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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter:

Among the topics covered in this gigantic issue:

  • The legal games involving the Janel Grant lawsuit against Vince McMahon. The arguments for  arbitration, McMahon’s side goes after Janel Grant’s character, why Vince can’t produce the text messages, and WWE and McMahon file new arguments.
  • AEW going to tape Collisions & ROH leading up to All In, all in Arlington, TX.  We look at the good and the bad as well as the significance to this move
  • The crazy competition the first AEW show in the building wll face
  • Update on King and Queen of the Ring as well as AEW Double or Nothing. What to look for on both shows.
  • Full detailed rundown of New Japan Resurgence
  • The death of inDemand, a company that was a huge part of the wrestling and boxing business for decades
  • Huge historical feature on the life of Bob Bruggers, as well as the 1972 Verne Gagne training camp that produced five Hall of Fame candidates of its six trainees and background of Ken Patera, Ric Flair, Greg Gagne, Jim Brunzell and Iron Sheik
  • The most detailed look at the ratings of all the pro wrestling and MMA TV shows this past week
  • The biggest trouble spot AEW faces
  • The weekly rankings for wrestling, quarter hours, competition for the shows and more
  • Arena Mexico big show update
  • AAA doing a feuding authority figure angle
  • NWA deal with All Japan
  • Behind the new executive who will be in charge of three different pro wrestling companies at the same time
  • New Japan Super Juniors coverage
  • One of the biggest drawing cards of the last 40 years to announce his retirement details this week
  • Another of the biggest stars of the last 40 years enters sports Hall of Fame
  • Billy Corgan talks TV deal for NWA
  • Homicide talks injuries
  • Death of wrestler and horror stories about warring with Eddie Graham
  • MLW breaks records and gets its most mainstream media ever
  • New AEW licensing deals
  • Konosuke Takeshita talks frustrations in AEW
  • Advance ticket sales for AEW & WWE shows
  • More on Dwayne Johnson’s next movie
  • Details of the most expensive sports ticket I’ve ever heard of
  • Dana White talks WWE PPVs on Sundays and update
  • What Las Vegas is expecting as far as tourism for WrestleMania
  • More behind the departures of two more WWE executives
  • Lots of injury updates
  • Streaming numbers and international TV numbers
  • Sami Zayn’s first comedy show looked at
  • WWE arena notes and weekend business

This week’s back issue:

Saturday Update

WWE

  • Jade Cargill lost to Nia Jax by disqualification in their Queen of the Ring quarterfinal match on last night’s SmackDown. Aside from the Royal Rumble, this is Cargill’s first loss in WWE. She got disqualified for hitting Jax with a steel chair after Jax tried to use it first. There had been a spot earlier in the match where Jax taunted Cargill’s daughter at ringside. After the DQ, Cargill and Jax brawled until officials broke it up. Jax is facing Cargill’s tag team partner Bianca Belair in a Queen of the Ring semifinal match on SmackDown next Friday.
  • An interaction between LA Knight and Logan Paul took place on SmackDown, potentially teasing a future match between the two.
  • With Ivar dealing with a serious injury, Erik posted a tweet supporting his Viking Raiders tag team partner: “Love you @Ivar_WWE. Neither of us were ever supposed to make it this far. You’ll beat this one too. And the Raid will return with a brand new bad. Viking Strong!!”
  • On his Six Feet Under podcast, The Undertaker said he thinks the idea of a WWE comedy roast would be huge:
    • This just hit me, because they just did last week, they did the Tom Brady Roast on Netflix. I wonder what a — I don’t want to say, instead of doing the Hall of Fame, because the Hall of Fame is very important. But maybe some kind of restructure of it. But a roast… I think it would be huge.
  • Undertaker said he wouldn’t want to be the person roasted:
    • I wasn’t volunteering myself to be roasted. I mean there’s a lot of guys that come before I did that need to be roasted. Hulk Hogan… Flair would be good, but he’s affiliated with the wrong — he’s in the wrong branch.
  • WWE filed a trademark for “WWE Vault” on May 17. The trademark is listed as being for a show about professional wrestling:
    • Entertainment services, namely, a show about professional wrestling; entertainment services, namely, the production and exhibition of professional wrestling events rendered through broadcast media including television and distributed via various platforms across multiple forms of transmission media; providing wrestling news and information through broadcast media including television and distributed via various platforms across multiple forms of transmission media; providing information in the fields of sports and entertainment through broadcast media including television and distributed via various platforms across multiple forms of transmission media; providing a website in the field of sports entertainment information
  • Natalya announced the passing of her cat 2Pawz:
    • Our hearts hurt. We lost 2Pawz today. He’s been so strong and brave battling cancer and I’m so proud of him for how hard he fought. I’ve never had a cat as unique as him. Pawz and I had the most special connection. He was just exceptional, loving, loyal, sweet and so full of personality. I’m going to miss him so much. He’ll have a safe place in my heart forever and there will never be another like him.
  • WWE is selling a limited edition Bret Hart Legacy replica title belt for $749.99.
  • Nia Jax, DIY, and Chelsea Green & Piper Niven appeared on The SmackDown LowDown.

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