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This is a huge weekend. We’ll be doing polls on Saturday’s NXT Takeover show on Sunday’s Survivor Series show. You can leave a thumbs up, thumbs down or thumbs in the middle along with a best and worst match to dave@wrestlingobserver.com.

We’ll have shows up both Saturday and Sunday night.   

We’re also looking for reports from tonight’s NXT house show in Visalia, CA to newstips@wrestlingobserver.com.

NEW JAPAN WORLD PRO WRESTLING TONIGHT AT 8 P.M. ON AXS TV

  • Kenny Omega vs. Cody vs. Kota Ibushi for IWGP title

BELLATOR TONIGHT AT 9 P.M. EASTERN ON PARAMOUNT AND DAZN

  • Adam Keresh (238) vs. Kiril Sidelnikov (262)
  • Olga Rubin (143.5) vs. Cindy Dandois (145.5)
  • Phil Davis (206) vs. Vadim Nemkov (204.5)
  • Hiam Gozall (170) vs. Ryan Couture (169)
  • Patricio Pitbull Freire (144.5) vs. Emmanuel Sanchez (143) for featherweight title

CMLL FROM ARENA MEXICO AT 9:30 P.M. EASTERN

  • Astral & Electrico vs. Espanto Jr. & Grako
  • Dalys vs. Marcela
  • Esfinge & Guerrero Maya Jr. & Rey Cometa vs. Misterioso Jr. & Okumura & Vangellys
  • Leyenda de Plata elimination match: Volador Jr., King Phoenix (Rey Fenix), Titan, Flyer, Mistico, Soberano Jr., Triton, Audaz, Cavernario, Dragon Rojo Jr., Felino, Virus, Mephisto, Templario, Tiger an d Kawato San
  • Caristico & Diamante Azul & Valiente vs. Ultimo Guerrero & Gran Guerrero & Penta 0M

LEGACY FIGHTING ALLIANCE AT 10 P.M. EASTERN TONIGHT ON AXS TV

GCW L.A. CONFIDENTIAL TONIGHT IN LOS ANGELES AT 10 P.M. ON FITE TV

NEW JAPAN TAG TEAM TOURNAMENT TOMORROW AT 4:30 A.M. EASTERN FROM FUJISAWA ON NEW JAPAN WORLD

  • Michael Elgin & Jeff Cobb vs. Yota Tsuji & Yuya Uemura
  • Zack Sabre Jr. & Taichi vs. Tomoaki Honma & Ren Narita
  • Minoru Suzuki & Takashi Iizuka & Desperado vs. Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr. & Yoshinobu Kanemaru
  • Juice Robinson & David Finlay vs. Ayato Yoshida & Shota Umino
  • Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima vs. Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi
  • Baretta & Chuckie T vs. Hangman Page & Yujiro Takahashi
  • Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa vs. Togi Makabe & Toa Henare
  • Kazuchika Okada & Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano & Sho & Yoh vs. Tetsuya Naito & Evil & Bushi & Sanada & Shingo Takagi

UFC FIGHT NIGHT FROM BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA

Fight Pass at 7 p.m. Eastern

  • Anderson dos Santos (144.5) vs. Nad Narimani (145.5)
  • Jesus Pinedo (156) vs. Devin Powell (155)

FS1 at 8 p.m.

  • Hector Aldana (169.5) vs. Laurean Starpoli (169)
  • Austin Arnett (145.5) vs. Humberto Bandenay (145.5)
  • Alexandre Pantoja (125.5) vs. Ulka Sasaki (125.5)
  • Bartosz Fabinski (170) vs. Michel Prazeres (170.5)
  • Poliana Botelho (115.5) vs. Cynthia Cavillo (118)
  • Guido Cannetti (135.5) vs.; Marlon Vera (135.5)
  • Cezar Ferriera (185.5) vs. Ian Heinisch (185)
  • Khalil Rountree (204.5) vs. Johnny Walker (205.5)
  • Darren Elkins (145) vs. Ricardo Lamas (145.5)
  • Santiago Ponzinibbio (171) vs. Neil Magny (171)

NXT TAKEOVER LOS ANGELES FROM THE STAPLES CENTER AT 7 P.M. EASTERN  ON  WWE NETWORK

  • Johnny Gargano vs. Aleister Black
  • Shayna Baszler vs. Kairi Sane for women’s title 2/3 falls
  • Tommaso Ciampa vs. Velveteen Dream for NXT title
  • War Games: Ricochet & Pete Dunne & War Raiders vs. Bobby Fish & Kyle O’Reilly & Roderick Strong & Adam Cole

NEW JAPAN TAG TEAM TOURNAMENT SUNDAY AT 4:30 A.M. FROM KORAKUEN HALL IN TOKYO ON NEW JAPAN WORLD

  • Juice Robinson & David Finlay vs. Yota Tsuji & Yuya Uemura
  • Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa vs. Tomoaki Honma & Ren Narita
  • Togi Makabe & Toa Henare & Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima vs. Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi & Ayato Yoshida & Shota Umino
  • Hirooki Goto & Baretta & Chuckie T vs. Kota Ibushi & Yujiro Takahashi & Hangman Page
  • Kazuchika Okada & Sho & Yoh vs. Tetsuya Naito & Bushi & Shingo Takagi
  • Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr. vs. Minoru Suzuki & Takashi Iizuka
  • Zack Sabre Jr. & Taichi vs. Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano
  • Michael Elgin & Jeff Cobb vs. Sanada & Evil

WWE SURVIVOR SERIES FROM THE STAPLES CENTER IN LOS ANGELES WITH PRESHOW STARTING AT 5 P.M. EASTERN ON WWE NETWORK

  • Ronda Rousey vs. Charlotte Flair
  • Brock Lesnar vs. Daniel Bryan
  • Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Seth Rollins
  • AOP vs. Sheamus & Cesaro
  • Braun Strowman & Bobby Lashley & Dolph Ziggler & Drew McIntyre & Finn Balor vs. The Miz & Jeff Hardy & Rey Mysterio & Samoa Joe & Shane McMahon in elimination match
  • Ruby Riott & Nia Jax & Tamina & Mickie James & Natalya vs. Asuka & Naomi & Carmella & Sonya Deville & ? in an elimination match
  • Buddy Murphy vs. Mustafa Ali for the cruiserweight title
  • Bobby Roode & Chad Gable & The Ascension & B Team & Revival & Lucha House Party vs. Usos & New Day & Colons & Karl Anderson & Luke Gallows & Sanity tag team elimination match

Raw will be Monday night from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, CA.

NEW JAPAN TAG TEAM TOURNAMENT TUESDAY IN TAKAOKA ON NEW JAPAN WORLD ON SAME DAY TAPE DELAY

  • Togi Makabe & Toa Henare vs. Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi
  • Michael Elgin & Jeff Cobb vs.;Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr.
  • Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano vs. Minoru Suzuki & Takashi Iizuka
  • Juice Robinson & David Finlay vs. Togi Makabe & Toa Henare

Smackdown, 205 Live and Mixed Match Challenge will be taped on Tuesday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, CA.

F4W NEWSLETTER: Figure Four Weekly: Looking at the WWE-EVOLVE relationship

The evolution of WWE’s relationships with promotions they’re friendly with continued to take shape this past weekend. Five WWE-contracted wrestlers were in action for EVOLVE last Friday and Saturday: The Street Profits (Angelo Dawkins & Montez Ford), Fabian Aichner, Kassius Ohno, and Mustafa Ali. Killian Dain made a surprise appearance for ICW in Glasgow, Scotland on Sunday, defeating Mikey Whiplash after it had been advertised that Whiplash would be facing a wrestler from WWE.

WON NEWSLETTER: November 19, 2018 Observer Newsletter: Survivor Series shake up, more

One week ago, the Survivor Series was to be headlined by Brock Lesnar vs. A.J. Styles and Ronda Rousey vs. Becky Lynch in battles of the Raw and Smackdown brand champions.

But just days before the show, two unrelated incidents saw both main events that were heavily-looked forward to change.

And in doing so, one of the key matches at WrestleMania, possibly the main event, was also established.

Right now the plan is for Ronda Rousey vs. Becky Lynch to headline WrestleMania. After the injury to Lynch on 11/12, a fractured nose and a concussion from a punch by Nia Jax during an in-ring Raw vs. Smackdown women’s brawl, she was out of the match that, due to the promos on both sides, was the most looked-forward to match on the show.

The next day, both Vince McMahon and Rousey decided that the best course of action was to do the match at WrestleMania. Rousey and Lynch immediately went at it hard on social media, even though Rousey’s new opponent on the PPV is Charlotte Flair.

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FRIDAY NEWS UPDATE

WrestleMania tickets went on sale for MetLife Stadium on 4/7 and they are almost all sold out. There will be some put on sale at a later date but beacuse of running in the New York market, the ticket demand is the highest since the last time they ran in the same building.

Charlotte Flair flew to Los Angeles to work out her match with Ronda Rousey after TV.

Bellator results from last night in Tel Aviv (which airs tonight):

  • Patricio Pitbull Freire b Emmanuel Sanchez to keep the featherweight title via decision
  • Ryan Couture b Hiam Gozali via unanimous decision
  • Vadim Nemkov b Phil Davis via split decision
  • Olga Rubin b Cindy Dandois via decision
  • Adam Keresh b Kirll Sidelnikov via first round knockout via head kick

Cody on Twitter said that his final ROH appearance would be on Final Battle on 12/14 against Jay Lethal for the title. He said that Lethal was his first opponent when he started with ROH two years ago, and he will be his last opponent as well.

This is the latest on the never-ending weight-cutting issues. Cynthia Cavillo, who missed weight by two pounds, could barely walk to the scale this morning. Still, even in that state, she was medically cleared and fights tomorrow night. Hopefully nothing bad happens, because if something does, this video is a smoking gun regarding UFC and its supervision of the show.

A 16-year-old girl is claiming that James Morris (James Ellsworth) sent her nude photos including a video statement from the accuser and more information she released. Morris denied the story. His attorneys, Bates & Garcia, released a statement saying, “My client, James Morris, known publicly and professionally as James Ellsworth has become aware of a number of baseless allegations. Mr. Morris has the utmost respect for women and categorically denies these inflammatory and despicable accusations.”

WWE

  • While last night’s NXT show in San Jose was taped for the WWE Network, it was not a traditional TV taping. It was more like a house show and basically an experiment in streamlining shows. The announcers weren’t there, so voicover work will be done in studio. It was paced more like a house show.
  • Dolph Ziggler did a comedy show last night in Los Angeles with Tyler Breeze, Tye Dillinger, Ryan Nemeth (Ziggler’s younger brother) and Damien Sandow. Breeze and Dillinger stayed away from anything WWE related past Dillinger holding the mic and saying it was the first time he’s held a mic in two years. Ziggler did tell a joke about how Vince McMahon first pitched the Spirit Squad idea to him. There were other comics on the show who ran down Nia Jax and Enzo and one said that Enzo hung around comedy clubs in Los Angeles so much that now people were hating him. Becky Lynch was at the show since her boyfriend is a comedian who performed there.

UFC

  • Mirsak Bektic pulled out of his 12/8 PPV fight against Renato Moicano on the Toronto show.  

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Tonight is one CMLL’s big events of the year, the Leyenda de Plata Cibernetico match which is an every man for themelf elimination match featuring a lot of the company’s top talent.
  • Bas Rutten put up a lengthy post about the circumstances regarding the WBKFF’s negotiations issues with a manager and their former matchmaker, production issues, and payment issues.  
  • MLW doesn’t air tonight, but this week’s episode will air as part of a two-hour block next week on Bein Sports. The show will air on the MLW YouTube page. 
  • ROH has announced new dates for a TV taping on 2/9 in Lakeland, FL at the RP Funding Arena, a house show on 2/1 in Miami at the Watsco Center, the 17th anniversary PPV show on 3/15 in Las Vegas at Sam’s Town and a TV tapings on 3/16 at Sam’s Town in Las Vegas.
  • Impact has a one-night-only PPV tonight which is a Border City Wrestling show from Windsor, ONT.
  • Bellator announced it has signed a three-year renewal of its sponsorship with Monster Energy.
  • Andrew Everett debuts for MLW on 12/13 and 12/14 in Miami.
  • Rush will be appearing at most MLW shows going forward.
  • Low Ki vs. Tom Lawlor for the MLW title headlines their 2/2 show in Philadelphia at the 2300 Arena.
  • L.A. Park vs. PCO in a falls count anywhere match headlines the 12/13 MLW show in Miami at the Scottish Rite Temple.
  • C.M. Punk talks his new announcing gig and the state of his MMA career.
  • SKM Live Pro Wrestling on 11/30 in Oshweken, ONT with Colt Cabana, Sabu and Honky Tonk Man.
  • Junction City Wrestling on 1/27 in Toronto at The Destructor at 1:30 p.m.
  • Underworld wrestling tapings earlier today in Melbourne, Australia: Mad Dog b Gore, Simon Oath b Slickback Cash, Andy Roy b Paddy O’Neill, Sagat Pyro b Sam Cannon, Zhan Wen b Australian Wolf, Slade Mercer b Richie Taylor, Vixsin b Avary, Mitch Waterman won over Gino Gambino, Sagat Pryo, Slickback Cash and Mad Dog. (thanks to Kevin Chiat)
  • Adam Brooks vs. Tree Hugger Luchi takes place for Wrestling Go on 12/16 in Sydney, Australia.
  • Brian Cage said he would be defending the Impact X Division title on next week’s World Series Wrestling tour.
  • Cody will be going on the tour and doing meet and greets next week in Australia for WSW but not be able to wrestle due to his knee injury.
  • Combate Americas has a show from Monterrey, Mexico headlined by Erik Perez (18-6) vs. Andres Ayala (12-6) that airs tomorrow night on Univision and Univision Deportes at midnight. It will air on DAZN at 10 p.m. Eastern tomorrow night with two hours of non-TV fights.
  • Bar Wrestling Testlemania: Delilah Doom & Eli Everfly & Marko Stunt b Tyler Bateman & Brody King & Ethan Price, Luchasaurus b Facade, Cryme Tyme b Peter Avalon & Ray Rosas, Britt Baker b Penelope Ford, Damian 666 & Bestia 666 b Yuma & Kevin Martenson, Willie Mack b Nick Gage with a frog splash in a good main event. They announced 11/28 at the Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles, 12/5 at 1720 Warehouse in Los Angeles and also shows on 12/19 and 12/31. (thanks to Shannon Walsh)
  • C4 tonight in Ottawa, ONT at St. Anthony’s Hall featuring Kobe Durst vs. Matt Angel in a no DQ no count out but and Josh Alexander vs. Matt Cross.
  • Lana Austin vs. Lizzy Styles face off for NGW Collision Course in Keighley, UK at Victoria Hall on 11/25. Justin Sysum defends the NGW title in the main event against Nathan Cruz. Adam Maxted, Steel, Robbie X, Phantasmo, Kip Sabian and more are on the show which starts at 5 p.m.
  • Booker T’s Reality of Wrestling presents Ladies Night Out 4 on Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. It will air live on the Title Match Network.  Matches announced are Thunder Rosa vs. Ivelisse, Su Yung vs. Hyan, Keira Hogan vs. Aerial Monroe and Kyle Rae vs. AQA, plus Taya Valkyrie and Barbi Hayden appear.

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