Daily Update: WrestleMania 40 presale code, NXT, AEW notes
Daily Update
Latest News
- Japanese wrestling historian Koichi Yoshizawa passes away at 73
- WWE Raw ratings down from post-SummerSlam episode
- Enzo Amore: I’ll end up at Tokyo Dome if I get chance to ‘do what I do’ in NJPW debut
- Johnny Swinger to challenge for Digital Media title at Impact Emergence
- Tony Khan on holding AEW All In & All Out so close together: ‘It’s exciting to do it’
- AEW Collision ratings up, stays below 500k viewers
- Mustafa Ali announcement set for WWE NXT
- Mike Rotunda believes Bray Wyatt will return to WWE ‘hopefully shortly’
- CM Punk sent apology text to Hangman Page for post-AEW Collision promo
- WWE Raw video highlights: The Judgment Day stand tall
- Becky Lynch, Trish Stratus cage match set following WWE Raw double count out
- Intercontinental title match set for next week’s WWE Raw
- Seth Rollins accepts Shinsuke Nakamura’s challenge on WWE Raw
- Big E to star in Randy Couture-led family comedy movie
- Tag Team title match to kick off this week’s WWE NXT
- Piper Niven declares herself Chelsea Green’s tag team partner on WWE Raw
- More details emerge on CM Punk/Ryan Nemeth AEW Collision June confrontation
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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter
In this issue:
- Match of the Week and Wrestler of the Week
- The big Saturday night with SummerSlam, UFC, Diaz vs. Paul, Collision and G-1 and who watched what
- The departure of Brock Lesnar and his scheduled return, and departure of Ronda Rousey and her importance and the MMA rules attempt
- The Bloodline angle
- Business numbers including PPV, WWE buyers who bought Forbidden Door, Spence vs. Crawford and Diaz vs. Paul
- What record did SummerSlam set and what record that it set will last only a few more weeks
- The ruling in the Cung Le vs UFC lawsuit regarding it becoming a class action suit, what the judge said, the MLW suit against WWE, and how this lawsuit potentially affects WWE
- Full coverage of the G-1 Climax tournament, with the storylines and match reviews from the past week
- All In sets its own new record and update on the show
- Full coverage of Saturday’s UFC show
- CMLL anniversary show news
- The most in depth look at the ratings of all national pro wrestling and MMA shows, including segment-by-segment and by different groups, as well as where the wrestling and MMA shows stood in the overall weekly cable and network standings
- Lots of foreign stars coming to CMLL
- TripleMania notes
- Stardom Five Star Grand Prix tournament update
- N-1 tournament update
- NOAH sells out in seconds
- New Japan’s All-Star Junior event in Philadelphia
- Hulk Hogan and his new stories
- Schedule of shows for London over All In weekend
- Arenas trying to block their agreements with WWE from public view
- Legendary tag team reunites
- Young Bucks talk signing their new deals and current thoughts on wrestling
- Full Gear 2023 update
- Dynamite and Smackdown upcoming time changes for baseball playoffs
- Lots of injury updates
- Upcoming attendance numbers for WWE and AEW
- International TV ratings and streaming numbers
- Update on Forbidden Door PPV numbers
- Dana White predicts a fight doing 10 million buys at $100 a view
- New UFC main events
- Bellator planning huge show
- Jake Paul vs. Nate Diaz
- Logan Paul’s next fight and why it’s such a joke
- Boxing superstar signs with MMA group
- Vince McMahon’s ownership in the new UFC/WWE company
- New Board of Directors
- Plans for NXT
- More on Kairi’s return
- AEW star close to signing with WWE
- WWE performer going for the real wrestling Triple Crown
- How much is WWE currently worth
This Week’s Retro Observer Newsletter
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Tuesday Update
WWE
- The presale code for WrestleMania tickets is “UNIVERSE”.
- Tyler Bate vs. Joe Coffey has been added to Tuesday’s NXT.
- On Raw Monday, it was officially confirmed that Sami Zayn is currently dealing with traumatic olecranon bursitis on his elbow.
- A&E has uploaded the entire Biography episode on Rowdy Roddy Piper to YouTube.
- A trailer for John Cena’s upcoming film Vacation Friends 2.
- Charlotte Flair talked about Smile Train, an organization that helps families with kids who have cleft palates, on FOX 13.
- A Ghostbusters event is coming to the WWE Champions mobile game.
- Matches added to WWE’s YouTube page on Tuesday include Dominik Mysterio vs. Jey Uso from the August 6, 2021 edition of SmackDown, Bobby Lashley vs. AJ Styles from the August 15, 2022 edition of Raw, and Ronda Rousey vs. Liv Morgan in an Extreme Rules match from Extreme Rules 2022.
AEW
- According to WrestleTix, AEW has reached 80,056 tickets for All In, surpassing WWE’s SummerSlam 1992 event in the same building and nearing WrestleMania 32’s 80,709.
- AEW is asking fans to vote for the first-ever AEW panel at SXSW.
- The company has released a new Fight for the Fallen t-shirt. 100% of the profits will be donated to the Maui Food Bank.
- Rush is teasing his return to AEW after re-signing a new deal.
- Tony Khan will appear at Starrcast on a live episode of AEW Unrestricted.
- Sting, FTR, Jamie Hayter, and MJF will be at the New York Comic Con this October.
- This week’s Sammy Guevara vlog.
Other Wrestling
- Mercedes Varando will also be at the New York Comic-Con in October.
- Progress Wrestling announced that they will be launching their Progress Plus streaming platform on August 17.
- Mickie James will appear at RevPro’s Anniversary Show on August 26, where she will challenge Alex Windsor for the British Women’s Championship in a three-way also featuring Hyan.
- GCW has signed Tony Deppen vs. Francesco Akira for their September 10 event.
