Daily Update: Triple H, Charlotte Flair, Mustafa Ali
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- Logan & Jake Paul to star in reality show on Max
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- Seth Rollins has sports media ambitions after WWE career
- Dark Side of the Ring reveals episode topics for season six
- WWE 2K mobile game to be released by Netflix Games
- Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling announces Toronto debut at historic venue
- Danhausen believes his marketability should ‘translate into television time’
- Powerhouse Hobbs has legitimate injury, planned AEW Collision match postponed
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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter
- January 27, 2025 Observer Newsletter: AEW inconsistency issues, WWE SNME preview, TNA Genesis & GCW reviews
Among the topics covered:
- What are the issues with AEW and what can be done to fix some of them easily
- A look at Wednesday’s show and the different issues regarding the big picture
- Why WWE doesn’t get hurt when it does the same things listed as mistakes when AEW does them
- Where AEW actually stands in television
- Preview of Saturday Night’s Main Event, Royal Rumble and business notes
- UFC 311 coverage of the show changed at the last minute
- A look at TNA’s Genesis PPV, its relationship with WWE and its first live TV shoot
- Game Changer Wrestling returns to the Hammerstein
- What happened with PCO and why
- 2024 Awards ballot
- The most detailed look at the ratings over the past week including Raw on Netflix
- New CMLL marketing gimmick
- Stardom comes up with new booking concept and debuts it this past week
- Dragon Gate comes to the U.S.
- Japanese promotions try to present united front
- Notes on first live TNA TV show in eight years
- Britt Baker update
- Ricky Starks update
- Grand Slam Australia update
- Notes on new AEW dates
- Major issue long-term for AEW younger talents
- Advanced ticket sales for upcoming WWE & AEW shows
- International TV ratings and streaming numbers
- More on Dana White and boxing
- Chris Weidman retires
- Craig Piligian announced for UFC Hall of Fame
- One of the most popular fighters from 15 year ago cut by UFC
- Lots more on WrestleMania
- Corey Graves update
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Thursday Update
WWE
- WWE uploaded a vlog with The Undertaker and Shawn Michaels surprising Paul “Triple H” Levesque with the news of his WWE Hall of Fame induction.
- Levesque tweeted:
- Been trying to come up with a way to say ‘Thank You’ for the immense honor announced yesterday.
- I have had the incredible pleasure of a 30+ year [career] of creating memories and moments…meeting life-long friends (which I’m rethinking both @Undertaker & @ShawnMichaels right now) and of course, the most incredible wife and mother @StephMcMahon.
- …and the opportunity to entertain the best fans in the world.
- Thank you to everyone who has reached out, I appreciate the kind words and well-wishes.
- WWE Shop has released a new “Top Girl” T-shirt for Charlotte Flair ahead of her return at the Royal Rumble this Saturday.
- WrestleVotes reported about Charlotte:
- With Charlotte Flair set to return this weekend, a source says her presentation will fully embrace her Flair family legacy with a ‘Top Girl’ attitude and ‘flare’ to her character. There’s also talk of championship gold coming her way sooner rather than later.
- Goldberg said on his CarCast podcast that he’ll be undergoing stem cell therapy as part of the preparation for his retirement match that’s happening in WWE later this year. Neither a date nor an opponent for the match have been announced yet.
- WWE uploaded a 29-minute interview with Jackie Redmond speaking with CM Punk ahead of the Royal Rumble.
- Punk and Rhea Ripley represented WWE at a Netflix 2025 preview event that also featured Tina Fey, John Mulaney, Ben Affleck, and Matt & Ross Duffer.
- Redmond posted a video asking WWE wrestlers which surprise entrants they would like to see in the Royal Rumble.
- Nia Jax appeared on this week’s edition of No-Contest Wrestling.
- Paul Heyman was a guest on Sports Media with Richard Deitsch.
- Undisputed and the New York Post also have interviews with Heyman.
- Rapper Killer Mike tweeted that attending NXT in Atlanta this week felt like going to an old NWA show.
- Entertainment Tonight did a brief segment covering the injury JD McDonagh suffered on Raw this week.
- Liv Morgan, Bayley, Nia Jax, Bianca Belair, and more rewatched the 2024 women’s Royal Rumble match for a WWE Playback video.
- Belair and Montez Ford attended last night’s Indiana Pacers game for WWE Night.
Other Wrestling
- With 90 days having passed since she was released from her WWE contract, Nixon Newell (the former Tegan Nox) posted that she is now officially a free agent. She is taking bookings at nixonnewell@gmail.com. Indi Hartwell is also now entering free agency after being released on the same day as Newell. Hartwell’s first post-WWE appearance will be at WrestleCon’s convention in Indianapolis this Saturday.
- Mustafa Ali, who has signed with TNA Wrestling, told The Takedown he fully believes that he could be the face of a company:
- I fully believe that Mustafa Ali could be the face of a company, could be the World Champion of a company. You could sit me down with any sponsor, with any publication, with any TV show. And I dress like a star. I’m in the best shape of my life. I’m mentally, physically healthy. You’re not going to hear anything bad about me in the news. I’m not getting arrested. I’m not failing a drug test. I’m the epitome of a professional.
- Penelope Ford was the guest on AEW Unrestricted this week.
- Ricky Starks is facing Aaron Solo for Turnbuckle Championship Wrestling in Buford, Georgia on Saturday, February 15.
- ESPN published a feature story on The Wrestling Club, which is led by English teacher Victor Taylor Perry at KIPP AMP Middle School in Brooklyn.
- Ring The Belle has an interview with Gisele Shaw.