Daily Update: Trish Stratus, Chris Jericho, Nick Jackson

Daily Update

Latest News
- Updates on CM Punk All In altercation with Jack Perry, travel issues, Collision glass spot
- Impact Wrestling TV taping spoilers from Toronto: The road to Victory Road
- VIDEO: Becky Lynch pays tribute to Bray Wyatt after WWE Raw
- Report: Brian Pillman Jr. starts with WWE NXT
- AEW Collision viewership up, 18-49 rating down for All In go-home episode
- Mixed tag match set for Impact Wrestling episode 1000
- WWE Raw video highlights: Shinsuke Nakamura attacks Seth Rollins
- Report: Bray Wyatt was suffering from heart complications prior to death
- IC title match announced for next week’s WWE Raw
- Impact Wrestling reducing TV taping dates due to ‘massive upgrades’ to production
- Jerry Lawler makes WWE Raw appearance during commercial break
- Steel cage match to kick off this week’s WWE NXT
- Undisputed Tag Team title match set for WWE Payback
- Wrestling Observer Radio Q&A from London now streaming on Premier
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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter
- G-1 MVP and best match of G-1
- Match of the week and performer of the week
- Behind the scenes of the last month of AEW. why stories were kept quiet, why people were not allowed to attend Collision, why this has gone on for 18 months
- All of the recent incidents talked about from multiple sides
- The promo by C.M. Punk and what happened at the Greensboro show which led to all of his getting out
- Different reactions to the promo
- The apology that did happen
- All In and attendance records plus the updated card with new matches that have not yet been announced
- Full coverage of the end of G-1 and the big fall shows for New Japan
- Business notes on G-1
- Naito has two of the best matches of the year
- Koichi Yoshizawa and his role in Japanese wrestling coverage in the U.S.
- Saturday’s UFC coverage and where the top stars go from here as well as the business notes
- Coverage of the final TripleMania show of the year and storylines behind it
- Tammy Sytch update
- The most detailed look at ratings for all the wrestling and MMA shows, gains and losses with what groups and why, what segments did the best and worst
- Another women’s champion out of action due to surgery
- RevPro and CMLL working relationship notes
- World Grand Prix notes
- Stardom PPV coverage and upcoming tag team tournament
- N-1 coverage
- New Japan and Stardom business notes
- Hiromu Takahashi talks junior heavyweight goals
- New Japan PPV shows this weekend
- One of the biggest women stars has major surgery and a look back at her career
- How the television industry continues to change
- Full PWG coverage of the first show since January including some of AEW’s top stars
- Update on new promotion opening next month and what well known announcer is in talks to appear
- RevPro anniversary show update
- WWE & AEW upcoming ticket sales
- WWE & AEW streaming numbers
- WWE and AEW international ratings
- Conor McGregor talks future
- Former UFC legend officially retires
- Update on Bellator sale
- Update on PPV numbers for Diaz-Paul and SummerSlam
- Former WWE wrestler wins MMA fight
- Edge and possible retirement
- Build to Payback show
- ESPN exec talks interest in pro wrestling
- Possible retirement of Lacey Evans
- Women’s tag title update
- Asuka talks Japanese wrestling and the back story
- Logan Paul offers a $1 million bet
- New WWE signing
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Tuesday Update

WWE
- Trish Stratus was interviewed by The New York Post ahead of her match at Saturday’s Payback. When asked about the match not taking place at SummerSlam, Stratus responded “At the end of the day, as long as we deliver, as long as we leave the fans entertained, satisfied, Stratus-fied that’s what my goal is to come here and do the things we never got to do, show them something they’ve never [seen] before.”
- Bayley announced that she will be auctioning off pieces of old gear, with 100% of the proceeds going towards a Hawaiian community fund.
- NXT Women’s Champion Tiffany Stratton appeared in the crowd during Monday’s Raw.
- Dominik Mysterio, Paul Heyman, and Shinsuke Nakamura will be guests on this week’s The Bump.
- Matches added to WWE’s YouTube today include Apollo Crews vs. Bobby Lashley from Payback 2020, Kevin Owens vs. Jey Uso from the July 29, 2022 edition of Raw, and John Cena & Randy Orton vs. Sheamus & Edge from the June 14, 2010 edition of Raw.
- It was announced that “Heavyweight” by Ryan Oakes and Loveless is the official theme song for NXT No Mercy.
- Eddy Thorpe’s theme has been uploaded to WWEMusic’s YouTube account.
AEW
- Nick Jackson thanked numerous people regarding the success of All In, including Cody Rhodes, writing “This doesn’t happen without you. Spoiler alert for the people who say we hate each other. That isn’t true.”
- Samoa Joe on X: “Know that there are some people in life who will cherish your friendship, and others who will commodify it. Both relationships can work on some level as long as you are treating it the same way. That being said, the latter usually sucks.”
- Chris Jericho responded “Yup” on X when a fan said that Jericho’s interactions with Bob Barker being omitted from WWE’s tribute on Monday’s Raw was “typical WWE pettiness”.
- Terrifier 2, which features Jericho, will be re-released on November 8.
- The company has released a highlight reel from All In.
Other Wrestling
- NJPW has aired their first ad for Wrestle Kingdom 18.
- NWA posted comments from EC3 after he won the NWA World Championship on Sunday.
- Batista is featured in a spot for the upcoming Mortal Kombat 1 video game.
- Mick Foley wrote about his thoughts and memories of Windham Rotunda on Facebook.
- Tommy Dreamer filed a trademark for his name on August 23.
- PWInsider reported that Joyce Grable is currently hospitalized with a “serious health issue”.
- Joey Janela vs. Alex Coughlin has been signed for GCW’s Crushed Up event on September 10.
- Colby Corino is celebrating a birthday today.
