Daily Update: Sting, WWE A&E ratings, Dark Side of the Ring
Daily Update
Latest News
- New season of AEW Dynamite to begin this Wednesday
- BJ Whitmer receives probation, house arrest on domestic violence charges
- Bianca Belair would love to pick things back up with Mercedes Mone one day
- Report: Sammy Guevara suspended by AEW
- MLW announces teams for War Chamber 2024
- AEW Collision ratings up for Revolution go-home show
- Paul Heyman: I carry a ‘significant voice’ in The Bloodline’s WWE creative
Latest Audio
- Wrestling Observer Live: Lance Storm joins to talk Revolution, The Rock, Orton vs. Theory, RAW
- Wrestling Observer Radio: Vince selling stock, Heyman Hall of Fame, RAW report, New Japan Cup
- The Big Vinny V Show: TNA Impact with Mustafa Ali championship aftermath
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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter
With the death of Ole Anderson this week, we have a giant issue of the Observer with a huge bio of Anderson, talking about his entire career in the business, as a wrestler, promoter, booker and later executive with WCW. We talk about the beginnings of Georgia wrestling on national television, the expansion, Dusty Rhodes vs. Ole Anderson, The Black Scorpion, The Four Horsemen, Minnesota Wrecking Crew, Black Saturday and so much more. This issue includes:
- The life and times of Ole Anderson
- A story on the death of Mike “Virgil” Jones
- Update on WrestleMania
- Coverage of Elimination Chamber
- Rock on Smackdown
- Updated Mania lineup
- Business notes on Elimination Chamber
- Update on WWE & UFC 2023 business, along with 2024 projections and why the stock price dropped
- Sting’s last match and AEW Revolution preview
- Secondary market notes
- History of Greensboro sellouts
- Darby Allin and Young Bucks talk Sting
- New Japan after Okada looked at
- What New Japan needs to do
- How Matt Riddle and Nic Nemeth started in New Japan
- New Japan Cup news
- Rundowns of New Beginning in Sapporo
- UFC from Mexico City rundown
- 2023 Shad Gaspard/Jon Huber Award winners
- Triple Crown winners of Wrestler of the Year, Most Outstanding and Match of the Year in the same year
- The most detailed look at the ratings of all the shows, segment-by-segment, demos, competition and weekly placings as well as comparisons to one year ago
- First ever all women’s Friday night show at Arena Mexico
- Notes on the next CMLL tournament
- Wrestlers leaving AAA
- Stardom Cinderella tournament
- Two major Stardom stars confirmed as staying with the promotion
- Movie coming out on 70s star
- More on MLW lawsuit settlement with WWE
- More plans and changes at TNA
- Shocking PPV number and trying to explain it
- Tony Khan talks business and how many PPV shows per year is optimum
- More on the visa situation with Mexican talent
- More on Darby Allin climbing Mount Everest
- Lots of injury updates
- International TV ratings
- Advance ticket sales for WWE & AEW shows
- Biggest event in PFL history
- More on the Nick Kiniski story
- Dwayne Johnson gets ownership of all his IPs
- WWE writer talks about Vince McMahon
- WWE star in BJJ tournament
This Week’s Retro Observer Newsletter
Tuesday Update
WWE
- Drew McIntyre vs. Jey Uso from Monday’s Raw has been uploaded to YouTube.
- WWE Rivals (Jake Roberts vs. Randy Savage) and WWE Biography (Sgt. Slaughter) on A&E Sunday were both down from last week’s season premieres. Rivals scored 316,000 viewers with a 0.06 rating, while Biography did 276,000 with a 0.07.
- Cody Rhodes will appear at WWE World on Thursday, April 4 in Philadelphia. Seth Rollins will be there the following day on April 5.
- Behind the scenes of the WWE 2K24 trailer.
- Argyle, featuring John Cena, is now available to rent or buy.
- Jey Uso talks about his favorite WrestleMania moment.
- John Cena was on the Open Thoughts show.
- Bianca Belair showed herself making her Elimination Chamber gear.
- The Bar vs. Braun Strowman & Nicholas from WrestleMania 34 has been posted in full on YouTube.
AEW & Other Wrestling
- Sting’s son Garrett wrote on his YouTube channel about his experience dressing as ‘surfer’ Sting as part of his dad’s final match at Revolution:
- “Alright, it’s time for an update and a bit of a reveal. Last night, my dad, Sting, retired from his completely legendary pro wrestling career. My brother and I got to play a small part of his final match as younger versions of his character. I’ve got the American outfit, my brother has the red (or, Surfer Sting and Wolfpack Sting for any wrestling fans!) It was absolutely insane, and by far the coolest night of my entire life. The admiration and love from the fans toward my dad made me even more proud of him than I already am.
- So, this is obviously why I’ve been a bit absent the past month or so. I was largely focused on looking as good as possible for the show, so lots of hours that would have been spent grinding Destiny were instead spent in the gym haha. All that to say, thanks for being patient. I can’t wait to upload again soon, and I’ll for sure try to do a recap video that goes more in depth on this weekend.”
- The Plaza Theatre in Atlanta, where Sting taped the vignette that aired before AEW Revolution’s main event, commented on Sting writing “An honor! We [heart emoji] @Sting.”
- Dark Side of the Ring returns tonight on Vice at 10 pm ET, focusing on John ‘Earthquake’ Tenta.
- Minoru Suzuki vs. Royce Issacs has been added to Bloodsport X.
- A tribute show to Mad Kurt can be found here. A GoFundMe has been set up to help his family here.
- Daniel Makabe will have his final match during Scenic City Invitational weekend.
