Banks segment on last week’s SmackDown and questions it asks
  • Dark Side of the Ring on the Vince McMahon steroid trial, key points in the piece and other key points regarding the end result of the trial
  • NXT’s goals as far as changing its audience and how Halloween Havoc delivered
  • The seven markets that WWE and AEW are selling tickets in and what are the updated numbers
  • Ratings from the past week
  • International TV numbers
  • Update on AEW Full Gear
  • Best match and best performer of the week
  • G1 best match and G1 MVP
  • G1 American interest level
  • NJPW financials
  • Next NJPW major shows
  • Jericho Cruise
  • Impact Bound for Glory
  • Former pro wrestling rookie of the year faces aging comedian in high profile MMA fight in a few weeks
  • Last week’s UFC show

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FRIDAY NEWS UPDATE

Some notes for the weekend. Garrett and I will be doing two shows, we will be talking with Jon Moxley about his book “Mox,” and also be doing a show on the Vince McMahon steroid trial with Wade Keller. The latter came from a suggestion from social media.

In theory, pending any changes at the last minute, Smackdown will air at 8 p.m. Eastern on FS 1, not FOX, with replays at 10 p.m. and midnight. Talking Smack won’t air on television even though it’s listed.  There are obvious reasons for this, given Talking Smack was going head-to-head with Rampage and I didn’t see that as happening when push came to shove. The only match announced was Shinsuke Nakamura & Rick Boogs vs. Happy Corbin & Madcap Moss in a Trick or Treat street fight.

A note that you may want to manually set your DVR for Smackdown tonight.  A lot of systems if you have an automatic DVR taping for Smackdown on FOX that it does not cover the show tonight on FS1. Some systems it does.  One of the reasons for the low DVR numbers for 10/15 for Smackdown was because people expected they had it recorded only to find out they didn’t.

Rampage tonight has Bryan Danielson vs. Eddie Kingston in the title tournament in a match taped Wednesday that everyone said was near classic level, plus Matt Sydal vs. Dante Martin and Britt Baker vs. Abadon in a non-title no DQ street fight.

As it turned out, adding in DVR numbers, on 10/15 when Smackdown was on FS 1 and Rampage was also on and there was the head-to-head half hour, for the entire show Rampage ended up at 0.33 and Smackdown ended up at 0.30.

205 Live tonight on Peacock has Boa vs. Jeet Rama, Sarray vs. Katrina Cortez and Xyon Quinn vs. Ru Feng.

UFC 267 starts at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow from Abu Dhabi on ESPN+:

  • Tagir Ulanbekov (125) vs. Allan Nascimento (126)
  • Hu Yaozong (186) vs. Andre Petroski (185.5)
  • Makwan Amirkhani (146) vs. Lerone Murphy (146)
  • Michal Oleksiejczuk (206) vs. Shamil Gamzatov (206)
  • Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos (170.5) vs. Benoit St. Denis (171)
  • Albert Duraev (186) vs. Roma Kopylov (186)
  • Ricardo Ramos (146) vs. Zubaira Tukhugov (146)
  • Amanda Ribas (115.5) vs. Virna Jandiroba (116)
  • Magomed Ankalaev (205.5) vs. Volkan Oezdemir (205.5)
  • Li Jingliang (171) vs. Khamzat Chimaev (171)
  • Alexander Volkov (263) vs. Marcin Tybura (249)
  • Islam Makhachev (155.5) vs. Dan Hooker (156)
  • Petr Ya (135) vs. Cory Sandhagen (135) for the interim bantamweight title
  • Jan Blachowicz (205) vs. Glover Teixeira (205) for the light heavyweight title

Charlotte Flair is at Smackdown tonight and was scheduled to wrestle pending a change in plans.

Jake Paul vs. Tommy Fury in a boxing match has been announced for a PPV promoted by Showtime on 12/18. It will be an eight-round fight set at 192 pounds, from the Amalie Arena in Tampa.

WWE

  • WWE is doing two tickets for the price of one for the 11/29 Raw show at the UBS Arena in Long Island because of slow ticket sales.The offer is good until Monday night and the password is TREAT.
  • Lots of tickets for holiday shows went on sale today. The 12/27 show at the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit for Raw is at 2,795 tickets. The 12/28 house show in Pittsburgh at the PPG Paints Arena is at 3,714.  

UFC

  • With Kevin Holland having pulled out of the 11/13 show due to injury, Kyle Daukaus, Holland’s original opponent, will now face Roman Dolidze.

OTHER NOTES

  • Sorry to report the death of Tom Cusati, who managed around the Northeast as Royce Prophet and promoted shows as head of the Galaxy Wrestling Federation.  Cusati was a subscriber here since as far back as I can remember and after he moved to Las Vegas I’d see him at PWG shows all the time.
  • Kevin Eck talks this week’s ROH news.
  • Wrestling Revolver tomorrow night in Clive IA at the Horizon Event Center with Jon Moxley vs. Jimmy Jacobs in a street fight, a ladder match to crown a new Revolver champion with Rich Swann vs. Trey Miguel vs. JT Dunn vs. Jake Manning, Davey Richards & Eddie Edwards reunite the America Wolves against Tyler Matrix & Logan James, Jake Crist vs. Alex Colon in a four corners of  pain match, Ace Austin vs. Alex Zayne, Matt Rehwoldt vs. Anthony Green, Jessicka Havok vs. Billy Starks, Madman Fulton vs. Warhorse vs Ninja Mack vs.Everett Connors vs. Crash Jaxon vs.Sam Beale plus Danhausen on the card.
  • AAW’s Jim Lyman Cup takes place this weekend.  The first round is tonight at the Eagles Club in Berwyn, IL and the rest of the tournament takes place tomorrow night.  First round haas Mance Warner vs. Josh Alexander, Arez vs. Myron Reed, Alex Hammerstone vs. Manders, Lee Moriarty vs. Ace Perry, ACH vs. Davey Vega, Daniel Garcia vs. Thomas Shire, Jake Something vs. Mat Fitchett and Schaff vs. Hakim Zane.  Fred Yehi also defends the AAW title tonight.
  • At 2 p.m. tomorrow they have a show with Yehi vs. Eddie Kingston, Allysin kay vs. Nicole Savoy for the women’s title, Skye Blue & Christi Jaynes vs. Axel Rico & Rico De La Vega and Thunder Rosa vs. Jody Threat.  Saturday night will be the completion of the Jim Lyman Cup.
  • Defy runs tonight and 11/20 in Seattle at Washington Hall. Jeff Cobb vs. Jacob Fatu and Homicide vs. Ethan HD headline tonight’s how. El Phantasmo vs Sonic was also announced.  the 11/20 show is headlined by Jon Moxley vs.  Tom Lawlor   
  • SEScoops reported that Mance Warner was officially released from his MLW contract. We’ve confirmed the story is accurate.
  • Matt Cardona has been added to the 11/26 AIW  show in Eastlake, OH at Force Sports.
  • Combate Globo runs tonight on Paramount + at 11 p.m. Eastern headlined by Levi Escobar (2-0) vs. Daniel Sanchez (2-1).
  • WAR on 11/6 in Lima, OH at the Empowered Sports Center
  • CFFC ends the year with a show on 12/17 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City featuring Eddy Torres (4-0) vs. Blade Bilder (4-0-1).  This airs on UFC Fight Pass and C.M. Punk announces for CFFC.
  • Fight Club OC returns on 11/11 at The Hangar at the Orange County Fairgrounds  in Southern California.  The show will consist of both MMA fights and boxing fights.
  • MCW tonight in Baltimore at the FPX Theater Live with Penta, Dante Caballero, Moses, Sam Adonis, Tony Deppen and Ray Lyn.
  • ROH referee Mike Coughlin was a contestant on Wheel of Fortune last night. Vince McMahon was one of the puzzles on the show which Coughlin solved (thanks to Grant Zwarych)
  • Premier Championship Wrestling returns after 20 months for a show tomorrow night in Lundar, Manitoba. Everyone on the show is fully vaccinated. Only one person quit when the promotion said everyone has to be vaccinated.
  • Boston Wrestling on 11/13 has a fanfest called back to the 90s in Melrose,  MA at Memorial Hall with Bob Backlund, Marty Jannetty, Slick, The Berzerker, Doink Ray Apollo, Duke Droese, Justin Credible, John Cena Sr., Eddie Edwards, JTG, Oscar and Myron Reed.

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