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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter:

  • A look back at the history of the Iron Man match
  • The set up of the first Iron Man match that we know of
  • All the WWE true 60:00 Iron Man matches as well as the worked marathon matches that happened earlier
  • Bryan Danielson talks about the challenge of doing such a match today
  • Thoughts on what the PPV numbers will tell
  • Key aspect of the number
  • Ticket sales for the show, city record, current demand
  • Notes on the full card
  • Update on WrestleMania and changes
  • Ticket demand and sales or WrestleMania
  • Shad Gaspard/Jonathan Huber Award winner for 2022 and previous winners
  • Update on the MLW television deal with REELZ
  • Update on MLW potential lawsuit with WWE
  • Thoughts on the 2022 awards
  • CMLL and New Japan combine for FantasticaMania and a look at the last two events
  • UFC coverage of the weekend show
  • The most detailed look at the television ratings for the past week, how segments did, and how shows are hitting each key demo
  • Woman wrestling vet announces retirement
  • Report that a network reached out to rival promotion from who they carry to get them
  • Notes on a unique match in Mexico
  • Match of the week and performer of the week
  • A look at the first TripleMania card
  • One of the iconic legends of the sport announces about the next wrestler with the gimmick
  • New Japan Cup notes
  • All-Star Junior Festival notes
  • Governor who wrestled on Jan. 1 gets heat for it and why
  • Jerry Jarrett’s farewell words to his family
  • Von Erich movie notes
  • Former WWE wrestler pleads guilty in nationally covered fraud investigation
  • Pentagon & Fenix promote super indie show in April
  • Super indie matches
  • A card that features matches from nine different promotions in nine different countries
  • 16 Carat Gold tournament update
  • Brett Lauderdale talks how they got Kota Ibushi
  • Updates on next several weeks of Impact television
  • Updates on next several weeks of ROH television
  • AEW injury updates
  • Kenny Omega, Dax Harwood Bryan Danielson, Matt Hardy , Chris Jericho, Britt Baker and others talk the current scene
  • AEW star owning a sports franchise
  • Upcoming ticket sales for AEW & WWE events
  • Streaming and international TV numbers
  • WWE & UFC financials and comparisons, how badly and why UFC talent is underpaid, what Dana White earns and why Endeavor passed on making an offer to WWE
  • Dana White talks Makhachev vs. Volkanovski rematch
  • Jon Jones and Bo Nickal talk about their wrestling skirmish
  • Bellator signs two-tie NCAA champion
  • Jake Paul PPV numbers
  • Former UFC champions sign for Bare Knuckle Boxing
  • Ticket sales for big shows and how adding John Cena, Logan Paul and Roman Reigns to shows moves tickets
  • Update on WWE Hall of Fame ceremony
  • Notes on new projects from Dwayne Johnson and John Cena
  • WWE unloads a Senior Vice President
  • Bayley talks about formation of Damage Ctrl
  • Notes on new WWE signings getting ready for television
  • Notes from the weekend WWE & NXT events

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Monday Update

We’ll be back tonight with Wrestling Observer Radio covering more fallout from Raw tonight, Revolution, Stardom and other news. Our post-Revolution show is up on the site right now.

Vince McMahon is at Raw in Boston tonight. That’s all we know about the situation past he’s there with John Cena. He’s not running the show or anything but this is the first time he’s been to a WWE taping since he quit.

Raw is tonight in Boston at the TD Garden which is another sellout with more than 13,000 fans. John Cena and Logan Paul are advertised on the show. Paul is shooting an angle with Seth Rollins of course playing on Rollins’ gimmick. Lita and Trish Stratus were also scheduled plus Kevin Owens vs. Solo Sikoa, Johnny Gargano vs. Finn Balor, Sami Zayn vs. Jimmy Uso, and Bianca Belair vs. Carmella in a non-title match are also scheduled. With Cena there, expect a major ratings increase from last week.

We’ve got weekend polls on AEW Revolution, the Stardom Triangle Derby finals and UFC 285, thumbs up, down or middle plus a best and worst match to dave@wrestlingobserver.com

We’re looking for reports from Raw in Boston tonight as far as Main Event matches, dark matches or anything else on the show to dave@wrestlingobserver.com

Yesterday’s AEW Revolution had 50,000 searches for No. 12 on the list of the most searched or stories on the Internet. Most WWE shows of late have done in the 200,000 range and the UFC show with Jon Jones was No. 1 on Saturday with 2.2 million. So the Jones show did barely half of the Jake Paul show the prior week. Ciryl Gane cracked the top 20 on Thursday and nothing else from boxing, wrestling or MMA made the list this past week.

NXT has Roadblock tomorrow night featuring Roxanne Perez vs. Meiko Satomura for the women’s title plus Bron Breakker & The Creeds vs. Jinder Mahal & Veer & Sanga Tony D’Angelo vs. Dijak in a Jailhouse street fight (think coffin match except a jail instead of a coffin), the Grayson Waller Effect with Shawn Michaels, Andre Chase vs. Joe Gacy and Gigi Dolin vs. Jacy Jayne plus a confrontation with Gallus and Pretty Deadly likely to set up Stand & Deliver. 

Thanks to Nour Faragallah, Shannon Walsh, Amin Ajani, Mike Omansky and Jonah Harper for reports from the weekend WWE events.

Other Notes

The movie 18th & Grand will air on SportsNet, SportsNet LA and Spectrum News throughout the month. It’s a movie about the Olympic Auditorium in the 50s, 60s and 70s focusing on boxing, wrestling and Roller Games.

MLW is on REELZ again tomorrow night with Alexander Hammerstone vs. Lance Anoa’i and Lio Rush vs. Jacob Fatu.

Warrior Wrestling on 3/25 in Grand Rapids, MI at West Catholic High School has John Morrison vs. Storm Grayson, Eddie Kingston vs Sam Adonis, Top Flight vs. The Velocities, El Hijo del Vikingo vs. Arez for the Warrior Lucha title, Brian Cage vs. Zachary Wentz, KC Navarro vs. Jordan Oliver for the Warrior title and more.

Kevin Matthews, who wrestled for Impact and was in WWE developmental, played the stunt double for Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs on Saturday Night Live this past weekend.

Winnipeg Pro Wrestling runs 4/8 in Winnipeg.

EPW on Saturday night in Western Australia: King Shail & Kris Kelly b Mr. Thompson & Rogan Karguis, Michael Morelone b Tyler Jacobs, Jesse Lambert & Damian Slater & Marcius Pitt b Cal Collins & Cannon Connors & Ryan Rivera, Bruno Nitro b Del Cano t keep the Coastal title, Davis Storm & Mikey Nicholls b Felix Young & Jarrad Slate in a battle for both the he EPW and SHWA tag titles in a street fight, Taylor King b Jame Hartness, Lucas Fantasia & Mikey Broderick b Bobby Marshall & Dan Moore, Julian Ward b Chris Target in an EPW & SHWA title match followed by Morelone over Ward to win both titles. EPW runs 4/15 with Storm & Nicholls vs Pitt & Slater for the tag titles. 

Renegades of Wrestling on 3/17 in Melbourne with Robbie Eagles plus AJ Istria vs. Jake Andrewartha (thanks to Kevin Chiat)

NSPW & Femme Fatales from Saturday night in Quebec City before 300 fans: La Parfaite Caroline b Emily Grimsky, Mary Lee Rose & Azaella b Dani Leo & Melanie Havok Jody Threat b Zak Patterson, Nicole Matthews b Liiza Hall 2/3 falls, Loue O’Farrell & Travis Toxic & Stu Grayson b Vanessa Kraven & James Stone & Pee Wee. It was supposed to be an all-women’s show but a huge snowstorm in Toronto prevented six wrestlers from making it so they rebooked the show and booked men to fill out of the card (thanks to Pat Laprade)

House of Glory Wrestling on Friday night from Jamaica, Queens,NY has Jacob Fatu vs. Fred Rosser for the HOG title, Low Ki vs. Kushida and Midas Black & Jay Lyon defend the tag titles against Brian XL & Amazing Red.

Kenny Casanova is working on an autobiography for Ken Patera.

I’m currently reading Ian Douglass’ book he’s written with Steve Keirn and it’s just like his books with Brian Blair and Bugsy McGraw. If you like 70s wrestling and Florida in particular it’s filled with great stories about the inner workings plus real good insight into WWWF in the 70s

PFL announced for 4/14 that the top of the card will air on ESPN+ while the prelims will air on ESPN 2. Olivier Aubin-Mercier vs. Shane Burgos and Sadibou Sy vs. Jarrah Al Silawi are the top bouts on the show from The Theater at Virgin Hotels in Las Vegas. This will be the third show of he tournament season that beings with an ESPN show on 4/1.