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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter

The new issue of the Observer is out with the following covered:

  • Match of the week and performer of the week from the past two weeks
  • The most detailed story of the AEW/C.M. Punk relationship
  • The honeymoon period
  • The business records
  • The difficulty of the decision to cut ties with him
  • Lots of new information not reported previously
  • The original records set and business success
  • The fight after All Out and its aftermath
  • Realities of pro wrestling
  • Analysis of him going to WWE
  • Support and non-support for him in AEW
  • Punk’s prior two contacts in recent years with WWE about returning
  • Conflict between Punk and other talent
  • The situation with Adam Page
  • The attempts to get everyone working together and why it kept being delayed
  • Details on what happened in the investigations after All In
  • Tony Khan’s speech before the live crowd in Chicago
  • The life and times of Sheik Adnan-Al Kaissie, the Native American babyface torn foreign menace
  • Amateur wrestling, legend in Hawaii, and giant stadium crowds in Iraq including beating Andre the Giant
  • His WWWF tag team title run
  • His AWA run including the biggest crowds in the heyday of the promotion affiliated with Jerry Blackwell and Ken Patera
  • The final run with Sgt. Slaughter
  • Full coverage of Payback, business notes, stories out of the show and match-by-match coverage
  • Full coverage of All Out, highlights, polls, business notes and more
  • UFC weekend coverage from Paris
  • More notes on the formation of a new all-women’s promotion that starts in a few weeks with Japanese stars
  • The most detailed look at the ratings for every wrestling and MMA show, segment-by-segment notes
  • Rocky Romero talks his CMLL run
  • Latest from Arena Mexico
  • Hall of Famer says he hopes to recover from recent operation and have a big retirement match
  • Stardom Five-Star Grand Prix tournament notes
  • Stardom PPV coverage
  • New rookie getting rave reviews
  • All Japan and NOAH have big shows
  • Terry Funk funeral notes
  • Notes on new TV show
  • Big tag team tournament coming
  • More notes on Wembley Stadium attendance
  • Bryan Danielson and Adam Cole talk post All Out
  • Advance ticket sales for WWE & AEW shows
  • AEW value calculated
  • International TV ratings and streaming numbers
  • Aussie Open on why they signed with AEW
  • Sports franchise owned by pro wrestling star wins championship
  • Dana White talks Bellator being for sale
  • More on Bellator sale talks
  • Analyst talks where he thinks WWE will wind up on television
  • Gable Steveson not doing world championships and update
  • Merchandise sales for Clash at the Castle and for All in
  • Cena’s drawing power on his return

This Week’s Retro Observer Newsletter

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Sunday Update

– Bryan and I will be back tonight talking all the weekend news including Sean Strickland’s huge upset win over Israel Adesanya last night in UFC, as well as Brett Sawyer and other weekend news with Wrestling Observer Radio. My week in review show with Garrett Gonzales is up right now.

– Jim Duggan is resting comfortably after an undisclosed emergency operation. His Twitter account notes that he’s on the mend and will be back on his feet soon. Best of luck to him in his recovery and to his family.

– Dana White said that Adesanya should get a rematch with Strickland after his major upset loss last night. White didn’t have an explanation as to why but said Adesanya was flat and slow. Strickland knocked Adesanya down and nearly finished him in the first round. Strickland dominated the fight in winning a five-round decision. All three judges had it 49-46.

– WWE ran Nassau Coliseum for a house show last night:

  • LA Knight defeated Austin Theory with the BFT
  • Ricochet defeated Karrion Kross kicking back off the top rope for the pin
  • Omos defeated Johnny Gargano with a chokeslam after distraction from MVP
  • Charlotte Flair defeated Asuka clean in a good match
  • Cruz Del Toro & Joaquin Wilde defeated Hit Row via DQ when B-Fab interfered
  • Del Toro & Wilde & Zelina Vega defeated Hit Row & B-Fab when Vega pinned B-Fab with a splash off the top rope
  • AJ Styles defeated Solo Sikoa with a roll-up. Said to be the best match on the show.
  • Cody Rhodes defeated Finn Balor in a street fight. Usual weapons stuff. Rhodes won with Cross Rhodes. The rest of Judgment Day were not at the show.

(Thanks to Mike Omansky, David Hager, Adam Eisenberg and Shannon Walsh)

– As far as Google searches go, the only thing to crack the top 20 related to wrestling, MMA or boxing would be last night’s UFC PPV which was number two yesterday behind Alabama football with 1 million searches. With the new methodology, that is what a higher than usual UFC show does.

– WWE sent a championship belt to new U.S.Open winner Coco Gauff, who became a huge new star in tennis this past week.

– Lots of raves today about the Giulia & Suzu Suzuki vs. Maika & Utami Hayashishita match on the Stardom PPV show in Yokohama. It’ll be up on Stardom World in a few days. It was called a muse-see match. The show was a fan poll voting tag team matches that they wanted to see. Prominence then did a big angle attacking Suzuki for teaming wiht Giulia. Another match we’ve heard great things about i s the Kento Miyahara vs. Yuma Anzai on All Japan’s big show on Friday at Yoyogi Gym in Tokyo.

– Stardm PPV results:

  • Megan Bayne & Mei Seira won a tag team gauntlet series
  • Tam Nakano & Mina Shirakawa defeated Natsupo & Saori Anou
  • Mirai & Mai Sakurai defeated Rina & Hina
  • Hanan & Mariah May defeated Momo Watanabe & Momo Kohgo
  • Hazuki & Natsuoka Tora defeated Nanae Takahashi & Ruaka
  • Giulia & Suzu Suzuki vs. Utami Hayashishita & Maika ended in a 20:00 time limit draw
  • AZM & Starlight Kid defeated Mayu Iwatani & Saki Kashima

– New Japan started the best-of seven trios series today in Toagane with Yuji Nagata & Shota Umino & Master Wato vs. Minoru Suzuki & Ren Narita & Desperado. The first night they did a 30:00 draw.

– NXT is loaded on Tuesday with a show they hope will do some of the best numbers in years with Becky Lynch challenging Tiffany Stratton for the NXT Women’s title. Besides that they have Wes Lee vs. Ilja Dragunov, which should be great, with the winner facing Carmelo Hayes for the NXT title at No Mercy, plus the Global Heritage tournament with Tyler Bate vs. Axiom and Akira Tozawa vs. Nathan Frazer, The Creeds vs. Edris Enofe & Malik Blade, Charley Dempsey & Drew Gulak & Damon Kemp vs Brooks Jensen & Josh Briggs & Myles Borne, and Dana Brooke vs. Lyra Valkyria.

– Alex Shelley vs. Josh Alexander for the Impact title headlines Bound for Glory in Chicago. During the past week they announced Mike Tenay, Don West and Traci Brooks will be inducted into the Impact Hall of Fame that night.

– Impact will next be running 9/22 and 9/23 at Graceland in Memphis. It will be Impact’s first time in Memphis in 11 years. Mickie James and Deonna Purrazzo will be in Memphis on Thursday and Friday doing advance promotional work for the shows.

– United Wrestling Coalition will hold a show on 9/23 at the Legion Hall in New Egypt, NJ.

– IWF from last night in Brockport, NY: Frank Burlington b Jeremy Adams, Nick Ando b TJ Kirk, Jesse Bieber b TJ Epixx, McKinger & Haymaker b Dewey Murray & Swoggle to win the tag titles,Ron & Jordan Falco own three-way over Evan & Kyle McCloud and Tyler Hill & Robbie Reckless, Asylum b Matthew Grant, Krystal Moon b Shiloh-DQ@, Brute Van Slyke b Bull James in a bullrope match (thanks to Todd Brantley)

– Evil Uno’s Mystery wrestling from Friday night in Gatineau, Quebec: 1960 Spiderwoman won four-way over 1960 Spiderman, Multiverse Spiderman and Spider Gwen, Stu Grayson b Vaughn Vertigo, Gabriel Fuerza b James Stone, CPS b Bobby Orlando in falls count anywhere, Serge St. Denis b Louis Gray in a street fight, Emi Sakurara b Maki Itoh (thanks to Shannon Walsh)

– Riot at the Yard promoted by Eve is an all women’s wrestling, burlesque and cabaret show on 9/20 at The Yard Theater in Hackney Wick, London. Allie Katch, B3CCA, Nina Samuels, Chantl Jordan and Alex Windsor are also on the show.

– At the Glory kickboxing show last night in Paris, Badr Hari, who was to face James McSweeney (former UFC fighter) in the main event. Hari came out and said he was in no condition to fight due to the earthquake in Morocco, where he is from. Glory said that they respected his decision and would donate all profits from the show to a charity in Morocco.