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WON NEWSLETTER: August 30, 2021 Observer Newsletter: CM Punk debuts in AEW, SummerSlam review

An amazing weekend for pro wrestling as AEW on 8/20 featured the return of C.M. Punk, while WWE the next day at SummerSlam brought back Becky Lynch and Brock Lesnar.

The Punk return was one of the most amazing television wrestling moments in history. Never before has a show been announced with simply a name, The Last Dance, just a few weeks ahead of time, in a building the size of the United Center in Chicago, and sold out instantly.

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FRIDAY NEWS UPDATE

Garrett Gonzalez and I have a show tomorrow morning rather than tonight. It will be fun.

Smackdown tonight from North Little Rock, AR features the return of Becky Lynch. Shinsuke Nakamura & Rick Boogs vs. Dolph Ziggler & Robert Roode was also announced.

AEW Dark will be taped most weeks in Orlando going forward at Universal Studios. It will not be a closed set so fans will be allowed to attend.

AEW All Out will be airing in movie theaters around the country. Among the theaters are Cinemark, AMC, Harkins, Galaxy, Marcus, Emagine, Studio Movie Grill, Cinepolis Luxury Cinema and Landmark Cinemas in Canada.

Today is the 50th anniversary for the Fred Blassie vs. John Tolos match at the Los Angeles Coliseum which was one of the biggest matches of the era and set a gate record for the time.

We didn’t get these in time for the issue deadline (the audience and 25-54 numbers are in the issue) but these are the 18-49 numbers for all the wrestling shows over the past week in Canada except Rampage.

  • Smackdown 62,000
  • Main Event 8,000
  • NXT Takeover 36 (aired live on TV in Canada) 16,000
  • Raw 123,000
  • NXT 33,000
  • Dynamite 72,000

Rampage probably beat Smackdown based on how AEW demos turn out even though it aired at 11 p.m. and Smackdown aired at 8 p.m.  Rampage was likely about 80,000. In Canada, while WWE is on a stronger sports station, the penetration of the two stations is more even so the advantage is less than in the U.S.  Of course it’s very unlikely Rampage does those numbers again.

Numerous people have told us to make sure and watch the Penta & Fenix vs. Jurassic Express match tonight on Rampage. The other matches on the show are Bunny vs. Tay Conti and Frankie Kazarian & Christian Cage vs. Kenny Omega & Brandon Cutler.

Jake Paul vs Tyron Woodley takes place in a boxing PPV tomorrow in Cleveland. There has been a lot of pub for this one in recent days.  Paul is a -195 favorite.

UFC tomorrow:

Prelim at 7 p.m. Eastern on ESPN+

  • Mana Martinez (140) vs. Guido Cannetti (135.5) – Martinez forfeits 30 percent of his purse to Cannetti
  • Jamall Emmers (145.5) vs. Pat Sabatini (145.5)
  • JJ Aldrich (125) vs. Vanessa Demopoulos (125.5)
  • Dustin Jacoby (203.5) vs. Darren Stewart (204.5)
  • Sam Alvey (185.5) vs. Wellington Turman (185.5)
  • Alessio Di Chirico (185.5) vs. Abdul Razak Alhassan (185.5)
  • Main card on ESPN at 10 p.m. Eastern
  • Makhmud Muradov (184.5) vs. Gerald Meerschaert (185
  • Andre Petroski (185.5) vs. Michael Gillmore (184)
  • Kevin Lee (170.5) vs. Daniel Rodriguez (171)
  • Ricky Turcios (135) vs.   Brady Hiestand (135.5)
  • Bryan Battle (185.5) vs. Gilbert Urbina (186)
  • Edson Barboza (145) vs  Giga Chikadze (145.5)

Turcios vs. Hiedstand and Battle vs. Urbina are the finals of the Ultimate Fighter season that just aired on ESPN+

PFL weigh-ins for tonight’s show on ESPN 2 from Hollywood, FL:

  • Cezar Ferreira (205.2) vs. Mathin Hamlet (205.8) in a light heavyweight semifinal
  • Emiliano Sordi (206) vs. Antonio Carlos Jr.. (205.4) in a light heavyweight semifinal
  • Chris Wade (145.6) vs. Bubba Jenkins (146) in a featherweight semifinal
  • Brandan Loughnane (145.8) vs. Movlid Khaybulaev (145.8) in a featherweight semifinal

Invicta has a PPV tonight from  Kansas City Memorial Hall:

  • Serena DeJesus (136) vs. Lauren Mueller (135.8)
  • Jodie Esquibel (116) vs. Liz Tracy (117.2) – Tracy was fined 25 percent of her purse for missing weight
  • Brogan Sanchez (125.8) vs. Emilee King (124.6)
  • Lisa Verzosa (134.6) vs. Taneisha Tennant (134.7) for the bantamweight title
  • Emily Ducote (114.4) vs. Danielle Taylor (114.6) for the strawweight title

LFA tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern on UFC Fight Pass:

  • Bruno Souza (145) vs. Javier Garcia (144.4) for the featherweight title
  • Charles Johnson (124.8) vs. Joao Camilo (124.4)
  • Anthony Garrett (251.2) vs. Jimmy Lawson (259.6)
  • DeWayne Diggs (200) vs. Joseph Holmes (200)
  • Elmar Untarov (169.4) vs. Ben Bennett (171)
  • Irfan Mulabitinovic (162.4) vs. William Starks (161.6)5) fm0_

WWE

  • Stephanie McMahon sent this out  this morning: This past weekend, WWE held our biggest event of 2021, SummerSlam, emanating from Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas with a record-breaking crowd of over 51,000 fans. More people watched Saturday’s event live across Peacock and WWE Network than any other SummerSlam in our company’s history, marking a 55% increase over 2020. SummerSlam also trended #1 worldwide, ahead of Pacquiao vs. Ugas and NFL preseason football. Leading up to the event new multi-year partnership announcements were made, bringing WWE together with Spotify, Bill Simmons and The Ringer to launch an exclusive audio network, and MLB to offer sports fans team-inspired WWE Championship replica titles and accessories. In addition, WWE partnered with Bitski to drop WWE’s second edition of NFTs inspired by WWE Superstar John Cena.
  • Raw will take place on 10/11 at the Chase Center in San Francisco.

AEW

  • C.M. Punk has opened as a -400 favorite to beat Darby Allin at All Out according to BetOnline.ag
  • A few notes on names from the Chicago tapings on Friday.  Tay Conti’s opponent was Heather Reckless.  Ethan Page & Scorpio Sky wrestled GPA & Mat Fitchett, who got a big reaction since he’s known locally from AAW, while Jeff Parker & Matt Lee beat Travis Titan & Jason Hotch.
  • Rampage is not airing on television in Canada tonight even though it did big numbers last Friday.  There is no good reason why as three stations are airing the same football game,one has a documentary and another has PFL, which has significantly less interest.
  • Ryan Nemeth’s film HEEL was named as an official Section of the 17th annual HollyShorts Film Festival which runs from 9/23 to 10/1 at the TCL Chinese 6 Theaters in Hollywood,CA.  The film is about the subject of sexual assault in the independent pro wrestling scene.

UFC

  • Frankie Edgar vs. Marlon Vera takes place on the 11/9 Madison Square Garden show.
  • Casey O’Neill vs. Antonina Shevchenko has been added for a 10/2 show.
  • Jessica Eye vs. Andrea Lee and Lando Vannata vs.Tucker Lutz are scheduled for an 11/13 show.

OTHER NOTES

  • The International Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame has its first weekend on Saturday and Sunday in Albany, NY.  Tomorrow at 2 p.m. will be a history session with Don Luce, Tom Burke and Mark Hewitt. 3 p.m. will have Ricky Morton, Robert Gibson, J.J. Dillon, Manny Fernandez and Ron Garvin.  4 p.m. Will have Luke Williams, Sunny, Rita Chatterton, Davey O’Hannon and Virgil.  The induction ceremony is at 7 p.m. with Dillon and Bill Apter as hosts at the King Street Ballroom.  Apter hosts a party at 11 p.m. tonight at the Fort Orange Ballroom at the Desmond Hotel.
  • Steve Corino comes out of retirement tonight to face his son Colby for the PWF in North Carolina.
  • Kevin Eck’s weekly look at ROH news.
  • Minoru Suzuki faces Cavin Tankman on 10/1 in St Louis at the Affton Elks Lodge for WrestleMax St. Louis. Suzuki also has been added to the 10/3 Glory Pro Wrestling show in St. Louis at the South Broadway Athletic Club against Davey Richards.
  • Stardom returns after being shut down for two weeks due to COVID cases with a show tomorrow in Nagoya.  
  • Great North Wrestling tomorrow at 8 p.m. in Kingston,ONT is sold out with Rene Dupree, Alicia Atout and Mike Bailey.  There are tickets left for a 5 p.m. show at the Cataraqui Arena.
  • wXw announced the lineup for its Catch Grand Prix tournament.  The A block has:
    A block:
    Axel Tischer (Alexander Wolfe)
    Tristan Archer
    Dennis Dullnig
    Levaniel
    Leon van Gasteren
    Michael Knight

    B block:
    Bobby Gunns
    Robert Dreissker
    Stephanie Maze
    Fast Time Mondo
    Akira Francisco
    Maggot

  • The tournament takes place from 9/23 to 9/26. Cara Noir will be working the Saturday night and Sunday afternoon shows, facing Marius Al-Ani for the world title on 9/25. They run one show on Thursday, two on Friday, one on Saturday with the finals on Sunday.  They will also be taping additional shows with the talent in town on Saturday and Sunday afternoon. (thanks to Markus Gronemann)
  • Pro Wrestling Ontario on 9/19 in Burlington, ONT at 3141 Mainway.
  • C4 Wrestling on 9/18 in Ottawa,ONT at St. Anthony’s Hall.
  • KSW 83 on 9/4 from Warsaw, Poland is headlined by welterweight champion Roberto Soldic (18-3) defending against Patrik Kinci (24-9) and Olympic wrestling medalist Damian Janikowski (6-3) vs.  Pawl Pawalak (18-4-1)
  • LFA on 9/24 in Oshkosh, WI at the Menominee Nation Arena with Josh Silveira (5-0) vs. Tee Cummins (4-0) to decide the LFA light heavyweight title.
  • Combate Global announced the signing of Spain’s Kevin Cordero (11-2), who will debut with a 9/3 main event against Ricky Bandejas.  
  • GWN Wrestling on 8/29 at 1 p.m. in Hamilton, ONT at 222 Queenston Road.
  • UAE Warriors on 9/3 and 9/4 from the Jiu Jitsu Arena in Abu Dhabi.  The 9/4 main event has Shawn Bunch (9-5) vs. Randy Saadeh, the former BAMMA champion (12-3)   Former Chelsea goalkeeper Ricard Prasel (11-2) faces former sambo champion Mihail Mokhnatkin (12-5)
  • Lance Storm will appear on two CWE shows on 9/8 in Medicine Hat, Alberta and 9/9 in Calgary. Storm will be part of both shows but not wrestling.

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